FACILITY FOR DETECTION OF ICE FORMATION ON AIRCRAFT, FOR MEASURING INTENSITY OF ICE GROWING AND DETERMINATION OF ITS SHAPE Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC G01B11/02 

FIELD: measuring technology.

SUBSTANCE: facility is designed for automated measuring of thickness, shape and kind of grown ice, and of area of its cross section for evaluation of intensity of ice forming and degree of hazard for flight of aircraft. A cylinder rod removed outboard of an airplane into free flow of air serves as a receiver of ice forming. A heating element throwing off accumulated ice in case of necessity is installed in the receiver of the ice forming. A digital photo-recorder is arranged at a certain distance from the receiver of ice forming; the recorder fixes images of the rod end with growing ice. From the photo-recorder images are sent to a solver determining parametres of built ice.

EFFECT: automation and increased accuracy of determination of potential hazard of ice forming by means of simultaneous evaluation of shape of grown ice and its kind, measuring beginning and end of ice forming, ice thickness and rate of growing (intensity of ice forming) in all directions.

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