OPTICAL VIEWING APPARATUS FOR AIRCRAFT DOORWAY

• US 20150307208A1
• Filed: 11/14/2013
• Published: 10/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2012
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Learjet Incorporated (Bombardier Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Learjet Incorporated (Bombardier Incorporated)
• Inventors: BUTLER, Harris K. III, RUSTMAN, Kris
• Granted Patent: US 10,252,818 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 1/1407 Doors; surrounding frames
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 45/00 Aircraft indicators or protectors not otherwise provided for camouflage F41H3/00
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 47/08 Arrangements of cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 23/08 Periscopes arrangements on floating structures of underwater viewing devices B63C11/49; arrangement of visual watch equipment on submarines B63G8/38
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/06 the relative position of the fibres being the same at both ends, e.g. for transporting images
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/186 Video door telephones

Abstract

A viewing device for an aircraft includes an image receiver adapted to receive an image of a predetermined spatial area of an exterior of an aircraft, an image projector adapted to display the image of the predetermined spatial area, and an image conduit connecting the image receiver to the image projector. The image receiver is adapted to be positioned on an exterior side of the aircraft below a lateral width of a fuselage of the aircraft while the image projector is adapted to be positioned on an interior side of the aircraft above the lateral width of the fuselage of the aircraft. The image projector is adapted to be positioned at a first predetermined height above a floor on the interior side of the aircraft, consistent with a person'"'"'s eye level. The image projector is separated from the image receiver by a first predetermined distance.

Claims

2-1. The viewing device of claim 1, wherein the predetermined spatial area is located exteriorly to a door of the aircraft.