Patents Assigned to Airbus
  • Acoustic treatment panel comprising acoustic cells of different volumes obtained from cylindrical and identical main tubes, aircraft comprising such an acoustic treatment panel
    Patent number: 12269245
    Abstract: An acoustic treatment panel includes at least one acoustically resistive layer, a reflective layer and at least one cellular structure interposed between the acoustically resistive layer and the reflective layer. The cellular structure includes cylindrical and identical main tubes which are closed at one end by the acoustically resistive layer and at the other end by the reflective layer, spacer zones between the main tubes, the spacer zones being sealed relative to one another, cutouts made at an end of certain main tubes, in contact with the reflective layer, and/or secondary tubes positioned in the main tubes and/or in the spacer zones, the cutouts and/or the secondary tubes being configured to generate acoustic cells of different dimensions from identical main tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Florent Mercat, Florian Ravise
  • Spark containment cap
    Patent number: 12269609
    Abstract: A spark containment cap for enclosing an end of a fastener protruding from a structure, the enclosed body having a base and a cover portion, the cover portion extending from the base, the base providing an adhering surface for adhering the spark containment cap to a structure, and the base and the cover portion together forming a cavity within the enclosed body inside which the end of a fastener can be enclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations Limited
    Inventors: Richard Dobbin, Matthew Cross
  • AIRCRAFT TANK DEVICE FOR INCREASING A FLIGHT RANGE AND A WING AREA OF AN AIRCRAFT AS WELL AS AIRCRAFT
    Publication number: 20250108908
    Abstract: An aircraft tank device for increasing a flight range and a wing area of an aircraft includes a fairing which is formed and configured to at least partly cover an aircraft wing-aircraft fuselage intersection, to store a fuel, and to provide a lifting function. An aircraft including such an aircraft tank device is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Hegenbart, Hermann Benthien
  • Aircraft refrigeration system having a motor-assisted cabin exhaust air turbine
    Patent number: 12263950
    Abstract: An aircraft refrigeration system comprises an ambient air line, through which ambient air flows and which is connected to conduct ambient air to an aircraft, an ambient air compressor, arranged in the ambient air line, for compressing the ambient air in the ambient air line, a cabin exhaust air turbine, connected to a cabin exhaust air line and coupled to the ambient air compressor in the ambient air line and configured to expand cabin exhaust air flowing through the cabin exhaust air line and to drive the ambient air compressor, a transmission, configured to couple the cabin exhaust air turbine to the ambient air compressor and to set a speed of the ambient air compressor, and a motor, coupled to the transmission and configured to drive the ambient air compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Hennig, Frank Klimpel, Henning Everth
  • Air distribution system for a cabin of an aircraft
    Patent number: 12263949
    Abstract: An air distribution system for a cabin of an aircraft includes a supply air line with a supply air line connector, at least one air outlet with an air outlet connector, a riser line, which is connectable to the supply air line connector and the air outlet connector, and a trim element to be arranged on a primary structure of the aircraft inside the cabin. The riser line is flexible, wherein the trim element has an outer side which can be oriented relative to the primary structure and on which there is at least one retainer for retaining the riser line, and the at least one retainer is designed to be interlockingly connected to the riser line by being pressed against the latter, such that the riser line is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Jens Lohmar
  • Remote closing and opening system for a door provided for an access opening in a fuselage of an aircraft, and remote closing method
    Patent number: 12263933
    Abstract: The system includes a closing module removably fastened to one end of the articulated arm of the door with which a door leaf is articulated, a closing module removably fastened to a structure rigidly connected to the door frame and a locking device removably fastened to the articulated arm. The closing module is able to alternately pull the closing module towards itself to move the door leaf into the closed position, and to move the closing module away from itself to move the door leaf into the open position. The locking device allows the locking lever to be moved alternately into the unlocked position to unlock the door leaf and into the locked position to lock the door leaf. The system enables the door of the aircraft to be closed remotely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Canada Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Rainer Kloetergens, Laurent Schmitt, Olivier Vidal, Sylvain Mariat
  • Situational awareness monitoring systems and methods
    Patent number: 12263956
    Abstract: An aircraft with an aircraft fuselage, and a passenger cabin and a cockpit, where the aircraft includes a center-forward attendant space between the passenger cabin and the cockpit. A cabin crew member of the aircraft can stand in the center-forward attendant space for monitoring progress of an emergency evacuation of the aircraft. The aircraft has one or more emergency exits for providing egress of passengers from the aircraft fuselage during the emergency evacuation. The aircraft also has a situational awareness monitoring (SAM) system for use in evacuating the passengers from the aircraft during the emergency evacuation. The SAM system includes one or more imaging devices and one or more display modules, each of which displays within the passenger cabin images captured by a corresponding one of the one or more imaging devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignees: Airbus Americas, Inc., Airbus Operations GmbH, National Research Council of Canada
    Inventors: Joyce S. T. Tan, Tina Kay Griffin, Patrick Alexander Rollfink, Christophe J. P. J. Legare, Natalia Cooper, John Russell Thomas, Shelley M. Roberts, Caidence S. Paleske
  • Assembly for aircraft including a chassis and a vision module of an enhanced flight vision system
    Patent number: 12263957
    Abstract: An assembly for an aircraft including a vision module including a base and a chassis including a first beam fixed to the base by four fixing means, a second beam fixed to the first beam by four fixing means, and two third beams fixed to the structure of the aircraft and between which the second beam is fixed by two third fixing means, where each fixing means takes the form of a system with two eccentric rings where the two rings are mobile in rotation relative to one another about parallel rotation axes. Also an aircraft with such an assembly fixed to a structure thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Sébastien Bertrand
  • Floor system for a cabin of a vehicle
    Patent number: 12263935
    Abstract: A floor system for a cabin of a vehicle is proposed, the floor system including a floor panel having a bottom layer, a top layer and a continuous stiffening structure having an alternating arrangement of elongated first depressions and elongated protrusions arranged between the bottom layer and the top layer, an elongated cover component, and at least one seat rail component. The cover component has an upper surface, a lower surface, and an elongated second depression reaching from the upper surface to the lower surface and having a shape that corresponds to the shape of the first depressions. The cover component is configured to be mounted inside a first depression that is accessible through an elongated cutout extending along a depression of the stiffening structure. The at least one seat rail component is attachable to the cover component to provide a seat rail along the floor panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Schwing, Hermann Benthien
  • Internal conductor device for a waveguide radiator
    Patent number: 12261362
    Abstract: An internal conductor device for a waveguide radiator, in particular for a waveguide radiator has at least one slotted waveguide, at least one support rail, at least one dielectric unit that is arranged on the at least one support rail and comprises at least one dielectric element, and has at least one internal conductor that is arranged on the at least one dielectric unit, wherein the at least one internal conductor is fixed at least substantially mechanically on the at least one dielectric element and/or that the at least one dielectric element is fixed at least substantially mechanically on the at least one support rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Stauss, Michael Korn, Alexander Herschlein, Hendrik Bayer, Catherine Haas
  • Laser shock peening apparatus
    Patent number: 12258643
    Abstract: A system for performing a laser peening application on a workpiece. A purge system is included with the system to provide a compartment housing combustion sources with compressed air so that the compartment has an increased air pressure. Also, a method of operating the system in which power is provided to the system, but only the purge system operates initially. Only after the purge system has bene operating, are the other subsystems and components of the systems, like the laser, provided with operational power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus SAS
    Inventors: Tyler T. Berger, Devin R. Hilty, Mark D. Bloomberg, Gary Grossenbacher, Jeff L Dulaney
  • Apparatus comprising a device for regulating a concentration of dihydrogen
    Patent number: 12253028
    Abstract: An apparatus contains a dihydrogen tank and/or a dihydrogen circuit, and a device for regulating a concentration of dihydrogen located outside the tank and/or the circuit. The device includes at least one pair of electrical conductors including a first electrical conductor supplied with a first voltage and a second electrical conductor supplied with a second voltage which is different from the first voltage. At least one controller repeatedly commands the application of a predetermined voltage difference between the first electrical conductor and the second electrical conductor so that an electric arc of controlled power is formed in order to burn dihydrogen possibly coming from the tank and/or from the circuit. Thus, dihydrogen does not accumulate in undesired places in the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: Airbus SAS, Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Raspati, Jonathan Landolt
  • Aircraft cabin section and aircraft having an aircraft cabin section
    Patent number: 12252231
    Abstract: An aircraft cabin section with an aircraft door, a cabin floor, and at least one lining mounted to the aircraft door. The aircraft cabin section further comprises at least one seal that is mounted to the at least one lining and seals a space between the at least one lining and the cabin floor. This prevents a cold air draft from entering the aircraft cabin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Weng, Hauke Kirstein, Sven Teichmann, Viktor Gribele, Marc-Julien Ettori
  • Adaptable lattice structure for multi-mission drones
    Patent number: 12246863
    Abstract: An adaptable lattice structure (110, 120, 130, 140) for a an Unmanned Aerial System, UAS, comprising: a plurality of lattice voxels (100, 102), wherein each lattice voxel (100, 102) comprises: a plurality of same shape elements (10, 12); wherein each same shape element (10, 12) comprises a plurality of connector elements (20), wherein the plurality of connector elements (20) are configured to temporarily couple a first same shape element (10) to at least a second same shape element (12); wherein the plurality of same shape elements (10, 12) are configured to be temporarily coupled so as to form a three dimensional lattice voxel (100); and wherein at least one of the connector elements (20) on a first lattice voxel (100) is configured to temporarily couple the first lattice voxel (100) to a second lattice voxel (102) after the formation of the first lattice voxel (100) and the second lattice voxel (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventor: Mihai Ioan Zecheru
  • DC electrical network and overcurrent protection system for a DC electrical network
    Patent number: 12249824
    Abstract: The DC electrical network comprises an electrical load supplied with electricity by an electrical power source to which the electrical load is linked by a first electrical line and a second electrical line. An overcurrent protection system comprising an input pole and an output pole is mounted in series on the first electrical line. The overcurrent protection system comprises an electronic switch mounted in series between the input pole and the output pole, an electrical current sensor, and a controller configured to control the electronic switch. It also comprises an electronic device linked to the input pole and to the second electrical line. The controller is configured to command a conducting state of the electronic device when a current measurement from the electrical current sensor is above a predetermined current threshold, then to command an opening of the electronic switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Patrick Bareaud
  • Thermoplastic cover panel for a structure in an interior space of an aircraft
    Patent number: 12246817
    Abstract: A panel for covering a part of a structure in an interior space of an aircraft is disclosed including a main panel section having an interior side and an exterior side, and at least one attachment device coupled with the exterior side. The main panel section is exclusively made from a single thermoplastic material, and the at least one attachment device is adapted for attaching the panel to the respective interior structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Claus-Peter Gross
  • Casing system containing a heat exchanger for reheating dihydrogen
    Patent number: 12246848
    Abstract: A casing system mounted between an upstream solenoid valve of an upstream pipe and a downstream solenoid valve of a downstream pipe and which has a casing divided by a separation wall into a first volume which is placed under reduced pressure and a second volume, a heat exchanger which is fixed inside the casing with a first inlet which is arranged in the first volume and which is connected to the upstream pipe and a first outlet which is arranged in the second volume and which is connected to the downstream pipe, and a control unit which closes the solenoid valves if the deviation between two successive values of the pressure in the first volume or in the second volume is greater than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Romain Joubert, Lionel Czapla, Jérôme Milliere
  • Clamping apparatus
    Patent number: 12247682
    Abstract: A clamping apparatus connecting tube flanges, includes first and second bracing devices. The first bracing device connects first and second mounting devices and has a partially circular shape with a first inner and a first outer wall. The second bracing device connects first and second connecting devices. The first bracing device inner wall has a first recess. The first bracing device outer wall is configured to contact the second bracing device which is configured to contact the first bracing device outer wall to apply substantially radial force on that first outer wall. The first recess shape is configured to substantially convert the radial force applied to the first bracing device outer wall into an axial force inside the first inner wall. The first and second mounting devices each comprise at least two attachment devices connecting the first and second connecting devices of the second bracing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Ralf Becks
  • Configuration management for avionics network, and method for checking the configuration of an avionics network
    Patent number: 12250130
    Abstract: An avionics network including a plurality of avionics components and a configuration monitoring device, which is connected by wire or wirelessly to the plurality of avionics components. The configuration monitoring device has at least one configuration data interface configured to receive a plurality of configuration parameters characterizing the operating status of the avionics components. The configuration monitoring device further includes a parameter filtering device connected to the configuration data interface and configured to filter a subset of the configuration parameters received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Vollstedt, Ralf Schliwa, Stéphane Poulain, Daniel Alexander Kliem, Guillermo Carmona-Puga
  • Assembly apparatus
    Patent number: 12246858
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an assembly apparatus for assembling components of spacecraft in space. The assembly apparatus includes: a core platform; and a mobile platform including an end effector configured to perform an assembly or manufacturing task. The mobile platform is connected to the core platform by a tether. The core platform includes a body and a coupling element connected to and extendable from the body such that the coupling element may be spaced from the body of the core platform. The tether connects the mobile platform to the body via the coupling element. The assembly apparatus further includes an actuator configured to vary the length of the tether extending between the coupling element and the mobile platform to control the position of the mobile platform relative to the body of the core platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space Limited
    Inventors: Elie Allouis, Alexander Hall, John Carroll