公开(公告)号：US12263935B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-01

申请号：US18520239

申请日：2023-11-27

Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH

Inventor： Bernd Schwing ,  Hermann Benthien

IPC: B64C1/18 ,  B64D11/06

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.

公开(公告)号：US12234856B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-25

申请号：US17535856

申请日：2021-11-26

Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH

Inventor： Hermann Benthien ,  Andreas Poppe

IPC: F16B31/00 ,  B64C7/00 ,  F16B5/02

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.

公开(公告)号：US12128605B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-29

申请号：US18330842

申请日：2023-06-07

Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH

Inventor： Matthias Hegenbart ,  Hermann Benthien

IPC: B64C1/06 ,  B29C63/00 ,  B29C63/42 ,  F16B7/04 ,  F16L3/12 ,  B64C1/00

CPC classification number: B29C63/42 ,  B29C63/0021 ,  B64C1/06 ,  F16B7/0426 ,  F16L3/12 ,  B64C2001/0072

Abstract: A reinforcing element for a structural profile, in particular for a round, oval or elliptical structural tube, includes a composite structure, which has a hollow-cylindrical, helically wound mesh of fiber strands which form an inner shell surface configured to receive the structural profile, wherein the fiber strands are respectively embedded in a matrix material, which has an electroactive polymer which can be stretched along a longitudinal extent of the fiber strands by application of an electrical voltage, such that the composite structure can be expanded by application of the electrical voltage to introduce the structural profile into the composite structure and can be shrunk by switching off the electrical voltage to fix the structural profile on the shell surface in the composite structure.

公开(公告)号：US12054291B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-06

申请号：US17454115

申请日：2021-11-09

Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH

Inventor： Mika Bots ,  Matthias Hegenbart ,  Hermann Benthien

IPC: B64F5/10 ,  B23P19/02 ,  B23P19/04 ,  B29C65/56 ,  B29C65/78 ,  B64C1/06 ,  B64C1/14

CPC classification number: B64F5/10 ,  B23P19/02 ,  B23P19/04 ,  B29C65/565 ,  B29C65/7823 ,  B64C1/069 ,  B23P2700/01 ,  B64C1/14

Abstract: A method of providing a deformable shim that comprises a main structure of an at least partly cellular region. The main structure is compressible by plastic deformation from an initial volume to a deformed volume, wherein the deformed volume is smaller than the initial volume. In a deformed state, the main structure maintains the deformed volume without further or continuing compression force. Further, the main structure is arrangeable between a first aircraft component and a second aircraft component to create a predefined distance between the first and the second aircraft component.

公开(公告)号：US11834183B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-05

申请号：US17212072

申请日：2021-03-25

Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH

Inventor： Stefan Benthien ,  Hermann Benthien

IPC: B64D11/00 ,  F16B5/12

CPC classification number: B64D11/003 ,  F16B5/12 ,  Y10T403/7111

Abstract: A fastening apparatus and fastening arrangement for fastening a cabin interior component, aircraft cabin and aircraft. To improve installation time and maintenance time, a modular fastening apparatus makes the decoupled rotational attachment of cabin interior components to the attachment structure possible, which attachment structure is in turn supported by the primary structure of the aircraft. The cabin interior component, for example a luggage bin, can be fastened simply by the fastening apparatus. The fastening apparatus includes an inner sleeve which can be plugged over a predefined fastening tube. The fastening apparatus can compensate for tolerances between the attachment structure and the cabin interior component and can prevent transmission of undesired forces and torques.

公开(公告)号：US20230167842A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-01

申请号：US18071242

申请日：2022-11-29

Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH

Inventor： Hermann Benthien ,  Andreas Poppe

IPC: F16B19/10 ,  F16B7/18

CPC classification number: F16B19/109 ,  F16B7/185

Abstract: A locking arrangement for connecting and interlocking rods at a node within a framework includes connection rods and a central node bearing to be engaged from different directions by each of the connection rods at respective mounting ports through plugging each connection rod onto a respective mounting port. The central node bearing is configured with at least one locking element at each mounting port to be actuated between a locked state, in which the at least one locking element resides in an outward position and the respective connection rod plugged onto the respective mounting port is clutched to the central node bearing by the at least one locking element, and an unlocked locked state, in which the at least one locking element resides in an inward position and the respective connection rod is released from the central node bearing.

公开(公告)号：US11548638B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-10

申请号：US16797589

申请日：2020-02-21

Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH

Inventor： Hermann Benthien ,  Andreas Poppe

IPC: B64D11/00 ,  B66B9/00

Abstract: A trolley lift for connecting a lower aircraft deck to an upper aircraft deck. The trolley lift comprises a platform configured to accommodate at least one trolley, wherein the platform delimits a lift compartment at the bottom, and a cover which delimits the lift compartment at the top. In particular, on a side facing away from the lift compartment, the cover at least partly forms a floor of the upper aircraft deck. Furthermore, an aircraft area having a trolley lift and an aircraft having a trolley lift and/or an aircraft area are described.

公开(公告)号：US11492821B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-08

申请号：US16440435

申请日：2019-06-13

Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH

Inventor： Uwe Papenroth ,  Hermann Benthien ,  Torsten Witt

IPC: E05B65/10 ,  B64C1/14 ,  B64C1/34

Abstract: An emergency exit system comprising a first primary structure frame, a second primary structure frame extending substantially parallel to the first primary structure frame, a door opening arranged between the first primary structure frame and the second primary structure frame, and a door shiftable substantially parallel to the first primary structure frame and the second primary structure frame between a closed position and an open position. In the closed position, the door closes the door opening. In the open position, the door opens up the door opening. At least one of the primary structure frames comprises a primary structure guide element for guiding the door when the door is shifted between the closed position and the open position.

公开(公告)号：US20220055771A1

公开(公告)日：2022-02-24

申请号：US17454115

申请日：2021-11-09

Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH

Inventor： Mika Bots ,  Matthias Hegenbart ,  Hermann Benthien

IPC: B64F5/10 ,  B64C1/06 ,  B23P19/02 ,  B23P19/04

Abstract: A method of providing a deformable shim that comprises a main structure of an at least partly cellular region. The main structure is compressible by plastic deformation from an initial volume to a deformed volume, wherein the deformed volume is smaller than the initial volume. In a deformed state, the main structure maintains the deformed volume without further or continuing compression force. Further, the main structure is arrangeable between a first aircraft component and a second aircraft component to create a predefined distance between the first and the second aircraft component.

公开(公告)号：US11198521B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-14

申请号：US15879642

申请日：2018-01-25

Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH

Inventor： Mika Bots ,  Matthias Hegenbart ,  Hermann Benthien

IPC: B64C1/14 ,  B64F5/10 ,  B64C1/06 ,  B23P19/02 ,  B23P19/04

Abstract: In order to improve and facilitate shimming between two parts, a deformable shim is provided that comprises a main structure of an at least partly cellular region. The main structure is compressible by plastic deformation from an initial volume to a deformed volume, wherein the deformed volume is smaller than the initial volume. In a deformed state, the main structure maintains the deformed volume without further or continuing compression force. Further, the main structure is arrangeable between a first aircraft component and a second aircraft component to create a predefined distance between the first and the second aircraft component.