Patents Assigned to Airbus Operation SAS
  • Aircraft having landing gear doors and a system for maneuvering the doors
    Patent number: 9751620
    Abstract: An aircraft with a landing gear, a compartment to stow the landing gear and doors for the compartment movable between an open position and a closed position. The movement of the doors is controlled by a maneuvering system having two transmission chains or linkages each connecting one of the doors to an actuation member that includes a rotatable arm and an actuating cylinder. Each transmission chain or linkage has a relay element mounted pivotably on a structural element of the aircraft, a first connection element between the arm and the relay element, and a second connection element between the door and the relay element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Christophe Casse, Didier Reynes
  • Electronic equipment item comprising a housing and at least one electronic board protected against lightning
    Patent number: 9742186
    Abstract: An electronic equipment item for an electronic system, comprising a housing, a backplane board, at least one daughterboard and at least one lightning protection board housed in the housing. A connector is fixed to the backplane board and configured to be connected to the rest of the electronic system. For each daughterboard there is provided one lightning protection board. For each lightning protection board, a first port is arranged to connect the lightning protection board to the backplane board, and a second port is arranged to connect the daughterboard to the lightning protection board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Pierre-Louis Engelvin, Patrice Lafont
  • Flight management system and method for monitoring flight guidance instructions
    Patent number: 9741252
    Abstract: A flight management assembly including two guidance systems, each one provided with a flight management system. The flight management systems are independent and hosted in different computer equipment. Each of the flight management systems being configured to carry out at least a computation of guidance commands for the aircraft. The flight management assembly also includes a monitoring unit hosted in computer equipment different from the computer equipment hosting the flight management systems and configured to monitor at least the guidance commands computed by the two flight management systems to detect and identify a defective flight management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Mere, Mathieu Versini
  • Method and device for automatically detecting an incorrect measurement of a total temperature on an aircraft
    Patent number: 9733135
    Abstract: A method and a device for automatically detecting an incorrect measurement of a total temperature on an aircraft. The detection device comprises several monitoring units configured to monitor the variations of the measured total temperature, provided by a temperature probe, and current values of the Mach number and of the altitude of the aircraft over a predetermined monitoring period of time, and a detection unit configured to detect an incorrect measurement of the total temperature when said monitoring units simultaneously detect particular conditions relative to said variations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Julien Feau, Xavier Bousquet
  • Method and device for automatically comparing flight trajectories of aircraft
    Patent number: 9725157
    Abstract: A method and device for automatically comparing two flight trajectories for an aircraft includes a central processing unit having a first comparison element for automatically comparing lateral trajectories of the two flight trajectories, and a second comparison element for automatically comparing vertical trajectories of these two flight trajectories, these comparisons being carried out successively leg by leg of the flights, these comparisons being carried out as long as the respective successive legs are identical and at least for a predefined distance in the horizontal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Nicolas Albert, Boris Kozlow
  • System and method for piloting an aircraft
    Patent number: 9718537
    Abstract: A piloting system having a control stick configured to control the aircraft with respect to its three piloting axes, namely the pitch axis, the roll axis and the yaw axis, and an auxiliary control device configured to automatically control the aircraft during one of the following phases: a landing phase and a takeoff phase. The auxiliary control device automatically controls the aircraft with respect to at least one of the piloting axes, and the other piloting axes, which are not controlled automatically by the auxiliary control device, then being controlled manually by a pilot with the aid of the control stick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Pierre Scacchi, Matthieu Mayolle
  • Air extraction unit for avionics bay
    Patent number: 9714096
    Abstract: An air extraction unit taking the form of a body, the geometric shape of which makes it easier to incorporate into an avionics bay of an aircraft. The air extraction unit derives from a multipurpose approach to the operational components of the avionics bay of an aircraft aimed at achieving weight and cost savings. All of the elements of the air extraction circuit are arranged in a compact housing of the body and are protected by the structure thereof. The air extraction unit can be used as a floor of an avionics bay that can be walked on, with a lateral organization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Yves Durand, Bernard Guering
  • Flight management system of an aircraft
    Patent number: 9709982
    Abstract: A flight management system with core and supplementary modules is proposed. The core module may include generic applications that implement generic functionalities related to a flight management of the aircraft. The supplementary module may include supplementary applications that implement supplementary functionalities specific to an entity to which the aircraft belongs. The supplementary module may be divided into principal and auxiliary partitions (or entities), and the supplementary applications, also referred to as principal applications, may be implemented in the principal partition. One or more auxiliary applications may be implemented in the auxiliary partition. Each auxiliary application may be associated with one or more principal applications such that the execution of the principal application requires the associated auxiliary application to be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Mere, Pierre Neri, Julien Bernat, Marc Vie
  • Aircraft comprising two landing gear doors and a maneuvering system intended to maneuver said doors
    Patent number: 9701400
    Abstract: An aircraft comprising a first door and a second door, each being mobile between an open position and a closed position, and a maneuvering system. The maneuvering system includes an actuation mechanism, a first transmission chain configured to transmit the movements of the actuation mechanism to the first door, a second transmission chain configured to transmit the movements of the actuation mechanism to the second door. Such a maneuvering system uses a single actuation mechanism, which results in a simplification of the mechanism and a weight saving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Didier Reynes, Christophe Casse
  • Cover plate for aircraft door
    Patent number: 9694559
    Abstract: A cover plate, to cover part of a space between a door and a door surround, comprising at least one pressure element secured to at least part of the external face of the cover plate. The pressure element comprises two sheets, an external sheet and an internal sheet, these two sheets being superposed and fixed together. The internal and external sheets are respectively made from materials that have different thermal expansion properties causing at least a contraction of the internal sheet with respect to the external sheet, at least for a range of temperatures comprised between ?20° C. and ?50° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Didier Reynes, Christophe Casse
  • Secure aircraft-based mobile device connectivity systems and methods
    Patent number: 9694903
    Abstract: An aircraft-based mobile device connectivity system generally includes a housing, an avionic systems interface integrated into the housing, a wireless interface integrated into the housing, and a data security module. The avionic system interface is configured to be communicatively coupled to an avionics system external to the housing. The wireless interface is configured to provide wireless communication with one or more mobile devices. The data security module is configured to receive commands from the mobile devices, securely process the commands, receive avionics data from the avionics system via the avionic systems interface and the avionics module, and securely transmit the avionics data to the mobile devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventor: François Beltrand
  • Aerodynamic fairing
    Patent number: 9688412
    Abstract: An aerodynamic fairing whose floor has absolutely no contact with respect to the lateral panels over the entire length of the fairing along the longitudinal axis. A free space e is provided between the floor and the lower edge of each panel. There is a longitudinal mechanical gap between the floor and each of the lateral panels. The absence of any rigid mechanical connection between the floor and the lateral panels allows the transfer of the thermomechanical stresses from the floor to the lateral panels and therefore preventing the deformation of the fairing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Francois Peyruseigt, Thierry Gaches, Mathieu Kaleta, Nicolas Voyer
  • Curvilinear Rudder Bar For An Aircraft And Aircraft Comprising Such A Curvilinear Rudder Bar
    Publication number: 20170166296
    Abstract: The rudder bar includes two actuation arrangements, each provided with two pedals, each actuation arrangement having a frame provided with two rails arranged on either side of said frame and being in the form of a concave curve, and, associated with each one of said rails, a movable carriage, each one of said movable carriages bearing one of said pedals, each one of said movable carriages being configured such that it can be moved on the associated rail, for a direction command, under an action exerted by at least one foot of a pilot on at least one of said pedals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Bernard Guering, Laurent Saint-Marc
  • Aircraft engine attachment device, and corresponding aircraft
    Patent number: 9676489
    Abstract: A device for attaching an aircraft engine to a pylon secured to the aircraft, the attachment device comprising a beam secured to the pylon and a first clevis mount comprising two cheeks connected to one another by a first clevis pin. A second clevis mount is secured to the engine and comprises two cheeks connected to one another by a second clevis pin. A shackle is rotatably connected to the first and second pins by first and second spherical joints. The attachment device further comprises at least one pair of washers positioned around one of the pins, one washer on each side of the shackle, and separating the shackle from the cheeks of the clevis mount bearing the one of the pins. The shackle, in its extreme positions of rotation about the one of the pins passing through the two spherical joints, coming into contact with the washers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Bruno Serra, Richard Garrigues
  • Lightning protection system for radome and associated assembly method
    Patent number: 9680198
    Abstract: A lightning protection system for a radome, the system comprising at least one lightning protection strip positioned on an inner wall of the radome, wherein the lightning protection strip defines, on the inner wall of the radome, a curve that is substantially perpendicular, at all points thereof, to the polarization direction of the electrical field vector radiated by an antenna across from the inner wall of the radome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Charlotte Jeanneau, Christophe Bernus, Thony Dupas
  • Automatic method and device for aiding the piloting of an airplane
    Patent number: 9671783
    Abstract: A method is described for aiding the piloting of an airplane by ensuring availability of an automatic pilot that is normally controlled as a function of speed information of the airplane when the speed information is lost. The method includes detecting a loss of the speed information of the airplane. In response to the detection of the loss of the speed information, the method includes determining flight data of the airplane being independent from the speed information of the airplane, determining control parameters from the flight data, and controlling the automatic pilot based on the control parameters and without the speed information of the airplane. The automatic pilot includes an automatic piloting system or a flight director.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Thierry Bourret, Pascale Louise, Jean Muller, Xavier Dal Santo
  • Device for carrying out tests on at least one fluid circuit of an aircraft
    Patent number: 9664578
    Abstract: A device for carrying out a test on a fluid circuit of an aircraft including a test unit which includes, at the inlet, at least one means of connection to a pressurized gas supply connected to means for regulating the pressure of the gas provided by the supply as a function of the test to be carried out and, at the outlet, at least two connection means connected to the means for regulating the pressure of the gas, wherein at least two connection means have different dimensions tailored to a range of pressures or a given pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Stéphane Mateo, Bernard Courthieu, Ludovic Zimmermann
  • Aircraft propulsion unit comprising a nacelle provided with a fan cowl locking and closing mechanism
    Patent number: 9643714
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion unit comprising a nacelle with a fan cowl locking and closing mechanism. The fan cowls of the nacelle can be closed by a single operator in accordance with the ergonomic standards defined for a single individual. A nacelle is provided with a lateral locking mechanism configured to keep one of the two fan cowls in the closed position, so as to reduce the spacing between the two lower sides of the fan cowls, whereas the presence of a stop between a first elastic member provided on one fan cowl and a second elastic member provided on the other fan cowl allows the operator to provide only that effort required to overcome the force exerted by a single spring at a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Guillaume Bulin, Patrick Oberle, Nicolas Devienne, Matthieu Ritter
  • Aircraft attitude indicator device
    Patent number: 9643732
    Abstract: An aeroplane attitude indicator device includes a mobile rod which includes a first end connected by a link to a support fastened to the aeroplane and a second end to which is connected a moving body, at least one actuator for controlling the motions of the rod, and a system for piloting the at least one actuator as a function of information originating from an attitude detection system of the aeroplane, so as to orient the rod in a vertical direction. The assembly of rod and moving body correspond to a pendulum-like artifact. Also described is an aeroplane cockpit equipped with an attitude indicator device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Franck Laine, Olivier Sapin, Charles Renault Leberquer
  • Interface device for the connection and the passage of an electric route through an airtight wall of an aircraft
    Patent number: 9640926
    Abstract: An interface device that includes a plastic part including at least one through-opening in a longitudinal direction, the plastic part being adapted to be fixed in an airtight manner into an opening in the wall. At least one metal shaft is arranged and fixed in the through-opening. The metal shaft has a connection element at each longitudinal end. The metal shaft is configured to provide electric connectivity from one side of the wall to the other in a fixed position of the interface device. At least one fixing element is adapted to fix the plastic part to the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Davide Faggella, Samson Lafranchis, Philippe Chapoulie