Wing fold system with latch pins through multiple mating lugs

US9211946B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Boeing Company · US

Inventors

• Mark S. Good · Seattle, US
• Jan A. Kordel · Redmond, US
• Quentin Theodor Pietersen · Kirkland, US
• Steven Paul Walker · Arlington, US
• Kelly T. Jones · Calgary, CA
• Matthew August Lassen · Seattle, US
• Rickie Hansken · Bothell, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 9, 2013
• Grant date: Dec 15, 2015
• Expiry date: May 23, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T50/10
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A wing fold system of a wing of an aircraft. The system may include a first lock of a latch to prevent movement of a latch pin of the latch to prevent movement of an unfixed portion of the wing with respect to a fixed portion of the wing, the first lock may include a first cam configured to prevent the second lock from transitioning to a second engaged position until the first lock may be in a first engaged position via contact with a second cam of the second lock. A second lock of the latch, the second lock may include the second cam configured to prevent the first lock from transitioning away from the first engaged position until the second lock transitions away from the second engaged position.