GB881601A - Mechanical remote control systems - Google Patents

Mechanical remote control systems

Info

Publication number
GB881601A
GB881601A GB44308/59A GB4430859A GB881601A GB 881601 A GB881601 A GB 881601A GB 44308/59 A GB44308/59 A GB 44308/59A GB 4430859 A GB4430859 A GB 4430859A GB 881601 A GB881601 A GB 881601A
Authority
GB
United Kingdom
Prior art keywords
shaft
control
teeth
secured
hinge
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Expired
Application number
GB44308/59A
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
Curtiss Wright Corp
Original Assignee
Curtiss Wright Corp
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by Curtiss Wright Corp filed Critical Curtiss Wright Corp
Publication of GB881601A publication Critical patent/GB881601A/en
Expired legal-status Critical Current

Links

Classifications

    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B64AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS
    • B64CAEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS
    • B64C13/00Control systems or transmitting systems for actuating flying-control surfaces, lift-increasing flaps, air brakes, or spoilers

Landscapes

  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Automation & Control Theory (AREA)
  • Aviation & Aerospace Engineering (AREA)
  • Transmission Devices (AREA)

Abstract

881,601. Controlling aircraft. CURTISSWRIGHT CORPORATION. Dec. 30, 1959 [Jan. 22, 1959], No. 44308/59. Class 4. [Also in Groups XXIV, XXV and XXXIV] An aircraft movable surface control system comprises a torque shaft rotatable in either direction, and sufficiently flexible to accommodate bending of the structure from which it is supported by bearings, and a hinge, one element of which is secured to the structure, and the other element to the control surface, the hinge including a rotary speed reducing means driven from the torque shaft to cause relative rotation of the hinge elements. In Fig. 1, a prime mover 14, which may be the primary power plant of the aircraft, or a secondary power unit, or an electric, hydraulic, or pneumatic motor, is connected by shaft sections 16 and angle drive units 18, to the inputs of servo devices 22, 30, 40, 42, and 54, whose outputs are connected to the elevators 24, rudder 38, ailerons 44, 46, and wing flaps 56, respectively. The control devices 26, 32, 48, 50, and 58 of the servos are operable from the control column 28, rudder pedals 34, and flaps control 60, in conventional fashion. Each servo is such (see Groups XXIV and XXXIV) that when its control is in a neutral position, itsoutput shaft is locked against rotation. Displacement of the control in either sense from the neutral position by a mechanical demand signal causes rotation of the output shaft in a corresponding sense at a predetermined speed until the angular rotation of the output shaft recentres the control by a feedback mechanism, Fig. 4 (not shown). The power output of each servo is passed through an overload release clutch 62 (see Group XXIV) and through further shaft sections 16 and angle drive units 18 to the control surface. Each shaft section 16, Fig. 10, comprises a shaft 170 supported by bearings 176 in housings 172, 174 joined by a cover 182. the shaft has a part spherical head with splines 178 at one end, and an internally splined cylindrical coupling 180 at the other end. Each housing 174 is externally screw threaded, and each housing 176 has a part spherical boss 186 on which an internally screw threaded nut 184 is universally mounted. Successive sections 16 can be screwed together to form a flexible drive shaft, and similar provision for universal angular movement is made where a section is secured to a unit, such as units 18. The hinge mounting of an aileron is shown partly in Fig. 6, and comprises a spanwise distributed plurality of units 20, each composed of end members 216 secured to the wing, and having internal teeth 222, and a central member 218 supported from members 216 by bearings 220, being secured to the aileron and having internal teeth 224 of a pitch slightly different from teeth 222. The drive shaft 226 of the unit is interposed between two shaft sections 16, and affords eccentric journals 228, 230 on which are mounted two pinions 232 each having teeth 234 meshing with the teeth on an end member 216, and teeth 236 meshing with teeth 224. By this means a large speed reduction is effected between shaft 226 and the aileron, the gearing being irreversible.
GB44308/59A 1959-01-22 1959-12-30 Mechanical remote control systems Expired GB881601A (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US881601XA 1959-01-22 1959-01-22

Publications (1)

Publication Number Publication Date
GB881601A true GB881601A (en) 1961-11-08

Family

ID=22209694

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
GB44308/59A Expired GB881601A (en) 1959-01-22 1959-12-30 Mechanical remote control systems

Country Status (1)

Country Link
GB (1) GB881601A (en)

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
GB1393758A (en) Actuator
US3038352A (en) Dual speed trim actuator mechanism and control system for a control surface of an aircraft
US4688744A (en) Jam tolerant rotary actuation system
US4345195A (en) Strapdown multifunction servoactuator apparatus for aircraft
CA1117092A (en) Aircraft servoactuator apparatus
US4947070A (en) Control apparatus
US2695145A (en) Boost control system
GB1398002A (en) Power operable pivot joint
US4426607A (en) Differential linkage apparatus for an aircraft series servoactuator apparatus
GB842069A (en) Power steering mechanism
US3716110A (en) Steering and directing mechanism
US3330477A (en) Control systems
US4531427A (en) Apparatus with a planetary gear set
CN107406138A (en) Flight control assemblies for aircraft
US3501114A (en) Jack system applicable to wing control of variable geometry aircraft
US3143693A (en) Automatic trimming systems for the control surfaces of a moving craft
US3995205A (en) Vehicle maneuvering control system
US3030052A (en) Mechanical remote control system
GB881601A (en) Mechanical remote control systems
US10703463B2 (en) Easy-to-mount actuator
US2782601A (en) Electro-mechanical synchronizing apparatus
CN109466802A (en) A kind of aerospace craft flight control system and its Electromechanical Actuators
US3457479A (en) Linear actuator and quadruple redundant type fail operative closed loop servo system
GB772682A (en) Improvements in and relating to power-assisted manual steering systems
GB1484865A (en) Drive arrangements for aircraft control surfaces