Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH
  • Patent number: 11560241
    Abstract: A support bracket for holding interior components of a vehicle includes a base plate and an add-on module, which are engageable with each other to facilitate replacement and maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Bauers, Nufel Erdogan, Thomas Kahl
  • Patent number: 11554519
    Abstract: A method for producing a three-dimensional preform from reinforcing fibers for producing a component from a fiber-reinforced plastic comprises the steps of introducing at least one layer of fibers having a binder into a draping mold, forming the at least one layer of fibers by at least one forming element which is displaceable along the draping mold, applying an airtight film to the at least one layer of fibers during or directly after the forming, creating a negative pressure in the intermediate space between the airtight film and the draping mold, activating the binder and removing the negative pressure after curing of the binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Thore Sdunnus, Alexander Gillessen
  • Patent number: 11548638
    Abstract: A trolley lift for connecting a lower aircraft deck to an upper aircraft deck. The trolley lift comprises a platform configured to accommodate at least one trolley, wherein the platform delimits a lift compartment at the bottom, and a cover which delimits the lift compartment at the top. In particular, on a side facing away from the lift compartment, the cover at least partly forms a floor of the upper aircraft deck. Furthermore, an aircraft area having a trolley lift and an aircraft having a trolley lift and/or an aircraft area are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Benthien, Andreas Poppe
  • Patent number: 11548659
    Abstract: A method for producing a frame component for a door frame structure of an aircraft. A connecting zone is generated on a first and a second assembly surface of a connecting component in each case by generating a surface texture on the assembly surfaces, wherein the connecting component is formed from a metal material. The assembly surfaces of the connecting component are placed against a door frame member and against an attachment member, wherein the door frame member and the attachment member are each formed from a fiber-reinforced thermoplastics material. Furthermore, the connecting component and the door frame member are welded, and the connecting component and the attachment member are welded. A frame component and a door frame structure are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Linde, Albrecht Kluge
  • Patent number: 11548610
    Abstract: An aircraft door, an aircraft region and an aircraft with an aircraft door. The aircraft door through which passengers enter and leave the aircraft and is held towards the outer side by stops and is locked exclusively on a hinge side opposite the stops. Also, an aircraft region and an aircraft with such an aircraft door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Ronald Risch
  • Patent number: 11548213
    Abstract: A method of using solid profile rods instead of the usual filament coils for additive manufacturing methods such as 3D printing for industrial applications such as aircraft manufacturing, and to enable a more rapid production of fiber-composite components. The additive manufacturing device, or the 3D printer which generates the component layer by layer, respectively, comprises a material magazine in which a plurality of profile rods are stored. The profile rods are pre-tailored and are adapted to the component layer by layer. The profile rods, when printing, are successively retrieved from the material magazine and, by way of an infeed installation, guided to the nozzle of the additive manufacturing installation and subsequently applied to the printing bed so as to form the component layer by layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Claus Fastert, Dirk Elbracht, Johannes Born, Konstantin Schubert
  • Patent number: 11541991
    Abstract: An aircraft structure (11) for flow control including a perforated panel (13) having an inner surface (15) directed to a structure interior (17), an outer surface (19) in contact with an ambient flow (21), and a plurality of micro pores (23) connecting the inner and outer surfaces (15, 19). Elongate crack stopper elements (25) are attached to the inner surface (15) of the perforated panel (13). The crack stopper elements (25) are configured to inhibit crack propagation within the perforated panel (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Dort Daandels, Bernhard Schlipf, Christian Heck
  • Patent number: 11529000
    Abstract: A passenger seat comprises a backrest, a seat element and a size increasing mechanism which is configured to convert a weight acting on the seat element when a user sits in the passenger seat into an increase in the depth of a seat pan of the seat element that can be used by the user from a rest-position depth to a to an operational-position depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Cordes, Juergen Meister
  • Patent number: 11530043
    Abstract: A passenger seat comprises a carrier structure, a backrest and a seat element displaceably fastened to the carrier structure, relative to the backrest, in a depth direction of a seating surface of the seat element between a usable position and an out-of-use position. In the usable position, the seat element is arranged, relative to the backrest, so that a front edge of the seat element that faces away from the backrest is arranged at a first distance from a backrest surface of the backrest. In the out-of-use position, the seat element is received, at least partially, in a gap provided between a part of the carrier structure carrying the seat element and an edge of the backrest facing towards the seat element, the front edge of the seat element being arranged at a second, smaller distance from the backrest surface of the backrest than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Blanck, Frank Cordes, Jean-Baptiste Jaffrelot, Jan Uwe Nehl, Marcus Boerjesson
  • Patent number: 11524788
    Abstract: A floor fixing assembly for releasable fixing of a leg of a frame to a vehicle floor comprises at least one retaining peg which can be fixed to the vehicle floor. The floor fixing assembly furthermore comprises a frame fixing element, which is configured to be connected to the leg of the frame and comprises at least one receiving space for receiving the retaining peg. A clamping device is configured to be introduced into the receiving space of the frame fixing element in order to connect the frame fixing element to the retaining peg by form fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Ingo Roth, Matthias Hegenbart
  • Patent number: 11518521
    Abstract: An air supply system comprising at least two bleed sources configured to provide bleed air, wherein each bleed source comprises an engine or an auxiliary power unit and an oil as lubricant for the engine or the auxiliary power unit. The system also includes at least one air conditioning pack for cooling the bleed air from the bleed sources, and a plurality of bleed ducts, wherein each bleed duct connects one of the bleed sources to the at least one air conditioning pack. The system further comprises a plurality of detectors, wherein each detector is associated with a bleed source and the plurality of detectors are configured for detecting substances specific for the oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Bezold, Elodie Stuber
  • Patent number: 11518488
    Abstract: A reinforcing element for a structural profile, in particular for a round, oval or elliptical structural tube. The reinforcing element comprises: a fiber structure which has a hollow-cylindrical, helically wound mesh of fiber strands and forms an inner shell surface formed to receive the structural profile; and a matrix material into which the fiber strands are respectively embedded and which is formed to be shrinkable by heating so that the fiber structure can be fastened to the structural profile with the inner shell surface by heating the matrix material. Also provided are a structural arrangement with such a reinforcing element, an aircraft or spacecraft with such a structural arrangement, as well as a method for producing such a structural arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Benthien, Axel Soeffker
  • Patent number: 11518540
    Abstract: An aircraft of the type disclosed here includes an aircraft fuselage, a wing assembly, a tail assembly, and a surface structure containing a lightning protection device. The surface structure is arranged on the aircraft fuselage, the wing assembly, and the tail assembly. The lightning protection device has a plurality of electrically conductive elements, which are arranged at least as a group of elements in the surface structure. The electrically conductive elements belonging to a group are arranged parallel to one another, at least in some section or sections, and have different spacings with respect to one another, at least in two regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Lutz Weber
  • Patent number: 11518490
    Abstract: A fuselage assembly for an aircraft including a stringer extending longitudinally along the fuselage. The stringer defines a fluid channel. The fluid channel is configured to form at least part of a distribution duct of a cabin air distribution system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignees: Airbus Operations GmbH, Airbus SAS
    Inventors: Matthias S. Schroeder, Jesus Miguel Batanero Benito, Srivats Srinivasan, Avinash Kumar Yadav, Vinayak Ramachandra Patil, Abhishek Vyas
  • Patent number: 11518539
    Abstract: An emergency localization device for initiating an emergency measure, wherein the emergency localization device comprises a control unit, at least one acceleration sensor and at least one position sensor, the control unit being configured to receive a plurality of motion and/or position parameters from the acceleration sensor and/or from the position sensor, and by evaluating the plurality of motion or position parameters to determine a risk level for an emergency using a predefined logic, and to initiate an emergency measure if the calculated risk level exceeds a predefined threshold. The emergency localization device is reliable, robust and largely independent of aircraft-mounted systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Carsten Heuer
  • Publication number: 20220384937
    Abstract: An antenna arrangement for an aircraftincludes an antenna unit, a radome structure covering the antenna unit, and a mounting device for mounting the antenna arrangement to an outer surface of an aircraft component. The antenna unit is mounted to or integrally formed with the radome structure and the radome structure is mounted to or integrally formed with the mounting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicants: Airbus Operations GmbH, Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Thomas Düde, Christian Schaupmann, Rubén Bancalero Santolaya
  • Patent number: 11504739
    Abstract: A device and method for lacquer transfer includes a lacquer application unit and at least one of a masking application unit and a masking removal unit, the application unit for applying lacquer to a work surface, wherein the masking application unit is configured to apply a masking to the work surface and is attached to the lacquer application unit so the masking application unit is moved in the application direction ahead of the lacquer application unit across the work surface when the lacquer application unit is moved across the work surface in the application direction. The masking removal unit can remove a previously applied masking from the work surface and is attached to the lacquer application unit such that the masking removal unit is moved in the application direction behind the lacquer application unit across the work surface when the lacquer application unit is moved across the work surface in the application direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Pierre C. Zahlen
  • Publication number: 20220361638
    Abstract: A storage system has a first pouch for receiving an electronic device, and a second pouch for receiving the first pouch. The first pouch is at least partially surrounded by the second pouch when the first pouch is received in the second pouch. The first pouch has a first fabric layer. Furthermore, the first pouch has an insulating layer which is adjacent to the first fabric layer and is designed to absorb material arising in the event of combustion. The second pouch is closable in such a manner that, in the closed state of the second pouch, an opening for dissipating heat energy remains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicants: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Hadidom, Jana Schuett, Thomas Vielhaben
  • Patent number: 11492125
    Abstract: A mixer assembly for mixing two air streams in a ventilation system. The mixer assembly comprises a mixing chamber, which comprises an inlet and an outlet and a mixing chamber wall delimiting the mixing chamber, and also a shroud, which surrounds the mixing chamber wall, at least in certain portions. The shroud forms and delimits an intermediate space between the mixing chamber wall and the shroud. The mixer assembly also comprises a filter element, which fluidically connects the intermediate space to a surrounding area of the mixer assembly, the intermediate space being fluidically connected to the mixing chamber. Fluid can thus flow through the filter element into the intermediate space and further into the mixing chamber. A stowage space with a mixer assembly, an aircraft with such a stowage space and a method for producing a mixer assembly in an aircraft are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Felix Braun, Jens Lohmar, Henning Everth
  • Patent number: 11492821
    Abstract: An emergency exit system comprising a first primary structure frame, a second primary structure frame extending substantially parallel to the first primary structure frame, a door opening arranged between the first primary structure frame and the second primary structure frame, and a door shiftable substantially parallel to the first primary structure frame and the second primary structure frame between a closed position and an open position. In the closed position, the door closes the door opening. In the open position, the door opens up the door opening. At least one of the primary structure frames comprises a primary structure guide element for guiding the door when the door is shifted between the closed position and the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Papenroth, Hermann Benthien, Torsten Witt