US Patent Issued to THALES on Nov. 3 for "Mechanical control actuator for an aircraft" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,405, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to THALES (Meudon, France).

"Mechanical control actuator for an aircraft" was invented by Jean-Claude Bourland (Chatellerault, France), Gerard Simon-Bouhet (Chatellerault, France) and Gilles Thouvenot (Valence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flight control actuator for providing assistance to means for piloting an aircraft is provided. This flight actuator includes an electric motor, an input shaft suitable for being rotated by the electric motor, the input shaft including an input clutch device, the input clutch device having an active position wherein it is capable of coupling the input s...