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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2013
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Mark Steven Good, Seattle, WA (US);
Jan A. Kordel, Redmond, WA (US);
Quentin Theodor Pietersen, Kirkland, WA (US);
Steven Paul Walker, Arlington, WA (US);
Kelly Thomas Jones, Snohomish, WA (US);
Matthew August Lassen, Seattle, WA (US);
Rickie Hansken, Tulalip, WA (US);
THE BOEING COMPANY, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A wing fold system of a wing of an aircraft. The system may include a first lock of a latch to prevent movement of a latch pin of the latch to prevent movement of an unfixed portion of the wing with respect to a fixed portion of the wing, the first lock may include a first cam configured to prevent the second lock from transitioning to a second engaged position until the first lock may be in a first engaged position via contact with a second cam of the second lock. A second lock of the latch, the second lock may include the second cam configured to prevent the first lock from transitioning away from the first engaged position until the second lock transitions away from the second engaged position.