Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations
  • Aerofoil comprising a high lift flap
    Patent number: 8967550
    Abstract: A wing is provided, including a high-lift flap arranged on the wing such that it is movable by means of at least two adjustment mechanisms arranged side-by-side in the spanwise direction of the wing and adjustable by means of a drive device. Each adjustment mechanism includes a first adjustment lever, articulated on a main wing surface via a first pivotal articulation, with the formation of a first rotation axis; a second adjustment lever, articulated on the high-lift flap via a second pivotal articulation, with the formation of a second rotation axis; and a central articulation, linking together the first and the second adjustment levers, with the formation of a third rotation axis. An intermediate articulated part is arranged on at least one of the adjustment mechanisms for coupling the first adjustment lever and the main wing surface, or for coupling the second adjustment lever and the high-lift flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Schlipf, Xavier Hue
  • Slat monitoring system
    Patent number: 8967551
    Abstract: A system and method for determining whether the relative rate of deployment of all the slats extending from a leading edge of an aircraft wing is the same as a predetermined relative rate of deployment. Each slat includes at least one slat deployment mechanism that includes a drive pinion drivingly coupled to each slat and a rotary actuator having an output shaft driven by a common input drive shaft. The system of the invention comprises a sensor associated with each rotary actuator to generate a signal indicative of the rate of rotation of the corresponding output shaft and to supply that signal to a controller. The controller is configured to analyze the signals supplied by the sensors and to generate an alarm signal if a relative rate of rotation of any of the output shafts differs from a predetermined relative rate of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventor: Simon John Parker
  • Aircraft landing gear
    Patent number: 8967535
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program enable asymmetric deployment or retraction of aircraft landing gear. The landing gear includes landing gear doors which, when open extend over the aircraft centerline in order to provide room for deployment of the respective landing gear. To avoid interference between adjacent landing gear doors, the sequence of opening and/or closing of the landing gear doors is staggered. One gear door is opened and that landing gear is deployed, but prior to the adjacent door being opened, the first opened door is at least partially closed so as to not interfere with the fully opened position of the second door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventor: Simon Way
  • Structural arrangement, aircraft or spacecraft and method
    Patent number: 8967541
    Abstract: The present invention pertains inter alia to a structural arrangement, comprising a box structure, a first fibre portion which extends in a first plane, a second fibre portion which extends in a second plane, the first and the second fibre portion being interconnected at a crossing point thereof, the first fibre portion comprising a first portion on one side of the crossing point and a second portion on the other side of the crossing point, the first portion being connected to a first portion of the box structure and the second portion being connected to a second portion of the box structure, the second fibre portion forming, on one side of the crossing point, an inner web inside the box structure and, on the other side of the crossing point, an outer web outside the box structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Seack, Alexander Bruns
  • Method and device for adhesively joining large-surface components in vehicle construction
    Patent number: 8968500
    Abstract: A method for joining, by adhesive bonding, at least two large joining partners in vehicle construction, in particular in aircraft construction, comprises the following steps: detecting the geometric data of the joining partners in an automated manner, detecting the joint gap dimensions of the joining partners from the geometric data, applying adhesive to one or both joint faces of the two joining partners to be joined as a function of the joint gap dimensions, joining the joining partners in the joining position, and sequentially applying joining pressure to the joint faces along the joint gap to bring the joining partners into the final joining position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Niermann, Holger Frauen
  • Signal strength dependent cover unlocking device for a duct housing a secondary power supply device in an aircraft fuselage
    Patent number: 8967530
    Abstract: A power generation system for integration into an aircraft system, including a secondary power supply device having a generator turbine arranged in a duct running between a forward opening and a rearward opening on the fuselage of the aircraft. An electromagnetic unlocking device locks and unlocks a covering device on the forward opening, depending on a signal strength supplied to the unlocking device. The system also includes an actuation device that generates an opening or closing signal for an opening and closing device, and an opening function switching device that activates the unlocking device electrically with a signal strength that locks the covering device in an initial state, and on receipt of a power requirement signal from a power generation monitoring device, activates the unlocking device with a second signal strength that unlocks the covering device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Sten Gatzke
  • Method for assembling a floor in a cockpit structure previously constructed from a section of aircraft fuselage
    Patent number: 8967539
    Abstract: A section of aircraft fuselage includes a body structure and a floor connected to the body structure. The body structure has an external skin and a framework including frames, positioned in fuselage cross-sections approximately perpendicular to a longitudinal axis in an aircraft reference frame. The floor has cross members extending along a lateral axis. The cross members and the frames are disconnected and each cross member, at opposite ends, is fixed to the body structure by an intermediate structural assembly connected on the one hand to the cross member and on the other hand to the external skin and/or to one or more frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventor: Laurent Siboni
  • System for providing emergency oxygen and therapeutic oxygen
    Patent number: 8967142
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for providing emergency oxygen and therapeutic oxygen in an aircraft, said system having an oxygen source, an oxygen conduction system comprising a second oxygen outlet, a device for providing emergency oxygen comprising a second oxygen inlet, a device for providing therapeutic oxygen, having a first oxygen inlet and a first oxygen outlet. According to the invention, the second oxygen outlet can be coupled to the first oxygen inlet, the first oxygen outlet can be coupled to the second oxygen inlet and the second oxygen outlet can be coupled to the second oxygen inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Vogt, Andreas Westphal, Detlev Degenhardt
  • Actuation system for leading edge high-lift device
    Patent number: 8967549
    Abstract: An actuation system configured to deploy a high-lift device on a leading edge of an aircraft wing. The system comprises: a link pivotally connected to the wing at a first pivot point and to the high-lift device at a second pivot point; a first actuation mechanism configured to rotate the high-lift device about the first pivot point; and a second actuation mechanism configured to rotate the high-lift device about the second pivot point. The second actuation mechanism is operable independently of the first actuation mechanism, and can be operated in order to generate a sealing force between the high-lift device and the leading edge of the aircraft wing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventors: Francois Cathelain, Edmund Kay
  • Method and system for controlling aircraft braking on a runway
    Patent number: 8972141
    Abstract: A method to control braking of an aircraft on a landing runway including: selecting a dummy runway state corresponding to a level of adhesion of wheels of the aircraft to a runway which is lower, over an entire speed range of the aircraft while braking on a runway, than an adhesion level of the wheels of the aircraft to the landing runway; calculating a set point of a deceleration value for the aircraft on the landing runway based on the landing runway for the selected dummy runway state, wherein the calculated set point corresponds to maximum braking value of the aircraft, and controlling the braking of the aircraft using the set point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignees: Airbus Operations (SAS), Airbus (SAS)
    Inventors: Stephane Picaut, Jerome Journade, Remi Morin, Robert Lignee
  • Method of communication between an aircraft and a ground station
    Patent number: 8971237
    Abstract: The method of communication between an airplane and the ground, the aircraft communicates by radiowaves with the ground via at least one satellite and in a frequency band extending from 5030 MHz to 5091 MHz, bounds included, using a WiMax type transmission standard. The invention also provides an on-board communications terminal for an aircraft, suitable for communicating by radiowaves with the outside of the terminal in a frequency band extending from 5030 MHz to 5091 MHz, bounds included, in application of a WiMax type transmission standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations
    Inventor: Claude Pichavant
  • Diagnosis system
    Patent number: 8972034
    Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a diagnosis system for detecting a state of emergency during assembly of a fuselage (101) of an airplane is provided, which is adapted for detecting an emergency event and outputting information relating to the actual position of the emergency event. This may provide for a fast error identification during airplane assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Horst Kott
  • DROP TEST DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT A DROP TEST
    Publication number: 20150052970
    Abstract: A drop test device includes a suspension frame, a delay roller which is placed and mounted on the suspension frame, and at least one suspension cable, a first end of which is connected in a stationary manner to an attachment point on the outer surface of the delay roller and a second end of which includes a mounting which can be releasably or fixedly connected to a drop object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Roelant Van Der Bos
  • AIRCRAFT WITH CENTRALIZED GENERATED AND UNIFIED CABIN CONTROL PANEL DISPLAYS
    Publication number: 20150058777
    Abstract: A method for operating a control panel of an aircraft includes: sending display data from a control panel to a central controller of the aircraft, the display data including values to be displayed on a display screen of the control panel; loading, in the central controller, a display template from a central data storage, the display template including information for layouting the display data; generating a display page for the control panel in the central controller by merging the display data and the display template; sending the display page to the control panel; and displaying the display page on a display screen of the control panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Graumann, Marko Prasse, Christian Riedel
  • METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A FLUID ROUTING COMPONENT BY LAYER-WISE BUILDUP
    Publication number: 20150053291
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a fluid-leading component includes positioning a base element machined by a material-removing method with a planar upper face in a mounting support. The method at least includes the initial application of a layer section with predetermined dimensions of a particulate material in a predetermined region on the planar upper face of the base element; the heating of the layer section by a heat source in such a manner that the particles of the material within predetermined dimensions bond; and the application thereto and heating of at least one further layer section with predetermined dimensions of a particulate material in a predetermined region. In this way it is possible, in the generative manufacturing method, to obviate the need to provide support structures that subsequently have to be removed, and the base element is a functional part of the component to be manufactured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicants: Airbus Operations GmbH, Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Hummel, Philipp Rapp, Lothar Kroll, Frank Schubert, Martin Kausch
  • Mounting System for Mounting an Object in a Space of a Transportation Means and Transportation Means with a Space and at least one such Mounting System
    Publication number: 20150053838
    Abstract: A mounting system for objects in a transportation means includes a profile rail, at least one locking device with a base body that is bringable in surface contact with a supporting surface of the profile rail and at least one locking body which is interlockable with the profile rail, as well as an actuating device with an actuating element that extends parallel to the profile rail and a clamping body that is connected to the actuating element. The clamping body is realized in such a way that it exerts a compressive force, which results in the locking body being interlocked, upon a component of the locking device during a motion of the actuating element in a first direction parallel to the profile rail and releases the interlock during a motion of the actuating element in a second, opposite direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Seraj Mazidi, Frank Quatmann
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE MATERIAL PARTS
    Publication number: 20150053332
    Abstract: The manufacturing method object of the invention comprises the following stages: A) stacking strips of prepreg material on a laminating tool (14), so that an angled laminated part (2) is obtained comprising a central section (2a) contained in a first plane (12), at least one side section (2b) contained in a second plane (13), and at least one bending axis (5) between the central section (2a) and the at least one side section (2b), so that, the first plane and the second plane form an angle ?; B) forming of the angled laminated part (2) comprising bending along the bending axis (5) the, at least, one side section with respect to the central section (2a), obtaining a formed part (6); C) curing, of the formed part (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: Airbus Operations, S.L.
    Inventors: David Cano Cediel, Ruth Chinarro Vera, Francisco Escobar Benavides, Pedro Nogueroles Viñes
  • Method and device for providing an electrical system alternating voltage in an aircraft
    Patent number: 8963363
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a device for providing a three-phase electrical system alternating voltage for an electrical system of an aircraft, a plurality of voltage sources being provided which comprise at least one engine generator and a further voltage source, in particular a fuel cell, comprising one or more frequency converters for converting an alternating voltage of variable frequency provided by the respective engine generator into a first output alternating voltage and comprising at least one cyclo-inverter for cyclo-inverting a voltage provided by the respective further voltage source into a second output alternating voltage which is synchronous with the first output alternating voltage and constitutes the electrical system alternating voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Jens Selker
  • Marking and defect recognition procedure in prepreg material
    Patent number: 8964174
    Abstract: A defect recognition procedure in prepreg materials (1) draws a first transversal cross line (4b) at the beginning boundary (3b) of a defective area (2) in a prepreg material (1). A second transversal cross line (4e) at the end boundary (3e) of a defective area (2) is drawn as well. The cross lines (4b, 4e) form an angle (?) with respect to the prepreg material (1) motion direction (5). Each transversal cross line (4b, 4e) delimiting the beginning and the end of a defective area (2) has identification codes (Bi, Ei).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations, S.L.
    Inventors: Jose David Cano Cediel, Georgina Galera Cordoba
  • Fuselage
    Patent number: D723447
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Lesemann, Michael Meyer, Bernd Trahmer, Ralph Sturm