Patents Assigned to Eads Space Transportation SAS
  • Patent number: 7913538
    Abstract: An evaluation method for monitoring the consequences of an impact at low speed and little force on a structural composite material part covered with a film that changes color when under pressure and whose color intensity is directly related to the force of a received shock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Eads Space Transportation SAS
    Inventors: Pascale Brassier, Patrick Peres
  • Patent number: 7513184
    Abstract: A pyrotechnically-ruptureable composite structural component, intended to transmit forces between first and second structural elements, has an elongate pyrotechnic detonation separation component incorporated in the structural component for breaking the structural component and separating the first and second elements. The structural component has a first part in which the pyrotechnic separation component is incorporated and which is able to be connected to the first element, and a second part that connects to the second element. The first and second parts are rigidly assembled via their free ends, which are the opposite ends to the first and second elements respectively. The rigid assembly has a damper arranged between the free ends of the first and second elements so as to damp a detonation shock propagating to the free end of the first part when the pyrotechnic separation component is detonated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Eads Space Transportation SAS
    Inventor: Thomas Kister