US Patent Issued to SAFRAN AEROTECHNICS on July 22 for "Control assembly for a breathing mask of an aircraft crew member" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,882, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAFRAN AEROTECHNICS (Plaisir, France).

"Control assembly for a breathing mask of an aircraft crew member" was invented by Jeremy Jacotey (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Didier Lamourette (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Serge Moreira (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit for an aircraft crew member's breathing mask, includes a support, a mode-selection knob pivotally mounted on a holder between at least a first position, a second position and a third position. A controller supplies a breathing cavity in three modes of operation depending on the position of the mode-sele...