Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations
  • Joining arrangement for the lateral boxes of a horizontal tail stabiliser with a tubular central box and manufacturing method for said box
    Patent number: 8720824
    Abstract: Joining arrangement for the lateral boxes (11, 11?) of a horizontal tail stabilizer with a central tubular box and manufacturing method for said box. The boxes (11, 11?) are joined using an intermediate joining part (31) that comprises a central box (33, 63, 73), upper (35, 35?) and lower (37, 37?) lateral flaps, fitting plates (A) for the trimming device and fitting plates (B) for the pivoting device, the join being made with rivets between the skins (15, 15?; 17, 17?) of the lateral boxes (11, 11?) and said flaps (35; 35?; 37; 37?). The method for manufacturing the intermediate joining part (31) comprises steps to: a) Provide preforms suitable for forming said part (31); b) Form and cure the part (31) made from said preforms using an RTM method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.L.
    Inventors: Loreto Martinez Fernández, Antonio De Julián Aguado
  • Method and device for automatically determining an erroneous height value of a radioaltimeter mounted on an aircraft
    Patent number: 8723695
    Abstract: A method for automatically detecting an erroneous height value supplied by a radio altimeter mounted on an aircraft. The method includes measuring, during the aircraft's approach phase with a view to landing, the duration between the times when a first predetermined altitude threshold and a second predetermined altitude threshold are reached. This duration is measured by taking into account current height values supplied by the radio altimeter. The method then includes comparing the measured duration to a predetermined duration reference time, which is lower than a flight duration that would allow the aircraft to descend from the first predetermined altitude threshold to the second predetermined altitude threshold at a maximum vertical speed. An erroneous height value is detected if the measured duration is lower than the predetermined duration reference time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Thierry Bourret, Pierre-Antoine Lierman
  • Method for finished-rib compacting a thermoplastic composite part with continuous fibers
    Patent number: 8721830
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a structural part including at least two wings extending in intersecting planes made of thermoplastic fiber-reinforced composite material including at least two plies of continuous fibers. The fibers extend from one wing to another. The method includes cutting the at least two plies in a fabric and/or a tape of fibers pre-impregnated with a thermoplastic resin; assembling the plies to create a preform; and compacting the preform to a final shape of the part by subjecting the preform to a defined cycle of temperature and pressure. A toolset can implement the method described above. Such a toolset includes a rigid punch and die such that closing the tool creates a sealed chamber in a shape of the part between the punch and the die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Didier Kurtz, Florian Chotard
  • Thrust reverser and nacelle for aircraft equipped with at least one such reverser
    Patent number: 8720818
    Abstract: A thrust reverser for a double-flow nacelle that has a cowling, with the thrust reverser having an internal door and an external door designed to be made within the thickness of the cowling. The reverser also has means for simultaneously displacing the doors between a first position called the rest position, in which the doors are integrated into the cowling so as to form an aerodynamic continuity with the external wall and the internal wall of the cowling, and a second active position, in which the doors are open so that the internal and external doors extend toward the inside and toward the outside of the nacelle, respectively, thus at least partially blocking the annular channel of the secondary flow, to deflect the secondary flow and to generate a thrust reversal, with the means being designed to be received in a compartment arranged inside the cowling formed by the doors in the rest position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Teulou, Guillaume Poirier
  • Window element for a double-shell skin field of an aircraft fuselage cell
    Patent number: 8720826
    Abstract: A window element for a double-shell skin field of an aircraft fuselage cell includes a window frame having a window module disposed in the frame, wherein the frame is disposed in an opening of the double-shell skin field, and wherein the frame is connected to the double-shell skin field by a surrounding embrasure profile positioned against a core structure of the skin field at least in some regions, wherein the core structure includes an inner and an outer covering layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Wolf-Dietrich Dolzinski, Norbert Heltsch, Arne Hartwig, Markus Mueller, Markus Joerg Weber, Jens-Ulrich Prowe, Paul Joern
  • Air duct for supplying ambient air in an aircraft
    Patent number: 8721406
    Abstract: An air duct for supplying ambient air in an aircraft includes an air inlet, a flow duct portion and a feed device that is devised to feed ambient air through the air inlet and the flow duct portion. A flow control flap closes the air inlet in a first position, releases a first flow cross-section of the air inlet in a second position and releases a larger second flow cross-section of the air inlet in a third position. The flow control flap is designed to not increase drag significantly in the second position while still enabling flow through the flow duct portion, while increasing drag to increase air fow through the flow duct portion in the third position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Kastell, Sebastian Roering, Wilson Willy Casas Noriega
  • METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR ESTABLISHING A COMMUNICATION LINK BETWEEN SOFTWARE SIMULATION MODELS
    Publication number: 20140130062
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for automatic connection of software simulation models, for example and without limitation, for engineering simulation use in aircraft development are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for establishing a communication link between software simulation models includes initiating communication between the software simulation models and a publish subscribe mechanism, classifying a quality of service indicator for each of the software simulation models, comparing the quality of service indicator associated with two software simulation models, and connecting the software simulation models based on the comparison of the quality of service indicators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Jean Casteres, Olivier Fourcade, Roxana Teodosiu, Philippe Midol-Monnet, Franck Roy
  • Decompression device and decompression system
    Patent number: 8714483
    Abstract: A decompression device is provided having a frame element, in which at least one decompression opening is formed, and a cover is fastenable by means of a fastening device to the frame element in order in a first position to close the decompression opening formed in the frame element. The fastening device includes at least one holding clip and at least one receiving device that is complementary to the holding clip. The holding clip and the receiving device complementary to the holding clip are situated in engagement with one another when the cover is situated in its first position and are adapted to move out of engagement when a predetermined differential pressure acts upon the cover in order to enable the cover to move relative to the frame element into a second position, in which the cover releases the decompression opening formed in the frame element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Hoetzeldt, Oliver Schindler, Gerhard Penski
  • Method for instantaneously determining rates of distortion of signals on an AC electrical network, and associated device
    Patent number: 8717040
    Abstract: A method for instantaneously determining rates of distortion on variable frequency signals, and an associated device, in which a harmonic distortion rate is calculated across the shortest possible temporal window, corresponding to the duration of a period of a given signal's fundamental. Hence, the aim being to precisely determine the signal frequency value, whose HDR is to be calculated, an iteration of certain measurements, achieved at the time of a given calculation, is embodied in order to calculate the HDR on subsequent signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Marc Weber, Aymeric Plo, Denis Blache
  • Aircraft with reduced environmental impact
    Patent number: 8714475
    Abstract: An aircraft with reduced environmental impact includes two turboprop engines mounted on the back of the aircraft at the rear thereof, and one acoustic masking device per turboprop engine. The acoustic masking device includes a masking element, such as a flap, which can move between a position in which it is retracted into the wing, and a position in which it is extended toward the rear of the wing. In the extended position, the flap intercepts the noise area generated toward the front by the turboprop engine, so as to reduce the perception of noise on the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Pierre-Emmanuel Gall, Guillaume Gallant
  • Aircraft seat assembly structure, and fitted fuselage
    Patent number: 8714484
    Abstract: An aircraft seat assembly structure (4) comprises at least one seat structure (5) that supports at least one seat, with which seat assembly structure is associated a reference frame that is defined by a longitudinal X-axis according to which the seat structure (5) comprises a front part and a rear part, by a Y-axis that is perpendicular to the X-axis, and that forms with said X-axis a horizontal XY plane when at least one seat is horizontal, and by a Z-axis that is perpendicular to the XY plane. In the front part, the seat structure (5) comprises a torsion bar (50) that is essentially parallel to the Y-axis that is equipped at a first lateral end (502) with a front lateral fastening device (500) that is designed to be made integral with lateral attachment means (26) of a shell structure (2) of an aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Bernard Guering, Cedric Meyer
  • Trailing edge flap
    Patent number: 8714493
    Abstract: A single slotted trailing edge flap arrangement for an aircraft wing, comprising a main flap element and an auxiliary flap element sealed to and supported by the main flap element for movement between a retracted and an extended position relative to the main flap element so as to vary the planform area of the flap. The auxiliary flap element remains sealed to the main flap element when in its extended position, and movement of the auxiliary flap element relative to the main flap element is solely translational. The auxiliary flap element may be translationally deployed from the main flap element by sliding the auxiliary flap element out from the underside of the main flap element. Also, a method of operating the flap arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventor: Stuart Morris
  • Assembling and shaping laminate panel
    Patent number: 8715561
    Abstract: A method of assembling and shaping a laminate panel. An intermediate member is mounted on a lay-up table and a lay-up is assembling by laying a series of plies onto the intermediate member on the lay-up table. The intermediate member and the lay-up are then removed from the lay-up table and placed them on a shaped surface. The lay-up is then forced against the shaped surface, via the intermediate member, in a manner that modifies the shape of the lay-up to form a shaped laminate panel. Finally the shaped laminate panel is removed from the intermediate member. The lay-up table can thus support the flexible intermediate member during assembly, and can be relatively flat to enable the lay-up to assembled by an automated process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Levers, Gary Wiles
  • Device, system and method of estimating the angle of attack of an aircraft
    Patent number: 8718840
    Abstract: A device for estimating the angle of attack of an aircraft moving through the air comprises means for receiving a measured incidence presented locally by the air relative to the aircraft and means for determining the angle of attack of the aircraft as a function of the measured incidence and information about the airspeed of the aircraft. The means for determining the angle of attack of the aircraft comprise means for reading the angle of attack of the aircraft from a look-up table having at least the measured incidence and the airspeed information as inputs. Corresponding system and a corresponding method are also proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignees: Airbus Operations S.A.S., Airbus
    Inventors: Thomas Spoerry, Bruno Chauveau
  • Sol for sol-gel process coating of a surface and coating method by sol-gel process using same
    Patent number: 8715405
    Abstract: Sol for the sol-gel coating of a surface, said sol comprising, in percent by weight: a)—3% to 30%, preferably 5% to 20%, more preferably 7% to 15%, especially 8% to 14%, more especially 10% to 13%, for example 10.8% or 12%, of at least one organometallic compound of zirconium, aluminium or titanium; b)—5% to 50%, preferably 5% to 40%, more preferably 10% to 40%, especially 15% or 20% to 30%, for example 22% or 23%, of at least one organosilane compound; c)—1% to 15%, preferably 2% to 10%, more preferably 3% to 8%, for example 5%, of at least one compound selected from acids, bases, glycols and ethoxyethanol; d)—the remainder to 100% of demineralized or distilled water; the total amount of a) and b) being greater than 30%, preferably greater than 31.2%; 31.5%; 32%; or 33%, more preferably greater than 35%, especially greater than 40%, more especially greater than 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Luc Le Blanc, Elisa Campazzi, Patrick Savigne
  • Conduit harness
    Patent number: 8714496
    Abstract: A conduit harness has an inner part and an outer part which are snap-fitted together to provide redundancy in the event of failure of either part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventors: Jack Blanchard, David Routledge
  • Method and device for treating a surface of a fibre composite material
    Patent number: 8715553
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a device for treating a surface of a fiber composite material which contains fibers of a specific hardness, the surface of the fiber composite material being removed abrasively by an abrasion means, the hardness of which is less than the hardness of the fibers contained in the fiber composite material and is greater than the hardness of a plastics material in which the fibers of the fiber composite material are embedded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Barlag, Timo Stoeven
  • Method for coupling stiffening profile elements and structural component
    Patent number: 8715808
    Abstract: This invention provides a coupling method for coupling a first and a second stiffening profile element for an outer skin of an aircraft or space craft. In a first step the stiffening profile elements are arranged on the outer skin in such a manner that the stiffening profile elements oppose each other with their respective front sides and enclose within themselves a cavity. Furthermore, a fixing hole is formed through a wall of at least one of the stiffening profile elements in the cavity inside a coupling zone of the stiffening profile element. An access opening is formed through the wall in the cavity along the coupling zone. A coupling strap, which couples the stiffening profile elements together, is fastened to the coupling zone by means of a fastening element guided through the fixing hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Roming, Thorsten Schroeer, Hauke Kirstein, Hinnik Gensch, Stefan Tacke
  • Turbomachine support pylon for aircraft
    Patent number: 8714477
    Abstract: An aircraft support pylon designed to attach a turbomachine housed in a nacelle to an aircraft fuselage is disclosed. The pylon includes a cooler, located substantially in the vicinity of a leading edge of the pylon, and able to be heated by a hot fluid, the hot fluid intended to be cooled by heat exchange with cold air outside the cooler. The pylon also includes at least one air evacuation duct, at the exit from the cooler and extending longitudinally in an internal volume of the pylon to a trailing edge of the pylon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Christelle Rinjonneau, Pierre Guillaume
  • Wind tunnel with a closed section for aeroacoustic measurements with an anechoic coating
    Patent number: 8714003
    Abstract: A wind tunnel with a closed section for aeroacoustic measurements with an anechoic coating including: a) a first cavity having a thickness D1 in a range of 20?D1?50 mm filled with a fibrous material with a flow resistance R in a range of 10?R?50 kRayl/m; b) a first microperforated panel having a thickness t1 in a range of 0.25?t1?0.75 mm and with a perforation percentage p1 in a range of 15%?p1?30%; c) a second air cavity having a thickness D2 in a range of 10?D2?30 mm; d) a second microperforated panel having a thickness t2 in a range of 0.25?t2?0.75 mm and with a perforation percentage p2 in a range of 15%?p2?30%. The perforations of the panels can be circular or longitudinal slot-shaped having a diameter d or width w in a range of 0.2?d, w?0.5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations, S.L.
    Inventors: Heidi Leni Ruiz Villamil, Jose Julian Alvarez Gonzalez, Pedro Cobo Parra