Exterior aircraft navigation light and method of controlling an exterior aircraft navigation light

US9850003B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Goodrich Lighting Systems, Inc. · DE

Inventors

• Christian Schoen · Dortmund, DE
• Andre Hessling-Von Heimendahl · Koblenz, DE
• Anil Kumar Jha · Lippstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 25, 2016
• Grant date: Dec 26, 2017
• Expiry date: Mar 25, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64D2203/00
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An exterior aircraft navigation light for an aircraft having a nominal forward flight direction and being able to fly into the nominal forward flight direction as well as into a plurality of further flight directions, such as sideways or backwards, has at least one light emission unit and control circuitry coupled to the at least one light emission unit, wherein the exterior aircraft navigation light is configured such that each of the at least one light emission unit has a unit-specific light emission direction that has a predefined horizontal angle with respect to the nominal forward flight direction, and wherein each of the at least one light emission unit includes a multi-color light source configured to emit red light, white light and green light, and an optical system for conditioning the red light, the white light and the green light emitted by the multi-color light source.