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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2013
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Universite Laval, Quebec, CA;
Simon Bernier, St Jerome, CA;
Robert Clive Fews, Beaconsfield, CA;
Michel Guillot, Quebec, CA;
Augustin Gakwaya, Quebec, CA;
Jocelyn Blanchet, Quebec, CA;
Xavier Jean-Gilles Elie-Dit-Cosaque, Quebec, CA;
Julie Levesque, Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, CA;
Giuseppe Aquino, Laval, CA;
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Université Laval, Quebec, CA;
Abstract
A cross tube for a helicopter skid landing gear, including a monolithic metallic tube having a central portion extending transversely between two end portions with longitudinal central axes of the central portion and of the end portions being located in a plane, where the central portion has inner and outer heights, the end portions each have inner and outer heights, and the inner and outer heights of one of the central portion and the end portion are respectively greater than the inner and outer heights of the other of the central portion and the end portion. A skid tube with two portions with cross-sections having one or both of different orientations with respect to one another and different dimensions with respect to one another, and a method of forming a structural tube for a helicopter skid landing gear are also provided.