Patent ID: 7589620
Filing Date: 2009-09-15
Classification: B60C,G01P

Abstract:
1. Axle end equipment for an aircraft, the equipment comprising: a stationary portion for securing to the axle and a rotary portion for securing to the wheel carried by the axle, first remote connection means for putting a sensor mounted on the wheel into contactless electromagnetic relationship with the rotary portion of the equipment, and second remote connection means for putting the rotary portion into electromagnetic relationship with the stationary portion, the first and second remote connection means being electrically connected in the rotary portion so that the sensor is in electromagnetic relationship with the stationary portion via the remote connection means, wherein each of the first and second remote connection means comprises two antennas, each comprising a conductor winding and disposed facing each other so as to interact electro-magnetically, one of the antennas of the first remote connection means and one of the antennas of the second remote connection means being electrically interconnected in the rotary portion, and wherein the antenna of the first remote connection means and the antenna of the second remote connection means that are electrically interconnected in the rotary portion are integrated in an electrical circuit that is resonant at a frequency of a power supply current fed to the other antenna of the second remote connection means that is disposed on the stationary portion.