32 patents
Utility
Methods for Producing Creep Age Formed Aircraft Components
15 Jul 20
Aircraft components are produced by creep age forming (CAF) processes whereby a flat plate is initially subjected to CAF processing to produce a curved product preform which is thereafter machined to remove material therefrom so as to produce the final aircraft component.
Edgar José da Silva, Fernando Ferreira de Mello Neto, Paulo Roberto Costa Junior
Filed: 10 Jan 19
Utility
Aircraft Cargo Platform Assemblies and Aircraft Modular Auxiliary Fuselage Fuel Tank Systems Employing the Same
8 Jul 20
Cargo load platform assemblies are especially adapted to provide support for a variety of cargo, such as auxiliary aircraft fuel tanks.
Adilson Martins de Melo, Andre Rodrigues Ribeiro Pinto, Marcos Vinicus, Bruno Miguel Oliveira Andrade
Filed: 8 Jan 19
Utility
Low/no Visibility Takeoff System
24 Jun 20
A no/low visibility automatic takeoff system for an aircraft obtains a runway reference centerline and aircraft pointing direction (via the aircraft's sensors) and automatically controls the aircraft pointing direction to track the runway reference centerline.
Thomas KESTENBACH, Luiz Gustavo Medeiros CARNEIRO, Patrice London GUEDES, Jose Roberto Ferreira de Camargo Clark REIS, Rubens Monteiro DE SOUZA JUNIOR, Nelson BARBOSA
Filed: 18 Dec 18
Utility
Method and equipment for measuring mass inertia of moving surfaces
15 Jun 20
Devices are provided to measure the mass inertia of moving surfaces (e.g., aircraft components).
José Carlos Dos Santos, Anderson Tobias Lindegger, Claudio Nagafchi, Douglas Alves Moraes, Oswaldo Escobar, Marcelo Camilo Alves Costa, Altair Tomaz Mendes
Filed: 11 Mar 18
Utility
Thermally driven actuator system
8 Jun 20
Exemplary embodiments are directed to thermally driven actuator systems including a thermally driven element and one or more heating elements coupled to and in thermal contact with the thermally driven element.
Seth S. Kessler, Fabio Santos da Silva, Rodrigo Carlana da Silva, Cassio Wallner, Paulo Anchieta da Silva, Estelle Cohen
Filed: 1 Mar 18
Utility
Automatic command for lift control devices
1 Jun 20
Aircraft and associated methods, apparatus, system and storage devices for automatically positioning of lift control devices such as high lift devices including slats and flaps so an aircraft equipped with this technology will not need to count on the crew to command the lift control devices.
Paulo Emilio da Silva Turetta, Daniel Paulo de Tarso Ferreira, Igor Miranda Rodrigues
Filed: 31 Aug 17
Utility
Thermally Configurable Structural Elements Especially Useful for Aircraft Components
27 May 20
Thermally configurable structural elements (e.g., aircraft components such as an aircraft winglet spar) capable of assuming at least first and second structural configurations are provided whereby the structural element includes an integral actuation mechanism provided by at least one thermally configurable region, and at least one non-thermally configurable region which is unitarily contiguous with the at least one thermally configurable region.
Paulo Anchieta da SILVA, Fabio Santos da SILVA, Danillo Cafaldo dos REIS
Filed: 25 Nov 18
Utility
Multidimensional Quantization and Distributed Automatic Systems Management
27 May 20
Automatic system management is provided by controlling/managing part or all of the system operation through the predefined properties embedded in the components of the management system itself.
Julio Cesar Bolzani de Campos FERREIRA
Filed: 24 Nov 19
Utility
Automated process for manufacturing items of furniture in an integrated manufacturing cell and integrated cell for manufacturing items of furniture
25 May 20
Patent of invention for “automated process for manufacturing items of furniture in an integrated manufacturing cell and integrated cell for manufacturing items of furniture”.
Elton Candia Cordeiro, Fábio Rodrigues Costa, Gustavo Franco Barbosa
Filed: 16 Nov 15
Design
Passenger seat
4 May 20
Ricardo Athayde Abelheira, Flavia Renata Dantas Alves Silva Ciaccia, Fábio Santos da Silva, Rodrigo Takashi Lourenço Kawasaki, Moacir Morais de Andrade Lima, Fabiano Mafra Decarli, Demetrio Andrade de Campos
Filed: 22 Oct 17
Design
Passenger service unit
4 May 20
Fernanda Loth Pugliesi, Bruno Kimura Castanha, Jay Beever, Joshua Rea, Rainer Zierer
Filed: 28 Sep 17
Utility
Inventory control for non-repairable items based on prognostics and health monitoring data
30 Mar 20
In an improved inventory control policy and associated data processing system, effective inventory level is compared with a variable reorder point, R(t).
Leonardo Ramos Rodrigues
Filed: 9 Mar 14
Utility
Method of mounting inserts and a device for mounting inserts
23 Mar 20
There is described a method of mounting inserts, comprising the following steps: •(i) Application of an adhesive film on one of the faces of an inserts tray (223) covering a plurality of through-holes (241) and respective depressions (242); •(ii) Insertion of an insert (230) in each through-hole (241) of the tray (223) from a face of the inserts tray (223) opposite that of the adhesive film, securing one surface of the insert (23) onto this adhesive film; •(iii) Cutout of the adhesive film forming a plurality of single films (245) associated with the inserts (230).
Elton Candia Cordeiro, Fábio Rodrigues Costa, Gustavo Franco Barbosa
Filed: 23 Nov 15
Utility
Aircraft Integrated Multi System Electronic Architecture
11 Mar 20
A flexible distributed multi-system architecture for aircraft control integrates electronic computers comprising plural types of high integrity, dissimilar, generic and reconfigurable controllers (GECs) that can assume different purposes.
Marcelo GALVÃO, Marcos Vinicius CAMPOS, Luiz Carlos MARENGO
Filed: 10 Sep 18
Utility
Vertical Take-off and Landing (Vtol) Aircraft with Cruise Rotor Positioning Control for Minimum Drag
11 Mar 20
Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft are provided with fixed-position port and starboard wings extending laterally from an elongate fuselage having an empennage at an aft end of the fuselage and a propeller to provide horizontal thrust to the aircraft in a direction of the longitudinal axis thereof.
Júlio Cesar GRAVES, Yasser Mahmud ABDALLAH, Leandro Guimarães MAIA, Carlos Eduardo Vieira DE SOUZA, Luiz Felipe Ribeiro VALENTINI
Filed: 8 Sep 19
Utility
Method and System for Distributed Electrical Loads Connected to Shared Power Sources
11 Mar 20
Methodologies to deal with electrical systems and power source failures for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL) design with distributed propulsion using multiple electric motors minimize required power source energy to perform an emergency landing procedure.
Ricardo Takeshi DEMIZU, Júlio Cesar GRAVES
Filed: 10 Sep 19
Utility
Smart and Shared Services Platform
11 Mar 20
A network of computing devices connected to the central NOV management server (CNOVMS) run a method to execute the process of collecting and communication data from NOV crew with the maintenance controller, supporting the creation by the maintenance controller of an unique electronic data package (case) to record the NOV data, submitting a plurality of maintenance requests from the CNOVMS to a plurality of independent mechanics mobile devices and/or a plurality of maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) computing systems for maintenance using the collect NOV data, supporting maintenance control center controller to identify the needed materials for the NOV events, providing visibility of the NOV case solution progress to all parties involved and/or effected and providing ways to retrieve all data related to specific NOV cases and creating analyses and reports to support Vehicles Operators (e.g., Airlines), independent mechanics, MROs (maintenance repair overhaulers), material providers and OEMs to improve their processes to solve NOV events (e.g., time and cost reductions, lower impacts on operations).
Luís Gustavo DOS SANTOS, Marco Aurelio SILVA VILHENA CESARINO, Arjan KANTERS, Luís Marcelo BORGES
Filed: 3 Sep 19
Utility
Device and Method for Regulating Aircraft Control Surfaces
19 Feb 20
Adir RODRIGUES DE OLIVEIRA, Pedro CANDIA DE MIRANDA, Luis Augusto BASTOS TELLES NUNES, Gilberto Silva COSTA DOS SANTOS, Débora Saraiva RAMOS, Juliano Batista ALMENDANHA, Marcos Roberto CRUZ, Maurilio Augusto PINTO
Filed: 8 Feb 17
Utility
Aircraft pilot training system, method and apparatus for theory, practice and evaluation
6 Jan 20
A system and method for training an aircraft pilot employs a station that delivers training lessons in the form of output and also receives input data from the trainee.
Nilson Emanuel Bezerra Chavez, Guilherme De Miranda Cara, Nelson Jose Issa De Macedo
Filed: 15 Jun 15
Design
Passenger service unit module
23 Dec 19
Moacir Morais de Andrade Lima, Amauri Paulino, Sergio Luiz Abdalla Gomide, Gustavo Selofite de Arruda, Nilmar César Ferreira, Luciano dos Santos Ribeiro, Demétrio Andrade de Campos, Sergio Augusto Meireles Filho, Frederico Lara de Oliveira, Douglas Gonçalves de Albuquerque, Helio Albino, André Duarte Stein, Paul Priestman, Daniel MacInnes, Luciano Ricardo Magalhães da Silva, Ricardo Rosa Macêdo
Filed: 21 Jun 18