A flexbeam unit for a multi-blade rotor of a rotary wing aircraft, said flexbeam unit comprising a plurality of flexbeam elements that define a predetermined number of torsion elements and a ring-shaped connection zone for attachment to a rotor hub associated with a rotor shaft of said multi-blade rotor, each flexbeam element passing said ring-shaped connection zone in a tangential manner and uninterruptedly connecting a first torsion element to a second torsion element of said predetermined number of torsion elements, wherein each flexbeam element overlaps at least one in the circumferential direction of said ring-shaped connection zone immediately following flexbeam element and is overlapped by at least one in the circumferential direction of said ring-shaped connection zone immediately preceding flexbeam element.


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    Title :

    FLEXBEAM UNIT FOR A HINGELESS OR A HINGE AND BEARINGLESS MULTI-BLADE ROTOR OF A ROTARY WING AIRCRAFT


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2015-07-16


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge