Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations
  • Patent number: 12054275
    Abstract: A resistive skin shell for an acoustic panel or inner wall of an aircraft air intake, comprising an alternation, in a transverse direction, of perforated metal bands and of composite solid bands extending in a longitudinal direction. The perforated metal bands and the composite solid bands form a smooth outer face configured to be in contact with an aerodynamic stream, and a crenelated inner face. The composite solid bands have a thickness greater than the perforated metal bands. Since the perforations are provided in metal bands, which are intrinsically resistant to wear and erosion, the future proofing of the acoustic performance of the resistive skin is guaranteed. Since the composite solid bands, which are thicker, can ensure the mechanical strength of the skin, the thickness of the perforated metal bands can be reduced, allowing perforations with dimensions that are also reduced, having a lower impact on drag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Alain Porte, Jacques Lalane, François Pons
  • Patent number: 12054271
    Abstract: A method for assembling an aircraft pylon including a primary structure and at least one internal system positioned at least partially within the primary structure, wherein the assembly method includes a first step of assembling a part of the primary structure so that the interior of the primary structure remains accessible, a step of mounting an internal systems module including at least one support and at least one internal system connected to the support, a second step of assembling the internal systems module and the partially assembled primary structure, a third step of assembling any element of the primary structure not assembled in the first assembly step, and an aircraft pylon assembled by such a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignees: AIRBUS SAS, AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Sebastien Alby, Jean Geliot, Thomas Deforet, Olivier Dubois, Joël Dedieu, Xavier Bardey
  • Patent number: 12055915
    Abstract: This control system takes into account the thermomechanical aspects of materials to quickly and easily determine optimal cutting conditions and to automatically control machining to preserve the integrity of the workpiece. This system includes an acquisition module configured to acquire values of a set of input parameters relating to cutting conditions and material properties of the piece, and a microprocessor configured for determining at least one operating cutting parameter representative of a cutting signal from the machining apparatus using a set of output parameters of an integrity model previously constructed during a learning phase. The integrity model connects the set of input parameters to the set of output parameters comprising specific cutting coefficients representative of the material integrity of the piece, and establishes at least one fatigue threshold of the at least one cutting operating parameter. The fatigue threshold allows control of the progress of cutting operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignees: Airbus SAS, Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Emeric Noirot-Nerin, Ivan Hamm, Gérard Poulachon, Frédéric Rossi
  • Patent number: 12053915
    Abstract: A door for a thrust reversal system, an aircraft with such a door, and a method for manufacturing a door of a thrust reversal system. The door comprises a wall formed from long fibers embedded in a thermoplastic resin matrix and a network of ribs overmolded on one of the faces of the wall. A propulsion assembly of an aircraft comprises a thrust reversal system having a plurality of such doors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Wolfgang Brochard, Laurent Cazeaux, Florian Ravise
  • Patent number: 12054236
    Abstract: An inflatable suspended ceiling for a vehicle compartment, in particular for a passenger cabin of an aircraft, includes a flat fabric cover sheet configured to roof over at least a longitudinal section of an interior space along an extending direction of the vehicle compartment underneath a structural ceiling of the vehicle compartment, and a tensioning structure attached to the cover sheet to carry the cover sheet from above and having a flexible envelope enclosing at least one inflatable chamber configured to tension the cover sheet when inflated. Mounting members are attached to the tensioning structure to mount the tensioning structure to counter-mounting members on the structural ceiling in a hanged configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Robert Hogh
  • 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
  • Patent number: 12054270
    Abstract: An aircraft assembly including: a first aircraft structure, a second aircraft structure, first and second tension bolts arranged to suspend the first aircraft structure below the second aircraft structure, the first and second tension bolts connected to the first aircraft structure such that an end of each of the tension bolts is accessible from respective outer surfaces of the first aircraft structure and first and second fail-safe mechanisms each associated with a respective one of the first and second tension bolts and arranged to suspend the first aircraft structure below the second aircraft structure responsive to failure of the respective tension bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: William Tulloch, Pat Broomfield
  • Patent number: 12054273
    Abstract: An aircraft comprising a fastening element and an engine pylon with two rear covers. Each cover includes a movable lower cover mounted articulated on a rear portion in which in the closed position, the two movable lower covers are moved together and in which in the open position, they are tilted and moved apart from each other. For each movable lower cover, a hinge system, and at least one locking system locks the two movable lower covers together in the closed position and locks each movable lower cover to the fastening element in the open position. The presence of the movable lower covers provides, inter alia, easy access to the inside of the engine pylon, and the locking system locks the movable lower covers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Paolo Messina, Olivier Pautis
  • Patent number: 12054258
    Abstract: A wing for an aircraft, including a main wing, a slat, and a connecting assembly movably connecting the slat to the main wing, the slat being movable between retracted and extended positions. The connecting assembly includes a slat track and a roller bearing. A front section of the slat track is mounted to the slat. A rear section and an intermediate section of the slat track are mounted to the main wing via the roller bearing. The roller bearing includes a guide rail mounted to the main wing and a first roller which is rotatably mounted to the rear section of the slat track. The first roller engages a first engagement surface formed by the guide rail. The roller bearing includes a second roller which is rotatably mounted to the main wing. The second roller engages a second engagement surface formed by the intermediate section of the slat track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Dort Daandels, Bernhard Schlipf
  • Patent number: 12055100
    Abstract: A system for automated management of in-flight restarting of engines of an aircraft includes controllers, each engine of the aircraft being managed by one of the controllers. A controller that detects an engine that has stopped: cuts off the energy supply of the engine and performs a windmill engine start. If at least one other engine has stopped, prioritization of engine restarting includes: collecting information concerning a state of health of each engine; determining from the information collected information representing a probability of restarting each stopped engine; determining a sequential order of restarting the stopped engines as a function of information representing the probability of restarting each stopped engine. Each stopped engine continues to be windmill started until selection of the engine in question in the sequential order of restarting the stopped engines. Thus, the operational status of the aircraft is improved as quickly as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Claudia Conte, Quentin-Alexandre Flamant-Bati, Xavier Collas, Marie-Claire Pineri
  • 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
  • Patent number: 12054272
    Abstract: An assembly of a pylon and of an engine with a rear engine attachment having two fittings, wherein each one has a shoe fastened to a lower spar of the pylon, two transverse arms, one front and one rear, which are as one with the shoe and offset such that the front transverse arm, respectively rear transverse arm, of one fitting bears in planar fashion against the front transverse arm, respectively rear transverse arm, of the other fitting, wherein each transverse arm is pierced with a bore, wherein the two front transverse arms and the two rear transverse arms are spaced apart parallel to the longitudinal direction and thus form a female clevis, and wherein the assembly also has a lower rod mounted articulated in the female clevis and on the engine. With such an assembly, the number of components is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Franck Rumiel, Thomas Robiglio, Paolo Messina
  • Patent number: 12054290
    Abstract: A resilient component for attachment to a rigid temporary reinforcement structure, and a rigid temporary reinforcement structure for attachment to a resilient component are disclosed. The temporary reinforcement structure having one or more datum attachment features for releasably attaching the temporary reinforcement structure to corresponding datum attachment features of the resilient component, where the datum attachment features and the datum features of the resilient component have a common datum, and the temporary reinforcement structure is configured to rigidly support the resilient component during assembly of the resilient component to a structural assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Peter Urmston, Christopher Morris, Jack Attwell, Alan Ellson
  • Patent number: 12054293
    Abstract: A system for assisting the maintenance of an aircraft is configured for implementing the following steps in an iterative manner determining a spectral power density of the position of a control surface over a time window; when the spectral power density corresponds to an amplitude of oscillations of the control surface upwardly crossing this predetermined threshold, storing an excess amplitude start time; and when the spectral power density corresponds to an amplitude of oscillations of the control surface downwardly crossing this predetermined threshold: determining a time interval between the excess amplitude start time and an excess amplitude end time, during which the amplitude of oscillations of the control surface has remained above the predetermined threshold; and determining an indicator representative of the energy corresponding to these oscillations during the time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Philippe Goupil, Simone Urbano, Gabriel Derian
  • Patent number: 12054292
    Abstract: A method for the assembly of frames in an aircraft shell, wherein the aircraft shell comprises a skin and a plurality of stringers co-cured with the skin, wherein the skin has a plurality of reference marks. Identifying the reference marks on the skin using a first robot with artificial vision, establishing a local reference for the positioning of each frame based on a reference mark, grabbing a frame using the first robot, establishing a relative position between the first robot and the frame based on the reference mark, positioning the frame on an inner side of the aircraft shell using the first robot, and with a second robot, drilling holes through the frame and skin, and attaching the frame to the skin with fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.L.
    Inventors: Cesar Martin Blazquez, Carlos Flores Hernandez
  • Patent number: 12054280
    Abstract: An aircraft including a first electrical distribution busbar and a second electrical distribution busbar extending at least in part in a fuselage of the aircraft, in a longitudinal direction of the fuselage. A first electric generator is connected to the distribution conductors of the first electrical distribution busbar via a first coupling switch directly connected to the first electric generator and to the distribution conductors of the first busbar. A second electric generator is connected to the distribution conductors of the second electrical distribution busbar via a second coupling switch directly connected to the second electric generator and to the distribution conductors of the second busbar. The first coupling switch and the second coupling switch are positioned in the aircraft independently of one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Etienne Foch, Franck Albero, Sébastien Laclau, Xavier Chasseriaud
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Patent number: 12048968
    Abstract: A drilling machine and a drilling method including drilling a first bore in a material with a drilling machine by applying a torque to a drilling tool for imparting a rotation at a first rotational speed to the drilling tool, and applying a thrust to the drilling tool for advancing the drilling tool at a first feed speed into the material, wherein a drilling parameter is measured while drilling the first bore, and a second rotational speed and a second feed speed are determined based on the drilling parameter, then drilling a second bore at the second rotational speed and at the second feed speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.
    Inventors: Carlos Ramirez-Alcala, Juan Manuel Vazquez Martinez, Juan Maria Gonzalez Leal, Jorge Salguero Gomez