Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Aircraft tailcone incorporating an APU annular air intake
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Application No.: US16117746Application Date: 2018-08-30
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Publication No.: US11014687B2Publication Date: 2021-05-25
- Inventor: Victor Barreiro Rodriguez , Pio Fernandez-Lopez , Marcos Javier Chiabrando
- Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SL
- Applicant Address: ES Getafe
- Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SL
- Current Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SL
- Current Assignee Address: ES Getafe
- Agency: Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.
- Priority: EP17382726 20171030
- Main IPC: B64D41/00
- IPC: B64D41/00 ; B64C1/16 ; B64D33/02

Abstract:
An aircraft tailcone comprising a tailcone fuselage, a turbomachine, for example an APU, housed inside the tailcone, a ram air intake on the tailcone fuselage for the ingestion of ram air towards the interior of the turbomachine compartment, an inlet flap operable reciprocately from an open position in which ingestion of ram air is allowed, and a closed position in which ram air ingestion is prevented. The ram air intake extends annularly along a perimeter of the tailcone fuselage, and the inlet flap is configured such in its closed position that a surface of the inlet flap is substantially flush with the tailcone fuselage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190127077A1 AIRCRAFT TAILCONE INCORPORATING AN APU ANNULAR AIR INTAKE Public/Granted day:2019-05-02
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