MUMBAI, India, May 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202341072784 A) filed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bangalore, Karnataka, on Oct. 26, 2023, for 'tooling and procedure for blade folding of rigid rotor helicopter.'
Inventor(s) include Vishak V; and Adil Pasha.
The application for the patent was published on May 2, under issue no. 18/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Blade folding operation is quite difficult for a hingeless rotor (Rigid rotor) system having no provision of automatic blade folding mechanism compare to articulated rotor system. For these helicopters blade folding is achieved through Blade foiding tool. By this invention a simple Bla...