US Patent Issued to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS UK on Aug. 5 for "Aircraft landing gear shock absorber strut with movable damping pin and flow restricting plate" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,969, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS UK LTD. (Gloucester, Great Britain).

"Aircraft landing gear shock absorber strut with movable damping pin and flow restricting plate" was invented by Ian Robert Bennett (Gloucester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft landing gear shock absorber strut including a damping pin and a flow restricting plate having an orifice through which the metering pin axially moves as the sliding tube moves between the extended and compressed positions, wherein the damping pin or the flow restricting plate is coupled to a separator piston so as to move with the separato...