27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-7.4.4

A LANDING GEAR ACTUATOR USING A DUAL-OUTPUT POWER CONVERTER BASED MOTOR DRIVE

P. W. Wheeler, T. Wijekoon, L. Empringham, C. Brunson, J. C. Clare
Univ. of Nottingham, UK

Keywords: ema, landing gear, power converter

This paper describes the design, construction and testing of a dual-output power converter concept where only the large components, such as the DC link capacitor and heat-sink, are shared between two actuators which are used sequentially in the deployment of aircraft landing gear.

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