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Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 01, 2020
Applicant:

Textron Innovations Inc., Providence, RI (US);

Inventors:

Chen Kuang, Montreal, CA;

Marc Bustamante, Montreal, CA;

Thuvaragan Senthilnathan, Laval, CA;

Guillaume Biron, Blainville, CA;

Marc Ouellet, Sainte-Sophie, CA;

Alexis Dugré, Boisbriand, CA;

Assignee:

Textron Innovations Inc., Providence, RI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 27/82 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 27/82 (2013.01); B64C 2027/8209 (2013.01); B64C 2027/8227 (2013.01); B64C 2027/8254 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electrically distributed yaw control system for a helicopter having a tailboom includes a plurality of tail rotors rotatably coupled to the tailboom and a flight control computer implementing a tail rotor balancing module. The tail rotor balancing module includes a tail rotor balancing monitoring module configured to monitor one or more parameters of the helicopter and identify a first set of one or more tail rotors in the plurality of tail rotors based on the one or more parameters. The tail rotor balancing module also includes a tail rotor balancing command module configured to modify one or more operating parameters of the first set of tail rotors.


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