ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,223, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS (Velizy-Villacoublay, France).
"Distributed braking architecture with improved safety" was invented by Olivier Frey (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Dominique Onfroy (Moissy-Cramayel, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel-braking system architecture for an aircraft is provided. The architecture includes a friction brake; an electromechanical actuator associated with a power module connected to a digital communication module by a first driver module; and a controller having both a power supply unit for powering the power module by delivering a power supply voltage (Vc) ...