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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2017
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Paul Sherrill, Grapevine, TX (US);
Tim Ledbetter, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Kelli Yates, Cary, IN (US);
Robert Self, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Nathan Green, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Russell Cole, Euless, TX (US);
BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention includes a span-balance pocket in a surface of a rotor blade, the span-balance pocket including an inboard surface and an outboard surface; and one or more weights disposed in the span-balance pocket to span-balance the rotor blade; and at least one of one or more retention devices to retain the one or more weights against the outboard surface of the span-balance pocket or the span-balance pocket is machined or molded into a tip block of the rotor blade.