Patents Assigned to Dassault Aviation
  • Patent number: 10182112
    Abstract: A method for exchanging data between a storage system on the ground-based and an onboard storage system of an aircraft is provided. The method includes a first step for synchronization of a set of data contained in the ground-based storage system with a corresponding set of data of a storage memory of a data exchange device, through a communications network, a step for coupling the data exchange device to a local internal network of the aircraft connected to the storage system, and then a second step for synchronization of the set of data of the storage memory with a corresponding set of data of the onboard storage system, through the local internal network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventor: Hugues Abrassart
  • Patent number: 10118703
    Abstract: Armrest for aircraft seat, associated seat and process are provided. The armrest includes a stationary part (12) intended to be connected to the seat, a moving part (14) movable relative to the stationary part (12), between a high position in which the moving part (14) is intended to protrude above a seat bottom of the seat and a low position, and a maneuvering mechanism (18) able to guide the movement of the moving part (14) between the high position and the low position. The maneuvering mechanism (18) includes at least a first connecting rod (26) and a second connecting rod (27), each independently connecting the stationary part (12) to the moving part (14), the first connecting rod (26) and the second connecting rod (27) being arranged parallel to one another during the movement of the moving part (14) between the high position and the low position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Michel Mihai, Gaëtan Lamothe
  • Patent number: 10109202
    Abstract: A method and system for determining in real time a vertical trajectory of an aircraft is provided. The method includes a step for providing an initial vertical trajectory comprising an initial phase for changing flight level according to a first slope, between a first point at a first altitude, and a second point at a second altitude, at least one step for modifying the vertical trajectory, comprising a phase for detecting a triggering element when the aircraft is at the first altitude, when said triggering element is detected, and a phase for determining a modified vertical trajectory, said modified vertical trajectory comprising a modified phase for changing flight level according to a second predefined slope, from a modified point at said first altitude, distinct from said first point, to said second altitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Eric Boulle, Jean-Philipe Roue
  • Patent number: 10099775
    Abstract: An autopilot system for an aircraft and related process are provided. The system includes a first load factor command definition and application module; a second roll command definition and application module; a control module of the first definition and application module and the second definition and application module, able to define parameters of a recovery maneuver seeking to return the aircraft to setpoint attitudes at the end of a maneuver from initial attitudes. The control module includes a submodule for computing at least one pair of authorities respectively applied by the first module and by the second module during the recovery maneuver. The authorities are computed as a function of at least a current movement parameter of the aircraft and a safety parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Arnaud Turpin, Nicolas Le Corre
  • Patent number: 10078100
    Abstract: A method for determining a state of credibility of measurements made by sensors of an aircraft is provided. This method includes determining a speed of the aircraft, from static and total pressure measurements, determining a coefficient of lift of the aircraft from an incidence measurement and from said speed, determining a weight of the aircraft, determining if an equation of lift of the aircraft is satisfied, activating a state of optimal credibility, wherein the measurements made by said sensors are considered to be reliable if the said equation of lift is satisfied, activating a state of non-optimal credibility, wherein the measurements of at least one sensor are considered to be unreliable if the said equation of lift is not satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventor: Sebastien Dupont De Dinechin
  • Patent number: 10038985
    Abstract: A communication method between an embedded communication system of an aircraft and a communication device is provided. The method includes a step for establishing a communication between the embedded communication system and the communication device, done according to a communication parameter associated with the communication device, contained in a memory of a communication terminal. The establishment step includes a phase for establishing a first auxiliary communication between terminal and the communication system, a phase for establishing a second auxiliary communication between the terminal and the communication device, according to the communication parameter, and a phase for transferring the second auxiliary communication from the terminal toward the communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventor: Stéphane Gouverneur
  • Patent number: 10011369
    Abstract: The vision system for an aircraft according to the invention comprises a display management system, on a display, capable of dynamically displaying synthetic information coming from a synthetic environment generating assembly on the display. The management assembly can control the display, on a first region of the display, of relief lines representative of the terrain situated facing the aircraft, without displaying synthetic surface representations of the terrain in the intermediate areas situated between the relief lines of the first region of the display. The generating assembly includes means for determining the position of the crest lines of the terrain from topographical data present in at least one database, and means for computing the position of the relief lines from the position of the crest lines of the terrain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Olivier Baudson, Arnaud Turpin
  • Patent number: 10008053
    Abstract: An on-board maintenance system for an aircraft, said aircraft comprising pieces of equipment connected together through a first on-board data transmission network for exchanging operational data intended for piloting the aircraft, said maintenance system including a processing unit and being characterized in that it comprises a second data transmission network, distinct from the first network, for exchanging data intended for maintenance of the equipment of the aircraft, said second network connecting at least some of said pieces of equipment to the processing unit; said processing unit are being adapted for receiving in real time, a data provided by the pieces of equipment on the second network and processing them with view to determining the cause of equipment malfunctions according to at least said received data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Laurent Turban, Magali Thorel
  • Patent number: 9988149
    Abstract: An interior layout assembly of an aircraft cabin, and related method are provided. The assembly includes a table, a console defining a receiving housing and a cover mounted on the console. The cover in the closed configuration and the console define a passage slot between them. The assembly also includes a flap closing off the passage slot, movable by the table from an active configuration closing the passage slot to a retracted configuration freeing the passage slot during the passage of the table from its retracted position to the deployed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventor: Yann Maillaut
  • Patent number: 9950809
    Abstract: A system for assisting in a dispatch decision of an aircraft and related process are provided. The system includes a synthesis module, configured to generate at least one dispatch status for the aircraft, based on at least one defect and/or fault datum of the aircraft received from the acquisition module and at least data contained in a first database and in a second minimum equipment list database; and a display, configured to display at least one synthesis window containing at least one defect and/or fault identification indicator of the aircraft developed from the or each defect and/or fault datum, and at least one dispatch status indicator based on the dispatch status determined by the synthesis module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventor: Rémi Breban
  • Patent number: 9938016
    Abstract: A supporting device for an interior layout assembly of an aircraft cabin, a related assembly and method are provided. The device includes a stationary frame; a table that can be deployed relative to the frame between a retracted position and a horizontal deployed position; a mechanism for guiding the movement of the table relative to the frame between the retracted position and the deployed horizontal position. The guide mechanism defines at least one bearing point for the table during its passage from the retracted position to the deployed horizontal position, the bearing point having a globally invariable position relative to the frame, the table being configured to pivot on the bearing point while moving laterally away relative to the bearing point, by sliding on the bearing point, to the deployed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventor: Nicolas Hance
  • Patent number: 9933451
    Abstract: A method for determining a state of credibility of measurements of an angle-of-attack sensor of an aircraft is provided. This method includes at least one coherence test between angle-of-attack measurements from said angle-of-attack sensor, and the measurements of a flight characteristic of the aircraft, distinct from the angle-of-attack. The coherence test includes determining an angle-of-attack value from said angle-of-attack sensor, determining said flight characteristic of the aircraft, determining a value of at least one indicator of the coherence of the angle-of-attack value with the value of said flight characteristic, and activating a low state of credibility, in which the measurements of said angle-of-attack sensor are deemed unreliable, or an intermediate state of credibility, in which the measurements from said angle-of-attack sensor are deemed coherent with said flight characteristic, based on the value of said coherence indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventor: Sebastien Dupont De Dinechin
  • Patent number: 9751634
    Abstract: An assistance system for the implementation of aircraft procedures comprising a chain of operations to carry out is provided. The system includes a procedure database receiving the specifications of a plurality of procedures to be performed and a display and/or validation module which is able to collect the specifications of the procedure, to display a piece of characteristic information at least one operation of the procedure on the basis of the collected specifications, and/or to receive validation of the performance of at least one operation of the procedure. The system includes a conflict determination module which is able to generate for at least one operation of the procedure, feasibility information for the operation of the procedure during the course of the procedure, depending on the current operating states of the functional systems of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Bruno Ramirez, Gilles Constant, Gaëtan Bramoullé
  • Patent number: 9734279
    Abstract: A method for designing a system of electrical wirings for a complex system, in particular applicable to the design of electrical wirings of an aircraft, is provided. The electrical wirings allow the flow of digital, analog or discrete data between the components of the complex system and/or the transmission of electricity to components of the complex system, the components of the complex system being grouped together in subsystems, each able to perform a predetermined function, and able to be broken down into subsystems each capable of performing a predetermined sub-function. The wirings are distributed into functional groups such that all of the wirings allowing the flow of one or more data and/or the transmission of electricity, directly or indirectly necessary for the operation of the components of a subsystem, for performing the corresponding function or sub-function are distributed in a single and same functional group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Guillaume Reydellet, Philippe Mareschal, Romain Bernard
  • Patent number: D830076
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Faustine Amiard, Caroline Larmaraud, Thomas Guillard
  • Patent number: D830077
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Marion D'Halluin, Jean-Remi Billon, Matthieu Poidatz, Agnès Gervais
  • Patent number: D830284
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Marion D'Halluin, Jean-Remi Billon, Matthieu Poidatz, Agnès Gervais, Maxime Robert
  • Patent number: D830949
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Marion D'Halluin, Jean-Remi Billon, Matthieu Poidatz, Agnès Gervais, Maxime Robert
  • Patent number: D837026
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Matthieu Poidatz, Agnès Gervais
  • Patent number: D837627
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: DASSAULT AVIATION
    Inventors: Matthieu Poidatz, Agnès Gervais