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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2019
Applicant:
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Inventors:
Yann Lavallee, St-Hippolyte, CA;
Eric Albert Sinusas, Southlake, TX (US);
Robert Patrick Wardlaw, Keller, TX (US);
Assignee:
Textron Innovations Inc., Providence, RI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/08 (2006.01); B64C 27/56 (2006.01); B64C 27/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0858 (2013.01); B64C 27/04 (2013.01); B64C 27/56 (2013.01);
Abstract
A yaw control system for a rotorcraft featuring a floor mounted pair of pedals configured to measure an up and down motion of a pair of pedals and utilize that up and down motion as a yaw moment control input. The pair of pedals can rock laterally, fore and aft, or vertically. The pair of pedals can be mechanically interconnected to other pairs of pedals or electrically interconnected to duplicate motion across pairs of pedals.