Hispano Suiza

Marc Croixmarie

Baptiste Benoit Colotte

Marion Michau

Gilles Le Gouellec

Alexandre Courpied

Baptiste Colotte

Patrick Joland

A turbojet thrust reverser includes two doors each displaceable between an open position and a closed position of the reverser by at least one respective control actuator. Two electric motors drive the control actuators for the doors; each motor being controlled by an electronic control unit connected to a full authority digital engine control. Two servo-control devices control the displacement of the doors as a function of determined position references. The servo-control devices enable the doors to be displaced synchronously as a function of any variation in the forces exerted on the reverser and as a function of any force difference between the two doors.

Turbojet electromechanical thrust reverser with servo-controlled door displacement

A turbojet thrust reverser has two doors that are displaceable between a reverser open position and a reverser closed position, each door being controlled by a respective electronic control unit connected to a FADEC, and each door having a respective locking device for locking the position of the door associated therewith. Each locking device can be unlocked solely on receiving orders that come simultaneously from both electronic control units.

Turbojet electromechanical thrust reverser with synchronized locking devices

Each manual control unit for a moving part of a thrust reverser is associated with a maintenance plate that is pivotable between at least two positions: a first or 'normal operation' position in which said plate prevents the manual control unit with which it is associated from being driven manually, while allowing it to be driven electrically; and a second or 'maintenance' position in which said plate allows the manual control unit with which it is associated to be driven manually while preventing it from being driven electrically.

Maintenance and inhibition plate for a thrust reverser

A turbojet thrust reverser includes two doors each controlled by a respective electronic control unit, at least one sensor per door measuring at least one item of position data concerning the door, at least one sensor of each door being connected to the electronic control unit controlling that door, the electronic control units being connected to each other in order to exchange the position data, a FADEC having two channels each connected to both electronic control units in order to receive from each of the electronic control units data concerning the positions of each of the doors and data concerning the operating state of each of the electronic control units, the channels being connected to each other in order to exchange the door position data and the electronic control unit state data so that the airplane pilot is continuously informed about the positions of the doors and the states of the electronic units, even in the event of a breakdown in one of the electronic units and in one of the FADEC channels.

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Auvernaux, France

Marc Croixmarie