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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 04, 2015
Applicant:

Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US);

Inventors:

Collin D. Ogden, North Liberty, IA (US);

Bradley R. Mickelson, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);

Kirk A. Kolek, Marion, IA (US);

Assignee:

Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/06 (2006.01); B64D 45/08 (2006.01); B64D 43/00 (2006.01); B64D 47/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64D 45/08 (2013.01); B64D 43/00 (2013.01); B64D 47/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Present novel and non-trivial system, device, and method for generating an aircraft energy indicator(s) is disclosed. The energy indicator generating system is comprised of one or more sources of aircraft performance factors data, an image generator (IG), and a presentation system. The IG may be configured to receive the aircraft performance factors data representative of at least aircraft altitude and speed; determine descent path data as a function of at least the aircraft performance data; determine target aircraft energy data as a function of at least the descent path data; determine actual energy data as a function of at least the aircraft performance data; and generate presentation data as a function of the target energy data and the actual energy data, where the presentation data is representative of one or more images of an aircraft energy indicator presentable to a viewer.


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