Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH
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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: 11312467Abstract: A stiffener for an aircraft assembly is disclosed. The stiffener provides structural stability to the aircraft assembly. The stiffener has a first stiffener part having a planar web portion and a second stiffener part arranged with the first stiffener part. The second stiffener part includes a corrugated web portion having a corrugation. The present application also relates to an aircraft assembly, a fuselage for an aircraft, an aircraft and a method of forming a stiffener for an aircraft assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignees: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GmbH, AIRBUS SASInventors: Avinash Kumar Yadav, Vinayak Ramachandra Patil, Sven Hardy Werner
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Patent number: 11305865Abstract: A wing for an aircraft is disclosed having a fixed wing, and a foldable wing tip portion mounted to the fixed wing via a tip hinge rotatable about a tip hinge axis between an extended position and a folded position. An arresting device is provided that allows to arrest the foldable wing tip portion with respect to the fixed wing in a very precise position and at the same time can be engaged in a simple and quick manner, is achieved in that the wing includes an arresting system including a first hook mounted to the foldable wing tip portion and a second hook mounted to the fixed wing, wherein the first hook and the second hook are configured to be moved relative to one another between an arrested position, where the first and second hooks are engaged and relative movement of the first and second aircraft components is inhibited, and a release position, where the first and second hooks are disengaged and relative movement of the first and second aircraft components is allowed.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GmbHInventor: Christian Lorenz
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Patent number: 11305864Abstract: A wing for an aircraft is disclosed having a fixed wing, a foldable wing tip portion mounted to the fixed wing via a first hinge rotatable about a first hinge axis between an extended position and a folded position, and an actuation unit for actuating the foldable wing tip portion for movement about the first hinge axis. A wing having an actuation unit with reduced complexity and weight and that is arranged entirely inside the outer contour of the wing is disclosed in which the actuation unit is arranged at one of the fixed wing and the foldable wing tip portion and is coupled to the other of the fixed wing and the foldable wing tip portion via a linkage. The linkage includes a first link element and a second link element, wherein the first link element is rotatably mounted to the one of the fixed wing and the foldable wing tip portion via a second hinge and is rotatably coupled to the second link element via a third hinge.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GmbHInventor: Christian Lorenz
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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: 11292224Abstract: A process for producing a sandwich component. A first covering layer is formed on a molding surface of a molding tool; a core is produced by building up a cell structure having a multiplicity of cells in a thickness direction on the first covering layer via an additive production process; and a second covering layer is formed on a deposition surface of the core, the surface being situated on the opposite side from the first covering layer. A core for a sandwich component is furthermore described, as is a sandwich component.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventors: Volker Robrecht, Gilles Debril
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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: 11293209Abstract: A device for controlling a door of a vehicle includes a drive unit that pivots the door between closed and open positions, wherein the closed and open positions define a pivoting range of the door. The device includes a control unit to control the drive unit. The device also includes a sensor unit that monitors the pivoting range. The sensor unit transmits a collision signal when an object is in the pivoting range while the drive unit is pivoting the door. The control unit transmits a switch-off signal to the drive unit if the control unit receives the collision signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventors: Philippe Raviart, Ulf Kehlenbeck, Matias Mail, Sascha Rodewald
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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: 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: 11292615Abstract: An aircraft structural deformation sensor system comprises a deformation sensor arrangement comprising one or more transceiver(s), each transceiver matched to at least one corresponding transponder and configured to be attached to a support component. The deformation sensing arrangement is configured such that one or more range values between the at least one transceiver and the at least one corresponding transponder is determinable by the transceiver. A deformation controller is configured to process the one or more range values from the transceiver(s) and compute a deformation state of the deformable component relative to the support component.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventor: Stefan Bensmann
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Patent number: 11285506Abstract: A device for lacquer transfer is disclosed including a frame, a transfer roller with a circumferential lateral wall, and a nozzle for dispensing lacquer, wherein the nozzle is connected to the frame, wherein an outside contact surface of the lateral wall comprises several depressions, wherein the transfer roller is mounted rotatably about an axis of rotation at the frame, wherein 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, and wherein 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.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignees: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GmbH, AIRBUS (SAS)Inventors: Alexander Gillessen, Pierre Zahlen, Christian Schepp, Daniel Kress, Waldemar Kümmel
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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: 11278845Abstract: A gas dehumidification device having two heat exchangers, each including a first and second fluid line. Each second fluid line at least partially surrounds the respective first fluid line. Each heat exchanger thermally couples a fluid in the respective heat exchanger second fluid line with a first coolant on an outside surface of the respective heat exchanger second fluid line. The gas dehumidification device further comprises a two-position valve. In a first position, a fluid comprising a higher temperature than the first and/or second coolant is conducted into the first heat exchanger first fluid line and in the second position, the fluid is conducted into the second heat exchanger first fluid line. A controller is configured to place the valve selectively into the first or second position.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventor: Markus Piesker
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Patent number: 11273918Abstract: An aircraft cooling system and an aircraft having an aircraft cooling system of this type. The aircraft cooling system comprises a ram air duct, a nozzle arranged in the ram air duct and connected to a first water-conducting line, and a refrigeration device. The refrigeration device comprises a heat exchanger thermally coupled to the refrigeration device and configured to release waste heat generated by the refrigeration device to cooling air present in the ram air duct, a first water separator configured to separate off water from the air cooled by the refrigeration device, and a water outlet configured to conduct water obtained in the first water separator into the first water-conducting line. Furthermore, the water outlet has an inlet configured to be connected to a second water-conducting line, wherein the water outlet is furthermore configured to generate a negative pressure at the inlet.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATION GMBHInventor: Frank Klimpel
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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: 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: 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: D948880Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Bruno Saint-Jalmes