Title:
METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING THE ORIENTATION OF AN AIRCRAFT NOSE LANDING GEAR
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2006035132
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A device (1) comprises an inertial reference station (7) for measuring the aircraft heading, an inertial reference unit (9) which is mountable on the wheel of a nose landing gear by means of a fixing system and is used for measuring the heading of said landing gear in a non-steering position and a data processing unit (11) comprising means (12, 13) for carrying out a comparison between the measured heading of the nose landing gear and the measured aircraft heading in such a way that the orientation of said nose landing gear is calculated with respect to the aircraft body.
Inventors:
FURGAL BERNARD (FR)
Application Number:
PCT/FR2005/002307
Publication Date:
June 22, 2006
Filing Date:
September 19, 2005
Export Citation:
Assignee:
AIRBUS FRANCE (FR)
FURGAL BERNARD (FR)
FURGAL BERNARD (FR)
International Classes:
G01C21/16; B62D7/06; B64C25/50; G01C25/00
Foreign References:
| EP0617259A1 | 1994-09-28 | |||
| EP0836990A2 | 1998-04-22 |
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