Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH
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Patent number: 9422057Abstract: A galley (10) for an aircraft comprises a plurality of electrical kitchen appliances (24) that differ functionally from one another. Of these, at least a partial number of at least two electrical appliances comprise in each case an operator control unit (26), which is manufactured structurally separate from a main functional part of the relevant appliance and has an arrangement of operator control elements for operator control of the appliance. The operator control units are in this case designed to be of an identical construction to one another from appliance to appliance.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2009Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventors: Stefan Koschberg, Ralph Schnabel
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Patent number: 9422050Abstract: A leading edge slat arranged on the aerofoil of an aircraft. The leading edge slat is provided on the front of the main wing. The leading edge slat has a partially extended setting, with its trailing edge flat against the wing, and a further extended setting, with its trailing edge spaced apart from the nose of the wing to open a gap feeding high-energy air from the lower surface of the slat to the upper surface of the wing. The leading edge slat includes a body and a trailing edge facing the main wing, which can be bent around the spanwise direction of the slat relative to the body, and on which the trailing edge of the slat is provided, and which by means of a device generating a contact force is loaded for making contact between the trailing edge of the slat and the profile nose of the wing.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2009Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Bernhard Schlipf, Xavier Hue
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Patent number: 9422056Abstract: An aircraft monument for installation in an aircraft cabin comprising a sanitary module having a sanitary fitment, and a galley module arranged adjacent to the sanitary module. The galley module comprises a trolley parking place and a work surface. The trolley parking place is separated from the sanitary module by a partition wall.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2014Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventors: Bernd Ehlers, Carsten Putensen
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Patent number: 9426921Abstract: A line replaceable unit (LRU) for an integrated modular avionics (IMA) architecture, the LRU comprising at least one input/output interface and a plurality of connectors, wherein each connector includes at least one pin and each connector is adapted for connection to a single segregated wire route bundle, and wherein hardware of one interface is electrically connected within the LRU to one or more pins of each of at least two of the connectors. Also, an IMA architecture including the LRU, and an aircraft including the LRU or the IMA architecture.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2011Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignees: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED, AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventors: Timothy Todd, Thorsten Nitsche
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Patent number: 9421746Abstract: A method for joining parts to be joined which are subject to tolerance in the aerospace sector. The method involves determining the geometric data of a first and second part to be joined, determining the joining gap dimensions of the first and second parts from the determined geometric data and arranging a plurality of shape elements which can be connected together in planar manner in a first region of a surface of the first part. The method moreover comprises application of a first adhesive layer onto the plurality of shape elements and in a second region of the surface of the first part. The method finally involves joining the first and second parts, the first adhesive layer being brought into contact with the surface of the second part. A corresponding apparatus is provided for joining parts which are subject to tolerance in the aerospace sector.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Hans Otto, Rainer Schildt
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Patent number: 9426425Abstract: A method for measuring large components, including providing a large component with markings on at least one outer surface at predefined and spaced-apart locations, providing a camera sensor system having at least one camera and one image analysis device for evaluating a camera image, wherein the position and orientation of the camera in relation to a reference point at a distance from the camera are determined, recording camera images of the individual markings using the camera and transmitting the camera images to the image analysis device, evaluating the camera images using the image analysis device, wherein the position of the individual markings in relation to the position of the camera is determined, and calculating the position of the markings in relation to the reference point from the position of the camera in relation to the reference point and the position of the markings in relation to the camera.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2014Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Alexei Vichniakov, Andreas Schulz, Eckhard Tiemann, Jan Looks, Uwe Schubert
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Publication number: 20160240895Abstract: The embodiments relate to a switch device for an electrochemical energy store having: a film transistor device that comprises at least one organic transistor, can be mounted in a planar manner on at least one electrode of the electrochemical energy store, can be controlled by an external voltage source, and is designed in the form of a controllable electrical resistor that is connected, in series, to an internal resistor of said electrochemical energy store.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2014Publication date: August 18, 2016Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Alexander KAISER, Alexander OHNESORGE, Michael HOFFMANN, Jürgen STEINWANDEL, Michael PILAWA
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Patent number: 9415552Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a fiber composite component reinforcement section, which bounds a cavity, whereby a supporting core, with an elastic sleeve bounding an interior space, is temporarily positioned in the cavity. The steps include: laying down fibrous material on a base molding tool to form a base element of the fiber composite component, draping fibrous material in a negative mold, arranging the supporting core on an inner surface of the fibrous material in the negative mold, positioning the negative mold fitted with the fibrous material and the supporting core, on the base element to form the reinforcement section, forming a vacuum chamber accommodating the negative mold and the base element by covering with a vacuum film, evacuating the vacuum chamber, and curing the fibrous material, whereby when using a dry fibrous material, a matrix material is injected into the fibrous material after the evacuation.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2013Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Hermann Benthien, Axel Soeffker
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Patent number: 9415879Abstract: A device is disclosed for preventing gases and/or fluids emanating from a wing box of an aircraft from passing to an aircraft fuselage cell situated underneath it. The device comprises at least one sheet-like material positioned below or above the wing box. The sheet-like material is preferably made of a woven fabric comprising aramid fibers or the like, which fabric in order to ensure the required seal vis-à-vis liquid and/or gaseous substances, in particular vis-à-vis fuels, has been impregnated or soaked with an epichlorohydrin elastomer compound or with some other elastomer, for example a rubber compound or the like.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2010Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventor: Christos Bogiatzis
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Patent number: 9415536Abstract: An apparatus for producing a composite material aircraft component comprises a mold having a receiving space adapted to accommodate a plastic material. A heating device is adapted to supply heat to the mold in order to heat the plastic material accommodated within the receiving space of the mold. The apparatus further comprises a plurality of heat pipes, each heat pipe having a first end which is in thermal contact with a heat source and a second end which is in thermal contact with the receiving space of the mold, such that the plastic material accommodated within the receiving space is supplied with heat transferred to the receiving space from the heat source via the plurality of heat pipes.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Paulin Fideu, Hauke Seegel, Claus Fastert
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Patent number: 9415861Abstract: A control system for an aircraft high lift device includes a threshold setting unit configured to output one of a plurality of configuration change thresholds as an active output threshold, a threshold deactivation unit coupled to the threshold setting unit and configured to temporarily increase the active output threshold to a deactivation value, a configuration setting unit coupled to the threshold deactivation unit and configured to set the aircraft high lift device from a first configuration to a second configuration, if a measured value of an angle-of-attack of the aircraft exceeds the active output threshold, and a threshold control unit configured to control the threshold deactivation unit to temporarily increase the active output threshold to the deactivation value while the aircraft high lift device is mechanically moving from a first configuration to a second configuration.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Martin Berens
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Patent number: 9409321Abstract: A shaped body and a method for producing fiber composite components, wherein the shaped body is formed using a paper and/or cardboard material, at least in part. This makes possible cost-effective manufacture of hollow profiles of any desired length from fiber composite materials, in particular from prepreg materials and/or reinforcing fiber arrangements which are subsequently impregnated with a curable plastics material. The paper and/or cardboard material can be provided with further properties, such as gas-tightness and non-stick properties, by applying suitable functional layers. Moreover, the material makes it possible to produce highly dimensionally stable shaped bodies or support cores, in such a way that fiber composite components having highly reproducible spatial dimensions can be produced. In addition, after curing, the shaped bodies can be collapsed in a simple manner by applying a vacuum and thus removed from the fiber composite component without residues.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2011Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Ralf-Peter Dittmann, Sebastian Kaschel, Lothar Engler
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Patent number: 9409641Abstract: The invention relates to a device for limiting the deflection of a door (1), particularly a hatch or a freight door, arranged in a fuselage cell (3) of an aircraft, having at least one holding element (5) arranged preferably in the region of a door jamb (4) or in the region of a door leaf edge (7). In order to ensure deflection limitation for doors, hatches and freight doors in aircraft which can be triggered manually independently of an actuation of the normal locking system, it is proposed according to the invention that the at least one holding element (5) can, if there is a sufficient pressure difference ?p between the internal pressure pi prevailing in the fuselage cell (3) and the outside air pressure pa prevailing outside of the fuselage cell (3), be brought into engagement with at least one abutment (6) arranged in the region of the door leaf edge (7) or the door jamb (4).Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Ronald Risch
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Publication number: 20160221694Abstract: A method for adjusting play in a high-lift system of an aircraft with several flaps, moved by a drive unit with the aid of driving stations connected to a driveshaft, includes disengaging the mechanical connections between the driveshaft and the driving stations in the first position, displacing the individual drive levers by mechanically driving a gear input of the associated rotary actuator such that the individual drive levers come into mechanical contact with a stop in a second position, spaced apart from the first position, and are pretensioned by a certain torque, rotationally fixing the gear inputs of the rotary actuators, adapting the length of connecting links between the respective drive levers and a support arm carrying the associated flap such that a position of the associated flap corresponding to the position of the stop is reached, and reconnecting the driving stations to the driveshaft pretensioned to have no play.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2016Publication date: August 4, 2016Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Jan Haserodt
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Publication number: 20160221181Abstract: A support device, in particular an assembly support device for stabilizing a body part of a person includes a plurality of hinged-together elements designed to at least partially envelop a body part of a person, so that the plurality of hinged-together elements collectively form a flexible shell for the body part of the person. The flexible shell is designed to transfer a portion of a load acting on the body part of the person in order to stabilize the body part of the person. A vehicle, to which is secured an assembly support device, as well as a method for stabilizing a body part of a person during the assembly of a vehicle are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2016Publication date: August 4, 2016Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Robert Alexander Goehlich, Sven Chromik, Robert Weidner, Zhejun Yao, Jens Wulfsberg
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Patent number: 9403465Abstract: A crew rest compartment for a means of transport includes a first bunk and a second bunk, wherein the first bunk is located above the second bunk. Each bunk includes a sleeping area for accommodating a sleeping crew member, wherein each sleeping area has a longitudinal direction. The first bunk is aligned such that the longitudinal direction of the first bunk and a longitudinal direction of the crew rest compartment enclose an angle which differs from 0° and 90°.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Benedikt Kircher, Stephan Sontag, Paul Edwards
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Patent number: 9399325Abstract: A device for automatically laying and draping a plurality of web-form portions of a dry sheet-like formation, in particular of a multiaxial laid fiber fabric and/or a woven reinforcing fabric to create a profiled preform on a core by repeated laying and draping of the portions in order to produce a reinforcing profile with a composite material. Accordingly at least one portion, is kept in at least one cassette between two roller conveyors ready for laying on the core. As a result of the preferably simultaneous laying of preferably more than one prefabricated portion of the sheet-like formation on the core by means of at least one cassette of the cassette arrangement a profiled preform can be fully automatically laid and draped quickly and with great dimensional accuracy and at the same time with good reproducibility for the production of CRP profiles.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2011Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Carsten Barlag, Rolf Sundermann, Georg Lonsdorfer, Guenther Dressler, Christian Baumgartner
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Patent number: 9394055Abstract: A mixer for an aircraft air conditioning system has first and second fresh air lines and first and second recirculation air lines. A first premixer is connected to the first fresh air line and the first recirculation air line, to mix the fresh air with the recirculation air thereof. A second premixer is connected to the second fresh air line and the second recirculation air line, to mix the fresh air with the recirculation air thereof. A main mixer is connected by a first premixed air line to the first premixer and by a second premixed air line to the second premixer. The main mixer is adapted to be supplied through the first premixed air line and the second premixed air line exclusively with premixed air from the first and/or the second premixer.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2012Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventors: Michael Markwart, Jens Lohmar, Dariusz Krakowski, Martin Schmid, Torsten Stengel, Jens Elmers, Thomas Scherer
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Patent number: 9394691Abstract: A floor panel for a floor of a passenger cabin of a mobile platform is provided, which comprises a base body with an integrated cable channel and a cover element covering the cable channel. The base body is realized in the form of a sandwich component including two honeycomb structures, between which the cable channel is arranged. The cover element is firmly attached to the base body, thereby creating a self-supporting floor panel. Since the cover element is firmly attached to the base body, the thickness and weight of the base body may be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventors: Jan Haselmeier, Michael Bahs
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Patent number: 9395230Abstract: A measurement system for determining a liquid fill level of a tank, including a floating sensor configured to float on the surface of a liquid contained in the tank, at least three reference sensors mounted at a hull of the tank in a spatially fixed arrangement, and a control device to control the floating sensor and the reference sensors, wherein at least one of the floating sensor and the reference sensors can emit an acoustic signal to the remaining sensors, wherein the remaining sensors can receive the emitted acoustic signal, and wherein the control device is configured to determine signal travelling times of the acoustic signal from the emitting sensor to the receiving sensor, to compute a spatial position of the floating sensor with respect to the reference sensors from the signal travelling times, and to determine the liquid fill level using the computed spatial position of the floating sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2013Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Ulrich Rieger