Closed loop control system for controlling an air discharge out of an aircraft body

US5934614A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler Chrysler Aerospace Airbus GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Mueller · Lustenau, AT
• Bernd Klein · Gerolzhofen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 11, 1997
• Grant date: Aug 10, 1999
• Expiry date: Jul 11, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T50/40
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The flow volume of used air to be discharged from an aircraft cabin is controlled in a valve control system in which each outflow valve has at least two slave controllers responsive to any one of at least two master controllers in a closed loop control system. For this purpose the slave controllers and the master controllers are interconnected by an intermeshed conductor network including a plurality of conductor sections interconnected by electrical conductor junctions or optical conductor couplers forming interfaces between the conductor sections to provide a redundant number of communication paths to keep the system operable even if failures or faults occur.