Patents Assigned to Dassault Aviation
  • Patent number: 10577072
    Abstract: A connecting mechanism between an aircraft door and a structure of the aircraft, a related aircraft and method are provided. The connecting mechanism includes an arm intended to be hinged on to the structure, a rotating connection between the door and the arm. The rotating connection may be disengaged from a connection configuration for connecting the door with the arm in an open position of the door, into an uncoupling configuration for uncoupling of the door from the arm, in a closed door position of the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Pascal Herau, Guillaume Dedieu
  • Patent number: 10513348
    Abstract: A support device for a radio equipment of an aircraft, radio system and aircraft are provided. The support device includes a fastening structure (31), intended to be secured to a lower surface of a fuselage of an aircraft, and a support platform (33) of the radio equipment (25). The support platform (33) is mounted pivoting on the fastening structure (31) around a pivot axis (A) between an operational position and a backup position. The support device comprises a locking mechanism (56), able to be actuated from a locked configuration, in which said locking mechanism (56) keeps the support platform (33) in its operational position while preventing any pivoting of the support platform (33), to an unlocked configuration, in which the locking mechanism (56) allows the support platform (33) to pivot relative to the fastening structure (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Jérôme Tabuteau, Jérôme Brunet
  • Patent number: 10513336
    Abstract: A retractable support for a screen, and aircraft cabin seat including such a support are provided. The retractable support for a screen comprises a support arm for the screen and a housing for receiving the arm in a retracted position inside the housing. The housing comprises a mechanism for deploying the arm outside the housing. The support further comprises a compartment defining a cavity for receiving the housing in a retracted position inside the compartment. The housing is mounted movably relative to the compartment between the retracted position and a free position outside the compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventor: Denis Peuziat
  • Patent number: 10486801
    Abstract: A system (40) for controlling a ground lateral trajectory of an aircraft includes a command module (120) configured to generate a command of an instruction lateral trajectory, a limiting module (58) configured to determine, as a function of a speed and a maximum authorized sideslip angle of the wheel (5) of the aircraft, a steering angle range of the wheel (5) such that, the steering angle of the wheel (5) being in this range, the steering angle of the wheel (5) is smaller than the maximum steering angle, and a control module (130) configured to determine, as a function of the command, an instruction steering angle included in the range and able to cause a lateral movement of the aircraft according to or tending toward the instruction trajectory, and to send a steering instruction to the wheel (5) in order to orient it along the instruction angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Olivier Cantinaud, Laurent Goerig, Julien Prodigue
  • Patent number: 10467989
    Abstract: A system for visualizing an aircraft procedure having several alternate sequences and related process are provided. The system includes a display and a display management assembly on the display, making it possible to display successive steps of the procedure on the display. The display management assembly able to display, on the display, an active step of an active sequence of the procedure, at least one prior step preceding the active step in the active sequence of the procedure and defining one alternative among several series of steps, and at least one step after the active step in this active sequence of the procedure, without displaying a step of the procedure situated on an inactive sequence of the procedure that may be accessible from any step before the active step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Arnaud Branthomme, Gilles Constant
  • Patent number: 10464672
    Abstract: A system for dropping a package from an aircraft, a related aircraft and a method are provided. The system includes a panel configured to form part of a skin of the aircraft, the panel defining a through opening emerging outside the aircraft; a removable hatch and a sleeve guiding the hatch through the panel. The guide sleeve defines the through opening. The hatch is configured to be maneuvered in the guide sleeve between a configuration closing the through opening and a configuration allowing the package to pass through the through opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Sandrine Viaud, Sylvain Durand
  • Patent number: 10442529
    Abstract: A system for controlling a lateral trajectory of an aircraft includes a rudder bar. Each pedal of the rudder bar is movable between a neutral position (pn) and an end-of-travel position (pf) along a unique travel. A movement of the pedal between the neutral position (pn) and an activation position (pact) commands a lateral movement by actuating a lateral movement device of a first set including a nose gear wheel, the different braking of the aircraft being nonactive. A movement of the pedal from the activation position (pact) to the end-of-travel position (pf) commands a lateral movement by actuating a device of the first set and the differential braking. A haptic feedback generator applies a first haptic profile to each pedal between the neutral position (pn) and the activation position (pact) and a second haptic profile from the activation position (pact) toward the end-of-travel position (pf).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: François Dupre, Olivier Morellec, Julien Prodigue, Olivier Cantinaud
  • Patent number: 10407180
    Abstract: An interface system between a user and a display device in the cockpit of an aircraft, related aircraft and method are provided. The system includes a rotary controller configured to control a target on the display device; a target manager, controlled by the rotary controller for moving the target on the display device during the rotation of the rotary controller and/or for interacting with a field targeted by the target during the rotation of the rotary controller; a haptic feedback generator on the rotary controller during its rotation. The haptic feedback generator is configured to generate at least two distinct haptic profiles on the rotary controller depending on distinct system states and/or distinct man-machine interface states of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Olivier Morellec, Philippe Vorms, Maxime Philbert
  • Patent number: 10403274
    Abstract: An automatic speech recognition with detection of at least one contextual element, and application to aircraft flying and maintenance are provided. The automatic speech recognition device comprises a unit for acquiring an audio signal, a device for detecting the state of at least one contextual element, and a language decoder for determining an oral instruction corresponding to the audio signal. The language decoder comprises at least one acoustic model defining an acoustic probability law and at least two syntax models each defining a syntax probability law.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Hervé Girod, Paul Kou, Jean-François Saez
  • Patent number: 10343778
    Abstract: A retractable support for a screen, and interior layout assembly for an aircraft cabin comprising such a support are provided. The retractable support for a screen includes a housing for receiving the screen in a retracted position, and an arm movably mounted relatively to the housing between a retracted position inside the housing and a deployed position outside the housing. The arm includes first and second rigid segments jointed with each other so that the second segment pivots relatively to the first segment around a first pivot axis between a compact configuration, in which the second segment is fitted into a recess of the first segment, and an extended configuration, in which the second segment extends out of said recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventor: Denis Peuziat
  • Patent number: 10339820
    Abstract: A system for displaying information related to a flight of an aircraft and an associated method are provided. The display system comprises a display device, a man-machine interface, a module for dynamically generating synthesis images, each comprising a synthetic depiction of the environment and a curve representative of a trajectory, said module being configured to generate a first synthesis image centered around a first central point of interest, to command the display thereof, and to detect an action to modify the central point of interest by an operator via said man-machine interface. The generating module is also configured to determine, as a function of said modification action, a second central point of interest, situated along said curve whatever said modification action is, to generate a second synthesis image centered around said second central point of interest, and to command the display thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Arnaud Branthomme, Igor Fain, Patrick Darses
  • Patent number: 10310920
    Abstract: A management method is provided for managing data relative to an aircraft mission comprising at least one flight by an aircraft, the data comprising input data of at least two applications and output data of the applications, each application being able to be executed by a computer to determine, from the input data of the application, the output data. The method includes a step for providing a set of generic data, each of the generic data being an input datum shared by at least two of the applications, a step for assigning a value to at least one of the generic data for at least one flight of the mission, and a step for configuring the applications comprising the automatic assignment, to each input datum corresponding to a generic datum, of the value of the generic datum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventor: Benjamin Briand
  • Patent number: 10295396
    Abstract: A method for determining an estimated mass of an aircraft is provided. This method includes determining a first mass of the aircraft, from characteristics of the aircraft determined before or after takeoff of the aircraft, determining, during the flight of the aircraft, a second mass of the aircraft, from a lift equation of the aircraft expressing the mass of the aircraft as a function of information representative of the load factor of the aircraft, of a lift coefficient of the aircraft, of speed information of the aircraft and of a static pressure of a mass of air passed through by the aircraft, determined from measurements by sensors of the aircraft during the flight of the aircraft, evaluating the estimated mass at said determination moment, as a function of said first and second masses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventor: Sebastien Dupont De Dinechin
  • Patent number: 10285501
    Abstract: A slide system for slidably opening and closing a drawer is provided. The slide system includes an outer slide for mounting the slide system on a side wall of an enclosure, comprising a longitudinal slide outer channel, a sliding member, configured to be mounted on a side wall of the drawer, slidably movable within said slide outer channel. The outer slide includes a fixing part for attachment of the outer slide on the side wall of the enclosure, a sliding part comprising said slide outer channel, and an intermediate part, extending from said fixing part to said sliding part. The fixing part, the intermediate part and the sliding part define a groove extending upwardly from said intermediate part. The slide system comprises a casing element for encasing the sliding member by extending vertically from an upper portion the side wall of the drawer towards the intermediate part of the outer slide and being at least partly received within the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Ludovic Hamon, Grégory Le Floc'h
  • Patent number: 10286994
    Abstract: The nose section for a flying machine according to the invention comprises an enclosure delimiting a nose cone extending along a longitudinal axis (A-A?), the enclosure delimiting a window, and a glass closing the window extending transversely relative to the longitudinal axis (A-A?). The nose section includes an optical sensor, in particular a camera, positioned in the enclosure behind the glass. The enclosure defines a recess, the window covered by the glass being at least partially positioned in the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Fabien Bouffanais, Benoit De Maqueville, Olivier Gavouyere, Zdenek Johan
  • Patent number: 10252809
    Abstract: A separating element for a platform cabin is provided. The separating element comprises: at least one stationary partition, delimiting a passage defining a circulation axis inside the cabin; at least one leaf, mounted transversely movable relative to the circulation axis between a closed position, in which it extends through the passage, and an open position, in which it is positioned at least partially spaced away from the passage; and means for moving the or each leaf between the closed position and the open position thereof, the or each leaf being adapted to move along the plane transverse to the circulation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventor: Frédéric Cabourg
  • Patent number: 10209710
    Abstract: A piloting assistance system for an aircraft during manual piloting is provided. The piloting assistance system includes a monitoring module, configured to compare an acceleration of the aircraft to an authorized acceleration that depends on a speed of the aircraft, an acceleration control module, able to be switched between an activated state and a deactivated state, and configured so as, in the activated state, excluding the deactivated state, to generate a control signal of at least one control device of the acceleration of the aircraft to push the acceleration of the aircraft toward the authorized acceleration range, in order to keep or push the speed of the aircraft in a predefined usage speed range, the monitoring module being configured to activate the acceleration control module when the acceleration of the aircraft is not comprised in the authorized acceleration range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventor: Sébastien Lepage
  • Patent number: 10187487
    Abstract: An infrastructure for hosting services in an aircraft, and related access method are provided. The infrastructure includes a plurality of onboard platforms, each platform corresponding to a functional domain of the aircraft and hosting at least one service able to be implemented in the aircraft in the functional domain in question; at least one onboard communicator communicating with a ground structure, connected to each onboard platform; and at least one access portal able to allow centralized access to services hosted by all of the onboard platforms corresponding to the different functional domains of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Adrien Drion, Arnaud Hennequin
  • Patent number: D850884
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Matthieu Poidatz, Agnès Gervais
  • Patent number: D851018
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Marion D'Halluin, Jean-Remi Billon, Matthieu Poidatz, Agnès Gervais