Abstract: An acoustic measuring device suitable for performing measurements on a surface in contact with a flow. This acoustic measuring device comprises an acoustic surface delimiting a cavity, which has an axis of revolution, which comprises a recess centered with respect to the axis of revolution, configured to house an acoustic sensor and which, in a longitudinal plane passing through the axis of revolution, follows a logarithmic profile which extends from a first edge separating the recess and the acoustic surface.
Abstract: A nacelle for an aircraft, including a structure, a cap attached to the structure and a seal system including an arch forming a channel which extends beneath a rear edge of the cap and which has a bottom, the arch being attached to the structure, a seal in the form of a solid block in the channel and beneath the rear edge of the cap, a spring system arranged to move the seal away from the bottom, and a retaining arrangement configured to prevent the seal from leaving the channel under the action of the spring system. With an arrangement of this kind, it is not necessary to oversize the bead, this being replaced with a solid seal mounted on a spring system.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 31, 2022
Date of Patent:
November 7, 2023
Assignee:
Airbus Operations SAS
Inventors:
Laurent Sammito, Jean Geliot, Thierry Theron
Abstract: An aircraft fuselage is configured to receive two tanks designed to contain liquid hydrogen. The fuselage includes a first section for a cockpit, a second section for a passenger cabin and a third section (T3) distinct from the first section (T1) and from the second section (T2). The third section (T3) includes two housings each to house a tank. The two housings are arranged symmetrically with respect to a vertical plane of symmetry (P1). This arrangement of the tanks in a section distinct from the other sections allows them to be located as close as possible to the motors that they have to supply.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 28, 2023
Publication date:
October 26, 2023
Applicants:
AIRBUS SAS, Airbus Operations SAS, AIRBUS OPERATIONS LTD, Airbus Operations SL, Airbus Operations GmbH
Inventors:
Elisa Alvarez López-Herrero, Matthias Wolff, Alexander Broer, Rainer Tegtmeyer, Michael Wießmeier, Till Marquardt, André Anger, Anna-Katrin Wengorra, Marco Dias Figueiredo, Jose Luis Martinez Munoz, Alberto Gallegos Elvira, Kaya Sahin, Guillaume Gallant, Kasidit Leoviriyakit, Philip Wright
Abstract: A method for parameterizing a photogrammetric cable robot, having a frame, a mobile platform carrying a camera and cables, each cable extending from a mobile platform attachment point to a position-adjustable exit point, while remaining linked to the frame. The robot's maximum workspace is defined by the ranges of possible positions of the different cable exit points. A set of pairs of setpoint positions and orientations of the platform is determined, for performing the point measurements of a scene by photogrammetry. Then, a genetic algorithm comprising crossing, transformation and selection operations is applied to a population of vectors, each representing respective positions of cable exit points, the selection being made via a fitness function involving a first objective function evaluating a collision percentage and a second objective function evaluating a percentage violation of a mobile platform constraint of equilibrium, when the platform assumes the different setpoint positions and orientations.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 1, 2020
Date of Patent:
October 17, 2023
Assignee:
Airbus Operations SAS
Inventors:
Stephane Caro, Jean-Christophe Bry, Benjamin Rivalland
Abstract: A method and system for determining a position error of an aircraft. The system comprises a set of collection modules implemented in an iterative manner, including an offset collection module, a position vector collection module, a set of sequentially implemented computation modules, including an angular alignment bias computation module, an observable position bias computation module and a position error computation module. The system thus allows a position error to be determined that is used to perform a landing in good conditions.
Abstract: An aircraft comprising a structure comprising a leakproof tank delimited by walls, of which at least one is in contact with the air outside the aircraft, and filled partly with a two-phase heat-transfer fluid, a fuel cell that is passed through by a heat-transfer fluid, and a line which takes the heat-transfer fluid at an output of the fuel cell and which reintroduces this heat-transfer fluid at an input of the fuel cell. The line passes through the leakproof tank immersed in the heat-transfer fluid in liquid phase.
Abstract: A switching device including at least one main breaker, an actuator configured to cause a change of state of the main breaker, from a first to a second state, counter to a spring generated force, the actuator being powered by a control signal equal to a first level to cause the change of state of the main breaker then to a second, lower level, to hold the main breaker in the second state. The switching device comprises a current sensor configured to control the control signal to increase it to a third level higher than the second level if the current flowing in the main breaker is higher than or equal to a given operating threshold, to avoid a spurious change of state of the main breaker. The switching device comprises a re-armable protection system for controlling the time for which the control signal is held at the third level.
Abstract: An enhanced flight vision system for an aircraft includes an image acquisition system configured to acquire images of the surroundings outside the aircraft and a display system configured to receive images produced by the image acquisition system and to display these images on a display in the cockpit of the aircraft. The display system is configured to acquire information about the flight path angle of the aircraft when approaching a runway, to calculate a difference between the flight path angle of the aircraft and a nominal angle and to deactivate the display of the images received from the image acquisition system on the display when the absolute value of the difference is greater than a first angular value.
Abstract: An engine pylon has a primary structure fastened between an engine and an aircraft wing and a cowling system having a front set of fixed cowls, a rear cowl, a displacement system having a first structure as one with the rear cowl and having a first slide mechanism, and a second structure fastened to a fixed structure of the wing and having second slide mechanism. The slide mechanisms cooperate so as to realize a sliding connection and to move the rear cowl in translation from an advanced position to a retracted position. An immobilizing system locks the rear cowl in the advanced position.
Abstract: A mixing device for mixing a first video signal and a second video signal to form a third video signal, the device comprising electronic circuits configured such that the third video signal is representative of the first video signal when the amplitude of a control signal is lower than a first predetermined threshold, such that the third video signal is representative of the second video signal when the amplitude of the control signal is greater than a second predetermined threshold, or else such that the third video signal is representative of a combination of the first and second video signals when the amplitude of the control signal lies between the two predetermined thresholds or is equal to one of them. A mixing method is performed by the abovementioned mixing device.
Abstract: An assembly having a pylon with an upper spar and two lateral scoops, a wing with a skin and a front spar, port-side/starboard-side front/rear brackets, each with a recess for a nut. The front spar has front/intermediate/rear pleats. Each front bracket is positioned against the front pleat and the intermediate pleat. Each rear bracket is positioned against the intermediate pleat and the skin. For each recess, the associated bracket has an open bore passing through it that opens into the recess. For each recess, the assembly has a fastening bolt having the nut and a screw of which the threaded shank passes through coaxial bores in the front pleat, in the skin, in the upper spar and in the associated lateral scoop, and the open bore, and is screwed into the nut, and of which the head bears against the lateral scoop.
Abstract: A method and system for estimating an angular deviation from a reference guidance axis, a position and a velocity of an aircraft. The system includes an offset collection module for collecting an offset measured by a measurement module, a position vector collection module for collecting a position vector measured by a position vector measurement module, a velocity vector collection module, a module for estimating the angular deviation of a reference guidance axis with respect to the approach axis towards the runway, for estimating the position of the aircraft with respect to the runway and for estimating the velocity of the aircraft with respect to the runway.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 11, 2021
Date of Patent:
September 5, 2023
Assignees:
Airbus SAS, Airbus Operations SAS
Inventors:
Guillaume Alcalay, Thierry Bourret, Imad Lebbos, Michel Padovani
Abstract: An electrical connector provided with at least one male or female plug configured to be connected to a socket. The electrical connector includes at least one locking system provided with a polarized ferromagnetic locking element and with a return element, which are configured to have a first shape corresponding to a locking configuration of the electrical connector that is at least partially complementary to a shape of the connection plug or of the socket when an intensity of a current flowing through the connection plug is higher than or equal to a predetermined value, and a second shape corresponding to a non-locking configuration of the electrical connector when the intensity of the current flowing through the connection plug is lower than the predetermined value, so as to electromechanically lock the connection plug in the socket of the connector.
Abstract: A piloting assistance system for an aircraft comprises a flight management computer and a guidance computer. The flight management computer transmits speed setpoints to the guidance computer so as to pilot the aircraft in accordance with an initial speed profile or in accordance with an RTA speed profile following the reception of an RTA constraint. In response to the reception of a setpoint speed selected by a flight crew member in the presence of the RTA constraint, the guidance computer pilots the aircraft at the selected speed and the flight management computer determines a deselection point for returning to a predetermined speed profile while still complying with the RTA constraint. The guidance computer commands the display, on a navigation screen, of a symbol corresponding to the position of the deselection point.
Abstract: A cabinet comprising at least one screen allowing display of data necessary for a flight-control of an aircraft connected to at least one avionics module for management of the data. The screen at least partially forms one of the sides of the cabinet and the module or modules are installed inside the cabinet. The cabinet has a base allowing the screen or screens to be placed at a desired height. As a result, a length of cable between screen and avionics modules is reduced to a minimum.
Abstract: A system including a module for collecting vibration signals, a module for filtering the signals, a module for verifying whether the signals preserved by the filtering module correspond to signals representative of a set of flight conditions of the aircraft that are listed in a reference database, a module for identifying sources of vibration, a module for requesting a maneuver to be carried out by a pilot depending on the identified sources of vibration, a module for deciding, using a predefined decision tree, whether the preceding modules should be implemented again, and a module for transmitting a vibration report to a user device. The system allows assistance to be given, to the pilot, with the generation of a vibration report, and assistance to be given with maintenance of the aircraft.
Abstract: A tool for creating a self-stiffened panel, which comprises a support, a set of punches and a channel delimited between two punches, for each punch, a first securing arrangement including a slider that is able to move in translation on the support and at least one hook secured to the slider, and a second securing arrangement including at least one nose integral with the punch, and an actuating arrangement that moves the slider from a securing position in which each nose is located between the support and a hook, to a release position in which the hooks are offset with respect to the noses. With such a tool, each punch is held in position over its length, which ensures correct positioning during lay-up, even in the event of the tool being rotated.
Abstract: A linking device connecting an aircraft engine and a primary structure of an aircraft pylon, comprising a support connected to the primary structure, a spreader having a central part connected to the support and a first and a second end that are connected to thrust rods, at least one limiting system for limiting the travel of the spreader having an upper and a lower stop between which is positioned the first or second end of the spreader, the upper and the lower stop being connected to one another so as to form a single part connected to a fitting secured to the support.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 21, 2022
Date of Patent:
June 20, 2023
Assignee:
Airbus Operations SAS
Inventors:
Michael Berjot, Rémi Lansiaux, William Bras, Germain Gueneau, Sébastien Van Arendonk, Jacques Demange, Sébastien Commenge
Abstract: An assembly having a pylon with an upper spar and four lateral scoops, a wing with a skin, longitudinal spars and fittings, and, for each lateral scoop, two fastening assemblies, wherein the skin and the fitting each have a first bore and wherein the upper spar and the lateral scoop each have a second bore, wherein each fastening assembly has a screw passing through the first and the second bores, a nut, two eccentric rings, threaded onto one another and onto the screw, and a system for stopping the eccentric rings rotating. The assembly makes it possible to dispense with the use of the spigots while also ensuring the reaction of the shear forces contained in the XY plane by the bolts on account of the reduced tolerances between the various bores, the external and internal surfaces of the eccentric rings and the plain zones of the screws.
Abstract: A coupling device configured to couple first and second pipes, which comprises a first part coupled to the first pipe and which has a first contact surface, a second part coupled to the second pipe, separate from the first part, and which has a second contact surface configured to collaborate with the first contact surface, at least one clamp comprising at least one clamping jaw comprising a groove, configured to collaborate with the first and second parts, which has a cross section such that a concentric tightening of the clamp causes the first and second contact surfaces to be kept pressed against one another. Thus, the coupling device makes it possible to obtain a ball joint type connection between the first and second pipes.