Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Airframe and method of manufacturing an airframe
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Application No.: US17793745Application Date: 2021-01-08
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Publication No.: US12054238B2Publication Date: 2024-08-06
- Inventor: Gregory Warren Thompson
- Applicant: BAE Systems plc
- Applicant Address: GB London
- Assignee: BAE Systems plc
- Current Assignee: BAE Systems plc
- Current Assignee Address: GB London
- Agency: Maine Cernota & Curran
- Priority: EP 275013 2020.01.23 GB 00980 2020.01.23
- International Application: PCT/GB2021/050052 2021.01.08
- International Announcement: WO2021/148774A 2021.07.29
- Date entered country: 2022-07-19
- Main IPC: B64C1/14
- IPC: B64C1/14 ; B29C70/54 ; B32B37/18 ; B32B38/00 ; B32B38/10 ; B32B38/18 ; B64C1/06 ; B64C39/00 ; B64F5/10 ; B64U20/70 ; B32B37/26 ; B32B38/04 ; B64C1/00

Abstract:
An airframe or a part thereof 3, for example a skin assembly or a profile such as a structural profile, comprises: a wall W having an aperture A therethrough, wherein the wall W provides a frame F surrounding, at least in part, the aperture A; a panel P conforming with the aperture A; and wherein the airframe or the part 3 thereof is configurable in: a first configuration, wherein the panel P and the frame F are mutually spaced apart; and a second configuration, wherein the panel P is received in the frame F and wherein the frame F resists movement of the panel P in two or three mutually orthogonal directions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230053640A1 AIRFRAME AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN AIRFRAME Public/Granted day:2023-02-23
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