Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations
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Patent number: 10589839Abstract: A wing for an aircraft, comprising a main wing, a slat, and a connection assembly for movably connecting the slat to the main wing. The connection assembly comprises first and second link elements. The first link element has a first link end rotatably mounted to the slat via a first joint, and a second link end rotatably mounted to the main wing via a second joint. The second link element has a first element end rotatably mounted to the slat via a third joint, and a second element end rotatably mounted to the main wing via a fourth joint. The first joint, the second joint and the third joint are formed as spherical joints or as universal joints, while the fourth joint is formed as a hinged joint, wherein the hinge axis is inclined between a wing thickness direction and a wing span direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventors: Bernhard Schlipf, Florian Lorenz
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Patent number: 10589864Abstract: An aircraft cabin is provided that comprises an cabin interior space, a plurality of cabin enclosing surfaces, and a multifunctional support rail. The multifunctional support rail comprises a plurality of rail segments connected to each other forming a continuous rail arrangement. Further a number of first segments are provided as handrail in a first height, and a number of second segments is provided as a support handrail in a second height. The first height is in a waist region of a standing passenger, and the second height is in a shoulder or head region of a standing passenger. Still further, the first segments are connected with the second segments by a number of third segments provided as support handle running in a vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2014Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventors: Christian Seibt, Jens Wiebalck
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Patent number: 10589875Abstract: To facilitate the thermophonic insulation of an aircraft section, a method comprises engaging first respective parts of flexible structures, respectively connected to two flat mattresses, with a support device, by leaving free respective second parts of the flexible structures arranged at a distance from the first parts, then curving the two mattresses, by virtue of the mutual bringing together of the second parts, then inserting the support device into the aircraft section, and detaching each mattress from the support device and fixing each mattress to an aircraft structure delimiting the aircraft section.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SASInventors: Bernard Guering, Matthieu De Kergommeaux
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Patent number: 10589393Abstract: An automatic drilling machine for simultaneously drilling at least two holes through a surface of a crosspiece. The machine comprises an automatic drilling unit having at least two tool holders, each one adapted for receiving a drilling tool. The automatic drilling unit has a cross-shaped channel configured to receive, at least partially, the crosspiece to be drilled inside the automatic drilling unit with. The tool holders are arranged, such as, when the drilling machine is mounted with the crosspiece to be drilled, the tool holders are positioned in accordance with the locations of the crosspiece where a hole is to be drilled.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.Inventors: Carlos Ramirez-Alcala, Juan Gutierrez-Santiago, Maria Angeles Martin-Arrazola, Antonio Ortiz-Iglesias, Juan Francisco Garcia Amado
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Publication number: 20200079013Abstract: A method for manufacturing a fuselage component for an aircraft includes building up, on a surface of a two-dimensional shell part composed of a fibre composite material, stiffening profiles crossing at an intersection from a plurality of layers, superimposed on one another in a thickness direction, which are each formed by applying filaments, which each comprise a fibre bundle embedded in a thermoplastic material. Stabilising layers, within which the filaments extend beyond the intersection, are formed from the filaments in each of the stiffening profiles. A fuselage component and an aircraft, which comprises at least one such fuselage component, are furthermore described.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Peter Linde, Norbert Heltsch
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Patent number: 10583938Abstract: An aircraft ground support equipment, GSE, unit for externally accessing video data from an aircraft video surveillance system, AVSS. The GSE unit constitutes a back-up AC power supply for the aircraft's AVSS and comprises a power output connector for connecting a power cable to a ground connection panel on the outside of the aircraft. AC power is supplied either by a rechargeable battery through a converter, or by mains power plugged into the GSE unit. A power source selection switch is switched to route either battery power or external power to the aircraft dependent on factors including battery status, presence of power at the external power connector and presence of power in the aircraft. Video data from the AVSS can thus be streamed out, even in the absence of aircraft power, for example to a portable personal computer.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Holger Mehrholz, Axel Redemann, Michael Schmelz, Joern Stuebner
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Patent number: 10583909Abstract: A method of manufacturing a foldable aerodynamic structure, such as a wing, for an aircraft. The wing (1) including an inner region (1) and an outer region (3) rotatable relative to the inner region between a flight configuration and a ground configuration. The method includes designing the foldable aerodynamic structure by determining the location and orientation of an Euler axis of rotation (11) about which the outer region rotates to achieve the ground configuration and determining a cut plane (13), perpendicular to that Euler axis, separating the inner and outer regions; and iteratively repeating this process until a preferred cut plane (13) is obtained that satisfies at least one design criteria.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2015Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITEDInventors: Stuart Alexander, John Randall
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Patent number: 10583778Abstract: A system for generating a moving image in an aircraft, includes a multiplicity of LEDs, a signal input unit, into which image information is fed, a signal output unit coupled to the multiplicity of LEDs and configured for transmitting the image information to the multiplicity of LEDs, and a gyroscopic sensor for acquiring a spatial position of the aircraft, wherein the LEDs are arranged in the form of a grid on an aircraft interior wall, such that the image is a schematic reproduction of the image information and the signal output unit is coupled to the gyroscopic sensor in such a way that the position of the image is matched to the spatial position of the aircraft, such that the image forms an artificial horizon for a viewer.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Marvin Bruhn
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Patent number: 10583935Abstract: A supply system for providing at least oxygen depleted air and water in a vehicle includes at least one hydrogen supply means, an air channel having an inlet and an outlet, an air cooled fuel cell unit couplable with the hydrogen supply means and arranged inside the air channel and at least one catalytic converter couplable with the hydrogen supply means and arranged between the fuel cell unit and the outlet of the air channel inside the air channel. The air cooled fuel cell unit is adapted for conducting a fuel cell process under consumption of air flowing from the inlet of the air channel through the air cooled fuel cell unit and hydrogen from the hydrogen supply means. At least one catalytic converter is adapted for producing water and oxygen depleted air under consumption of hydrogen from the at least one hydrogen supply means and air.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2015Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Claus Hoffjann
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Patent number: 10583911Abstract: A wing arrangement for an aircraft is described including a wing (5) having a base section (5) and a tip section (13), the base section (7) having a first end portion (9) and a second end portion (11), the tip section (13) having a third end portion (15) and a fourth end portion (17), wherein the second end portion (11) and the third end portion (15) are coupled with each other by a coupling arrangement so that the tip section (13) is pivotable with respect to the base section (7) about a pivot axis (19, 19?).Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2017Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignees: Airbus Operations GmbH, Airbus Operations LimitedInventors: Christian Lorenz, Benjamin Bishop
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Patent number: 10583936Abstract: A method for dynamic control of runway illumination on aircraft, suitable for controlling the illumination of a light equipment comprising a LED matrix and refraction optics during a flight phase. The method comprises the steps of a) determining predefined flight dynamic movement equations for the flight phase, b) obtaining real data from autonomous sensors independent from the aircraft sensors, c) using extended Kalman Filter and algorithm taking into account the data from the autonomous sensors to obtain the aircraft dynamics data. This step c) comprises the c1) predict phase and c2) update phase, and d) applying the obtained aircraft dynamics data to light control laws affecting the light equipment.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2019Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.Inventor: Jesús Robledo Bueno
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Publication number: 20200070949Abstract: A sound-absorbing panel includes: an inner skin traversed by holes and intended to be oriented towards a channel in which a fluid flows, a heating mat formed by strips fixed to the inner skin on the side opposite to the channel and oriented in a first direction, wherein two adjacent strips are distant from each other in order to define a slot between them, a base fixed to the strips on the side opposite to the inner skin, wherein the base includes, on the strips side, grooves extending in a second direction different from the first direction and wherein the base has, between two successive grooves, a rib, a cellular core fixed to the base on the side opposite to the strips, and an outer panel fixed to the cellular core on the side opposite to the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: Airbus Operations S.A.S.Inventors: Alain Porte, Jacques Lalane
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Publication number: 20200070992Abstract: A central fairing of a pylon of an aircraft including: at least one opening to allow access to beneath the central fairing, an articulated panel that is able to move between a closed position in which the articulated panel blocks the opening and an open position in which the articulated panel at least partially frees the opening, at least one articulation for permanently connecting the articulated panel to at least one fixed element, and—at least one locking system for holding the articulated panel in the closed position. Since the articulated panel is always connected to the aircraft, it can be made larger since it is no longer carried by the operator. Consequently, the opening can be blocked with a single articulated panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: Airbus Operations S.A.S.Inventor: Thierry Theron
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Patent number: 10577108Abstract: An aircraft monument comprising a desk and a movable part that is mounted to the aircraft monument by means of an attachment device. The movable part is pivotable about an axis between a first position in which the movable part covers a first area of the desk and is essentially arranged inside of the aircraft monument such that its front faces in a first direction towards the back of the aircraft monument, and a second position in which the movable part is at least partially arranged outside of the aircraft monument and its front faces in a second direction that crosses the first direction. The movable part, in its second position, covers a second area of the desk that is less than the first area.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2017Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventor: Johannes Gonnsen
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Patent number: 10582278Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2017Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations LimitedInventors: Kayvon Barad, Alessio Cipullo
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Patent number: 10576723Abstract: A hybrid tool for curing composite structures for aircrafts, such as stringers, torsion boxes, skin panels, wing surfaces, horizontal tail or vertical stabilizers, etc. The hybrid tool comprises a metallic portion and an elastic portion arranged on a surface of the metallic portion. The elastic portion and the metallic portion are permanently joined to each other so that the metallic portion and the elastic portion together define a surface having a shape which copies at least part of a surface of a piece of composite material to be cured. The tool is capable of satisfactorily curing pieces of composite material which have a minimum thickness and/or a very aggressive change of thickness.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.Inventors: Alejandro Fernandez Alonso, Aquilino Garcia Garcia, Jorge Juan Galiana Blanco, Pablo Cebolla Garrofe, Carlos Romon Banogon
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Patent number: 10578636Abstract: An electronic device for detecting an air flow includes at least one sensor having a pair of platelets, each platelet having an RTD and having one end fixed, the other end being free and overlapping the free end of the other platelet. A platelet is flexible so as to form a switch for an electrical circuit. An air flow with a speed higher than a predetermined speed makes the sensor go from a first state, corresponding to a closed switch, in which the free ends of the platelets are in contact, to a second state, corresponding to an open switch, in which said contact is broken. A detection module allows, for each sensor, a resistance of the electrical circuit to be measured, the resistance corresponding to the RTDs being connected in parallel when the switch is closed or to one of the RTDs when the switch is open.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.Inventor: Pierre Charon
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Patent number: 10577107Abstract: A system for suctioning fluid is disclosed. In a cabin monument, a vacuum source and a vacuum interface unit is provided. At least one flexible hose provides a connection to the vacuum interface unit, having at least one first fluid line having a connection element. The end connection element connects to a unit to be evacuated. The vacuum interface unit includes an adapter for connection to the at least one fluid line, and a trigger unit. At least one valve unit and a control unit for controlling the at least one valve unit reside in the cabin monument. The control unit controls the valve unit at least indirectly based on a trigger signal generated by the trigger unit. Thus, a flexible positioning of a unit to be evacuated for waste compaction is possible. The disclosure also relates to a vehicle, in particular an aircraft, having such a suctioning system.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventors: Marc Spille, Matthias Reiss, Wilhelm Lutzer, Oliver Kiehne, Michael Kempa, Norbert Kaufeld
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Patent number: 10578176Abstract: A method of cooling an aircraft brake including a brake pack and a reservoir in the form of a removable cartridge containing a coolant. The method includes vaporizing the coolant using heat energy from the brake pack.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations LimitedInventors: Alvery Noel Grazebrook, Neil Frost
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Patent number: 10577114Abstract: An assembly for an aircraft engine mounting comprising an articulation axis supported by two plain bearings and a blocking device blocking the translation of the articulation axis in a direction which comprises a blocking screw that is screwed, in operation, into a first, tapped internal portion of a tubular extension secured to one of the two plain bearings, a first blocking system comprising an internal elastic stop ring housed in a groove formed in the tubular extension, and a second blocking system comprising a blocking screw which passes through first orifices passing through the second section of the blocking screw and second orifices passing through the tubular extension.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2019Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SASInventors: Jean Geliot, Thomas Deforet, Adeline Soulie
