Patents Assigned to Airbus Operation SAS
  • Patent number: 10549856
    Abstract: The control device of a communication system of an aircraft having a predefined number of communication channels comprises a processing unit and one or more sets of buttons each associated with a communication channel. The number of sets of buttons is less than the predefined number of communication channels of the communication system. The device comprises a set of call buttons comprising at least one transmission button, and a display area on a display screen, this display area being associated with the set of call buttons. The processing unit is configured to display an indication in the display area associated with the set of call buttons when the communication system receives a call on a channel with which no set of buttons is associated and to select this channel for transmission following an action of a user on the transmission button of the set of call buttons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Florient Chouteau, Aymeric Perrin, Christine Charbonnier, Jerome Gouillou
  • Patent number: 10554315
    Abstract: A monitoring device comprising a monitoring pattern signal generating module, a calibration pattern signal generating module, a mixer module for mixing an input signal with the monitoring pattern signal and the calibration pattern signals, a recognition module configured to recognize the monitoring pattern signal, at least one calculation module for calculating at least one offset error and at least one gain error, a transmission module for transmitting a signal of proper operation or of faulty operation to a user device depending on whether the monitoring pattern signal is recognized or not recognized by the recognition module and a transmission module for transmitting a signal representative of the offset error and a signal representative of the gain error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Michel Pasquier, Roland Croyet
  • Patent number: 10551266
    Abstract: A device measures a flight parameter of an aircraft which has a radome. Systems measure the deformation of a wall of the radome due to forces exerted by the air on the radome. A computer computes the flight parameter from deformation measurements obtained by the systems. The systems have an optical fiber carried by the radome provided with Bragg gratings. Each fiber has a plurality of Bragg gratings distributed over a length of the fiber so as to distribute the Bragg gratings over the radome when the fiber is installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignees: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS, AIRBUS SAS
    Inventors: Christophe Bernus, Jean Redon, Alain Fontaine, Thomas Boisson, Nathalie Esteve, Cécile Poret, Andrei Bulancea
  • Patent number: 10549867
    Abstract: Devices for protecting aircraft against bad weather. A device for protecting a wing of an aircraft including a load-bearing structure for a protective wall for the wing, the load-bearing structure having a supporting frame having at least two uprights linked by at least one cross member, at least one upright, at the end of the frame having a linking attachment arrangement permitting at least rotation about an axis perpendicular to the surface, the other uprights, each having one foot with an arrangement configured to facilitate the movement of the frame over the surface on which the frame rests. The protection device enables immediate, rapid and easy positioning requiring very few operators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Stéphane Mateo, Romain Hector, Christophe Couet
  • Patent number: 10543899
    Abstract: An adjustable, or all-moving, horizontal stabiliser for an aircraft, the stabiliser having a leading edge, a trailing edge, a root and a tip, and a strake fixed with respect to the stabiliser and attached to, or integrally formed with, the stabiliser leading edge adjacent the root.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignees: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED, AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH, AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Ian Roy Whitehouse, Carsten Weber, Markus Fischer, Alain Tanguy
  • Patent number: 10519899
    Abstract: A thrust reverser system with a thrust reverser cascade and a reverser door with door segments laid out in a folded condition relatively to each other in an inactive configuration of the reverser system, and accommodated in an accommodation space located outside the secondary channel. Upon passing from the inactive configuration to the active configuration a rearward displacement of the cascade towards a nacelle aperture, released by an external movable nacelle cowl driven rearwards by the cascade, and a deployment of segments until they attain a deployed closing position within the secondary channel occurs simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Olivier Pautis, Jerome Colmagro
  • Patent number: 10518605
    Abstract: An aircraft turbomachine comprising a fan conduit with a wall, a flow of air passing through the turbomachine via the fan conduit. An air passage comprising an air opening is arranged in the wall, the air passage configured to receive a portion of the flow of the air through the fan conduit. A deflector is fixed to the wall upstream of the air opening, the deflector comprising at least one cross-section extending in the fan conduit to capture the flow of air. The at least one cross-section is porous. The deflector protects the air passage structure and is easy to produce and to fix to the wall of the fan conduit when it is screwed or riveted directly thereto. The deflector, as a result of its location in the fan conduit, is easy to access and thus allows rapid maintenance operations without having to disassemble the air passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Nicolas Molin, Guillaume Clairet, Cedric Leconte
  • Patent number: 10518871
    Abstract: A crocodile-type flight control surface comprising an upper foil flap, a lower foil flap, an actuating mechanism which guarantees the rotational displacement of each foil flap about a joint axis, either in the same direction or in different directions, and a locking mechanism alternatively adopting a locking position in which the upper foil flap and the lower foil flap are fixed with respect to each other and an unlocking position in which the upper foil flap and the lower foil flap are free with respect to the other. A crocodile-type flight control surface of this kind is therefore stiffened by the locking mechanism that joins the two foil flaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Jerome Robillard, Pierre Dourel
  • Patent number: 10502346
    Abstract: A connection device of a female pipe and a male pipe, with a head which is configured to be accommodated in a receptacle of the female pipe, and comprising a peripheral groove in which a seal is accommodated. The male pipe comprises at least one extension which is configured to limit the pivoting of the male pipe around an axis of rotation which is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the female pipe. This configuration makes it possible to limit the risks of damaging the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Alexis Courpet, Olivier Bourbon, Matthieu Biteau, Jean-Marc Roques, Christophe Buresi, Brice Lenoir, Philippe Villeroux
  • Patent number: 10494113
    Abstract: In order to reduce the size of the attachment arrangement between an aircraft engine and its attachment device, an engine assembly is provided for which the primary structure of the attachment device includes a central box and two movable structural cowls. Further the arrangement for attaching the engine on the structure comprises a group of main ties laid out in a main transverse plane for absorbing forces crossing a front end of the movable structural cowls, this group comprising three main shearing pins radially oriented and distributed around a longitudinal axis of the engine, each pin crossing a first shearing orifice provided on a fitting secured to the hub of the intermediate case on the one hand, and a second shearing orifice provided on one of the movable cowls or on its connecting structure to the central box on the other hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Pautis, Laurent Lafont, Pascal Gougeon
  • Patent number: 10494115
    Abstract: A system and a method for the automatic starting of the engines of a twin-engine aircraft. When a first engine is made by the pilots of the aircraft to follow an automatic starting procedure, this engine follows the conventional four-phase starting cycle. The rotor of the high-pressure stage of the second engine is spun up for a predetermined duration and to a speed that is substantially constant and less than the nominal value during the starting cycle for the first engine. Once the starting cycle for the first engine is complete, the second engine is made by the pilots of the aircraft to follow an automatic starting procedure. The starting cycle for the second engine comprises just three phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignees: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS, AIRBUS SAS
    Inventors: Patrick Zaccaria, Pierre-Henri Brousse, Alexis Manneville, Paul-Emile Roux, Damien Lozach, Christine Molliet
  • Patent number: 10494114
    Abstract: A system for controlling the thrust of the engines of an aircraft comprises a processing unit configured to receive an aircraft speed setting, to determine a control setting for at least one engine of the aircraft as a function of the speed setting and to transmit a setting to a controller of the at least one engine of the aircraft as a function of the control setting. The processing unit is further configured to receive a current turbulence level measurement information item and to add an additional speed setting, as a function of the turbulence level, to the speed setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Fabien Guingnard, Priteche Venilal
  • Publication number: 20190359319
    Abstract: A rudder bar includes a main module provided at least with pedals and with all the elements subject to maintenance, the main module being one-piece and detachable relative to a support frame integrated into the floor of the cockpit of the aircraft, so as to exhibit significant flexibility with respect to its maintainability, particularly in the event of the failure of a component, by allowing quick intervention both on a local level and an overall level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Bernard Guering, Matthieu De Kergommeaux
  • Patent number: 10464686
    Abstract: A rear engine mount for a turbomachine of an aircraft comprising a pylon. The rear engine mount comprises a beam attached to the pylon, a first and a second lateral connecting rod having an abutment and attached between the beam and the turbomachine, a three-point, V-shaped central connecting rod, of which the vertex is attached to the turbomachine, and of which the ends of the arms are attached to the beam. The rear engine mount has a plane of symmetry passing through the center of the ball joint of the vertex. The beam has, for each abutment, a buffer, wherein each abutment comes to bear against the buffer in the event of failure of the central connecting rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventor: Benoit Orteu
  • Patent number: 10462103
    Abstract: A gateway having an architecture authorizing a bidirectional communication between applications located in different domains and presenting a high assurance level of protection. The gateway uses a virtualization platform and comprises a set of functional blocs configured to authorize secure bidirectional flow of data along two different paths between first and second domains, said set of functional blocs being decomposed into a plurality of elementarily evaluable components each one of which having a specified function and being adapted to communicate with other predefined elementarily evaluable components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignees: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS, AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE GMBH
    Inventors: Bertrand Leconte, Cristina Simache, Michael Paulitsch, Kevin Mueller
  • Patent number: 10435180
    Abstract: A device for adjusting the position of structural elements of a structure of an aircraft, comprising a measurement tool for determining a value for the actual position of each structural element, a processing and calculation system for comparing each value of the actual position determined by the analysis system with a corresponding theoretical value, and for determining therefrom an adjustment value, an adjustment tool configured to be attached in use to a structural element, comprising at least one measurement sensor configured to measure a distance between the measurement sensor and the structural element, a calculator for comparing the value measured by the measurement sensor with the corresponding adjustment value, and for deriving therefrom corrective actions to finalize adjustment of the structural element, and a communication system for exchanging information between the adjustment tool and the processing and calculation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Janick Migne, Laurent Serrano, Jean-Marc Breton, Jean-Christophe Bry
  • Patent number: 10427285
    Abstract: A punching tool which comprises a body, a rod oriented in a first direction and comprising a free end configured to cooperate with the element to be punched, a guide sleeve containing a conduit extending from a first end face to a second end face and configured to rest against the part. The conduit comprises a first portion which opens at the first end face and is configured to house the body of the punching tool and to allow a translation movement of the body of the punching tool relative to the guide sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventor: Gilles Echasserieau
  • Patent number: 10414502
    Abstract: A method of automatic positioning a seat in an apparatus comprising two cameras located on either side of the seat, each one in a position able to acquire images of a face of a user seated on the seat. The seat comprises at least one motor, each motor acting on a position of the seat along a predefined axis. The method comprises: for each camera: obtaining a position of a predefined image zone in which at least one eye of a user of the apparatus should be located; acquiring an image of a user seated on the seat; detecting at least one eye of the seated user in the image acquired; and obtaining a relative position between each eye detected and the predefined zone. By using each relative position obtained, at least one motor is actuated until each predefined zone contains at least one eye of the seated user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Jean Monfraix, Mathieu Collignon
  • Patent number: 10415737
    Abstract: A connection comprising a first duct, a second duct, a flexible tube which comprises a first end configured to cover part of the first duct, and a second end configured to cover part of the second duct, a first clamping system configured to clamp the first end of the flexible tube around the first duct, and a second clamping system configured to clamp the second end of the flexible tube around the second duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Bruno Alquier, Gerard Millet, Thomas Menage
  • Patent number: 10417520
    Abstract: A detection system comprises an analysis unit for analyzing successive images generated by a monitoring sensor to determine in an image a position of an axis representative of the displacement of the aircraft between two successive images, the so-called real position, a computation unit for computing, on the basis of data relating to a displacement of an aircraft between the generations of these two images and of the positioning of the monitoring sensor on the aircraft, a position in an image of an axis representative of the displacement of the aircraft, the theoretical position, an estimation unit for estimating the angular disparity between the real position and the theoretical position, and a comparison unit for comparing this angular disparity with at least one predefined tolerance value so as to detect a misalignment when this angular disparity is greater than this tolerance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventor: Stephane Gauthier