Abstract: A functional arrangement in a cabin of a vehicle includes a monument with a housing having several side walls, which define an interior space, and at least two adjacently arranged seats each having a backrest and headrest. The seats adjoin an exterior side of a first side wall of the housing, and have a seating direction facing away from the first side wall. The first side wall includes a first surface portion that is located at least sectionally behind the headrests of the at least two seats in a vertical direction and includes at least one bulge extending at least in a horizontal direction between two adjacently lying headrests. At least one piece of equipment is situated in the interior space, extends into the at least one bulge and is usable in the interior space of the monument.

Abstract: A box structural arrangement (1) for an aircraft including first (2) and second composite layers (3), at least one spar web (4) extended between opposite edges of the first and second composite layers (2, 3) along a longitudinal direction, and a conduit piece (5) extended between opposite edges of the first and second composite layers (2, 3). The conduit piece (5) has a hollow section (6) comprising at least one conduit (7) dimensioned to receive pipes or harnesses and surrounded by a resilient material (8). The conduit piece (5) is mounted on the spar web (4) to provide a channeled box structural arrangement (1). The box structural arrangement can be applicable in a torsion box or a wing. The invention further refers to a method for manufacturing the box structural arrangement for an aircraft.

Abstract: A tyre monitoring device configured to be mounted on a wheel is described. The device includes a pressure sensor for sensing an inflation pressure of a tyre on the wheel; a wireless communication interface configured to receive data indicative of a command to indicate tyre pressure; a storage storing a predetermined pressure value; an indicator configured to provide a first indication and a second indication, wherein the first indication is different from the second indication; and a processing system configured to operate the indicator to provide the first indication or the second indication responsive to receipt of the command to indicate tyre pressure, and based at least in part on the inflation pressure and the predetermined pressure value.

Abstract: An electrical link includes an electrical protection device. The electrical link, for linking an AC high-voltage generator to a user apparatus, includes an electrical conductor surrounded by a first inner insulating envelope. An electrical protection device includes a conductive sheath around the inner insulating envelope. A fixed DC current generator is connected to a current injection point of the conductive sheath. A circuit breaker that can be activated is on the electrical conductor and configured to break the electrical link when it is activated. A detection module is connected to a current tap-off point of the conductive sheath and to the circuit breaker, the detection module being configured to detect a break in the conductive sheath, a current leak out of the electrical conductor or a current leak out of the sheath and to activate the circuit breaker.

Abstract: An electrical link including a protective sheath surrounding at least two conductors each covered by an insulating jacket and an electrical protection system includes: a conductive sheath on each of the insulating jackets, a circuit breaker for each conductor; a direct current generator generating a direct current to be successively applied to each conductive sheath; and a leakage current detection circuit for each conductive sheath; a sequencer successively supplying the direct current to each conductive sheath; the detection circuit measures a current in each conductive sheath and compares a voltage proportional to the current to a first and second ranges of values, the detection circuit activating the circuit breaker if: the voltage is outside of the first range of values while the current generator generates a non-zero current; or the voltage is outside of the second range of values.

Abstract: A modular mold for producing a panel including a panel of fiber reinforced material. The panel is configured to form hollow cells having an undulated trapezoidal cross-section. The mold includes at least three molding bars for forming each hollow cell. One of the molding bars has a trapezoidal cross shape. The other two molding bars have a triangular cross shape. The trapezoidal molding bar is located between the two triangular molding bars. The three molding bars when put together its cross-section forms the shape of the trapezoidal cross-section of the hollow cell.

Abstract: A cabin air control system for an aircraft comprising a plurality of compressed air sources, each operable to provide compressed air, at least one air outlet, a conduit system connected to the air sources and the air outlet and arranged to conduct air from the air sources downstream to the air outlet, and a plurality of particulate matter detectors configured to detect the presence of particulate matter in air from the air sources. Each detector is associated with a different predefined subset of the air sources by being arranged in the conduit system at a location from which it is only possible to reach the associated subset of the air sources when traversing the conduit system from the respective location towards the air sources in an upstream direction. Any two subsets of the different subsets associated with the different particulate matter detectors include different ones of the air sources.

Abstract: An electrically driven trolley combination for an aircraft cabin with an independently usable, manually movable trolley and an electrical operating apparatus. The trolley has a base section, a main section extending from the base section, and wheels with the trolley supported on a cabin floor by the wheels and manually movable over the cabin floor being pushed or pulled. The electrical operating apparatus can be detachably coupled to the trolley and has a frame, a driveable rolling device on the frame and by which the electrical operating apparatus can be supported on a cabin floor and rolled, a coupling apparatus on the frame for detachably coupling the electrical operating apparatus to the trolley and having an engagement section and a movement section, the engagement section being selectively movable between a first position and a second position by the movement section, an electrical drive device, and a control device.

Abstract: A system for driving and guiding a trailing edge control surface on a trailing edge region of an aircraft wing comprises a first guide device coupled with the control surface to guide the control surface along a predetermined trajectory relative to the trailing edge region between a retracted position and an extended position, a first drive device couplable with the wing and the control surface to move the control surface along the trajectory, and a second drive device coupled with the control surface and couplable with one of the wing and the first guide device to influence the incidence angle of the control surface, wherein the first drive device and the second drive device are separate from each other and are operable independently, such that the incidence angle of the control surface is influencable at least in the retracted position of the control surface.

Abstract: An aircraft is disclosed having a lifting body housing a passenger cabin including a forward portion bounded laterally by at least one portion of a leading edge of the lifting body. The passenger cabin includes at least one lateral luggage storage device housed in the concavity formed by the leading edge portion and includes an opening towards the interior of the passenger cabin.

Abstract: A forming tool for forming a semi-finished product comprising reinforcement fibers and being conveyed to the forming tool in a continuous process. The forming tool comprises at least one pressure bag configured to be pressurized during a forming step of the semi-finished product, during which the semi-finished product is sandwiched between a forming surface of a forming element and the at least one pressurized pressure bag, such that the semi-finished product substantially takes on the shape of the forming surface. Further, a forming apparatus and a forming method for forming a semi-finished product comprising reinforcement fibers are provided.

Abstract: A landing gear controller for an aircraft is configured to: detect an extension time for a landing gear, and if the detected extension time meets a predetermined criterion, provide a warning signal to indicate potential failure of a landing gear uplock hook. The landing gear controller may be in a landing gear system.

Abstract: An aircraft assembly locating tool for locating an aircraft component during assembly of an aircraft is disclosed. The aircraft assembly locating tool has a base tool part and a positionable tool part. The base tool part is configured to mount on a support. An interface arrangement arranged to mount with an aircraft component is configured to move with the positionable tool part relative to the base tool part. The positionable tool part is movable relative to the base tool part. When mounted on the aircraft assembly locating tool, the aircraft component is configured to move with the positionable tool part relative to the base tool part. The tool also has a locking arrangement configured to selectively lock the positionable tool part in a position relative to the base tool part, and an adjustment arrangement configured to act on the positionable tool part to adjust the position of the positionable tool part relative to the base tool part.

Abstract: A winglet linked to a wing of an aircraft and equipped with a configuration changing device, the winglet being configured to be deformed elastically between a first configuration in the absence of an activation loading and a second configuration in the presence of an activation loading. The configuration changing device comprises at least one blocking cable configured to hold the winglet in the second configuration and at least one blocking system which comprises a tank containing a material configured to occupy a solid state in which the material immobilizes the blocking cable and a liquid state in which the material does not immobilize the blocking cable and allows the displacement thereof. An aircraft comprises wings provided with the winglets.

Abstract: An optical network including an input to receive from an optical network light comprising plural wavelength components. An optical wavelength selective filter, optically connected to the input, extracts a first wavelength component of the plural wavelength components from the light, thereby providing a first optical signal including the first wavelength component and a second optical signal including a remainder of the plural wavelength components a light emitter to provide a modulated broadband optical signal. A first output, optically connected to the optical wavelength selective filter, receives a first portion of the second optical signal for transmission to a light detector and a second output, optically connected to optical wavelength selective filter, receives a second portion of the second optical signal for transmission to the optical network.

Abstract: For the purpose of simple integration of conductor circuits into composite material components, a method and an apparatus for producing composite material components of this kind are proposed, wherein a conductor circuit is printed onto or applied in some other way to a support, is provided with a thermally activatable adhesive and then the support is applied to a blank of the composite material component for joint curing. The curing at high pressure and high temperature creates a strong connection between the conductor circuit and the composite material component.

Abstract: A virtual reality (VR) system for providing a real time VR visualization of a target area of an aircraft that comprises one or more reference targets established in known locations in the target area of an aircraft, hand gloves, a plurality of sensing elements established on at least the operator's hand gloves, a reception device that receives the information provided by the sensing elements to provide relative locations of the sensing elements against the one or more reference targets. The reception device comprises processing means to build the real time VR visualization that represents at least the operator's hands against the target area of the aircraft based on the sensing elements. The VR system also comprises display means that display the real time VR visualization to the operator.

Abstract: A flight attendant seat comprising a frame that can be mounted on a carrier fixture or integrated into the carrier fixture, and at least one seat arrangement integrated into the frame. The frame comprises a lower section, an upper section and a central section taking up the at least one seat arrangement, at least partially. The lower section is formed bent at least in a region adjoining the central section. A method is provided for fitting a flight attendant seat.

Abstract: A supporting structure of optimized volume includes at least two vertical structural elements having a front face and a rear face. Modules including electronic equipment items are fixed onto the front face of the vertical structural elements. Use in particular can be for the integration of avionics modules on aircraft.

Abstract: A storage and transportation container for a radome of an aircraft is disclosed having a top wall, and bottom wall that are planar and parallel to one another, and a peripheral wall, wherein the top, bottom, and peripheral walls form an enclosure for supporting the radome within the container. The top wall has a closed curved outline and a surface of a dimension greater than that of the bottom wall having an outline which forms a parallelogram thus making it possible to receive the radome with its curved nose pointing downwards, and wherein the geometry of the container is matched to the form of the radome and of the hold.