Diehl Aerospace Gmbh

Wolfgang Kummle

Benno Petersen

A wing flap sensor unit () having a position sensor () for detection of a rotation position of a shaft for operation of wing flaps and having a housing () which surrounds the position sensor (), having an attachment component () for attachment in an aircraft wing and having a connecting point () for an electrical connector of the position sensor (). Hereby, the housing () is at least partially manufactured from titanium using a precision-casting method. The titanium precision-casting method makes it possible to achieve a particularly robust and lightweight housing.

Wing flap sensor unit

An input system () for a landing flap control of an aircraft. In order to make the input system () compact, light and reliable, it is provided with a selector lever () mounted pivotably by a shaft unit () for the input of a landing flap position, and a sensor arrangement () being arranged at one side of the selector lever () and having two mutually redundant optoelectronic sensor units () each for detecting a position of the selector lever (), wherein a one-piece shaft element () of the shaft unit () is passed from the selector lever () through the sensor units ().

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Salem/Beuren, Germany

Wolfgang Kummle