Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations
  • Cooling system and freight container
    Patent number: 8336329
    Abstract: A system (10) for cooling freight goods on board an aircraft comprises a refrigerating apparatus and a cooling station (14) to which cooling energy generated by said refrigerating apparatus is fed by means of a refrigerating medium and which is connected to an air infeed line (29) of an air-conditioning installation of the aircraft, wherein an air outlet aperture (16) of the cooling station (14) is connectable to a freight compartment (24) of the aircraft in order to discharge into said freight compartment (24) air which has been cooled down to a desired temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Ozan Uluc, Andreas Frey, Sven Reisbach, Frank Bliemeister
  • Audio system for a passenger aircraft and method for controlling same
    Patent number: 8340314
    Abstract: An audio system for an aircraft passenger cabin and a method for controlling such an audio system for providing passengers with information programs, in which multiple loudspeakers are each disposed at a predefined loudspeaker location in the aircraft cabin, and an audio signal having at least one audio channel is reproduced via the loudspeakers wherein the at least one audio channel is output by a central processing unit to the multiple loudspeakers in the aircraft cabin via a bus system having multiple distribution units and multiple cabin units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Henning Scheel, Frank Cordes
  • Device for reducing hydraulic-fluid oscillation in a hydraulic system
    Patent number: 8337179
    Abstract: A device for reducing hydraulic-fluid oscillation in a hydraulic system, in particular in a hydraulic system of an aircraft, wherein the hydraulic system comprises a pump that is driven by a drive, which pump conveys a fluid to a hydraulic line by pressure pulsation. The device comprises an actuator, arranged in the hydraulic line for generating pressure pulsation that compensates for the pressure pulsation of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Boock
  • Aircraft fuselage
    Patent number: 8336823
    Abstract: An aircraft fuselage including a front part including a cockpit, a central part, and a rear part. The central part of the fuselage includes a first zone located at the front part and that increases in width to a maximum width towards the rear of the aircraft, a second zone that decreases in width, and a third zone that has an essentially constant width and is located behind the second zone, width begin measured along the pitch axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignees: Airbus, Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Bruno Saint-Jalmes, Jason Zaneboni, Mathieu Belleville
  • Engine attachment for an assembly system mounted between an attachment strut and an aircraft engine
    Patent number: 8336812
    Abstract: An engine attachment for an assembly system configured to be mounted between a rigid structure of an attachment strut of an aircraft engine and an engine. The attachment includes a main body, a rudder bar on an articulated mounting on the main body by a hinge pin, and two thrust absorption rods each with one end connected to the rudder bar. The main body includes a first main brace and a second main brace superimposed on the first brace. The hinge pin is formed by a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion is made in one piece with the first brace and the second portion is made in one piece with the second brace. Furthermore, the braces define a stop limit surface configured to limit rotation of the rudder bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Jacques Beaufort, Jean-Francois Dumont
  • Passenger stairway for an aircraft and method for pulling in and out the passenger stairway
    Patent number: 8336825
    Abstract: A passenger stairway, which may be integrated with an aircraft, contains at least one first stairway segment having a first plurality of steps and a receptacle device, and at least one second stairway segment having a second plurality of steps, which is insertable into the receptacle device, so that the first and second stairway segments come to rest lying one on top of another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Kathrin Meyer-Rusitschka, Michael Meyer
  • Device for protecting and guiding a cable from a direct-vision window of an aircraft flight deck
    Patent number: 8336824
    Abstract: A device for protecting and guiding at least one cable (22) that connects a direct-vision window (10) of an aircraft cabin that is provided for blocking an opening, and connects its support (14), includes a cable chain (26) that can deform along a winding plane and protect and guide the cable (22), on both sides of the cable chain (26), a first support (28) that is articulated relative to the direct-vision window (10) so as to be able to pivot around an axis of articulation (36) that is essentially parallel to the release translation and a second support (30) that is articulated relative to the support (14) so as to be able to pivot around an axis of articulation (38) that is essentially parallel to the release translation and the first and second supports (28, 30) have a square cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Olivier Biancalana
  • Landing gear casing provided with a dissociated structure
    Patent number: 8336819
    Abstract: A reduced-volume casing for a landing gear including a chassis for fixing and taking up loads, to which the landing gear is exposed and an envelope-type structure arranged on the chassis for taking up pressurization forces. The chassis can include, in particular, a frame which is even to the output opening of the landing gear and is provided with beams used for receiving means for maintaining the fastening bearings of the gear and also including polygons which are used for receiving the fastening bearings of the gear manoeuvring strut and are fixed to the beams, wherein the beams and polygons form a lattice structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Paul De Ruffray, Rodolphe Morel
  • Aircraft cabin panel with core recesses for acoustic absorption
    Patent number: 8336804
    Abstract: An aircraft cabin panel for acoustic absorption in an interior space includes a core layer, a first cover layer and a second cover layer. The first cover layer includes a space-enclosing first surface, and the second cover layer is arranged opposite the first cover layer. The first cover layer is acoustically transparent, and the core layer includes a honeycomb core with a plurality of tubular or honeycomb-like cells that are open throughout the thickness of the honeycomb core. The honeycomb core on the face pointing towards the first cover layer extends parallel to the first cover layer so as to be continuously throughout, and on the face pointing towards the second cover layer comprises recesses which extend over several cells. Absorbers are accommodated in the recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Hoetzeldt, Christian Thomas
  • Engine pylon for the suspension of a turbo engine under an aircraft wing
    Patent number: 8336813
    Abstract: According to the invention, the engine pylon for the suspension of a turbo engine under an aircraft wing is such that the trailing edge of the rear lower part of the engine pylon is shifted toward the root of the wing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignees: Airbus Operations SAS, Airbus UK Limited
    Inventors: Cyril Bonnaud, Thierry Fol, Anne Dumoulin, Tom Gibson, Neil Lyons
  • MOVABLE BIN
    Publication number: 20120318917
    Abstract: A movable storage compartment for a passenger cabin comprises a housing and fixing structures on the side walls of the housing, the housing being open on one side and being able to be moved back and forth between an open and a closed position, that is to say being able to be opened and closed. The fixing structures are formed in such a way that during a movement from the open position to the closed position the housing can be moved first predominantly rotationally and then predominantly translationally upwards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Schneider, Bengt Abel, Peter Bielik, Raj Kotian
  • Method and device for transmitting geographical data on an aircraft
    Patent number: 8335790
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for transmitting to a user system (3) geographical data that is stored, using a unit-surface sorting, in the database (4) of a provider system (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Thomas Sauvalle, Eric Peyrucain, André Bourdais
  • Method and system for controlling an aircraft air conditioning system with optimised fuel consumption
    Patent number: 8333078
    Abstract: In a method for controlling an aircraft air conditioning system, a correlation is established between a plurality of values of a process air mass flow supplied to an air conditioning unit of the aircraft air conditioning system and the fuel consumption of the aircraft. A correlation is also established between a plurality of values of an ambient air mass flow which is used to cool the process air mass flow supplied to the air conditioning unit of the aircraft air conditioning system and the fuel consumption of the aircraft. The process air mass flow and the ambient air mass flow are controlled in dependence on a predetermined cooling capacity of the aircraft air conditioning system such that the fuel consumption of the aircraft is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Juergen Kelnhofer
  • WING OF AN AIRCRAFT
    Publication number: 20120312932
    Abstract: A wing of an aircraft provided with a main wing and an arrangement of leading edge lifting bodies, which as seen with reference to the incident flow direction are arranged on the leading edge, which are adjustably arranged on the main wing one behind another as seen in the spanwise direction of the main wing by means of respectively two positioning devices spaced apart from one another in the spanwise direction of the main wing. The wing has a connecting device, which is coupled to each of two adjacent leading edge lifting bodies, wherein the connecting device is configured such that in the event of a fracture of a positioning device of a positioning body external forces acting on the latter are transferred via the respective connecting device to the leading edge lifting bodies coupled up via the latter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Xavier Hue, Bernhard Schlipf
  • Emergency exit hatch for exiting a cabin module in an emergency and entering the same
    Patent number: 8328137
    Abstract: The invention relates to an emergency exit hatch for exiting a cabin module for an aircraft in an emergency and entering the cabin module. Said emergency exit hatch comprises a first mechanism for visually inspecting a zone below the emergency exit hatch by at least partly opening the emergency exit hatch by means of the first mechanism, and a second mechanism for entirely opening the emergency exit hatch . The first mechanism is not the same as the second mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Sütthoff, Alexander Stendel
  • Aileron actuator bracket
    Patent number: 8328142
    Abstract: An aircraft wing comprising: a trailing edge cove extending in a span-wise direction along a trailing edge of the wing, the trailing edge cove having a front face, a top face and a bottom face; an actuator bracket which is mounted to the front and top faces of the trailing edge cove, but not to its bottom face; an aileron actuator coupled at one end to an aileron and at the other end to the actuator bracket, the aileron actuator being adjustable from a retracted position to a deployed position to deploy the aileron; and a channel extending in a span-wise direction along the wing and positioned below the actuator bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventor: Lynn McDonald
  • Damage-tolerant attachment system for an aircraft engine
    Patent number: 8328132
    Abstract: A damage-tolerance attachment system for an aircraft engine includes first and second attachment devices attaching the aircraft engine to a pylon fixedly attached to the aircraft, and a third backup attachment device including a first portion attached to the pylon and a second portion attached to the engine, the first and second portions connected together loosely so as not to disrupt an isostasy of the first and second attachment devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Herve Marche, Gilles Weyland
  • Insulation design for thermal and acoustic insulation of an aircraft
    Patent number: 8327976
    Abstract: The invention pertains to an insulation structure for thermally and acoustically insulating an aircraft that features at least one heavy layer, wherein the insulation structure according to the invention is characterized in that the insulation structure comprises an additional absorption layer, in that the heavy layer is perforated at least in certain areas, and in that the perforated area ratio of the heavy layer is adapted in such a way that the heavy layer is essentially transparent to sound for frequencies below a double-wall frequency of the insulation structure. This makes it possible to dampen sound with low frequencies below the double-wall frequency as effectively as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Müller, Benjamin Grenzing, Christian Thomas
  • Aircraft electronics cooling apparatus for an aircraft having a liquid cooling system
    Patent number: 8331093
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved aircraft electronics cooling system for an aircraft having a liquid cooling system (2), the aircraft electronics cooling system providing a thermal coupling between an electronic device (40a, 40b, 40c, 40d, 42, 44) to be cooled and the liquid cooling system (2) of the aircraft. A coolant delivered by the liquid cooling system (2) may flow through a board of the electronic device (40a, 40b, 40c, 40d), through a heat sink on which the electronic device (42) is arranged and/or through a housing in which the electronic device (44) is arranged. The coolant may be permanently in the liquid state in a cooling circuit. The coolant may vaporize at least partially while cooling the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Ozan Uluc, Ahmet Kayihan Kiryaman, Andreas Frey
  • Process for manufacturing a panel made of a thermoplastic composite
    Patent number: 8329085
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a panel made of a composite material using a tool having a support on which a lay-up is performed, the lay-up producing a stack of plies of fiber prepregs, followed by consolidating the stack aiming to obtain the panel using a compacting plate arranged above the stack. The method is implemented such that a first set of polyimide films partially covering each other is located in contact with the stack of plies, between the latter and the compacting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Didier Kurtz, Stephane Pauchet, David Bouvet, Marc Challet