US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Aug. 5 for "Wing for an aircraft with damper for damping uncontrolled movement between leading edge part and trailing edge part" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,961, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Wing for an aircraft with damper for damping uncontrolled movement between leading edge part and trailing edge part" was invented by Bernhard Schlipf (Hamburg, Germany) and Dennis Krey (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wing component for an aircraft, comprising a leading edge part and a trailing edge part pivotably mounted to the leading edge part so as to pivot about a pivot axis, an actuator unit configured for moving the trailing edge part relative to the leading edge part, and a damper device configured for damping uncontrolled move...