Patents Assigned to Airbus Deutschland GmbH
  • Aircraft with a fluid-duct-system
    Patent number: 7988102
    Abstract: An aircraft with a fluid-duct system for extraction of the laminar layer and/or blowing out of fluid at vulnerable places of the outer skin, wherein the fluid-duct system (26, 19, 18) by means of switchable valves (6, 4) is connectable to a pump facility (3), which is driven by the exhaust air from the cabin for generating a reduced pressure for the extraction of the laminar layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Jürgen Meister
  • Luggage compartment actuation
    Patent number: 7988091
    Abstract: This device is provided for a luggage compartment designed to be placed overhead. The compartment comprises a mobile part (4) between an open position and a closed position and a mechanism for acting on said mobile part (4) to promote its closing. Said mobile part (4) presents an opening (14) designed for introducing and retrieving luggage as well as a lower exterior surface (12). The control device comprises detection means reacting when pressure is exerted on a predetermined zone of the lower exterior surface (12) of the mobile part (4) as well as for sending a control signal to the mechanism acting on the mobile part (4) to close the part when pressure is exerted on said detection means. The detection means are disposed at the lower exterior surface (12) of the mobile part (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignees: Airbus Deutschland GmbH, Airbus Societe Par Actions Simplifiees
    Inventors: Olaf Von Wieding, Lars Rowold, Bodo Wisch, Bruno Alquier
  • Window frame for aircraft
    Patent number: 7988093
    Abstract: A window frame (1) for installation in the exterior (5) of an aircraft, which comprises in each case at least one outer flange (2), one inner flange, and one vertical flange (4) arranged perpendicular between these flanges, is manufactured from a fiber-reinforced synthetic resin, in which, first, a semifinished part comprising fiber material is inserted into a molding tool, in which, under pressure and temperature, resin is injected, and subsequently, the component made in this manner is hardened in the molding tool. The semifinished part can have a layer structure either made from a webbing material, from fiber bundles, or from a combination of fiber bundles and a webbing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Jens Bold
  • Diaphragm for throttling a volume flow in an air distribution ducting system of an air-conditioning unit of a commercial aircraft
    Patent number: 7987872
    Abstract: The invention relates to a diaphragm (1) for throttling a volume flow in an air distribution ducting system of an air-conditioning unit of a commercial aircraft. The diaphragm includes a plurality of spring-elastic elements (10) that effect a throttling of the volume flow through the diaphragm (1). The invention also relates to the use of such a diaphragm (1) for installation in an air distribution ducting system of an air-conditioning unit on board a commercial aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Mohamed Bouhaj
  • Flexible cable connection to monuments inside of an aircraft cabin
    Patent number: 7984874
    Abstract: A flexible cable connection for connecting the monuments to an on-board supply device, which cable connection ensures that displacement of the monument in longitudinal direction of the aircraft becomes possible without disconnecting the connection cable, and the required distance between the connection routes is maintained even during displacement. To this effect, the cable connection comprises a chain device for guiding the connection cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Daniel Diergardt
  • Water-wastewater module for aircraft
    Patent number: 7980513
    Abstract: Currently, the wastewater collection tank and the freshwater tanks comprise separate containers which are each mounted individually in the pressurized area of the cabin on the structure. In the present application a water-wastewater module is described which has two tanks for disposing of feces and wastewater and a water generation unit in the form of the fuel-cell module as integral components. The module and the fuselage may advantageously be manufactured separately from one another and first have to be combined during the final mounting of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Claus Hoffjann, Wolfgang Zierold, Andreas Westenberger
  • Emergency supply unit with a ram-air turbine adapted to be driven by an air stream and with an energy converter for aircraft
    Patent number: 7982328
    Abstract: An emergency supply unit is provided with a ram-air turbine surrounded substantially concentrically by a casing forming a flow channel and driven by an air stream; an energy converter, driven by means of the ram-air turbine directly coupled via a drive shaft, for at least partly maintaining the functioning of a hydraulic system and/or electrical system on board an aircraft in an emergency situation; means for installing the ram-air turbine in its position within the casing such that the spatial position of the ram-air turbine remains unchanged when the emergency supply unit is selectively brought into a standby mode or into an operating mode; at least one air inlet through which the air stream can be delivered to the ram-air turbine, and which is adapted to be closed by a shut-off member; and an air outlet adapted to be closed by a shut-off member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Uwe Huntemann
  • Device for the transport and medical care of patients as well as for the provision of emergency medical care in an aircraft
    Patent number: 7980511
    Abstract: A device for the transport and medical care of patients as well as for the provision of emergency medical care in an aircraft, which can be arranged and permanently installed inside the passenger cabin of an aircraft, and has a stretcher and medical care equipment, and screens the patient from the environment at least partially by means of lateral elements. The device is enveloped on all sides by lateral elements, and forms a separated compartment relative to the passenger cabin, the volume of which can be temporarily enlarged by shifting at least one lateral section between the first, emergency medical care mode, and a second, expanded mode for patient transport, wherein the stretcher can be horizontally arranged within the compartment in the first mode, and space is available for a medical assistant inside the compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Sarah Janboecke, Matthias Kierysch, Oliver Doebertin, Florian Schmidt, Werner Granzeier
  • Arrangement and method for utilizing the heat of waste air for heating the bilge area of aircraft
    Patent number: 7980928
    Abstract: The present application describes an arrangement and a method for utilizing the heat of waste air for heating the bilge area of aircraft, wherein the bilge area is connected to a heat transfer unit via a first air supply pipe, through which a bilge air flow drawn in from the bilge area flows into the heat transfer unit, wherein the heat transfer unit comprises a second air supply pipe, through which a waste air heat flow to be cooled that is created at another location in the aircraft flows into the heat transfer unit in order to heat the drawn-in bilge air flow, wherein the heat transfer unit comprises a first air discharge pipe, through which the cooled waste air heat flow is discharged, and a second air discharge pipe with a bilge inlet section, and wherein at least a portion of the heated bilge flow is returned to the bilge area via the air discharge pipe and the bilge inlet section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Markwart, Thomas Scherer, Oliver Schaumann
  • Safety system for reducing the impact energy of a container
    Patent number: 7975963
    Abstract: A safety system for reducing the impact energy of a container for an aircraft includes an aircraft cargo hold with at least one safety wall; an accommodation device; and at least one airbag. The accommodation device can be affixed to the safety wall, wherein the accommodation device is designed to accommodate the at least one airbag. In the case of a movement of the container, the at least one airbag can be activated so that air can be injected into the airbag so that some of the impact energy of the container can be absorbed by the at least one activated airbag, with the remaining forces then being distributed over an area of the at least one safety wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Ludger Merz, Roland Fuhrmann
  • Device and method for the detachable connection of structural parts, in particular in an aircraft
    Patent number: 7976078
    Abstract: A device (10) for the detachable connection of structural parts (80, 84) in an aircraft, comprising a clamping lever arrangement (12) associated with a first structural part (80) and a clamping pin (14) associated with a second structural part (84), wherein the clamping lever arrangement (12) comprises an eccentric shaft (20) rotatably mounted about a rotation axis (A) on the first structural part (80), a clamping lever (16) mounted eccentrically and swivellably with respect to the eccentric shaft (20) and a driving bushing (18) rotatably mounted relative to the eccentric shaft (20) about the rotation axis (A) and coupled in a geared manner to the clamping lever (16), wherein the clamping lever arrangement (12) can furthermore be displaced between a release position, a readiness position and a locking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Steinbeck, Konstantin Wagner
  • FLEXIBLE POWER RACEWAY
    Publication number: 20110163203
    Abstract: A connection system for cables comprises a raceway adapted to cover the cable and a raceway outlet element connectable to the raceway. The raceway outlet element includes a first connection element for connecting the cable to second connection element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2006
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicants: Airbus Deutschland GmbH, Connecteurs Electriques Deutsch
    Inventors: Dimitrios Tsirangelos, Alexis Synodinos
  • Transmission-controlled window glazing
    Patent number: 7972021
    Abstract: The invention relates to a window glazing comprising at least two window panes with an intermediate ventilated space arranged therebetween, wherein at least one window pane is provided with a layer which is arranged on the interior side therefore and whose transmission is controllable. More specifically, said invention relates to a multilayer glazing comprising corresponding intermediate spaces in which a sweeping gas circulates, wherein said sweeping gas consists of a mixture of air and other gaseous components in which the sweeping gas content is adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Scherer
  • Cooling system and method for expelling heat from a heat source located in the interior of an aircraft
    Patent number: 7967249
    Abstract: With a cooling system for expelling heat from a heat source (30) located in the interior of an aircraft to a heat reducer (32), with a piping system (10) sealed against the surrounding atmosphere which is thermally coupled to a heat intake section (14) with the heat source (38) and to a heat output section (22) with the heat reducer (32), and which preferably has an essentially adiabate transport section (21), it is proposed that the piping system (10) is filled with a heat conveyance medium (12) which, when taking in heat from the heat source (38) in the heat intake section (14) undergoes a transition from the liquid phase to the gaseous phase, then flows into the heat output section (22), and here, when discharging heat to the heat reducer (32) condenses once again, and flows back into the heat intake section (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Mühlthaler, Michael Markwart, Andreas Edom
  • Adjustment device for the alignment of supporting parts on structures having inherent dimensional tolerances
    Patent number: 7967537
    Abstract: An adjustment device aligns supporting parts that pivotally accommodate the guide rails of a freight loading system on structures having inherent dimensional tolerances. The structures can in particular be in an aircraft fuselage. Each supporting part is designed as a bearing insert that can be inserted in a bearing eye of a bearing block such that it cannot rotate. Each bearing insert has fitting surface sections separated from one another by planes of symmetry. Each bearing insert has at least one asymmetrically arranged axis accommodation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Torben Allert, Jens Krüger
  • Method and device for supporting the take-off rotation of an aircraft
    Patent number: 7963481
    Abstract: A method and a device for supporting the take-off rotation of an aircraft, which aircraft comprises on each side of the aircraft at least two main landing gear units, arranged one behind the other, which main landing gear units comprising wheels. For supporting the take-off rotation, in at least one rear pair of the main landing gear units the distance between the wheels of these rear main landing gear units, which wheels roll on the ground, and the fuselage, may actively be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: André Anger, Wolfram Schöne
  • Method and apparatus for activating the binder on a semi-finished fiber preform by direct heating of carbon fibers through an applied electrical voltage
    Patent number: 7964131
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method to activate a binder on a semi-finished fiber material containing carbon fibers or on a preform. The binder is applied to the semi-finished fiber material or the fiber preform and subsequently activated through increasing the temperature by conducting an electrical current through the carbon fibers of the preform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Paul Jörn, Axel Siegfried Herrmann
  • Lift-augmenting flap, in particular for a leading edge flap, for an aerodynamically effective wing
    Patent number: 7963484
    Abstract: A lift-augmenting leading edge flap for a carrying wing of an aircraft, wherein the flap comprises an essentially rigid main body which makes a transition from the first side to the second side of the wing the flap being adjustable by a retention- and actuation mechanism coupled between the flap and wing box, between a first, retracted, position and a second, extended, position, wherein the first transition region of the flap is slidable to rest in each position essentially free of any gap, against the first skin of the wing box or against the wing end cover, in relation to the wing end cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Morten Raudszus, Bernhard Schlipf, Luc Andreani, Xavier Hue, Mark Heintjes
  • Supply system for the energy supply in an aircraft, aircraft and method for supplying an aircraft with energy
    Patent number: 7954753
    Abstract: A supply system for the energy supply in an aircraft comprising an engine for propelling an aircraft, a fuel cell for supplying an aircraft with electric energy, a first fuel reservoir for supplying the engine with engine fuel and a second fuel reservoir for supplying the fuel cell with fuel cell fuel. The first fuel reservoir is arranged separately of the second fuel reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Claus Hoffjann, Hansgeorg Schuldzig, Torge Pfafferott, Lars Frahm, Lars Nickel
  • Aircraft with grey-water utilisation system
    Patent number: 7947164
    Abstract: A grey-water utilisation system for an aircraft for treating grey water from the lavatory basins to become odourless clear water used for flushing the toilets. Freight compartment drainage can be by way of drainage valves embedded in the fuselage, or alternatively, by way of removal by suction into a waste-water collection tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Claus Hoffjann, Andreas Tutass, Hans-Juergen Heinrich