Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Heatable floor panel and floor heating system for an aircraft
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Application No.: US16359486Application Date: 2019-03-20
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Publication No.: US11808463B2Publication Date: 2023-11-07
- Inventor: Matthias Hegenbart , Peter Linde
- Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
- Applicant Address: DE Hamburg
- Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
- Current Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
- Current Assignee Address: DE Hamburg
- Agency: Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.
- Priority: DE 2018002917.5 2018.04.10
- Main IPC: F24D13/02
- IPC: F24D13/02 ; B64C1/18

Abstract:
A heatable floor panel for an aircraft, with a supporting level, a heat-generating level and a heat-conducting level. The heat-generating level comprises a fiber composite layer with fibers and with a matrix surrounding the fibers. The fibers are at least partially formed as conducting fiber, and the conducting fibers are formed as carbon fibers with an electrically insulating coating. The conducting fibers integrated in the floor panel in order to conduct a heating current through them. Due to the electrically insulating coating of the conducting fibers, leakage currents are avoided. The carbon fibers serve not only as heating elements, but, at the same time, also as reinforcing fibers of the fiber composite layer or of the floor panel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190309960A1 HEATABLE FLOOR PANEL AND FLOOR HEATING SYSTEM FOR AN AIRCRAFT Public/Granted day:2019-10-10
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