Shell component for an aircraft fuselage and method of manufacturing the same

US6364250B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Daimler Chrysler Aerospace Airbus GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Peter Brinck · Stade, DE
• Wilfried Mueller · Karben, DE
• Klaus-Peter Sanmann · Hamburg, DE
• Joerg Spitzner · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 27, 1999
• Grant date: Apr 2, 2002
• Expiry date: Sep 27, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64C1/12
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A shell component for an aircraft fuselage includes a fuselage skin panel, a plurality of stringers extending in an aircraft lengthwise direction, and a plurality of frames extending crosswise relative to the stringers. The stringers and the frames are respectively welded onto the skin panel with the addition of a weld filler material. Each frame includes a frame root portion and a frame profile portion connected to each other. The frame root portion has cut-out notches receiving the stringers passing therethrough. The frame root portion is welded to the skin panel at the areas between the cut-out notches, and may be welded to the respective stringer in each cut-out notch. The stringers and frames are fabricated from webs and flanges, whereby a premanufactured grid of flanges may be used. The result is a very strong, yet simple shell component structure, that may be manufactured with a simple welding process, at a low cost and with low effort.