Vane having a regulating flap and a gap covering device and an adjusting mechanism for a gap covering device

US8584991B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED · DE

Inventors

• Bernhard Schlipf · Hamburg, DE
• Chris Payne · White, US
• Markus Gibbert · Hamburg, DE
• Tom Dostmann · Auma, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 10, 2009
• Grant date: Nov 19, 2013
• Expiry date: Jun 5, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64C13/28
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A wing, having an adjustable flap that can be moved between a retracted and an extended setting is provided, as well as a gap-covering device, with an adjustment lever and a gap-covering flap arranged on the latter with a flow surface. The adjustment lever with the gap-covering flap is pre-loaded by means of a pre-loading device into a first setting, in which the gap-covering flap is located in the interior of the wing. The adjustable flap and the adjustment lever with the gap-covering flap are mechanically coupled such that as the adjustable flap moves into its retracted setting, a movement of the adjustment lever takes place against the pre-load effected by the pre-loading device, into a second setting. The flow surface of the gap-covering flap in the second setting of the adjustment lever runs between the upper side of the retracted adjustable flap and the wing flow surface.