Barry Wright Corporation

Barry Controls Corp.

Luigi Max Maggi

Ivan Roson

Louis Chemouni

The invention proposes to address the vibration transfer function transmitted by a turbo-fan engine or equivalent to the aircraft structure, with two types of isolators mounted on a unique assembly but with a different physical response to the transfer function, an absorbing one and a resonating one. The difference in nature of such responses induces a non-interaction effect between the two isolators. The invention concerns more specifically a two-tone isolator assembly adapted to be mounted on an aircraft or equivalent comprising in particular a head, a cabin yoke and a power engine structure having a longitudinal axis crossed by a radial plan. The two-tone isolator assembly comprises, located at the head side of the aircraft, at least one support for, at least, one fluid mount isolator and two dynamic absorbers, and mechanical means to couple said support to the power engine structure and to the cabin yoke. Said assembly is designed to link the fluid mount isolator at once to the power engine structure and to the cabin yoke, whereas the dynamic absorber is only linked to the cabin structure. Furthermore, the dynamic absorbers are supported to move in the radial plan of the power engine structure.

Two-tone isolator assembly

An elastomeric bearing system capable of sustaining a high compressive load is adapted to connect the blades of a helicopter rotor to a rotor hub. The bearing system comprises first and second elastomeric bearing elements fixed at the opposite ends of a tie bar. Said first elastomeric bearing element comprises a rigid external housing having an internal truncated-tapered surface with its minor basis directed inwardly, a rigid internal housing having an external truncated-tapered surface with its minor basis directed inwardly, and a resilient body between said internal and external truncated-tapered surfaces. Said second elastomeric bearing element is constituted by a chevron sub-assembly, comprising two tapered elastomeric bearing elements disposed with their minor basis facing each other, both having an individual internal housing and a resilient body and sharing a common external housing with a double-taper internal surface, the internal housings being connected one another by fastening elements.

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Long Beach, CA, United States of America

Luigi Max Maggi