Patents by Inventor Hermann Benthien

Hermann Benthien 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: 12371164
    Abstract: A system for installing a self-supporting truss structure having interconnected truss elements on an aircraft fuselage. The truss structure has radially outer closed truss nodes and radially inner releasable connecting nodes. The installation system has a carrying device, movable on a fuselage floor and with an upper receptacle, a stand for temporarily holding truss elements in predetermined relative positions, and a movement device, on the upper receptacle, and holding the stand in a settable position relative to the support surface. The stand is further away from the support in installation positions than in a transport position. The installation system is configured, with the stand in the transport position, to move the carrying device into a predetermined internal fuselage position and to lock it there, to move the stand into a suitable installation position via the movement device, and to lock the at least one lockable connecting node via a drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Benthien, Andreas Poppe
  • Patent number: 12358625
    Abstract: A compartment system for a vehicle cabin includes a framework assembly for attachment to a vehicle structure, and a container bin. The framework assembly includes a flat bottom section, a top part and a lateral stiffening element. The bottom section has a rear edge for attachment to the structure and a front edge opposite to the rear edge. The top part is spaced from and parallel to the bottom section front edge. The lateral stiffening element is connected to the top part and the bottom section to create the framework assembly having a front opening between the top part and the bottom section front edge. The container bin has a box-like shape and an open front side. The framework assembly and the container bin are configured to detachably attach the container bin in the framework assembly with the open front side arranged in the framework assembly front opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Benthien, Florian Müller
  • Publication number: 20250224074
    Abstract: A connection interface for mounting a building component to a support structure. The connection interface comprises at least one connector and at least one aligner. The connector comprises: a primary fastening region at a first end configured to be fastened to one of a first plurality of mounting points at the support structure and a secondary fastening region at a second end configured to be fastened to one of a second plurality of mounting points at the building component. The aligner is arranged between the first end and the second end; and wherein the aligner is configured to align the connector in an oriented manner according to an alignment value for bringing the building component and the support structure in an alignment arrangement. The aligner provides an adjustment in at least two spatial directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Hermann BENTHIEN, Christopher Victor WERTHMANN
  • Publication number: 20250197011
    Abstract: A fixation interface includes primary connection studs and secondary attachment interface components. Each connection stud includes a longitudinal axis, a mounting foot, and an interface head arranged along the longitudinal axis. The mounting foot form-fittingly fastens to a floor fastening point. On opposite lateral sides, the interface head includes protrusions extending traverse to the longitudinal axis. Each secondary attachment interface component mounts to an interface head by form-fittingly engaging the protrusions in a longitudinal direction. Each secondary attachment interface component is positionable to the interface head region in a positioning movement and is lockable in a locking movement. Each secondary attachment interface component includes first and second types of interface components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Hermann BENTHIEN, Marvin BRUHN
  • Patent number: 12319414
    Abstract: A seat rail system for an interior space of a vehicle includes a seat rail having a plurality of attachment sockets arranged in a row along a longitudinal extension of the seat rail. Each attachment socket has an at least partly spheroid concave bearing surface. Two coupling openings are embedded in each concave bearing surface; an attachment stud having an at least partly spheroid or cylindroid convex bearing surface with a curvature corresponding to a curvature of the concave bearing surface of the attachment sockets. A coupling pin is arranged on or in the convex bearing surface and configured to enter one of the attachment openings to couple the attachment stud to the seat rail. A locking pin is configured to enter the respective other attachment opening through a through hole in the attachment stud and thereby lock the attachment stud to the seat rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Poppe, Hermann Benthien
  • Patent number: 12286232
    Abstract: A mounting member configured to support a cabin component to be mounted to a mounting rail. The rail mounting arrangement comprises a disengagement locking mechanism that prevents a removal of the mounting member along a transversal direction of the mounting rail, while still allowing movement along the longitudinal direction. The rail mounting arrangement includes a securing mechanism that is configured to secure the mounting member at the desired location along the mounting rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Hermann Benthien, Andreas Poppe
  • Patent number: 12269673
    Abstract: A freight container configured to fit in an aircraft cargo hold includes a floor element. First and second parallel side walls extend away from first and second opposite edges of the floor element base surface. A top wall, parallel to a floor element resting surface, extends between edges of the first and second side walls, which edges are remote from the first and second edges. A front wall extends between the first and second side walls from a base surface third edge to a top wall front edge. The front wall has a first front wall portion, extending from the base surface third edge at a first angle of at least 90° to the resting surface. The front wall has a second front wall portion, extending from the top wall front edge at a second angle of less than 180° and more than 90° to the top wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Schliwa, Thomas Grabow, Hermann Benthien, Lars Uwe Hansen, Dirk Meiranke, Lucas Gleixner, Paul Wichtmann
  • Publication number: 20250108932
    Abstract: An aircraft fuselage for releasing a fuel tank from inside the aircraft fuselage in case of emergency includes an outer structure, a mounting device to releasably secure a sled device for carrying a fuel tank in an inside of the outer structure, and a first openable release door separating the inside from an outside of the outer structure, wherein the first release door is positioned in relation to the mounting device such that the fuel tank is released through the first release door when the mounting device releases the sled device. A method is disclosed for releasing a fuel tank from inside the aircraft fuselage in case of emergency as well as an aircraft including such an aircraft fuselage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Matthias Hegenbart, Hermann Benthien
  • Publication number: 20250108908
    Abstract: An aircraft tank device for increasing a flight range and a wing area of an aircraft includes a fairing which is formed and configured to at least partly cover an aircraft wing-aircraft fuselage intersection, to store a fuel, and to provide a lifting function. An aircraft including such an aircraft tank device is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Hegenbart, Hermann Benthien
  • Publication number: 20250108906
    Abstract: An adaptable fixation interface for an aircraft cabin floor with a plurality of connection studs that comprise a mounting foot region and a connection head region. The mounting foot region is configured to be inserted into one of a plurality of interface points in a floor arrangement. The connection head region is configured to be engaged by a fitting of an equipment to be fixed to the floor arrangement. The connection studs are configured to be releasably connected to adjacent interface points in a floor arrangement to provide a longitudinally extending fixation interface segment for mounting of equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Volker ROBRECHT, Hermann BENTHIEN, Wolfgang SCHULZE
  • Patent number: 12263935
    Abstract: A floor system for a cabin of a vehicle is proposed, the floor system including a floor panel having a bottom layer, a top layer and a continuous stiffening structure having an alternating arrangement of elongated first depressions and elongated protrusions arranged between the bottom layer and the top layer, an elongated cover component, and at least one seat rail component. The cover component has an upper surface, a lower surface, and an elongated second depression reaching from the upper surface to the lower surface and having a shape that corresponds to the shape of the first depressions. The cover component is configured to be mounted inside a first depression that is accessible through an elongated cutout extending along a depression of the stiffening structure. The at least one seat rail component is attachable to the cover component to provide a seat rail along the floor panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Schwing, Hermann Benthien
  • Patent number: 12234856
    Abstract: A fastening system includes a first fastening element attachable to a structure and which has a base portion for plugging through a structural opening, a second fastening element, and a plastically deformable funnel element. The funnel element has a funnel-like basic shape with a funnel opening. The second fastening element can be introduced through the funnel opening into a receiving opening of the base portion and fastened therein and has a collar which faces away from the receiving opening and which is larger than the funnel opening. The funnel element is designed to be deformed from the funnel-like basic shape into a flat, disk-like final shape by the collar of the second fastening element during the fastening of the second fastening element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Benthien, Andreas Poppe
  • Publication number: 20250042533
    Abstract: An aircraft floor arrangement with customizable load-bearing capabilities is provided that comprises a plurality of floor panels and at least one support profile. The at least one support profile is configured to reinforce at least one of the floor panels such that the load-bearing capabilities are increased. The floor panels are provided with a plurality of interface points arranged at least along one direction. The interface points are configured for mounting of one of the support profiles to one of the floor panels via the interface points to reinforce the floor panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Hermann BENTHIEN, Bernd SCHWING
  • Publication number: 20250042532
    Abstract: An aircraft cabin floor arrangement with air distribution. The arrangement comprises a plurality of floor panels and at least one air supply. The at least one air supply is configured for being arranged in a longitudinal direction of an aircraft. The plurality of floor panels are configured for being arranged in a spanning direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of the aircraft. The plurality of floor panels each comprise a plurality of elongate cavities aligned with the spanning direction of the floor panels. The at least one air supply is fluidly connected to at least a part of the elongate cavities of the floor panels for supplying air from the at least one air supply to the elongate cavities. The fluidly connected elongate cavities are providing supply air to passenger seat areas in an aircraft cabin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Jens LOHMAR, Hermann BENTHIEN, Janes PEIMANN
  • Patent number: 12195181
    Abstract: An apparatus for fastening a component to an aircraft cabin attachment structure, the attachment structure having a fastening tube with a longitudinal axis. The apparatus has an internally bored sleeve rotatably positionable on the fastening tube and an external thread. A holding body connects to the component and has two spaced-apart limbs and a bearing surface enclosed by the limbs, and on which, an internal thread configured to the sleeve external thread, is arranged. A device fixes the holding body to the threaded sleeve and the fastening tube, the external and internal threads being non-self-locking. When the holding body internal thread presses against the threaded sleeve external thread, the threaded sleeve rotates until the external and internal threads align. The fixing device connects the threaded sleeve to the holding body in a rotationally fixed manner and fixes the holding body transversely with respect to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Hegenbart, Hermann Benthien
  • Patent number: 12187455
    Abstract: A method for installing a component fastening structure on an attachment structure where the fastening structure includes a unit including an elongate body, a first strut detachably coupled between the elongate body and a first fastening for fastening the unit to the attachment structure, a second strut detachably coupled at an inclined angle between the elongate body and the first fastening. The first and/or second strut are variably positionable relative to the elongate body and are lockable in an end position. A jig including a support structure is detachably coupled to the fastening structure elongate body, and a height adjustment device on which the support structure is mounted, is adjusted to arrange the first elongate body at a pre-determined height. The jig is moved relative to the attachment structure to engage the first fastening with an attachment structure first fixture and fastening the first fastening to the first fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventor: Hermann Benthien
  • Publication number: 20250002175
    Abstract: A connector for truss work members to a support structure for a mounting interface of a trusswork. The connector has a body with a first portion and a second portion. A central opening is provided in the body having an inner wall configured for receiving a connection end of a truss member. The first portion and the second portion are arranged concentrically. The first portion has first circumferential edge sections, and the second portion has second circumferential edge sections. The first and second circumferential edge sections are spaced apart by gap sections that are configured to receive connecting flanges of a support structure. The gap sections are forming segments along a virtual surface that is curved at least in one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Andreas POPPE, Hermann BENTHIEN
  • Publication number: 20240417055
    Abstract: A rod with attachment sockets for a truss structure of a vehicle. The rod comprises an elongated body having a plurality of attachment sockets formed on and distributed over an outer side of the body. The plurality of attachment sockets comprises at least a first number of attachment sockets facing in a first direction and a second number of attachment sockets facing in a second direction different from the first direction. The plurality of attachment sockets each comprises a cavity open to the outer side of the body and comprising at least one bearing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Hermann BENTHIEN, Matthias HEGENBART
  • Publication number: 20240400210
    Abstract: Individual air supply duct for connecting a main air supply duct to a passenger service unit in an aircraft, wherein the duct is an extruded profile with a longitudinal extension direction (x). An individual air supply assembly comprising the duct and a passenger service unit configured to be mounted thereto, wherein the duct comprises individual connection ports, located on the outer surface of the duct, at equal intervals, wherein the passenger service unit comprises a port, located on the outer surface of the passenger service unit, and wherein, when the passenger service unit is mounted to the duct, the port is brought into close proximity and/or into alignment with a corresponding connection port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Uwe SCHNEIDER, Hermann BENTHIEN, Florian MÜLLER, Lauritz PETERSEN
  • Publication number: 20240400208
    Abstract: A mounting rail interface comprises an elongate body. The body comprises two elongate lateral portions; and an elongate central portion arranged between the two lateral portions. The lateral portions are defined for providing a transition portion to an adjacent surface. The central portion comprises a plurality of openings with a respective circumferential edge flange. The openings are defined as elongate openings configured to allow a range of different orientations of a connector. The edge flange is defined with a concave curved contour on its bottom side. The concave curved contour provides an abutting surface for a connector configured to engage with the edge flange of the opening. The curved contour provides an abutting surface over at least an angular range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Hermann BENTHIEN, Andreas POPPE