Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations S.A.S.
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Patent number: 11650239Abstract: A main electrical cabling is subject to variations in ambient temperature over its length. A detection system for detecting fault in the main electrical cabling able to cause a serial arc, or heating within a connection, includes a monitor electrical cabling placed as a return loop alongside the main electrical cabling, a monitoring device, and a return cable bringing back electrical potential at the output of the main electrical cabling to the monitoring device. The monitoring device includes a controllable current generator injecting, into the monitor electrical cable, a current dependent on current flowing through the main electrical cabling. Electronic circuitry determines a difference in voltages at inputs and outputs of the main electrical cabling and of the monitor electrical cabling, to detect a potential fault in the main electrical cabling leading to a serial arc or increase in temperature. A fault in the main electrical cabling is detected despite variations in temperature.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventor: Patrick Oms
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Patent number: 11643214Abstract: A cold regulating valve for a heat exchanger system of an aircraft propulsion system, where the cold regulating valve includes an open frame which delimits an opening, two shutters with an external convex shape slidably mounted on the open frame between a closed position and an open position, a mechanism linked to the shutters and mobile between a first position and a second position, and wherein the mechanism moves the shutters from the closed position to the open position when it moves from the first position to the second position and vice versa, and an actuator acting on the mechanism to move it from the first position to the second position and vice versa. The specific embodiment of the cold regulating valve generates a low drag when the shutters are in a closed position.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventors: Michael Berjot, Julien Cayssials, Adeline Soulie
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Patent number: 11643223Abstract: A facility for simplifying the facilities and tools required to assemble a first aircraft fuselage section and a second aircraft fuselage section by the ends thereof, these sections being fragile, large elements. The facility includes a logistics trolley that can be moved on the floor and immobilized in a position to carry the first section, at least one adjustable support installed on the floor at another position that is adjustable with six degrees of freedom, to carry the second section. Each support can be commanded to adjust the position of the second section in relation to the first section, such as to position one end of the second section in geometric conformity with one end of the first section. This arrangement enables all movements to be made directly on the floor, obviating the need to provide lifting machines or overhead traveling cranes within the assembly facility.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventors: Cédric Godard, Florian Collado, Jacques Bouriquet, Jean-Marc Datas, Nicolas Darbonville, André Aquila
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Patent number: 11642866Abstract: A method for manufacturing structural rods to make it easier to manufacture a structural rod for an aircraft and to improve performance. Each rod includes a rod body and two end portions disposed at either end of the rod body along a longitudinal central rod axis, each end portion comprising at least one mounting lug that protrudes from the rod body along the longitudinal axis. The method includes producing a sandwich panel including two skins gripping a cellular inner body, at least one of the two outer skins having a skin extension for forming a part of the at least one mounting lug of at least one of the two end portions of the rod, and cutting the panel along parallel cutting lines to obtain the structural rods.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventors: Gautier Destombes, Benoît Penven
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Patent number: 11638972Abstract: A method for manufacturing a porous layer of an acoustic attenuation structure, porous layer of an acoustic attenuation structure thus obtained and acoustic attenuation structure comprising the porous layer. A method for manufacturing a porous layer of an acoustic attenuation structure includes a first step of production of a solid layer including at least one structural frame embedded in a resin matrix and having first and second reinforcing strips arranged so as to delimit zones without reinforcing strips and a second step of production of through-holes in the zones without reinforcing strips of the solid layer using a laser beam.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventors: Florian Ravise, Florent Mercat
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Patent number: 11623732Abstract: To improve the seal between a wing and a ventral fairing of an aircraft, an assembly includes an air seal system arranged in an opening, between the ventral fairing and the wing. The seal system includes a sealing blade, a first end of which presses against the wing, and a connecting device, on the ventral fairing, for a second blade end that is opposite the first end. The connecting device includes at least one first connecting layer, of which a first connecting face is secured to a first surface of the sealing blade, and of which a second face, opposite the first face, is secured to the ventral fairing, the first connecting layer being made of a material including an elastomer.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventor: Frédéric Goupil
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Publication number: 20230069277Abstract: An airborne communication device installed in a vehicle, wherein the airborne communication device is configured to receive navigation information from a ground-based communication device installed outside the vehicle via a datalink protocol. A ground-based communication device, a communication system, and a method for communication are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicants: Airbus Operations GmbH, Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventors: Francois TRANCHET, Timo WARNS
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Patent number: 11579585Abstract: Method and system for optimizing the arrangement of a set of aircraft parts on a plate. The system includes a selection module which selects, from a set of data on the material of the set of parts and a set of geometric data associated with the set of parts, part grouping criteria including at least one optimized plate thickness value, an optimization module for optimizing the arrangement of the set of parts on a plate as a function of the part grouping criteria, cutting criteria and optimization criteria and a transmission module generating and transmitting, to a user system, optimization data representative of the optimization of the arrangement of the set of parts. The system makes it possible to take account of the parameters linked to the dimensions of the plate to optimize the arrangement of the set of parts.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignees: Airbus (S.A.S.), Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventors: Laurent Huquet, Perrine Dupuy, Samuel Drouvroy, Christophe Louat
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Patent number: 11554872Abstract: A junction of a pylon with an aircraft wing, the pylon including a primary structure extending from front to rear along a longitudinal axis and in the form of a box with a rear face and an upper spar forming an upper face of the box, a longitudinal median plane separating the primary structure into two parts, left and right, the junction comprising a rear attachment system for attaching the pylon to the wing, this system being arranged at the rear of the primary structure, the rear attachment system including a shoe attached beneath the wing, the shoe being connected, via at least one articulated connecting rod, to a fitting attached to the rear face of the pylon by an articulation whose articulation pin, termed the horizontal articulation pin, is perpendicular to the longitudinal median plane, and the shoe being connected to the upper spar via a force reacting system.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventors: Laurent Frenot, Olivier Pautis, Michael Berjot, Thomas Robiglio, Germain Gueneau
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Patent number: 11551346Abstract: A computer system is provided for processing ultrasonic data of an ultrasonic probe applied to an area of an aircraft component that includes carbon fiber reinforced polymer. C-scan data is obtained and a preliminary mesh is defined over the C-scan data by taking into account the underlying structural or mechanical characteristics of the analyzed component. The mesh is further refined and data gathered for each mesh cell. A heat map is generated based on the mesh.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignees: AIRBUS (S.A.S.), AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.), AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.Inventors: Nicolas Dominguez, Silvere Barut, Franck Bentouhami, Rémi Cabrero, Grégoire Noblet, David Lopez Bravo
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Patent number: 11538346Abstract: A flight management assembly of an aircraft and method of monitoring the flight management assembly. The assembly includes two flight management systems, and a monitoring and backup unit, each of the flight management systems configured for generating data including a trajectory and a prediction of a parameter of the aircraft, one of the flight management systems being active and the other being passive, the monitoring and backup unit configured for carrying out monitoring of at least one of the items of data generated by the active flight management system in order to verify if the item of data is valid, the flight management assembly carrying out, in case of validation of the monitored item of data, a synchronization of the monitoring and backup unit and of the passive flight management system, with data called synchronization data of the active flight management system, namely a flight plan and/or a flight trajectory.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventors: Jean-Claude Mere, Sylvain Raynaud
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Patent number: 11524192Abstract: A propulsion assembly including a turbomachine attached to a pylon, and a fire-fighting system, the turbomachine including fire zones, the fire-fighting system including two reservoirs of pressurized extinguishing agent in the pylon and a distribution line connecting the reservoirs to nozzles. The distribution line includes connected pipes having a low point between the reservoirs and the nozzles, and, for each low point, a fluid drainage device for evacuating fluid. The drainage device includes a fluid passage for fluid evacuation from the distribution line and a mechanism for shutting off the fluid passage, the mechanism movable under effect of distribution line pressure, between a first position where it opens the fluid passage and a second position where it closes the fluid passage, the second position being reached when the pressure in the distribution line is greater than or equal to a predetermined pressure.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventors: Julien Cayssials, Adeline Soulie, Arnaud Guichot, Nicolas Brachet
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Patent number: 11519300Abstract: An assembly of an engine with a pylon, including a force reacting assembly having a connection device and two rods, the connection device including a shoe. A spreader extends between first and second ends and has a central part connected to the shoe by a main connection including a main rotation pin and axis in a plane of symmetry of the connection device. Two fittings are on either side of the plane of symmetry each having two arms between which the spreader is positioned. A first, respectively second, rod includes a front end fastened to the engine and a rear end fastened to the first, respectively second, end of the spreader and to the first, respectively second, fitting by a secondary connection. Two extensions of the spreader are each associated with a pair of elastic stops. For the first, respectively second, end of the spreader, each stop is between an arm of the first, respectively second, fitting and the extension.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventors: Michael Berjot, Rémi Lansiaux, William Bras, Germain Gueneau
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Publication number: 20220384937Abstract: An antenna arrangement for an aircraftincludes an antenna unit, a radome structure covering the antenna unit, and a mounting device for mounting the antenna arrangement to an outer surface of an aircraft component. The antenna unit is mounted to or integrally formed with the radome structure and the radome structure is mounted to or integrally formed with the mounting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicants: Airbus Operations GmbH, Airbus Operations S.A.S.Inventors: Thomas Düde, Christian Schaupmann, Rubén Bancalero Santolaya
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Publication number: 20220381801Abstract: The measuring device includes a substrate intended to be arranged on an aerodynamic surface; a profiled element connected at one of its ends to the substrate, and configured to be oriented, under the effect of the fluid flow; a magnet that is secured to the profiled element and is configured to generate a magnetic field; and a measuring element that is configured to measure a value of the magnetic field and to convert this measured value of the magnetic field into an angle value indicating the direction of the fluid flow; the measuring device thus making it possible to measure and provide, in real-time, a numerical angle value with which it is possible to define with high precision the direction of the fluid flow relative to the aerodynamic surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: Airbus Operations S.A.S.Inventors: Jean-Luc Vialatte, Karounen Veerabadran, Thomas Boisson, Laurent Malard, Ivan Garcia Hallo, Florent Montet
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Patent number: 11499504Abstract: A propulsion assembly for an aircraft includes a pylon, a turbofan including a structure fixed to the pylon, and at least one thrust reverser, each having a top beam extending parallel to a longitudinal direction and mobile in rotation on the structure around a rotation axis parallel to the longitudinal direction. For each thrust reverser, an actuator is provided, a first end of which is articulated on the pylon and a second end of which is articulated on the top beam of the thrust reverser and the articulation axis of the actuator on the top beam is not coaxial with the rotation axis. Such assembly allows a positioning of the actuator in the upper part of the turbofan between the top beam of the thrust reverser and the pylon to free some space.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventor: Laurent Cazeaux
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Patent number: 11486318Abstract: To control an engine shutdown in an aircraft, a control system includes a fuel supply shut-off member, a control member with a set of switches, a first switch on an electrical power supply link of the fuel supply shut-off member and second switches connected to avionics of the aircraft, the set of switches switching position on an engine shutdown command. An engine shutdown confirmation unit includes a third switch on the electrical power supply link, the third switch in open position by default. The engine shutdown confirmation unit includes electronic circuitry configured to switch the third switch over to closed position when a predefined quantity Q of switches of the control member switches position within a sliding window of predefined duration and, otherwise, keeps the third switch in open position. Thus, it is ensured that the engine shutdown is intentional.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventors: Patrick Zaccaria, David Boyer
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Patent number: 11485512Abstract: An aircraft propulsion plant including an electric motor having a rotor and a stator mechanically linked to a base which can be mounted at the rear of an aircraft fuselage, a fan rotated by the rotor, a set of fixed blades located downstream of the fan, and a nacelle comprising an outer casing and a fan casing surrounding the fan and the set of fixed blades. The nacelle is mechanically linked to the base through the set of fixed blades. This configuration enables a cooling circuit to be formed for enabling the heat produced by the electric motor at the location of the stator to be evacuated towards the fixed blades and the nacelle where it is dissipated. Furthermore, this heat may be used for the de-icing of the nacelle lip.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignees: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.), Airbus (S.A.S.)Inventors: Jérôme Colmagro, Aurélien Mauconduit
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Patent number: 11486781Abstract: A device for monitoring clamping of an assembly including at least one part to be clamped, an internally threaded element and an externally threaded element engaged in an internal thread of the internally threaded element. The device includes a driver to rotate one of the elements including the internally threaded element and the externally threaded element to clamp the assembly and a first sensor to measure a screwing torque of the driver, a tool for holding fixed against rotation the other of the elements including the internally threaded element and the externally threaded element, a second sensor to measure a reaction torque of the holding tool, a mechanism for determining a third parameter chosen from a time elapsed from a given time and a screwing angle from a reference position, and a calculation system to determine pre-tension in the externally threaded element.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventors: Clément Chirol, Patricia Morgue, Manuel Paredes, Simon Dols
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Patent number: 11480113Abstract: A method and system for acquiring fuel characteristics on board an aircraft. The method for acquiring fuel characteristic on board an aircraft includes a least one tank and comprises a determination step determining a fuel circuit in one tank among the tank or tanks. The circuit includes at least one pump pumping the fuel from the tank into the circuit. A fuel properties measurement unit and a first valve are configured to open or close the circuit. A filling step includes filling the circuit with fuel. An acquisition step includes acquiring a value respectively for each of the fuel characteristics of the tank, and a transmission step includes transmitting, to a user device, a signal representative of the acquired values of the fuel characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventor: Alvaro Ruiz Gallardo