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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2012
Simon Topping, Bristol, GB;
Christopher Payne, Clevedon, GB;
Llifon Williams, Bristol, GB;
Martin Mayneord, Bristol, GB;
David Belfourd, Bristol, GB;
Xavier Hue, Bremen, DE;
Simon Topping, Bristol, GB;
Christopher Payne, Clevedon, GB;
Llifon Williams, Bristol, GB;
Martin Mayneord, Bristol, GB;
David Belfourd, Bristol, GB;
Xavier Hue, Bremen, DE;
AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED, Bristol, GB;
AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH, Hamburg, DE;
Abstract
An aircraft wing has a main wing element with a spar and a leading edge rib supported by the spar, a high lift device movably mounted to the main wing element, and an actuation mechanism with a drive shaft and a gear train. The gear train has a drive cog carried by the drive shaft, an actuator cog coupled to the high lift device, and one or more intermediate cogs mounted to the rib and coupled in series with the drive cog and the actuator cog so as to transmit torque from the drive cog to the actuator cog which moves the high lift device between a retracted position and an extended position in which the high lift device increases the camber of the wing. Sizes of the cogs in the gear train are selected so that the drive shaft rotates at a higher rate than the high lift device.