ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,811, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS (Velizy Villacoublay, France).
"Braked aircraft wheel" was invented by Arnaud Gapin (Velizy, France) and Julien Marques (Velizy, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft wheel including a rim fitted with rotor disks driven in rotation with the rim by first splines secured to the rim and engaged in notches in the rotor disks, stator disks interposed between the rotor disks and provided with notches engaged on second splines secured to a brake torque tube arranged to be fastened to an axle carrying the aircraft wheel, one or more heatpipe extending in one or more of ...