IP Library Granted Patent US 9,586,672
Granted Patent B2
US 9,586,672 · App. 15/052,497 · Granted Mar 7, 2017

High-lift device of flight vehicle

Inventors: Kazuhide Isotani (Kakamigahara, JP); Kenji Hayama (Kakamigahara, JP)
Assignees: THE SOCIETY OF JAPANESE AEROSPACE COMPANIES; KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
B64C9/18B64C3/58B64C9/16B64C9/28B64C21/02B64C2230/22Y02T50/166Y02T50/44
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Patent No.
US 9,586,672
App. No.
15/052,497
Granted
Mar 7, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A high-lift device of a flight vehicle includes: a flap main body provided at a trailing edge portion of a main wing of the flight vehicle so as to be extracted from and be retracted in the trailing edge portion and extending in a wing span direction of the main wing; and a vortex suppressing portion provided at a tip end portion of the flap main body in a wing span direction of the flap main body and configured to suppress a vortex rolling up from a lower surface of a tip end portion of the flap main body to an upper surface of the tip end portion.

Claims (6)

1. A high-lift device of a flight vehicle,

the high-lift device comprising:

a flap main body provided at a trailing portion of a main wing of the flight vehicle so as to be extracted from and be retracted in the trailing portion and extending in a wing span direction of the main wing; and

a vortex suppressing portion provided at a tip end portion of the flap main body in an extending direction of the flap main body and configured to suppress strength of a vortex rolling up from a lower surface of the tip end portion of the flap main body to an upper surface of the tip end portion of the flap main body, wherein

the vortex suppressing portion is a flow suppressing portion formed at an upper surface side of a leading edge portion of the tip end portion of the flap main body and configured to cause a flow along the upper surface of the tip end portion of the flap main body to be separated from the upper surface; and

the flow suppressing portion is a projection provided so as to project upward along the wing span direction and provided only at the leading edge portion of the upper surface side of the flap main body.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2011-074795 · Mar 30, 2011 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 14008139
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