Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations
  • FIBRE LAYING MACHINE COMPRISING A ROLLER WITH PIVOTING RINGS
    Publication number: 20140165337
    Abstract: A fibre laying machine includes a laying head with a roller able to pivot about an axis of rotation and to apply a plurality of preimpregnated fibres to an application surface by rolling over the application surface. The fibres are distributed along a lower generatrix of the roller and in contact with an exterior surface of the roller over an angle of wrap. The roller includes a cylindrical body, pivoting rings around the body, and means for immobilizing the pivoting rings with respect to the body in a direction parallel to the axis of rotation. The pivoting rings are able to pivot independently of one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Denis De Mattia
  • Profiled Strip As A Fire Indication Device In An Aircraft
    Publication number: 20140166810
    Abstract: A door for a storage compartment of an aircraft includes a door leaf and a profiled strip connected to an edge of the door leaf. The profiled strip includes openings that provide a path for gas exchange such that smoke from the storage compartment is detectable outside of the storage compartment by passing the profiled strip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Falk Bajorat, Damian Mc Nally, Christoph Augenstein, Dirk Scheffler
  • WATER SUPPLY WITH A BIDIRECTIONAL UV DISINFECTION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140166566
    Abstract: A water disinfection system includes a water disinfection device, having a UV light generator for the UV treatment of water, and a water pipe, having a first pipe portion and a second pipe portion and a third pipe portion which branches off between the first and the second pipe portion. The water disinfection device includes a first water connection and a second water connection. The first water connection is connected to the first pipe portion. The second water connection is connectable to a water reservoir which is to be provided. The second pipe portion is connectable to a water source which is to be attached. The third pipe portion is connectable to a tap for water, so as to be able in this way to provide an improvement in the water quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Schreiner, Paolo Cavarero, Hannes Müller, Ralf Menshausen, Markus Wirth, Michael Rempe, Carlos Rosero
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCTION OF COMPOSITE PREFORM
    Publication number: 20140166195
    Abstract: A method of producing a composite preform having a profile with variable profile height or width is provided. The method includes: providing a plurality of first fibre layers overlapping or upon one another in or substantially parallel to a primary plane; inserting a second fibre layer via a guide member between two of the first fibre layers at an edge region of the preform profile, such that the second fibre layer extends substantially parallel to the first fibre layers; and positioning the edge region of the preform profile, and thus respective edge regions of the first fibre layers, out of the primary plane to set or determine a dimension of the preform profile in the primary plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Jons Velten, Adam Andrae, Niels Deschauer, Tassilo Witte
  • TOILET AREA FOR AN AIRCRAFT CABIN, IN PARTICULAR FOR A FLYING WING AIRCRAFT
    Publication number: 20140165285
    Abstract: A toilet area for an aircraft cabin comprising an access door and housing a toilet bowl. The toilet area also comprises an evacuation exit, the access door occupying a closed position in the toilet area in a toilet configuration and a folded position in the toilet area in an evacuation configuration. Usage in particular in a flying wing aircraft is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Yves Durand, Bernard Guering
  • Aircraft fuel tank ventilation
    Patent number: 8753429
    Abstract: An aircraft fuel tank ventilation system includes a dehumidifying device disposed in flow communication between a vent open to the atmosphere and a fuel tank. A method of dehumidifying air introduced into an aircraft fuel tank via a ventilation system includes directing atmospheric air through a dehumidifying device disposed in flow communication between a vent of the ventilation system and the fuel tank, which removes water vapor from the air flowing from the vent towards the fuel tank. A method of regenerating a desiccant medium used to dehumidify air introduced into an aircraft fuel tank via a ventilation system includes directing air through the desiccant medium so as to dry the desiccant medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventors: Joseph K-W Lam, David Parmenter, Simon Masters
  • Authentication method for an electronic document and verification method of a document thus authenticated
    Patent number: 8756428
    Abstract: A computerized authentication method of an electronic document, in particular a file designed to be on-board an aircraft. The method includes generating a digital signature of the electronic document using a private key corresponding to a public key certified by a certifying authority, and sending via the Internet a time stamp request of the electronic document to a time stamping authority and receiving in response thereto a time-stamp signed by the certifying authority. The method includes sending via the Internet a request to an Online Certificate Statute Protocol (OCSP) server and receiving in response thereto a statute of the certificate of the public key, and adding to the electronic document of the digital signature, the time-stamp and the statute of the certificate to create an authenticated electronic document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Julien Touzeau, Olivier Bastien
  • Method of manufacturing a stiffened panel
    Patent number: 8752294
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stiffened panel, and a datum part for use in such a method. The method comprises: holding the panel with a jig; holding a datum part with the jig; engaging the panel and the datum part with a stringer; and joining the stringer to the panel. Preferably an additive process is used to form the datum part. By growing the datum part in a series of layers, the shape of each layer can be selected to enable the shape or size of the datum part to be optimised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventor: Alan Minshull
  • Method and device for detecting the jamming of an aircraft control surface
    Patent number: 8755956
    Abstract: The detection device includes, but is not limited to a device that is configured to determine a control error corresponding to the difference between a first control instruction and a control surface position, a second device that is configured to calculate the difference between this control error and a second control instruction in such a way as to form a comparison signal, and a third device that is configured to detect a jamming of the control surface if this comparison signal is greater than a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignees: Airbus Operations S.A.S., Universite Bordeaux 1, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Philippe Goupil, Rémy Dayre, Hervé Le Berre, Anca Gheorghe, Ali Zolghadri, Jérôme Cieslak, David Henry
  • Method and device for updating the position of an aircraft
    Patent number: 8755995
    Abstract: The device (1) comprises a first system (3) which comprises means (14) for calculating the vector difference between a position generated by this first system (3) and a realignment position received from a second system (4), for one and the same date-stamping, and means (16) for adding this difference to any new position of the aircraft, generated by said first system (3), so as to obtain each time a realigned position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Philippe Haas, Stephane Dattler, Julien Nico
  • System for targeted local air humidification
    Patent number: 8752772
    Abstract: In order to increase the air humidity in a cabin region of an aircraft equipped with a plurality of seats, a device includes a plurality of humidifying units each arranged in spatial association with a partial number of the seats and a plurality of outlet openings. The humidifying units are each designed to enrich a supplied air stream with gaseous water. The outlet openings are designed to emit the air streams enriched by the humidifying units into the cabin region, such that a partial number of the outlet openings each receive one of the enriched air streams. The air temperature of the enriched air streams is controlled so that the local temperature in a target region served by the humidifying unit does not fall below a dew point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Schumacher, Walter Kulcke, Karin Thudt, Robert Schreiber
  • Aircraft including pieces of electrical equipment and parts made of composite material
    Patent number: 8755164
    Abstract: The aircraft includes at least one piece of equipment and a composite material part to which the equipment is connected. It is arranged in such a manner that a fault current circuit of the equipment passes via the part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S)
    Inventors: Francois Pons, Nicolas Larrose
  • DRAINING APPARATUS FOR DRAINING LIQUIDS FROM A VEHICLE, AIRCRAFT HAVING A DRAINING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRAINING LIQUIDS FROM A VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20140158208
    Abstract: A draining apparatus for draining liquids from a vehicle includes a containment; a drain mast having an outlet opening and an inlet; and an actuator. The containment is adapted for being coupled with a structure of the vehicle, wherein the actuator is coupled with the drain mast and adapted for moving the drain mast into a retracted position and at least one extracted position relative to the containment, and wherein the containment is further adapted for accommodating the drain mast in the retracted position at least partially. The drainage apparatus has clear advantages regarding the parasitic drag compared to known drainage masts as it is only deployed into the flow when it is absolutely necessary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Becks, Raymond Lucas
  • AIRCRAFT COMPRISING A WING BOX AND A FUSELAGE PROVIDED WITH A CONNECTING DEVICE CONNECTED TO THE WING BOX
    Publication number: 20140158828
    Abstract: An aircraft comprising a wing box and a fuselage provided with a connecting device configured to be connected to the wing box and to transmit thereto stresses undergone by the fuselage during manoeuvres of the aircraft are provided. The connecting device is formed by a keel beam and a keel beam panel connected to the beam via a connecting portion of the beam, that is moreover provided with a main portion extending in a first, generally longitudinal direction and a transfer portion extending in a second direction different from the first direction and configured to be connected to the box. The main, transfer and connecting portions are configured to direct a major part of the stresses received by the beam in the second direction and transmit said major part of the stresses to the box by compression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Francois Loyant, Alexandre Legardez
  • AIRCRAFT COMPRISING AN ONBOARD WEATHER RADAR ANTENNA PROVIDED WITH INCLINED PANELS
    Publication number: 20140159949
    Abstract: An aircraft comprising a fuselage and a radome fixed to the fuselage. The radome defines a housing and the fuselage comprises a sealed bulkhead closing the housing. A weather radar antenna comprises a main panel. A plurality of peripheral panels are arranged around the main panel, inclined from a planar surface of the main panel and located on the same side of the planar surface. The housing contains the antenna which is mounted on the fuselage through a mechanical support fixed to the fuselage and to the weather radar antenna on the same side of the planar surface as the peripheral panels. A bird strike shield is located between the antenna and the sealed bulkhead. The shield comprises a dome with a top and a base, the base being fixed to the aircraft fuselage. An opening is formed at the top of the dome through which the mechanical support passes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventor: Christophe Mialhe
  • Liquid fuel tank for measuring fuel volume
    Patent number: 8746058
    Abstract: Its object is to allow measurement of the volume of fuel (2) using optic fiber cables (3); it is characterized in that, adhered to one or more of the inner faces of the tank (1) there is at least one sheet (4) in which a plurality of optic fiber cables (3) with different lengths are included, located between the inner face of the tank and the sheet (4). One set of the ends (10) of the optic fiber cables (3) are disposed so that they are in contact with the fuel (2) when it reaches their level, thereby allowing measurement of the fuel level at all times. The preferred embodiment distributes the optic fiber cables (3) on two opposing lateral faces of the tank (1) so that they cross over one another and in opposite directions to measure any fuel level. It is applied in aeronautics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations, S.L.
    Inventors: Vicente Martínez Valdegrama, Luis Manuel Rodríguez Urbina
  • Method and apparatus for fabricating a fibre reinforced thermoplastic composite structure
    Patent number: 8747585
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a fiber reinforced thermoplastic composite structure comprising: placing a first layer of fiber reinforced thermoplastic material on top of a second layer of fiber reinforced thermoplastic material; providing a local heating source and locally heating a portion of at least the upper layer of thermoplastic composite material; and providing an ultrasonic transducer and locally introducing ultrasonic energy waves to the heated portion of the thermoplastic material such that ultrasonic consolidation of the fiber reinforced thermoplastic occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Ltd
    Inventor: David Inston
  • Apparatus for the production of an aircraft fuselage shell consisting of a fibre composite
    Patent number: 8746315
    Abstract: An apparatus for the production of a fuselage shell for an aircraft made of fiber composite, which is to be equipped with a plurality of stringers disposed spaced apart for reinforcement, comprising a main frame to form a supporting substructure having an outwardly curved mounting surface for positive mounting, having longitudinal mounting grooves for receiving of formed parts for deformably positioning the stringers relative to the mounting surface, wherein a plurality of short formed parts spaced apart from each other are disposed in each mounting groove, and which are adjustable relative to the corresponding mounting groove in the transverse direction (Y) by means of adjusters, and which can be raised in the vertical direction (Z) by means of lifters for guiding the stringers in the direction of a laminating adhesive bonding unit brought over the mounting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Barlag, Joachim Piepenbrock
  • Method for designing a composite material part with a curved surface
    Patent number: 8751197
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for designing a composite material part with a curved surface (65) to which a plurality of stiffening elements will be joined, in which the design of a 3D fabric model comprises the following steps: generating a planar surface (63) developed in 2D of the surface (65) of the curved part in 3D as well as the same geometric references (71) in 2D as the references (51) of the surface in 3D; associating the surface (63) developed in 2D and the surface (65) in 3D as well as their geometric references (71, 51), such that any action in one of them is reflected in the other; initially computing the fabric model in the surface (63) developed in 2D; carrying out any subsequent modification of the fabric model either in the surface (63) developed in 2D or in the surface (65) in 3D.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.L.
    Inventors: Raúl Burgos Gallego, José Villarrubia Cortés
  • Electrical power distribution unit and a vehicle having such a unit
    Patent number: 8749956
    Abstract: In an electrical cabinet (110) for an electrical power unit that carries out electrical power switching for at least multiple electrical power switching equipment (50), the electrical power switching equipment (50) is attached to a front of at least a support grid rack (31) arranged as a matrix with n rows and p columns, where n and p are greater than or equal to two. Each piece of equipment (50) is attached to the grid rack at a slot (34) in the grid rack, open to the front of the grid rack (31) and to the rear of the grid rack to allow installation from the front of the equipment and to allow access from the front to the rear of the grid rack through the slots (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventor: Bernard Guering