Patents by Inventor Carsten Paul

Carsten Paul 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).

  • Patent number: 8245974
    Abstract: A drainage device for letting out a fluid that is present between the exterior skin and the interior lining of an aircraft, wherein the drainage device comprises a collecting vessel and an outlet line. The collecting vessel is designed to collect the fluid that is present between the exterior skin and the interior lining and the outlet line is connected to the collecting vessel and is designed to let out the collected fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Carsten Paul
  • Patent number: 8099906
    Abstract: A water deflector includes a water-diverting area and an attachment area for attachment to a seal profile. The water-diverting area and the attachment area are connected to one another via a connection area, which is elastically deformable in such a way that when force acts on the water-diverting area, it is movable in relation to the attachment area. The water deflector can be used in the area of a door, wherein the water deflector deforms when the door is closed and comes to rest in a cavity between the seal profile and the door outer skin, and assumes its starting shape again when the door is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Carsten Paul
  • Publication number: 20100276543
    Abstract: An aircraft door includes an outer skin configured as a panel structure; and a rear body structure configured as an integral cast structure and operatively connected to the panel structure so as to provide rigidity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Marc SCHIMMLER, Carsten PAUL
  • Publication number: 20100252683
    Abstract: A conjunction for mounting a cross beam to a structure part of an aircraft fuselage by means of at least one conjunction device wherein the conjunction device defines a circular path on which loads acting on the cross beam are applied in the structure element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Carsten Paul
  • Publication number: 20100148009
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a connecting device two curved ribs (1, 2) of an aircraft or spacecraft, with: a coupling element (5) which can be connected by means of predetermined coupling sections (6, 7) to respective connecting sections (V1, V2) of the two ribs (1, 2); wherein at least the predetermined coupling sections (6, 7) of the coupling element (5) are rectilinear Iy designed; and in that at least the respective connecting sections (Vi, V2) of the two ribs (1, 2) each have rectilinearly running inner belt regions (15) for a respective rectilinear connection of the predetermined coupling sections 16, 7) of the coupling element (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Carsten Paul, Marc Schimmler
  • Patent number: 7686249
    Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a frame member for an aircraft is provided comprising a clip region and a frame region. According to an aspect of this exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the clip region, shear web region and the frame region are integrated into the frame member and be formed from an extrusion mold by a milling process. Advantageously, this allows for a reduced number of individual elements for forming a frame member and provides the flexibility of variation of the forms and dimensions of a frame member for an aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Lüttig, Carsten Paul
  • Publication number: 20100044512
    Abstract: A drainage device for letting out a fluid that is present between the exterior skin and the interior lining of an aircraft, wherein the drainage device comprises a collecting vessel and an outlet line. The collecting vessel is designed to collect the fluid that is present between the exterior skin and the interior lining and the outlet line is connected to the collecting vessel and is designed to let out the collected fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: AIRBUS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventor: Carsten Paul
  • Publication number: 20090300991
    Abstract: A water deflector includes a water-diverting area and an attachment area for attachment to a seal profile. The water-diverting area and the attachment area are connected to one another via a connection area, which is elastically deformable in such a way that when force acts on the water-diverting area, it is movable in relation to the attachment area. The water deflector can be used in the area of a door, wherein the water deflector deforms when the door is closed and comes to rest in a cavity between the seal profile and the door outer skin, and assumes its starting shape again when the door is opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Carsten Paul
  • Publication number: 20060237587
    Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a frame member for an aircraft is provided comprising a clip region and a frame region. According to an aspect of this exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the clip region, shear web region and the frame region are integrated into the frame member and be formed from an extrusion mold by a milling process. Advantageously, this allows for a reduced number of individual elements for forming a frame member and provides the flexibility of variation of the forms and dimensions of a frame member for an aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2004
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Applicant: Airbus Deutschland Gmbh
    Inventors: Helmut Luttig, Carsten Paul
  • Publication number: 20040262454
    Abstract: An aircraft passenger door is opened and closed by at least one door operating mechanism including a drive motor and a transmission unit that is rotatably arranged on the motor shaft and engages a toothed rack. The transmission unit includes first and second actuator gears respectively connected by first and second transmission shafts to first and second driven gears that are driven, preferably in opposite rotation directions, by a motor gear on the motor shaft. Thereby, the motor drives the actuator gears in opposite directions. The actuator gears engage the rack from opposite sides, with the rack extending between the actuator gears. Preferably, two racks are provided along the two side edges of the doorway opening, and four operating mechanisms are arranged in the door (two at each side edge thereof).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Inventors: Tobias Lehmbecker, Carsten Paul
  • Patent number: 5243786
    Abstract: A foot board for an aircraft passenger door has an elongated nearly quadrilateral single piece construction with an inner and an outer longitudinal edge fastened by screw bolts to an aircraft door sill structure. The foot board is constructed as a one piece or integral milled component, extending over the entire width of the door sill, with an outward slope for drainage into a drainage collecting channel that receives any water from individual drainage channels feeding into the collecting channel running along the outer longitudinal edge of the foot board, and a rib is arranged between each of two neighboring drainage channels extending perpendicularly to the collecting channel. Each of the two ends of the collecting channel empties into a collecting basin having an outlet opening for collected liquids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Assignee: Deutsche Aerospace Airbus GmbH
    Inventors: Gert Lubensky, Carsten Paul