Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations
  • Patent number: 11164469
    Abstract: A method for aiding in the piloting of an aircraft landing on a runway comprises determining current flight conditions of the aircraft, determining a first approach distance using the current flight conditions, determining a current aircraft position and selection of a first point on a cockpit screen that is a function of the current position of the aircraft, selecting a second point in proximity to the landing runway, and controlling the display on the cockpit screen, of a first circular arc centered on the second point and whose radius is a function of the first approach distance, the first circular arc intersecting at a third point with a straight line passing through the first point and through the second point and the length of a part of the first circular arc situated between the third point and a first end of the first circular arc, comprising a predetermined length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Colin Hodges, Elodie Saby, Philippe Toulemonde
  • Patent number: 11161612
    Abstract: A system for bracing a tensile element in a vehicle has an elongate tensile element having a traction eyelet, a structurally fixed holder, and a tensioning device. The tensioning device has an angled tensioning lever having first and second leg portions with a pivot bearing disposed therebetween. The fixed holder has a bearing which for coupling to the traction eyelet is displaceable along a first direction. The tensioning lever by way of the pivot bearing is coupled to the holder. The first leg portion is coupled to the bearing such that the bearing by pivoting the tensioning lever is displaced in the holder. The second leg portion has a tensioning means which by displacing the bearing sets a variable spacing between the second leg portion and a tensioning face that faces the second leg portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastien Bot, Valentin Graveline, Marco Argento
  • Patent number: 11161619
    Abstract: A turbojet engine comprising an engine, a nacelle comprising a fan case, an intermediate case having a part forming a hub and an outer shroud radially spaced away from the hub by a secondary, or bypass, flow path and fixed to the hub via arms, in which the outer shroud is situated to the rear and in the continuity of the fan case, a fixed structure fixed to the outer shroud, a mobile assembly mounted with the ability to effect translational movement on the fixed structure, and a ramp fixed to the outer shroud and configured to direct the secondary or bypass flow to exit the outer shroud. Such a turbojet engine makes it possible to simplify assembly and among other things, makes it possible to fix the ramp directly to the outer shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Pascal Gardes, Frédéric Ridray, Frédéric Piard, José Goncalves
  • Patent number: 11155342
    Abstract: A leading edge structure (11) for a flow control system of an aircraft (1) including a leading edge panel (13) surrounding surrounds a plenum (17) which extends in a span direction (19), wherein the leading edge panel (13) has a first side portion (21) extending from a leading edge point (23) to a first attachment end (25), wherein the leading edge panel (13) has a second side portion (27) opposite the first side portion (21), extending from the leading edge point (23) to a second attachment end (29), wherein the leading edge panel (13) comprises an inner surface (33) facing the plenum (17) and an outer surface (37) in contact with an ambient flow (39), and wherein the leading edge panel (13) comprises a plurality of micro pores (45) forming a fluid connection between the plenum (17) and the ambient flow (39).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Alexander Büscher
  • Patent number: 11155331
    Abstract: A winglet for attachment to a wing portion of an aircraft is disclosed having a winglet tip and a winglet root opposite from the winglet tip. The winglet has an opening for receiving therethrough a connector for connecting the winglet to a wing portion in use. The winglet has a retainer internal of the winglet for use in retaining the connector relative to the winglet. The retainer has a hole that extends along an axis that passes through the opening for receiving therethrough a portion of the connector when the connector is located through the opening. The retainer includes a body for reacting against a retention component with which the connector engages in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Samuel Moore, Scott Roberts
  • Patent number: 11155332
    Abstract: A winglet for attachment to a wing portion of an aircraft is disclosed having a winglet tip and a winglet root opposite from the winglet tip. The winglet has an opening for receiving therethrough a connector for connecting the winglet to a wing portion in use. The winglet has a retainer internal of the winglet for use in retaining the connector relative to the winglet. The retainer has a hole that extends along an axis that passes through the opening for receiving therethrough a portion of the connector when the connector is located through the opening. The retainer includes a body for reacting against a retention component with which the connector engages in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Samuel Moore, Scott Roberts
  • Patent number: 11155337
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a monobloc and removable pedal module for an aircraft rudder bar. The pedal module, which is intended for a rudder bar, includes a pedal, at least one integrated adjustment system, and a connection device which enables a removable connection of the pedal module to be produced. The pedal module is a monobloc component in order to simplify and facilitate its replacement via the removable connection obtained by the connection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Bernard Guering, Laurent Saint-Marc
  • Patent number: 11142296
    Abstract: Apparatus for laminar flow control for a skin panel for an aircraft including a body for receipt into a recess of the skin panel. The body defines a chamber. The body includes an outer portion defining one or more micro apertures through the outer portion, each of the one or more micro apertures being in fluid communication with the chamber. The body includes a support portion supporting the outer portion, the support portion defining at least one outlet for allowing air to be drawn from the chamber in use by a suction means in fluid communication with the outlet in use. The apparatus is arranged such that, in use, air is drawn through the one or more micro apertures into the chamber and out of the outlet, thereby to promote laminar airflow over the outer portion in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventors: Vernon Holmes, Rodney Evans
  • Patent number: 11142327
    Abstract: A turbomachine assembly comprising a nacelle having an air inlet and comprising a structure. A forward hood is fixed to the structure and extends backwards from the air inlet. An articulated hood is arranged in the upper part of the nacelle and at the rear of the forward hood and comprises a front edge arranged at the front of the articulated hood. A rear edge is arranged at the rear of the articulated hood. A joint is disposed at the front edge between the articulated hood and the structure and ensures a displacement of the articulated hood between a closed position and an open position. A locking system is arranged at the rear edge, and is mobile between a locked position and an unlocked position, where in the closed position, the front edge is under the forward hood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Christophe Labarthe, Jean Geliot
  • Patent number: 11142298
    Abstract: An aircraft (1002) including a wing (1001), having a fixed wing (1005) with a wing tip device (1003) moveably mounted at the outer end thereof. The wing tip device (1003) is moveable between: a flight configuration; and a ground configuration about an axis of rotation. The wing tip device (1003) and the fixed wing (1005) meet along an interfacing cut line (1035). The interfacing cut line (1035) includes a curved section (1039) cent red on the axis of rotation (1011), the radius of the curved section constantly increasing as the cut line passes around the axis (for example a spiral shape).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventor: Benjamin Bishop
  • Patent number: 11143141
    Abstract: A nacelle having a window open between a secondary jet and the outside of the nacelle and comprising a fixed structure and a thrust-reversing system having a frame and outer doors articulated on the frame. The frame is translationally mobile on the fixed structure between an advanced position and a retracted position. Each outer door is mobile between a stowed position and a deployed position. The nacelle comprises at least one anti-vibration system which comprises a chock fixed to the fixed structure and having a hole, and a finger fixed to the outer door. The finger and the hole are configured so that the finger lodges in the hole when the frame is in advanced position. Such a nacelle makes it possible to limit the vibrations of the outer doors when they are in stowed position and before the mobile frame begins to be displaced to the retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Frédéric Ridray, Frédéric Piard
  • Patent number: 11143349
    Abstract: A shrouded pipe formed from inner and outer pipe sections, the inner pipe section having an outwardly projecting flange joining the outer pipe section, and the outer pipe section having an inwardly projecting flange joining the inner pipe section, an annular volume between the inner and outer pipe sections providing a secondary fluid path. The flanges control axial position of the inner pipe section. By providing one flange which extends radially outwardly and one which extends radially inwardly, assembly is possible of the shrouded pipe by inserting the inner pipe section into the outer pipe section, without modification of the outer pipe section or inner pipe section. The first and second flanges ensure no unwanted contact between the inner and outer pipe sections and, therefore, prevent damage to the primary fluid path. The first and second flanges ensure good load distribution between the inner and outer pipe sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Rappitsch, Konrad Rauch, Jens Döring, Dirk Friedewald-Witte
  • Patent number: 11141934
    Abstract: A duct stringer is disclosed including a structural member with a hat-shaped cross-section. The structural member has a crown, a pair of webs and a pair of feet. A channel member with a U-shaped cross-section has a base and a pair of flanges. The flanges of the channel member are co-cured to opposed inner faces of the webs of the structural member. The structural member and the channel member together provide a duct with a closed cross-section which is adapted to transport fluid, for instance in an aircraft wing to provide a vent function in an aircraft fuel system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Paul Douglas, Anthony Bryant, Daniel Peachey
  • Patent number: 11137011
    Abstract: A fastening system for fastening a first component variably spaced on a second component has a main body, a slide, and an elongate locking element. The main body has a mounting surface for mounting on the first component and a locating surface, through which an elongate depression passes, for fastening to the second component. The main body has a slideway to movably support the slide along the depression and the locating surface. Facing sides of the slide and the depression each have a first tooth system. The locking element fits into the elongate depression and has a second tooth system on two mutually opposite longitudinal sides and engages between the depression first tooth system and the locking element and between the slide and the locking element in a first alignment within the depression and releases it in a second alignment. The mounting surface and locating surfaces are not parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Niklas Lehmensieck, Hermann Benthien
  • Patent number: 11136108
    Abstract: A composite structural element comprising a substantially planar main section defining a coordinate system with a first axis extending along a longitudinal axis of the structural element and a second axis extending perpendicular to the longitudinal axis within the planar main section. The structural element contains a basic lay-up of single plies, each comprising a fiber-reinforced composite material with a substantially unidirectional fiber orientation. The lay-up comprises N plies arranged from top to bottom in the following form: [[?, ?]M; [?]K; [?, ?]M], wherein ?, ? and ? represent one ply having an angle enclosed between the first axis and the unidirectional fiber orientation of the one ply, respectively, [x]y means y plies each having angle x; [x, y]z means z pairs of plies, K and M are both positive integers equal to or greater than 1: N=4·M+K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Sergey Selyugin, Jan-Ronald Balzer
  • Patent number: 11136938
    Abstract: A bypass turbofan engine with a nacelle comprising a fan case and a thrust-reversal system. The fan case comprises an exterior wall, and the reversal system comprises a slider having an upstream frame, a downstream frame and a plurality of spars fixed between the upstream frame and the downstream frame, in which the slider is able to move between a forward position and a retracted position. The fan case comprises, at a rear edge of its exterior wall, a support. Each support comprises, for each spar, a shoe fixed to the exterior wall and positioned radially about the spar, and a skirt secured to the shoes and extending the rear edge, in which, in a forward position, the skirt bears around the downstream frame, and in which in a forward/retracted/intermediate position, the shoes are distant from the spars from the upstream frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Pascal Gardes, Frédéric Ridray, José Goncalves
  • Patent number: 11136114
    Abstract: A control system has first and second processing modules for controlling retraction and extension of an aircraft landing gear assembly. The processing modules operate independently providing redundancy. Each processing module is configured to perform a first sequence of steps for retracting the landing gear assembly and a second sequence of steps for extending the landing gear assembly. A step of switching control from one processing module to the other (e.g. an avionics side changeover step) is performed (a) as part of the first sequence of steps, but only after the landing gear assembly has been retracted, or (b) as part of the second sequence of steps. By ensuring that the step of switching control is performed at such times, and not for example between initiation of the first sequence of steps and the retraction of the landing gear assembly, the landing gear assembly may be retracted sooner after such initiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventors: Martin Griffith Rowlands, Maxwell William Jones, Graham King, Trevor Anthony Brighton, Matthew Gadd
  • Patent number: 11136921
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion system, including a turbojet and a heat exchanger system which includes a main heat exchanger, a hot air supply pipe, a transfer pipe transferring hot air to an air management system, a main supply pipe supplying cold air from the fan duct, an evacuation pipe expelling air to the outside, a sub heat exchanger with a high pressure pipe going therethrough, a sub supply pipe supplying cold air and including a sub regulating valve, a sub evacuation pipe expelling air, a temperature sensor, and a controller controlling the system according to the temperature measured The sub regulating valve comprises a door articulated between closed and open positions, a return spring constraining the door in the open position, and a realizing system, controlled by the controller, mobile between a blocking position and a realizing position in which the door is released to move to the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignees: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS, AIRBUS SAS, AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.
    Inventors: Bruno Medda, Esteban Martino-Gonzalez, Thomas Stevens, Julien Cayssials, Juan Tomas Prieto Padilla, Adeline Soulie, Didier Poirier, Pierre-Alain Pinault, Diego Barron Vega
  • Patent number: 11136106
    Abstract: A system for detecting overpressure in an aircraft including a door with a door frame and a door leaf with a first and second door leaf face. The door is mountable in an aircraft where the first door leaf face faces the interior and the second door leaf face faces the surroundings of the aircraft. The door leaf is movably attached to the door frame and selectively movable between an opened position where a door opening defined by the door frame is accessible and a closed position where the door leaf closes off the door opening. The door has a pair of contact faces including a first contact face on the door leaf and a second contact face on the door frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Kai Bredemeier, Thorsten Knijnenburg, Matias Mail
  • Patent number: 11137004
    Abstract: A coupling member for coupling modules with each other. The coupling member comprises a coupling portion, which in turn has a coupling rim and at least two hook members disposed on the coupling rim. The coupling portion substantially corresponds in its outer contour to a spherical segment of a sphere with a predetermined spherical radius, wherein the coupling rim represents a circular disk of the spherical segment. In this case, an outer radius of the coupling rim is smaller than or equal to the spherical radius. The at least two hook members, in a lateral view, at least partially follow the outer contour of the spherical cap of the spherical segment. The at least two hook members are engageable with the hook members of a coupling portion of a second coupling member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Benthien, Danny Dicks, David Kaden, Bastian Schäfer