Patents Assigned to Airbus Operation
  • AIRCRAFT ELECTRICAL CORE
    Publication number: 20140209742
    Abstract: An electrical core of an aircraft is provided. The electrical core includes at least one shelf on which is disposed at least one module containing components and comprising at least one input able to be linked to at least one power supply cable and at least one output able to be linked to at least one output cable. In the module, the output cable or cables travel under or in the shelf disposed under the module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.A.S.
    Inventors: Bernard GUERING, Yves DURAND
  • FASTENER ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20140208576
    Abstract: A fastener assembly for mounting a component to a bracket attached to an inner surface of the skin of an aircraft wing such that the component is thermally and electrically isolated from the bracket is disclosed. The component and bracket each having mounting holes and the fastener assembly comprises a fastening element having a shaft to extend through said holes, first and second isolating members mountable on the shaft on either side of the bracket such that the bracket is sandwiched between said first and second isolating members and, a retaining element threadingly engageable with the shaft protruding through the second isolating member to clamp said first and second isolating members together against said bracket. One of the isolating members has a central portion that protrudes through said mounting hole in the bracket and the other isolating member comprises a recess to receive said central portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED
    Inventor: Martin WARREN
  • Air conditioning system exhaust silencer for an aircraft
    Patent number: 8789650
    Abstract: An exhaust silencer for the air conditioning system of an aircraft is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventor: Nicholas West
  • Locking mechanism for an aircraft door and method for the locking of an aircraft door
    Patent number: 8789855
    Abstract: A locking mechanism for an aircraft door includes a plurality of frame-side fittings and a plurality of door-side fittings. Each frame-side fitting includes a pin with an eccentric rotary cylinder mounted on each pin. Each door-side fitting includes an eccentric rotary latch configured to encompass at least a section of a corresponding rotary cylinder. Also a method of locking a door using the locking mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Koneczny
  • Drilling system and method
    Patent number: 8790050
    Abstract: A drilling system is formed as a support structure to be mounted on a surface to be drilled, a beam supported by the support structure, a tool holder supported by the beam and having a locking orifice, and a drilling tool mounted on the tool holder by sliding connection in the direction parallel to the drilling axis. The drilling tool includes a bearing mandrel and an expandable ring closely fitting the bearing mandrel along a tapered contact surface for expanding the ring to ensure its locking in the locking orifice. Relative movement between the ring locked in the locking orifice and the bearing mandrel procures, by movement of the drilling tool relative to the tool holder via the slide connection, a movement of the bearing mandrel towards the surface to be drilled, through the locking orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Benoit Marguet, Olivier Lebahar, Eric Le Gouriellec, Eric Larousse, Jean-Marc Leray
  • Fabrication method of composite components and thus obtained components
    Patent number: 8790564
    Abstract: During the cooking of a composite component including layers of fibers embedded into a matrix, a superficial pressure is exerted. This superficial pressure generates a deformation that causes local contacts of fibers of at least two layers without damaging these fibers. As a result, when an electrical current is applied on a side of the composite component, such as during a lightning strike or a short circuit, the added local contacts enable the electric current to flow along multiple fibers in the composite component, thereby avoiding significant spikes in temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventor: Benjamin Provost
  • Aircraft tail surface with a leading edge section of undulated shape
    Patent number: 8789793
    Abstract: An aircraft tail surface, such as a horizontal tail plane or a vertical tail plane, including a leading edge having, in at least a section along the tail span, an undulated shape formed by a continuous series of smooth protrusions and recesses so that, in icing conditions, the ice accretion is produced only on the peaks of the protrusions and on the bottoms of the recesses, thereby creating a channeled airflow and an arrangement of air vortices which impart energy to the airflow in the aerofoil boundary layer which delay the airflow separation that causes the stall, thus reducing the detrimental effects of ice accretion in its aerodynamic performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.L.
    Inventor: Raul Carlos Llamas Sandin
  • Aircraft engine attachment pylon
    Patent number: 8789790
    Abstract: An aircraft engine attachment pylon including a box formed by an assembly of a first spar, a second spar, two lateral panels, and an aft engine attachment fitted with an aft attachment body. The engine attachment may be provided with two lateral fittings associated with the two lateral panels to which they are fixed to and project from laterally outside the box, each of the fittings forming a plane attachment interface with the attachment body through which bolts pass. Each attachment interface may be in the shape of a straight segment inclined at 45° from a vertical direction of the pylon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventor: Hervé Marche
  • Method And Device For Using Hot Air To De-Ice The Leading Edges Of A Jet Aircraft
    Publication number: 20140203146
    Abstract: A de-icing device includes a hot air circuit including an inlet for hot air bled from an engine, and a duct connecting the inlet to an outlet of the circuit which opens towards the leading edge. The device also includes electrical heating means associated with the duct, and control means for controlling the heating means connected to detection means that detect the temperature of the hot air downstream of the heating means and are able to activate these if the detected temperature of the bled air is below a value corresponding to a minimum temperature required for de-icing, increased by a predetermined margin. The range of temperatures of the hot air supplied to the leading edge is lowered overall, whereas the minimum de-icing temperature is assured. Composite materials can be used near the leading edge without being damaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventor: Gilles Chene
  • FASTENING DEVICE FOR RELEASABLY FASTENING A MECHANISM IN THE REGION OF A FLOOR OF AN AIRCRAFT OR SPACE CRAFT AND ARRANGEMENT FOR A CARGO LOADING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140202824
    Abstract: A fastening device is disclosed for releasably fastening a mechanism in the region of a floor of an aircraft or spacecraft and includes a base component and a latch component. The latch component includes at least one holding portion including a latch-component-side holding face and is movably coupled to the base component between an unlocked and a locked position. When positioned in a predefined mounting position on the floor component and/or on the base component, the holding portion of the latch component engages a fastening portion, and the latch-component-side holding face faces the mechanism-side holding face. During passage of the latch component from locked position into unlocked position a gap between the latch-component-side holding face and the mechanism-side holding face continuously widens. The invention further relates to an arrangement for a cargo loading system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Markus ESSER, Ali Lohmann, Jörg Pump, Sönke Hager, Johannes Völker
  • Air inlet of an aircraft nacelle including optimized frost treatment
    Patent number: 8783619
    Abstract: An air inlet of an aircraft nacelle includes a pipe, extending over the circumference of the air inlet and defined in the back by a front frame, and an element for the localized injection of hot air into the pipe, thus ensuring the flow of hot air into the pipe in one direction along the circumference of the nacelle. The inlet includes at least one vortex generator (38) in the pipe (22), the generator being plate-shaped or shaped in a manner projecting from the wall of the pipe (22), in order to disrupt the hot air flow so as to compensate the effect of the centrifugal force and reduce the temperature gradient between the inside and outside of the pipe (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Arnaud Hormiere, Alain Dega, Stephane Gaillot
  • Method for moving an aircraft along the ground
    Patent number: 8788117
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method according to which an aircraft (10) is moved along the ground by means of at least two separate appliances (12) connected to the aircraft independently from each other or other appliances. A control element is provided for moving an aircraft, said element sending instructions to at least two separate appliances in order to move the aircraft along the ground by means of the appliances. The invention also relates to an appliance (12) for implementing the method according to the invention, which can communicate with an identical appliance in order to transmit and/or receive at least one datum relating to a position and/or a movement of one of the appliances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignees: Airbus (S.A.S.), Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Carsten Frings, Christophe Cros
  • Fluid ejection device with reinforced seal
    Patent number: 8783372
    Abstract: A compact device for ejecting a fluid including two chambers separated by a separating element of piston type. One of the chambers contains the fluid intended to be ejected, the other chamber is a pressurization chamber, the pressurization of which can cause translational movement of the separating element and ejection of the fluid. The pressurization chamber includes a thimble capable of sealably separating the inside of the pressurization chamber from the side walls of the reservoir. Thus, a seal between two chambers is perfect and durable without degrading slidability of the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Christian Fabre, Alain Bignolais
  • Fully automated cargo loading system
    Patent number: 8788085
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for the loading and unloading of cargo in transport means. In one example, a cargo loading system having a fully automated conveyor system and a fully automated bolt system for locking the cargo unit is provided. Manual interventions of the loading personnel in the cargo space may not be necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Panzram, Volker Hasbach
  • Device for the generation of aerodynamic vortices and also a regulating flap and wing with a device for the generation of aerodynamic vortices
    Patent number: 8783623
    Abstract: A device for the generation of aerodynamic vortices to be arranged on the spanwise side edge of a wing, or a regulating flap adjustably arranged on the latter, which in each case have a chordwise direction and a spanwise direction, wherein the device is formed from one aerofoil component or from a plurality of aerofoil components, wherein the at least one aerofoil component is designed as a part that can be moved relative to the wing or regulating flap in its spanwise direction, wherein the device for vortex generation has an actuation device for the retraction and extension of the aerofoil components into a recess, and also a drive device to operate the actuation device. A regulating flap of a wing, and also a wing, with such a device for the generation of aerodynamic vortices, and a wing, which has at least two aerofoil segments at its side edge situated at the spanwise end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Sven Schaber
  • Cabling of an aircraft circuit breaker panel
    Patent number: 8786993
    Abstract: A distribution panel aboard an aircraft includes sites intended for the installation of functional electrical circuit breakers of which at least one of the sites is not occupied by a functional circuit breaker. The functional circuit breakers are wired up to a monitoring system via monitoring cabling so as to monitor a state of the circuit breakers. The at least one site not occupied by a functional circuit breaker is occupied by a nonfunctional circuit breaker, termed a false circuit breaker. The false circuit breaker is able to deliver a state signal and is wired up to the monitoring system by the monitoring cabling in a manner identical to that of a functional circuit breaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Christian Rabayrol
  • Weathertight fitting for aircraft tail vertical stabiliser mounting
    Patent number: 8783618
    Abstract: Weathertight fitting (41) for the mounting of the tail vertical stabilizer of an aircraft in a rear area of its fuselage, the construction being based on a casing (5) made with a composite material as one unitary piece and some frames (7) that are comprised of: one first piece (43) comprised of two bodies (45, 45?), that include the mounting lugs (47, 47?) for the tail vertical stabilizer and some vertical walls (49, 49?) for joining the fitting (43) to the frames (7) of the fuselage, and a weathertight central profile (51); two pairs of additional pieces (55, 55?; 65, 65?) of angular shape, that include some horizontal walls (57, 57?; 67, 67?) for joining to the casing (5) and some vertical walls (59, 59?; 69, 69?) for joining to the aforementioned bodies (45, 45?). All the weathertight fitting's (41) pieces are made with a composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.L.
    Inventors: Enrique Vera Villares, Elena Arévalo Rödríguez, José Maria Pina López, Javier Cabeza Huertas, Diego Folch Cortés
  • Movable bin
    Patent number: 8783609
    Abstract: A movable storage compartment for a passenger cabin comprises a housing and fixing structures on the side walls of the housing, the housing being open on one side and being able to be moved back and forth between an open and a closed position, that is to say being able to be opened and closed. The fixing structures are formed in such a way that during a movement from the open position to the closed position the housing can be moved first predominantly rotationally and then predominantly translationally upwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Schneider, Bengt Abel, Peter Bielik, Raj Kotian
  • Method for improving the aerodynamic efficiency of the vertical tail of an aircraft
    Patent number: 8783606
    Abstract: A method for improving the aerodynamic efficiency of the vertical tail of an aircraft includes varying the thickness of the trailing edge of the rudder as a function of the span of the vertical tail. This variation is intended to adapt the local value of the coefficient of lateral lift applied to the vertical tail closer to a maximum allowable value. The maximum allowable value is specifically the value at which a separation of the aerodynamic flow is observed on the surface of the vertical tail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventor: Alain Tanguy
  • Method for directional digital data transmission between an aircraft and a ground station
    Patent number: 8786492
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for digital and directional data transmission between aircraft and ground stations. In this arrangement data is exchanged digitally and directly, in other words directly by means of directional antennae, between the aircraft and the ground stations. Furthermore, transmission lobes are adapted during flight, and the directional antennae on the aircraft only illuminate regions on the ground that are located at a minimum distance across the flight path of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Tim Fuss, Uwe Schwark