Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations
  • Patent number: 11738858
    Abstract: A landing gear system uplock arrangement (300, 500) including: a hook (310) defining a gap (314), wherein the hook is movable between a first position, at which the hook is for retaining a movable element (299, 499) of a landing gear system in the gap, and a second position, at which the hook is for permitting movement of the element into and out from the gap; a lock (320) that is changeable between a locked state, in which the lock prevents movement of the hook from the first position to the second position, and an unlocked state, in which the lock permits movement of the hook from the first position to the second position; and a sensor arrangement (330) for sensing whether the element is present in the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventor: Craig Wells
  • Patent number: 11738665
    Abstract: A cooling circuit operable with fuel of a fuel cell system includes a fuel tank storing fuel for the fuel cell system, a fuel compressor configured to increase a pressure of the fuel, a first heat exchanger configured to cool the pressurized fuel, a first conduit coupled to an outlet of the first heat exchanger, a first turbine coupled to the first conduit and configured to expand the pressurized and cooled fuel, and a second conduit coupled to an outlet of the first turbine and configured to direct the expanded fuel to the fuel cell system. Further disclosed is a vehicle including at least one cooling circuit or a cooling system having a cooling circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Klimpel
  • Patent number: 11738857
    Abstract: A wing tip device having a first wing tip device element for attaching at a first wing tip device element root to a tip of an aircraft wing, and a second wing tip device element extending from a second wing tip device element root to a second wing tip device element tip, the second wing tip device element root outboard, when viewed in the wing planform direction, of the first wing tip device element root; the first wing tip device element having a first wing tip device element leading edge and a first wing tip device element trailing edge, and the second wing tip device element having a second wing tip device element leading edge and a second wing tip device element trailing edge; and a fairing between the first and second wing tip device element which extends aft from the second wing tip device element trailing edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Ben Commis, Christopher Wright
  • Patent number: 11742618
    Abstract: An electrical connector provided with at least one male or female plug configured to be connected to a socket. The electrical connector includes at least one locking system provided with a polarized ferromagnetic locking element and with a return element, which are configured to have a first shape corresponding to a locking configuration of the electrical connector that is at least partially complementary to a shape of the connection plug or of the socket when an intensity of a current flowing through the connection plug is higher than or equal to a predetermined value, and a second shape corresponding to a non-locking configuration of the electrical connector when the intensity of the current flowing through the connection plug is lower than the predetermined value, so as to electromechanically lock the connection plug in the socket of the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Pierre Baena
  • Patent number: 11738525
    Abstract: A composite forming station for forming a T-profile composite part from a planar laminate. The composite forming station includes in-line rollers arranged along a forming direction, wherein a thickness and/or edge angle each roller is greater than the preceding roller, wherein the rollers gradually splay apart feet sections of the planar laminate to convert the laminate to the T-profile composite part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS, S.L.U.
    Inventors: Francisco Javier Chamorro Alonso, Pedro Nogueroles Viñes, Aquilino García García, Jorge Juan Galiana Blanco, Augusto Pérez Pastor, Julián Martin Isabel
  • Patent number: 11735056
    Abstract: A piloting assistance system for an aircraft comprises a flight management computer and a guidance computer. The flight management computer transmits speed setpoints to the guidance computer so as to pilot the aircraft in accordance with an initial speed profile or in accordance with an RTA speed profile following the reception of an RTA constraint. In response to the reception of a setpoint speed selected by a flight crew member in the presence of the RTA constraint, the guidance computer pilots the aircraft at the selected speed and the flight management computer determines a deselection point for returning to a predetermined speed profile while still complying with the RTA constraint. The guidance computer commands the display, on a navigation screen, of a symbol corresponding to the position of the deselection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Jérome Arnoux, Thomas Pastre
  • Patent number: 11731775
    Abstract: An aircraft nacelle including an automatically-operated locking device for limiting deformations of the cowl. This automatically-operated locking device includes at least one locking post connected to the cowl, at least one latch able to move between a first position corresponding to a locked state in which the latch prevents the locking post from becoming distanced from a fixed structure and a second position corresponding to an unlocked state in which the latch allows the locking post to become distanced from the fixed structure, at least one return system configured to hold the latch in its second position corresponding to the unlocked state, the cowl holding the latch in its first position when the cowl is in the closed position and allowing the latch to pivot toward its second position when the cowl is in the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Antoine Cousin, Laurent Caliman, Jérôme Gaillardo
  • Patent number: 11731756
    Abstract: A control system for an aircraft includes a hydraulic pump, first hydraulic line, second hydraulic line, a first actuator coupled with a first control surface, a second actuator coupled with a second control surface, and a third actuator coupled with a third control surface. The first control surface and the second control surface are at a distance to each other and symmetrically relative to a symmetry axis. The third control surface is substantially on the symmetry axis, and the first hydraulic line and the second hydraulic line are connected to the hydraulic pump. The first actuator is connected to the first hydraulic line, and the second actuator is connected to the second hydraulic line. The third actuator is connected to the first hydraulic line downstream of the first actuator at a junction point, and the first hydraulic line at least partially includes a larger diameter than the second hydraulic line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH, AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Alena Kaufmann, Jérôme Robillard
  • Patent number: 11731755
    Abstract: In order to improve linear drives on aircraft with regards to backlash, gear reduction, self-lock capability, load transfer and wear, a linear drive device is provided that has a first member with engaging teeth, such as a tooth rack and a second member which functions as a drive unit. The second member includes a plurality of movable teeth that are actuated by a cam shaft. The cam shaft has a control cam portion that is shaped such that the movable teeth perform a wave-like motion that forces the first member along its longitudinal direction relative to the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Bernhard Schlipf, Florian Lorenz
  • Patent number: 11735812
    Abstract: An aircraft comprising a skin, a multiplicity of antenna arrangements, each of which is arranged in a different region of a corresponding multiplicity of mutually spaced regions of the skin and comprises an antenna element that is arranged and configured to emit radio waves into a surrounding area of the aircraft, and a multiplicity of visual indicators, each of which is assigned to a different antenna arrangement of the antenna arrangements. Each of the visual indicators is arranged on the skin or on the antenna arrangement in the region of the skin in which the assigned antenna arrangement is situated in such a manner that it is visible from outside the aircraft and emits light during operation in an on state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Patrick Thielker, Christian Schaupmann
  • Patent number: 11731781
    Abstract: A cabinet comprising at least one screen allowing display of data necessary for a flight-control of an aircraft connected to at least one avionics module for management of the data. The screen at least partially forms one of the sides of the cabinet and the module or modules are installed inside the cabinet. The cabinet has a base allowing the screen or screens to be placed at a desired height. As a result, a length of cable between screen and avionics modules is reduced to a minimum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Bernard Guering, Romain Delahaye
  • Patent number: 11731753
    Abstract: A wing for an aircraft, including a main wing, a slat, and a connection assembly movably connecting the slat to the main wing. The connection assembly includes an elongate slat track with a front end mounted to the slat and a rear end and an intermediate portion mounted to the main wing by a roller bearing, and includes a guide rail mounted to the main wing and a first roller unit mounted to the slat track rear end and engaging the guide rail. The roller bearing includes a second roller unit mounted to the main wing and engaging a slat track intermediate portion engagement surface. The slat track has an upper and lower flange and at least one web. The second roller unit is arranged in a recess between the upper and lower flanges and engages the engagement surface provided at the upper and/or lower flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Dennis Krey, Alexander Huber, Bernhard Schlipf, Florian Lorenz, Dustin Shapi, Robert Grahs
  • Patent number: 11731783
    Abstract: A spark prevention cap is disclosed. The cap forms a sealed cavity around an end of a fastener protruding from a surface of a structure, for example, an aircraft structure. The cap has a cap body with an annular base terminating at a rim. The rim surrounds an opening into a central cavity for receiving the end of the fastener. The annular base has an external circumferential surface extending from the base rim, and a mating feature on the external circumferential surface configured to contact a sealant material applied externally to the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED
    Inventor: Thomas Monaghan
  • Patent number: 11731381
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing two soundproof panels of an aircraft nacelle including a duct. The manufacturing method includes a step of supplying a mold having, on a single face, a cavity for each soundproof panel, a step of producing, in the bottom of each cavity, an inner skin for being oriented towards the duct, and a curing step during which the elements present in the mold are cured in the mold. Such a method makes it possible to produce the two soundproof panels in the same mold, thus reducing the gaps between them after they have been positioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Alain Porte, Jacques Lalane
  • Patent number: 11735860
    Abstract: Use of a hydrogen tank of a vehicle such as an aircraft for protecting at least one electrical connection device linked to at least one electrical device. At least one connection device is placed in a tank or in a sealed enclosure supplied with hydrogen by a tank or by any other source of hydrogen supply of the vehicle. The use of a tank that already exists in the vehicle makes it possible to avoid having to use specific chambers incorporated in a complex manner with the connection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Olivier Raspati, Thomas Jomier, David Rousset
  • Patent number: 11726125
    Abstract: A main electrical cabling is subject to variations in ambient temperature over its length. A detection system for detecting a fault in the main electrical cabling able to cause a serial arc, or heating within a connection, includes a monitor electrical cabling placed alongside the main electrical cabling and a controllable current generator injecting, at the input of the monitor electrical cable, a current proportional to the current flowing through the main electrical cabling. The main and monitor sets of electrical cabling being joined at the output, an electronic circuitry measures the difference between the electrical potential at the input of the main electrical cabling and that at the input of the monitor electrical cabling and detects a fault in the main electrical cabling when the difference of the electrical potentials exceeds a predefined threshold. A fault in the main electrical cabling is detected despite the variations in temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventor: Patrick Oms
  • Patent number: 11724817
    Abstract: An aircraft including a combustion engine with a combustion chamber an injection device for injecting fuel in the combustion chamber and an air separation device adapted to separate air into an oxygen-enriched gas mix and an nitrogen-enriched gas mix, wherein the oxygen-enriched gas mix is injected into the combustion chamber with the fuel while the nitrogen-enriched gas mix is used to inert at least some portions of the aircraft in the environment of said combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SL
    Inventors: Pablo Manuel Calderon Gomez, Carlos Casado-Montero
  • Patent number: 11718417
    Abstract: A gripping device for a panel of a section of a fuselage of an aircraft, the panel including a skin and having an arcuate shape about a longitudinal axis X. The gripping device includes two gripping subsystems arranged at a distance from one another parallel to the longitudinal axis X, and each gripping subsystem includes a central element fastened to the panel, and two lateral elements fastened on either side of the central element by fasteners, and each lateral element includes pressurizers which come against the skin to apply a tension thereto in the opening direction of the arcuate shape. Such a gripping device makes it possible to ensure the shape of the panel when it is transported and until it is fastened to other panels in order to produce the section of the fuselage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: Airbus (S.A.S.), Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Datas, Jacques Bouriquet, Jean-Mickael Brindeau, André Aquila, Patrick Guibert, Nicolas Darbonville, Thomas Autret
  • Patent number: 11713128
    Abstract: An assembly including a connecting device, connecting first and second parts, including first and second links positioned on respective opposite sides of the first and second parts and an interleaved stiffener, positioned between the first and second links, having a first contact face oriented toward the first link and a second contact face oriented toward the second link, parallel to the first face, the first and second contact faces being separated by a distance equal to that separating the first and second links. This interleaved stiffener makes it possible to limit the risks of bending of the links when they are loaded in compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Pautis, Michael Berjot, Olivier Dubois, Germain Gueneau
  • Patent number: 11713107
    Abstract: A wing for an aircraft, including a main wing, a slat, and a connection assembly movably connecting the slat to the main wing, such that the slat is movable between a retracted position and at least one extended position. The connection assembly includes a first connection station and a second connection station spaced apart from the first connection station in a wing span direction. The object, to prevent the slat from skewing, is achieved in that the connection assembly includes a sync shaft coupling the first connection station to the second connection station for sync movement of the first and second connection stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Schlipf, Florian Lorenz