US Patent Issued to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS on Nov. 4 for "Wheel with eddy current magnetic braking device and aircraft landing gear provided with such a wheel" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,501, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS (Velizy Villacoublay, France).

"Wheel with eddy current magnetic braking device and aircraft landing gear provided with such a wheel" was invented by Vincent Pascal (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Yannick Senechal (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Graeme Klim (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel including a rim that rotates on a shaft defining a primary rotational axis and a magnetic braking device. The magnetic braking device includes an actuator which includes a first transmission assembly and one second transmission assembly each includes a pinion mount...