Steven Wade Phillips

US Patent:

20190012928, Jan 10, 2019

Filed:

Sep 10, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/125842

Inventors:

- Carrollton TX, US
Steven Tyson Phillips - Owasso OK, US
Evan Thomas Pratt - Broken Arrow OK, US

Assignee:

AT Systems, LLC - Carrollton TX

International Classification:

G09B 9/36
G01C 23/00
G09B 9/44
G02F 1/01

Abstract:

A system and method for improving safety when operating an aircraft in reduced or modified visibility conditions is disclosed. A flight helmet having a visor with an electrically controlled optical state is configured to automatically move the visor up out of the pilot's line of sight on receipt of a signal from a safety sensor. This sensor-based automated moving of the visor helps alleviate danger in circumstances where the visor is improperly hindering the pilot. The helmet can be used, for example, in reduced-visibility training sessions and thereby improve the safety of such sessions. And the helmet can be used with enhanced or synthetic vision systems as a failsafe if the systems are hindering rather than helping the pilot.

US Patent:

20180158356, Jun 7, 2018

Filed:

Dec 2, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/367816

Inventors:

- Carrollton TX, US
Steven Tyson Phillips - Owasso OK, US

Assignee:

AT Systems, LLC - Carrollton TX

International Classification:

G09B 9/36
G02C 7/10
B64D 45/00
G01C 23/00
G09B 9/44
G09B 19/16

Abstract:

A system and method for training a pilot to operate an aircraft in sudden-onset reduced-visibility conditions is disclosed. The system includes electrooptic material having an optical transmittance that varies with an electrical signal applied to the material and a power supply to provide the electrical signal to the material. The electrooptic material is disposed to restrict the pilot's visibility outside the aircraft when the electrooptic material is in a low-optical-transmittance state. The system further includes a flight-safety sensor that sets the output of the power supply to correspond to an optical transmittance state of the electrooptic material that does not substantially restrict the pilot's visibility outside the aircraft when flight conditions are deemed unsafe. The method includes reducing the optical transmittance of the material to restrict the pilot's visibility outside the aircraft in a manner unexpected to the pilot at the time of the transmittance reduction.