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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2024
Honeywell International Inc., Charlotte, NC (US);
Sunit Kumar Saxena, Urbana, OH (US);
William Tyson, III, Urbana, OH (US);
Richard Policy, Urbana, OH (US);
Anita Sure, Bangalore, IN;
Ritu Rai, Bangalore, IN;
Deepak Bhimrao Mahajan, Bangalore, IN;
Gowtham Kumar Vankayala, Bangalore, IN;
HONEYWELL AEROSPACE US LLC, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Abstract
A collision avoidance system is provided for an aircraft that includes a fuselage and a plurality of aircraft surfaces coupled to and extending from the fuselage. The collision avoidance system includes a light engine that is mounted on at least one of the aircraft surfaces and is configured, upon being energized, to emit a light beam in one or more directions. The light engine is further configured such that, when the light beam is emitted, it creates a light plane that is disposed at a predetermined angle relative to a ground surface on which the aircraft is located and extends, from the aircraft surface, along the ground surface thereby producing an elongated light pattern on the ground surface and on any obstacle that the light plane encounters.