Patents Assigned to Airbus Operation SAS
  • Device for measuring the thickness of an accretion of ice on a surface and aircraft provided with such a device
    Patent number: 11919649
    Abstract: A device for measuring the accretion of ice on a studied surface. The device has two arms, a first arm and a second arm, the second arm forming an enclosure for housing an image acquisition system disposed to acquire, through an orifice, images of a part of the studied surface located on the first arm. The device thus makes it possible to dissociate the support of the image acquisition system from that of the studied surface on which ice accumulates. Consequently, it is possible to place the second arm in the direction of the flow of the stream of air flowing along the aircraft while the first arm passes through the stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Thomas Boisson
  • System for displaying bubbles under an adhesive sheet
    Patent number: 11902640
    Abstract: A display system comprising a bell with a lateral wall and a ceiling, delimiting between them an internal volume with an opening opposite the ceiling, a depressurizing arrangement configured to produce a depressurization in the internal volume, an image capturing device at the ceiling, a display screen, and a processing unit receiving an image from the image capturing device and sending the image to the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: Airbus SAS, Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Jean-Pascal Caturla, Jean-Luc Vialatte, Michel Dos Reis, François Lefebvre Albaret, Julien Nouvet, Ivan Garcia Hallo, Robert Ray Thompson
  • Propeller propulsion unit comprising a heat engine and an electric motor and aircraft comprising such a propeller propulsion unit
    Patent number: 11897622
    Abstract: A propeller propulsion unit, comprising at least one kinematic system comprising at least: a heat engine, an electrical energy generator, an electric motor configured to generate a rotary movement as output from the electrical energy generated by the electrical energy generator, a drive and selection device configured to assume a first configuration, in which it is coupled to the output of the electric motor, and a second configuration, in which it is coupled to the main shaft of the heat engine, and a propeller rotated by the drive and selection device. Such a propeller propulsion unit with a hybrid engine allows more power to be provided and facilitates maintenance and ergonomics and is safer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Patrick Lieven, Jérôme Colmagro
  • Method and system for computing a trajectory for landing an aircraft
    Patent number: 11887492
    Abstract: To bring an aircraft in flight to a runway, an automatic trajectory generation system obtains a procedure, called STARI procedure, which provides a final trajectory flyable by the aircraft to land on the runway, such that from the entry point of the final trajectory or from any point above it, a holding loop pattern of a predefined shape is flyable in order to dissipate energy if necessary. The automatic trajectory generation system then computes a lateral trajectory, avoiding any terrain relief, meteorological obstacles and military zones, between the current position of the aircraft and the entry point or a point above it, based on performance adapted to an operational state of the aircraft. An overall trajectory is thus obtained, by linking the computed lateral trajectory and the final trajectory of the STARI procedure, including iterations of the holding loop pattern if necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Thomas Pastre, Miguel Consiglieri Pedroso Mendes Dias
  • Aircraft propulsion system having a linear electric motor
    Patent number: 11878806
    Abstract: A propulsion system for an aircraft, which has a chassis, a propeller able to move in rotation about an axis of rotation, a main gear as one with the propeller, an electric generator, at least one linear electric motor having a fixed element and a slider able to move in translation, for each linear electric motor, a secondary gear meshing with the main gear and mounted to be able to move in rotation about an axis of rotation perpendicular to the axis of rotation, and a rod of which one end is articulated on the corresponding slider and of which the other end is articulated on the corresponding secondary gear at an articulation that is offset with respect to the axis of rotation of the secondary gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Pascal Pome, Lionel Czapla, Benjamin Thubert
  • Method for manufacturing connecting members for connecting an aircraft wing to a center wing box, using preforms
    Patent number: 11872769
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for manufacturing connecting members for connecting an aircraft wing to a center wing box, using preforms. The method involves a step of manufacturing at least one preform made of composite material forming the connecting member, and a step of assembling the preform or preforms by heat treatment to form the connecting member. The manufacturing method makes it possible, simply and quickly, to manufacture a connecting member that contributes to the connection between a center wing box of an aircraft and a wing of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Denis Soula, Tanguy Vercamer, Jago Pridie
  • Electric propulsion system of an aircraft
    Patent number: 11866185
    Abstract: A propulsion system includes a system for producing electricity that supplies electricity to at least one electric motor to which is mechanically coupled a propeller situated near a first longitudinal end of a nacelle that houses at least the system for producing electricity and the at least one electric motor. An air circulation channel, which receives a heat exchanger provided to allow the system for producing electricity to be cooled, extends inside the nacelle from a first end of the air circulation channel situated at the first longitudinal end of the nacelle. A part of the air circulation channel that is contiguous with its first end is delimited by an outer surface of cylindrical shape that surrounds the longitudinal axis of the nacelle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: AIRBUS SAS, AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Christophe Labarthe, Franck Alvarez, Fabien Latourelle, Olivier Verseux, Pascal Pome, Jean Francois Allias, Olivier Ciet, Olivier Raspati, Anthony Roux, Benedikt Bammer
  • Tank having enhanced insulation combining thermal insulation mats with microspheres, and method of manufacturing such a tank
    Patent number: 11867358
    Abstract: A tank suitable for storing a product at a cryogenic temperature, including a fluid tight interior barrier, a fluid tight exterior barrier, surrounding the first interior barrier, an intermediary volume interposed between the interior and exterior barriers and at least one insulating layer positioned in the intermediary volume and including at least one thermal insulation mat, with very low thermal conductivity. The intermediary volume contains microspheres outside of the thermal insulation mats and has an enhanced level of vacuum. This solution makes it possible to maintain satisfactory performance in terms of thermal insulation even in the event of a loss of vacuum in the intermediary volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Bruno Estebe, Julien Laverne
  • Method and system for assisting in the management of the energy of an aircraft over a minimum ground distance in an approach phase
    Patent number: 11869374
    Abstract: A system includes a reception unit to receive current flight data of the aircraft and current meteorological data, a data processing unit to perform an iterative computation to determine, as a function at least of a set of predetermined rules, of a set of constraints and of current values including current meteorological data, an optimal flight trajectory making it possible to generate a dissipation of the energy of the aircraft to bring it, at a stabilized final position, into a final energy state with a minimum ground distance, the optimal flight trajectory defining positions at which actions must be implemented on the aircraft, and a data transmission unit to transmit at least the minimum distance to at least one user system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Mere, Ramon Andreu Altava
  • Propulsion assembly for an aircraft
    Patent number: 11867122
    Abstract: A propulsion assembly having a propulsion system including an exhaust nozzle fastened to the nozzle wall on the outside thereof so as to define between them a chamber, and a heat exchanger system ensuring an exchange of heat energy between the hot combustion gases circulating in the exhaust nozzle and the colder fuel circulating in the supply pipe at least in part by thermal radiation through the nozzle wall. The heat exchanger system has a pipe portion arranged in the chamber and the exchange of heat energy takes place at this pipe portion. With such an arrangement, the heat energy of the combustion gases is transferred to the fuel for better combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: Airbus SAS, Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Jorge Alejandro Carretero Benignos, Lionel Czapla
  • Managing access to a resource shared by a plurality of applications
    Patent number: 11868822
    Abstract: A method for managing access to a shared resource in an electronic system including a control unit and the shared resource. The control unit is intended to execute applications that are candidates for access to the shared resource. The method uses a calendar of periods of equal duration, each assigned to just one of the applications, to define a temporal distribution of access to the shared resource, and penalty indices associated with each of the applications. The method includes steps for conditionally processing the access requests transmitted by the applications according to their penalty indices. Thus, each application is prevented from accessing the shared resource when the quota assigned thereto is reached, which makes it possible to limit the encroachment of an application that is executed on the access quotas for accessing the resource that are assigned to the other applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Sylvain Sauvant
  • Enhanced flight vision system for aircraft
    Patent number: 11869364
    Abstract: The enhanced flight vision system of an aircraft comprises an image acquisition system provided to acquire images of an outside environment of the aircraft, and a display system configured to allow information to be displayed on a display unit overlayed with the outside environment of the aircraft. The display system is configured to receive images produced by the image acquisition system and to display these images on the display unit. The image acquisition system is configured to associate ancillary information with at least a part of the images produced and the display system is configured to check the integrity of an image received from the image acquisition system, based on the ancillary information associated with that image; and in the absence of integrity, deactivate the display on the display unit of at least the image received from the image acquisition system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Aymeric Perrin, Jerome Gouillou, Francis Blondel, Fabrice Bousquet
  • Depressurizing system and method for a cabin of an aircraft on the ground from the outer side of the aircraft
    Patent number: 11866177
    Abstract: A method for depressurizing a cabin of an aircraft on the ground from the outer side of the aircraft using a depressurizing system including a venting valve which can be actuated between open and closed positions by means of a shutter and which is connected in fluid terms to a vacuum pump and to a pressure tap port of the aircraft which is connected to a protection valve against excess pressure in the cabin. The method includes fluidly connecting the venting valve to the pressure tap port, the shutter being in the open position, moving the shutter to the closed position thereof and activating the vacuum pump to generate a reduced pressure in the region of the pressure tap port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Clément Briquet, Brice Auvray
  • Aircraft propulsion assembly having a ventilation system
    Patent number: 11846233
    Abstract: A propulsion assembly with a primary duct and a secondary duct, an outer fairing delimiting an outer compartment with an inlet opening, an inner fairing delimiting an inner compartment with an air exhaust aperture, a suction system having an inlet, an outlet and mobile elements that draw the air in via the inlet and deliver the air via the outlet, a drive that drives the mobile elements, a transfer pipe connected to the outlet, a distribution pipe disposed in the inner compartment, connected to the transfer pipe and having nozzles, a supply pipe that opens into the outer compartment and is connected to the inlet, and a regulator that regulates the flow rate of air in the suction system. The outside air is then driven by the suction system and passes through the two compartments in a forced manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Yannick Sommerer, Maxime Zebian
  • Aircraft comprising a hydrogen supply device incorporating a hydrogen heating system positioned in the fuselage of the aircraft
    Patent number: 11840962
    Abstract: An aircraft including a fuselage, a wing structure, at least one turbomachine running on hydrogen and generating thrust at a propulsion unit distant from the fuselage, at least one fuel tank positioned in the fuselage and configured to store hydrogen in the cryogenic state, at least one hydrogen supply device connecting the fuel tank and the turbomachine and including at least one pump positioned in the fuselage in the vicinity of the fuel tank, at least one hydrogen heating system positioned in the fuselage in the vicinity of the pump. This solution makes it possible to reduce a length of the complex double-walled pipes configured for carrying the hydrogen in the cryogenic state between the fuel tank and the hydrogen heating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: Airbus SAS, Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Lionel Czapla, Antoine Abele, Benjamin Thubert, Alexis Pissavin, Abhishek Verma, Alistair Forbes, Jorge A. Carretero Benignos, Benedikt Bammer
  • Method and system for controlling idle speed and drawing of power generated by an aircraft engine
    Patent number: 11840350
    Abstract: A system for controlling idle speed and power draw includes a determination unit configured to determine a current available power value, a determination unit configured to determine a current power consumption value, a determination unit configured to determine a future power requirement variation value, a computation unit configured to calculate a future estimated total power requirement value, a computation unit configured to calculate a future estimated available power value, an optimization unit configured to determine an optimization result by comparing the estimated total power requirement value with a power value associated with an optimization criterion and a controller configured to send an order to adapt an idle speed of the engine, an order to adapt the estimated total power requirement or no order as a function of the optimization result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: AIRBUS SAS, AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Nicolas Rapin, Didier Poirier, Etienne Foch, Paul-Emile Roux, Emmanuelle Escorihuela, Caroline Barnier, Guillaume Alix
  • Method for checking an ultrasound probe in the context of a structural inspection of a part
    Patent number: 11841347
    Abstract: A method for checking an ultrasound probe which includes taking a measurement using the probe bonded to the part and in comparing the results with a prerecorded reference recording, and, if there is divergence, in using a tool previously used to produce the reference recording to identify whether the probe is not bonded or not working properly. Such a checking method makes it possible to check the state of the probe without having to remove it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Nicolas Dominguez, Aurélien Rautureau, Bertrand Jarry
  • Assembly comprising a translationally and rotationally immobile link axis, engine attachment or aircraft comprising such an assembly
    Patent number: 11840347
    Abstract: An assembly including a link axis supported by first and second guiding rings positioned in first and second branches of a clevis, one of the guiding rings including a tubular extension, protruding with respect to an outer face of one of the branches, which has a threaded portion on its outer circumferential face. Complementing this, the assembly includes a nut configured to be screwed onto the threaded portion of the tubular extension and an immobilization system configured to immobilize the nut in translation and/or in rotation, the nut and the link axis being linked by a complete link that is non-removable or that forms a single-piece part. This solution makes it possible to reduce the number of parts forming the assembly. Also provided are an engine attachment and an aircraft including such an assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Jérôme Colmagro, Paolo Messina
  • Fastening System For An Aircraft Configured To Fasten At Least One Tank Intended To Contain Liquid Hydrogen
    Publication number: 20230382550
    Abstract: A fastening system for an aircraft configured to fasten at least one tank intended to contain liquid hydrogen includes a longitudinal box, an upper structure fastened to an upper side of the longitudinal box, a lower structure fastened to a lower side of the longitudinal box and at least two fastening frames including, on either side of the vertical plane of symmetry (P1), a fastening device for connecting a tank to the upper structure. The fastening system further includes at least two fastening devices for connecting a fastening point of the tank to the longitudinal box and at least two fastening devices for connecting a fastening point of the tank to the lower structure. The fastening system makes it possible to securely fasten at least one hydrogen tank on board an aircraft (AC).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Anthony Mertes, Jérôme Phalippou
  • Turbofan engine comprising a system for blocking the flow path of the bypass stream comprising veils
    Patent number: 11815046
    Abstract: A turbofan engine with a nacelle and a flow path, in which the nacelle comprises a movable cowl that makes it possible to define a window between the flow path and the outside, veils with a first edge fixed to the movable cowl and alternately assuming a folded position or a deployed position across the flow path, and a pneumatic system displacing a second edge of the veils from the folded position to the deployed position and vice versa. The pneumatic system comprises a rigid main roll, for each veil, at least one extendable secondary roll fixed to a second edge of the veil, and a pressurization and depressurization system which, alternately, generates a pressure or a depression in each secondary roll. Replacing the reverse doors and their driving mechanisms with flexible veils and a pneumatic system allows for a weight reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Alain Porte, Lionel Czapla, Benjamin Thubert