Patents Assigned to Airbus Operation SAS
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Patent number: 11470045Abstract: A communication system for an aircraft comprises a communication interface with the outside of the aircraft and an avionics domain of which the security level is the highest of the communication system. It also comprises a communication domain to which is connected the communication interface and of which the security level is lower than the security level of the avionics domain. A barrier of a first type is arranged to filter the information coming from the communication interface so as to allow the information to pass into the communication domain only if the information corresponds to an authenticated communication. A barrier of a second type is arranged to filter information transmitted from the communication domain to the avionics domain, carrying out at least a syntactic filtering of the information.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignees: Airbus Operations SAS, Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Bertrand Leconte, Pierre Attal, Olaf Bischof, Stephan Marwedel
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Patent number: 11462763Abstract: A system of fuel cells for an aircraft including a plurality of fuel cells, a hydrogen circuit, a cooling circuit and a first air circuit configured to supply oxygen to a first subset of fuel cells having at least two cells. The first air circuit includes an air flow restrictor at each fuel cell inlet of the first subset and configured to distribute the air between the fuel cells of the first subset, and an outlet valve connected to the outlet of the fuel cells of the first subset, the opening of the outlet valve being controlled by a computer as a function of an electrical power that is to be produced by the fuel cells of the first subset. The use of the same air circuit to supply oxygen to several fuel circuits makes it possible to limit the bulk of the fuel cells system.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignees: Airbus SAS, Airbus Operations SAS, Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Didier Poirier, Guido Klewer, Anthony Roux, Olivier Raspati, Matthieu Thomas, Olivier Verseux, Manuel Silvestre Salas
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Patent number: 11407487Abstract: A windshield for an aircraft cockpit is provided which includes a glazed windshield part which has a single curvature corresponding to a portion of the envelope of a cone extending between a lower plane and an upper plane which intersect an axis of the cone. The single curvature of the glazed part of the windshield enables the glazed part to be produced more easily, for example by rolling or by hydroforming. It also makes it possible to create configurations for a cockpit for two pilots, a single pilot or even no pilot, on the basis of a single aerodynamic shape of the fuselage of the aircraft by only adapting the structure of the windshield. Also provided are a windshield frame for such a windshield, a windshield assembly including such a windshield frame and such a windshield, and an aircraft equipped with such a windshield.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Patrick Lieven, Christophe Mialhe, Jérôme Phalippou
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Patent number: 11407024Abstract: A portable tool comprising a hollow body delimiting two chambers and comprising a shoulder and a barrel extending from the shoulder. A piston slides in the chambers and a stem is secured to the piston and is accommodated in the barrel. A C-shaped head with a first end forms a shoe which presses against the shoulder and in which is created a bore into which the barrel fits, and with a second end facing the free end of the stem. A fastening system comprises a channel on the barrel perimeter. Two sliders are slidably mounted on the shoe parallel to a plane of movement which is perpendicular to the axis of the barrel. Each slider has an arc shaped face and movable between a retracted position in which the face is accommodated in the channel and an extended position in which the face is outside the channel.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventor: Yann-Erick Lemonnier
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Patent number: 11407522Abstract: An air inlet for an aircraft nacelle, including a lip and a front frame, which together form a duct with D-shaped section receiving hot air. The front frame is arranged in an advanced position inside the lip. The lip has de-icing grooves, which communicate with the duct and extend essentially downstream of the front frame. Downstream of the front frame, outside of the de-icing grooves, the lip has perforated zones provided with sound absorption holes. The air inlet includes a foil, which hermetically seals the de-icing grooves and is provided with sound absorption holes facing the perforated zones. The air inlet comprises acoustic panels inside the lip downstream of the front frame. The advanced position of the front frame, due to the de-icing grooves which ensure the de-icing of the lip downstream of the front frame, allows the acoustic treatment surface of the air inlet to be increased.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Arnaud Bourhis, Gregory Albet, François Pons
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Patent number: 11401886Abstract: A turbofan having a nacelle including a slider translationally mobile to open a window between a duct and the exterior, a plurality of blades, each rotationally mobile on the slider, and a maneuvering system moving each blade and comprising for each blade, a shaft rotationally mobile on the slider and onto which the blade is fixed, an arm having a first end fixed to the shaft, an arc coaxial with the longitudinal axis, mounted rotationally mobile on the slider about the longitudinal axis, a rectilinear rod fixed by its base to the arc, the rectilinear rod inserted into a through-bore of a stock, wherein the stock is mounted translationally free relative to the rectilinear rod, and the stock is mounted rotationally free on the arm at its second end about a rocking axis parallel to the rotational axis, and an actuation system producing arc rotation in two opposite directions.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Pascal Gardes, Wolfgang Brochard, Antoine Boudou
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Regulation system comprising a valve, a regulator, an actuator and a cooling system using heat pipes
Patent number: 11391220Abstract: A regulation system to regulate the flow rate of a hot air duct which comprises a shutter, an upstream air intake, a downstream air intake, a regulator and an actuator of the shutter with a first inlet connected to an outlet of the regulator and a cooling system comprising an outer radiator, a housing and a heat pipe housed in the housing and discharging the heat between the housing and the outer radiator, wherein the air streams coming from the upstream air intake and from the downstream air intake pass through the housing. Such a regulation system allows a better discharging of the heat by the action of the heat pipes.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventor: Maxime Zebian -
Patent number: 11377224Abstract: A system comprising a trolley which comprises a platform and wheels attached beneath the platform, an air intake of an aircraft engine, where the air intake rests on the platform so as to have its narrowest part at the top and its widest part at the bottom, and an inflatable protection item in the form of a closed envelope which is placed around the widest part of the air intake. A system of this kind makes it possible to protect the air intake from collisions that it might experience during movement of the trolley, and to increase safety by avoiding collisions between operators and the air intake.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Jean-Marc Cantin, Olivier Dubois
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Patent number: 11360446Abstract: An aircraft control system including transducers connected by interface units to an avionics network, such as an AFDX network. Each transducer is directly connected to an interface unit local to the transducer. Each interface unit is a configurable unit and has a signal processing module converting data to a format suitable for transmission over the network. Each interface unit may be configurable, via software commands, to operate in an application session mode, a data-loading mode, or a maintenance mode. Each interface unit may be directly associated with one of the software applications of the aircraft control system. The network may include a lower bandwidth part where data communication is conducted over sampling ports only. Interface units may be configured or installed using a plug and play method.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignees: Airbus Operations Limited, Airbus Operations SASInventors: Anand Pavaskar, Romain Desautard, Kayvon Barad, Sylvain Sauvant, Juan Lopez, Emilie Claudel
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Patent number: 11358726Abstract: A device for deicing a wall of an aircraft, comprising a closed circuit. The closed circuit comprises at least one condenser, positioned in the environment of the wall that is to be deiced, and in which a heat-transfer fluid condenses, generating energy in the form of latent heat which is transmitted to the wall that is to be deiced, at least one evaporator positioned in the environment of a heat source sited remotely with respect to the wall, and in which the heat-transfer fluid evaporates, absorbing energy in the form of latent heat coming from the heat source. At least part of the closed circuit is facing, in contact with, or positioned in, the wall that is to be deiced, being made of a material transparent to electromagnetic fields.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Jonathan Carcone, Pierre-Louis Roux
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Patent number: 11319080Abstract: An aircraft comprising a wing, an engine attachment pylon comprising a primary structure and an arrangement for securing the primary structure to a wing box. The arrangement comprises two lateral front fittings, each of these fittings comprising a first connecting portion secured to the front wing spar, a second connecting portion secured to the primary structure of the attachment pylon, at least one securing member linking the first and second connecting portions, this securing member being articulated to the first connecting portion with the aid of a first pin system oriented substantially parallel to the front wing spar.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Olivier Pautis, Jérôme Colmagro
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Patent number: 11319091Abstract: A carriage with two hexapod platforms, each having a base, a plate, and a set of six cylinders associated in pairs. Each cylinder is articulatedly mounted with the plate. For each pair, a slider is able to move in translation on the base. For a first pair, the two cylinders of the first pair are mounted in an articulated manner on the slider. The articulation of one of the two cylinders of the first pair with the plate is adjacent to the articulation of one of the two cylinders of a second pair with the plate. The articulation of the other of the two cylinders of the first pair with the plate is adjacent to the articulation of one of the two cylinders of a third pair with the plate. For each slider, a movement system moves the slider. A control unit controls each cylinder and the movement system.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignees: Airbus Operations SAS, Airbus SASInventors: Jean-Marc Datas, Jacques Bouriquet, Jean-Mickael Brindeau, Patrick Guibert, Nicolas Darbonville
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Patent number: 11293348Abstract: A turbomachine for an aircraft comprising a thermo-acoustic system associated with a fluid circuit allowing the turbomachine engine to be supplied with fluid, the thermo-acoustic system comprising an exchanger connected to the fluid circuit and through which the fluid that is to be cooled passes, an acoustic noise-attenuation structure forming, in full or in part, a wall of the duct of a fan duct, the structure being situated some distance from the exchanger, and a pulsating heat pipe comprising a tube extending between the exchanger and the acoustic noise-attenuation structure, the tube having a serpentine form with a plurality of elbows bent over at 180° housed alternately in the exchanger and the structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventor: Maxime Zebian
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Patent number: 11267585Abstract: A method for assembling a fuselage section which comprises producing a lower part of the section from at least two panels and an upper part of the section from at least two panels, then assembling the lower and upper parts so as to obtain the fuselage section. A lower or upper mounting support, a gear and a production unit are used in the method.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignees: Airbus Operations SAS, Airbus SASInventors: Jean-Marc Datas, Jean-Mickael Brindeau, André Aquila, Patrick Guibert
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Patent number: 11255293Abstract: A turbofan with a secondary duct and including a fixed structure and a mobile assembly including a frame with openwork regions. The mobile assembly is translatable between advanced and extended positions. The openwork regions are positioned across the window in the extended position. A plurality of blocking doors is provided, each being mobile between stowed and deployed positions. An array of rams move the mobile assembly. A cascade grille mounts on the frame across the openwork region. The grille slides on the frame parallel to the translational direction. For each grille, a rear stop limits rearward movement, and a compression spring pushes the grille to the rear for abutment against a rear stop. For each grille, the fixed structure comprises a stop element against which the grille abuts upon movement from the advanced position to the extended position.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Pascal Gardes, Frédéric Ridray, Benoit Orteu, Pascal Gougeon, Frédéric Piard
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Patent number: 11247768Abstract: A flight control system for an aircraft comprises a set of actuators for controlling the aircraft and a set of flight control computers only made up of a set of duplex type main computers and of at least one backup computer. All the main computers are configured to implement auto-pilot laws for the aircraft. The set of main computers comprises two computers from a first hardware type, configured to control actuators of the set of actuators as per a first tolerance level and two computers from a second hardware type, different from the first hardware type, configured to control actuators of the set of actuators as per a second tolerance level, less stringent than the first tolerance level.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventor: Marc Fervel
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Patent number: 11208193Abstract: An acoustic panel (1) includes a plate (2) made of an acoustic absorbing material (3), as well as a resistive skin (4) and a backing skin (6) arranged respectively on both sides of the plate (2), the acoustic panel (1) including acoustic elements (8) able to carry out an acoustic absorption, each of them being arranged in a housing (7) provided in the plate (2) with an opening (9) in front of the resistive skin (4). The combination of the plate (2) and the acoustic elements (8) allows to combine the sound attenuation properties of these two types of elements and to increase the frequency range of sounds that can be attenuated by the acoustic panel (1), without increasing the dimension.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Florian Ravise, Wolfgang Brochard
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Patent number: 11204285Abstract: A brake temperature sensing system for an aircraft including a sensor apparatus and an interrogation apparatus. The sensor apparatus includes a temperature sensor for attachment to a brake disc of an aircraft brake, and a relay for attachment to the brake. The temperature sensor is configured to wirelessly transmit a measurement signal containing information relating to a temperature of the brake disc, responsive to receiving a wireless interrogation signal. The relay is configured to receive an interrogation signal from the interrogation apparatus; wirelessly transmit the interrogation signal to the temperature sensor; receive the wireless measurement signal from the temperature sensor; and transmit the received measurement signal. The interrogation apparatus comprises a controller configured to generate an interrogation signal; and a transceiver configured to transmit the generated interrogation signal to the sensor apparatus; and receive the measurement signal transmitted by the sensor apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignees: Airbus Operations Limited, Airbus Operations SASInventors: Kurt Bruggemann, Brice Cheray
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Patent number: 11191467Abstract: A monitoring device comprising at least one measurement module for measuring at least one physiological parameter of the crew member, at least one consolidation module for consolidating the measured physiological parameter or parameters, a fusion module for fusing the consolidated physiological parameter or parameters in order to detect at least one physiological status of the crew member, a filtering module for filtering the physiological status or statuses, a determination module for determining a level of incapacity of the crew member, a transmission module for transmitting a signal indicative of the level of incapacity of the crew member to a user device.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Cecile Vollard-Derme, Laurent Barrou, Jean Monfraix, Benoît Papaïx, Estelle Delpech, Hafeda Remch, Guillaume Chanel, Daniel Lewkowicz, Stanislas Boyer
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Patent number: 11164469Abstract: A method for aiding in the piloting of an aircraft landing on a runway comprises determining current flight conditions of the aircraft, determining a first approach distance using the current flight conditions, determining a current aircraft position and selection of a first point on a cockpit screen that is a function of the current position of the aircraft, selecting a second point in proximity to the landing runway, and controlling the display on the cockpit screen, of a first circular arc centered on the second point and whose radius is a function of the first approach distance, the first circular arc intersecting at a third point with a straight line passing through the first point and through the second point and the length of a part of the first circular arc situated between the third point and a first end of the first circular arc, comprising a predetermined length.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Colin Hodges, Elodie Saby, Philippe Toulemonde