Roller track assembly for a tiltrotor proprotor door

US10533603B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. · US

Inventors

• Nick Pravanh · Fort Worth, US
• Michael E. Rinehart · Fort Worth, US
• Bart Marcus Shafer · Fort Worth, US
• Clegg Benjamin Brian Smith · Keller, US
• Bruce Bennett Bacon · Euless, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 2, 2017
• Grant date: Jan 14, 2020
• Expiry date: Mar 3, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16C2326/43
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A door track assembly for cooperation with a door roller mechanism, including a housing having a longitudinal channel along a length of the housing, wherein the channel descends at an end of the housing to form a stowage recess for the door roller mechanism, and a first track and a second track that are disposed on the housing along a length of the channel and that descend into the stowage recess and along which the door roller mechanism traverses.