Patent ID: 7451948

Claim:
Apparatus for deicing a surface of an aircraft, said apparatus being part of the aircraft and comprising: a pair of adjacent movable surface elements covering a portion of an aircraft and a reciprocating actuator for moving said adjacent surface elements in opposite directions relative to one another and each of said movable surface elements having first and opposite end portions; a fixed base and said reciprocating actuator pivotally connected to said base, and a subactuating member pivotally connected to a second fixed base and said reciprocating actuator, and said subactuating member pivotally connected to each of said pair of adjacent movable surface elements at said first ends thereof; an oscillating connector bar pivotally fixed to a third fixed base and to each of said adjacent movable surface elements at said opposite ends thereof to maintain said adjacent elements in parallel relationship to one another during reciprocal movement thereof; whereby said movement of said movable surface elements fracture any ice accumulated thereon.