Patents Assigned to Airbus France
  • Process and device for controlling the deformation of a metal part, in particular for redressing a metal part
    Patent number: 7869962
    Abstract: The method for tracking deformation of a metal part subjected to a pressure force (F) includes the steps of measuring the displacement (d) of the metal part in the deformation zone, of measuring the intensity of the pressure force (F), of calculating, during a first period, the constant ratio (?) between the intensity of the pressure force (F) and the displacement (d) of the metal part, and of determining, during a second period, displacement values (de) and (dp) related respectively to an elastic deformation and to a plastic deformation of the metal part from the constant ratio (?) and a displacement (da) measured during the said second period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus France
    Inventors: André Galliot, Maëva Gelebart, Dominique Vasnier, Bruno Arzel
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ESTIMATING THE FORCES EXERTED ON A CONTROL SURFACE OF AN AIRCRAFT
    Publication number: 20110004361
    Abstract: The device (1) comprises means (11) for summing various hinge moments calculated, and means (13) for dividing this sum by the value of a lever arm in such a way as to obtain an estimate of the forces exerted on the control surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: AIRBUS FRANCE
    Inventors: Philippe Goupil, Christophe Rougelot
  • System for opening and closing a landing-gear compartment for an aircraft
    Patent number: 7861971
    Abstract: A system for opening and closing an aircraft landing-gear compartment is described. The landing-gear compartment includes a plurality of hatches mounted on a fairing of the aircraft and has main hatches with crosswise openings and at least one secondary hatch with a longitudinal opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus France
    Inventors: Jaouen Ponsart, Yannick Vandomel
  • Support device to mount against the rear of the back of a cockpit seat
    Patent number: 7862112
    Abstract: The invention relates to a support device suitable for being installed in an arrangement referred to as “mounted” against the rear of a back of a seat comprising a headrest. The headrest is held at the top of the back by at least one upright. The support device includes a framework suitable for being positioned and supported on the top of the back, a clamp movable in relation to the framework, and at least one reversible fastener making it possible to fasten the clamp to the framework so as to immobilize the framework in relation to the upright.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus France
    Inventors: Jean-Pascal Caturla, Gérard Montariol, Mark Van Der Zwalmen, Philippe Blanc-Tailleur, Vincent Ouverlot
  • DEVICE FOR GUIDING AN AIRCRAFT ALONG A FLIGHT TRAJECTORY
    Publication number: 20100332111
    Abstract: The guidance device (1) comprises a flight computer (7) which comprises means (15) for formulating all the guidance orders for the aircraft, irrespective of the guidance mode selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: AIRBUS FRANCE
    Inventors: Julien Closse, Jean-Louis De Menorval, Didier Averseng
  • Assembly of panels of an airplane fuselage
    Patent number: 7857258
    Abstract: An aircraft fuselage including at least two sections kept assembled at a circumferential join, each section having at least one panel. The circumferential join includes at least one inner ring, situated on one face, called the inner face, of the fuselage. The inner ring has a width li, partially overlaps each of the two panels and is fixed to the two panels by fasteners. The fuselage also includes an outer ring, situated on one face, called the outer face, of the fuselage, opposite to the inner face. The outer ring has a width le, partially overlaps the two panels, and is fixed to the two panels and to the inner ring by some or all of the fasteners fixing the inner ring to the two panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Airbus France
    Inventors: Mathieu Normand, Marc Cazzola, Sandrine Deilhes
  • SYSTEM FOR WEAVING A CONTINUOUS ANGLE
    Publication number: 20100319801
    Abstract: A weaving loom including a mechanism drawing-in threads, for insertion of picks, and for formation of a weaving shed, so as to render possible formation of a continuous angle or corner by a thread during weaving. The loom preferably also includes a vertical offset system, so that it is possible to weave a three-dimensional surfacic structure, the threads of which are continuous between the faces and at the level of the edges. The loom can be configured particularly for manufacture of continuous tridedral corners that are used as reinforcements for composite structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: Airbus France
    Inventors: Xavier Legrand, Georgi Tsarvarishki, Julien Charles, Philippe Blot
  • Device for issuing authorization to act on the operating conditions of an aircraft engine and engine control system comprising same
    Patent number: 7856295
    Abstract: A device for issuing authorization to act on the operating conditions of an aircraft engine and engine control system includes a first unit for determining particular parameters concerning the aircraft, including the position of a power lever controlling the supply of fuel to the engine, and a second unit for determining, based on the particular parameters, whether the aircraft is in a state authorizing an action on the operating conditions of the engine and for issuing, as the case may be, a corresponding authorization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Airbus France
    Inventors: Patrick Zaccaria, Marie-Pierre Fuertes
  • Method and device for measuring the orientation of an aircraft nose landing gear
    Patent number: 7856293
    Abstract: A device including an inertial reference station for measuring an aircraft heading. An inertial reference unit which is mountable on a wheel of a nose landing gear by a fixing system, and is used for measuring the heading of said landing gear in a non-steering position. A data processing unit includes a comparison unit for carrying out a comparison between the measured heading of the nose landing gear and the measured aircraft heading in such a way that the orientation of the nose landing gear is calculated with respect to the aircraft body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Airbus France
    Inventor: Bernard Furgal
  • Method and device for detecting an environning aircraft
    Patent number: 7855675
    Abstract: A radar unit on board an aircraft scans a scan area of surrounding space relative to a runway to detect any nearby aircraft and a unit presents to a pilot an indication of such detection of the presence of at least one nearby aircraft. The technique involves determining: a heading of the aircraft, positions of thresholds of the runway, an orientation of the runway, a maximum relative bearing, a minimum relative bearing, a maximum elevation, a minimum elevation, a slant range for scanning the scan area from the heading, thresholds and orientation, predetermined vertical and horizontal angles of an approach center line of the runway, a predetermined length of edges of the scan area, and the scan commands enabling the radar to scan said scan area using the maximum relative bearing, the minimum relative bearing, the maximum elevation, the minimum elevation and the slant range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Airbus France
    Inventor: Guillaume Fouet
  • Display system for aircraft
    Patent number: 7855664
    Abstract: A display system includes information sources containing information relating to an aircraft and its surrounding environment. A processor constructs a three-dimensional synthesis image of the aircraft environment, using the information from the information sources, so as to display the position of the aircraft, the environment through which the aircraft is moving, and the terrain to be flown over. The synthesis image is coherent with information relating to another display. A display unit displays the synthesis image on one area of a display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Airbus France
    Inventors: Benoit Morizet, Vincent Amade, Patrick Morere, Pierre Gamet
  • Method and device for reducing the wake vortices of an aircraft in the approach/landing phase
    Patent number: 7850125
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for reducing the wake vortices of an aircraft during the approach/landing phase. Spoilers are automatically ordered to deploy when lift-augmenting aerodynamic surfaces are ordered to deploy, and are automatically ordered to retract when at least one of the following three conditions holds: the angle of incidence ? of the aircraft is equal to or greater than an incidence threshold ?s; the speed Vc of the aircraft is equal to or less than a speed threshold Vs; and the aircraft is instigating a go-around maneuver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Airbus France
    Inventor: Franck Delaplace
  • Active pitch control method and device for an aircraft
    Patent number: 7853369
    Abstract: A device has a pitch acceleration instruction calculator that calculates a pitch acceleration instruction depending on a pitch objective and a deflection instruction calculator that calculates, from the pitch acceleration instruction, a deflection instruction for elevators of an aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Airbus France
    Inventor: Fabrice Villaume
  • Method and device for constructing a low altitude flight trajectory intended to be followed by an aircraft
    Patent number: 7853368
    Abstract: Method and device for constructing a low altitude flight trajectory intended to be followed by an aircraft. The device (1) comprises, in particular, a means (6) for constructing a lateral trajectory of the flight trajectory and a means (7) for constructing a vertical trajectory of the flight trajectory, over a profile section defined between two height maxima of a terrain profile, by displacing over the terrain profile a V-shaped construction profile, whose branches are determined respectively by maximum angles of climb and of descent and by selecting a position of the construction profile, for which its edges arrive tangential to the terrain profile, and no peak of the terrain profile crosses the construction profile, the position thus selected of the construction profile allowing the latter to form the part of the vertical trajectory which is situated at the level of said profile section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Airbus France
    Inventor: Franck Artini
  • METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING DATA BETWEEN LOCALLY NETWORKED HETEROGENEOUS PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING SAID METHOD
    Publication number: 20100312835
    Abstract: A method for communicating data in an aircraft between at least a first data processing system and a second data processing system locally networked, each processing system being capable of executing at least one application, wherein the data to be exchanged are organized in messages, the aforementioned messages as well as the processing systems and the applications being defined in files stored in a backup unit connected to the network and accessible by the data processing systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: AIRBUS FRANCE
    Inventors: Stephane Garay, Philippe Herry, Dominique Pronto
  • Method and device for determining the ground position of a mobile object, in particular an aircraft on an airport
    Patent number: 7848883
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device (1) comprising means (2) for emitting periodically position data, means (3) for emitting inertial data, means (4) for determining the position of the mobile object upon each position data emission based thereon, and means (5) for determining the position of the mobile object between two successive emissions of position data, the time interval between two successive emissions being divided into time ranges of equal duration separated by intermediate times, the latter means (5) determining for each current intermediate time the position of the mobile object, based on its position at the preceding intermediate time and based on its movement during the time range delimited by the current and preceding intermediate times, movement which is calculated by means of the inertial date.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Airbus France
    Inventors: Fabien Fetzmann, Pierre Coldefy, Thierry Malaval, Stéphane Collins
  • ACOUSTIC COATING FOR AN AIRCRAFT INCORPORATING A FROST TREATMENT SYSTEM BY JOULE EFFECT
    Publication number: 20100301161
    Abstract: The invention relates to acoustic lining for an aircraft, which can cover a leading edge, such as an air inlet in the nacelle of a propulsion unit, said lining comprising: (i) from the inside outwards, a reflective layer (28), at least one cellular structure (30) and an acoustically resistive structure (32) having a pre-determined proportion of open surface; and (ii) at least one frost treatment system in the form of at least one heating layer (46) comprising open zones through which acoustic waves can pass, which co-operate at least partially with the open zones in the acoustically resistive structure. The invention is characterised in that the acoustically resistive structure (32) includes at least one structural layer (36) with openings (38) and in that said at least one heating layer (46) is disposed under the structural layer (36).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: AIRBUS FRANCE
    Inventors: Gilles Chene, Fabrice Gantie, Alain Porte
  • AIRCRAFT LEADING EDGE
    Publication number: 20100294882
    Abstract: An aircraft leading edge, such as, for example, an air intake (22) of a nacelle (14) of a propulsion unit, includes a coating (26) for the acoustic treatment that includes—from the outside to the inside—an acoustically resistive porous layer that has a determined open surface ratio, at least one alveolar structure, and a reflective layer, whereby the coating (26) integrates a frost treatment system, characterized in that a frost treatment system includes at least one vibration emitter (36).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: AIRBUS FRANCE
    Inventors: Fabrice Gantie, Alain PORTE, Alain Porte
  • SELF-STABILISED STIFFENER ENABLING ELEMENT RECOVERY
    Publication number: 20100297390
    Abstract: A stiffener for a structure submitted to tensile and/or compression and/or shear stresses, that includes a shaped section including: a contact area with an element to be stiffened having a closed cross-section and providing stability, the aforementioned area including first and second legs; and a core normal to the element to be stiffened that provides a support surface capable of element recovery, the aforementioned core being formed by one of the two legs. Application in aircraft structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: AIRBUS FRANCE
    Inventors: Mathieu Forzan, Philippe Bernadet
  • Method of optimizing stiffened panels under stress
    Patent number: 7840389
    Abstract: The subject of the disclosed embodiments is a method of optimizing stiffened panels under stress. In particular, the method makes it possible to determine the stress distribution in stiffened panels with postbuckling taken into account. The method proposed is a coupling between an overall, linear stress calculation approach, based on strength-of-materials results, and a local, nonlinear approach for the behavior of the stiffened panel. The disclosed embodiments fall within the field of aeronautical design, at the pilot study stage in the definition of a civil transport airplane of conventional architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Airbus France
    Inventors: Celine Gallet, Eric Bouchet, Michel Salaun