US Patent Issued to Safran Electronics & Defense on June 9 for "Aircraft flight compensator" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,567, issued on June 9, was assigned to Safran Electronics & Defense (Paris).

"Aircraft flight compensator" was invented by Alexis Perez-Duarte (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Fabien Dugail (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This aircraft flight trim system comprises a friction module that has variable friction and is coupled on one side to a drive shaft and on the other side to an output shaft via a kinematic chain.The aircraft flight trim system has a control circuit which controls the friction module on the basis of an angular displacement value of the output shaft provided by a position sensor and on the basis of...