ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,512, issued on June 10, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Donauworth, Germany).
"Rotorcraft with a non-retractable wheel-type landing gear" was invented by Axel Fink (Donauworth, Germany) and Reynaldo Oioli-Neto (Donauworth, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotorcraft comprising a fuselage forming at least one lower lateral fuselage compartment with at least a first fitting, a second fitting, and a third fitting; and at least one non-retractable wheel-type landing gear that comprises: at least one wheel; a shock absorber with a shock absorber tube having an open end and an axially opposed closed end, and a ...