Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations
  • Auxiliary power unit for an aircraft
    Patent number: 12054281
    Abstract: An auxiliary power unit for an aircraft. It includes an air compressor coupled to an air-drawing device for drawing in air from outside the aircraft, the compressor supplying compressed air to a manifold. The manifold is configured to supply air to an environmental control system and a start-up module of at least one propulsion system of the aircraft running on hydrogen. The manifold is also configured to supply air to a fuel cell stack arranged to provide an electric generation function configured to power non-propulsive systems of the aircraft, the fuel cell stack also being supplied with hydrogen from a tank supplying hydrogen to the at least one propulsion system of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignees: Airbus Operations SAS, Airbus SAS, Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Josset, Didier Poirier, Holger Bammann, Thomas Scherer
  • Deformable shim and mounting arrangement
    Patent number: 12054291
    Abstract: A method of providing a deformable shim that comprises a main structure of an at least partly cellular region. The main structure is compressible by plastic deformation from an initial volume to a deformed volume, wherein the deformed volume is smaller than the initial volume. In a deformed state, the main structure maintains the deformed volume without further or continuing compression force. Further, the main structure is arrangeable between a first aircraft component and a second aircraft component to create a predefined distance between the first and the second aircraft component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Mika Bots, Matthias Hegenbart, Hermann Benthien
  • System and method for automatically detecting leak noise in an aircraft
    Patent number: 12050154
    Abstract: A method and a system for detecting leak noise in an aircraft, making it possible to perform ground tests in complete safety and over an entire cabin pressurization range, thus avoiding having to resort to a plurality of in-flight tests. The system includes: at least one acquisition device configured to be installed in at least one area of interest of the aircraft, the acquisition device being configured to acquire data in relation to current noise in the area of interest and data in relation to a current pressure gradient between the cabin of the aircraft and the outside, and a monitoring device configured to control the acquisition of the data by the at least one acquisition device and to receive the acquisition data in order to detect any leak noise in the at least one area of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignees: Airbus Operations SAS, Airbus SAS
    Inventors: Marc Locheron, Stéphane Lebru
  • Turbofan having mobile deflectors and a system for actuating the deflectors
    Patent number: 12049854
    Abstract: A turbofan with a nacelle having a fixed structure, a mobile assembly bearing second blocking element and able to move between an advanced position and a withdrawn position, a set of deflectors able to move in translation between an advanced position and a withdrawn position, and an actuation system having a carriage, a blocking lever bearing first attachment element and able to move between a blocking position and a free position, and a transmission system configured to move the blocking lever from the blocking position to the free position when the mobile assembly reaches a tilting position between the advanced position and the withdrawn position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Michael Belin, Lionel Sillieres, Julie Cazalis, Simon Vanderbauwede, Samuel Magne
  • Latches for cargo hold loading and storage system and associated methods
    Patent number: 12049327
    Abstract: In an aircraft, latches are used to secure cargo within the cargo hold of the aircraft. Such latches include a base plate configured for rigid attachment to a surface of the cargo hold, a latch head attached to the base plate and configured to prevent a movement of at least one cargo unit in a Y-direction and a Z-direction and to allow a movement of the at least one cargo unit in an X-direction, and a roller assembly attached to the base plate, opposite the latch head, and comprising at least one roller, the roller being configured to provide a vertical support to the at least one cargo unit in the Z-direction while allowing the movement of the at least one cargo unit in the X-direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Nuessen, Martin Guse, Dirk Meiranke, Sascha Nowarre, Dennis Fischer, Uwe Panzram, Matthias Horst
  • Lightning strike protection material
    Patent number: 12049326
    Abstract: A lightning strike protection material for an aircraft includes an electrically-conductive grid with grid-forming members and nodes where grid-forming members overlap or intersect. A plurality of the grid-forming members and/or nodes include an outward-facing surface, and at least a portion of the outward-facing surface is concave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventor: Ian Richard Lane
  • Painting method with printed mask and printing device
    Patent number: 12048947
    Abstract: To improve the complicated painting process of large three-dimensionally shaped components, preferably aircraft components, the masking step is automated. This is achieved by printing a masking medium onto the component with an inkjet method, the masking medium forming a masking film. The masking film masks the desired surface area and can be pulled off following the end of the painting. Preferably, spray films, functional printing inks or mold release agents are used as the masking medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Barlag, Daniel Lahidjanian
  • Linking member between a first and a second structural member of a fuselage of an aircraft allowing improved dissipation of stresses
    Patent number: 12049293
    Abstract: A linking member between a first and a second structural member of a fuselage of an aircraft allowing improved dissipation of stresses. The linking member has a first part made of a solid structure and at least one second part made of a lattice structure. The first part made of the solid structure is configured to dissipate static stresses and to withstand fatigue up to a predetermined maximum stress and fatigue threshold. This configuration allows improved dissipation of the stresses exerted on the linking member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Omar Molina Hamdan, Valérie Lavigne, Jérôme Dubost
  • Multipurpose tool for flight attendant
    Patent number: 12048995
    Abstract: A multipurpose tool for flight attendants includes a telescopic arm on which two handle elements are articulated at opposite ends, which handle elements can be folded in so as to lie adjacent to one another. By folding the handle elements apart and extending the telescopic arm, the multipurpose tool can be used in a variety of ways. In addition, fold-out tools may likewise be arranged on the multipurpose tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Sontag, Andrew Muin
  • Measurement device with dual data acquisition circuits
    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
  • Seal with skirt
    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
  • Anterior part of a nacelle for an aircraft propulsion assembly, whose front frame is connected to an outer wall without penetrating it
    Patent number: 12030659
    Abstract: An anterior part of a nacelle of an aircraft propulsion assembly, which comprises an air intake lip, an outer panel extending an outer part of the air intake lip, an inner structure extending an inner part of the air intake lip, a front frame connecting the outer wall to the air intake lip or to the inner structure. The outer panel and the outer part of the air intake lip together form an outer wall of the anterior part. The front frame and the outer wall are connected to one another by assembly means located inside the anterior part. The anterior part constituted in this manner ensures laminar flow of the air on an outer surface of the anterior part and reduces drag. A nacelle of a propulsion unit, comprising an anterior part of this kind is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Alain Porte, Jacques Lalane, Frédéric Vinches, Gregory Albet
  • Information processing architecture for implementation in a vehicle
    Patent number: 12032678
    Abstract: An information processing architecture for implementation in a vehicle includes a software segregation unit which is configured to provide a first security domain and a second security domain which are assigned in each case to different operational areas of the vehicle and have their own data processing environments which are segregated from one another to run a multiplicity of computer applications. The software segregation unit is further configured to provide a synchronization instance, wherein the synchronization instance has a central dataset which is synchronized with data generated in the respective security domains independently from one another via data exchange and is selectively readable by both security domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Kai Möller, Christian Groth, Sören Hübner, Oliver Schalke, René Niedermowe
  • Method for the resistance welding of fiber-composite components to give a fiber-composite structure, fiber-composite structure and fiber-composite component
    Patent number: 12030258
    Abstract: A method for resistance welding of two fiber-composite components to give a fiber-composite structure includes arranging conductive fibers within a jointing region of the two fiber-composite components, where each conductive fiber includes a carbon fiber with an electrically insulating coating. An electric current is passed through the conductive fibers to heat the jointing region to a welding temperature and melt the fiber-composite components in the jointing region. The jointing region is hardened in a manner that bonds the two fiber-composite components by way of the jointing region to give the fiber-composite structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Linde, Norbert Heltsch
  • Aircraft hinge assembly
    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
  • Devices and method for producing a T-shaped semifinished product from a multiply non-crimp fabric
    Patent number: 12023829
    Abstract: Devices and methods for producing a T-shaped semifinished product from a multiply non-crimp fabric with reinforcing fibers for a composite material. The product has a web and a flange. The device includes a web forming tool, with which a web portion of the non-crimp fabric is clamped in place, a forming tool, with which plies of a flange portion of the non-crimp fabric are split into two parts, a depositing device, with which a tube body is deposited on the flange portion formed into the flange, a holding tool, with which a clearance between the holding tool and the flange is formed, and a filling device, with which the tube body is filled with a gas such that the tube body fills the clearance and firmly holds the flange portion formed into the flange, and alternatively, a magnetic force can be generated between a sheet and the web forming tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Olaf Rocker, Torben Jacob, Carsten Barlag, Alexander Gillessen, Thore Sdunnus
  • Apparatus for threading a tool unit onto an elongate structural element
    Patent number: 12023725
    Abstract: An apparatus for threading a tool unit onto an elongate structural element. The apparatus has a holding arrangement for holding it on a feed device, a tool unit to be threaded onto the elongate structural element. The tool unit has a tool axis and a vibration unit connected to the tool unit and configured to generate a periodic force in at least one first spatial direction that runs transversely with respect to the tool axis. First and second coupling components, held elastically on one another, are provided. The first coupling component is connected to the holding arrangement, the second coupling component is connected to the tool unit. The vibration unit is operated, during a feed movement of the holding arrangement for threading the tool unit onto the elongate structural element, to add an additional, periodically varying transverse component to a feed force acting on the tool unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Christof Borrmann
  • Busbar for an aircraft, method of manufacturing such busbar, and aircraft comprising such busbar
    Patent number: 12027840
    Abstract: A busbar for an aircraft with at least two conductive layers and at least three insulating layers. The conductive layers and the insulating layers are stacked together alternatingly and extend in a longitudinal direction. The conductive layers and the insulating layers include different coefficients of thermal expansion. Each of the conductive layers includes spatial structures. Each spatial structure is connected to an adjacent one by an interconnecting segment. Each conductive layer is embedded between two insulating layers, resulting in a deforming of the side walls of the spatial structures under heat, thereby compensating a longitudinal expansion of the conductive layers. Further, an aircraft with a disclosed busbar and a method of producing such busbar is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Benthien, Matthias Hegenbart, Peter Linde
  • Electric generator comprising a plurality of electric accumulators and at least one heat-sink device incorporating a phase-change material
    Patent number: 12027716
    Abstract: An electric generator including a number of electric accumulators and at least one heat-sink device using a phase-change material configured to pick up the excessive thermal energy produced by one of the electric accumulators and change phase in order to absorb a large quantity of thermal energy in the form of latent heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignees: Airbus Operations SAS, Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Philippe Pene, Thomas Scherer
  • Device for electrically connecting cables comprising a plate with electrically insulated ducts surrounding busbars
    Patent number: 12027839
    Abstract: A device for electrically connecting cables where a change of direction occurs. The device includes at least two busbars as well as a plate having independent internal ducts in which the busbars are located, each duct being electrically insulated from the other ducts, the busbars ensuring electrical conduction from one open end of a duct to the other end. The cables are fastened at these open ends and thus do not undergo any deformation, the change of direction taking place inside the plate with the aid of the busbars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Najoua Erroui, Yann Dubarry