Patents Assigned to AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
  • Patent number: 10207825
    Abstract: A telecommunications satellite stabilized on three axes includes a set of dissipative equipment constituting a payload of the satellite. The satellite includes support data transmission antennas and is substantially parallelepipedal in shape with the panels forming two opposite faces, east and west faces. The panels form two additional opposite faces, north and south faces, and include radiator surfaces on their external faces. The radiator surfaces are configured to cool the electronic equipment of the satellite. The equipment installed on the north and south panels dissipate thermal power corresponding to less than 25% of the total dissipated power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignees: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS, THALES, CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES CNES
    Inventors: Raphaël Hache, Bruno Trancart, Andrew Walker
  • Patent number: 10207824
    Abstract: A photovoltaic generator deployable for a satellite stabilized on three axes. The photovoltaic generator includes an assembly of planar panels articulated with respect to each other, and an attachment arm to the structure of the body of the satellite. In a first or launch position of the photovoltaic generator, the planar panels are folded one over the other. In a second or deployed position of the photovoltaic generator, the planar panels are fully deployed with at least a part of the planar panels being photovoltaic panels. At least one planar panel consists of a thermal radiator, with the radiative face thereof being orientated to be opposite the face of the photovoltaic panels carrying the photovoltaic sensors when the photovoltaic generator is in the deployed position. This radiative face is termed the “shade” face, and the face opposite the panel shaped radiator is termed the “sun” face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignees: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS, THALES, CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES CNES
    Inventors: Jérôme Lemaire, Yann Miegeville
  • Patent number: 10200830
    Abstract: In the context of half-duplex communications in a communication network composed of a plurality of sub-networks associated respectively with supernode devices, a supernode device receiving a floor request: transmits a floor pre-grant message; determines a timer duration according to a distribution law f?(t) for time period between a floor release and the next floor control, and a network-latency distribution law f?(d), so that the probability of subsequent dismissing of the floor control is below a predefined threshold; and broadcasts the data transmitted in the context of the floor control, when the timer has elapsed. When a floor request with higher priority is detected before the expiration of the timer, the supernode device does not broadcast the data and notifies that the floor control is finally refused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Joan Ventura Jaume, Laurent Franck
  • Patent number: 10184766
    Abstract: A method and device enable the linear separation of two elements attached to each other through two connecting plates of the first element and the second element respectively. An arrangement connecting and separating the two connecting plates are mixed and comprise a layer. The connecting arrangement comprises soldering, glue, or resin, whereas the separating arrangement comprises thermite. These elements can also be layered rather than mixed. An electrical triggering of this assembly causes its quick and local warming-up and thus enables both of these elements to be separated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Felipe Medina, Luc Preaud
  • Patent number: 10155597
    Abstract: Disclosed is an artificial satellite including one face from the North face and the South face supporting at least one main radiator having an outer face turned towards space and an inner face opposite the outer face. The satellite includes a bearing structure carrying the North face, the South face, the East face and the West face. At least one part of the at least one main radiator protrudes from at least one face from the East face and the West face. The inner face of the at least one protruding part is covered with a high infrared emissivity material. The value of the dimension of the at least one protruding part is between 19% and 50% of the value of the distance between the East and West faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Philippe Cael, Andrew Walker, Fabrice Mena
  • Patent number: 10144534
    Abstract: Disclosed is a spacecraft including:—a housing defining an inner space and an outer space, the housing having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a first radiator and a second radiator supported by the first surface and the second surface, respectively, the first radiator and the second radiator each having a main inner surface, a main outer surface opposite the main inner surface and side surfaces. The spacecraft further includes a first auxiliary radiator and a first auxiliary heat-transfer device thermally connecting the first auxiliary radiator to the main inner surface of the second radiator, the first auxiliary radiator being arranged in a first portion of the outer space, the first portion being defined by the main outer surface of the first radiator and by the first planes containing the side surfaces of the first radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventor: Fabrice Mena
  • Patent number: 10118717
    Abstract: Disclosed is an artificial satellite including a battery pack capable of dissipating heat, at least one radiator capable of conveying the heat dissipated by the battery pack into space, and a low-dissipation equipment item having an individual power flux density of less than 250 watts/m2. The satellite includes a thermally insulating cover delimiting, together with the radiator, an interior isothermal zone in which thermal control takes place by radiation, the battery pack and the low-dissipation equipment being arranged in thermally insulating cover. The battery pack has an operating range of between 0° C. and 50° C. and preferably of between 10° C. and 30° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventor: Andrew Walker
  • Patent number: 10097461
    Abstract: Detection of the congestion on a link based on an exchange of messages between a sender and a receiver, one sender and several receivers or several senders and one receiver. This equipment is connected to the ends of a transmission channel. One of the items of equipment is designated as the master and the others slaves. These exchanges are aimed at enabling the master to calculate and compare the rate of the data send and the rate of the data received. A divergence in the rates calculated reveals a congestion on the link. All these exchanges are made in the application layer and therefore do not involve the underlying layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Claude Poletti, Marc Cartigny, Olivier Klotz
  • Patent number: 10086482
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a final piece including several materials, the final piece being produced at least according to the steps of: inserting an elastomer (5) in at least one insertion cavity (6) of an initial piece (2) so that the elastomer (5) is in contact and fixed with the initial piece (2); then cutting the initial piece (2) in at least two distinct parts (3, 4), so that the at least two distinct parts (3, 4) are fixed together but not in contact with each other, the at least two distinct parts (3, 4) being connected together by the elastomer (5). This may be applied to manufacturing a final piece including several parts, of various natures, connected together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignees: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS, ETANCHEITE ET FROTTEMENT J. MASSOT
    Inventors: Guy Aubert, Stéphane Deyber
  • Publication number: 20180270189
    Abstract: In order to offer domain name resolution services vis-a-vis resources of various security domains of a communication network, an item of equipment, on reception of a domain name resolution request coming from a client device, performs: authentication operations checking whether the client device that sent the request was previously registered; authorisation operations checking whether the client device actually has right of access to the resources of said domain name; and domain name resolution operations by means of a cache storing associations of IP addresses and domain names. The cache is populated by means of the results of domain name resolutions performed by external name servers to which said equipment resort to via respective secure tunnels, independently of said security domains, when the cache does not include data allowing to effect the domain name resolution required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Jean-Marc MONTENOT, Franck SCHOLLER, Frédéric BONFANTI
  • Patent number: 10050439
    Abstract: A device (10) for the electric power supply of a load (11), includes at least two energy storage elements (13, 14), elements for determining the power needs of the load (11), elements (16, 17) for monitoring each energy storage element (13, 14), which are able to provide information about a maximum instantaneous power of each energy storage element (13, 14), a calculation body (19) for determining a maximum secured power according to the electromotive force (Ebat(t)) and the resistance (Rbat(t)) of the Thévenin model, a maximum specified current and a maximum specified voltage, and elements (Cbat(t), Csc(t)) for controlling each energy storage element (13, 14), the elements being adjusted over time according to the power needs of the load (11) and the maximum secured power of each energy storage element (13, 14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignees: AIRBUS GROUP SAS, AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Benoit Fleury, Gregor Massiot, Pierre-Bertrand Lancelevee, Julien Labbe
  • Patent number: 10046868
    Abstract: A spaceplane suitable for aeronautical flight comprising a body and a wing defining a lower airfoil surface in addition to attitude control means that comprise one or a plurality of shutters disposed under the lower airfoil surface of same and maneuverable between a stowed position and an inclined extended position for aerodynamic braking during the transition from a phase of space flight to a phase of aeronautical flight of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Eugénio Ferreira, Angélique Santerre, Benjamin Faure, Samuel Chevrollier, Pierre Parpaite, Christophe Favre
  • Patent number: 10050654
    Abstract: A method for suppressing a parasite signal received with a useful signal by a network of elementary antennas of a payload of a satellite. The suppression method includes an analogue formation step for forming analog beams and a digital formation step for forming a digital beam. The analog formation step includes forming of an useful analog beam in which the parasite signal is attenuated with respect to the useful signal and of an auxiliary analog beam in which the useful signal is attenuated with respect to the parasite signal. The digital formation step includes forming of a digital beam in which the parasite signal has been suppressed, by combining the signals obtained by digitizing the auxiliary beam and the useful beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Bernard Pezet, Nicolas Jacquey
  • Publication number: 20180227271
    Abstract: First and second applications are executed in a red domain, and a third application is executed in a black domain, with a lower security level, and via which a ciphered communication tunnel passes between the first and second applications. The first application transmits to the second application a nominal sequence of packets ordered according to their respective sizes; said nominal sequence is intercepted by the third application which, when it wishes to transmit information to the red domain, modifies said nominal sequence by deleting at least one packet, each deleted packet being dependent on said information; on reception of a sequence of packets supposed to be the nominal sequence of packets, the second application checks whether at least one packet has been deleted; and, if such is the case, the second application retrieves said information from the size of each packet thus deleted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Marc CARTIGNY, Olivier KLOTZ, Hervé FRITSCH, Claude POLETTI
  • Patent number: 10017279
    Abstract: Disclosed is a space vehicle, such as a satellite, the vehicle including: at least one equipment-carrying module for carrying equipment of the vehicle; at least three posts extending at least partially in the same longitudinal direction and on the periphery of the equipment-carrying module, each post being provided with at least one releasable locking device; and a reinforcing structure which rigidly connects each post transversely to at least two other posts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Dominique Poncet, Christophe Prud Hon, Serge Guyot
  • Patent number: 9988162
    Abstract: A method to control a sunlight acquisition phase of a spacecraft with a nonzero angular momentum of an axis DH. The spacecraft includes a solar generator configured to rotate about an axis Y. The spacecraft actuators are controlled to place the spacecraft in an intermediate orientation in which the axis Y is substantially orthogonal to the axis DH. The solar generator is controlled to orientate the solar generator towards the sun. The spacecraft actuators are controlled to reduce the angular momentum of the spacecraft. The actuators of the spacecraft engine are controlled to place the spacecraft in an acquisition orientation in which the axis Y is substantially orthogonal to the direction of the sun with respect to the spacecraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Nicolas Cuilleron, Jean Sperandei, Philippe Laurens
  • Patent number: 9961308
    Abstract: A multispectral image capture device includes a filter wheel (4) and an image sensor. The filters (41-46) are located close to a focusing plane of a light beam used to form the images, and at least one of the filters is more angularly narrow than the optical field of the image sensor. The production of the filter is thereby facilitated. Advantageously, the filters are closer to one another in the wheel such that multiple filters are in the optical field of the sensor simultaneously. Each multispectral image can be captured more quickly than when each filter covers the entire optical field of the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventor: Pierre-Luc Georgy
  • Patent number: 9957919
    Abstract: An anaerobic propulsion device of hybrid type. The propulsion device includes a combustion chamber into which an oxidant is injected thereto comes into contact with a fuel. The chamber includes an orifice, notably a nozzle, to inject the combustion gases. The fuel takes the form of solids divided into granules, typically grains, powder or beads. The propulsion device further includes a segregation device arranged between a reservoir for granules of solid fuel, and the combustion chamber. The segregation device is configured to prevent granules of fuel in solid form from passing between the reservoir and the combustion chamber. The segregation device includes orifices to allow the passage of the fuel, once the fuel has become pasty, liquid or vaporized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventor: Christophe Figus
  • Patent number: 9945356
    Abstract: A wing or blade in at least two sections facing each other. Each section has a longitudinal bearing structure provided with at least one sole of which the link between the sections includes at least one first link plate linking the end of the soles of the sections facing each other. A method of producing such wing or blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Antoine Humblot, Francois Naud
  • Patent number: 9937658
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for producing, by welding, a link between an element made from any material, for example metal, and an element made from a thermoplastic-matrix composite material, the second element being produced by depositing a textile yarn pre-impregnated with a thermoplastic material on the surface of the first element. The method mainly includes an operation consisting of producing an interface coating consisting of an epoxy resin filled with a thermoplastic material powder, coating the surface of the element made from any material with same, and leaving the coating to polymerize. It next includes an operation consisting simultaneously of forming the second element and welding same to the coating deposited on the surface of the first element by locally heating the two elements, when depositing the pre-impregnated textile on the first element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Hélène Lebrun, Brigitte Defoort, Dominique Lacour, Audrey Menochet