Patents Assigned to Airbus (SA)
  • Patent number: 11319898
    Abstract: To reduce the number of necessary actuators, improve reliability and redundancy, as well as reducing weight and fuel consumption, a thrust reverser assembly configured for reversing thrust of an aircraft engine is proposed. The thrust reverser assembly comprises flaps and linkage arrangements, wherein the flaps are driven between a stowed position and a deployed position by the linkage arrangement due to an axial movement of a part of the engine nacelle. The linkage arrangement is configured as a four bar linkage, in particular, a double rocker bar linkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Luc Andréani
  • Patent number: 11319080
    Abstract: An aircraft comprising a wing, an engine attachment pylon comprising a primary structure and an arrangement for securing the primary structure to a wing box. The arrangement comprises two lateral front fittings, each of these fittings comprising a first connecting portion secured to the front wing spar, a second connecting portion secured to the primary structure of the attachment pylon, at least one securing member linking the first and second connecting portions, this securing member being articulated to the first connecting portion with the aid of a first pin system oriented substantially parallel to the front wing spar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Pautis, Jérôme Colmagro
  • Patent number: 11319048
    Abstract: A system for automatic unlocking of a door of an aircraft in the event of impact of the aircraft includes a door opening, a door articulated on the aircraft in the door opening, and a locking arrangement designed to lock the door to the aircraft when the door is in a closed, use state. The locking arrangement has a load-transmission device which is designed, and coupled to an impact region of the aircraft, such that, in the event of impact of the aircraft in the impact region, the load-transmission device transmits a deformation load, caused by inward deformation of the impact region, to the locking arrangement and thus unlocks the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Ronald Risch
  • Patent number: 11318690
    Abstract: A process for the nanostructuring of fibers in fiber-composite plastics, where a sulfur-containing nanostructure is formed. Also, a plastics matrix with such nanostructured fibers is disclosed, and also a process for the repair of fibers in a fiber-composite plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Benedikt Rauh, Maximilian Kolb
  • Patent number: 11322810
    Abstract: A battery with a layers including a first layer which is electrically conductive, a second layer consisting essentially of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic, a third layer of glass-fiber-reinforced plastic, a fourth layer of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic and LiFePO4, where the ratio by weight of LiFePO4 to carbon fiber is from 2:1 to 2.5:1, and a fifth layer which is electrically conductive, wherein the battery has substantially been jacketed by a layer made of glass-fiber-filled polyester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Linde, Maciej Wysocki
  • Patent number: 11320532
    Abstract: The present disclosure is concerned with a method for searching a search area, a missile, and a missile formation. According to the method, in each case at least one radar is arranged in at least two missiles, wherein the method involves: determining a total search time for searching the search area, splitting the search area into at least two search subareas, and searching the at least two search subareas by means of the respective radar of the at least two missiles. The at least two missiles carry out the searching cooperatively, wherein the search subareas are chosen such that a detection probability is maximized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Fotios Katsilieris, Bernhard Krach
  • Patent number: 11319091
    Abstract: A carriage with two hexapod platforms, each having a base, a plate, and a set of six cylinders associated in pairs. Each cylinder is articulatedly mounted with the plate. For each pair, a slider is able to move in translation on the base. For a first pair, the two cylinders of the first pair are mounted in an articulated manner on the slider. The articulation of one of the two cylinders of the first pair with the plate is adjacent to the articulation of one of the two cylinders of a second pair with the plate. The articulation of the other of the two cylinders of the first pair with the plate is adjacent to the articulation of one of the two cylinders of a third pair with the plate. For each slider, a movement system moves the slider. A control unit controls each cylinder and the movement system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: Airbus Operations SAS, Airbus SAS
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Datas, Jacques Bouriquet, Jean-Mickael Brindeau, Patrick Guibert, Nicolas Darbonville
  • Patent number: 11318716
    Abstract: A composite construction, such as, in particular, a composite plate having a sandwich-type construction, has two outer layers which are mutually opposed in parallel and a foam material completely filling the space between the outer layers at least in some regions. The outer layers are interconnected by means of spacers, and the spacers are connected to the outer layers via a cured plastics material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Christian Endres, Hans-Juergen Weber, Klaus Schoote
  • Patent number: 11319047
    Abstract: A three-dimensional auxetic structure, comprising a plurality of adjoining hollow cells, each hollow cell having cell walls and a transversal cross section of the plurality hollow cells following a two-dimensional auxetic pattern, each cell wall comprising folding lines parallel to a plane containing the auxetic pattern such that peaks and valleys are defined in the cell walls and the cell walls being foldable along the folding lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.L.
    Inventors: Iker Vélez De Mendizábal Alonso, Esteban Martino González, David Apellaniz De La Fuente, Alfonso Parra Rubio, Elena Moya Sanz
  • Patent number: 11319052
    Abstract: A leading-edge arrangement for a flow body has a curved skin panel having outer and inner sides, and a three-dimensional reinforcing lattice. The curvature of the outer side of the lattice corresponds to the curvature of the inner side of the skin panel. The outer side of the lattice has attachment points connected to the inner side of the skin panel. The lattice is constructed as a three-dimensional framework having a interconnected framework members that form at least one layer of interconnected three-dimensional bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Anthony Warren, Marco Biondini
  • Publication number: 20220126985
    Abstract: A module includes two main landing gears and a landing gear bay containing the landing gears. The bay has two lateral walls, a roof wall, a front wall and a rear wall. The roof wall, the front wall and the rear wall together form a pressurization barrier between the bay and a pressurized compartment. By virtue of the landing gear module, it is now possible to assemble and test the main landing gears and the one or more doors and the fairing before they are installed on the aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Daniel Bellet, Alexandre Legardez
  • Patent number: 11316814
    Abstract: An avionics system including a first node and a second node wherein the first node is arranged to transmit a data message having: a data identifier, dynamic metadata associated with the data identifier and data content to the second node; wherein the second node is arranged to receive the data message from the first node and to: locate and read the data identifier within the data message; locate and read the dynamic metadata associated with the read data identifier; and retrieve data content from the determined position in the data message, wherein the data message contains multiple data identifiers, each with associated dynamic metadata and associated data content, and the second node is arranged only to locate and read the data identifier and dynamic metadata and retrieve data content in relation to a subset of the plurality of data identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventors: Kayvon Barad, Anand Pavaskar
  • Patent number: 11312505
    Abstract: To reduce the footprint of an installation for assembling a fuselage section, a support structure includes a chassis and a core mounted so that it can rotate relative to the chassis about an axis of rotation of the core. The core includes a fastener(s) for holding the longitudinal fuselage portions around the core, with a view to assembling them to form the fuselage section. The support structure includes one or more rolling elements provided on the chassis, in order to allow the movement of this support structure within the installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignees: Airbus (S.A.S.), Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Datas, Jacques Bouriquet, Jean-Mickael Brindeau, André Aquila, Patrick Guibert
  • Patent number: 11313251
    Abstract: An anterior part of a nacelle of an aircraft propulsion unit. A rigidifying frame annular about a longitudinal axis of extension of the nacelle is at the rear end of the anterior part. An annular shield is in front of the rigidifying frame and connects an internal peripheral edge of the rigidifying frame to an internal structure. The shield has a portion extending towards the external panel beyond the internal peripheral edge of the rigidifying frame, the portion forming a non-zero angle with respect to the rigidifying frame to form a free space with respect to the rigidifying frame behind the portion. The shield can thus deform in the event of an impact of a foreign object entering through the air inlet lip, without the rigidifying frame itself being deformed, thereby absorbing all or some of the impact energy. A nacelle can have such an anterior part, and an aircraft can have such a nacelle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Alain Porte, Julien Sentier, Clément Breton
  • Patent number: 11312472
    Abstract: A section of an aircraft wing including a leading edge of the aircraft wing. A leading edge part of the section includes ribs; and a skin fixedly attached to the ribs to form a spanwise series of adjacent cells. Each cell includes an enclosed volume bounded by the skin at the leading edge and a pair of the ribs. At least one cell of the series of adjacent cells is a dry cell include a mounting point for mounting a leading edge high-lift device support apparatus in the dry cell. The skin at the leading edge provides a primary load path for carrying at least some of a spanwise primary load experienced by the section when in use on an aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventor: David Brakes
  • Patent number: 11316224
    Abstract: A battery arrangement for the load-bearing structural integration of batteries into a vehicle, in particular an aircraft or spacecraft, includes two cover plates having battery holders and batteries, which are held on both sides between the cover plates by the battery holders, wherein the batteries are arranged in battery rows along the cover plates, wherein the batteries in the battery rows are each aligned at a slope angle relative to the cover plates in order to absorb and transmit loads, and wherein the slope angle in the battery rows has positive and negative values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Kristian Zimmermann, Florian Dorn
  • Patent number: 11316260
    Abstract: An antenna arrangement for an aircraft for fastening to an outer side of an exterior skin of the aircraft has a body and side wall sections and a connecting section. The body is U-shaped or H-shaped if viewed from a predefined direction and can be flowed through with a low aerodynamic drag by a flow along the predefined direction. The antenna arrangement has one or more antennas in the form of a printed circuit board and of which each is fastened to the body and is fastenable directly to the outer side of the aircraft exterior skin at two first edges of the side wall sections which form two free ends of the U-shape or H-shape on a first side of the connecting section or, for the U-shape, on the connecting section and/or regions of the side wall sections, which regions adjoin the connecting section directly as the predefined direction is parallel to the flow direction during flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Schaupmann, Markus Altmann
  • Patent number: 11307544
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a predictor device for controlling at least one actuating variable of a plant having at least one actuator, which can be controlled by the actuating variable, and a state with at least one controlled variable that can be detected by a sensor. The predictor has an adaptation device and an L1-adaptive control apparatus. The predictor has a state modelling device for estimating a behavior of the plant and outputs an estimated state with at least one estimated variable. The embodiments relate to an aircraft with such a control device for flight control. The embodiments also relate to an L1-adaptive control method using an L1-adaptive control apparatus, an adaptation device generating a matched uncertainty signal and an unmatched uncertainty signal, and a predictor having a state modelling device. The embodiments relate to an aircraft with a control device for flight control, which executes such a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Fabian Hellmundt, Jens Dodenhöft
  • Patent number: 11305861
    Abstract: A wing assembly mount for mounting a wing to a fuselage of an aircraft. The wing assembly mount includes a spigot arrangement between a wing assembly and a fuselage assembly. The spigot arrangement is able to react a load between the wing assembly and the fuselage assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventor: Henry Edwards
  • Patent number: D948880
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Bruno Saint-Jalmes