Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations S.A.S.
  • Patent number: 12043407
    Abstract: A measurement device includes a substrate having accommodations with an emerging opening in which sensors are provided, the substrate including a cavity with a flexible printed circuit. The device is installed on a surface to characterize a fluid flow at this surface. The circuit uses hierarchized buses comprising two data communication buses emerging at the two longitudinal ends of the substrate and an internal data acquisition bus, the bus linking control circuits, each control circuit being connected to one of the communication buses, the sensors being connected to the bus in a distributed fashion on either side of each control circuit. The data from the sensors can be transmitted to the two surrounding circuits and may be acquired if one of them is faulty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Nicolas Dupe, Nicolas Jean, Cyrille Dajean
  • Patent number: 12038036
    Abstract: A seal includes a barrel extending between a base and a top, in which the barrel has a cylindrical cavity passing through it between its base and its top, and a skirt indissociable from the barrel and extending around said barrel, in which the skirt adopts the shape of a dome of which the exterior edges extend out beyond the base starting from the top. The seal is able to divert the fluid and keep the space under the skirt fluid tight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Simon Foucart-Gaudy, Vincent Delpy, Gerard Millet
  • Patent number: 12030618
    Abstract: A hinge assembly 8a for an aircraft component comprises first and second hinge plates 9, 10, each hinge plate including a plurality of fingers 13 to 17. The fingers of the first and second hinge plates are interleaved. A seal assembly 28 to 32 is provided between at least some of the fingers. The provision of a hinge including interposed fingers allows for a hinge assembly having a complex aerodynamic profile to be made, while the sealing function is performed by the seals filling the gaps between the fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignees: Airbus Operations Limited, Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Russell Older, Paul Morrell, Ryan Holland, Oliver Marks, Pierre-Antoine Combes, Guillaume De Almeida
  • Patent number: 12017756
    Abstract: A structural assembly for an aircraft having pairs of main gantries distributed in the longitudinal direction, two transverse panels fixed to the front and the rear of the pairs of main gantries to together define a compartment for a landing gear of the aircraft, at least one pair of secondary gantries between the main gantries, at least one crossmember parallel to the transverse panels and that straddles at least one secondary gantry, and, for each secondary gantry and each crossmember straddling the secondary gantry, a connecting rod mounted to be able to freely rotate, via a first end, on a lower part of the crossmember and, via a second end, on an outer lateral part of the secondary gantry. Such an arrangement reduces the vertical bulk of the structural assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Benoit Orteu, Ludovic Mil, Lionel Laganier, Dominique Marty, Philippe Robert
  • Patent number: 12011754
    Abstract: A method and a device for manufacturing a part starting from a cushion made of deformable material, in particular for an edge of an element of an aircraft. The device includes a preparation unit to create a cushion with two plates and, between the plates, an internal space with an opening, and a molding unit comprising a mold in which the cushion is positioned, the mold comprising two shells and an imprint corresponding to the shape of the part to be manufactured, the molding unit configured to inject a pressurized fluid into the internal space of the cushion through the opening to deform the cushion such that it matches the imprint and forms the part, the device being capable of manufacturing one-piece parts of various sizes, and in particular parts having complex shapes, in particular non-developable shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventor: César Garnier
  • Patent number: 12012911
    Abstract: A deflector for an ejection structure of a thrust reverser is disclosed including a deflector plate configured to act on an aerodynamic flow, the deflector plate having a concave upstream face, a convex downstream face, an inlet end, and an outlet end. The upstream face and the downstream face of the deflector plate have different curved profiles, the deflector has a particular profile giving it properties allowing it to act effectively on the aerodynamic flow so as to enhance the performance of the thrust reverser in which it is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Lauren Davis, Christophe Bourdeau, Frédéric Chelin
  • Patent number: 12005665
    Abstract: A device for manufacturing a stiffened panel with reinforcements which each have a final thickness and a final height. The manufacturing device includes tools configured to each support a preform of fibers having a U-shaped or C-shaped cross section with a base and two wings. Each tool comprises, at at least one of its first and second lateral faces, a set-back portion which, when two tools are juxtaposed, delimits a recess configured to form a reinforcement during a consolidation or polymerization step. The tools are dimensioned such that each recess has a width, at the consolidation or polymerization temperature, that is substantially equal to the thickness of the reinforcements. This solution makes it possible to more effectively control the geometry of the stiffened panel by avoiding the formation of beads. A method for manufacturing a stiffened panel using the device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventor: Jago Pridie
  • Patent number: 11994981
    Abstract: A method for testing an avionic computer having internal parameters of which only a subset of internal parameters is accessible to a test bench. The method includes connecting the avionic computer to the test bench, equipping the test bench with a test computer having software similar to software of the avionic computer, all of the internal parameters of which are accessible to the test bench, executing the software of the avionic computer in interaction with the test bench and executing the software of the test computer at the same time as the software of the avionic computer, and visualizing internal parameters belonging to the subset of internal parameters of the avionic computer and visualizing internal parameters of the test computer, corresponding to internal parameters of the avionic computer not belonging to the subset of internal parameters of the avionic computer, to check the conformity of operation of the software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Arnaud Chevalier, Hacen Abdeslem
  • Patent number: 11987390
    Abstract: To make an aircraft assembly installation modulable, the latter includes a floor, assembly stations distributed on the floor, and structures for accessing the aircraft during their assembly, each structure being mobile on the ground. The access structures include at least one access structure at an orbital junction between two fuselage sections, at least one access structure at the two junctions between a fuselage section and each of the two aircraft wings, and at least one access structure at the junctions between a rear fuselage section and tail units. In addition, the installation is designed to be able to adopt several distinct configurations, each having a different distribution of the access structures between the assembly stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Cédric Godard, Florian Collado, Jacques Bouriquet, Jean-Marc Datas, Nicolas Darbonville
  • Patent number: 11984970
    Abstract: A system includes at least one reception unit installed in an aircraft and configured for tracking satellites of the satellite navigation system of the GNSS type. The system includes a generation unit for generating an expected number corresponding to the number of satellites that the reception unit is expected to track, a detection unit including a comparison part for comparing the expected number with a tracked number corresponding to the number of satellites that the reception unit is actually tracking and a decision part for detecting a jamming, as a function of the result of the comparison made by the comparison part and transmitting detection data in the event of detection, and a transmission unit configured to transmit jamming detection data to at least one user device, the system making it possible to detect a jamming of a GNSS system in an automatic and reliable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Laurent Azoulai, Philippe Delga, François Tranchet, Rémy Lazzerini, Jean Pasquie, Ludovic Parisot, Philippe Merceron
  • Patent number: 11972878
    Abstract: A support for a busbar including two parts each having two surfaces substantially planar and perpendicular to one another and arranged to form, together with the two surfaces of the other part from the two parts, a through-cavity or a passage, a base including a hole or a fastener, and, a shape complementary to a shape of the other of the two parts, the shape being arranged to form, together with the shape of the other of the two parts, an attachment between the two parts. Advantageously, it is possible to obtain a support for a busbar, the support being robust, reliable, and inexpensive and able to be mounted in an easy and rapid manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventor: Sébastien Forasacco
  • Patent number: 11945569
    Abstract: An anchor rail for an aircraft floor includes an upper flange with a guideway and two flange wings. The rail is formed of a beam and of an anti-corrosion protection. The beam is formed at least of a body made from a first material and defining the lower stiffening structure and an upper platform. The anti-corrosion protection wholly covers an upper face of the upper platform and therewith constitutes the upper flange of the rail, thus layered. The anti-corrosion protection is at least formed of a protective sheet made of a second material more resistant to corrosion than the first material and selected from a metal and a fiber-reinforced plastic composite material. Such a rail exhibits good corrosion resistance for modest cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventor: Giuseppe Vassilakakis
  • Patent number: 11945575
    Abstract: A retractable fuselage mounted landing gear assembly is disclosed. The landing gear assembly includes a main strut, a drag stay and a landing gear main fitting. A first end of the drag stay is attached to the main strut and a second end of the drag stay is connected to the fuselage. A first end of the landing main fitting is attached to the main strut and a second end of the main fitting is connected to the fuselage. When the landing gear is extended, substantially all the landing gear loads are transferred from the landing gear to the fuselage via one or more of the drag stay and the main fitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED, AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Christopher James Perkins, Marco Boscolo, Nicholas White, Xavier Matheis, Alexandre Legardez, Simon Roux, Sébastien Crouzet
  • Patent number: 11922660
    Abstract: The method includes a step of acquisition of an image of the leading aircraft, a step of extraction of the outline, an adjustment step including implementing an outline registration algorithm, to determine an optimized profile from a comparison of the outline of the leading aircraft with a profile of the leading aircraft determined from a three-dimensional model of the leading aircraft and from an initial position of the following aircraft with respect to the leading aircraft, and a step of determination of the positioning according to six degrees of freedom of the following aircraft with respect to the leading aircraft, from the optimized profile and from the three-dimensional model of the leading aircraft. The method thus makes it possible to rapidly and accurately determine the positioning of the following aircraft with respect to the leading aircraft, this positioning being used to implement a formation flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: Airbus (S.A.S.), Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Philippe Foucault, Maxime Lefort, Quentin Demoulin
  • Patent number: 11919259
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a central caisson of an aircraft wing including a frame formed from U-section crossmembers. Formation of at least one crossmember includes forming a stack comprising at least one layer of resin film applied to a layer of dry fibers, pressing this stack to confer on it a U-section form and such as to compress the layers thereof, and pre-polymerization and/or polymerization of the resin of the stack. The manipulated fiber layers are layers of dry fibers, such that manipulation thereof by an automated machine may be effected for a reasonable cost and at a high throughput. Deposition of resin films carried by removable leaves, i.e., of which one of the faces is not adhesive, likewise facilitates manipulation by an automated installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventor: Jago Pridie
  • Patent number: 11884411
    Abstract: An engine pylon of an aircraft having a rear portion, two rear cowls around the rear portion, each rear cowl having an upper fixed cowl and a lower movable cowl mounted articulated on the rear portion, wherein in the closed position the two lower movable cowls are moved close to one another, such that their lower edges are contiguous, wherein in the open position the two lower movable cowls are tilted such that their lower edges are moved away from one another, for each lower movable cowl, a hinge system fixed between the lower movable cowl and the rear portion, and at least one locking system which locks the two lower movable cowls to one another in the closed position. The presence of the lower movable cowls ensures, among other things, easy access to the interior of the engine pylon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Olivier Pautis, Paolo Messina
  • Patent number: 11866154
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling an actuator for a control surface of an aircraft includes a processing unit configured for acquiring a set of N values of the same parameter, N being equal to 2×p or to 2×p+1, p being an integer greater than or equal to 2, and determining a voted value of the parameter by a voter (15) with N inputs. The voter with N inputs includes a module for determining two intermediate values from among the values of a subset of 2×p values of the set of N values of the parameter, this module including at least p+1 voters with 2×p?1 inputs, receiving as input distinct subsets of 2×p?1 inputs of the subset of 2×p inputs, two sub-modules for determining a maximum value and a minimum value, respectively, each receiving as input the outputs of the various voters with 2×p?1 inputs and delivering as output the two intermediate values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Philippe Goupil, Hervé Le Berre
  • Patent number: 11841093
    Abstract: A fluidic connector to connect two ducts of a system such as an air conditioning system. The connector includes at least one elastic material, and includes a duct surrounded by an adjustable clamping collar which, when tightened, serves to deform it to reduce the internal space of the duct. The clamping of the collar makes it possible to easily and quickly regulate the rate of flow in the ducts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Didier Reynes, Frédéric Goupil
  • Patent number: 11833566
    Abstract: Method and device for manufacturing a component from a plate made of deformable material, in particular for an edge of an element of an aircraft. The device includes a tool with two tool parts configured to be able to move closer to one another and are able to round a plate made of deformable material fixed to the two tool parts, a mold at the periphery of the tool and including a molding cavity of a shape corresponding to the shape of the component that is to be manufactured, and a displacement system configured to press the rounded plate firmly against the molding cavity of the mold, the mold being able to shape the rounded plate when it is pressed firmly against the molding cavity to give it its definitive shape, the device allowing the manufacture of single-piece components of varying sizes and notably large-sized components and/or deep components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventor: César Garnier
  • Patent number: 11834146
    Abstract: A simple and lightweight system for discharging water that can flow out through an orifice in an insulation blanket lining the walls of a fuselage of a transport vehicle such as an aircraft. The blanket has an impermeable collection plate having at least partially the shape of a channel, container or the like for collecting and discharging condensation water under the effect of gravity through an orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Aurélien Bardet, Jérome Terrier, Matthieu Escude