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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2018
Applicant:
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Inventors:
Andrew Paul Haldeman, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Zachary Edwin Dailey, Grapevine, TX (US);
Charles Owen Black, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Dalton T. Hampton, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Aaron Alexander Acee, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Assignee:
Textron Innovations Inc., Providence, RI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 27/52 (2006.01); B64C 27/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 27/52 (2013.01); B64C 27/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
A transmission tilt control device includes a transmission rotatably coupled to an airframe of a helicopter, a rotor mast coupled to the transmission, and an actuator coupled between the transmission and the airframe. The actuator being configured to rotate the transmission fore and aft about a tilt axis that is perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the rotor mast.