SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FUEL TRANSFER Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC B64C17/10 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to aircraft engineering, particularly, to system intended for control over fuel transfer between aircraft fuel tanks. Proposed system comprises some fuel tanks 10, 12, fuel transducer 14 intended for measuring fuel amount if first fuel tank 10 data processor 16 to receive measurements results from said transducer. Said processor can define fuel amount variation rate for first fuel tank on the basis of received fuel amount measurement results in response to instruction on transfer fuel from first fuel tank into one or several other fuel tanks 12. In case fuel amount variation rate is lower than preset threshold while obtained fuel amount measurement result exceeds the expected value output signal is generated to indicate the fuel transfer fault.

EFFECT: higher reliability of fuel transfer system and flight safety.

14 cl, 3 dwg