Patents by Inventor Pierre DOUREL

Pierre DOUREL 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: 11548611
    Abstract: In order to simplify the kinematics involved in opening an aircraft door, a plurality of mobile stop members is provided at the periphery of the door, these being intended to press against complementary stop arrangement provided on the door frame. A door control device is configured to bring the door from its closed position into a set-back intermediate position by moving it towards the interior of the compartment, and a stop arrangement control device is configured to allow the mobile stop members to be moved, when the door is occupying its set-back intermediate position, from a deployed locking position to a retracted unlocking position, allowing the door to be moved outward through the opening in the fuselage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Patrick Lieven, Laurent Lache, Pierre Dourel
  • Publication number: 20200079489
    Abstract: In order to simplify the kinematics involved in opening an aircraft door, a plurality of mobile stop members is provided at the periphery of the door, these being intended to press against complementary stop arrangement provided on the door frame. A door control device is configured to bring the door from its closed position into a set-back intermediate position by moving it towards the interior of the compartment, and a stop arrangement control device is configured to allow the mobile stop members to be moved, when the door is occupying its set-back intermediate position, from a deployed locking position to a retracted unlocking position, allowing the door to be moved outward through the opening in the fuselage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick LIEVEN, Laurent LACHE, Pierre DOUREL
  • Patent number: 10518871
    Abstract: A crocodile-type flight control surface comprising an upper foil flap, a lower foil flap, an actuating mechanism which guarantees the rotational displacement of each foil flap about a joint axis, either in the same direction or in different directions, and a locking mechanism alternatively adopting a locking position in which the upper foil flap and the lower foil flap are fixed with respect to each other and an unlocking position in which the upper foil flap and the lower foil flap are free with respect to the other. A crocodile-type flight control surface of this kind is therefore stiffened by the locking mechanism that joins the two foil flaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Jerome Robillard, Pierre Dourel
  • Publication number: 20180015998
    Abstract: A crocodile-type flight control surface comprising an upper foil flap, a lower foil flap, an actuating mechanism which guarantees the rotational displacement of each foil flap about a joint axis, either in the same direction or in different directions, and a locking mechanism alternatively adopting a locking position in which the upper foil flap and the lower foil flap are fixed with respect to each other and an unlocking position in which the upper foil flap and the lower foil flap are free with respect to the other. A crocodile-type flight control surface of this kind is therefore stiffened by the locking mechanism that joins the two foil flaps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Jerome ROBILLARD, Pierre DOUREL