US Patent Issued to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS on June 30 for "Variable-length landing gear and aircraft equipped with such a landing gear" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,357, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS (Velizy-villacoublay, France).

"Variable-length landing gear and aircraft equipped with such a landing gear" was invented by Aurelien Doux (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Vincent Pavoine (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Philippe Henrion (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Sebastien Dubois (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A landing gear includes a supporting structure, and a damping cylinder connected to a lever which is hinged to the supporting structure about a hinge axis. The lever is movable between a towards end position, in which the wheel is moved towards the ...