Patents by Inventor Axel Fink

Axel Fink has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230408702
    Abstract: A method for identifying blooming candidates in a Lidar measurement may include providing a distance-based histogram of points of a point cloud generated in the Lidar measurement. In the histogram, clusters of points having the same distance to a Lidar sensor carrying out the Lidar measurement are identified and intensities of the points of a cluster are evaluated. If the cluster contains points, the intensities of which exceed in each case a predefined limit value, those points of the cluster, the intensities of which do not exceed in each case the predefined limit value and in particular fall below the predefined limit value by more than a predefined threshold value, are classified as blooming candidates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: David PETER, Matthias PFENDER, Markus ENZWEILER, Axel FINK, Philipp LEHNER
  • Patent number: 11820485
    Abstract: A rotary wing aircraft with a fuselage that comprises an upper primary skin and an aircraft upper deck arranged above the fuselage, wherein the aircraft upper deck comprises a firewall arrangement that defines a fire proof separation at least between at least one aircraft engine and an aircraft interior region, wherein the firewall arrangement comprises at least one funnel-shaped lower firewall that is arranged between the at least one aircraft engine and the upper primary skin of the fuselage, wherein the at least one funnel-shaped lower firewall converges from an outer perimeter to at least one inner collecting point, and wherein the outer perimeter is spaced apart from the upper primary skin of the fuselage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Axel Fink, Manuel Kempf
  • Patent number: 11691722
    Abstract: A multirotor aircraft 10 that is adapted for vertical take-off and landing, comprising a fuselage, a thrust producing units assembly that is provided for producing thrust in operation, and a forward-swept wing that comprises a portside half wing and a starboard side half wing. Each one of the portside and starboard side half wings comprises an inboard section that is connected to the fuselage and an outboard section that forms a wing tip. The inboard sections of the portside and starboard side half wings form a central wing region. The portside and starboard side half wings are respectively connected in the region of their wing tips to an associated outboard wing pod that supports at least two non-tiltably mounted thrust producing units of the thrust producing units assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS URBAN MOBILITY GMBH
    Inventors: Axel Fink, Uwe Kiesewetter, Klaus Kicker
  • Patent number: 11591061
    Abstract: A boom for an aircraft, and, more particularly, to a tail boom for a helicopter, whereby the tail boom may comprise a watertight compartment and watertight bulkheads. The watertight bulkheads may close at least one end of watertight compartment. Watertight bulkhead may include attachment device, frame, and watertight fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventor: Axel Fink
  • Publication number: 20220169361
    Abstract: A boom for an aircraft, and, more particularly, to a tail boom for a helicopter, whereby the tail boom may comprise a watertight compartment and watertight bulkheads. The watertight bulkheads may close at least one end of watertight compartment. Watertight bulkhead may include attachment device, frame, and watertight fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventor: Axel FINK
  • Publication number: 20220169372
    Abstract: A compound helicopter with braced wings in joined-wing configuration, a fuselage that extends from a front fuselage section to a rear fuselage section, and an emergency floatation system with main floatation balloons and lateral floatation balloons, wherein the main floatation balloons comprise at least one front floatation balloon that is arranged in the front fuselage section 4a and at least one rear floatation balloon that is arranged in the rear fuselage section, and wherein the lateral floatation balloons comprise at least one first lateral floatation balloon that is arranged close to an interconnection region of the first braced wing and at least one second lateral floatation balloon that is arranged close to an interconnection region of the second braced wing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicants: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH, AIRBUS HELICOPTERS
    Inventors: Axel FINK, Pierre PARDOUX, Dominique MAILLIU
  • Publication number: 20210403139
    Abstract: A rotary wing aircraft with a fuselage that comprises an upper primary skin and an aircraft upper deck arranged above the fuselage, wherein the aircraft upper deck comprises a firewall arrangement that defines a fire proof separation at least between at least one aircraft engine and an aircraft interior region, wherein the firewall arrangement comprises at least one funnel-shaped lower firewall that is arranged between the at least one aircraft engine and the upper primary skin of the fuselage, wherein the at least one funnel-shaped lower firewall converges from an outer perimeter to at least one inner collecting point, and wherein the outer perimeter is spaced apart from the upper primary skin of the fuselage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Axel FINK, Manuel KEMPF
  • Patent number: 10981650
    Abstract: A multirotor aircraft that is adapted for vertical take-off and landing. The multirotor aircraft comprises a fuselage, a tail boom that is provided with a vertical fin, a thrust producing units assembly that is provided for producing thrust in operation, at least one lower wing which comprises a lower wing inboard section that is connected to the fuselage and a lower wing outboard section that forms a lower wing tip, and at least one upper wing which is connected to the vertical fin and which forms an upper wing tip. The at least one upper wing is joined to the at least one lower wing in a joined-wing configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Axel Fink, Uwe Kiesewetter, Klaus Kicker
  • Patent number: 10870488
    Abstract: A braced wing aircraft with a fuselage and a fixed wing arrangement, the fixed wing arrangement comprising at least two braced wings that are arranged laterally and opposite to each other on the fuselage, each one of the at least two braced wings comprising at least one upper wing and at least one lower wing which are staggered and interconnected at a predetermined transition region, the at least one upper wing being connected to the fuselage at an associated upper wing root and the at least one lower wing being connected to the fuselage at an associated lower wing root.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Blacha, Axel Fink
  • Publication number: 20200269980
    Abstract: A multirotor aircraft that is adapted for vertical take-off and landing. The multirotor aircraft comprises a fuselage, a tail boom that is provided with a vertical fin, a thrust producing units assembly that is provided for producing thrust in operation, at least one lower wing which comprises a lower wing inboard section that is connected to the fuselage and a lower wing outboard section that forms a lower wing tip, and at least one upper wing which is connected to the vertical fin and which forms an upper wing tip. The at least one upper wing is joined to the at least one lower wing in a joined-wing configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Axel FINK, Uwe KIESEWETTER, Klaus KICKER
  • Publication number: 20200269975
    Abstract: A multirotor aircraft 10 that is adapted for vertical take-off and landing, comprising a fuselage, a thrust producing units assembly that is provided for producing thrust in operation, and a forward-swept wing that comprises a portside half wing and a starboard side half wing. Each one of the portside and starboard side half wings comprises an inboard section that is connected to the fuselage and an outboard section that forms a wing tip. The inboard sections of the portside and starboard side half wings form a central wing region. The portside and starboard side half wings are respectively connected in the region of their wing tips to an associated outboard wing pod that supports at least two non-tiltably mounted thrust producing units of the thrust producing units assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Axel FINK, Uwe KIESEWETTER, Klaus KICKER
  • Patent number: 10556662
    Abstract: A rotary wing aircraft with a fuselage that comprises at least one structural stiffened panel, the structural stiffened panel comprising a stressed skin and a stiffening framework that is rigidly attached to the stressed skin, wherein the stressed skin comprises an inner skin, an outer skin and a core element assembly that is arranged between the inner skin and the outer skin, the core element assembly comprising at least one viscoelastic core element and at least one intermediate core element that are tessellated, wherein the at least one viscoelastic core element is provided for noise and vibration damping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Axel Fink, Andreas Rack, Helmut Fietz
  • Patent number: 10457373
    Abstract: An aircraft with a composite tail boom that comprises at least partly a tubular tail boom cone with an outer skin and an inner skin, wherein the inner skin delimits a hollow interior of the composite tail boom, wherein a plurality of rod-shaped stiffening elements and a plurality of ring-shaped stiffening elements are arranged between the outer skin and the inner skin, the plurality of rod-shaped stiffening elements being oriented in longitudinal direction of the composite tail boom and the plurality of ring-shaped stiffening elements being distributed along the longitudinal direction in the tubular tail boom cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventor: Axel Fink
  • Publication number: 20190152603
    Abstract: A braced wing aircraft with a fuselage and a fixed wing arrangement, the fixed wing arrangement comprising at least two braced wings that are arranged laterally and opposite to each other on the fuselage, each one of the at least two braced wings comprising at least one upper wing and at least one lower wing which are staggered and interconnected at a predetermined transition region, the at least one upper wing being connected to the fuselage at an associated upper wing root and the at least one lower wing being connected to the fuselage at an associated lower wing root.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Martin BLACHA, Axel FINK
  • Patent number: 10279885
    Abstract: A helicopter with a fuselage and a composite tail boom. The composite tail boom has at least a tubular tail boom cone and a composite attachment ring segment that defines a mating face which is connected to the fuselage at an associated connection interface by means of a plurality of tension members that are oriented longitudinally with respect to a longitudinal extension direction of the composite tail boom. The plurality of tension members are distributed over a perimeter of the composite attachment ring segment 7. The composite attachment ring segment has a clamp ring section with a plurality of tension member accommodations. The clamp ring section defines the mating face of the composite attachment ring segment 7. The plurality of tension members is at least partly accommodated in the plurality of tension member accommodations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventor: Axel Fink
  • Patent number: 10131424
    Abstract: A compound rotorcraft with a fuselage and at least one main rotor, the fuselage comprising a lower side and an upper side that is opposed to the lower side, the at least one main rotor being arranged at the upper side, wherein at least one propeller is provided and mounted to a fixed wing arrangement that is laterally attached to the fuselage, the fixed wing arrangement comprising at least one upper wing that is arranged at an upper wing root joint area provided at the upper side of the fuselage and at least one lower wing that is arranged at a lower wing root joint area provided at the lower side of the fuselage, the upper and lower wings being at least interconnected at an associated interconnection region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Axel Fink, Martin Blacha
  • Publication number: 20180043982
    Abstract: A rotary wing aircraft with a fuselage that comprises at least one structural stiffened panel, the structural stiffened panel comprising a stressed skin and a stiffening framework that is rigidly attached to the stressed skin, wherein the stressed skin comprises an inner skin, an outer skin and a core element assembly that is arranged between the inner skin and the outer skin, the core element assembly comprising at least one viscoelastic core element and at least one intermediate core element that are tessellated, wherein the at least one viscoelastic core element is provided for noise and vibration damping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Axel FINK, Andreas RACK, Helmut FIETZ
  • Publication number: 20180022433
    Abstract: An aircraft with a composite tail boom that comprises at least partly a tubular tail boom cone with an outer skin and an inner skin, wherein the inner skin delimits a hollow interior of the composite tail boom, wherein a plurality of rod-shaped stiffening elements and a plurality of ring-shaped stiffening elements are arranged between the outer skin and the inner skin, the plurality of rod-shaped stiffening elements being oriented in longitudinal direction of the composite tail boom and the plurality of ring-shaped stiffening elements being distributed along the longitudinal direction in the tubular tail boom cone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventor: Axel FINK
  • Publication number: 20170369159
    Abstract: A rotary wing aircraft with a fuselage and a non-retractable skid-type landing gear that is mounted to the fuselage, the non-retractable skid-type landing gear comprising at least one landing box, the at least one landing box being provided with a skid-type landing base member and an associated box shell that delimits an internal volume of the at least one landing box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventor: Axel FINK
  • Publication number: 20170297675
    Abstract: A helicopter with a fuselage and a composite tail boom. The composite tail boom has at least a tubular tail boom cone and a composite attachment ring segment that defines a mating face which is connected to the fuselage at an associated connection interface by means of a plurality of tension members that are oriented longitudinally with respect to a longitudinal extension direction of the composite tail boom. The plurality of tension members are distributed over a perimeter of the composite attachment ring segment 7. The composite attachment ring segment has a clamp ring section with a plurality of tension member accommodations. The clamp ring section defines the mating face of the composite attachment ring segment 7. The plurality of tension members is at least partly accommodated in the plurality of tension member accommodations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventor: Axel FINK