Patent ID: 8408498
Filing Date: 2013-04-02
Classification: B64C,Y02T

Abstract:
1. An aerodynamic body for at least one of an airfoil, a leading-edge device and a trailing-edge device of an aircraft, comprising: an outside having a top and bottom in relation to a direction of airflow, lateral end parts that form lateral ends of the aerodynamic body when viewed across the direction of airflow, arranged in an interior of the aerodynamic body, the duct including an airflow drive with a first drive motor and a compressor means that is driven by the aforesaid, and the duct having at least one inlet at one or more of: (i) the bottom, and (ii) at least one of the lateral end parts of the aerodynamic body, and having at least one outlet at the top of the aerodynamic body for influencing the airflow at the aerodynamic body, wherein a sleeve arranged within the duct which is rotatable by means of a second drive motor, which sleeve comprises at least one recess which at a particular rotational position of the sleeve is made to at least in part coincide with the at least one outlet at the top of the aerodynamic body so that the air that has been compressed by the compressor flows through the recess in the sleeve and through the outlet, and a flow-through adjustment device arranged at the outlet which can change a size of the outlet in order to influence the air throughput that occurs at the outlet.