US 12,330,805 B2
System and method for detecting the position and/or the operating state of a movable component of an aircraft
Thomas Grom, Vilsingen (DE); Tobias Hartmann, Buchenberg (DE); and Christian Kohlöffel, Amtzell (DE)
Assigned to LIEBHERR-AEROSPACE LINDENBERG GMBH, Lindenberg (DE)
Filed by Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH, Lindenberg (DE)
Filed on Dec. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/539,034.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2022 133 268.3 (DE), filed on Dec. 14, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0199226 A1, Jun. 20, 2024
Int. Cl. B64D 45/00 (2006.01)
CPC B64D 45/0005 (2013.01) [B64D 2045/001 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for detecting the position and/or the operating state of a movable component of an aircraft, wherein the system has one movable component, two actuators, two motion sensors, one asymmetry sensor, one drive train, and one monitoring device; wherein the component can be actuated by the at least two mutually offset actuators; wherein at least one motion sensor is provided for one respective actuator; wherein the motion sensor can monitor a mechanical movement of the drive train; and wherein the monitoring device is connected to the motion sensors and to the asymmetry sensor, wherein the system is configured such that an initialization of the monitoring device and/or of the motion sensors and/or of the asymmetry sensor can take place after a booting of the system and/or when the component has adopted a fully retracted and/or a fully extended position.