摘要:
The invention relates to a flapping restrainer device for the blades of a rotorcraft main rotor, and a rotor head comprising the same. The lower restrainers comprise a reciprocal star-shaped plate (32), having as many radial branches (33) as blades, and each one of the branches being engaged into a radial opening (6) of the hub (3). Outside the latter, the star-shaped plate (32) cooperates with supporting runners (47) integral with the blades. The upper restrainers comprise, for each blade, a stop which is retractable by the effect of the centrifugal force and which is composed of a lever (52), pivoting on a pivot (53) carried by the hub (3), and a first arm (55) of which constitutes a stop finger directed towards an upper supporting component (60) integral with the blade, while a second arm (56) carries a governor weight (57) and a nose (58) for support against a shoulder (59) integral with the hub (3).
摘要:
A helicopter rotor on which each blade is connected in articulated manner to a center hub by means of a fork, the vertical plane movement of which is limited, below a given speed of the rotor, by a pair of limit rocker arms located between the hub and a ring nut mounted for rotation on the fork and angularly integral with the hub by means of a rod of variable length connected in articulated manner to a slide supported on the hub and arranged substantially horizontally and crosswise in relation to the blade.
摘要:
Helicopter rotor on which each blade is connected in articulated manner to a center hub by means of a forkthe vertical plane movement of which, at rotor speeds below a given set value, is limited by a pair of limit rocker arms located between the hub and a ring nut mounted in rotary manner on the forkand rendered angularly integral with the hub by means of a compass drive.
摘要:
Helicopter rotor on which the blades are each connected to a center hub plate by means of a U-shaped fork connected to the hub by an elastomer support, the latter supporting a static supporting device for limiting dynamic oscillation on the relative blade in the vertical plane, the said device providing for use of a pin faceted on the side, mounted so as to turn on a taper seat integral with the relative fork and designed to engage with a mating surface integral with the hub.
摘要:
A rotor system for a helicopter including a tension/torsion component which is fabricated from composite material and as a compound curved, continuous loop twin tension/torsion beam. Each end of the twin tension/torsion beam includes two curved (wrapped) ends which are oriented substantially orthogonally. At one end the curved ends extend about the flap hinge, and at the other end the curved ends extend about the fold and lead/lag hinge of the rotor system. To accommodate the twin tension/torsion beam at the flap hinge a support fitting is provided with lugs which are made compatible with the rotor hub lugs, and to accommodate the twin tension/torsion beam at the fold and lead/lag hinge a pitch varying structure is provided with twin beam engaging clevis surfaces.
摘要:
An improved droop stop for a fully articulated helicopter rotor is providedherein curved mating surfaces are employed between the spindle pad and the centrifugal droop stop static support arm to provide surface rather than line contact therebetween during centrifugal operation. The centers of the curved surfaces are coincident at the pivot point of the droop stop centrifugal arm to force the downward load of the blade to pass through this pivot point.
摘要:
A locking control system and an overtravel safety stop system are presented for a variable length rotor blade system. The lock system has a lock mechanism operated by a pilot actuated lock shaft to lock and unlock the blade adjustment system. A traveling nut locks the blade adjustment system to prevent overretraction or overextension.
摘要:
A fully articulated helicopter rotor having an elastomeric type main bearing which is reactive of all blade motions about the intersecting blade pitch change, lead-lag, and coning axes, including blade droop supporting and limiting members for static and dynamic operating conditions wherein coupling influences between the separate blade motions are precluded. In reacting these blade weight loadings and dynamic thrust forces, the droop members specifically provide full area contact bearing surfaces to distribute the large forces from the blades into the rotor hub proper while avoiding scuffing or rolling contact between the parts, and the high bearing stresses which would result from either point or line contact only.
摘要:
An elastomeric helicopter rotor having a blade mounted by means of an elastomeric bearing for universal motion about the intersection of the blade pitch change, flapping and lead-lag axes and including blade coning and droop stops, including a conical ring member rotatably mounted about the pitch change axis of the blade and coning and droop stops constituting circular segments of conical members whose centers lie on the blade leadlag axes and with the ring member and coning stop and droop stop members presenting mating surfaces to one another so that as the blade moves in lead-lag motion while the blade ring member is in contact with either the coning stop surface or the droop stop surfaces, a relative motion will be established therebetween for full support of the blade throughout the lead-lag motion, without affecting blade pitch angle or flapping angle, without preventing independent blade pitch change and without scuffing of parts. Most importantly, the droop stops are both a dynamic droop stop supported from the hub for limiting blade droop during flight, and a static droop stop supported loosely from and pivotable on said dynamic droop stop, for further limiting blade droop at low rotor speeds or at rotor rest, so that blade loading against said static droop stop will move said static droop stop into engagement with said dynamic droop stop to impart said load directly through both droop stops so engaged into the hub. The loose pivot between the static and dynamic droop stops involves substantial diametral clearance providing for almost frictionless operation of the static droop stop, and causing the blade load to bypass the pivot connection. The looseness of the pivot connection and the shape of the static droop stop will accommodate misalignment between the contacting surfaces. This misalignment, which is allowed by the flexibility of the blade supporting elastomeric bearing, will cause the static droop stop to rotate on the dynamic droop stop and realign itself under load, and provide proper contact rather than corner loading.