Patents Assigned to Dassault Aviation
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Patent number: 11945570Abstract: A piloting device for piloting an aircraft comprises a first and a second control stick mounted movable on a support. The device comprises a priority selection module configured to switch the first and second control sticks between a piloting configuration and a non-piloting configuration. The device further comprises a detection system for detecting the positions of the first and second control sticks; a first and second actuation system configured to generate respective first and second forces on the respective first and second control stick; and a control module configured to control the actuation system of the control stick which is in a non-piloting configuration such that the positions of the control sticks are identical.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATIONInventors: Fabien Cockenpot, François Pineau, Jérôme Le Borloch
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Patent number: 11884379Abstract: A control system is for a high lift assembly of an aircraft. The assembly is controllable in two aerodynamic configurations each with different lift. The control system includes a manual control device operable by a pilot of the aircraft. The manual control device includes at least one member movable relative to a base body. The movable member can be moved relative to the base body between a rest position, a first position and a second distinct position. The manual control device includes a resilient return device for the movable member in the rest position. The manual control device issues a signal when the movable member reaches either the first or second position, to move the high lift assembly between two of the aerodynamic configurations.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATIONInventors: Jérôme Le Borloch, François Pineau
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Patent number: 11857324Abstract: A system for monitoring the operational status of an aircraft crew includes a unit for determining at least one pilot state based on first monitoring data of a high design assurance level and second monitoring data of a lower design assurance level. The determination unit includes a first evaluation module capable of obtaining a high-level pilot state from the first data, regardless of the second data; a second evaluation module capable of determining a low-level pilot state, from at least the second data; and a consolidation module for determining a consolidated pilot state. The consolidated pilot state is obtained as a function of the high-level pilot state and the low-level pilot state.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATIONInventors: François Salmon-Legagneur, Valentin Ligier, Cyril Saint Requier
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Patent number: 11851183Abstract: An aircraft cabin includes at least one seat able to receive at least one passenger; at least one table arranged opposite the seat; and a safety device able to be mounted on the table, below the table or received in the table. The safety device includes a deployable protection assembly including an airbag deployable from a retracted idle configuration to a deployed safety configuration, and a system for controlling the deployment of the or each airbag, able to trigger the deployment of the airbag beyond a threshold deceleration value of the aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATIONInventors: Lionel Patrick Germe, Emmanuel Picut, Alain Levavasseur, Erwan Boulo, Jérémie Guerard
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Patent number: 11745849Abstract: An aircraft portion includes a fuselage oriented in a longitudinal direction, an airfoil made up of at least one pair of wings arranged on either side of the fuselage in a transverse direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, and an airfoil-fuselage junction fairing at the interface between the airfoil and the fuselage. The junction fairing has, in a vertical plane, a lower profile and, in a horizontal plane, a horizontal profile at the junction of the outer surface of the junction fairing with the convex side of each wing. The horizontal profile and/or the lower profile successively has, in the longitudinal direction, a convex front segment, a concave intermediate segment, and a convex rear segment.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATIONInventors: Aurélien Merlet, Zdenek Johan, Ximun Loyatho, Gilbert Roge
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Patent number: 11704288Abstract: An aircraft computer file distribution system comprises a store (36) of aircraft computer files for loading into at least one aircraft device (12) that is onboard, mobile or replicated on the ground. The system includes a file manager (44), configured for identifying an aircraft configuration of the aircraft with which the aircraft device (12) is associated and a computer configuration of the aircraft device (12); defining, among the computer files in the computer file store (36), at least one computer file loadable into the aircraft device (12) according to the identified aircraft configuration and computer configuration; and activating a synchronization for remote distribution of at least one computer file to be loaded into the aircraft device (12) selected from the one or more computer files loadable into the aircraft device (12) based on the identified aircraft configuration and computer configuration.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATIONInventors: Benjamin Briand, Michaël Ociepka, Stéphane Ardouin, Vincent Hubert, Nicolas Lhopiteau
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Patent number: 11689278Abstract: A standardized connection interface between aircraft equipment and a wireless data transmission network external to the aircraft includes a router. The router includes a mapping table between a plurality of connectivity link classes and one or more connectivity links associated with each connectivity link class. The router is configured to transmit the list of active connectivity link classes to each item of equipment, to establish a transmission of data between the piece of equipment and at least one wireless data transmission network (14A to 14E) through an active connectivity link, based on the list of active connectivity link classes and a list of connectivity link classes to which the piece of equipment is authorized to connect.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATIONInventors: Charles Delacroix, Hugues Abrassart
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Patent number: 11668127Abstract: An aircraft door mechanism includes an aircraft structure (14) delimiting an opening (24); an aircraft door (26) movable between a position closing off the opening (24) and a released position of the opening (24); and a guide system (28) for moving the door (26) between the closed off and released positions. The guide system (28) includes a main rail (46) that is fixed relative to the structure and a main carriage (48) mechanically connected to the door (26) and able to slide on the main rail (46) during the movement between said closed off and released positions. The main rail (46) is positioned between the door (26) and the structure during at least part of the movement of the door (26) between said closed off and released positions.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATIONInventor: Patrick Chambers
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Patent number: 11661210Abstract: A method is for detecting a blockage of a wind vane (12) of an aircraft, with the wind vane (12) including a support (20), a paddle (22) mounted rotating relative to the support (20) along an axis (A), a motor (28) able to exert a rotational torque on the paddle (22) along the axis (A), the motor (28) being connected to a processing unit (18). The method includes applying a predetermined blockage detection torque on the paddle (22) by the motor (28); measuring at least one piece of information representative of a resistance of the paddle (22) to the predetermined detection torque; and generating, via the processing unit (18), a blocking information signal, if a predetermined condition based on the representative information is verified.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATIONInventor: François-Xavier D'Arbonneau
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Patent number: 11591063Abstract: A separating element for a platform cabin comprises at least one leaf subjected to a return force toward its open position, and, for the or each leaf, a return member for returning the leaf toward its closed position and comprising a first end articulated at an articulation point movable jointly with the leaf. This return member also comprises a second end mounted movably relative to the partition between an active position and an inactive position, such that when the leaf is open and the second end is in the active position, the return member exerts, on the leaf, a return force returning the leaf toward its closed position, and when the leaf is open and the second end is in the inactive position, the return member is in a second configuration in which it does not exert a force returning the leaf toward its closed position.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATIONInventor: Sebastien Zekiecki
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Patent number: 11495133Abstract: An aircraft enhanced vision system includes an electromagnetic sensor comprising at least one group of transmitters and at least one group of receivers. The electromagnetic sensor includes a waveform generation assembly powering each transmitter in order to generate the transmitted signal and a signal capture assembly to capture the signal received by each receiver after reflection off of the ground. The transmitters are distinct and spaced apart from the receivers, being arranged so as to form at least one virtual transmitter/receiver network extending in an elongation direction perpendicular to the observation direction from each transmitter/receiver combination between the group of transmitters and the group of receivers.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATIONInventors: Gérard Leflour, Jérôme Lagarde, Paul Soudais, Nicolas Moulin
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Patent number: 11440642Abstract: An aircraft actuator torque limiter includes a disengageable torque transmitter between a rotary shaft and a driven member. The disengageable transmitter includes a friction pack including at least one contact member mounted secured in rotation with the rotary shaft and a complementary contact member, mounted secured in rotation with the driven member. The transmitter includes a clamp of the friction pack and a mover of the clamp, able to contract or expand differentially relative to the rotary shaft along the axis of rotation during a temperature variation. The clamp mover is made from a second material having a thermal expansion coefficient different from that of the first material forming the rotary shaft.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATIONInventor: Antoine Patrick Faure
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Patent number: 11436928Abstract: Aircraft mission calculation system includes a first calculator configured to calculate a plurality of iso-displacement curves from a selected point, at a displacement range corresponding to several successive displacement increments of the aircraft from the selected point, the iso-displacement curves being obtained at the displacement range for a displacement of the aircraft to a given flight level from displacements of the aircraft at distinct flight altitude levels. The first calculator is configured to determine, based on iso-displacement curves up to the given flight level, obtained at distinct flight altitude levels, taken at the same displacement range of the aircraft, an extended iso-displacement curve at the given flight level maximizing the displacement of the aircraft from the geographical point of origin or minimizing the displacement of the aircraft toward the geographical destination point.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATIONInventors: Cyrille Grimald, Benoit Urien
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Patent number: 11430343Abstract: An aircraft mission computing system includes an aircraft mission path computing engine, and a mission deck comprising a display and a display management assembly configured for displaying, on the display, at least one button for defining an operational specification of the mission. The computing engine is configured to be activated after defining the choice of operational specification using the definition button to determine at least one possible path of the aircraft based on the or each choice of defined operational specification using the or each definition button. The display management assembly is configured to display, on the display, after the activation of the computing engine, at least one outcome indicator providing mission feasibility information while respecting the or each operational specification choice.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATIONInventors: Benjamin Briand, Cédric Carle, Stéphane Drinal, Cyrille Grimald, Jean-François Saez, Cyril Saint Requier, Jean-Baptiste Vallart
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Patent number: 11358735Abstract: A ground proximity warning system for an aircraft includes a plurality of alarm generators, each able to generate an alarm by verifying evolution conditions of the aircraft specific to each alarm generator, the verification using data obtained from at least one measuring sensor of the aircraft. The ground proximity warning system includes a unit for selective deactivation of at least some of the alarm generators, able to be implemented during a search and rescue mission carried out by the aircraft, and an auxiliary alarm generator, capable of emitting a ground proximity alarm based on the safety height chosen for the search and rescue mission, when the selective deactivation unit is implemented.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATIONInventors: Florent Rimbaud, Frank Renaud
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Patent number: 11345484Abstract: A display system of an aircraft, able to display a localization marking of a zone of location of an approach light ramp and related method are provided. The display system includes a display unit and an assembly generating a display on the display unit. The display generator is able to display, on approach to a landing strip, a localization marking of a presence zone of an approach light ramp toward the landing strip.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2016Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATIONInventors: Olivier Baudson, Arnaud Turpin
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Patent number: 11325721Abstract: An inerting system comprises an air separating device having an enclosure (40) having at least one air inlet (46) and one outlet (48) for oxygen-depleted air. The air separating device (18) is configured to generate, from an air inlet flow coming from the air inlet (46) of the enclosure (40), an outlet flow of oxygen-depleted air and to discharge the outlet flow of oxygen-depleted air through the outlet (48) for oxygen-depleted air. The inerting system (14) comprises a heating system (20), outside the enclosure (40), configured to heat at least one region of the enclosure (40).Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATIONInventor: Carole Andre
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Patent number: 11286056Abstract: A system for displaying information relative to an aircraft flight and related method are provided. This system comprises a display device, and a module for managing the display on the display device, the management module being configured for controlling the display, on a window of the display device, of a timescale representative of a time period of the flight, and for controlling the display, facing the timescale, of pieces of information relative to a series of events intended to occur in a time window comprised in the time period. The module for managing the display is configured for determining a position in time of the time window comprised in the time period and a duration of the time window, and for controlling the display, along the timescale, of a marker representative of the position in time and of the duration of the time window.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2016Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATIONInventors: Jean-François Saez, Stéphane Drinal
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Patent number: 11267552Abstract: An aircraft portion includes a fuselage oriented in a longitudinal direction, an airfoil made up of at least one pair of wings arranged on either side of the fuselage in a transverse direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, and an airfoil-fuselage junction fairing at the interface between the airfoil and the fuselage. The junction fairing has, in a vertical plane, a lower profile and, in a horizontal plane, a horizontal profile at the junction of the outer surface of the junction fairing with the convex side of each wing. The horizontal profile and/or the lower profile successively has, in the longitudinal direction, a convex front segment, a concave intermediate segment, and a convex rear segment.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATIONInventors: Aurélien Merlet, Zdenek Johan, Ximun Loyatho, Gilbert Roge
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Patent number: 11225335Abstract: An aircraft operational state monitoring system is provided that includes a module for acquiring a logic state of a plurality of components of the aircraft, the components belonging to airplane systems. The aircraft operational state monitoring system includes a module for determining the operability status of a plurality of macroscopic functions of the aircraft, each macroscopic function being defined independently of the components and airplane systems necessary for the performance of the macroscopic function, the operability status being determined based on logic states of the plurality of components between an operational status and at least one nonoperational status. The aircraft operational state monitoring system includes a display and at least one graphic display management assembly on the display, configured for displaying, on the display, summary indicators of the operability status of the macroscopic functions of the aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATIONInventors: Cyril Saint Requier, Gilles Constant, Guy Schaller, Arnaud Branthomme, Magali Thorel