A versatile distress beacon system for an aircraft, a ship or other vehicles, including a beacon and a mounting to provide the function of an automatic beacon or a survival beacon. The automatic distress beacon system includes a mounting rigidly attached to the structure of the aircraft and a beacon removably mounted on the mounting. The mounting includes an electronic management unit having a first connector to connect to the data bus and to control the aircraft to receive data from the data bus and orders to activate the beacon, and a second connector to connect to the beacon to transmit data and activation orders to same. The beacon having a memory module to store the transmitted data and a radio transmission module connected to a transmission antenna. The mounting has a detector to detect abnormal events connected to the electronic management unit, with a view to activating the beacon.
SYSTEME DE BALISE DE DETRESSE POUR AERONEF OU AUTRE VEHICULE
DISTRESS BEACON SYSTEM FOR AN AIRCRAFT OR ANOTHER VEHICLE
NOTFUNKBAKENSYSTEM FÜR FLUGZEUGE ODER ANDERE FORTBEWEGUNGSMITTEL
2017-01-04
Patent
Electronic Resource
French
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