METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR DE-ICING AN ELASTICALLY DEFORMABLE SHEET MEMBER

Patent №

US 4,629,149

Granted

1986-12-16

Filed 1985

Owner

SHORT BROTHERS PLC, MONTGOMERY ROAD, CASTLEREAGH, BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND BT6 9HN

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

06708930

An economical method of, and apparatus for, de-icing the skin panels (25) of aircraft employs electromagnetic solenoid actuators (1) which use normal supply voltages (43) available on aircraft to flex the skin panels slowly and rely upon abrupt termination (S) of the flexing pressure and the consequent fast natural elastic relaxation of the panels to break the bond between the panels and the ice accreted thereon, to shrug off the ice from the panels.

AI classification

Planning0.95
AI hardware0.02
Vision0.01
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00

Ownership

SHORT BROTHERS PLC, MONTGOMERY ROAD, CASTLEREAGH, BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND BT6 9HN

assignment · 44380952

Assignors

CARSON, OLIVER S., MC MURTRY, GEORGE, CARRINGTON, JAMES E.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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