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Advanced composite rotor blade

US5346367A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 2, 1986
Grant dateSep 13, 1994
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Expiry dateSep 2, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T156/103
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An advanced composite blade construction for a helicopter rotor blade using for the most part fiber reinforced plastic materials in which the major assembly of blade elements is a single step co-cure operation and in which an integral spar/skin carries centrifugal, flapwise and chordwise loads and also incorporates redundant means to carry torsional loads and a honeycomb core carries shear and aerodynamic pressures loads.

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