Patent ID: 6764045
Filing Date: 2004-07-20
Classification: B64D,F02K

Abstract:
A thrust reverser door assembly for a jet engine, the engine having an efflux control assembly and a nacelle, the assembly comprising:a door having first and second panels each having first and second ends, the first and second panels being hingedly attached to each other at their first ends, the second end of the first panel being hingedly attached to the nacelle; a pair of tracks disposed within the nacelle, the second end of the second panel being slidably received within the tracks; and a compression link having a first end and a second end, the first end of the compression link being hingedly attached to the second end of the second panel, the second end of the compression link being hingedly attached to the efflux control assembly, the compression link being extendable from a first state of compression to a second state of compression that is less than the first state of compression, the door being hingedly openable when slidingly urged along the tracks when the compression link is in the second state responsive to the efflux control assembly.