An electric taxi system (ETS) for an aircraft may include an articulated driven sub-assembly coupled circumferentially with a wheel of the aircraft, the articulated driven sub-assembly being provided with a plurality of torque transmitting pockets; and a rotatable driver with a plurality of teeth, the driver being selectively engageable with the articulated driven sub-assembly so that successive ones of the teeth engage with successive ones of the torque transmitting pockets to transmit torque from a motor of the ETS to the wheel. Transmission of torque through the ETS may not interfere with normal deflection of the wheel which results from movement of the aircraft.
AIRCRAFT WHEEL DRIVING SYSTEM
2015-07-30
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge |