Patents Assigned to Airbus Operation SAS
  • Patent number: 11161618
    Abstract: A joint for connecting a first aircraft structure to a second aircraft structure such that relative rotation and relative translational movement of the first and second aircraft structures along a first axis is permitted, whilst relative translational movement of the first and second aircraft structures along axes orthogonal to the first axis is substantially prevented. The joint includes a bracket having an opening aligned with the first axis; a pin aligned with the first axis and extending through the opening; and a bearing mounted in the opening. The bearing has an inner bearing surface defining a bore through which the pin extends, which is configured for translational sliding contact with the pin, and a part-spherical outer bearing surface configured for rotational sliding contact with the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignees: Airbus Operations Limited, Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: William Tulloch, Pat Broomfield, Olivier Pautis
  • Patent number: 11161620
    Abstract: An aircraft nacelle comprising an air inlet, with a single fan cowling made of a single piece which extends over all the circumference of the fan. The fan cowling is borne by the air inlet and is mounted to be rotationally mobile about the axis of the nacelle relative to the air inlet, via a link and guiding arrangement comprising a circular rail and a runner capable of sliding along the circular rail. The fan cowling comprises one or more openings closed by hatches allowing access to the interior of the nacelle. The fan cowling has little susceptibility to being deformed both in flight and on the ground during maintenance operations. Furthermore, no pylon portion is needed in the zone of the fan cowling since the latter is not attached to the pylon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Alain Porte, François Pons, Gregory Albet
  • Patent number: 11161619
    Abstract: A turbojet engine comprising an engine, a nacelle comprising a fan case, an intermediate case having a part forming a hub and an outer shroud radially spaced away from the hub by a secondary, or bypass, flow path and fixed to the hub via arms, in which the outer shroud is situated to the rear and in the continuity of the fan case, a fixed structure fixed to the outer shroud, a mobile assembly mounted with the ability to effect translational movement on the fixed structure, and a ramp fixed to the outer shroud and configured to direct the secondary or bypass flow to exit the outer shroud. Such a turbojet engine makes it possible to simplify assembly and among other things, makes it possible to fix the ramp directly to the outer shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Pascal Gardes, Frédéric Ridray, Frédéric Piard, José Goncalves
  • Patent number: 11027819
    Abstract: A method to control folding of a wing tip section about a fixed base wing section by a control system that automatically determines whether: (i) a command signal is received to fold the wing tip section, (ii) a first condition indicating signal indicates that the aircraft is on the ground; (iii) the current speed of the aircraft is no greater than a preset maximum speed, and (iv) the aircraft is not at gate in an airport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignees: Airbus Operations GmbH, Airbus Operations (SAS), Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventors: Saskia Dege, Svenja Jegminat, Frank Nienaber, Jean Guilhamet, Aeron Charles Jones
  • Patent number: 11027820
    Abstract: A wing comprising a fixed main part and a leading edge slat with upper and lower surface rear edges. The wing main part has an upper surface wall, which extends downstream and in alignment with the upper surface rear edge, and a lower surface wall, which extends downstream and in alignment with the lower surface rear edge. The wing has an upper surface gap between the end of the upper surface rear edge and the end of the upper surface wall and a lower surface gap between the end of the lower surface rear edge and the end of the lower surface wall. The wing has an upper surface channel downstream of the upper surface gap and a lower surface channel downstream of the lower surface gap. The wing comprises a suction system connected to each channel and arranged to suck the air contained in the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Mathias Farouz-Fouquet
  • Publication number: 20210130001
    Abstract: The pylon, intended to support a flying vehicle engine, includes a primary structure formed by at least one longeron and one panel, the panel including at least one end part provided with a notch, the longeron being provided with an end adapted to be positioned in the notch, the panel and the longeron being assembled by welding a part of the end to a part of the notch. A welded primary structure enables minimization of the blanks of parts associated with the longerons and with the panels by avoiding having recourse to the production of edges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Julien Allain, Stéphane Dida, Jérome Colmagro, Olivier Dubois, Julien Moulis, Jacky Puech, Laurent Lafont
  • Patent number: 10962448
    Abstract: A monitoring method, the purpose of which is, when a loss of power is detected in an aircraft engine, to generate an alarm in the form of a single message displayed on a display screen in the cockpit, in order to indicate if the level of damage suffered by the engine is critical or not. The steps implemented are based on alarm signals transmitted by a central processing unit of the engine and also on alarm signals transmitted by a diagnostic device for the onboard systems of the aircraft, in order to take account of both the situation of the engine and also the situation of the systems surrounding the engine which can be affected by damage to an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Antoine Pilon, Natalino Agostino, Adrien Pierrel
  • Patent number: 10829233
    Abstract: For fitting of a front engine attachment of an engine assembly for an aircraft, a shearing pin is oriented in a longitudinal direction and is integral with a front closure rib of the strut housing and projects forward, a main attachment body is arranged axially opposite the intermediate casing hub, at the rear of the latter, the main attachment body having an orifice for accommodation of the shearing pin, an arrangement for securing the main attachment body on the engine, and an arrangement for axial retention of the main attachment body relative to the rib, the axial retention arrangement comprising first screws, the heads of which cooperate with the rib, as well as barrel nuts which cooperate with the screws, and are accommodated in the main attachment body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Wolfgang Brochard
  • Publication number: 20200327815
    Abstract: A landing assistance system includes a module for acquiring environment and current flight parameters of the aircraft, a module for generating flight and navigation symbology to be displayed on the display device at least from current flight parameters, a module for generating a land topography of terrain overflown by the aircraft, a transmission module configured to transmit a signal to the display device that represents the flight and navigation symbology and the synthetic representation, the symbology generating module including a sub-module for displaying a mock-up at a predetermined non-zero positive pitch angle relative to a median line of the display zone. The system allows a landing to occur in good conditions by virtue of the enlargement of the lower part of the display zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Alexis Frenot
  • Publication number: 20200307756
    Abstract: A stiffened structural component for an aircraft includes a first material sheet with a first surface, and at least one elongate bulge that bulges out in a direction transverse to the first surface in order to stiffen the structural component, wherein each of the at least one bulge comprises two edges that extend along the first surface, wherein a continuous bulging surface extends between the edges, and wherein the bulges are formed integrally into the first material sheet through pressing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicants: Airbus Operations GmbH, Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Chinnarajan Periyasamy, Akshay Srinivasamurthy, Wolfgang Entelmann, Wolfgang Schulze, Jens Rohde
  • Patent number: 10766632
    Abstract: A system (1) including an identification unit (2) for identifying at least one actuation element to be actuated to implement a current control from a check-list, a signaling unit (3) for visually highlighting the identified actuation element, a detection unit (4) for detecting a position of a hand of a pilot, a checking unit (5) for checking whether the detected position of the hand of the pilot is consistent with the position of the identified and highlighted actuation element for the actuation thereof, an alert unit (6) for alerting the pilot to a risk of incorrect actuation, in case of absence of consistency between the detected position of the hand of the pilot and the position of the actuation element, and a recovery unit (15) for identifying, in case of incorrect actuation, at least one suggest correct actuation element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Freddy Le Provost, Alexandre Duchevet, Estelle Delpech, Vincent Souffrant, Benoît Papaïx, Nicolas Chatrenet, Yannick Deleris
  • Patent number: 10737767
    Abstract: A suspended rudder bar for aircraft and aircraft having a suspended rudder bar, which includes a set of primary hinges, a set of secondary hinges including control and synchronization devices, and a set of linkages generating functional and structural links between the set of primary hinges and the set of secondary hinges, wherein the primary hinges are configured to be suspended at least on a structure supporting the instrument panel of the flight deck of the aircraft, and the secondary hinges configured to be suspended at least on a structural component of an area situated forward of the flight deck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Bernard Guering, Laurent Saint-Marc
  • Patent number: 10677916
    Abstract: A device comprising a radar for taking at least one radar image of the terrain in front of the aircraft in a zone containing at least one characteristic pattern, the position of the characteristic pattern being known, an image processing unit for detecting, on the radar image taken by the radar, a characteristic symbol representing the characteristic pattern, a computation unit for determining, from at least the position of the characteristic symbol in the image and from characteristics of the radar image acquisition, relative position information illustrating the position of the aircraft in relation to the characteristic pattern, and for determining the position of the aircraft, from the relative position information and from the known position of the characteristic pattern, and a unit for transmitting at least the position of the aircraft to at least one user system, for example a landing aiding system or an SVS display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Laplace, Camille Caruhel, Pascal Laurens
  • Patent number: 10647441
    Abstract: A rear engine attachment for an engine of an aircraft which comprises a pylon having a bottom face, the rear engine attachment comprising a first fitting configured to be fixed against the bottom face and having a wall, a second fitting configured to be secured to a structural casing of the engine, two front links and two rear links, which are fixed by one and the same main link point to the wall and by two link points on either side of the second fitting. Such a motorization assembly allows for a reduction of the bulk, in particular at the rear engine attachment, which helps in improving the overall performance of the motorization assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Stéphane Combes, Jean Geliot, Thomas Deforet, Adeline Soulie, Benoit Orteu
  • Patent number: 10640198
    Abstract: In order to simplify the design of an aircraft turbo engine propeller while enhancing the safety function thereof related to control of the blade angle of attack, a propeller is provided comprising a secondary rotational coupling to couple in rotation, along the radial axis of the blade, the inner radial end of the blade root with a mechanical joining member of a blade angle of attack control device, the secondary coupling being designed and configured to be active in the event of failure of the main pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Jerome Colmagro
  • Patent number: 10636313
    Abstract: A method and device for generating an optimum vertical path intended to be followed by an aircraft. The device comprises at least one database relating to fixed and moving obstacles, a data entering unit, a data processing unit implementing iterative processing to generate an optimum vertical path between an initial state and a final state as a function of flight strategies, that optimum vertical path being generated in such a manner as to be free of any collision with surrounding obstacles and to conform to energy constraints, and a data transmission link for transmitting that optimum vertical path to at least one user system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Jean-Claude Mere
  • Patent number: 10627833
    Abstract: A device for managing configurations of an aircraft between an initial point and a final point comprises a computation module to determine at least one first evolution curve considering the aircraft to have assumed a first configuration and wherein the first evolution curve includes the first point and a final evolution curve considering the aircraft to have assumed at least one final configuration and wherein the final evolution curve or curves includes the final point, a computation module to compute at least one second point corresponding to the intersection of the first evolution curve or curves and the final evolution curve or curves, and a transmission module configured to transmit a signal representing the coordinates of the second point or points to a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: Airbus Operations SAS, Airbus SAS
    Inventors: Jerôme Bazile, Mathieu Reguerre, Fabrice Butin
  • Patent number: 10627630
    Abstract: The display system for an aircraft cockpit comprises a display computer configured to control the display, on a display device worn rigidly attached to a user's head, according to a first display mode comprising at least one piece of flight assistance information for the aircraft, and a masking device, associated with a cockpit side window, controllable between a transparent and opaque states. The display system comprises an extended display mode, in which the display computer is configured to determine whether a direction corresponding to the user's head orientation has an intersection with a region of interest of the side window, in the absence of an intersection, controlling the display according to the first display mode, and when there is an intersection, controlling the masking device opaque state and controlling the display according to a second display mode comprising a virtual display screen on a side window display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Cedric Descheemaeker, Javier Manjon Sanchez
  • Patent number: 10604270
    Abstract: The display system for a cockpit of an aircraft comprises a transparent display device and a display computer. The transparent display device includes a brightness masking device that can be commanded according to at least three predetermined levels of opacity in at least four masking independent zones. The display system includes a brightness sensor. The display computer is configured to determine a level of brightness due to the light source, in display zones corresponding to each of the masking zones, depending on information coming from the brightness sensor; determine an opacity level associated with each of the masking zones, depending on the brightness level determined, such that a higher level of opacity corresponds to a higher level of brightness; and command the opacity level in each of the masking zones of the brightness masking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Cedric Descheemaeker, Javier Manjon Sanchez
  • Patent number: 10566114
    Abstract: The method for fitting a sheath on a cable harness includes a series of steps including determining the length of sheath to be used, mounting the sheath on a mounting tool of tubular shape, inserting the cable harness into the mounting tool, removing the mounting tool and arranging the sheath around the cable harness, fitting a sheath stop at one of the ends of the sheath, the sheath stop fastening the end of the sheath to the cable harness stretching the sheath over the cable harness so as to extend it and tension it, and fitting a sheath stop at the other one of the ends of the sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Frédéric Forget