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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2019
Airbus Operations Limited, Bristol, GB;
Airbus Opérations (S.a.s.), Toulouse, FR;
Airbus (S.a.s.), Blagnac, FR;
Utsav Oza, Bristol, GB;
Andrew Bill, Bristol, GB;
Kurt Bruggemann, Bristol, GB;
Rodrigo Jimenez, Bristol, GB;
Brice Cheray, Bristol, GB;
Maud Consola, Bristol, GB;
AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED, Bristol, GB;
AIRBUS OPERATIONS (SAS), Toulouse, FR;
AIRBUS (SAS), Blagnac, FR;
Abstract
An apparatus for an aircraft having one or more aircraft wheel brakes, and a brake wear sensor configured to measure a wear state of a brake of the one or more aircraft wheel brakes, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor configured to determine a wear relationship between a wear state of the brake and a number of use cycles of the brake, determine a predicted wear state of the brake based on the wear relationship; determine a number of future use cycles of the brake based on a predicted condition of the brake, the predicted condition comprising the predicted wear state of the brake; and provide an indication of the determined number of the future use cycles to ground crew and/or a pilot of the aircraft, wherein the number of future use cycles is the number of use cycles for which the brake is allowed to be used, and a use cycle comprises all uses of the brake relating to a flight undertaken by the aircraft.