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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2009
Applicant:
Wolfgang Kummle, Salem/Beuren, DE;
Inventor:
Wolfgang Kummle, Salem/Beuren, DE;
Assignee:
Diehl Aerospace GmbH, Uberlingen, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 13/00 (2006.01); B64C 13/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An input system () for a landing flap control of an aircraft. In order to make the input system () compact, light and reliable, it is provided with a selector lever () mounted pivotably by a shaft unit () for the input of a landing flap position, and a sensor arrangement () being arranged at one side of the selector lever () and having two mutually redundant optoelectronic sensor units () each for detecting a position of the selector lever (), wherein a one-piece shaft element () of the shaft unit () is passed from the selector lever () through the sensor units ().