Patents by Inventor Thomas KOEBEL

Thomas KOEBEL 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: 9940085
    Abstract: A display method comprises a step during which an aircraft flight management computer sends display instructions to a display management system, to control the display of an aircraft flight plan window. The display method also comprises steps comprising acquiring a reference point and a vertical flight profile of the aircraft comprising the reference point, and computing, using the vertical flight profile, an altitude of the reference point. It also comprises steps comprising acquiring an information item relating to a flight phase associated with the reference point, acquiring an information item relating to a selected display range, determining a vertical centering coefficient of a display window relating to the vertical flight profile, as a function of the flight phase and transmitting, to the display management system, instructions for displaying the display window as a function of the altitude of the reference point and of the centering coefficient of the display window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Nicolas Albert, Thomas Pastre, Thomas Koebel
  • Patent number: 9569974
    Abstract: A method and assembly for guidance of an aircraft during a low-altitude flight. The guidance assembly comprises a memory forming part of a flight management system, which is configured to store an active flight trajectory and any new flight trajectory, generated by the flight management system, and a memory forming part of a guidance system, which is configured to also store the flight trajectory and any new flight trajectory, which are received from the flight management system, the guidance assembly being configured to periodically transmit from the guidance system to the flight management system identification codes for the flight trajectories recorded in the memory of the guidance system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Nicolas Albert, Thomas Koebel, Boris Kozlow, Remy Laugero
  • Publication number: 20160357488
    Abstract: A display method comprises a step during which an aircraft flight management computer sends display instructions to a display management system, to control the display of an aircraft flight plan window. The display method also comprises steps comprising acquiring a reference point and a vertical flight profile of the aircraft comprising the reference point, and computing, using the vertical flight profile, an altitude of the reference point. It also comprises steps comprising acquiring an information item relating to a flight phase associated with the reference point, acquiring an information item relating to a selected display range, determining a vertical centering coefficient of a display window relating to the vertical flight profile, as a function of the flight phase and transmitting, to the display management system, instructions for displaying the display window as a function of the altitude of the reference point and of the centering coefficient of the display window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Nicolas Albert, Thomas Pastre, Thomas Koebel
  • Patent number: 9286806
    Abstract: A device for revising a low-altitude flight phase of a flight path of an aircraft includes an input unit configured to allow an operator to input parameters to define an intermediate flight section (Si) which has to be inserted into a low-altitude flight phase, and a processing unit configured to calculate a profile relating to the intermediate flight section (Si) using input parameters, and to automatically insert this profile into the flight phase between a first upstream part (P1) and a second downstream part (P2) so as to establish a revised flight phase (PR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Thomas Koebel, Nicolas Albert
  • Publication number: 20150310746
    Abstract: A method and assembly for guidance of an aircraft during a low-altitude flight. The guidance assembly comprises a memory forming part of a flight management system, which is configured to store an active flight trajectory and any new flight trajectory, generated by the flight management system, and a memory forming part of a guidance system, which is configured to also store the flight trajectory and any new flight trajectory, which are received from the flight management system, the guidance assembly being configured to periodically transmit from the guidance system to the flight management system identification codes for the flight trajectories recorded in the memory of the guidance system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Nicolas ALBERT, Thomas KOEBEL, Boris KOZLOW, Remy LAUGERO
  • Patent number: 9096329
    Abstract: A method and device for displaying the performance of an aircraft when climbing and/or descending. The device includes devices for data capture, calculation and generating images for a display screen. The calculation device is configured to calculate a maximum slope that the aircraft can adopt depending on current data received from a data capture device. A display device presents images of the maximum slope superimposed with altitudes of a projected flight plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Thomas Koebel, Boris Kozlow, Maxime Wachenheim
  • Publication number: 20150112583
    Abstract: A device for revising a low-altitude flight phase of a flight path of an aircraft includes an input unit configured to allow an operator to input parameters to define an intermediate flight section (Si) which has to be inserted into a low-altitude flight phase, and a processing unit configured to calculate a profile relating to the intermediate flight section (Si) using input parameters, and to automatically insert this profile into the flight phase between a first upstream part (P1) and a second downstream part (P2) so as to establish a revised flight phase (PR).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Thomas Koebel, Nicolas Albert
  • Publication number: 20140343763
    Abstract: The display device (1) comprises data capture means (2), calculation means (3) and a display screen (4), said calculation means (3) being configured to calculate at least one maximum slope that the aircraft can adopt depending on the data received from the data capture means (2), said device (1) also being configured to display said calculated maximum slope on at least a portion (5) of the display screen (4), which is configured to display a vertical flight plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (SAS)
    Inventors: Thomas KOEBEL, Boris KOZLOW, Maxime WACHENHEIM