Method and Apparatus for Handling Data and Aircraft Employing Same
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
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operably coupling a first optical data bus to each of a plurality of data-based aircraft components;
operably coupling a second optical data bus to each of the plurality of data-based aircraft components, wherein the second optical data bus is discrete with respect to the first optical data bus;
operably coupling a third optical data bus to each of the plurality of data-based aircraft components, wherein the third optical data bus is discrete with respect to the first and the second optical data bus.
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Abstract
These teachings present triple data transport redundancy in the form of three data bus interfaces that are each designed and manufactured independently from one another and compatible with a common data handling protocol. This protocol can be one that includes no error correction. These interfaces can each couple to a corresponding first, second, and third data bus that may comprise optical data busses. Information gauges can be realized through use a memory that stores a plurality of images comprising views of an information gauge (or gauges) of interest showing a variety of different readings. Upon receiving information regarding a monitored parameter of interest (via, for example, the aforementioned data busses and data bus interfaces), this information can be used to address the stored information gauge view that corresponds to the present parameter value. That particular view can be recalled and displayed to thereby provide the corresponding information to a viewer.
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35 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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in an aircraft; operably coupling a first optical data bus to each of a plurality of data-based aircraft components; operably coupling a second optical data bus to each of the plurality of data-based aircraft components, wherein the second optical data bus is discrete with respect to the first optical data bus; operably coupling a third optical data bus to each of the plurality of data-based aircraft components, wherein the third optical data bus is discrete with respect to the first and the second optical data bus. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. An aircraft data bus for use with data-based aircraft components comprising:
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a first optical data bus that is operably coupled to each of a plurality of data-based aircraft components; second optical data bus that is operably coupled to each of the plurality of data-based aircraft components, wherein the second optical data bus is discrete with respect to the first optical data bus; a third optical data bus that is operably coupled to each of the plurality of data-based aircraft components, wherein the third optical data bus is discrete with respect to the first and the second optical data bus. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. An aircraft comprising:
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a plurality of data-based aircraft components; a first optical bus that operably couples to each of the plurality of data-based aircraft components; a second optical bus that operably couples to each of the plurality of data-based aircraft components, wherein the second optical bus is discrete from the first optical bus; a third optical bus that operably couples to each of the plurality of data-based aircraft components, wherein the third optical bus is discrete from the first and second optical bus. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35)
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