Patent ID: 9718447
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: B32B,B60T,B64C,F16D,Y10T

Claim:
1. An aircraft wheel heat shield, comprising: a cylindrical first structure positioned to receive, in a radial direction, heat generated by a heat source comprising an aircraft brake, the cylindrical first structure disposed coaxial to an aircraft wheel, wherein the first structure is in the form of a cylinder; and a cylindrical second structure disposed coaxially to the first structure and at least partially radially overlapping the cylindrical first structure, thermally coupled to the cylindrical first structure, for conducting the heat in an axial direction to a third structure, wherein the cylindrical second structure is in the form of a cylinder, wherein the third structure comprises a heat dissipation apparatus, wherein the cylindrical second structure comprises a carbon fiber structure configured with a thermal conductivity in the axial direction greater than about 100 watts per meter-Kelvin, where the heat dissipation apparatus comprises an array of fins, the array of fins configured such that longitudinal fins overlap each other on an inner radial side and such that a plurality of radially aligned airflow openings are formed on an outer radial side of each fin in the array of fins, wherein radially aligned airflow openings are prevented from being formed on the inner radial side of each fin.