US Patent Issued to DASSAULT AVIATION on April 14 for "Aircraft rudder pedal with mechanical kinematic chain" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,463, issued on April 14, was assigned to DASSAULT AVIATION (Paris).

"Aircraft rudder pedal with mechanical kinematic chain" was invented by Laurent Pistiaux (Saint-Cloud, France) and Vincent Mateus (Saint-Cloud, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft rudder pedal includes a frame, a pair of pedals, an output shaft and a mechanical kinematic chain for transmitting to the output shaft a displacement of at least one of the pedals relative to the frame. The mechanical kinematic chain comprises a central transmission part able to be rotated relative to the frame by a displacement of one of the pedals relative to the frame. The...