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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2013
The Boeing Company, Seal Beach, CA (US);
Branko Lakic, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jonathan B Vance, St. Louis, MO (US);
THE BOEING COMPANY, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
An aircraft includes a fuselage, a wing, and a decoupled joint interconnecting the fuselage and the wing. The decoupled joint can be an active suspension system. A method of adapting an aircraft to attenuate forces between a main wing and a fuselage thereof includes providing a plurality of sensors upon the aircraft, configured for sensing motion and/or mechanical stress of the main wing and/or the fuselage and producing signals indicative thereof, and providing a plurality of active suspension elements interconnecting the wing and the fuselage, the active suspension elements being configured to move at least in response to the signals to adjust a position of the wing with respect to the fuselage.