Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations
  • Patent number: 9120558
    Abstract: A telescopic strut comprises a plurality of hollow members arranged to slide one within another between a retracted and an extended position. Adjacent hollow members are arranged to be electrically connected by one or more electrical connector assemblies as the hollow members move between the retracted and extended positions. Each electrical connector assembly includes an electrically conductive pad on one of the hollow members which is in sliding contact with an electrically conductive strip on the other of the hollow members. The telescopic strut may be used to electrically connect a moveable control surface to a fixed aerofoil structure in an aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventor: Timothy Sanderson
  • Patent number: 9120556
    Abstract: A method and device for estimating an unwanted pitch moment of an aircraft, and applications to the pitch control of the aircraft. The device estimates an unwanted pitch moment, which can be used to form a compensation command which is added to a standard deflection command with the aim of producing an automatic, active compensation, in real time, for the unwanted pitch moment of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Simon Oudin, Guilhem Puyou, Stephane Delannoy
  • Patent number: 9116520
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure include methods and devices in which a flight parameter vector for an aircraft is automatically estimated and then compared to a threshold to determine whether the flight parameter vector is accurate. The detection device estimates a coefficient vector in an observation window, calculates an estimated flight parameter value, and minimizes an error associated with the observation window when calculating the estimated flight parameter value of the flight parameter vector. Comparisons may be performed by a failure detector or a flight control computer to determine failures impacting the flight parameter vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Philippe Goupil, Florian Cazes, Rémy Dayre, Hervé Le Berre, Corinne Mailhes, Marie Chabert, Patrice Michel
  • Patent number: 9114870
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aircraft window, of the type including a holding frame for securing the window to the fuselage of an aircraft and at least one pane mounted in the holding frame by a sealing system, the at least one pane having an inner surface and an outer surface, characterized in that: the pane includes, in a first state called the rest state, at least one concavity in its outer surface when there is no pressure difference between the outer surface and the inner surface of the pane, and the at least one concavity of the pane is at least partially eradicated in a second state in which there is a pressure difference between the outer surface and the inner surface of the pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Pascal Chaumel, Patrick Lieven, Serge Cassagnes
  • Patent number: 9114880
    Abstract: The invention relates to a seat back for an aircraft comprising a structural column bearing a plurality of devices for supporting an occupant of the seat, these devices being distributed along the structural column and oriented transversely relatively to the structural column so as to each protrude on either side of this column. This solution can reduce the mass and dimensions, while providing satisfactory comfort for the occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventor: Bernard Guering
  • Patent number: 9114582
    Abstract: A method for producing a central wing box having an upper panel, a lower panel, a front spar and a rear spar, the upper edges of said spars approximately parallel to an axis Y being connected by the upper panel, and the lower edges of said spars approximately parallel to the axis Y being connected by the lower panel. The method includes producing at least one panel and at least one spar from composite material in one piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Philippe Blot, Jerome Colmargo, Denis Soula, Julien Guillemaut, Thomas Le Hetet, Dominique Guittard
  • Publication number: 20150232198
    Abstract: This relates to an aircraft providing visual signalling of an aircraft. An aircraft for providing visual signalling is provided with at least one multifunctional light unit comprising at least one light source for outboard light emission, which unit is provided on sideway facing areas of the aircraft. The sideway facing areas comprise lateral facing sideway surface areas and/or forward and backwards facing surface areas of the aircraft. The at least one multifunctional light unit is configured to provide i) directional signalling of the aircraft, or ii) status signalling of the aircraft, wherein the status signalling relates to at least one of the group of status of the aircraft, status of the current flight mission, and status of the traffic situation; and/or iii) identification signalling of the aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Seibt
  • Publication number: 20150231767
    Abstract: A fastening device includes a fastening needle system, which is guided in a base body of the fastening device. The fastening needle system is configured to be led through a drilling hole of one or more components. By exercising a pulling force onto the fastening needle system, the components can be fastened between the front portion of the fastening needle and the base body. A fastening system may include the fastening device and a fastening pliers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Rüdiger Botha, Hamid Ebrahimi
  • Patent number: 9108732
    Abstract: A carrying system for receiving containers in a vehicle includes at least one container, at least one electrical consumer arranged in the container, at least one primary winding in a first core and at least one secondary winding in a second core. The secondary winding is arranged in the container, and the primary winding can be attached on the vehicle side in such a manner that movement of the container to a receiving position results in alignment of the primary winding and the secondary winding. The primary winding and the secondary winding are adapted for inducing in the secondary winding an alternating voltage that is applied to the electrical consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Gerd Düser
  • Patent number: 9108724
    Abstract: An adjustment system of an aeroplane, having: at least one adjustable flap on each of the wing of an aeroplane, adjustable with an adjustment device, a drive device for purposes of driving the adjustment devices, and a load sensor for purposes of recording the load occurring in the load path between the actuator and the adjustable flap of the respective adjustment device. The load sensor is embodied as a sensor for purposes of measuring the longitudinal force occurring in a drive rod along its longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Rechsiek, Wilfried Ellmers, Christoph Winkelmann
  • Patent number: 9108661
    Abstract: An equipping system is provided for equipping an aircraft galley. The equipping system includes a box, which is accommodatable in the aircraft galley to be equipped, as well as a transport cart for equipping the aircraft galley. The system includes a base element, which has a bottom surface and a loading surface opposite of the bottom surface, a plurality of wheels fastened to the bottom surface of the base element, a handle attached to the base element, and a securing mechanism adapted to prevent the box from sliding off the transport cart while it is being transported on the transport cart. The handle is shaped and attached in such a position to the base element that the base element of the transport cart, in the unloaded state of the transport cart, is stackable onto a base element of a further transport cart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Suess
  • Patent number: 9113175
    Abstract: A processing unit for providing aircraft information to passengers of an aircraft, a system comprising the processing unit, an aircraft comprising the system, a method for providing aircraft information to passengers of an aircraft, as well as a computer program for performing the method. The processing unit comprises: a receiving component for receiving cockpit video data representing one or more cockpit video images of at least a section of the cockpit of the aircraft; and a processing component for processing the received cockpit video data such that the processed cockpit video data is retrievable on demand to provide the one or more cockpit video images to the passengers of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Gerald Coto-Lopez
  • Patent number: 9108359
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for prevention of porosity in composite material parts (1), which is applied when the curing stage of the part (1) is being carried out on a female tool (2). In the curing stage, an adhesive (4) is placed on at least one of the areas of the radii (5) of the composite material part (1), so that the possible subsequent appearance of porosity in said areas of the composite material part (1) is prevented. Thus, the adhesive (4) acquires the fluidization temperature before the resin of the composite material and it is displaced filling the holes generated during the placement of the part (1) on the female tool (2), in the area of the radii (5) of the part (1), during the coupling between the part (1) and the female tool (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations, S.L.
    Inventors: Jose David Cano Cediel, Pedro Nogueroles Vines
  • Patent number: 9112339
    Abstract: The object of the invention is an electrical harness having a plurality of electrically conductive elements held one against another in a braided sheath obtained by braiding strands around the electrical conductor elements, the strands being joined and forming a web around the electrical conductor elements when held against each other, wherein it includes a device to space comprising at least one portion with a peripheral surface at the level of which channels are provided wherein an electrical conductor fits, said portion having a section such that it allows to obtain spaced strands at the level of said device to space when the sheath is being braided around the electrical conductor elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Gérard Millet, Antoine Burckhart, Alexandre Reze
  • Patent number: 9108721
    Abstract: The invention discloses a trailing edge (2) of an aircraft aerodynamic surface, which comprises an upper skin (6) and a lower skin (7), being the upper and lower skins (6, 7) made of composite material. In the trailing edge (2) a lightweight part (1) is assembled at an end section (13) of the upper and lower skins (6, 7). The lightweight part (1) is covered by a metallic sheet (8), and has a “V”-shaped cross section with arms and peak, where the peak of the “V”-shaped cross section has a rounded shape and is located opposite the end section (13) of the upper and lower skins (6, 7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations, S.L.
    Inventors: Yolanda De Gregorio Hurtado, Alberto Balsa Gonzalez
  • Publication number: 20150225065
    Abstract: A method for coupling a first and a second stiffening element for a skin of an aircraft or spacecraft, wherein the first stiffening element has a cross-sectional profile with first and second web portions extending from a flange portion of a predefined width toward the skin includes forming a coupling zone of the first stiffening element wherein the second web portion is at least partially removed to expose an inner surface of the first web portion, and a step of fastening a coupling element, for coupling the stiffening elements, to the coupling zone of the first stiffening element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Brunner, Wolfgang Schulze, Memis Tiryaki, Wolfgang Eilken
  • Patent number: 9103751
    Abstract: A device for the transverse retention of a longitudinal test specimen and apparatus for the mechanical characterization in bending of such a test specimen. The test specimen includes a web and at least one main flange connected to one end of said web. The device includes a body in which there is formed a housing which is shaped to house said test specimen transversally and which has a main bearing face against which one face of said web is intended to press; and a mobile clamp formed so as to press said web against said main bearing face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Manuel Negro, Victor Combes, Laurent Huquet, Marc Hell
  • Patent number: 9102102
    Abstract: A structure comprising a plurality of plies of fiber-reinforced composite material, each ply having a ply orientation defined by a principal stiffness direction of the ply. The structure has a first region and a second region, each region comprising N1 primary plies, N4 cross plies with a ply orientation substantially perpendicular to the primary plies, N2 positive-angled bias plies with a ply orientation at a positive acute angle to the primary plies, and N3 negative-angled bias plies with a ply orientation substantially perpendicular to the positive-angled bias plies. The ply orientation of the primary plies in each region is more closely aligned with a primary axis of the structure than the cross plies or the bias plies. N1=N4 in the first region but not in the second N region, and N2=N3 in the second region but not in the first region. In each of the two regions, one ply set is balanced and the other ply set is un-balanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventors: Jonathan Meyer, Michael Matthews
  • Patent number: 9102394
    Abstract: A flow body includes a flow body base body with a first shell element, a leading flow body edge with a second shell element and a clamping body, and a receiving space partially delimited by the clamping body. The flow body base body includes on a front end a projection, having a shape corresponding to that of the receiving space for engaging into the receiving space. The clamping body is internally arranged on the leading flow body edge spaced apart from a rear end of the second shell element. The rear end of the second shell element is flushly positioned on the first shell element when the projection engages into the receiving space. A smooth and harmonious transition that does not influence a laminar flow around the flow body can be achieved between the two components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Schlipf, Xavier Hue
  • Patent number: 9102106
    Abstract: In the method of making a sealed junction between elongate aircraft parts that extend locally in main directions that are not mutually parallel, the following steps are performed: assembling a plurality of portions of a mold on the parts; and injecting a sealing material into the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Francis Dazet