Communications: electrical – Aircraft alarm or indicating systems – Potential collision with other aircraft
Reexamination Certificate
2007-03-15
2009-08-04
Goins, Davetta W (Department: 2612)
Communications: electrical
Aircraft alarm or indicating systems
Potential collision with other aircraft
C340S945000, C340S970000, C701S121000, C342S038000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07570178
ABSTRACT:
The present invention is directed to a traffic display for an aircraft, which includes a vertical traffic indicator. The vertical traffic indicator includes flight levels, depicted utilizing differing visual patterns to represent the current flight level as well as available and unavailable flight levels for transit. The vertical traffic indicator includes aircraft indicators positioned in relation to flight levels to indicate attitude. The aircraft indicators may also include status indicators indicating separation standards, vertical trend, intent, or whether an aircraft is a reference aircraft for an ITP. The traffic display provides clear and intuitive means of understanding the flying environment related to the performance of the ITP, increasing situational awareness and simplifying the ITP. The traffic display is specifically advantageous for performance of an ITP, but may be integrated with displays including terrain, weather, flight plan waypoints, or TCAS (Traffic Collision Avoidance System) traffic.
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patent: 6348877 (2002-02-01), Berstis et al.
patent: 7382285 (2008-06-01), Horvath et al.
patent: 2005/0007270 (2005-01-01), Block
Rathinam Sethu R.
Whalen Donald J.
Barbieri Daniel M.
Goins Davetta W
Rockwell Collins, Inc.
Walk Samuel J
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