IP Library Granted Patent US 7,258,303
Granted Patent B2
US 7,258,303 · App. 10/978,368 · Granted Aug 21, 2007

Aircraft partition designed to separate a cargo part from a cockpit or from a passenger compartment

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Patent No.
US 7,258,303
App. No.
10/978,368
Granted
Aug 21, 2007
Kind
B2
Abstract

An aircraft includes a partition designed to separate a cargo part from a cockpit or a passenger compartment. The partition includes a corrugated structure, defining several corrugations with an approximately omega section extending along the direction of the height of the partition. The partition also includes one or several stiffener elements.

Claims (10)

1. An aircraft comprising at least one partition separating a cargo part from a cockpit or a passenger compartment of said aircraft, said partition comprising a corrugated structure defining several corrugations with an approximately omega section, wherein each corrugation extends approximately along the direction of the height of said partition and wherein at least one stiffener element is added onto said corrugated structure.

2. The aircraft according to claim 1 , wherein each stiffener element extends along the direction of the height of said partition.

3. The aircraft according to claim 1 , wherein each corrugation is made using several plane plates.

4. The aircraft according to claim 1 , wherein each stiffener element is in the form of a plane plate.

5. The aircraft according to claim 1 , wherein said corrugated structure comprises a first outside surface and a second outside surface opposite to said first outside surface, and wherein each of the first and second outside surfaces has an alternation of relief and recesses.

6. The aircraft according to claim 5 , wherein said partition further comprises at least one external wall bearing in contact with the relief of one of said outside surfaces of the corrugated structure.

7. The aircraft according to claim 6 , wherein each external wall is in the form of a plane plate.

8. The aircraft according to claim 6 , wherein the corrugated structure is arranged between two external walls laid out parallel to each other.

9. The aircraft according to claim 1 , wherein the partition is made from carbon fibres.

10. The aircraft according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one partition separating the cargo part from the cockpit or the passenger compartment is fixed to the fuselage of said aircraft only by an upper edge and a lower edge of said partition.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded May 18, 2011
From: AIRBUS FRANCE
To: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
Reel/Frame 026298/0269 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 2, 2004
From: BOUCHET, ERIC; MAHIEU, BENJAMIN; JUILLEN, LIONEL; VINCHES, FREDERIC
To: AIRBUS FRANCE
Reel/Frame 015951/0248 →