Patents Assigned to Airbus Operation
  • Publication number: 20150259070
    Abstract: A sanitary unit for a cabin region on board a vehicle is provided with a first lavatory facility and a second lavatory facility. The first and the second lavatory facilities in each case form a longitudinally-directed interior space comprising two longitudinal sides and two narrow sides. In each case a narrow side comprises an access door. The first and the second lavatory facilities adjoin each other by their longitudinal sides and are separated from each other by a shared middle wall. The shared middle wall extends between lateral connection regions on the narrow sides and comprises at least one offset at least in a middle region between the two lateral connection regions in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventor: Christian Seibt
  • Publication number: 20150262124
    Abstract: A bill of material (BOM) management system is provided using artificial intelligence for processing a product data or configuration change of a product between a plurality of functional domains using a dynamic link and a semantic network having product knowledge about the change via a network. A Decompose/Recompose/Multi-arrange (DRM) process module manages product configuration information of the product by performing a decompose process, a recompose process, and a multi-arrange process, wherein the decompose process performs grouping of the product elements based on the product knowledge of the semantic network, the recompose process performs regrouping of the product elements in a selected domain context, and the multi-arrange process performs rearranging of the product elements to facilitate a different product structure of the BOM in the different functional domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (SAS)
    Inventor: Moises Martinez-Ablanedo
  • Publication number: 20150259067
    Abstract: A module for an aircraft has a fuselage structure and a floor element defining a floor plane. The module includes a frame device adapted for mounting a functional element and the frame device is adapted for attachment to the floor element of the aircraft at a first location in the floor plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicants: Airbus S.A.S., Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Bruno Saint-Jalmes, André Rezag, Jason Zaneboni, Markus Schumacher, Andrew Muin, Cord Haack, Michael Carr
  • Patent number: 9132589
    Abstract: A method for producing a curved profile from a rectilinear preform of preimpregnated fiber webs, including stacking webs on the deformable mandrel and winding the deformable mandrel and the stacked webs on a bending tool along an axis of rotation (X), the profile including a stack of N webs, at least one first part of the profile being positioned in a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation (X) and at least one second part parallel to the axis (X) whereof a face can be in contact with the bending tool. The method includes stacking the N fiber webs on the deformable mandrel, generating a heat gradient between the face and the rest of the preform that is hotter than the face, bending, in a single phase, the N webs inserted between the deformable mandrel and the bending tool, and polymerizing the N bent webs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventor: Denis De Mattia
  • Patent number: 9137924
    Abstract: An avionics module including an electronic circuit board, a case in which the circuit board is positioned and including at least one inlet orifice and at least one outlet orifice for cooling air, a first corridor for the circulation of the cooling air formed between a first face of the circuit board and a first facing wall of the case, and a second corridor for the circulation of the cooling air formed between a second face of the circuit board and a second facing wall of the case. The module includes at least one baffle for controlling the distribution of the cooling air between the first and second corridors. Preferably, the baffle is fixed to the electronic circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Patrice Lafont, Pierre-Louis Engelvin
  • Patent number: 9132924
    Abstract: A device for spatially aligning at least two large-format subassembly components, particularly at least one side shell, at least one upper shell, at least one lower shell and/or at least one floor structure, relative to each other for integrating a component, particularly a fuselage section of an aircraft, is provided which includes: at least two positioning devices for taking up in each case a subassembly component, particularly at least two side shell positioners, at least one upper shell positioner and/or at least one lower shell positioner, at least one measuring device for acquiring a multitude of measured data, particularly of positioning data relating to the subassembly components and/or to the positioning devices, at least one control and/or regulating device, particularly at least one CNC control system, and at least one neuronal network. Moreover, a method for aligning the subassembly components is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Ulrich Stark, Jörg Schrickel, Wolfgang Brandt
  • Patent number: 9132905
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a door for a transport means, which structurally provides the largest possible door width. Using a movable carrier arm device, the width of the door aperture can be reduced with little complexity from about 42 inches (Type “A”) as an additional equipment option to about 34 inches (Type “C”). To this end, the movable, for example, foldable, carrier arm device is provided which, when the door opens, automatically moves from a retracted position to an extended position in order to reduce the door aperture width to a value which has been predetermined for evacuation. Afterwards, the extended carrier arm device can be folded in again. In this manner, it may be possible to increase the comfort for the passengers and the crew when the aircraft is in the normal operating state since the carrier arm device provides a greater aperture width in the retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventor: Thorsten Ruppin
  • Patent number: 9132906
    Abstract: An aircraft panel, notably a fuselage panel of the aircraft, includes at least one opening equipped with a surround intended to accept a closing-off device that closes off the opening. The panel includes at least one exterior surface. The surround surrounding the opening is fixed to the panel, forming an interface for fitting the closing-off device, and includes at least one lip extending towards the center of the opening. The lip supports the closing-off device. The surround has an external face interposed between the exterior surface of the panel and the closing-off device. The surround includes fixing apparatus which works by gripping the edge of the opening of the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Frederic Fort, Laurent Gauthie
  • Publication number: 20150253150
    Abstract: A device for determining navigation parameters of an aircraft during a landing phase includes a video system including at least one digital video camera arranged on the aircraft, the digital video camera being configured to generate on the aircraft current video data relating to at least one characteristic point on the Earth, whose coordinates are known, and a data processing unit including an extended Kalman filter and configured to determine the navigation parameters on the basis of current navigation data of the aircraft, arising from a satellite navigation system, current inertial data of the aircraft, as well as said video data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicants: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS, ECOLE NATIONALE DE L'AVIATION CIVILE (E.N.A.C.)
    Inventors: Alain Guillet, Jérémy Vezinet, Anne-Christine Escher, Christophe Macabiau
  • Publication number: 20150252824
    Abstract: A holder for connecting a module to a component of an aircraft or spacecraft includes a first holder portion having a first adhesive face and a second holder portion having a second adhesive face. The first and second holder portions are movable relative to one another in an initial state of the holder such that a portion of the component can be received between the holder portions so as to glue the holder portions to the component by means of an adhesive layer in each case. The holder has two or more guided parts which are movable relative to one another by means of mutually cooperating guide faces in the initial state of the holder. The guide faces are suitably formed for being glued together using an adhesive. The holder can be used to counter peeling stress of an adhesive connection of the holder in the region of the first and/or second adhesive face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Benthien, Matthias Hegenbart, Sheriff Shehata
  • Patent number: 9126684
    Abstract: A habitation and sleeping module, in an aircraft, for accommodating at least one member of a flight crew, with the module having a first sleeping area. Furthermore, an ascent region is provided for ascending from a lower level into the module, wherein the ascent region includes an ascent device that is laterally arranged on the module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Warner, Felix Helfrich
  • Patent number: 9126674
    Abstract: A beam (20) comprising first and second flanges (23, 24), the beam (20) having a first region (28, 30) extending between the flanges (23, 24) and a second region (26) extending between the flanges. The first region (28, 30) is designed to support an applied concentrated shear load and the second region (26) is designed to support a predominantly bending load. The first region comprises a fan-shaped truss comprising a hub (36) adjacent the first flange and a plurality of struts (37) which extend substantially radially from the hub (36), and the second region (26) comprises either a truss structure which is substantially regular in the longitudinal beam direction or a shear web. The beam may, for example, be used as a floor beam for an aircraft fuselage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignees: Airbus Operations Limited, Airbus Operations SL, Airbus Operations SAS, Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Lars Krog, Andrea Marasco, Stéphane Grihon, Manuela Jürgens, Gary Ryan, Stuart Bates
  • Patent number: 9130325
    Abstract: A current return network element for aircraft particularly with high conductivity. The purpose is achieved by using a plurality of electrically conducting strips intersecting each other and made from a single piece, at a spacing from each other so as to form a plurality of openings between them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.A.S.
    Inventors: Guillaume Gallant, Pierre Charon
  • Patent number: 9127700
    Abstract: A plug-type mounting is provided for separably connecting an equipment element to a substructure that includes a retainer and a plug element, wherein an interlocking device for engaging the plug element with the retainer is assigned to the retainer and the plug element includes a retaining bolt with a rear bolt ring surface for cooperating with the interlocking device, and wherein the interlocking device includes at least one sliding segment with an arc-shaped interlocking surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventor: Sebastian Wendel
  • Patent number: 9128482
    Abstract: A system for detecting jamming and/or uncontrolled movement of an aircraft control surface includes first means for estimating the value of at least one parameter of an equation simulating the feedback loop dynamic of the control surface, according to a recursive autoregressive method with exogenous variable of RARX type in a recursive least squares way, and second means for detecting jamming and/or uncontrolled movement of the control surface, according to the estimated parameter value by the application of a decision test in the parametric space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignees: Airbus Operations SAS, Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universite de Bordeaux
    Inventors: Anca Gheorghe, Rémy Dayre, Philippe Goupil, Ali Zolghadri, Jérôme Cieslak, David Henry
  • Patent number: 9126695
    Abstract: Method and system for displaying meteorological phenomena encountered by an aircraft flying along a flight plan. The display system includes a display device configured to present on a screen a meteorological indicator, the meteorological indicator comprising a time line representing a time scale relating to the duration of the flight of the aircraft along the flight plan and, on this time line, a set of first symbols illustrating meteorological phenomena and a second symbol indicating the current instant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Pau Latorre-Costa, Adrien Jarry, François Bounaix
  • Patent number: 9130363
    Abstract: A lighting strike protection device for applying automatically to a fiber composite component. The protection device includes a reinforcement structure having a width that is less than a width of the metal strip. The fiber composite component having an integrated lighting strike protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Mueller, Claus Fastert, Hauke Seegel, Paulin Fideu Siagam
  • Patent number: 9126686
    Abstract: A draining system having an odor seal for a vacuum toilet drain system in which a flexible hose acts as an odor seal. As a result of the flexible hose, propagation of odors can be prevented when the hose collapses flat, for example as a result of its intrinsic weight, and consequently there is no longer a flow-through cross section, wherein, however, drainage of liquids remains possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Seibt
  • Patent number: 9128913
    Abstract: Input/output interfaces of avionic modules of IMA type in a device including several modules is tested. A system includes at least one application employed by a set of computer modules. This set includes the computer module (a first module), and at least one other computer module (at least one second module). A system test is associated with the at least one system for functionally testing the set of computer modules according to the system. The system test includes at least one elementary system test for functionally testing at least one input/output interface of the first module. The execution of the at least one elementary system test is independent of the at least one second module. At least one result of execution of the at least one elementary system test is transmitted to a maintenance computer distinct from the computer modules of the plurality of computer modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: AIRBUS Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Patrice Boucher, Nicolas Wacyk
  • Patent number: 9130204
    Abstract: A system for the drying of exhaust gases from a fuel cell system includes two heat exchangers alternately exposed to an exhaust gas, which ice and accumulate water vapour from the exhaust gas by cooling through a coolant. A valve arrangement with a number of valves is adapted in such a manner that it operates one of the heat exchangers in an icing phase, in which the icing of water vapour is conducted, and the other heat exchanger in a regeneration phase, in which the accumulated ice melts and is extracted, in an alternating manner. This system is especially suitable in aircraft for drying an oxygen depleted exhaust gas from a fuel cell system for inerting a tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Claus Hoffjann, Johannes Lauckner