US Patent Issued to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS on Oct. 7 for "Pivoting landing gear provided with an immobilization system" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,821, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS (Marignane, France).

"Pivoting landing gear provided with an immobilization system" was invented by Roland Becquet (Meyreuil, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A landing gear provided with a stand a pivoting assembly carrying a contact member and able to rotate about a pivot axis in relation to the stand. An immobilization system comprises a movable pin and a passage provided in a base secured to the pivoting assembly. An elastic locking system tends to push the pin into the passage in a locked mode. An elastic unlocking system is configured to move the pin out of the passa...