127 results about "Aircrew" patented technology

A passenger furniture device for a passenger seat provided within a vehicle cabin, in particular an aircraft cabin, including at least a base element comprising at least an upper utility surface for a passenger, a removable section element which is mounted to one side of the base element, and a simple latch mechanism. In particular, the latch mechanism may be a simple plug-in and clip device. The latch mechanism is an easy-to-handle releasable attachment and fixation device to release the removable section from the base element, particularly only by crew and service members of the aircraft. The latch mechanism is provided on the base element and the section element such that the section element is detachably mounted to the base element via the latch mechanism.

The invention provides a voice instruction intelligent analysis method and system applied to an air traffic control scene, relates to the technical field of air traffic control, and aims at the characteristics of voice instruction interaction between a controller and a flight crew in the air traffic control scene to construct an instruction interaction expectation model. The instruction interaction expectation model comprises an instruction sequence association rule and a semantic constraint condition set which are generated based on historical controlled call data, and an interaction feature set of speaker identity features, instruction component time sequence features, voice intonation fluctuation features and the like in a real-time capture voice interaction process; inputting an instruction interaction expectation model for dynamic matching and deviation identification, generating an interaction deviation analysis result, triggering an intention clarification and instruction confirmation process based on the analysis result, obtaining a complete instruction component set, generating an instruction analysis result meeting an air traffic control data exchange standard after structured conversion processing, and pushing the instruction analysis result to an air traffic control automation system. The accuracy and efficiency of air traffic control voice instruction analysis are effectively improved.

The invention discloses an aircraft performance monitoring method, device, terminal and system and a storage medium, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a preprocessed flight data stream from an airborne flight data preprocessing device in the flight process of a target leg, analyzing and processing the flight data meeting the effective leg screening condition in the preprocessed flight data stream to obtain the flight data of the effective leg; based on the flight data of the effective leg, calling an embedded performance factor analysis logic to carry out performance factor analysis so as to obtain a performance factor of the effective leg; and in response to a flight end instruction of the target leg, displaying a performance monitoring result on a display based on the performance factor of each effective leg. According to the invention, while the timeliness of airplane performance monitoring is improved, the interference on airborne system data is avoided, the safety is ensured, and an airplane crew can master the performance condition of an airplane in time.

The technology subject of the present application generally concerns an aerial munition unit comprising a proximity fuze functionality and an impact fuze functionality, selectable by a crew member of an aircraft bearing the munition, after the aircraft has taken off and prior to munition release, to render active or operable the proximity fuze functionality or the impact fuze functionality.

An alternate landing site selector system and apparatus utilizing a hierarchy calculator for automatically ranking a plurality of alternate landing sites by assigning a suitability value to each of the alternate landing sites corresponding to that site's suitability for landing, wherein the assigned suitability value is based on at least distance from the aircraft, runway length, terrain, or weather conditions. The system may assist the pilot (crew) in resolving or reducing the urgency of an emergency or in executing a proposed solution to a given emergency, or may direct the aircraft autopilot in executing the suggested (and selected) solution. In either case, the system of the present invention provides the pilot with time to consider an emergency and its resolution (while the aircraft is directed toward a safe configuration or flight condition. The present invention may also ascertain the configuration of an aircraft from changes in the aircraft's position over time, or update an aircraft in preparation for a particular flight or flight condition.

The invention provides an engine electric control system and a control method. The engine electric control system comprises an accelerator console, an accelerator controller and an accelerator actuator. A dual-redundancy throttle lever angular displacement sensor is arranged on the throttle lever; the accelerator controller comprises a dual-redundancy signal demodulation circuit, a processor module and a driving circuit; the accelerator actuator comprises two sets of motor control loops, the accelerator actuator is connected with an input shaft of an engine and used for driving the engine, and a dual-redundancy accelerator actuator angular displacement sensor is arranged on the accelerator actuator. The redundancy design of the system ensures the reliability of the system, solves the problems of low control accuracy of a throttle lever of a mechanical control mechanism and heavy operation burden of aircrew caused by frequent control of the throttle lever, and meanwhile, the system has a fault monitoring function, so that the aircrew can find the system problems in time and make emergency treatment in advance, and the flight safety is improved.

The present disclosure provides embodiments of intelligent cabin management systems and methods. In embodiments, a system includes video cameras for capturing live video streams, an enhancement module for enhancing the live video stream, at least one analytics module for analyzing the enhanced video stream to generate analytics data, and a reporting system for reporting the generated data to at least one of avionics system, crew system and maintenance crew system. The at least one analytics module includes models trained to identify features and reconcile the same against known parameters to determine at least one of compliance and damage. In use, the system alerts crews to issues requiring correction or attention to ensure efficient cabin management.

The invention discloses a flight crew monitoring method and system and a computer readable storage medium, and relates to the technical field of flight crew state monitoring. The monitoring method comprises the steps that monitoring equipment is controlled to monitor the state of a flight crew to obtain monitoring state information, and the monitoring equipment is configured to be not needed to be worn by the flight crew; and determining an alarm strategy based on the monitoring state information in combination with the flight state information of the aircraft. By means of the mode, the state of the flight crew can be monitored to guarantee flight safety, the flight crew does not need to wear monitoring equipment, the time consumed by the flight crew to wear the monitoring equipment can be saved, and the psychological burden of the flight crew can be reduced.

A flight display provides Runway Alignment Indications on an Airport Moving Map. The Runway Alignment Indications include Landing Runway Detection Zones on the Airport Moving Map for the crew-selected runway or the FMS arrival runway. The Landing Runway Detection Zones are geometrically sized, oriented, and placed in relation to the applicable landing runway approach thresholds.

Hydraulic actuator 202 (e.g. for aircraft landing gear) having an extension chamber 206 and a retraction chamber 208, and a bypass line 222 connecting the two chambers, the bypass line having flow res

The invention discloses a flight plan automatic filling method and device for an electronic flight bag. The method comprises the following steps: extracting waypoint information of an original flight path from an original flight plan; acquiring a real-time position of the aircraft based on a preset time period; based on the real-time position and the waypoint information, determining a flight leg of the aircraft at the current moment through a preset leg discrimination algorithm; based on the flight segment, determining a newly added passed waypoint and a pre-flight waypoint of the aircraft; updating the state information of the newly-added passed waypoint into a passed state, and recording updating time; and based on the update time, filling the actual arrival time of the newly added passed waypoint in the flight plan electronic form, and correcting the predicted arrival time of the pre-flight waypoint. According to the method, the actual arrival time of the current waypoint in the flight plan can be automatically filled in, and the predicted arrival time of the next waypoint can be automatically corrected, so that the operation burden of flight crew is effectively reduced, and human errors are reduced.

The present invention discloses a method for analyzing virus transmission in the cabin of a civil airliner, including collecting parameters of the civil airliner, constructing a physical model of the cabin in a selected space using 3D modeling software; performing mesh division on the constructed physical model of the cabin; simulating the physically modeled cabin after mesh division; determining the simulated path of virus diffusion, as well as the velocity field and concentration field of diffusion according to the simulation results; calculating the probability of infection risk for passengers in the cabin under different states of the personalized ventilation outlet above the infected passenger based on the mathematical model of virus transmission in the cabin of a civil airliner. The present invention provides suggestions for flight crew and passengers to reasonably arrange cabin activities and use personal protective equipment, reduce the infection risk of other passengers, isolate infected persons as much as possible, block virus transmission, and is of great significance to the physical health of passengers and flight crew.

The utility model belongs to the technical field of cockpit integration and industrial design, and relates to an active reporting system for abnormal conditions of a driving unit. The system comprises a processing unit, and a camera, an active reporting key and a microphone array which are integrated in a cockpit, the camera is used for acquiring an action signal of a crew driver in real time; the microphone array is used for collecting voice signals of a driver crew in real time; the active report key is used for collecting an active report key signal of a driver; the processing unit is used for receiving an action signal, a voice signal and an active report key signal; and identifying a trigger action in the action signal, identifying a trigger statement in the voice signal, and identifying a key trigger signal in the active report key signal, so as to accurately judge the abnormal state of the driving unit.

A biocidal composite wall or surface fabric installable within an aircraft cabin or other vehicle interior space includes a flexible woven layer. The woven layer is treated on its outer surface with a biocidal polymer coating. For example, the polymer coating may incorporate biocidal microcapsules or nanocapsules configured for controlled release of biocidal compounds in response to physical contact or other stimuli. The released biocidal compounds compromise or kill microbial compounds deposited on the outer surface, e.g., via physical contact by passengers or crewmembers. The woven layer includes additional biocidal molecules incorporated into its fibers and strands, the biocidal molecules capable of biocidal action in response to contact with the fabric.

An object of a system according to an embodiment is to improve motivation by effectively transmitting a praise comment of a customer to a crew.SOLUTION: A system according to an embodiment includes a comment collection unit, a comment analysis unit, a comment generation unit, and a comment transmission unit. A comment collection part collects praise comments of customers. The comment analysis unit analyzes the praise comment collected by the comment collection unit. A comment generation part generates an appropriate praise comment on the basis of the content analyzed by the comment analysis part. The comment transmission unit transmits the praise comment generated by the comment generation unit to the crew.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

The invention relates to the technical field of intelligent security check, and discloses a video analysis and prediction system applied to intelligent scheduling management of a security check channel, and the system comprises a data processing module which obtains flight information from a flight information system of an airport, fuses real-time passenger flow data collected by video monitoring, and constructs a multi-dimensional data set; the multi-curve analysis module is used for generating a full-load curve, an actual attendance curve, a historical prediction curve and a crew curve based on the multi-dimensional data set; and the intelligent scheduling recommendation module is used for calculating the number of security check channels required at the current time point according to the real-time number of people obtained by superposing the full load curve, the actual attendance curve, the historical prediction curve and the crew curve in combination with a preset security check speed. By means of the scheme, minute-level data processing, multi-dimensional prediction analysis and intelligent scheduling can be achieved, so that the security check efficiency and the resource utilization rate are improved, and efficient and safe operation of air transportation is guaranteed.

The application provides a helicopter high-temperature air-bleed oxygen production control device and method. The device comprises an engine air-bleed channel (14), an outlet end of the engine air-bleed channel (14) is connected with an inlet end of a heat dissipation assembly (3), an outlet end of the heat dissipation assembly (3) is connected with an inlet of an oxygen production main machine (7) through an air-bleed pipeline (10), and an outlet of the oxygen production main machine (7) is connected with an oxygen supply mask (9) through an oxygen supply pipeline (11). A shut-off valve (2) is arranged on the engine air-bleed channel (14). The outlet of the heat dissipation assembly (3) is respectively provided with a filter (5) and a temperature and pressure sensor (6). The shut-off valve (2) and the temperature and pressure sensor (6) are all connected with an oxygen production controller (1). The application can improve the reliability and safety of a molecular sieve oxygen supply system, avoid high-temperature air from entering the oxygen production main machine, damage the molecular sieve material, and scald the machine personnel.

The invention relates to the technical field of aviation unit management, and discloses an intelligent scheduling system based on an aviation unit, which comprises a unit management module and an intelligent scheduling module. According to the system, plan operation data and actual operation data of all flights and management data of all crew personnel are obtained through a crew management module and are classified to form a data set, and an intelligent scheduling module judges whether different flights conform to a loop line standard or not, generates a plan data set and a flight loop, optimizes continuous use of crew resources, and improves the working efficiency. The vacancy time is reduced, the unit utilization rate is improved, the flight matching flexibility is high, the intelligent scheduling module evaluates the operation state of each flight ring, generates a flight data set and a scheduling early warning signal, then evaluates the working state of each crew, generates a fatigue index and outputs a corresponding scheduling suggestion, and the scheduling efficiency is improved. The scheduling personnel are helped to visually identify a problem flight ring and a high-risk unit, chain delay is avoided, the overall operation efficiency is improved, and the efficient scheduling optimization effect is good.

A method for piloting a pre-existing aircraft comprising the following steps:integrating an alternative piloting system (1) into the pre-existing aircraft;connecting the aircraft (200) and a ground station in which a ground pilot (207) is positioned;when the aircraft is in a normal state, having the aircraft piloted by a nominal crew;using detection means to detect the occurrence of an emergency situation and, when the occurrence of the emergency is detected:making the ground pilot (207) operational, so that the ground pilot can produce an aircraft ground piloting set-point;transmitting the ground piloting setpoint to the aircraft;using the alternative piloting system to acquire and transmit the ground piloting setpoint to the aircraft flight control system.

The invention relates to a seat (10) for a cabin crew mounted in an aircraft cabin, comprising: a seat structure (11) fastened to an aircraft floor; a cushion plate (12) and a backrest (13) mechanically connected to the seat structure (11), the cushion plate (12) being movable between a raised position and a lowered position; a space filling device (17) between a seat structure (11) and a bulkhead (16) of an aircraft cabin, the space filling device (17) comprising: a fixing part (20) fastened to the seat structure (11); and a movable part (21) which can be moved in translation relative to the fixed part (20) in order to be able to adjust the width of the space filling device (17) to a gap between the seat structure (11) and the partition plate (16).

The invention belongs to the field of design of systems for preventing out-of-control accidents of aircrafts, and particularly relates to an integrated platform and method for preventing out-of-control accidents of aircrafts. The comprehensive platform comprises an airborne modeling and simulation unit used for describing changes of aircraft dynamics and control characteristics caused by aircraft damage and external threats; the aircraft health management unit is used for monitoring and predicting the state of the aircraft and continuously evaluating and managing the health condition and the remaining life of the aircraft; the elastic guidance and control unit is used for aircraft out-of-control prevention and recovery and external threat suppression; and the man-machine interface unit is used for realizing man-machine information exchange and coordination under the condition that the airplane is out of control. The aircraft dynamics and control characteristics can be effectively represented under the condition that the aircraft is abnormal, aircraft health and flight safety are evaluated in real time, and effective context awareness and decision support are provided for flight crew, so that the aircraft out-of-control accident risk is reduced, and related accidents are prevented.

The invention discloses an eVTOL aircraft virtual cockpit system and method, and the system comprises an airborne system, and also comprises an airborne data transmission unit and a ground data transmission unit, the airborne system, the airborne data transmission unit and the ground data transmission unit are in bidirectional connection, and are used for the bidirectional transmission of airborne data and ground data; ground monitoring is carried out on ground output equipment, a virtual immersive cockpit space scene is provided for control personnel, the ground personnel obtain aircraft maneuvering and situation awareness ability consistent with aircraft crew, design iteration input and operation support are provided in various stages of aircraft development, operation remote assistance, monitoring, control and the like, and the aircraft maneuvering and situation awareness ability is improved. The remote control and monitoring capability of the eVTOL aircraft is improved, the flight test and subject training of the eVTOL aircraft are facilitated, and airborne personnel can be remotely assisted in troubleshooting in an emergency.

The present invention pertains to the field of life-saving equipment having accommodation for passengers and crew, comprising capsules (1), wherein each capsule (1) is impact-resistant, has an oval shape, and comprises a seat (2), wherein said seat (2) is provided with safety belts (4), wherein a sphere (6) is mounted to withstand an initial impact, such that when they undergo said initial impact, the spheres (6) issue a command to the seat, assisting in cushioning the impact inside the capsule (1), which is oval and formed in two parts, and is further provided with a plurality of airbags (7) strategically fastened to the internal walls, as well as apertures (8) to enable oxygen exchange with the environment, and wherein each capsule additionally comprises a manual safety system equipped with an internal battery for use in the event of aircraft failure.

A seafarer safety device (500) includes an evaluator (510a) and an inboard outputter (510k). The evaluator (510a) executes an evaluation process of evaluating whether a crew in emergency circumstances, on the basis of the intensities of notification radio waves indicating the existence of the crew on a craft and transmitted from a wearable transmitting device that repetitively transmits the notification radio waves, and on the basis of the strengths of rocking motions of the craft detected by a craft rocking-motion sensor that detects the strengths of rocking motions. The inboard outputter (510k) outputs, to an alarm unit, an emergency evaluation signal indicating a result of evaluation, when the evaluator (510a) evaluates that the crew is in emergency circumstances.

An on-board system and method for leveraging multi-modal means of detecting runway incursions to increase aircraft safety, and to provide a necessary enabler for both reduced crew operations and autonomous flights in the future. The system and method detect incursions using visual perception for all types of vehicles and objects that may incur, and an ADS-B for self-reporting vehicles. The system and method fuse prior known information (such as ownship pose and map data) with detections from sensors and other sources. The system actively tracks detections and computes the current and predicted future states to decide if there is an on-going incursion on the runway. The system reports the runway state to the pilots and / or autonomous receivers.

The embodiments of the present application disclose a method, system, electronic device, and storage medium for suppressing aircraft warnings. The method, applied to a command sending end, includes: obtaining first flight data; obtaining second flight data; determining the aircraft's flight status based on the first and second flight data; and issuing a warning operation instruction to a command execution end based on the aircraft's flight status. The warning operation instruction is executed by the command execution end to control the aircraft's warning system. The aircraft warning suppression technical solution proposed in this application can automatically suppress the aircraft's warning system from being activated when an aircraft passes below during flight, preventing the crew from mistakenly believing there is a risk of collision and causing safety issues.

A seat assembly for a passenger cabin of an aircraft having a holding wall which is permanently secured to the base structure of the aircraft and a seat for the cabin crew. The seat is secured to the holding wall solely by a rotational axis and being rotatable by 30° to 300° between two end positions and between seat positions in which a sitting position of a seat surface of the seat is facilitated. The aircraft has the base structure, the passenger cabin, and the seat assembly with the permanently secured holding wall in the intended installation state. The seat can be rotated about each of the rotational axes between the two end positions and between the seat positions, and the sitting position of the seat surface is facilitated in each of the seat positions.

The present invention relates to a method for simulating an engine failure on a rotorcraft (1) comprising several engines (10) for setting a rotary wing (6) in motion. The method includes a training mode comprising control with a governor (30) for each engine (10) to simulate an engine failure, this control including a limitation of the power of each engine (10) to a respective control limit. The training mode comprises the following steps: i) determining, with the governor (30), on the one hand, a maximum mass based on at least external conditions and, on the other hand, an initial mass of the rotorcraft (1) based on at least the empty mass of the rotorcraft (1), the mass of a crew present in the rotorcraft (1), and an estimated mass of fuel on board; ii) comparing, with the governor (30), the initial mass to the maximum mass; iii) determining, with the governor (30), each control limit based on said comparison.Abbreviated figure: figure 1.

Apparatus and methods for providing situational awareness for laser directed energy weapon (LDEW) operators are disclosed. One such apparatus includes a processor and a memory, which obtain tracking data for each of a plurality of air objects, orbital trajectory forecast data for each of a plurality of space objects, and data identifying a targeted sky region. The processor identifies a subset of to intersect the targeted sky region during a given time range from the pluralities of air objects and space objects, based on their respective tracking data or orbital trajectory forecast data. The apparatus then transmits or stores a dataset comprising data for each object in the subset. This information can be used to generate firing recommendations for the targeted sky region, enhancing crew safety and preventing unintentional collateral damage.