US Patent Issued to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS on Dec. 2 for "Heat shield for a braking device of an aircraft wheel" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,879, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS (Velizy Villacoublay, France).

"Heat shield for a braking device of an aircraft wheel" was invented by Sylvain Moline (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Yannick Tarnowski (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Arnaud Gapin (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Sebastien Heude (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a braking device (1) of an aircraft wheel, comprising a ring (15) which has a plurality of cavities (17) in which actuators (18) are fitted in order to apply a braking force to a stack of discs (11) which extend opposite the ring. The ring is provide...