US Patent Issued to RATIER-FIGEAC on Oct. 27 for "Aircraft brake with thermal fuse" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,726, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to RATIER-FIGEAC SAS (Figeac Cedex, France).

"Aircraft brake with thermal fuse" was invented by Adil Sardi (Saint Felix, France), Fabien Ramirez (Tauriac, France), Patrice Brion (Lunan, France) and Bertrand Prouzet (Figeac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake for an aircraft includes a housing, a shaft defining an axis (X) and extending into the housing, a floating brake disk on the shaft, the brake disk fixed for rotation with the shaft and arranged to be axially movable within the housing, a static brake pad arranged on a first side of the floating brake disk, a movable brake pad arran...