Patents Assigned to Airbus Operation SAS
  • Patent number: 9989010
    Abstract: A thrust reverser for an aircraft engine assembly, comprising two sub-assemblies configured to surround an engine, each of the sub-assemblies comprising an inner fixed structure, a translating cowl, a torque box, a substantially vertical 12 o'clock bifurcation, and a substantially vertical 6 o'clock bifurcation. At least one of the sub-assemblies comprises at least one separating partition extending between the inner fixed structure, the translating cowl and the torque box of the sub-assembly, the separating partition being rigidly fixed to the inner fixed structure and the torque box, and connected to the translating cowl via a sliding connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Loic Dussol, Jerome Dane, Hugo Herisson
  • Patent number: 9991603
    Abstract: A device, intended to be fixed on a wall, for absorbing electromagnetic waves. The absorption device comprises a metal plate intended to be fixed on the wall, a dielectric panel at a distance from the metal plate and delimiting, with the metal plate, a volume between the metal plate and the dielectric panel, an array of resistive dipoles, all the resistive dipoles being fixed on the same face of the dielectric panel, and each comprising two metal platelets at a distance from one another and a resistor arranged between the opposing edges of two neighboring metal platelets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Andrew Thain, Anass Jaber, Alexandre Herve
  • Patent number: 9971559
    Abstract: An information system comprising a first computer and a second computer, a first display screen and a display management device connected to the first screen. Each computer communicates with the display management device by means of a communication network. The display management device allows control of the display of information from the first computer or from the second computer on the first display screen. A tactile unit is applied to the first display screen and an additional communication network, which is separate from the communication network between each computer and the display management device, allows the tactile unit to communicate with the second computer so that a user is easily able to act on the information displayed on the first screen without the risk of interference with the rest of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Jean Monfraix, Rui Fernandes Dos Santos, Mathieu Collignon, Arnaud D'Andrea
  • Patent number: 9958530
    Abstract: The vertical tailplane of the aircraft is equipped with a distress beacon. The floatability of the vertical tailplane is taken advantage of in order to keep the distress beacon on the surface of the water in the case of an accident caused by a forced landing on the sea.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Michel Colin
  • Patent number: 9950806
    Abstract: A method for displaying an outside scene on a cockpit display system. The system comprises two display areas contiguous along a horizontal aircraft axis and a processor to generate the display, on one of the areas, of an initial scene image from data from the aircraft's avionics electronics, the data comprising the aircraft's sideslip angle ?. The processor displays, on the scene image, a flight path vector indicating a point on the scene image towards which the aircraft is heading. When the measured angle ? exceeds a threshold, the processor displays the initial scene image on a first display area and the display of a supplementary outside scene image, on a second display area, the supplementary scene image representing a lateral extension of the initial scene image. The processor also displays the flight path vector superimposed on one of the two images based on a value of angle ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Raphael Andre, Javier Manjon Sanchez
  • Patent number: 9944395
    Abstract: An aircraft hold including a device for automated processing of luggage is provided. The device includes at least one automated arm for handling the luggage. The automated arm, which is mounted so as to be able to move in translation along the longitudinal axis of the hold of the aircraft includes a head for grasping an item of luggage. A wrapper for packaging an item of luggage for the automated processing of the item of luggage is also provided. The wrapper is in the form of a protective film and includes a grasping surface separate from but secured to the protective film. A method for automated processing of luggage in an aircraft is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Yves Durand, Bernard Guering
  • Patent number: 9944406
    Abstract: A socket system for the protection against lightening of an aircraft disposed between a connection terminal of the aircraft and an end connector of a generator set powered by a power supply cable having several electrical conductors includes an extension socket connected between the end connector and the connection terminal and a safety device including in a housing made of electrically insulating material, and clipping means designed to clip an electrical signal. The installation of such a safety device prevents the propagation of an electrical overvoltage beyond the safety device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Frédéric Forget
  • Patent number: 9940085
    Abstract: A display method comprises a step during which an aircraft flight management computer sends display instructions to a display management system, to control the display of an aircraft flight plan window. The display method also comprises steps comprising acquiring a reference point and a vertical flight profile of the aircraft comprising the reference point, and computing, using the vertical flight profile, an altitude of the reference point. It also comprises steps comprising acquiring an information item relating to a flight phase associated with the reference point, acquiring an information item relating to a selected display range, determining a vertical centering coefficient of a display window relating to the vertical flight profile, as a function of the flight phase and transmitting, to the display management system, instructions for displaying the display window as a function of the altitude of the reference point and of the centering coefficient of the display window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Nicolas Albert, Thomas Pastre, Thomas Koebel
  • Patent number: 9919804
    Abstract: A propulsion assembly includes a turbojet incorporating a fan casing and a central casing around a longitudinal axis, a mounting pylon having a rigid structure, a forward engine attachment interposed between a forward extremity of the rigid structure and an upper part of the fan casing, the upper part being in a vertical median plane (P) passing through the longitudinal axis, an aft engine attachment interposed between a median zone of the rigid structure and an upper aft part of the central casing, and a device for absorbing the thrust forces generated by the turbojet, including two links placed either side of the median plane (P) and hinged, on one hand, forward, on a forward part of the central casing, and on the other, aft, directly on the rigid structure. Such an arrangement enables a reduction of the stresses, and the possibility of designing a simplified rigid structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Pautis, Rohan Nanda
  • Patent number: 9914547
    Abstract: An aircraft comprising at least two engines and an electronic management arrangement comprising a control computer for each engine, each computer being configured for monitoring the operation of its associated engine and for activating an engine protection mode when the engine operation exceeds predetermined operational limits. The electronic management arrangement furthermore comprises an engine interface device to which the control computers are connected, the device prohibiting the activation of a protection mode by a control computer when a protection mode is activated by another control computer. A monitoring device is connected to the control computers and receives an information signal from each control computer to indicate if a protection mode is activated and transmits, in the case where a protection mode is activated on at least two engines, a control signal to the control computer having last activated a protection mode to cancel the activation of the protection mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignees: Airbus Operations (SAS), Airbus SAS
    Inventors: Patrick Zaccaria, Emmanuele Costanzo, Laurent Bouin
  • Patent number: 9908630
    Abstract: An assembly for an aircraft with an engine includes an attachment device intended to support the engine, a pod intended to surround the engine and including a cover, joints intended to allow articulation of the cover and allow movement of the cover relative to the attachment device between a closed position and an open position, and at least one access panel mounted moveably on the cover between a closed position, in which the access panel extends continuously between the cover and the attachment device when the cover is in the closed position, and an open position in which the access panel is remote from its closed position. The assembly includes a handle which can be operated from the outside of the cover between a first position and a second position, and a transmission system provided to move said or each access panel from its closed position to its open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Frédéric Guigon
  • Patent number: 9902501
    Abstract: A propeller for a turbomachine intended to be driven in rotation about a propeller rotation axis and including variable pitch blades. The propeller further includes a structure for radial retention of the blades in the event of them breaking. The retaining structure extends around the propeller rotation axis and has the aerodynamic part of each blade of the propeller pass through it. Moreover, each aerodynamic part is equipped with an abutment configured to be retained radially by the retaining structure in the event of a blade fracture causing a fracture in the aerodynamic part radially inside the abutment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Julien Guillemaut, Guillaume Gallant
  • Patent number: 9888608
    Abstract: An electronics structure includes at least one barrier impermeable to fine particles, interposed between at least one Electrical and/or Electronics (“E & E”) system and the frame of the structure. The barrier delimits, with the frame and the E & E system, a first area isolated from the outside of the electronics structure. The structure makes it possible to isolate sensitive electrical and electronic components from fine particles such as dust dispersed outside the electronics structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Philippe Pons, Pierre Salles
  • Patent number: 9885284
    Abstract: A turbojet comprising a high-pressure compressor with several compression stages in which the pressure rises in a direction of air flow, from a low pressure to a high pressure, passing through intermediate pressures, and a system to bleed air in the turbojet and deliver the air to an air system. The bleeding system comprises a first air intake to bleed air at low pressure, a second air intake to bleed air at an intermediate pressure, a first valve and a second valve having inlets connected to the first air intake, a compressor having an inlet connected to the second valve outlet, a high-pressure valve connected to the second air intake, and a control valve connected to the air system, and a controller to control the opening and closing of the valves depending on the pressures at the first and second air intakes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Olivier Pelagatti, Thomas Deguin, Ronan Bodet
  • Patent number: 9885436
    Abstract: A connector for securing floating double skin pipework to a structure includes mechanism for securing to the structure, and an external body forming an outer channel and an internal tube forming an inner channel around the longitudinal axis of the connector. The mechanism for securing to the structure includes a fixed connection backed up by a sliding connection along the longitudinal axis of the connector. The connector includes at least one bore for producing the fixed connection and at least one holding rail for producing the sliding connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Alexis Courpet, Thomas Barre, Olivier Bourbon, Matthieu Biteau, Jean-Marc Roques, Sébastien Escande, Brice Lenoir
  • Patent number: 9856015
    Abstract: A rudder bar for an aircraft comprising a floor, a steering connecting rod and a braking connecting rod. The rudder bar comprises a base fixed above the floor, a pedal arm mounted rotatably on the base about a first axis of rotation and having a lower end and an upper end, a pedal mounted rotatably on the lower end about a second axis of rotation, a first transmission assembly configured to transmit a movement to the steering connecting rod when the pedal arm pivots about the first axis of rotation, and a second transmission assembly configured to transmit a movement to the braking connecting rod when the pedal pivots about the second axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Laurent Saint-Marc, Christophe Mialhe, Patrick Lieven, Romain Delahaye, Marc Audibert, Nicolas Chatrenet
  • Patent number: 9856034
    Abstract: An aircraft nacelle comprising a first and a second cowl mounted pivotably about an axis substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the nacelle and lockable to one another by at least one locking mechanism. The nacelle further comprises a device for providing a visual warning of a locking defect of the cowls. The device comprises a movable bolt associated with the locking mechanism and a movable edge plate mounted on the nacelle in line with said bolt with which it is associated, the movable edge plate being movable under the action of an operator between a protruding position, in which the edge plate is protruding from the nacelle and a locking mechanism is in an unlocked position, and a retracted position, in which the edge plate is immobilized within the nacelle by the bolt and the action of the locking of a locking mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventor: Jacques Herve Marche
  • Patent number: 9845148
    Abstract: An aircraft landing gear longitudinal force control system for an aircraft having landing gears with braking and/or driving wheel(s). The system includes an error-based force controller having feedback for minimising any error between the demanded force and the actual force achieved by the force control system. The feedback may be derived from force sensors on the landing gear for direct measurement of the landing gear longitudinal force. The force control system may include an aircraft level landing gear total force controller and/or a landing gear level force controller for each actuated landing gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignees: Airbus Operations Limited, Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Miguel Angel Gama-Valdez, Louis-Emmanuel Romana, Andrea Damiani
  • Patent number: 9845707
    Abstract: An aircraft turbojet engine nacelle comprising an air intake assembly of substantially annular shape, the air intake assembly comprising an external wall and an internal wall which are connected to one another upstream by an air intake lip and downstream by an annular rear structure. The annular rear structure comprises, arranged concentrically, one or more monolithic panels forming a first annular zone and comprising one or more hollow casings forming at least a second annular zone, and at least one connecting ring which provides the connection with at least one of the external and internal walls. The annular rear structure thus has increased structural mechanical strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Alain Porte, Matthieu Fargues
  • Patent number: 9840321
    Abstract: In order to assist fitting of doors to the landing gear housing and adjusting their position, an aircraft nose is provided comprising a connecting frame between the landing gear housing and the outer skin of the fuselage, the connecting frame extending around an opening in the outer skin and comprising a skirt bearing against the outer skin of the fuselage and attached thereto, the skirt defining a passage for landing gear which is configured to be closed off by doors when the landing gear are in a closed position, and supporting members extending between the fuselage and the doors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Guillaume Gallant, Herve Biennes