Honeywell International Inc.

Rama Sateesh Venkata Kandula

Narasimha Reddy Venkatarayappa

Murali Krishnan Payangapadan

Morris G Anderson

Grant A Gordon

Avinash Kumar

Theodore S Brockett

Srinivas Chinthapally

Milind Khare

Venkatarao Ganji

Sadique Mohammad Abdullah

Purushotham Reddy B

Eswara Naidu Chikkala

Krishna Mohan Kumbham

In an embodiment, an ice-prevention dam for a pitot tube includes a body and a head. The body includes a notch having a substantially planar back, and the head extends from the body and has a substantially planar side that is substantially parallel to the back of the notch. Such a dam can prevent ice accumulation in a pitot tube, and can facilitate proper positioning of the dam. For example, during manufacture of a pitot tube, an assembler inserts the dam into a hole in a side of a pitot-tube body having a front opening such that the head of the dam is located outside of the pitot-tube body and a body of the dam is located inside of the pitot-tube body. Next, the assembler positions the dam by causing the substantially planar side of the dam head to be substantially parallel with the front opening of the pitot-tube body.

Ice prevention dam for, and method for forming, a pitot tube

An air data probe is provided. The air data probe includes a pitot probe having a mounting base or flange, support strut, and tube with a forward facing inlet that is configured to capture a total pressure of the surrounding air, at least three dams placed within the tube of the pitot probe for blocking the ballistic trajectory of water droplets or ice crystals from passing directly through the tube to a downstream pressure sensing element, and a heater element integrated into the tube of the pitot probe on the outside of the dams. The at least three dams are oriented within the tube of the pitot probe in such a way that the dam locations are configured for two or more installations of the air data probe.

Arrangement of dams in air data probe

Exemplary embodiments are provided to reduce the high transient mount load in an aircraft engine mounting system under extreme loading condition. The exemplary embodiments reduce the impact of the snubbing phenomenon without adding to the weight or space claim of the engine mounting system.

Method and apparatus for reducing high transient mount load in aircraft engine mounting systems

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Visakhapatnam, India

Rama Sateesh Venkata Kandula