US Patent Issued to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS on May 19 for "Aircraft having a pivoting landing gear provided with a pivot locking system and a monitoring system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,286, issued on May 19, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS (Marignane Cedex, France).

"Aircraft having a pivoting landing gear provided with a pivot locking system and a monitoring system" was invented by Antonin Rocher (Ensues-la-Redonne, France), Roland Becquet (Meyreuil, France), Julien Azzarello (Marseilles, France) and Aurelien Achard (Vitrolles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft having a landing gear provided with a stand a pivoting assembly, the landing gear having a pivot locking system comprising a movable locking finger and a passage provided in a base. A monitoring system is configured to determine the presen...