Patents by Inventor Gilles Tardu

Gilles Tardu 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).

  • Publication number: 20170113425
    Abstract: A method for repairing an aircraft structure made of composite material which comprises a damaged zone having at least one bend. The method comprises the stacking of at least two sheets of composite material, which each have a thickness allowing manual deformation thereof, a first sheet being applied to the damaged zone and shaped manually so as to follow said at least one bend of the zone, a second sheet being applied to the first sheet and shaped manually so as to follow the shape of the first sheet thus shaped. The use of individual sheets makes it possible to bend them to the desired bend without tools and the resulting stack provides the desired rigidity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Gilles TARDU, Philippe DUBOIS
  • Patent number: 9382018
    Abstract: A method for repairing damage to the coating of an aircraft fuselage, the coating being made of fiber-reinforced composite material. This method comprising making a cut-out in the fuselage with a substantially parallelepipedal outline around the damage and drilling a circular hole substantially centered on the intersection of the sides of the outline of the parallelepiped of the cut-out at each of the corners of the outline before the cutting out operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.A.S.
    Inventors: Jacques Roux, Gilles Tardu
  • Publication number: 20130024165
    Abstract: A method for designing repair kits for a predefined area of the external/internal structure of an aircraft, the repair kits each including an external/internal structural part having predefined shape and size, suitable for being placed within the existing external/internal structure, instead of an equivalent shape including a damaged area, which can be removed or not, the method including creating a range of standardised repair kits, optimized according to an estimate of the most likely types of accidental damage in the studied area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicants: AIRBUS, AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S)
    Inventors: Gilles Tardu, Andre Galliot
  • Publication number: 20120304433
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for repairing aircraft primary structures. More specifically, the invention relates to a method for repairing damage to the coating of an aircraft fuselage, which coating is made of fiber-reinforced composite material. This method comprises a step consisting of making a cut-out in the fuselage with a substantially parallelepipedal outline around the damages and of drilling a circular hole substantially centered on the intersection of the sides of the outline of the parallelepiped of the cut-out at each of the corners of said outline before the cutting out operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S)
    Inventors: Jacques Roux, Gilles Tardu