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Patent No.:

US 12017754 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2024

Filed:

Mar. 12, 2020

Download reducing wingtips

Applicants:

Bell Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);

Textron Aviation Inc., Wichita, KS (US);

Inventors:

Kent E. Donaldson, Fort Worth, TX (US);

Phillip A. Kendrick, Wichita, KS (US);

Kyle Smolarek, Fort Worth, TX (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Primary Examiner:

Nicholas McFall

Assistant Examiner:

Marisa V Conlon

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 23/06 (2006.01); B64C 27/00 (2006.01); B64C 27/08 (2023.01); B64C 27/26 (2006.01); B64C 29/00 (2006.01); B64U 10/10 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 23/065 (2013.01); B64C 27/001 (2013.01); B64C 27/08 (2013.01); B64C 27/26 (2013.01); B64C 29/00 (2013.01); B64C 2027/002 (2013.01); B64U 10/10 (2023.01);
Abstract

An aircraft includes a wing positioned below a vertical rotor, the wing extending in a transverse direction to a wingtip having an outboard face, and a turbulence feature located on the wingtip and oriented to induce turbulence in the rotor downwash flowing across the outboard face in a direction from a top surface of the wing to a bottom surface of the wing.

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