Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Aircraft-fuselage structure with contoured adapter arrangement for a door
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Application No.: US16750644Application Date: 2020-01-23
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Publication No.: US11623727B2Publication Date: 2023-04-11
- Inventor: Günter Pahl
- Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
- Applicant Address: DE Hamburg
- Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
- Current Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
- Current Assignee Address: DE Hamburg
- Agency: KDW Firm PLLC
- Priority: DE102019101783.1 20190124
- Main IPC: B64C1/14
- IPC: B64C1/14 ; B64C1/06 ; B64C1/12

Abstract:
An aircraft-fuselage structure with an external skin and reinforcement structure, supporting the external skin and includes transverse reinforcement elements and longitudinal reinforcement elements. A door opening is in the external skin, between two transverse reinforcement elements and between two longitudinal reinforcement elements, and a door arrangement is installed therein, the door arrangement having a door frame fastened in the door opening and a door panel fastened on the door frame. The door frame and/or the door panel have/has an outer surface directed towards the surroundings and having a curvature differing from curvature of the external skin adjacent to the door opening, and an adapter arrangement is on the outer surface of the door frame and/or of the door panel and, on a side directed towards the surroundings, has at least one surface element which steadily continues the curvature of the external skin adjacent to the door opening.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200283120A1 AIRCRAFT-FUSELAGE STRUCTURE Public/Granted day:2020-09-10
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