Patent ID: 11858656
Assignee: BOREALIS TECHNICAL LIMITED
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  Y | IPC B

Claim 9:
10. A system that automatically integrates docking and parking pilot-controllable taxi drive system-driven aircraft and guides the pilot-controllable taxi system-driven aircraft into and out of designated airport terminal parking locations to dock and park in an orientation parallel to the airport terminal without reliance on airport ground personnel, comprising:
a. an airport terminal with a plurality of aircraft parking locations, multiple extendible passenger loading bridges spaced and positioned at each of said plurality of parking locations to connect with corresponding multiple forward and rear doors of aircraft parked at each parking location with a longest axis of said aircraft oriented parallel to said airport terminal, wherein each parking location has an aircraft parking location receiving device and a loading bridge receiving and transmitting device is mounted on each said extendible passenger loading bridge;
b. aircraft equipped with landing gear wheel-mounted pilot-controllable taxi drive systems and pilot-controllable taxi drive system cockpit controls controllable to maneuver said equipped aircraft into said parallel parking orientations at designated assigned airport terminal parking locations, said aircraft being further equipped with an on-aircraft monitoring system comprising ground travel monitoring and sensing devices mounted in exterior locations on said equipped aircraft to obtain and communicate real time aircraft ground travel information to cockpit indicators, an on-aircraft processor in real time communication with said on-aircraft monitoring system, said cockpit controls and indicators, and said pilot-controllable taxi drive systems, and aircraft door receiving and transmitting devices located at each forward door and rear door on opposite sides of said equipped aircraft;
c. an airport terminal docking and parking system with a docking and parking processor in integrative real time communication with said on-aircraft processor, said aircraft parking location receiving devices, said loading bridge receiving and transmitting devices, and said aircraft door receiving and transmitting devices, said docking and parking processor being programmed to integrate real time communications from said on-aircraft processor, said aircraft parking location receiving devices, said loading bridge receiving and transmitting devices, and said aircraft door receiving and transmitting devices, to automatically identify an equipped aircraft assigned to dock at a designated parking location, and to guide said identified equipped aircraft to dock and park in the parallel orientation at said designated parking location with said multiple extendible passenger loading bridges forming connections to corresponding multiple forward and rear doors on an airport terminal-facing side of said identified equipped aircraft; and
d. said cockpit controls and said on-aircraft monitoring system being operative to assist a pilot to maneuver said identified equipped aircraft with said pilot-controllable taxi drive systems to said assigned parking in response to integrated real time information transmitted from said on-aircraft processor to said cockpit, said aircraft parking location receiving device being operative to identify each said equipped aircraft as assigned to dock at said parking location, and said loading bridge receiving and transmitting devices and said aircraft door receiving and transmitting devices being operative to connect each of said multiple passenger loading bridges to each corresponding forward aircraft door and rear aircraft door when said identified equipped aircraft is parked in said parallel parking orientation.