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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2020
Textron Innovations Inc., Providence, RI (US);
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;
Textron Innovations Inc., Providence, RI (US);
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.