Connector device for securing structural components to each other

US5230485A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Deutsche Aerospace Airbus GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Guenter Vogg · Bremen, DE
• Juergen Wieck · Ilsenburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 24, 1992
• Grant date: Jul 27, 1993
• Expiry date: Jan 24, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64D9/00
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A connector device is constructed for fixing and holding of structural components to each other, more specifically of secondary components to a primary support component. The primary support component may, for example, be a support rail with a clamping gap and the secondary components may be cross beams for carrying floor panels and the like, for example, in an aircraft. The connector device has a base plate and a carrier body extending from the base plate as well as connector flanges secured to the carrier body and preferably also to the base plate. A central bore passing through the carrier body and through the base plate receives a clamping bolt that grips with its head under rail edges forming a gap. A nut on the clamping bolt rests against a shoulder in or on the carrier body.