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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2021
Applicant:
Bell Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Inventors:
Steven R. Ivans, Ponder, TX (US);
Berlin B. Benfield, Grapevine, TX (US);
Brent C. Ross, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Assignee:
TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC., Providence, RI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 29/0033 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is disclosed in one example a tiltrotor system for a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft, including: a rotor pylon, wherein the rotor pylon is rotatable, via a rotation maneuver, between a substantially horizontal orientation and a substantially vertical orientation; a linear actuator disposed to actuate the rotation maneuver; and a mechanical guide disposed to maintain a center of gravity along a substantially linear axis throughout the rotation maneuver.