Electrical rudder control system for an aircraft

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8979036
APP PUB NO 20130075535A1
SERIAL NO

13616744

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Disclosed is a vertical rudder control system for an aircraft. The system is comprised of a rudder trim compensation generator that is configured to generate a rudder trim compensation order to set the position of the rudder bar of the aircraft to a neutral position in which the rudder bar is controlled with nil (i.e., zero) pilot effort. The vertical rudder control system includes a flight control calculator for calculating rudder control orders to maintain the nil effort rudder bar position, with the calculation of the rudder control orders being based on a sum of the rudder bar position, determined by a detection unit, and the rudder trim compensation order. The rudder control orders are received by a rudder operating unit, which is used to deflect the vertical rudder by a deflection value based on the rudder control orders.

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  • AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Brot, Patrice Ramonville-St-Agne, FR 11 71
Fabre, Pierre Tournefeuille, FR 28 263

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