Invention Application
- Patent Title: Aircraft Airframes having Integral Fuel Tanks
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Application No.: US17340837Application Date: 2021-06-07
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Publication No.: US20220388628A1Publication Date: 2022-12-08
- Inventor: Bradley P. Regnier , Zachary E. Dailey , Aaron Alexander Acee , Brian J. Cox
- Applicant: Textron Innovations Inc.
- Applicant Address: US RI Providence
- Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
- Current Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US RI Providence
- Main IPC: B64C3/34
- IPC: B64C3/34 ; B64C29/00 ; B64C3/18 ; B64D37/30 ; B64D37/04 ; B64C1/06 ; B64C1/18

Abstract:
An aircraft includes a fuselage airframe and a wing airframe that is subject to flight loads. The fuselage airframe includes fore/aft floor beams having a plurality of floor intercostals laterally extending therebetween and fore/aft roof beams with a plurality of roof intercostals laterally extending therebetween. Each of a plurality of cabin frames extends generally vertically between respective floor and roof beams. The wing airframe includes forward and aft wing spars with a plurality of wing ribs extending therebetween. At least one fuel tank, that is configured to contain a pressurized fuel such as pressurized hydrogen fuel, integrally forms at least a portion of one of the beams, the intercostals, the frames, the spars and/or the ribs such that the fuel tank is subject to the flight loads.
Public/Granted literature
- US11787554B2 Aircraft airframes having integral fuel tanks Public/Granted day:2023-10-17
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