ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,905, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR Co. INC. (Torrance, Calif.).
"Locking system for aircraft landing gear bay doors" was invented by Peter Lyver (Greensboro, N.C.), Paul Stephen Banks (Winston Salem, N.C.) and Marc Richard Lambert (Reidsville, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking system for doors of a deployable aircraft landing gear system includes a spring-biased swing arm configured to be pivotally attached to a body of an aircraft and including a roller at a distal end of the swing arm. The swing arm is configured to engage with a portion of a first landing gear bay door to prevent the first lan...