IP Library Granted Patent US 8,991,768
Granted Patent B1
US 8,991,768 · App. 13/068,774 · Granted Mar 31, 2015

Highly efficient transonic laminar flow wing

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Patent No.
US 8,991,768
App. No.
13/068,774
Granted
Mar 31, 2015
Kind
B1
Abstract

Improved supersonic laminar flow wing structure, on a supersonic aircraft, having strake extending forwardly of the wing inboard extent, and reversed fillet at strake junction with the wing leading edge.

Claims (9)

1. Improved high speed laminar flow wing structure, on an aircraft, having in combination the following:

a) strake extending forwardly of the wing inboard extent,

b) reversed fillet at strake junction with the wing leading edge,

c) plain flap and hybrid plain-split flap structures and flap deflecting actuators therefor carried at the wing trailing edge, rearward of the strake and reversed fillet, said actuators having a pivoting axis that is collinear with a pivoting axis of said split flap.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein said wing structure includes the following:

i) plain flap hinge line,

ii) a hybrid plain-split flap hinge locus spaced aft of the plain flap hinge line,

iii) said actuators at said hinge line and at said hinge locus to controllably and independently deflect said plain flap and said hybrid plain-split flap, downwardly, said actuators respectively projecting above said hinge line and above said hinge locus.

3. The combination of claim 1 wherein the plain flap is positioned to be downwardly deflected at a first angle and the split flap is positioned to be downwardly deflected to become angled at or below the plain flap.

Assignments (5)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 21, 2023
From: LUZINSKI, JOSEPH J
To: BOEING ACE COLLATERAL AGENT, LLC
Reel/Frame 063710/0928 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jul 12, 2021
From: AERION CORPORATION; AERION INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CORPORATION
To: BOEING ACE COLLATERAL AGENT LLC, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 056819/0235 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Mar 25, 2021
From: AERION CORPORATION; AERION INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CORPORATION
To: BOEING ACE COLLATERAL AGENT LLC, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 055724/0653 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 15, 2019
From: AERION CORPORATION
To: AERION INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 048077/0026 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 18, 2011
From: CHASE, JAMES D.; STURDZA, PETER; HENDERSON, MICHAEL
To: AERION CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 026429/0293 →