US Patent Issued to TEXTRON eAVIATION on Nov. 3 for "Aircraft landing gear struts with integral shimmy damper" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,406, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TEXTRON eAVIATION INC. (Wichita, Kan.).

"Aircraft landing gear struts with integral shimmy damper" was invented by Justin Matthew Birkey (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments disclosed herein are broadly concerned with aircraft nose wheel strut assemblies that include an integral (i.e., internal) shimmy damper. In preferred embodiments, the strut assemblies will include a central cylinder defining an interior fluid-filled (e.g., oil-filled) cylinder chamber adapted to being connected to frame structure of an aircraft and a piston tube telescopically received within the cen...