Patents by Inventor Georg Muehlthaler

Georg Muehlthaler 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: 9561856
    Abstract: A heat exchanger with at least one cooling segment having a first, a second, and a third portion. A first heat carrier flow path, through which a first heat carrier medium flows, extends through the first portion. A second heat carrier flow path, through which a second heat carrier medium flows, extends through the second portion. A first coolant flow path, through which a first coolant medium flows, extends through the third portion. The heat exchanger comprises at least one cooling body, a second coolant medium flowing through a second coolant flow path extending through the cooling body. The first and the second heat carrier flow paths are thermally coupled, respectively, to the first and the second coolant flow path, to discharge heat energy of at least one of the first and the second heat carrier medium to at least one of the first and the second coolant medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Mevenkamp, Georg Muehlthaler, Sebastian Capistran Zambrano
  • Patent number: 9193435
    Abstract: An insulation arrangement for thermally and acoustically insulating an aircraft fuselage, which comprises at least one insulation packet arranged on an exterior skin of the aircraft. The insulation packet includes dimensionally rigid foam, and comprises a shape corresponding at least with a structural component on the exterior skin, as the result of which the insulation packet is retained on the structural component even without any additional attachment elements. As a result, ventilation openings need not be provided, thereby reducing condensation water accumulating in aircraft insulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Holm, Georg Muehlthaler, Rainer Mueller
  • Patent number: 8955804
    Abstract: An aircraft structure is provided with load-bearing hollow structural elements that form an aircraft fuselage. The cavities in the structural elements are designed as air ducts for an air conditioning system of the aircraft. An aircraft is also provided with such an aircraft structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Nicholas Brownjohn, Georg Mühlthaler, Stefan Osternack
  • Publication number: 20130240668
    Abstract: An insulation arrangement for thermally and acoustically insulating an aircraft fuselage, which comprises at least one insulation packet arranged on an exterior skin of the aircraft. The insulation packet includes dimensionally rigid foam, and comprises a shape corresponding at least with a structural component on the exterior skin, as the result of which the insulation packet is retained on the structural component even without any additional attachment elements. As a result, ventilation openings need not be provided, thereby reducing condensation water accumulating in aircraft insulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicants: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Holm, Georg Muehlthaler, Rainer Mueller
  • Patent number: 8490365
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aircraft side fairing, with a component (9) in the form of individual hollow chambers (12, 13, 14) which are arranged essentially in a preferably curved plane and are arranged between two cover layers (1, 2), wherein a gastight film which completely encases the component (9) with the hollow chambers (12, 13, 14) is provided and, after application of a vacuum to evacuate the hollow chambers (12, 13, 14), surrounds the component (9) with the hollow chambers in a gastight manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: AIRBUS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Mueller, Georg Muehlthaler
  • Publication number: 20120248244
    Abstract: An aircraft structure is provided with load-bearing hollow structural elements that form an aircraft fuselage. The cavities in the structural elements are designed as air ducts for an air conditioning system of the aircraft. An aircraft is also provided with such an aircraft structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Nicholas Brownjohn, Georg Mühlthaler, Stefan Osternack
  • Patent number: 8104715
    Abstract: A window arrangement is provided for enlarging a window area in an aircraft. The window arrangement includes, but is not limited to at least one first installation element. The at least one first installation element is designed to convey fluids, and furthermore includes, but is not limited to a transparent region which covers a first window region such that light waves in the visible spectrum can be let through.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Nicholas Brownjohn, Georg Mühlthaler, Rainer Müller
  • Patent number: 7967249
    Abstract: With a cooling system for expelling heat from a heat source (30) located in the interior of an aircraft to a heat reducer (32), with a piping system (10) sealed against the surrounding atmosphere which is thermally coupled to a heat intake section (14) with the heat source (38) and to a heat output section (22) with the heat reducer (32), and which preferably has an essentially adiabate transport section (21), it is proposed that the piping system (10) is filled with a heat conveyance medium (12) which, when taking in heat from the heat source (38) in the heat intake section (14) undergoes a transition from the liquid phase to the gaseous phase, then flows into the heat output section (22), and here, when discharging heat to the heat reducer (32) condenses once again, and flows back into the heat intake section (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Mühlthaler, Michael Markwart, Andreas Edom
  • Patent number: 7802732
    Abstract: A device for temperature regulation of sections of the interior of an aircraft includes a controlled mixer valve for the mixing of engine bleed air and air that is cooler than the engine bleed air in order to obtain pre-tempered mixed air flowing out of the mixer valve; a distribution line connected to the outlet of the mixer valve which is connected to the respective sections by at least two supply lines; individual heating units assigned to the respective sections; sensors assigned to the individual sections for the respective actual temperatures; transmitters for the respective nominal temperatures; and a regulator unit which controls the mixer valve dependent upon the respective nominal temperatures and the respective actual temperatures in the individual areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Scherer, Torsten Schwan, Georg Mühlthaler, Jan Dittmar
  • Publication number: 20090304979
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aircraft side fairing, with a component (9) in the form of individual hollow chambers (12, 13, 14) which are arranged essentially in a preferably curved plane and are arranged between two cover layers (1, 2), wherein a gastight film which completely encases the component (9) with the hollow chambers (12, 13, 14) is provided and, after application of a vacuum to evacuate the hollow chambers (12, 13, 14), surrounds the component (9) with the hollow chambers in a gastight manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventors: Rainer Mueller, Georg Muehlthaler