Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH
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Patent number: 10836491Abstract: A wall module for a cabin of a vehicle for separation of different cabin regions comprises a lower wall section having a fastener for fastening the wall module to a structurally fixed component fixed to the floor in the cabin, a surface-like rigid upper wall section converging with the lower wall section having a second fastener in a region of the wall module facing away from the lower wall section for fastening the wall module to a structurally fixed component fixed to the ceiling in the cabin. The upper wall section at least in a region comprises an arched curvature around a horizontal axis for adapting to the shape of a backrest of a seat. The wall module comprises at least one element stiffer than the upper wall section, which extends from a region adjacent the floor to a region adjacent the ceiling of the wall module.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Andreas Heidtmann, Jörg Weifenbach, Mark Herzog, Roland Lange
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Patent number: 10828943Abstract: A tyre monitoring device configured to be mounted on a wheel is described. The device includes a pressure sensor for sensing an inflation pressure of a tyre on the wheel; a wireless communication interface configured to receive data indicative of a command to indicate tyre pressure; a storage storing a predetermined pressure value; an indicator configured to provide a first indication and a second indication, wherein the first indication is different from the second indication; and a processing system configured to operate the indicator to provide the first indication or the second indication responsive to receipt of the command to indicate tyre pressure, and based at least in part on the inflation pressure and the predetermined pressure value.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignees: Airbus Operations Limited, Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Andrew Bill, Timo Warns
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Patent number: 10829238Abstract: The present invention provides an arrangement for passing a line in a load-free manner through a pressure frame of a fuselage of an aircraft or spacecraft, including an opening penetrating the pressure frame, through which opening the line is passed, the line being mechanically decoupled from the pressure frame; and a flexible sealing device arranged outside the opening at least in portions, which sealing device is simultaneously operatively connected to the line and the pressure frame for the pressure-tight separation of a first side from a second side of the pressure frame. The present invention also provides a fuselage for an aircraft or spacecraft having an arrangement of this type and an aircraft or spacecraft having an arrangement of this type or having a fuselage of this type.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2016Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Ralf Becks
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Patent number: 10832496Abstract: A system for detecting radome damage. The system comprises a sensor unit and a processing unit. The sensor unit is configured to continuously register external impacts on a radome. The processing unit is electrically connected to the sensor unit. The processing unit is configured to compare the external impacts registered by the sensor unit with reference data. The processing unit is further formed to determine, based on the comparison, whether damage to the radome has occurred due to one or more events associated with the external impacts. Furthermore, a radome comprising the system, a flying object and a corresponding method are provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Jens Kosubek, Christian Schaupmann
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Patent number: 10829193Abstract: A method for manufacturing a structural assembly comprising at least two assembly components interconnected by means of a thermoplastic plastics material, and useful in the field of aviation or space travel. First, a first assembly component and a second assembly component are provided and arranged so as to form an arrangement. Second, the arrangement is subjected to creep forming at a temperature which is selected in such a way that the thermoplastic plastics material melts at least in part during the creep forming so as to connect the first assembly component and the second assembly component. The invention further relates to structural assemblies, in particular for an aircraft or spacecraft, and to an aircraft or spacecraft comprising a structural assembly of this type.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Marco Pacchione, Paulin Fideu
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Patent number: 10828722Abstract: This relates to a method of manufacturing a metallic component by additive layer manufacturing. The method comprises the step of providing a layer of granular metallic material. The layer of the granular metallic material is melted by a laser beam or electron beam which applies a defined scanning strategy, which is defined in such a way that a first region of the layer is melted before a second region of the layer such that during the subsequent solidification, residual stresses emerge in the first and the second region. These residual stresses act as integrated crack stoppers of the metallic component.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2016Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Tom Shearn
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Patent number: 10829216Abstract: A monument has a connection device, a fluid source and a compartment for the installation of a modular unit. The connection device is intended for connecting the fluid source to a modular unit installed in the compartment. The connection device includes two line sections. It is connected to the fluid source via one line section and can be connected to a modular unit via the other line section. The connection device is arranged so as to be displaced in the compartment on a predefined track between a connection position and an operating position. In the connection position the connection device is further from the rear end of the compartment than in the operating position. The connection device can be connected, in the connection position, via the second line section to a modular unit arranged outside the compartment. Also described is a system including a monument and a modular unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Boris Holtorf
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Patent number: 10822774Abstract: An aircraft with a drinking water supply and distribution system including a water storage tank, a consumer equipment, a pressurizer, a pressure reducer and a conduit system connecting the drinking water storage tank to the consumer equipment via the pressurizer and supplying water from the at least one water storage tank to the at least one consumer equipment. The pressurizer pressurizes water in the conduit system with a peak pressure exceeding a supply water pressure threshold. The conduit system includes flexible conduits having a maximum internal diameter of less than 8 mm. The pressure reducer is provided for reducing the pressure of water supplied to the consumer equipment below a consumer water pressure threshold. The supply water pressure threshold exceeds the consumer water pressure threshold.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Tim Lübbert, Axel Schreiner, Michael Rempe
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Patent number: 10826210Abstract: A base module and an aviation computer system having the base module includes a printed circuit board, an integrated power supply and communication connector, a SMARC connector, and an FMC connector. A power supply circuit supplies the SMARC connector and the FMC connector with power from dedicated power supply contacts of the integrated power supply and communication connector, and a communication circuit connects the SMARC connector to dedicated communication contacts of the integrated power supply and communication connector. In addition, signal lines are provided on the printed circuit board in order to connect dedicated input/output contacts of the SMARC connector to corresponding dedicated input/output contacts of the FMC connector.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2017Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Nicholas Brownjohn, Stefan Osternack
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Patent number: 10821486Abstract: A microelectronic module for cleaning a surface is described. The microelectronic module comprises at least one voltage converter for converting a provided first voltage into a higher, lower, or identical second voltage. The module also comprises at least one actuator. The actuator comprises at least one generator for generating an ionic current, an electrical plasma, harmonic components and/or an electrostatic field from the second voltage which is provided by the voltage converter. At least the voltage converter and the actuator are disposed on a thin-film, planar substrate. At least most of at least one object adhering to the surface is removed by the actuator.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2016Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignees: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Ralf Caspari, Robert Weichwald, Emanuel Ermann, Gerd Heller
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Patent number: 10822093Abstract: An adapter rail system for mounting objects to a floor rail in a vehicle includes an elongate adapter rail element, an arresting element and a movement rail element. The adapter rail element has a surface contour having regularly consecutively arranged neckings and widenings, which surface contour corresponds to an opening contour of a floor rail, which includes regularly consecutively arranged grid openings, which are penetrated by a slit. The adapter rail element has protrusions extending perpendicular to the plane spanned by the surface contour and are each arranged in the region of a necking. The arresting element has a surface contour corresponding to the opening contour of at least one grid opening. The arresting element is dimensioned to be flush between two adjacent protrusions of the adapter rail element onto the adapter rail element. The movement rail element is connectable with the protrusions of the adapter rail element.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Claus-Peter Gross, Lars Schomacker, Sven Jansen, Patrick Rollfink
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Patent number: 10822120Abstract: A method for connecting two aircraft components composed of thermoplastic composite material by a rivet. The two aircraft components are arranged, in sections, areally on one another, before bores in the two aircraft components are expanded by a mandrel element such that the bores, after the expansion, form one continuous bore for receiving the rivet. Here, the two aircraft components are locally warmed by the mandrel element such that, during the expansion of the bores, the components are thermoplastically deformed. The mandrel element is inserted through the first bore into the second bore. The rivet is introduced into the continuous bore. A system for carrying out the method is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Peter Linde, Norbert Heltsch
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Patent number: 10822072Abstract: A wing for an aircraft, including a main wing, a slat, and a connection assembly for movably connecting the slat to the main wing, such that the slat is movable between a retracted position and at least one extended position. The connection assembly includes a first connection element and a second connection element, both movably mounted to the main wing and mounted to the slat, wherein the second connection element is spaced apart from the first connection element in a wing span direction. The wing further includes a drive unit provided at the main wing and connected to the slat for initiating movement of the slat. An object, to prevent skew cases of the slat, is achieved in that the connection assembly includes a rotatable sync shaft rotatably engaging both the first connection element and the second connection element for sync movement of the first and second connection elements.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Bernhard Schlipf, Dort Daandels
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Patent number: 10826104Abstract: A method for integrating a fuel cell unit into a vehicle structural component, includes determining an available receiving space in an interior structural component of the vehicle, providing two casing parts assembleable to a closed casing, providing a fuel cell having an anode, a cathode and an electrolyte, assembling the casing parts and the fuel cell to form the fuel cell unit, and inserting the fuel cell unit into the receiving space. A casing part is additively manufactured such that the fuel cell unit precisely fits into the receiving space. A casing part includes an exterior fuel inlet and an interior fuel distributor for leading a fuel from the inlet to a fuel outlet couplable with the fuel cell. A casing part includes an exterior oxidant inlet and an interior oxidant distributor for leading an oxidant from the inlet to an oxidant outlet couplable with the fuel cell.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Peter Linde
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Patent number: 10814957Abstract: The disclosure relates to a composite panel member for an airframe of an aircraft or spacecraft, the composite panel member having a laminated or sandwich structure including: a first outer layer extending over a first side of the panel member; a second outer layer extending over a second side of the panel member; a core layer between the first and second outer layers; and at least one support element configured as an electrical conductor and provided within the core layer between the first and second outer layers. In this regard, the at least one support element extends within the core layer substantially parallel to the first and second outer layers.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2014Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Ichwan Zuardy, Oliver Bullinger, Claudio Vultaggio
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Patent number: 10807501Abstract: A passenger seat system for a transport means has a carrier structure which can be attached, fixedly with respect to a structure, and a seat having a seat frame displaceable and arrestable on the carrier structure, a bottom side lying on the carrier structure, and a top side holding a seat surface. The seat frame has an arresting device and has an operating unit, coupled to the arresting device. The operating unit is movable into an arresting position and an unlocking position, is coupled to a traction mechanism. The arresting device has an arresting body, coupled to the traction mechanism, is forced by action of a pressure spring into an engagement position, and can be moved by the traction mechanism into a release position and has a locking unit, coupled to the traction mechanism, locking the arresting body in the engagement position and releasing the locking by the traction mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Claus-Peter Gross
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Publication number: 20200324918Abstract: An installation system for a cabin of a vehicle includes at least one built-in component for installation in the cabin, multiple base elements for arrangement on a structurally fixed component of the vehicle and multiple holding devices that can be connected to the at least one built-in component. The holding devices each include a clamping unit with receiving space defined by at least two clamping members, wherein the receiving space can be moved between an open and a closed state through movement of at least one of the clamping members in the direction of the other clamping member in each case and wherein the clamping unit is configured to move the at least one clamping member by pressing the clamping unit onto a base element when the receiving space is in the open state and thereby closing the receiving space including the base element.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2020Publication date: October 15, 2020Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Matthias Hegenbart, Alexander Horn, Marcus Hinrichs, Thorsten Otto, Ingo Roth, Andreas Wietzke
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Patent number: 10800357Abstract: A method for disinfecting a vehicle drinking water tank is designed for dynamic disinfection. By providing a vehicle drinking water tank with a spray diffuser, which is arranged inside the vehicle drinking water tank, the disinfecting liquid can be sprayed over substantially the entire inner surface of the tank. Partial filling of the drinking water tank with a disinfecting liquid starts the disinfection method. The dynamics of the disinfection method are achieved by spraying the disinfecting liquid in such a way that a moved film of disinfecting liquid is formed and wets an inner surface of the drinking water tank. Material transport at the inner wall of the tank is improved and mechanical shear forces act on the biofilm, which is to be removed and/or disinfected, in combination with the biochemical disinfection forces.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Axel Schreiner, Paolo Cavarero
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Patent number: 10800529Abstract: A passenger supply unit for an aircraft cabin, including an input device for detecting a control command from a passenger, and for outputting a control signal to a further device for controlling the further device according to the control command. A passenger supply unit can be controlled by a passenger independent of its height above the passenger seat. The unit can be independent from an in-flight entertainment system. The input device includes a contact free sensor to detect the control command without being contacted by a passenger.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2017Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Peter Klose, Wolfgang Fischer, Matthias Schmitt
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Patent number: 10800534Abstract: A passenger seat system for a means of transport has a carrier structure which can be attached, fixedly with respect to a structure, and a seat having a seat frame being displaceable and arrestable on the carrier structure, a bottom side lying on the carrier structure, and a top side holding a seat surface. The seat frame has an arresting device on the bottom side and has an operating unit coupled to the arresting device. The operating unit is movable into an arresting position and an unlocking position. The arresting device has an arresting body movable perpendicularly with respect to the carrier structure and which can be moved into an engagement position and a release position. An arresting mechanism mechanically directly couples the arresting device to the operating unit such that the position of the arresting body is determined exclusively by the position of the operating unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Claus-Peter Gross