Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft structure – Ice prevention
Patent
1987-07-16
1989-06-06
Barefoot, Galen
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft structure
Ice prevention
B64D 1516
Patent
active
048364746
ABSTRACT:
A de-icer for de-icing those ice accreting surfaces of a skin formed of a material having a substantially elevated modulus, wherein the de-icer is positioned between a support surface and a surface of the skin obverse to the ice accreting surface and inflated to produce a deformation in the skin sufficient to detach and dislodge accumulations of ice on the ice accreting surface but insufficient to exceed an endurance limit for the material from which the skin is formed. The invention finds use in de-icing aircraft surfaces such as wings, tail surfaces, propellers, rotors such as rotating wings, tail rotors and nose cones.
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Briscoe James A.
Leffel Kevin L.
Phillips, II Ronald W.
Putt James C.
Ban W. W.
Barefoot Galen
Ronyak D. M.
The B. F. Goodrich Company
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