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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2005
Santino Pancotti, Gallarate, IT;
Santino Pancotti, Gallarate, IT;
Agusta S.p.A., Samarate, IT;
Abstract
There is described a rotor for a helicopter, having a hub rotating about a first axis; a number of blades projecting from the hub in respective longitudinal directions lying in a plane crosswise to the first axis, and each connected to the hub so as to be movable at least about a second axis crosswise to the first axis and to the relative longitudinal direction; and a number of damping devices for damping vibration of the helicopter, each interposed between a respective blade and the hub; each damping device has a plate member fixed, on one side, to the hub, elastically connected, on the opposite side, to the relative blade, and flexible, during movement of the blade, about a third axis coaxial with the second axis.