Shell arrangement for a fuselage of an aircraft and fuselage for an aircraft

US11685504B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Eilken · Hamburg, DE
• Wolfgang Schulze · Nuremberg, DE
• Christoph Schweim · Hamburg, DE
• Patrick Brusberg · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 22, 2020
• Grant date: Jun 27, 2023
• Expiry date: Jul 24, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64C2001/0045
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A shell arrangement for a fuselage of an aircraft includes a first shell portion extending in a curved manner in a shell peripheral direction and a second shell portion extending in a curved manner in the shell peripheral direction, wherein, in an overlapping portion of the shell arrangement, a first end region of the first shell portion and a second end region of the second shell portion overlap each other in the shell peripheral direction and a first outer face of the first shell portion and a second inner face of the second shell portion are adhesively bonded to each other by an adhesive layer, and wherein an edge of the first shell portion which terminates the first end region with respect to the shell peripheral direction extends in the overlapping portion in an undulating manner in a shell longitudinal direction which extends transversely relative to the shell peripheral direction.