Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH
  • Patent number: 8925864
    Abstract: A component for building a fuselage section of an aircraft includes a border area connectable to a corresponding further border area of a further component so as to form an electrically conductive joint, wherein the component includes a composite structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Cihangir Sayilgan, Robert Alexander Goehlich
  • Patent number: 8930588
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for an aircraft network that permits an automatic configuring and/or repairing of the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Einig, Claus-Peter Gross
  • Patent number: 8925867
    Abstract: A cargo loading system for a means of transport with a power drive unit 201 for moving cargo in a cargo hold of a means of transport and with an operational control unit. The operational control unit is designed for controlling the entire movement of the cargo by means of the power drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Schnörwangen, Volker Hasbach
  • Patent number: 8930088
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for positioning at least one component, in particular a seat, in or on an aircraft or spacecraft comprising the following steps: controlling at least one light source of the aircraft or spacecraft to display at least one desired position of at least one component; and positioning the at least one component in the at least one desired position displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Achim Bauer, Andre Zybala
  • Patent number: 8925862
    Abstract: A monument complex is provided for a rear area of a passenger cabin. The rear contour of the monument complex is adapted to the contour of the bulkhead so that an additional wash basin can be installed without there being any loss of space in the passenger cabin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Ehlers, Mark Herzog
  • Patent number: 8925865
    Abstract: An emergency supply system for a transportation means is provided. The system includes at least one fuel cell, a hydrogen tank, an oxygen tank, an extinguishing agent container, an oxidant supply unit and an extinguishing-agent supply unit. The oxidant supply unit includes an oxygen inlet connectable to the oxygen tank, an air inlet connectable to an air source, and an oxidant outlet connected to an oxidant inlet of the fuel cell. The oxidant supply unit either conveys oxygen from the oxygen inlet or air from the air inlet to the oxidant outlet. The extinguishing-agent supply unit includes a first extinguishing agent inlet connected to an exhaust air outlet of the fuel cell, a second extinguishing agent inlet connected to the extinguishing agent container, and an extinguishing agent outlet that is connectable to an extinguishing-agent inlet unit of at least one space of the transportation means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf-Henning Stolte, Gwenaelle Renouard Vallet, Paul Rohrbach, Rainer Beuermann
  • Patent number: 8925869
    Abstract: An aerodynamic body, with at least one ancillary flap arranged such that it can be moved on the aerodynamic body with the aid of a guide mechanism, and with a drive device for purposes of actuating the ancillary flap, the guide mechanism having a pivotal articulation, by which the ancillary flap is articulated on the aerodynamic body such that it can be extended, and which is arranged in a rear region of the ancillary flap as viewed in the flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Hendrik Friedel, Bodo Zapf
  • Patent number: 8925871
    Abstract: A wing of an aircraft provided with a main wing and an arrangement of leading edge lifting bodies, which as seen with reference to the incident flow direction are arranged on the leading edge, which are adjustably arranged on the main wing one behind another as seen in the spanwise direction of the main wing by means of respectively two positioning devices spaced apart from one another in the spanwise direction of the main wing. The wing has a connecting device, which is coupled to each of two adjacent leading edge lifting bodies, wherein the connecting device is configured such that in the event of a fracture of a positioning device of a positioning body external forces acting on the latter are transferred via the respective connecting device to the leading edge lifting bodies coupled up via the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Xavier Hue, Bernhard Schlipf
  • Publication number: 20150004357
    Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a fibre composite component with at least one opening, which is edged by an integral collar, a device for the execution of a method of this type with a mould core, which has at least one convexity for the formation of a component section in the form of a bulge, also a fibre composite component with a multiplicity of openings, each of which is edged by an integral collar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Marc Schimmler, Bernd Raeckers, Thomas Kruse, Wolfgang Schulze
  • Patent number: 8920086
    Abstract: Disclosed is a taper bolt connection including a taper bolt received in a taper bush, a fastening nut and a washer, the taper bush having a continuous longitudinal slot, and the taper bush being capable of being spread open uniformly in the radial direction by means of a fastening nut screwable onto the taper bolt. Since the taper bolt and/or the taper bush have/has, at least in regions, an at least Teflon-containing coating, tribochemical processes between the taper bush wedge surface and the taper bolt wedge surface are largely avoided, so that the taper bolt connection can be released again without great effort even after a long period of connection. Furthermore disclosed is the use of the taper bolt connection for connecting a rudder unit to a carrying structure of a fuselage cell of an aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Stecher, Wilhelm Rombs
  • Patent number: 8919696
    Abstract: A method for stiffening a skin field of an aircraft fuselage includes providing a skin field for an aircraft fuselage, manufacturing an integral lattice-shaped stiffening structure including a plurality of longitudinal stiffeners and connecting the stiffening structure to the skin field. The manufacturing can include the use of a tool mold having a plurality of longitudinal recesses configured to form longitudinal stiffeners and a plurality of sunken areas disposed between the longitudinal recess. The sunken areas are configured for forming respective mounts that are configured for connection to circumferential stiffeners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Lonsdorfer, Hauke Seegel, Klaus Rode, Andreas Pau, Hartmut Herter, Kevin Danke
  • Patent number: 8924045
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for adjusting and locking a movable control surface, which includes, but is not limited to a rotatably held spindle, an adjustment body, a linear guide, a drive unit, a linear positioning encoder and a control unit. The adjustment body with the linear guide is slidably guided along a first movement axis, and the spindle is connected to the adjustment body for moving the adjustment body along the movement axis. The adjustment body is configured to connect to a control surface mount, and the linear positioning encoder and the drive unit are connected to the control unit. The latter is designed to adjust a predetermined actuating position of the adjustment body by rotation of the spindle with the drive unit and by comparing an actual position, detected by the linear positioning encoder, of the adjustment body with the predetermined actuating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Eldert Akkermann
  • Patent number: 8919695
    Abstract: A storage compartment configuration and an aircraft having a storage compartment configuration according to the invention are proposed. The storage compartment configuration has a storage compartment having a storage space and a suspension. The storage space is designed to receive pieces of luggage. The suspension is used for the attaching the storage compartment to a load-bearing structure of the aircraft. The suspension is designed in such a manner that the storage compartment can be pivoted essentially around a geometrical center point of the storage space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignees: Airbus Operations GmbH, Airbus S.A.S.
    Inventors: Thomas Bock, Martin Dehn, Ian Scoley, Ralph Sturm
  • Patent number: 8920698
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a production method for a workpiece (15) composed of a fibre-composite material, having the following steps: at least one support means (3) is provided. A main material (6) composed of a pre-impregnated fibre semi-finished product and/or of a secondary material (7) are/is applied to the at least one support means (3) in order to form at least two blank-mould areas (1, 10), in such a manner that at least one of the at least two blank-mould areas (1, 10) has the main material, and at least one of the blank-mould areas (1, 10) has the secondary material. The blank-mould areas (1, 10) are pressure-bonded to one another to form a workpiece blank (14) such that the at least one support means (3) is provided on a surface of the workpiece blank (14). The at least one support means (3) and the secondary material (7) are removed from the workpiece blank (14) in order to form the workpiece (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Sander, Hans Marquardt, Hauke Lengsfeld
  • Patent number: 8915201
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for producing a reinforced foam material and for receiving a textile semifinished product in a hook. To this end, the device has a first subunit having a transport device and a second subunit having a receiving device. The transport device is designed to convey the textile semifinished product into the receiving device, and the first subunit and the second subunit are designed such that the textile semifinished product can be presented in defined length by a relative movement of the first subunit relative to the second subunit. Furthermore, the receiving device of the second subunit is set up such that the textile semifinished product can be placed in the hooks by a relative movement of the receiving device relative to the hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignees: Airbus Operations GmbH, Evonik Roehm GmbH
    Inventors: Jörg Rippert, Uwe Lang, Matthias Alexander Roth, Hans-Jürgen Weber, Gregor Christian Endres
  • Patent number: 8915776
    Abstract: An air outlet valve for use in an aircraft is adapted during normal operation of the aircraft as a component of a cabin pressure control system for adjusting a desired pressure level in an aircraft cabin to remove air from an interior of the aircraft into the environment around the aircraft. The air outlet valve is further adapted during emergency ventilation operation of the aircraft as a component of a system for emergency ventilation of the aircraft cabin to introduce air from the environment around the aircraft into the interior of the aircraft. The air outlet valve comprises a nose-side valve flap, which is pivotable about an axis and is adapted to open or close a nose-side portion of an air outlet valve aperture, and a tail-side valve flap, which is pivotable about an axis and is adapted to open or close a tail-side portion of the air outlet valve aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Heuer
  • Patent number: 8910484
    Abstract: A system for reducing harmful substances in engine exhaust gases includes a fuel cell, which is adapted to generate electrical energy and a steam-containing fuel cell exhaust gas during operation. A fuel tank serves to store fuel which is to be supplied to an engine during operation. A condensing device is connected to an exhaust gas outlet of the fuel cell so that steam-containing fuel cell exhaust gas is supplyable to the condensing device. The condensing device is adapted to convert the steam contained in the fuel cell exhaust gas into the liquid state of aggregation by means of condensation and to introduce the water obtained as a result of the condensing process into the fuel in order to form a water/fuel mixture. A water/fuel mixture line is connected to the engine so that a water/fuel mixture is supplyable to the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Claus Hoffjann, Hansgeorg Schuldzig, Ralf-Henning Stolte
  • Patent number: 8910907
    Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a system for simultaneous longitudinal shifting of several selected seats or seat rows in an aircraft is stated, in which system a drive device for shifting the seats is provided, wherein shifting the seats takes place according to a change in seat configuration planning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Gonnsen, Jens Gaertner
  • Patent number: 8910910
    Abstract: A wing of an aircraft has a pressure-side flow surface and a suction-side flow surface relative to an assumed main direction of attack and comprises a flow fence disposed on a flow surface, wherein the flow fence extends in the main wing chordwise direction and between a location of the pressure-side flow surface and a location of the suction side flow surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Rolf Emunds
  • Patent number: 8910908
    Abstract: The invention provides a stiffening element, in particular for a shell component of an aircraft or spacecraft, which has a stiffening profile part and a foot part. The stiffening profile part is in this case composed of a lightweight metal material, and the foot part is composed of a material which is highly resistant to corrosion. A method is also provided for production of a stiffening element, in particular for a shell component of an aircraft or spacecraft. A stiffening profile semi-finished product is first of all produced from a lightweight metal material, and a foot part is produced from a material which is highly resistant to corrosion. The foot part and the stiffening profile semi-finished product are then integrally connected. The stiffening profile semi-finished product together with the foot part is then subjected to machining to form an intended shape for the stiffening element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Roming, Thorsten Schroeer