Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations
  • Patent number: 11840342
    Abstract: A storage compartment arrangement for a vehicle cabin having a storage compartment, housing, closable storage compartment opening, lower compartment section in the housing, and upper compartment section in the housing. The storage compartment opening extends over the structural heights of both compartment sections. Items of luggage can be placed onto a lower horizontal pivoting edge and pushed into the lower compartment section. An upper horizontal pivoting edge is provided onto which items of luggage can be placed and can be pushed into the upper compartment section. The storage compartment opening has an upper opening edge facing an upper side of the upper compartment section and is adjoined by an auxiliary surface extending over the upper compartment section, is at an angle in a range of 10° to 50° to the separating plane, and, as the distance from the upper delimitation increases, encloses an increasing distance from the separating plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Claus-Peter Gross
  • Patent number: 11840331
    Abstract: A wing for an aircraft, including a main wing, and a leading edge high lift assembly including a high lift body, and a connection assembly connecting the high lift body to the main wing such that the high lift body is movable relative to the main wing between a stowed position and a deployed position. The connection assembly includes at least one rotation element mounted to the high lift body and mounted to the main wing rotatably about an axis of rotation. The high lift body includes a rigid portion and a flexible skin portion. The rigid portion is mounted to the rotation element. The flexible skin portion is connected to a leading edge portion of an upper skin panel of the main wing and is connected to the rigid portion of the high lift body The flexible skin portion is configured to be deformed between a stowed deformation state and a deployed deformation state, when the high lift body is moved between the stowed position and the deployed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Rainer Gartelmann
  • Patent number: 11840962
    Abstract: An aircraft including a fuselage, a wing structure, at least one turbomachine running on hydrogen and generating thrust at a propulsion unit distant from the fuselage, at least one fuel tank positioned in the fuselage and configured to store hydrogen in the cryogenic state, at least one hydrogen supply device connecting the fuel tank and the turbomachine and including at least one pump positioned in the fuselage in the vicinity of the fuel tank, at least one hydrogen heating system positioned in the fuselage in the vicinity of the pump. This solution makes it possible to reduce a length of the complex double-walled pipes configured for carrying the hydrogen in the cryogenic state between the fuel tank and the hydrogen heating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: Airbus SAS, Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Lionel Czapla, Antoine Abele, Benjamin Thubert, Alexis Pissavin, Abhishek Verma, Alistair Forbes, Jorge A. Carretero Benignos, Benedikt Bammer
  • Patent number: 11840337
    Abstract: A leading-edge arrangement for an aircraft is proposed, comprising a plurality of movable flow bodies, a supply duct, an air transfer duct, and at least one perforated tube. The movable flow bodies are arranged in a consecutive arrangement to form a row with a first end and a second end. The supply duct reaches into an interior of one of the flow bodies at the first end. The air transfer duct connects to the supply duct and extends at least through the interior of the respective flow body in the direction towards the second end. The at least one perforated tube is arranged inside at least one of the flow bodies that directly follows on. The at least one perforated tube is in fluid communication with the transfer duct. The transfer duct is configured to transfer air from the supply duct into the at least one perforated tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Bensmann, Marcus Erban, Martin Fees
  • Patent number: 11843163
    Abstract: An opening completely arranged in a skin panel of a structural portion of the aircraft is formed in the outer skin of the skin panel, and for each of the skin panels with one of the openings, an associated structural element of an electronic arrangement is separately provided. The structural element is designed and detachably fastened by a frame thereof to the outer skin in the corresponding skin panel on the side of the outer skin opposite the outer surface, such that it seals the corresponding opening such that the skin panel has at least the same pressure-tightness and at least the same strength relative to tension, pressure and shear forces which act in the skin panel in the extension direction of the outer skin as the same skin panel without the corresponding opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Schaupmann, Markus Altmann
  • Patent number: 11840336
    Abstract: To reduce vibration of movable airfoil structures, such as rudders, elevators, and ailerons, a spring device, a leaf spring for example, is mounted to an airfoil mounting structure, such as a vertical tail plane, horizontal tail plane or the wings, such that the spring device exerts a force on a cam device, which transforms the spring force into an airfoil torque. The airfoil torque is applied to the airfoil structure and thus reduces a risk of vibration. The cam device is configured to redirect the spring force such that when the airfoil structure is moved in a first direction, torque decreases and when moved in the opposite second direction the torque is zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Ivano Bertolini, Henrik Lüttmann, Wim Westbroek
  • Publication number: 20230393014
    Abstract: Leakage detection for pressurized fuel tanks. To provide facilitated leakage detection, a leakage detection device for pressurized fuel tanks for storing a pressurized fuel includes a fuel-sensing tracer and a light-wave conducting component. The fuel sensing tracer is configured to alter its optical properties in the presence of a predetermined fuel. The light-wave conducting component is in optical contact with the fuel sensing tracer. Light travelling within the light-wave conducting component is modifiable by altered optical properties of the fuel sensing tracer such that modified light is indicative of the presence of fuel at the location of the fuel sensing tracer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Linde, Awista Nasiri
  • Patent number: 11834146
    Abstract: A simple and lightweight system for discharging water that can flow out through an orifice in an insulation blanket lining the walls of a fuselage of a transport vehicle such as an aircraft. The blanket has an impermeable collection plate having at least partially the shape of a channel, container or the like for collecting and discharging condensation water under the effect of gravity through an orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Aurélien Bardet, Jérome Terrier, Matthieu Escude
  • Patent number: 11833566
    Abstract: Method and device for manufacturing a component from a plate made of deformable material, in particular for an edge of an element of an aircraft. The device includes a tool with two tool parts configured to be able to move closer to one another and are able to round a plate made of deformable material fixed to the two tool parts, a mold at the periphery of the tool and including a molding cavity of a shape corresponding to the shape of the component that is to be manufactured, and a displacement system configured to press the rounded plate firmly against the molding cavity of the mold, the mold being able to shape the rounded plate when it is pressed firmly against the molding cavity to give it its definitive shape, the device allowing the manufacture of single-piece components of varying sizes and notably large-sized components and/or deep components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventor: César Garnier
  • Publication number: 20230382550
    Abstract: A fastening system for an aircraft configured to fasten at least one tank intended to contain liquid hydrogen includes a longitudinal box, an upper structure fastened to an upper side of the longitudinal box, a lower structure fastened to a lower side of the longitudinal box and at least two fastening frames including, on either side of the vertical plane of symmetry (P1), a fastening device for connecting a tank to the upper structure. The fastening system further includes at least two fastening devices for connecting a fastening point of the tank to the longitudinal box and at least two fastening devices for connecting a fastening point of the tank to the lower structure. The fastening system makes it possible to securely fasten at least one hydrogen tank on board an aircraft (AC).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Anthony Mertes, Jérôme Phalippou
  • Publication number: 20230366771
    Abstract: A fluid transport device includes a conduit unit having a wall for separating an inside from an outside of the conduit unit. The device also includes an energy supply unit coupled to the conduit unit and configured to provide electrical energy based on a temperature gradient between the inside and the outside of the conduit unit. The device also includes a monitoring unit configured to monitor a state of the conduit unit and to generate data representative for the state of the conduit unit. The energy supply unit supplies the electrical energy to the monitoring unit, thereby enabling the monitoring unit to monitor the state of the conduit unit. A method for manufacturing a fluid transport device is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicants: AIRBUS SAS, Airbus Operations GmbH, University of Ioannina-Special Account for Research Funds
    Inventors: Alois Friedberger, Dariusz Krakowski, Alkiviadis S. Paipetis, George Karalis
  • Patent number: 11814189
    Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring a tire and/or a wheel including a sensor system; a wireless communication interface; a processor connected to the sensor system and the wireless communication interface; a power source; and a mounting system for attaching the apparatus to a wheel. The mounting system is configured to allow movement of the sensor system relative to the wheel in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventor: Andrew Bill
  • Patent number: 11815046
    Abstract: A turbofan engine with a nacelle and a flow path, in which the nacelle comprises a movable cowl that makes it possible to define a window between the flow path and the outside, veils with a first edge fixed to the movable cowl and alternately assuming a folded position or a deployed position across the flow path, and a pneumatic system displacing a second edge of the veils from the folded position to the deployed position and vice versa. The pneumatic system comprises a rigid main roll, for each veil, at least one extendable secondary roll fixed to a second edge of the veil, and a pressurization and depressurization system which, alternately, generates a pressure or a depression in each secondary roll. Replacing the reverse doors and their driving mechanisms with flexible veils and a pneumatic system allows for a weight reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Alain Porte, Lionel Czapla, Benjamin Thubert
  • Patent number: 11807366
    Abstract: A wing (5) for an aircraft (1) including a main wing (11) and a high lift assembly (13) having a high lift body (15), and a connection assembly (17) movably connecting the high lift body (15) to the main wing (11), wherein the connection assembly (17) includes a first connection element (19) and a second connection element (21) movably mounted to the main wing (11) and mounted to the high lift body (15), wherein the connection assembly (17) includes a first drive unit (27) drivingly coupled to the first connection element (19), a second drive unit (29) drivingly coupled to the second connection element (21) and a third connection element (57) movably mounted to the main wing (11) and mounted to the high lift body (15), the third connection element (57) is arranged between the first connection element (19) and the second connection element (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Schlipf, Marc Hencke
  • Patent number: 11807390
    Abstract: A system 100 to detect aircraft ground proximity including: a transmitter 110 for transmitting a radio frequency signal along an extended landing gear 20 of an aircraft 10, a sensor 120 configured to detect a parameter of the radio frequency, and a controller 130 configured to detect a change in the detected parameter on the basis of an output of the sensor 120, and to issue a landing signal when the change in the detected parameter meets a predetermined criterion. The predetermined criterion is indicative of a certain aircraft ground proximity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: Airbus Operations Limited, Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Dylan Benedict James, Fraser Wilson, Franck Flourens
  • Patent number: 11811107
    Abstract: A cooling system containing a two-phase refrigerant that comprises a condenser, an evaporator and a conveying device. The evaporator is integrated in a heat source or thermally coupled thereto. Gaseous refrigerant from the evaporator is expanded in an expander, converted into mechanical energy and used to drive a generator for generation of electricity. Furthermore, an aircraft comprising a cooling system, wherein an electrical drive is supplied with electricity from a fuel cell, cooled using the cooling system, and the generator of the cooling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: Airbus Operations GmbH, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Piesker, Winfried Lohmiller
  • Patent number: 11807393
    Abstract: In an aircraft, bi-stable power drive units (PDUs) move and secure cargo within an aircraft cargo hold. Such a PDU includes a frame, by which the PDU is rigidly attached to the cargo hold floor; a body pivotably attached, via a hinge, at a first end of the frame at least one drive roller attached at a second end of the body; and an actuator attached to the body and which causes a pivoting angular movement of the body, relative to the frame, about the hinge. The actuator maintains an angular position of the body relative to the frame even upon a loss of power to the PDU. The body is movable between and including a retracted position and a deployed position. A cargo management system includes a plurality of such PDUs, at least one having a controlled area network (CAN) bus interface to control and communicate with a controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Nuessen, Martin Guse, Dirk Meiranke, Sascha Nowarre, Dennis Fischer, Uwe Panzram, Matthias Horst
  • Patent number: 11807368
    Abstract: A flight attendant seat comprising a frame that can be mounted on a carrier fixture or integrated into the carrier fixture, and at least one seat arrangement integrated into the frame. The frame comprises a lower section, an upper section and a central section taking up the at least one seat arrangement, at least partially. The lower section is formed bent at least in a region adjoining the central section. A method is provided for fitting a flight attendant seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Koehler, Peter Bielik, Jan-Ole Jedraszczyk, Heiner Giszas, Marcus Boerjesson
  • Patent number: 11808622
    Abstract: An acoustic measuring device suitable for performing measurements on a surface in contact with a flow. This acoustic measuring device comprises an acoustic surface delimiting a cavity, which has an axis of revolution, which comprises a recess centered with respect to the axis of revolution, configured to house an acoustic sensor and which, in a longitudinal plane passing through the axis of revolution, follows a logarithmic profile which extends from a first edge separating the recess and the acoustic surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Emmanuel Julliard
  • Patent number: 11807384
    Abstract: A device includes a current difference measurement module for measuring the difference between a current flowing in a positive contact of the electrical installation and a current flowing in a negative contact of the electrical installation, a low-pass filter for filtering the differential current, a full-wave rectifier without threshold module for rectifying the filtered current and a trip module for emitting a trip command when the rectified current is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold for a predetermined duration. The device thus makes it possible to protect a DC-voltage electrical installation in a noisy environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Patrick Oms