US Patent Issued to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS on Aug. 5 for "Method for protecting the landing gear of an aircraft against impacts that may affect it" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,967, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS (Velizy Villacoublay, France).

"Method for protecting the landing gear of an aircraft against impacts that may affect it" was invented by Florent Fortier (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Sebastien Dubois (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Florent Dauphin (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for protecting the landing gear of an aircraft against stroke-end shocks, the landing gear being manoeuvrable between a retracted position and a deployed position by means of a single electromechanical operating actuator (10) between these two positions. According to the...