US 11,892,840 B2
Gust load reduction in an aircraft
Philipp Schildt, Hirschaid (DE); Anton Dilcher, Erlangen (DE); Pascal Kolem, Kirchehrenbach (DE); Olaf Otto, Ottobrunn (DE); and Frederic Pflaum, Erlangen (DE)
Assigned to Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG, Blankenfelde-Mahlow (DE)
Appl. No. 17/291,998
Filed by Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG, Blankenfelde-Mahlow (DE)
PCT Filed Nov. 5, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/080192
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 6, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/094617, PCT Pub. Date May 14, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 219 179.4 (DE), filed on Nov. 9, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0311473 A1, Oct. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. B64D 31/06 (2006.01); B64D 27/24 (2006.01); B64C 13/16 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G05D 1/0066 (2013.01) [B64C 13/16 (2013.01); B64D 27/24 (2013.01); B64D 31/06 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An automated method for influencing a gust load of an airplane, the automated method comprising:
ascertaining, by a sensor system, an acceleration of a wing of the airplane perpendicular to the wing, the wing having a wing root, and the acceleration being a value proportional to a root bending moment of the wing generated by the gust load; and
changing a torque of at least one electromotive thrust generator arranged on the wing of the airplane based on the ascertained acceleration, such that an opposing torque introduced into the wing by the changing of the torque causes a bending moment at the wing root to compensate for the root bending moment of the wing generated by the gust load, such that the root bending moment of the wing generated by the gust load is reduced via the opposing torque.