US Patent Issued to GOODRICH ACTUATION SYSTEMS on Jan. 27 for "Shared actuator for leading edge high lift architecture" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,189, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GOODRICH ACTUATION SYSTEMS Ltd. (Solihull, Great Britain).

"Shared actuator for leading edge high lift architecture" was invented by Stephen Harlow Davies (Shrewsbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary geared actuator (RGA) for actuating movement of a first movable surface and a second movable surface. The RGA include an input shaft configured to receive torque in use, and an output shaft comprising means configured to communicate with and move both said first surface and said second surface in use. The actuator may be used in a leading edge high lift architecture for an air...