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Digital Equipment Corporation

Henry A Rettstadt

Steven G Boulay

Michael L Joseph

Brandon M Habin

A helicopter rotor transmission assembly for translating motion of a drive shaft driven by a helicopter engine into rotary motion of a helicopter rotor mast that carries rotor blades. The transmission assembly includes a fixed outer housing, an inner housing carried within the outer housing and adapted to rotate relative to the outer housing by the drive shaft, and a ball received in the inner housing so as to be rotatable relative to the inner housing about one axis, and constrained from rotation about the two orthogonal axes. The ball is adapted to receive the rotor mast so that the mast can be driven to both spin and tilt.

Helicopter rotor transmission assembly

An EMI shielding gasket made of springy electrically conductive material. The gasket includes a pair of generally parallel laterally spaced apart U-shaped channel members each with its channel entrance facing away from the other member. A pair of ends oriented transversely of the U-shaped channel members connect the members together at their end regions. The ends are resiliently deformable to allow the U-shaped channel members to be moved more closely together to facilitate mounting the gasket.

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Princeton, MA, United States of America

Henry A Rettstadt