Patents Assigned to Airbus Defence and Space
  • Publication number: 20180175753
    Abstract: An actuating apparatus for a polyphase motor includes five phase terminals for connecting of in each case one phase of the polyphase motor, a high terminal for applying a supply voltage (UB), a low terminal for applying a reference potential of the supply voltage (UB), a control device, wherein the control device is adapted, in four of the five phase terminals, to impress a pulse-width-modulated voltage pattern by connecting the phase terminals to the high terminal or the low terminal so that in the first phase terminal, an evaluation signal which is dependent on the angle of rotation of the polyphase motor is produced, and wherein the control device is adapted to determine the angle of rotation and/or a commutation condition of the polyphase motor from the evaluation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicants: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg Wangemann, Heiko Rothkranz, Jens Schult
  • Publication number: 20180169952
    Abstract: A device for the layer-wise additive production of a complex three-dimensional component has a measuring mechanism for continuously monitoring quality indicators during the production of the component, wherein the measuring mechanism and a bed with a material powder are surrounded, at least in regions, by a processing cell filled with a protective gas atmosphere and the material powder of an uppermost layer can be melted in a locally limited manner in a melting zone by means of at least one laser. The measuring mechanism has the at least one laser and at least one optical sensor for the priority detection of the quality indicators in the region of the melting zone, in particular by means of Raman spectroscopy. Consequently, any construction errors in the component can be recognised, evaluated and, if necessary, corrected in a resource-saving manner without delay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Engel, Andreas Nick, Wolfgang Rehm, Christian Weimer
  • Publication number: 20180164283
    Abstract: A handheld air sampler device for enrichment of airborne substances and/or particles, in particular microorganisms, includes: an inlet configured for air intake into a flow channel; an outlet configured for fluidic ally connecting the flow channel to an external vacuum device; a permeable backing element arranged in the flow channel, the backing element being configured to receive and support a filter element; and a sealing element configured for sealing a filter element received on the backing element such that, when a negative pressure is applied to the outlet, air entering the inlet forms an airstream passing the filter element and airborne substances and/or particles, in particular microorganisms, are enriched in the filter element. An air sampling arrangement includes a handheld air sampler device of this type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Agata Godula-Jopek, Ulrich Reidt, Johann Reichenberger, Thomas Ziemann, Krzysztof Warmuzinski
  • Publication number: 20180159449
    Abstract: A motor actuating apparatus includes three phase connections for three motor phase connections, a high-connection for a supply voltage and a low-connection for a reference potential of the supply voltage, three bridge branches having a series connection of a high-switch and a low-switch and a control device for actuating the switches of the bridge branches. The high-switches are connected to the high-connection and the low-switches are connected to the low-connection. Each of the three phase connections is connected to exactly one of the three bridge branches between the high-switch and the low-switch. The control device is adapted for actuating the switches of the bridge branches such that during a first time period a first phase connection is switched to passive and the second phase connection and third phase connection are alternatingly connected to the high-connection and the low-connection in a predeterminable duty cycle if the supply voltage is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicants: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg Wangemann, Heiko Rothkranz, Jens Schult
  • Patent number: 9989378
    Abstract: A method for displaying an attitude of an aircraft includes receiving a roll angle, a pitch angle and a yaw angle of the aircraft, generating a display image indicating the roll angle, the pitch angle and the yaw angle, and displaying the display image on a display device. The display image includes a spherical shell with a track angle scale projected onto the spherical shell along a latitude line of the spherical shell and with a pitch angle scale projected onto the spherical shell along a longitude line of the spherical shell. Furthermore, the display image includes a graphical aircraft attitude indicator inside the spherical shell rotated with respect to the spherical shell such that the graphical aircraft attitude indicator indicates the roll angle, the pitch angle and the yaw angle of the aircraft with respect to the spherical shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Vernaleken, Marco Opitz, Harald Neujahr, Eugenio Ferreira, Lutz Broszio
  • Patent number: 9983393
    Abstract: A catoptric imaging device for drill measuring comprising a laser guide, an imaging unit for converting optical image into image information, and processing the image information to obtain a drill measure, a catoptric assembly including a first conical surface, and a second surface including a frustoconical surface, wherein the first surface is arranged relative to the laser guide to reflect a cone beam onto an cross section of the drill to be measured, and wherein the smallest diameter of the frustoconical surface is larger than the largest diameter of the first surface to receive the cone beam reflections and reflect them towards the imaging unit, and wherein the imaging unit is arranged to receive an optical image from the frustoconical surface reflections to obtain a drill measure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space, S.A.
    Inventors: Fernando Enrique Esteban Finck, David Gomez Esteban, Francisco José León Arevalo, Luis Granero Montagud, Martín Sanz Sabater, Vicente Mico Serrano, Javier Garcia Monreal
  • Patent number: 9980327
    Abstract: A lighting device that includes a lighting unit, index unit, drive unit, sensor, and control unit. The lighting unit includes a plurality of light sources, with each light source having different color spectra. The index unit is to calculate a color rendering index based on stored data on spectra of the light sources and individual first drive data for the light sources. The drive unit is to individually energize the light sources according to the first drive data. The sensor is to measure a spectral power distribution emitted by the lighting unit. The control unit is to receive the spectral power distribution, predetermined spectral power distribution, and color rendering index associated with weighted sensor values calculable from the individual first drive data, maximize the color rendering index, and stop maximization when an error between the predetermined spectral power distribution and the measured spectral power distribution falls below a limit value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Mario Cappitelli, Sönke Klostermann, Dietmar Vogt, Michael Olbert
  • Patent number: 9975636
    Abstract: A cargo restraining assembly is configured to be mounted to a cargo deck surface of an aircraft, the cargo restraining assembly comprising two guidance and restraint bars running in parallel to each other, and at least one lateral bracket spanning between the two guidance and restraint bars and being fixedly connected to each of two guidance and restraint bars. The lateral bracket includes a bracket foot formed integrally with the lateral bracket and a quick release mechanism configured to quick-releasably couple the bracket foot to a seat track profile of the cargo deck surface of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Gutenkunst, André Koehler, Ali Lohmann, Joerg Pump, Soenke Hager
  • Publication number: 20180136007
    Abstract: An aircraft navigation system and a method for aircraft navigation is presented. The aircraft navigation system has a navigation-map data source, navigation-map data provided by the navigation-map data source including information about a multitude of objects O on earth surface which are of high potential visibility and high potential identifiability from elevated positions, each information for an object O ? O including a position and a type of the respective object O; a first system for measuring an actual aircraft position P(t); a waypoint data source providing waypoints WPi defining an aircraft intended flight track; a second system for selecting per waypoint WPi one object Oi(WPi) with Oi(WPi) ? O depending on given selection criteria; and a display for displaying an information I(Oi(WPi) referring the selected object Oi(WPi).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Olaf Heinzinger, Matthias Oberhauser, Sèbastien Mamessier, Rafael Fernandes De Oliveira, Daniel Dreyer
  • Patent number: 9970814
    Abstract: A device for processing items, in particular items in a production sequence, in different processing steps, has at least one sensor arrangement having a plurality of sensors, wherein at least one item is measured in a detection mode by at least a partial quantity of the sensors as the detection means, wherein an impacting of the at least one item with an irradiation means is determined by a control means while considering a result of the measuring procedure of the at least one item; and wherein the at least one item is irradiated in an irradiation mode by at least a further partial quantity of the plurality of sensors as the irradiation means. If appropriate, at least part of the method is repeated with a renewed measuring, determination and/or irradiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Tilman Orth, Jonas Gruenewald, Christian Weimer
  • Patent number: 9963241
    Abstract: An aircraft includes a fuel cell device which can be operated with hydrogen from a hydrogen tank and with oxygen drawn from the surrounding air, and further includes a superconducting magnetic energy storage unit (SMES unit) which is disposed, together with the hydrogen tank, in a cryogenic container, wherein the cryogenic container does not have an active cooling system or a liquid hydrogen generating device, and has a volume for holding a maximum of 40 kg liquid hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Gerrit Schramm, Renè Langermann, Richard Trott, Arnd Schirrmann
  • Patent number: 9963219
    Abstract: An airfoil portion includes an outer skin member and an inner stiffening member. Either the outer skin member or the inner stiffening member or both are arranged to delimit a chamber. The chamber is configured to contain an inner pressure, wherein the inner pressure differs from a pressure external to the chamber. In an embodiment, an aircraft includes such an airfoil portion. A method for providing such an airfoil portion with a chamber is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignees: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Meyer, Wolfgang Machunze, Matthias Lengers
  • Publication number: 20180118323
    Abstract: A cabin structural component for a transport vehicle, in particular for an aircraft or spacecraft, has a sandwich structure that has a core and a first cover layer, the first cover layer being provided with a heat conductor that is arranged and designed for heating a cabin wall that can be produced using the cabin structural component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicants: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Neotech AMT GmbH
    Inventors: Nils Ischdonat, Patrick Rollfink, Martin Hedges, Thomas Reitberger, Daniel Graef, Fabian Reimer
  • Patent number: 9954502
    Abstract: A multiport amplifier MPA is provided with an N-input input network, INET, an N-output output network, ONET, and N amplifiers interposed between the INET and the ONET, the MPA comprising N wanted signal paths and N.(N?1) null signal paths wherein N is divisible by 2, half of the N amplifier paths comprise a signal inversion with respect to the other half of the N amplifier paths, the INET and the ONET each comprise one or more quadrature hybrid couplers, QHC, wherein a pair of amplifier paths is arranged between the output of a first QHC in the INET and the input of a second QHC at the ONET, and each signal inversion is arranged in one of the amplifier paths of each pair of amplifier paths such that the ideal amplitude gain of at least one of the N.(N?i) null signal paths is zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space Limited
    Inventor: Owen William Clarke
  • Patent number: 9950781
    Abstract: An effector for an aircraft has an effector body and a stealth sheath enclosing the effector body at least in part. The stealth shell is attached to the effector body and embodied so as to be separated from the aircraft and from the effector body during flight of the aircraft carrying the effector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Kay W. Dittrich, Juan Perez-Sanchez
  • Publication number: 20180099455
    Abstract: A method for the additive manufacturing of a receptacle for storing and/or transporting a product includes three-dimensionally capturing the external form of the product, compiling a computer-readable data set with information about the captured external form of the product, and additively manufacturing the receptacle. In a computer-controlled manner on the basis of the compiled data set, a modelling material is deposited in layers, liquefied and cured. The receptacle is formed having an internal structure which surrounds a receiving chamber that is adapted to the external form of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicant: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventor: Ralf Schlüter
  • Patent number: 9928984
    Abstract: A gas inlet suitable in particular for use in an ion thruster includes a housing which is made of a gas-tight ceramics material, and an insert which is arranged in the housing and is made of a porous ceramics material. The geometry and pore structure of the insert are such that the insert forms a desired flow resistance for a gas stream flowing through the insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Pfeiffer, Reiner Teuchner
  • Patent number: 9926087
    Abstract: A satellite, intended to be placed in a station in orbit about a celestial body, including a first electrical thruster of orientatable thrust direction, a second electrical thruster of orientatable thrust direction, and an electrical thruster of fixed orientation that is fixed with respect to the satellite and of line of thrust passing through the center of gravity of the satellite. The satellite includes two electrical-thruster power units and an electrically interconnecting network connecting a first power unit to the first thruster of orientatable thrust direction and to the thruster of fixed orientation, and connecting a second power unit to the second thruster of orientatable thrust direction and to the thruster of fixed orientation. Each of the power units is configured to power either the associated thruster of orientatable thrust direction or the thruster of fixed orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space SAS
    Inventor: Patrick Doubrere
  • Patent number: 9927513
    Abstract: A method for effecting the airborne determination of geographic coordinates of corresponding pixels from digital synthetic aperture radar images, where the SAR images are available in the form of slant range images and the recording position of the respective SAR image is known. The coordinates of the corresponding pixels in the SAR images and the corresponding range gates are used in each case to determine the distance between a corresponding resolution cell on the ground and the respective recording position of the respective SAR image. The determined distances and associated recording positions of the SAR images are used to determine the geographic coordinates of the corresponding pixels in the SAR images by employing a WGS84 ellipsoid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Benjamin Benninghofen, Tamer Koban, Christoph Stahl
  • Patent number: 9929796
    Abstract: A satellite system includes a satellite operating in an orbit around the Earth and a satellite operating in another orbit around the Earth. The satellite points a fixed beam at least temporarily to a zone above the Earth's surface through which the satellite passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space SAS
    Inventors: Laurent Renouard, Martin Agnew, Francis Kinsella, Akos Hegyi