Patents by Inventor Aurélie Sallier
Aurélie Sallier has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8897934Abstract: Described is a method of protecting an aircraft in approach by signalling against risks of collision with a terrain in steep-sided environments in order to avoid unwanted warnings emanating from clearance sensors of the on-board TAWS (Terrain Awareness and Warning System) while protecting the aircraft when the aircraft fails to observe a published procedure which includes a landing procedure and a take-off procedure. The method, in some embodiments, includes modifying characteristics of at least one of the clearance sensors according to the position deviation of the aircraft relative to a published RNP (Required Navigation Performance) trajectory.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2008Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: ThalesInventors: Hugues Meunier, Nicolas Marty, Aurélie Sallier
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Patent number: 8306679Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of protecting an aircraft in approach by signalling against the risks of collision with the terrain in steep-sided environments, in order to avoid unwanted warnings emanating from the clearance sensors of the onboard TAWS system while protecting the aircraft when it fails to observe the published procedure, and this equally in a landing procedure and in a take-off procedure. The method includes conferring an additional function on the conventional TAWS functions, specific to the detection of the potential risks of collision of the aircraft with the terrain when following procedures of reduced protection corridor type, and this without modifying either the logics or the characteristics of the clearance sensor or sensors as currently defined in the TAWSs of the state of the art.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2008Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: ThalesInventors: Hugues Meunier, Nicolas Marty, Aurélie Sallier
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Patent number: 8200377Abstract: The system for securing an aircraft flight plan has a flight management system delivering: a flight plan and points comprising passage setpoints in terms of speed, altitude and time; an avionics computer; at least one resource for storing environmental data constituting a hazard for the aircraft; a performance model of the aircraft defining limiting flight conditions according to the performance capabilities of said aircraft; at least one resource for processing the aircraft's avoidance trajectories. It makes it possible, based on a sampling of points of the flight plan, to calculate a set of avoidance trajectories and correlate them with the environmental data in order to detect the engagement points requiring a corrective maneuver.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2008Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: ThalesInventors: Nicolas Marty, Aurélie Sallier, Philippe Salmon
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Patent number: 8145365Abstract: The invention relates to a calculation method for an aircraft navigation aid system making it possible to maintain a vertical safety margin with an obstruction profile, the aircraft comprising a navigation system, an automatic piloting system, a database system and a display device, characterized in that the method comprises the following steps: calculation of an obstruction altitude profile, calculation of a vertical safety margin with respect to the obstruction profile, of a plurality of vertical safety trajectories and of the respective flight setpoints for the aircraft to execute the trajectories, selection of the flight setpoints making it possible to maintain the aircraft as close as possible to the obstruction profile while maintaining between the aircraft and the obstruction profile at least the vertical safety margin, filtering of the flight set point values so that the variation of the values of the setpoints does not exceed a variation difference in a duration predefined in the system.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: ThalesInventors: Laurent Flotte, Nicolas Marty, Aurélie Sallier
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Patent number: 8073579Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for extracting terrain altitudes notably for a display of a sectional view of a terrain overflown by an aircraft. The device for extracting terrain altitudes along a trajectory of an aircraft in flight includes an interface taking into account selected flight parameters of the aircraft; a terrain altitudes extraction requests manager; a geographical zones manager; a terrain data manager; a terrain profile provider. The disclosed embodiment is configured to be used within the framework of an anticollision device for preventing collision between an aircraft and the terrain.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2008Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: ThalesInventors: Nicolas Marty, Julia Percier, Aurélie Sallier
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Patent number: 7777647Abstract: The field of the invention is that of the display in map form of an operating zone of an aircraft on a screen, and more particularly a method of processing topographic data of this operating zone of an aircraft in real time, based on a calculation of radials (R) centred on a reference point (O) defining an angular segment of topographic data. According to the invention, the method includes a subdivision of the operating zone to be mapped into a plurality of angular segment sections, each forming an individual zone (3), and an assignment of a processing priority and a refresh frequency specific to each individual zone defined according to a criterion of operational interest of the element to the aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2008Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: ThalesInventors: Aurélie Sallier, Julia Percier, Nicolas Marty
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Publication number: 20100004801Abstract: The invention relates to a calculation method for an aircraft navigation aid system making it possible to maintain a vertical safety margin with an obstruction profile, the aircraft comprising a navigation system, an automatic piloting system, a database system and a display device, characterized in that the method comprises the following steps: calculation of an obstruction altitude profile, calculation of a vertical safety margin with respect to the obstruction profile, of a plurality of vertical safety trajectories and of the respective flight setpoints for the aircraft to execute the trajectories, selection of the flight setpoints making it possible to maintain the aircraft as close as possible to the obstruction profile while maintaining between the aircraft and the obstruction profile at least the vertical safety margin, filtering of the flight set point values so that the variation of the values of the setpoints does not exceed a variation difference in a duration predefined in the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2009Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: ThalesInventors: Laurent Flotte, Nicolas Marty, Aurelie Sallier
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Publication number: 20090326741Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for extracting terrain altitudes notably for a display of a sectional view of a terrain overflown by an aircraft. The device for extracting terrain altitudes along a trajectory (32) of an aircraft (31) in flight comprises a means (5) for selecting flight parameters (2, 3, 4) of the aircraft; a terrain altitudes extraction requests manager (11); a geographical zones manager (12); a terrain data manager (14); a terrain profile provider (21). The invention can notably be used within the framework of an anticollision device for preventing collision between an aircraft and the terrain.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2008Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: THALESInventors: Nicolas MARTY, Julia Percier, Aurelie Sallier
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Publication number: 20090157241Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of protecting an aircraft in approach by signalling against the risks of collision with the terrain in steep-sided environments, in order to avoid unwanted warnings emanating from the clearance sensors of the onboard TAWS system while protecting the aircraft when it fails to observe the published procedure, and this equally in a landing procedure and in a take-off procedure, and it is characterized in that it consists in modifying the characteristics of the clearance sensors according to the position deviation of the aircraft relative to the imposed RNP trajectory.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2008Publication date: June 18, 2009Applicant: THALESInventors: Hugues MEUNIER, Nicolas Marty, Aurelie Sallier
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Publication number: 20090138145Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of protecting an aircraft in approach by signalling against the risks of collision with the terrain in steep-sided environments, in order to avoid unwanted warnings emanating from the clearance sensors of the onboard TAWS system while protecting the aircraft when it fails to observe the published procedure, and this equally in a landing procedure and in a take-off procedure. The method includes conferring an additional function on the conventional TAWS functions, specific to the detection of the potential risks of collision of the aircraft with the terrain when following procedures of reduced protection corridor type, and this without modifying either the logics or the characteristics of the clearance sensor or sensors as currently defined in the TAWSs of the state of the art.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2008Publication date: May 28, 2009Applicant: THALESInventors: Hugues Meunier, Nicolas Marty, Aurelie Sallier
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Publication number: 20090132103Abstract: The system for securing an aircraft flight plan has a flight management system delivering: a flight plan and points comprising passage setpoints in terms of speed, altitude and time; an avionics computer; at least one resource for storing environmental data constituting a hazard for the aircraft; a performance model of the aircraft defining limiting flight conditions according to the performance capabilities of said aircraft; at least one resource for processing the aircraft's avoidance trajectories. It makes it possible, based on a sampling of points of the flight plan, to calculate a set of avoidance trajectories and correlate them with the environmental data in order to detect the engagement points requiring a corrective maneuver.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2008Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: ThalesInventors: Nicolas MARTY, Aurelie Sallier, Philippe Salmon
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Publication number: 20080198041Abstract: The field of the invention is that of the display in map form of an operating zone of an aircraft on a screen, and more particularly a method of processing topographic data of this operating zone of an aircraft in real time, based on a calculation of radials (R) centred on a reference point (O) defining an angular segment of topographic data. According to the invention, the method includes a subdivision of the operating zone to be mapped into a plurality of angular segment sections, each forming an individual zone (3), and an assignment of a processing priority and a refresh frequency specific to each individual zone defined according to a criterion of operational interest of the element to the aircraft.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2008Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicant: ThalesInventors: Aurelie Sallier, Julia Percier, Nicolas Marty