Patents Assigned to Airbus Operations
  • Patent number: 12151805
    Abstract: A structural assembly for an aircraft having pairs of main gantries distributed in the longitudinal direction, two transverse panels fixed to the front and the rear of the pairs of main gantries to together define a compartment for a landing gear of the aircraft, at least one pair of secondary gantries between the main gantries, at least one crossmembers parallel to the transverse panels and that straddles at least one secondary gantry, and, for each secondary gantry and each crossmember straddling the secondary gantry, a connecting rod mounted to be able to freely rotate, via a first end, on a lower part of the crossmember and, via a second end, on an outer lateral part of the secondary gantry. Such an arrangement reduces the vertical bulk of the structural assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Benoit Orteu, Ludovic Mil, Lionel Laganier, Dominique Marty, Philippe Robert
  • Patent number: 12145323
    Abstract: To achieve universal welding of thermoplastic workpiece parts with simple equipment, an infrared light transmission welding method is disclosed in which simple polychromatic, incoherent infrared light is generated by a simple infrared light source and is directed through a first workpiece part to a weld point for the purposes of connection to a second workpiece part. In particular, the infrared light is directed through a transparent bracing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Alexei Vichniakov
  • Patent number: 12139267
    Abstract: An assembly including a support panel of an internal fixed structure, a thermal protection element and a plurality of fastening systems. Each fastening system includes a female part secured to the support panel and which has, in its interior, a circular shoulder, and a male part including a sleeve pierced with a main bore, a slide movable in translation in the main bore and a plurality of balls. For each ball, the sleeve has a secondary bore, and each ball is movable along the secondary bore between a locking position and an unlocking position. The slide is movable in translation between a blocking position and an unlocking position. Such an assembly makes it possible to fasten the thermal protection element to the support panel in a simple and rapid manner, also permitting easy removal if necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Frédéric Piard, Lionel Czapla
  • Patent number: 12135111
    Abstract: A hydrogen tank for aircraft, including an inner vessel configured to contain hydrogen, first and second outer jacket domes having a semi-spherical shape and first L-shaped ends, a first semi-cylindrical outer jacket established on top of the first and second outer jacket domes, a second semi-cylindrical outer jacket established in the bottom of the first and second outer jacket domes. The first and second semi-cylindrical outer jackets include second L-shaped ends. The first and second L-shaped ends form L-shaped junctions to attach the first and second outer jacket domes to the first and second semi-cylindrical outer jackets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.L.U.
    Inventors: Guillermo Hernaiz Lopez, Jorge Ballestero Méndez, Jesus Javier Vazquez Castro, Ana Fernandez Ramirez
  • Patent number: 12134473
    Abstract: A wastewater tank arrangement for an aircraft, including a wastewater tank and a drain pipe having a first end and an opposite second end, the drain pipe fastened with its first end to the wastewater tank and having a second end for connection to a service panel in the aircraft structure. Providing a wastewater tank arrangement can effectively compensate tolerances between the wastewater tank and the service panel, and can effectively compensate installation and manufacturing tolerances during the course of the initial installation, in that the wastewater tank arrangement has a tolerance compensation device configured to connect the second end of the drain pipe to the service panel and compensate tolerances between the second end of the drain pipe and the service panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Wilhelm Lutzer, Ulrich Rieger, Eberhard Gumbert, Carsten Ohlfest, Holger Brilsky, Gerke Popken
  • Patent number: 12129931
    Abstract: An enclosure containing an inerting gas and at least one liquid to be discharged. This enclosure comprises at least one orifice positioned in its lower part and a liquid discharging system positioned at the orifice. This liquid discharging system is configured to take up a closed state and an open state in which the system allows the liquid to flow towards the outside of the enclosure and includes at least one element that is elastically deformable depending on the pressure inside the enclosure and, depending on its deformation, controls the open or closed state of the liquid discharging system. This solution makes it possible to achieve simple and automatic regulation of the volume of the liquid in the enclosure, without a sensor. An aircraft including at least one such enclosure is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Adeline Soulie
  • Patent number: 12128941
    Abstract: A handling system for a receptacle space in a vehicle for storage for containers. A linear guide is on an inner wall of the receptacle space. The linear guide guides at least one carrier element in the movement direction of the container, wherein the storage position of the container is provided having the rear wall thereof in the region of the rear wall of the receptacle space. The removal position is provided in the region of an insertion opening, arranged opposite the rear wall. The at least one carrier element is operatively connected to at least one spindle nut of a spindle drive. The container is thus moved linearly from a stowage and storage position to a removal position and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Lange, Andreas Wietzke, Jan Lehnert, Artjom Sotnikov, Mika Sachse
  • Patent number: 12129014
    Abstract: A cabin lining element for an aircraft cabin which is arranged in the interior of an aircraft fuselage structure, having a fuselage structure side and a cabin side. The cabin lining element comprises an electrically contactable heating lacquer layer at least in regions on its fuselage structure side. A rib is provided for an aircraft fuselage structure, having at least one foot portion on the outer skin facing side and a cabin facing side head portion. The rib comprises an electrically contactable heating lacquer layer at least in regions on a side of the head portion facing the cabin. As a result of the heating lacquer layer, it is possible to omit insulation which otherwise surrounds the rib heads and, as a consequence, to enlarge the width of the cabin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Risse, Rainer Müller
  • Patent number: 12130188
    Abstract: A measuring device able to be closely attached to an outer wall of a movable or fixed object located in an air flow. The measuring device comprises a flexible envelope having a cavity provided with an opening orifice. At least one optical fiber is provided in the cavity, the opening orifice of which is closed by the wall on which the envelope is applied. In this way, the fiber is positioned as closely as possible to the wall for which measurements are desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Laetitia Mennebeuf, Nicolas Dupe
  • Patent number: 12129018
    Abstract: An aircraft includes an active drag control system such as a Laminar Flow Control (LFC) system having a port LFC apparatus and a starboard LFC apparatus. The aircraft has a control system to test how efficiently the LFC system is working by differentially operating the port LFC apparatus and the starboard LFC apparatus, for example by deactivating either LFC apparatus, and measuring the effect on the direction of flight of the aircraft. The control system also can change the direction of the aircraft, and trim the aircraft, by differentially operating the port LFC apparatus and the starboard LFC apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventors: Henry Edwards, Keith John Macgregor
  • Patent number: 12128605
    Abstract: A reinforcing element for a structural profile, in particular for a round, oval or elliptical structural tube, includes a composite structure, which has a hollow-cylindrical, helically wound mesh of fiber strands which form an inner shell surface configured to receive the structural profile, wherein the fiber strands are respectively embedded in a matrix material, which has an electroactive polymer which can be stretched along a longitudinal extent of the fiber strands by application of an electrical voltage, such that the composite structure can be expanded by application of the electrical voltage to introduce the structural profile into the composite structure and can be shrunk by switching off the electrical voltage to fix the structural profile on the shell surface in the composite structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Hegenbart, Hermann Benthien
  • Publication number: 20240351700
    Abstract: A liner segment for a frame bay of a fuel tank structure includes a liner segment base body adapted to float on fuel in the fuel tank structure, a liner segment side wall extending from the liner segment base body, a multitude of drainage holes arranged in the liner segment base body, and adapted to provide a bidirectional fluid connection from an upper side to a bottom side of the liner segment facing the fuel tank structure, a valve, arranged in a cut out of the liner segment and adapted to provide an unidirectional fluid connection from the bottom side of the liner segment to the upper side of the liner segment, such that the unidirectional fluid connection is blocked in the opposite direction, such that a remaining portion of fuel within the fuel tank structure is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicants: Airbus Operations GmbH, Airbus Operations Ltd.
    Inventors: Stefan Wriede, Malte Vollmer, Frederic Gobin, Christopher Slack
  • Publication number: 20240343381
    Abstract: An aircraft system includes a support structure, an aerodynamic component, a first coupling unit and a second coupling unit. The first coupling unit includes a first coupling mechanism movably coupling the aerodynamic component to a first coupling point at the support structure, and a second coupling mechanism coupling the aerodynamic component to a second coupling point at the support structure. The first and second coupling points are spatially separated from each other, wherein the first coupling mechanism and the second coupling mechanism interact with each other to enable a rotational movement of the aerodynamic component with respect to the support structure such that, during the rotational movement of the aerodynamic component, a center of rotation of the aerodynamic component is translated from a neutral position to an adjusted position. The second coupling unit pivotably moves the aerodynamic component about a pivot axis at the support structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Schlipf, Dennis Krey
  • Patent number: 12109720
    Abstract: A head of a cutting device includes a base configured to be fixed to a machine tool, a cylindrical suction nozzle integral with the base, a connector integral with the base and configured to receive a suction pipe. The suction nozzle is perforated by at least one oblong hole, for example parallel to an axis of the suction nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Pierre Crouzy, Pierre Nicoloso
  • Patent number: 12110111
    Abstract: A luggage compartment, for use in a vehicle, having a housing with an inner volume defining a storage space of the luggage compartment and a flap which is attached to the housing with at least one fastening device. The fastening device has a first portion attached to the flap and a second portion, wherein the second portion of the fastening device is releasably coupled to the first portion of the fastening device and attached to an outer surface of a top wall of the housing. Also a cabin component assembly with the luggage compartment and a ceiling panel arranged adjacent to the top wall of the housing of the luggage compartment and an aircraft with the cabin component assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Weng, Marcel Herrmann, Holger Warner, Torben Schech
  • Patent number: 12110110
    Abstract: An aircraft barrier system separating, within an aircraft, a secure area from a passenger cabin of the aircraft, comprises a barrier installed inside the passenger cabin and configured to move between an open position and a closed position, a latch mounted to the barrier, and a locking device comprising a latching clamp configured to lock the latch when the barrier is in the closed position. The aircraft barrier system further comprises a release mechanism configured to move the latching clamp from a locking state locking the latch to an unlocking state releasing the latch, wherein the release mechanism is further configured to delay the moving of the latching clamp from the locking state to the unlocking state. Also, an aircraft area and an aircraft having such aircraft barrier system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignees: Airbus Operations GmbH, Airbus Americas, Inc.
    Inventors: Joerg Kohlstette, Frank Cordes, John Brewster
  • Patent number: 12109850
    Abstract: A tire monitoring device configured to be mounted on a wheel and including: a pressure sensor for sensing an inflation pressure of a tire on the wheel; a wireless communication interface configured to receive data indicative of a command to indicate tire pressure, wherein the wireless communication interface is configured to communicate with at least one other tire monitoring device; 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 tire pressure, and based at least in part on the inflation pressure and the predetermined pressure value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignees: Airbus Operations Limited, Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Andrew Bill, Timo Warns
  • Patent number: 12110127
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion assembly having an engine, a nacelle positioned around the engine, an annular duct delimited by the engine and the nacelle for a bypass flow of cold air, at least one bifurcation passing through the annular duct for connecting the engine and the nacelle and having a leading edge and a primary structure of a pylon housed in the bifurcation and configured to connect the engine to an aircraft wing. The propulsion assembly has at least one heat exchange device including a plate heat exchanger, having a hexagonal longitudinal section and positioned in the bifurcation. According to one configuration, the heat exchanger is a countercurrent heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventor: Adeline Soulie
  • Patent number: 12110093
    Abstract: An aircraft including a floor positioned above a central wing box and in a front fuselage portion positioned in front of the central wing box. The floor includes at least one rail which has at least first and second rail portions and at least one articulation connecting the first and second rail portions and configured to allow a pivoting movement, about a transverse and horizontal pivot pin, between the connected first and second rail portions. By virtue of this articulation, it is possible to integrate the rails into the floor and not to position them on the floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Benoit Orteu, Ludovic Mil, Lionel Laganier, Dominique Marty, Philippe Robert
  • Patent number: 12106744
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an acoustic absorption structure comprising a plurality of acoustic elements, each of which is positioned in one of the cells of a cellular panel. The method includes a step of manufacturing acoustic elements provided with at least two radial tongues, a step of manufacturing a cellular panel provided with slots configured to accommodate the radial tongues of each acoustic element, a step of force-fitting each acoustic element in one of the cells of the cellular panel until the radial tongues are accommodated in the slots. An acoustic absorption structure obtained using this method is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Florian Ravise, Théo Riccobene