Patents Assigned to Airbus (SA)
  • Luggage compartment, cabin component assembly and aircraft
    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
  • Method of assigning a bandwidth for radio communication
    Patent number: 12113569
    Abstract: There is provided a method of assigning use of a bandwidth for radio communication. The method includes the following steps: generating an initial frame, the initial frame including a series of allocations; generating a further frame, the further frame including a series of allocations; repeating the step of generating a further frame to generate a matrix of allocations; shuffling at least two columns or at least two rows within the matrix; selecting one or more columns or rows in the matrix, wherein each selected column or row represents a sequence; assigning use of the bandwidth according to the one or more selected sequences; and transmitting one or more data streams on the assigned bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space Limited
    Inventor: Terence Dodgson
  • Tyre monitoring device and method
    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
  • Head of a cutting device and cutting device equipped with said head
    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
  • Aircraft system
    Patent number: 12103668
    Abstract: An aircraft system having a first set of components for performing a function of the aircraft system, and a second, alternative, set of components for performing the function of the aircraft system. The aircraft system has and a controller configured to receive scenario data indicative of a scenario during which the function of the aircraft system is to be performed, and, where each of the first and second sets of components are operational, the controller is configured to select between the first or the second set of components to perform the aircraft system function during the scenario based on the received scenario data. The controller is configured to control the selected set of components to perform the function during the scenario.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventors: George Howell, Ashley Bidmead
  • Method for manufacturing an acoustic absorption structure, and acoustic absorption structure obtained in this way
    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
  • Optimized connection assembly between two portions of a cryogenic line, comprising a double sealing barrier, a fluid expansion chamber and a detector for detecting the presence of the fluid in said chamber
    Patent number: 12104724
    Abstract: A connection assembly between two portions of a line including an inner conduit for transporting a cryogenic fluid, the assembly including two flanges which are respectively arranged at the ends of the line portions and which are configured to be held in contact with one another by virtue of a fixing arrangement. The contact zone between the two flanges includes at least two grooves for positioning seals and at least one conduit opening out, for the one part, between the two seals and, for the other part, into an expansion chamber for the cryogenic fluid. The expansion chamber is arranged in one, or in the vicinity of one, of the first connection flange and the second connection flange. The expansion chamber includes a detector for detecting the presence of the cryogenic fluid in the expansion chamber or a recess configured for the installation of such a detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignees: Airbus SAS, Airbus Operations SAS, Airbus Operations LTD
    Inventors: Philippe Pedoussaut, Hervé Tressol, Najoua Erroui, Mouayiad Shebli
  • Aircraft propulsion assembly equipped with a thrust-reversing device comprising at least one inflatable barrier, and aircraft comprising at least one such propulsion assembly
    Patent number: 12104554
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion assembly equipped with a thrust-reversing device which includes at least one lateral aperture, passing through the nacelle of the propulsion assembly, configured to be in an open state or a closed state, at least one inflatable barrier configured to be in a deflated state in which the barrier does not protrude into an annular duct channeling a flow of air and an inflated state in which the barrier, substantially rigid or semi-rigid, is deployed and extends across the annular duct to deflect at least a part of the flow of air toward the lateral aperture, and at least one supply system configured to supply the inflatable barrier with fluid. An aircraft is provided which includes at least one such propulsion assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Lionel Czapla, Benjamin Thubert
  • Output cone of an aircraft propulsive assembly forming an acoustic treatment system with at least two degrees of freedom
    Patent number: 12104557
    Abstract: An output cone of an aircraft propulsive assembly extending in a general direction called longitudinal direction and including a front part and a rear part. The longitudinal assembly of the front part and rear part forms an acoustic treatment system with at least two degrees of freedom. Such a system allows for the treatment of several frequency ranges or of one wide frequency range by the treatment of several overlapping ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Wolfgang Brochard, Florent Mercat, Bastian Sabathier
  • Device comprising multiple longitudinal mandrels forming a mold for manufacturing a composite part
    Patent number: 12103250
    Abstract: A device and a process for manufacturing a composite part, the device comprising four molding mandrels that can be arranged in a mold arrangement in which they form a mold for the composite part, as well as a locking mandrel configured to lock the molding mandrels in the mold arrangement and to be extracted from between the molding mandrels to release the molding mandrels from their mold arrangement. The locking mandrel extends from one longitudinal end of the molding mandrels to another opposite longitudinal end of the molding mandrels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.L.
    Inventors: Robert Kobierecki, Alberto Balsa-Gonzalez, Jose Luis Lozano Garcia
  • Water supply system for an aircraft
    Patent number: 12105541
    Abstract: A water supply system for an aircraft having consumers with buffer stores connected to a water tank by lines and a pressure source. Each consumer has a filling valve between the buffer store and the pressure source. The buffer store can be filled by opening the filling valve. In each consumer, water can be removed from the buffer store by opening a consumer valve. Each consumer transmits at least one state parameter describing a state of the buffer store of the respective consumer to a control system. The control system controls opening and closing of the filling valves of the consumers taking into account the transmitted state parameters such that removal of water from the water tank by the pressure source does not exceed a threshold value at any point in time. An aircraft having a water supply system and method for controlling a water supply system are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Schreiner, Michael Rempe, Tim Lübbert
  • Fastening system for an aircraft configured to fasten at least one tank intended to contain liquid hydrogen
    Patent number: 12097967
    Abstract: A fastening system for an aircraft configured to fasten at least one tank intended to contain liquid hydrogen includes a longitudinal box, an upper structure fastened to an upper side of the longitudinal box, a lower structure fastened to a lower side of the longitudinal box and at least two fastening frames including, on either side of the vertical plane of symmetry (P1), a fastening device for connecting a tank to the upper structure. The fastening system further includes at least two fastening devices for connecting a fastening point of the tank to the longitudinal box and at least two fastening devices for connecting a fastening point of the tank to the lower structure. The fastening system makes it possible to securely fasten at least one hydrogen tank on board an aircraft (AC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Anthony Mertes, Jérôme Phalippou
  • Trailing edge panel support
    Patent number: 12097953
    Abstract: An aircraft wing including a wingbox with an upper cover, a lower cover, a forward spar and a rear spar. A leading edge of a trailing edge panel is attached to the wingbox. A support structure is attached to the wingbox. A kinked link includes a first arm, a second arm, and a corner where the first and second arms meet. The first arm of the kinked link is pivotally attached to the trailing edge panel at a first pivot joint, and the second arm of the kinked link is pivotally attached to the support structure at a second pivot joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventor: William Tulloch
  • Cooling device for use in alternating magnetic fields, coil arrangement, electric machine, and aircraft
    Patent number: 12095347
    Abstract: A cooling device for use in alternating magnetic fields include an evaporator part defining a first volume for evaporating a cooling medium contained therein, the evaporator part being made of an electrically and magnetically non-conductive material, and a condenser part defining a second volume for condensing the cooling medium contained therein, the condenser part being in fluid connection with the first volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Ludovic Ybanez, Lucien Prisse, Jorge A. Carretero Benignos, Jürgen Steinwandel, Michael Hofmann
  • Method for assembling a fuselage portion of an aircraft, and notably a nose of the aircraft
    Patent number: 12091195
    Abstract: An assembly method includes a succession of assembly steps of assembling fuselage components of the fuselage portion of the aircraft, for example the nose of the aircraft, to form a fuselage body, a mounting step of introducing, into the fuselage body thus formed, a floor module having at least a predetermined width, and which can be provided with items of equipment, and a fastening step of fastening the fuselage body to the floor module such that the floor module shapes the final shape of the fuselage body and the assembled fuselage portion is obtained, the floor module, which has at least a suitable predetermined width, making it possible, when it is incorporated into the fuselage body, to provide the fuselage body, which is slightly flexible, with its desired and definitive shape corresponding to the desired and definitive shape of the assembled fuselage portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Damien Aguera, Arnaud Tonnele, Salim Chalqi, Yannick Lampure, Alain Mady
  • Method for detecting a physical status of a flexible structure
    Patent number: 12091186
    Abstract: A method in the field of flight control laws (CLAWs) used to control a flexible structure, for example an air to air refueling flying boom system, the method detecting the physical status determined by exogenous boundary conditions acting on the flexible structure. A computer program is provided which carries out the method for detecting the physical status of a flexible structure. A system and aircraft comprising such a flexible structure are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space SAU
    Inventors: Rodney Rodriguez Robles, Pablo Pingarrón Zapardiel, Francisco José Asensio Nieto
  • Photonic beamforming for active antennas
    Patent number: 12088341
    Abstract: Optical Fast Fourier Transforms are described for use in photonic beamforming systems. Transmit and Receive photonic beamforming systems for use with active array antennas are described, together with digital and photonic payloads for use with such beamforming systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space Limited
    Inventors: Victor Manuel Fernandez Laguna, Katarzyna Balakier, Stephen Brown, Niall Macmanus
  • Track drive device for an aircraft, a drive arrangement and an aircraft having such a track drive device
    Patent number: 12084185
    Abstract: In order to provide a track drive device for an aircraft that has zero backlash, a large gear reduction, the ability to self-lock, and a better load transfer and reduced wear, the track drive device drives a track member through a drive device that has at least one drive unit that is arranged adjacent to the track member. Each drive unit comprises a plurality of engaging members that are driven by a cam shaft or a cam gear such that the engaging members are sequentially shifted in a wave-like pattern which results in the track member being moved in a linear manner relative to the drive device along a longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Schlipf, Florian Lorenz
  • Soundproofing coating comprising a cellular structure
    Patent number: 12083778
    Abstract: A soundproofing coating with a cellular structure having several structures connected in a transverse direction, each formed by connecting a first longitudinal strip with a second longitudinal strip. Each structure has, successively in the longitudinal direction, 1) a first cavity, the cross-section of which narrows gradually in the thickness of the coating until it closes, 2) a first connection of two walls, respectively of the first strip and the second strip, in contact with each other over part of the thickness of the coating, which provides a passage between the first cavity and a second cavity that thus form a Helmholtz resonator, 3) the second cavity, the cross-section of which gradually increases in the thickness of the coating and which is closed by a closing sheet, and 4) a second connection of two walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Charles Cariou
  • Method and system with two curves for guiding a cable tie
    Patent number: 12088070
    Abstract: A guide system to enable installation of a cable tie on a supporting element by passing the cable tie through a first passage to traverse the supporting element, then through a second passage to come back to the same side of the supporting element, enabling the cable tie to surround one or more cables. The guide device includes a gutter with a guide surface with two curves, a first longitudinal curve enabling the surface to extend from a passage to the other passage and a second transverse curve forming a partial envelope for receiving the cable tie and guiding and holding the cable tie in the gutter. The device also has at least one protrusion with a wedging surface projecting from the surface of the gutter to come into contact with and wedge against the supporting element to lock the gutter in position in relation to the supporting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Herve Tressol, Sébastien Forasacco