Vehicle region with luggage compartment and ceiling panel above the luggage compartment, and method for assembling and disassembling a ceiling panel above a luggage compartment

US11975837B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED · DE

Inventors

• Alexander WENG · Hamburg, DE
• Felix Helfrich · Hamburg, DE
• Holger Warner · Hamburg, DE
• Benedikt Kircher · Hamburg, DE
• Johanna Roestel · Hamburg, DE
• Efe Kolcak · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 26, 2021
• Grant date: May 7, 2024
• Expiry date: Mar 26, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64C1/066
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle region with a roof section of a primary structure and with two luggage compartments. One of the luggage compartments comprises a detachable luggage compartment flap and a luggage compartment top, which forms the upper boundary of a part of a luggage space. A detachable fastening device can rotatably fasten the luggage compartment flap on the luggage compartment. A front edge of the luggage compartment top is at a distance from an end point in an intermediate space above a luggage compartment, to which end point a side of a ceiling panel is movable, the distance being greater than or equal to a width of the ceiling panel. Methods for installing and removing a ceiling panel above two luggage compartments are provided, wherein the ceiling panel is guided at least partially through a luggage space of a luggage compartment when the luggage compartment flap has been removed.