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Device for controlling the pitch of the blades of a convertible aircraft rotor

US6824096B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 20, 2003
Grant dateNov 30, 2004
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Expiry dateMar 20, 2023

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB64C29/0033
  • WIPO fieldTransport
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A pitch control device for a blade of a tilting rotor of a convertible aircraft. The pitch control device is external to a rotor hub which is driven in rotation by a mast and connected to the latter by a mechanism for tilting the hub as a whole, each blade is connected to the hub by a coupling for retaining and hingeing the blade in pitch about its pitch change axis. The device includes a pitch change lever, integral in rotation with its blade root about its axis, a pitch control rod, a bellcrank pivoting about a pin on a drive plate integral in rotation with the mast, and to which the pitch control rod is hinged, the bellcrank being also hinged to a link rod connected to the pitch change lever.

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