US Patent 7121504 Hanging device to connect an engine to an aircraft wing

The invention relates to a hanging device (1) connecting an engine (2) to a wing (4) of an aircraft, with the device being made up of a rigid structure (8) and hanging equipment (10) interposed between the rigid structure (8) and the wing (4), with the hanging equipment (10) being made up of a forward attachment (14) and a rear attachment (16) made up of at leas one triangular shackle placed in a vertical plane aligned in a transverse direction (Y) of the aircraft. According to the invention, the forward attachment (14) has, on one side and the other of a vertical plane passing through a longitudinal axis (5) of the engine (2), at least one triangular shackle aligned in the longitudinal direction (X) of the aircraft. Furthermore, the hanging equipment is made up exclusively of forward and rear attachments.