Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH
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Patent number: 11318716Abstract: A composite construction, such as, in particular, a composite plate having a sandwich-type construction, has two outer layers which are mutually opposed in parallel and a foam material completely filling the space between the outer layers at least in some regions. The outer layers are interconnected by means of spacers, and the spacers are connected to the outer layers via a cured plastics material.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2015Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Gregor Christian Endres, Hans-Juergen Weber, Klaus Schoote
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Patent number: 11319052Abstract: A leading-edge arrangement for a flow body has a curved skin panel having outer and inner sides, and a three-dimensional reinforcing lattice. The curvature of the outer side of the lattice corresponds to the curvature of the inner side of the skin panel. The outer side of the lattice has attachment points connected to the inner side of the skin panel. The lattice is constructed as a three-dimensional framework having a interconnected framework members that form at least one layer of interconnected three-dimensional bodies.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Anthony Warren, Marco Biondini
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Patent number: 11316260Abstract: An antenna arrangement for an aircraft for fastening to an outer side of an exterior skin of the aircraft has a body and side wall sections and a connecting section. The body is U-shaped or H-shaped if viewed from a predefined direction and can be flowed through with a low aerodynamic drag by a flow along the predefined direction. The antenna arrangement has one or more antennas in the form of a printed circuit board and of which each is fastened to the body and is fastenable directly to the outer side of the aircraft exterior skin at two first edges of the side wall sections which form two free ends of the U-shape or H-shape on a first side of the connecting section or, for the U-shape, on the connecting section and/or regions of the side wall sections, which regions adjoin the connecting section directly as the predefined direction is parallel to the flow direction during flight.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Christian Schaupmann, Markus Altmann
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Patent number: 11299024Abstract: An arrangement of a structural element for an aerospace vehicle and a battery set. The structural element extends along a longitudinal direction and has a main web, a first flange and a second flange. The flanges extend away from the main web and are defined by flange edges extending along the longitudinal direction. The first flange, the second flange and the main web form a U-shaped profile defining a cavity. The battery set includes a baseplate and at least one battery on the baseplate. The structural element and the battery set are formed such that the baseplate can be releasably attached to the structural element. The baseplate extends between flange edges and the battery is received in the cavity when the battery set is mounted to the structural element. Further, an aerospace vehicle including such an arrangement, a structural element for an aerospace vehicle and a battery set are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Peter Linde, Peter Rostek
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Patent number: 11292571Abstract: A door arrangement for an aircraft segment, which door arrangement comprises a passenger door, a fuselage portion accommodating the passenger door, and a girt bar for arming and disarming an emergency slide. The passenger door is movable relative to the fuselage portion between a raised position and a lowered position. The girt bar is connectable by means of a connecting arrangement to the passenger door and/or to the fuselage portion. The connecting arrangement comprises a mechanism which is configured to, during arming of the emergency slide, actuate a locking mechanism of an engagement device fastened to the fuselage portion, in such a way that the girt bar is fixed in a decouplable manner to the engagement device.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Luc Andreani
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Patent number: 11292603Abstract: A passenger door arrangement for an aircraft segment, which arrangement comprises a passenger door that is configured to assume a raised state and a lowered state, and a girt bar for arming and disarming an escape slide, the girt bar not altering its position relative to the passenger door in the transition from disarming to arming when the passenger door is in the lowered state. Also an aircraft segment, which comprises the passenger door portion and a fuselage portion, an external engagement means being fixed to the fuselage portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Joerg Lund
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Patent number: 11292610Abstract: A camera module for surveillance of a passenger cabin of an aircraft, including a covering device for securing in a longitudinal cutout of a service channel including a carrier part having a circular securing cutout and including a mounting structure at least partly surrounding the securing cutout. A camera device includes a camera housing having a mounting portion with a spherically curved outer surface, and includes a camera unit having a lens accommodated in a front cutout of the camera housing, an optical sensor for generating image data, the optical sensor being in an interior of the camera housing, and a data interface for transferring the image data, wherein the camera housing is mounted by the mounting portion in the mounting structure to be rotatable or pivotable about at least two axes, and a locking device for locking the camera housing relative to the mounting structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Gerd Brüchmann
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Patent number: 11286033Abstract: A wing for an aircraft including a main wing, slat, and connection assembly movable connecting the slat to the main wing and including an elongate slat track. A front end of the slat track is mounted to the slat. A rear end and an intermediate portion of the slat track are mounted to the main wing by a roller bearing that includes a guide rail mounted to the main wing and a first roller unit mounted to the rear end of the slat track and engaging the guide rail. The wing has redundant main load paths. The guide rail includes a guide rail primary structure engaging with the first roller unit and an additional reinforcement structure additionally reinforcing the guide rail primary structure in a lateral direction. The guide rail primary structure forms a first main load path. The reinforcement structure forms a redundant second main load path.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Florian Lorenz, Dennis Krey, Bernhard Schlipf, Dustin Shapi
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Publication number: 20220089284Abstract: A system for providing temperature-controlled water in an aircraft has a tank, a water temperature-controlling unit, a control unit, and a power supply terminal. The water temperature-controlling unit can be coupled to the tank to heat or to cool water situated therein. The control unit is connected to the water temperature-controlling unit to activate the water temperature-controlling unit for controlling the temperature of water in the tank to a predefined temperature. The power supply terminal can be connected to an on-board voltage source for the water temperature-controlling unit and the control unit to be supplied with electrical voltage. The system is in the form of a coherent and self-contained unit which can be integrated into a standard parking place of a galley of the aircraft. The tank is mounted so as to be exchangeable or the system has a water discharge connection which is coupled to the tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Rafael Mortensen Ernits, Oliver Kiehne, Matthias Reiss, Oliver Delaplanche, Markus Tiemann, Dennis Keiser
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Patent number: 11273916Abstract: A multifunctional seat arrangement for a passenger cabin of a vehicle includes at least one first seat and one second seat which is laterally arranged directly adjacent to the at least one first seat. The second seat is narrower than the first seat, and the second seat has a pivotable seat surface extension which is pivotable into different positions relative to the seat surface of the second seat. Support functions and a child seat function or baby carrier function may be achieved thereby.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Marc Wesseloh, Sven Prahl, Frank Starke
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Patent number: 11274700Abstract: A curable composite bush for an aircraft joint comprising a generally hollow cylindrical body formed from a matrix material impregnated with a reinforcement material substantially composed of fibers, the fibers being oriented in a generally circumferential direction about a longitudinal axis of the bush. The body may define a plurality of corrugations extending between an inner and an outer diameter of the bush to improve the compressibility of the bush in a direction substantially collinear to a longitudinal axis of the bush.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Florian Lorenz, Dustin Shapi
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Patent number: 11273895Abstract: A planar pressure bulkhead for an air- or spacecraft, including a first planar wall designed as a pressure seal for a fuselage structure, a second planar wall arranged opposite the first wall, and a reinforcing structure which is arranged between the first and the second wall and which includes at least one circumferential monolithic reinforcing element. Furthermore, the present disclosure provides an air- or spacecraft, including a fuselage structure and a planar pressure bulkhead that is coupled to the fuselage structure in a circumferentially continuous manner.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Norbert Heltsch
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Patent number: 11267014Abstract: A device for lacquer transfer includes a frame, a transfer roller with a circumferential lateral wall, a drive unit and a lacquer application unit. The lacquer application unit is mounted on the frame and applies lacquer to a work surface of a work piece while the device is moved in an application direction across the work surface. The drive unit drives the transfer roller in a rotation direction about an axis of rotation. An outside contact surface of the lateral wall comprises a plurality of depressions forming a predetermined structure. The transfer roller rolls with the outside contact surface on the work surface of the work piece for transferring the predetermined structure defined by the depressions in the outside contact surface to lacquer previously applied to the work surface by the lacquer application unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Pierre C. Zahlen, Alexander Gillessen
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Patent number: 11267550Abstract: A combined seat/stair arrangement for a multi-deck vehicle, in particular a multi-deck aircraft or spacecraft, include a foldable passenger seat; a stair which is designed to connect an upper deck to a lower deck via a stair hatch and at least one floor flap which movable between a use position of the stair with the stair hatch open and a use position of the foldable passenger seat with the stair hatch closed, wherein, in the use position of the foldable passenger seat, the at least one floor flap closes at least a partial region of the stair hatch, and wherein the floor flap is designed with a seat attachment, to which the foldable passenger seat is attached.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Eric Prenzel
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Patent number: 11267015Abstract: A device for lacquer transfer is disclosed having a frame, a transfer roller with a circumferential lateral wall, and a nozzle for dispensing lacquer. The nozzle is arranged contactless to or in direct contact with the outside contact surface of the lateral wall for dispensing lacquer into respective depressions in the lateral wall while the transfer roller is rotated about the axis of rotation. The transfer roller is configured to roll with the outside contact surface on a work surface of a work piece for transferring the lacquer from the depressions to the work surface of the work piece. The transfer roller includes a rim and a tire, wherein the rim is mounted to the frame rotatably about the axis of rotation by the first end and extends between a first end and a second end along the axis of rotation, wherein the tire is mounted on the rim and includes the lateral wall.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignees: Airbus Operations GmbH, Airbus (SAS)Inventors: Sebastian Kerger, Christian Schepp, Daniel Kress, Waldemar Kümmel
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Patent number: 11241708Abstract: A device for lacquer transfer includes a frame, transfer roller with circumferential lateral wall, nozzle for dispensing lacquer, and hardening unit, the hardening unit formed as a UV-light unit for hardening the lacquer in a contactless way by emitting UV-light, and is within an interior space defined by the transfer roller. The lateral wall of the transfer roller is transparent for UV-light, and the hardening unit is arranged such that UV-light is emitted towards the work surface upon which the lateral wall of the transfer roller rolls, to harden the lacquer after it being transferred to the work surface. Using the device, lacquer transfer can occur from the transfer roller to the work surface more reliably. The device includes a light shield between the hardening unit and outside contact surface with at least a portion of the outside contact surface provided with lacquer is shielded from UV-light emitted from the hardening unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignees: Airbus Operations GmbH, Airbus (S.A.S.)Inventors: Pierre C. Zahlen, Christian Schepp, Daniel Kress, Waldemar Kümmel
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Publication number: 20220033054Abstract: A rail for an aircraft floor includes an upper plate for supporting a set of floor panels covering the plate, and a lower stiffening structure. The rail is formed by a beam and by an anticorrosion protection. The beam is at least formed by a body made of a first material and defining the lower stiffening structure and an upper platform. The anticorrosion protection fully covers an upper face of the upper platform and forms therewith the upper plate of the rail, thus layered. The anticorrosion protection is at least formed by a protective sheet made of a second material that is more corrosion resistant than the first material and is selected from a metal and a fiber-reinforced plastic composite material. Such a rail exhibits good corrosion resistance at a moderate cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Applicants: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.), Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Armin Fangmeier, Giuseppe Vassilakakis
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Patent number: 11230034Abstract: A method for producing an aircraft structural component includes the steps of introducing a plurality of semi-finished product layers for producing a component from a fibre-reinforced, thermoplastic plastic material into a compression mould, applying pressure to the stacked semi-finished product layers, the stacked semi-finished product layers being fixed, before pressure is applied, at particular points in their position in the compression mould and/or relative to one another in such a way that, while pressure is being applied to the semi-finished product layers stacked in the compression mould, a sliding movement of the semi-finished product layers relative to one another and/or relative to the compression mould, preventing wrinkling in the semi-finished product layers, takes place, and removing the aircraft structural component from the compression mould.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2013Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Niko Naumann, Michaela Willamowski
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Patent number: 11225999Abstract: A rotary joint includes an inner joint element which has a spherically shaped inner convex joint face and an inner joint connection head protruding from the inner convex joint face; an outer joint element which has a spherically shaped inner concave joint face, a spherically shaped outer convex joint face and an outer joint connection head protruding from the outer convex joint face, wherein the inner joint element is held within the outer joint element such that the two joint elements can be rotated with respect to one another along the inner joint faces; and a joint bearing which has a spherically shaped outer concave joint face, wherein the outer joint element is held within the joint bearing such that the outer joint element can be rotated in the joint bearing along the outer joint faces.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Jan Christoph Koelln, Volker Riehl
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Patent number: D948880Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Bruno Saint-Jalmes