Title:
空中給油用ホースを制御する装置および方法
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP4176718
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
The invention is a variable displacement hydraulic motor-controlled hose reel drive system ( 10 ) for aerial refueling of a receiver aircraft from a tanker aircraft. The system includes a variable displacement hydraulic motor ( 26 ), a tachometer ( 34 ), position sensor ( 34 ), a reaction torque sensor ( 36 ) and a microprocessor ( 29 ) which, depending upon data received from the system's position and reaction torque sensors, sends appropriate signals to the motor. The invention is also a method for deploying a hose and drogue so as to reduce the likelihood that the hose ( 22 ) would go into oscillation after initial engagement of a receiver aircraft's probe with the drogue ( 24 ). In an embodiment of the invention, the hose ( 22 ) is retracted prior to hook up of the probe and drogue ( 24 ), and the force required to retract the hose ( 22 ) is recorded. After initial engagement of the probe with the drogue ( 24 ), the hose ( 22 ) is retracted until the force required to retract the hose rises to about the same force previously recorded.
Inventors:
ASHER BARTOV
Application Number:
JP2004529024A
Publication Date:
November 05, 2008
Filing Date:
August 03, 2002
Export Citation:
Assignee:
ASHER BARTOV
International Classes:
B64D39/02
Domestic Patent References:
| JP5193588A | ||||
| JP4107369A | ||||
| JP2011494A | ||||
| JP58078998A |
Foreign References:
| US5141178 | ||||
| US4533097 | ||||
| US4187962 | ||||
| US4150803 | ||||
| US3674049 | ||||
| US3008674 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kenji Yoshitake
Hiroyuki Nagai
Junpei Okada
Hirohito Katsunuma
Kensuke Miyakoshi
Hiroyuki Nagai
Junpei Okada
Hirohito Katsunuma
Kensuke Miyakoshi