Aircraft tail region with a cooling system installed in aircraft tail region

US10316693B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED · DE

Inventors

• Ralf-Henning Stolte · Hamburg, DE
• Udo Krause · Hamburg, DE
• Bruno Stefes · Hamburg, DE
• Christian Mueller · Wiesbaden, DE
• Florian Elken · Hamburg, DE
• Uwe Wollrab · Soltau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 24, 2013
• Grant date: Jun 11, 2019
• Expiry date: Oct 8, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T90/40
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An aircraft tail region including a cooling system installed in the aircraft tail region. The cooling system comprises a cooler, which forms a section of an outer skin of the aircraft tail region, and includes coolant channels allowing a flow of ambient air therethrough, and extending from a first surface of the cooler to a second surface of the cooler. The cooling system also includes a fan system, which is adapted to convey ambient air through the coolant channels of the cooler at least in specified operating phases of the cooling system, and a first opening, which is formed in the outer skin of the aircraft tail region, and which allows, in conveying operation of the fan system, ambient air which is supplied through the coolant channels of the cooler into an interior of the aircraft tail region to be discharged back into the aircraft environment.