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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2016
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Jeffrey M. Thomas, Gilbert, AZ (US);
David Alderete, Mesa, AZ (US);
Richard Costello, Chandler, AZ (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A rotorcraft including a rotor hub, a pitch housing moveable relative to the rotor hub about at least a feather axis and a flap axis, the pitch housing defining an internal volume, a bearing pin, the inboard end portion of the bearing pin being fixedly connected to the rotor hub, wherein the bearing pin defines the feather axis, a spherical bearing connected to the inboard end portion of the pitch housing and defining the flap axis, wherein the bearing pin extends through the spherical bearing, a rotor blade connected to the outboard end portion of the pitch housing, and a sensor assembly positioned in the internal volume and operatively connected to both the pitch housing and the outboard end portion of the bearing pin.