Abstract: A support for the maintenance of an aircraft radome comprising an annular element having a flat surface and from which extend at least three feet. The support comprising a plurality of articulated holding elements, for example articulated fittings, applying a lock function and each comprising a bearing surface on a surface portion of an aircraft radome, for example an interface fitting, when said radome is placed on said flat surface of said annular element.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 12, 2024
Date of Patent:
April 8, 2025
Assignee:
Airbus Operations SAS
Inventors:
Jacques Fournie, Julien Poteau, Noël Pernalon
Abstract: A wing for an aircraft includes a leading edge as a first chordwise edge, a trailing edge as a second chordwise edge, an upper skin extending between the leading edge and the trailing edge, a lower skin extending between the leading edge and the trailing edge, at least one spar extending between the upper skin and the lower skin in a spanwise direction to create wing box with the upper skin and the lower skin, and at least one of a fluid line, an electrical line, and a mechanical power transfer device attached inside or reaching into the wing box at least partially.
Abstract: An acoustic treatment panel includes at least one acoustically resistive layer, a reflective layer and at least one cellular structure interposed between the acoustically resistive layer and the reflective layer. The cellular structure includes cylindrical and identical main tubes which are closed at one end by the acoustically resistive layer and at the other end by the reflective layer, spacer zones between the main tubes, the spacer zones being sealed relative to one another, cutouts made at an end of certain main tubes, in contact with the reflective layer, and/or secondary tubes positioned in the main tubes and/or in the spacer zones, the cutouts and/or the secondary tubes being configured to generate acoustic cells of different dimensions from identical main tubes.
Abstract: A spark containment cap for enclosing an end of a fastener protruding from a structure, the enclosed body having a base and a cover portion, the cover portion extending from the base, the base providing an adhering surface for adhering the spark containment cap to a structure, and the base and the cover portion together forming a cavity within the enclosed body inside which the end of a fastener can be enclosed.
Abstract: An aircraft tank device for increasing a flight range and a wing area of an aircraft includes a fairing which is formed and configured to at least partly cover an aircraft wing-aircraft fuselage intersection, to store a fuel, and to provide a lifting function. An aircraft including such an aircraft tank device is also disclosed.
Abstract: An aircraft refrigeration system comprises an ambient air line, through which ambient air flows and which is connected to conduct ambient air to an aircraft, an ambient air compressor, arranged in the ambient air line, for compressing the ambient air in the ambient air line, a cabin exhaust air turbine, connected to a cabin exhaust air line and coupled to the ambient air compressor in the ambient air line and configured to expand cabin exhaust air flowing through the cabin exhaust air line and to drive the ambient air compressor, a transmission, configured to couple the cabin exhaust air turbine to the ambient air compressor and to set a speed of the ambient air compressor, and a motor, coupled to the transmission and configured to drive the ambient air compressor.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 23, 2019
Date of Patent:
April 1, 2025
Assignee:
Airbus Operations GmbH
Inventors:
Oliver Hennig, Frank Klimpel, Henning Everth
Abstract: An air distribution system for a cabin of an aircraft includes a supply air line with a supply air line connector, at least one air outlet with an air outlet connector, a riser line, which is connectable to the supply air line connector and the air outlet connector, and a trim element to be arranged on a primary structure of the aircraft inside the cabin. The riser line is flexible, wherein the trim element has an outer side which can be oriented relative to the primary structure and on which there is at least one retainer for retaining the riser line, and the at least one retainer is designed to be interlockingly connected to the riser line by being pressed against the latter, such that the riser line is fixed.
Abstract: An aircraft with an aircraft fuselage, and a passenger cabin and a cockpit, where the aircraft includes a center-forward attendant space between the passenger cabin and the cockpit. A cabin crew member of the aircraft can stand in the center-forward attendant space for monitoring progress of an emergency evacuation of the aircraft. The aircraft has one or more emergency exits for providing egress of passengers from the aircraft fuselage during the emergency evacuation. The aircraft also has a situational awareness monitoring (SAM) system for use in evacuating the passengers from the aircraft during the emergency evacuation. The SAM system includes one or more imaging devices and one or more display modules, each of which displays within the passenger cabin images captured by a corresponding one of the one or more imaging devices.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 21, 2022
Date of Patent:
April 1, 2025
Assignees:
Airbus Americas, Inc., Airbus Operations GmbH, National Research Council of Canada
Inventors:
Joyce S. T. Tan, Tina Kay Griffin, Patrick Alexander Rollfink, Christophe J. P. J. Legare, Natalia Cooper, John Russell Thomas, Shelley M. Roberts, Caidence S. Paleske
Abstract: An assembly for an aircraft including a vision module including a base and a chassis including a first beam fixed to the base by four fixing means, a second beam fixed to the first beam by four fixing means, and two third beams fixed to the structure of the aircraft and between which the second beam is fixed by two third fixing means, where each fixing means takes the form of a system with two eccentric rings where the two rings are mobile in rotation relative to one another about parallel rotation axes. Also an aircraft with such an assembly fixed to a structure thereof.
Abstract: A floor system for a cabin of a vehicle is proposed, the floor system including a floor panel having a bottom layer, a top layer and a continuous stiffening structure having an alternating arrangement of elongated first depressions and elongated protrusions arranged between the bottom layer and the top layer, an elongated cover component, and at least one seat rail component. The cover component has an upper surface, a lower surface, and an elongated second depression reaching from the upper surface to the lower surface and having a shape that corresponds to the shape of the first depressions. The cover component is configured to be mounted inside a first depression that is accessible through an elongated cutout extending along a depression of the stiffening structure. The at least one seat rail component is attachable to the cover component to provide a seat rail along the floor panel.
Abstract: An apparatus contains a dihydrogen tank and/or a dihydrogen circuit, and a device for regulating a concentration of dihydrogen located outside the tank and/or the circuit. The device includes at least one pair of electrical conductors including a first electrical conductor supplied with a first voltage and a second electrical conductor supplied with a second voltage which is different from the first voltage. At least one controller repeatedly commands the application of a predetermined voltage difference between the first electrical conductor and the second electrical conductor so that an electric arc of controlled power is formed in order to burn dihydrogen possibly coming from the tank and/or from the circuit. Thus, dihydrogen does not accumulate in undesired places in the apparatus.
Abstract: An aircraft cabin section with an aircraft door, a cabin floor, and at least one lining mounted to the aircraft door. The aircraft cabin section further comprises at least one seal that is mounted to the at least one lining and seals a space between the at least one lining and the cabin floor. This prevents a cold air draft from entering the aircraft cabin.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 23, 2022
Date of Patent:
March 18, 2025
Assignee:
Airbus Operations GmbH
Inventors:
Alexander Weng, Hauke Kirstein, Sven Teichmann, Viktor Gribele, Marc-Julien Ettori
Abstract: The DC electrical network comprises an electrical load supplied with electricity by an electrical power source to which the electrical load is linked by a first electrical line and a second electrical line. An overcurrent protection system comprising an input pole and an output pole is mounted in series on the first electrical line. The overcurrent protection system comprises an electronic switch mounted in series between the input pole and the output pole, an electrical current sensor, and a controller configured to control the electronic switch. It also comprises an electronic device linked to the input pole and to the second electrical line. The controller is configured to command a conducting state of the electronic device when a current measurement from the electrical current sensor is above a predetermined current threshold, then to command an opening of the electronic switch.
Abstract: A casing system mounted between an upstream solenoid valve of an upstream pipe and a downstream solenoid valve of a downstream pipe and which has a casing divided by a separation wall into a first volume which is placed under reduced pressure and a second volume, a heat exchanger which is fixed inside the casing with a first inlet which is arranged in the first volume and which is connected to the upstream pipe and a first outlet which is arranged in the second volume and which is connected to the downstream pipe, and a control unit which closes the solenoid valves if the deviation between two successive values of the pressure in the first volume or in the second volume is greater than a threshold.
Abstract: A panel for covering a part of a structure in an interior space of an aircraft is disclosed including a main panel section having an interior side and an exterior side, and at least one attachment device coupled with the exterior side. The main panel section is exclusively made from a single thermoplastic material, and the at least one attachment device is adapted for attaching the panel to the respective interior structure.
Abstract: A clamping apparatus connecting tube flanges, includes first and second bracing devices. The first bracing device connects first and second mounting devices and has a partially circular shape with a first inner and a first outer wall. The second bracing device connects first and second connecting devices. The first bracing device inner wall has a first recess. The first bracing device outer wall is configured to contact the second bracing device which is configured to contact the first bracing device outer wall to apply substantially radial force on that first outer wall. The first recess shape is configured to substantially convert the radial force applied to the first bracing device outer wall into an axial force inside the first inner wall. The first and second mounting devices each comprise at least two attachment devices connecting the first and second connecting devices of the second bracing device.
Abstract: An avionics network including a plurality of avionics components and a configuration monitoring device, which is connected by wire or wirelessly to the plurality of avionics components. The configuration monitoring device has at least one configuration data interface configured to receive a plurality of configuration parameters characterizing the operating status of the avionics components. The configuration monitoring device further includes a parameter filtering device connected to the configuration data interface and configured to filter a subset of the configuration parameters received.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 24, 2020
Date of Patent:
March 11, 2025
Assignee:
Airbus Operations GmbH
Inventors:
Thomas Vollstedt, Ralf Schliwa, Stéphane Poulain, Daniel Alexander Kliem, Guillermo Carmona-Puga
Abstract: A method for producing an armored wall for an aircraft by determining an available thickness of the wall, an allowable areal mass of the wall, and an available space for a wall deformation due to ballistic impact. The method includes retrieving a parameterization of a plurality of armoring materials, which includes a parameter for each of a plurality of material characteristics for each of the plurality of armoring materials. The method also includes comparing the available wall thickness, the allowable areal mass, and the available deformation space with a corresponding parameter of the parameterization, selecting one armoring material for the wall from the plurality of armoring materials based on a result of comparing, and manufacturing a wall by supplementing the selected armoring material to a basic wall structure.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 15, 2023
Date of Patent:
March 11, 2025
Assignees:
Airbus Operations GmbH, Airbus Operations S.L.
Abstract: A method for optimizing a climb phase of an aircraft, implemented repeatedly during the climb phase, includes an acquiring step for acquiring current values of input parameters, a determining step for determining a current optimized DTflex value from the current values of the input parameters and from optimized DTflex values recorded in a database and a transmitting step for transmitting the determined current optimized DTflex value to a user system with a view to controlling the thrust of the aircraft, the method making it possible to continuously adapt, during the climb phase, the optimized DTflex value so it corresponds to current conditions of the aircraft to maximize its performance particular for fuel consumption.
Abstract: An aircraft fuselage includes fore and aft sections, a barrier wall separating the sections and an opening therebetween, a rail attached to the barrier wall, a door moveable across the barrier wall between an open position offset from the opening and a closed position covering the opening, a first roller and a second roller rotatably fixed to the door and moveable on the rail along first and second paths to move the door, the rail including a first ramp engaging the first roller as it moves along the first path and to direct the first roller towards the barrier wall, and a second ramp engaging the second roller as it moves along the second path and to direct the second roller towards the barrier wall, the first roller configured to engage the first ramp as the second roller engages the second ramp to move the door towards the barrier wall.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 29, 2024
Publication date:
March 6, 2025
Applicants:
Airbus (S.A.S.), Airbus Operations GmbH, Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
Inventors:
Adithya NAGARA VENKATACHALA, Jayaparthan JAGADEESAN, Cristobal Federico BRITO MAUR, Benoît THOMAS