US 12,391,370 B2
Aircraft landing gear with noise reduction front and rear shaped elements
Jerome Huber, Toulouse (FR); Aline Scotto, Toulouse (FR); Maxime Itasse, Toulouse (FR); and Robert Northam, Bristol (GB)
Assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED, Bristol (GB); and AIRBUS OPERATIONS (SAS), Toulouse (FR)
Filed by AIRBUS OPERATIONS (SAS), Toulouse (FR); and AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED, Bristol (GB)
Filed on Nov. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/992,598.
Claims priority of application No. 2112524 (FR), filed on Nov. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0227150 A1, Jul. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. B64C 25/00 (2006.01)
CPC B64C 25/001 (2013.01) [B64C 2025/003 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An aircraft landing gear attached to an aircraft, the aircraft landing gear comprising:
a structural main leg which is substantially circular in cross-section and defines a front side configured to face in an upstream direction with respect to a flight direction of the aircraft and a rear side configured to face in a downstream direction with respect to the flight direction,
a front shaped element attached to a first attachment point on the front side of the structural main leg, wherein the front shaped element extends in the upstream direction from the first attachment point, and
a rear shaped element attached to a second attachment point located on the rear side of the structural main leg, wherein the rear shaped element extends in the downstream direction from the second attachment point on the structural main leg,
wherein a first combined cross-sectional shape of the structural main leg and the rear shaped element tapers in the downstream direction,
wherein a second combined cross-sectional shape of the structural main leg and the front shaped element tapers from the structural main leg in the upstream direction, and
wherein the front shaped element is elongated in the upstream direction as compared to the structural main leg.