US Patent Issued to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS on Feb. 3 for "Eddy current magnetic braking device, braked vehicle wheel and aircraft landing gear equipped with such a wheel" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,474, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS (Velizy-Villacoublay, France).

"Eddy current magnetic braking device, braked vehicle wheel and aircraft landing gear equipped with such a wheel" was invented by Duy-Minh Nguyen (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Guillaume Durand (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Graeme Klim (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eddy current magnetic braking device includes two outer elements surrounding a central element in relative movement with respect to the two outer elements, the central element being made of an electrically conductive material, the two outer elements having f...