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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2011
Joshua D. Isom, South Windsor, CT (US);
Mark W. Davis, Southbury, CT (US);
William A. Welsh, North Haven, CT (US);
Brian Edward Morris, Shelton, CT (US);
James Peter Cycon, Media, PA (US);
Joshua D. Isom, South Windsor, CT (US);
Mark W. Davis, Southbury, CT (US);
William A. Welsh, North Haven, CT (US);
Brian Edward Morris, Shelton, CT (US);
James Peter Cycon, Media, PA (US);
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, CT (US);
Abstract
A system for monitoring for pushrod faults in an aircraft includes a pushrod; a sensor () mounted on the pushrod (), the sensor () wirelessly transmitting measured pushrod load data; a receiver () receiving the measured pushrod load data; a model () receiving flight data and generating a modeled pushrod load profile; and a fault detector () comparing measured pushrod load data to the modeled pushrod load profile to detect a pushrod fault.