Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 10
Claim 1
Independent Claim
178 words
An apparatus for loading and unloading an aircraft and for ascertaining the weight of the load, comprising weighing station means arranged within the aircraft fuselage in such position that the weight of any item of payload to be added to the actual weight of the aicraft must operatively and individually pass said weighing station means for individually measuring the weight of each payload item entering the aircraft, load cell means in said weighing station means to provide weight data in the form of individual weight representing electrical signals, electronic logic circuit means, airborne digital computer means, conductor means operatively connecting said electronic logic circuit means to said load cell means and to said digital computer means for processing said individual weight representing electrical signals into respective control signals, said system further comprising ground based electronic data preparing means for preparing loading information data and transmission link means including ground based and airborne data link means operatively connected to said airborne digital computer means for also processing said loading information data received from said ground based data preparing means.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
178 words
An apparatus for loading and unloading an aircraft and for ascertaining the weight of the load, comprising weighing station means arranged within the aircraft fuselage in such position that the weight of any item of payload to be added to the actual weight of the aicraft must operatively and individually pass said weighing station means for individually measuring the weight of each payload item entering the aircraft, load cell means in said weighing station means to provide weight data in the form of individual weight representing electrical signals, electronic logic circuit means, airborne digital computer means, conductor means operatively connecting said electronic logic circuit means to said load cell means and to said digital computer means for processing said individual weight representing electrical signals into respective control signals, said system further comprising ground based electronic data preparing means for preparing loading information data and transmission link means including ground based and airborne data link means operatively connected to said airborne digital computer means for also processing said loading information data received from said ground based data preparing means.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
26 words
The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said ground based data preparing means comprise encoding means and digital computer means operatively connected to said digital encoding means.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
24 words
The apparatus of claim 2, further comprising ground based scale means, said digital computer means forming a component of said ground based scale means.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
31 words
The apparatus of claim 2 or 3, further comprising ground based input keyboard means and means operatively connecting said ground based input keyboard means to said ground based digital computer means.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
26 words
The apparatus of claim 2, further comprising ground based recording means for producing a data carrier, said recording means being operatively connected to said encoding means.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
13 words
The apparatus of claim 5, wherein said data carrier is a magnetic card.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
26 words
The apparatus of claim 2, wherein said ground based data link means comprise a transmitter, and wherein said encoding means are operatively connected to said transmitter.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
36 words
The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said ground based transmission link means comprise receiver means, said data preparing means further comprising decoder means and display means operatively arranged for providing an air to ground transmission path.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
23 words
The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said airborne transmission link means and said ground based transmission link means each comprise transmitter receiver means.