Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations
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Patent number: 11952134Abstract: An electric propulsion unit of an aircraft including a nacelle housing an electric power system, an electric motor and a cooling system for the electric power system; the nacelle including a central fairing, a front fairing which extends from the central fairing to a front end and a rear fairing which extends from the central fairing to a rear end. The front fairing includes a protrude positioned in a lower part of the front fairing, the protrude having a front face in a transverse plane, a main air inlet of the cooling system being positioned on the front face.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: AIRBUS SAS, AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS, AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH, AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.Inventors: Jorge Carretero Benignos, Benedikt Bammer, Olivier Verseux, Maria Del Sagrario Juanas Fernandez, Jorge Molano Rembiasz, Thomas Scherer, Alexander Solntsev
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Patent number: 11952135Abstract: A shackle for fastening an aircraft engine including a ball joint with a pin including a ring including a first bore and a sleeve assembled in the first bore and having a second bore configured to receive the pin and the diameter of which progressively increases to have a flared inner surface at each of its ends, the fastening shackle being arranged such that a spherical outer surface of the ring bears an anti-friction coating produced on a region extending beyond the contact region with the body of the shackle, this first region being bordered by rims forming a projection around the coating, and/or the second bore bears an anti-friction coating on a region extending beyond its contact region with the pin, this region being bordered by rims forming a projection around this anti-friction coating, at the ends of the flared inner surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Cédric Poupon, Olivier Pautis, Jonathan Blanc
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Patent number: 11954954Abstract: To reduce the bulk of the acquisition systems embedded onboard an aircraft and dedicated to predicting failures, an acquisition system is provided comprising an avionics rack and at least one recording device, in which the avionics rack comprises a front panel provided with at least one test connector configured to be connected to all or some of the data buses of the aircraft, each recording device comprises a housing and an acquisition port, the acquisition port being provided on an outer face of the housing, the acquisition port of each recording device is engaged with a corresponding test connector of the avionics rack, each recording device is configured to acquire at least some signals applied to the acquisition port by the corresponding test connector, and to store the acquired signals.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: Airbus SAS, Airbus Operations SASInventors: Alain Lagarrigue, David Cumer, Subodh Kumar Keshri
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Patent number: 11952123Abstract: A table device for a vehicle cabin, in particular for a passenger cabin of an aircraft. The table device includes an active surface which is coated with at least one active material that is photoactive and antimicrobial. The table device furthermore includes an irradiation device, which is configured to irradiate the active surface with light. A passenger seat or a vehicle cabin may incorporate such a table device.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventor: Carsten Kohlmeier-Beckmann
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Patent number: 11952140Abstract: A cooling system for an aircraft, including a heat exchanger for cooling a hot fluid with cooling air, an air intake for the supply of cooling air and a Coand?-effect air amplifier for the creation of a flow of cooling air.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Airbus Operations S.L.U.Inventors: Carlos Casado-Montero, Alberto Molina Parga
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Patent number: 11952109Abstract: A system for an aircraft comprising a controller configured to obtain a first piece of information regarding whether the aircraft has achieved lift-off; to obtain a second piece of information regarding whether the aircraft is in a flight phase in an initial part of lift-off; to determine, on the basis of at least the first piece of information whether the gear is retractable, and, if the gear is retractable in an initial part of the lift-off, to trigger a landing-gear-retraction alarm taking an audio form and/or a visual form, and, if the gear is retractable after the initial part of the lift-off to optionally trigger a second landing-gear-retraction alarm taking an audio form and/or a visual form. A method implemented by the system is provided. Advantageously, an omission of the retraction of the landing gear of an aircraft is notified to its flight crew.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: Airbus SAS, Airbus Operations SASInventors: Stéphane Cote, Christine Gris, Philippe Castaigns, Cesar Garcia Castilla
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Patent number: 11952112Abstract: A wing for an aircraft is disclosed having a main wing, a high lift body, and a connection assembly movably connecting the high lift body to the main wing, such that the high lift body can be moved between a retracted position and at least one extended position. The connection assembly includes a drive system having a first drive unit and a second drive unit, wherein the first drive unit has a first input section coupled to a drive shaft, a first gear unit and a first output section drivingly coupled to the high lift body. The second drive unit has a second input section coupled to the drive shaft, a second gear unit, and a second output section drivingly coupled to the high lift body.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GmbHInventors: Tobias Schreck, Bernhard Schlipf
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Patent number: 11952817Abstract: A fastening system including a structure holding element fastenable to a structural component. The fastening system includes a component holding element fastenable to a component to be fastened and movable relative to the structure holding element between first and second operating positions. A first lever element is connected to the structure holding element to be rotatable about a first rotation axis and is connected to the component holding element to be rotatable about a second rotation axis. The fastening system includes a connection element, connected to the component holding element to be rotatable about a third rotation axis and connected to the structure holding element to be displaceable in translation relative to the structure holding element, such that the second rotation axis, when the component holding element is transferred from its first into its second operating position, is displaced in a plane extending perpendicularly to the second rotation axis.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Philipp Eggert, Bogdan-Florin Marculescu
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Patent number: 11945603Abstract: A load carrier for an aircraft cargo hold includes a bottom element with a support surface, the load carrier being movable over a floor surface in a floor plane while the support surface faces the floor surface, the bottom element having a base surface. The support surface has rolling elements rotatable about a rotation axis oriented where a parallel to the axis runs parallel to the floor plane, and the rolling elements being retained on the bottom element where the rotation axis of each of the rolling elements can be rotated about a vertical axis running perpendicularly to the floor plane. A load carrier can include a bottom element, the support surface of which has outlet openings, through which air can exit from the support surface to form an air cushion under the support surface. A load carrier can include a bottom element the support surface of which has slider elements.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Ralf Schliwa, Gunda Hülsen, Uwe Panzram, Hermann Benthien, Lars Uwe Hansen, Paul Adrian Wichtmann, Dirk Meiranke, Thomas Grabow
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Patent number: 11945599Abstract: A flow body for an aircraft includes a torsion box with spars and/or ribs and at least two skin portions for enveloping the spars and/or ribs, wherein at least one inner cell is formed in the torsion box. It is provided that a gas tank with a gas tank shell is arranged in the at least one inner cell, and that the gas tank includes fastening elements coupled to retaining elements in the relevant inner cell in order to hold the gas tank such that the gas tank shell is supported at a distance from the spars and/or ribs and the skin portions and is supported in three spatial directions.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Christian Heck, Shekhar Inamdar
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Patent number: 11945566Abstract: A drain mast for an aircraft for discharge of water from the aircraft interior with a line which extends in a line direction from a connector end to a discharge end. The connector end can connect to another line in the interior of the aircraft, through which further line water flows into the drain mast. The discharge end can discharge water into a surrounding area of the aircraft. The line includes a plastic, into which a conductive material is embedded, by which the line can be heated electrically, by a heating current being conducted through the conductive material. A proportion of the embedded conductive material in the line increases in the line direction per length unit from the connector end of the line towards the discharge end such that the heating power which is introduced into the line per length unit increases from the connector end towards the discharge end.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Tim Lübbert, Michael Rempe, Frank Schneider
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Patent number: 11946668Abstract: A system for heating up water for a consumer unit in an aircraft, having a water reservoir and a control unit. The water reservoir has a heating device to heat water held in the water reservoir to a consumer temperature. The control unit controls the heating device so water in the water reservoir is automatically heated to or above a disinfection temperature at which germ formation in the water reservoir is eliminated or suppressed, and a temperature of the water in the water reservoir is maintained at or above the disinfection temperature for a disinfection period, the heating to the disinfection temperature being effected only during flight phases or portions of flight phases of the aircraft during which use of the consumer unit by a user is not to be expected. A corresponding method and an aircraft having such a system are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Michael Rempe, Frederik Albers, Frank Schneider, Axel Schreiner, Tim Lübbert
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Patent number: 11945575Abstract: A retractable fuselage mounted landing gear assembly is disclosed. The landing gear assembly includes a main strut, a drag stay and a landing gear main fitting. A first end of the drag stay is attached to the main strut and a second end of the drag stay is connected to the fuselage. A first end of the landing main fitting is attached to the main strut and a second end of the main fitting is connected to the fuselage. When the landing gear is extended, substantially all the landing gear loads are transferred from the landing gear to the fuselage via one or more of the drag stay and the main fitting.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED, AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.)Inventors: Christopher James Perkins, Marco Boscolo, Nicholas White, Xavier Matheis, Alexandre Legardez, Simon Roux, Sébastien Crouzet
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Patent number: 11945569Abstract: An anchor rail for an aircraft floor includes an upper flange with a guideway and two flange wings. The rail is formed of a beam and of an anti-corrosion protection. The beam is formed at least of a body made from a first material and defining the lower stiffening structure and an upper platform. The anti-corrosion protection wholly covers an upper face of the upper platform and therewith constitutes the upper flange of the rail, thus layered. The anti-corrosion protection is at least formed of a protective sheet made of a second material more resistant to corrosion than the first material and selected from a metal and a fiber-reinforced plastic composite material. Such a rail exhibits good corrosion resistance for modest cost.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventor: Giuseppe Vassilakakis
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Patent number: 11945596Abstract: A method for producing an alveolar soundproofing structure in which a portion of a membrane of a diaphragm including an acoustic outlet is inserted into a hole of a perforated membrane which covers a cell of the alveolar structure, and the diaphragm is pressed into the cell with the perforated membrane becoming deformed and is fixed at that location. It also relates to the alveolar structure. Such a method enables different types of diaphragms to be inserted into different configurations of cells and enables the diaphragm to be fixed therein, in accordance with the sound frequencies to be processed.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Alain Porte, Jacques Lalane, Florian Ravise, Franck Dobigeon
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Patent number: 11945602Abstract: An assembly for an aircraft. The assembly comprises a frame, an instrument panel fixed to the frame, a support system with an arm bearing a tray in which the arm positions the tray behind the instrument panel, and in which the tray comprises a first attachment arrangement, and a support comprising a second attachment arrangement which cooperates with the first attachment arrangement to removably fix the support onto the tray. The support also comprises a fixing system which ensures the removable fixing of a touch tablet onto the support. With such an assembly, the touch tablet is held without the aid of the pilot and it is positioned in front of him or her for easy access.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SASInventors: Vincent Auriac, Patrick Salgues, Laurent Feuillerac
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Patent number: 11939044Abstract: Retraction of a landing gear assembly on an aircraft is actuated by a hydraulic actuator. The actuator includes a piston that travels within a cylinder along a stroke length between a first position corresponding to the landing gear assembly when extended and a second position corresponding to the landing gear assembly when retracted. The movement of the piston along its stroke length is snubbed at one end by a different amount according to the direction of travel, for example by use of an orifice plate that has a discharge coefficient that is greater in one direction than in the opposite direction. Asymmetric snubbing is thus provided, which enables the landing gear to retract faster.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITEDInventor: Peter Sharpe
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Patent number: 11940027Abstract: An aircraft brake temperature control system (BTCS) 100 for controlling a temperature of a brake 220 of a landing gear 201 of the aircraft 200. The BTCS 100 includes a controller 110 configured to cause at least one fluid moving device 230, 231, 232 to drive a flow of fluid onto the brake 220, selectively in one of a plurality of modes, to control the temperature of the brake 220. The BTCS 100 may be incorporated into an aircraft system 1000 with at least one fluid moving device 230, 231, 232, wherein the aircraft system is on an aircraft 200.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Airbus Operations LimitedInventors: Utsav Oza, Kurt Bruggemann, Rob Hurley
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Patent number: 11931996Abstract: A method for manufacturing a soundproofing assembly involving providing a first panel of honeycomb structure, fastening an intermediate plate against a second face of the first panel, adhesive-coating a layer of adhesive on the intermediate plate, providing a second panel of honeycomb structure, bonding the first face of the second panel to the layer of adhesive, and perforating the intermediate plate and the layer of adhesive through the cells of the first panel or the cells of the second panel at the bonding zone of the second panel. Such a method makes it possible to save time by dispensing with additional preparation steps.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SASInventors: Florian Ravise, Benoit Cadiou
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Patent number: 11932388Abstract: A leading edge structure (1) for a flow control system of an aircraft (101) including a double-walled leading edge panel (3) with a first side portion (11) extending to a first attachment end (17), a second side portion (13) extending to a second attachment end (19), an inner wall element (21) facing a plenum (7), an outer wall element (23) facing ambient flow (25), and a core assembly (97). The outer wall element (23) includes micro pores (31) and the inner wall element (21) includes openings (33) which form a fluid connection from ambient flow, through the core assembly (97) and to the plenum (7). The thickness of the outer wall element is reduced due to the first attachment end (17) and/or at the second attachment end (19) attached to the inner wall element (21) by both bonding and fasteners (85, 87, 89, 91).Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Ivano Bertolini, Stefano Giaquinto, Sebastian Welz, Nina Düren, Jeff Wee Hong Yap, Michael Höft, Nicole Jordan, Frank Nielsen