Air guide element and air guide element arrangement for an aircraft air conditioning system

US9011217B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED · DE

Inventors

• Thorsten Raible · Hamburg, DE
• Ingo Gores · Hamburg, DE
• Andreas Edom · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 22, 2009
• Grant date: Apr 21, 2015
• Expiry date: Jun 16, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64D2013/0625
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An air guide element (10) for an aircraft air conditioning system comprises a housing (12), which has an air inlet opening (14) and an air outlet opening (16). The air inlet opening (14) and the air outlet opening (16) are disposed in such a way and the housing (12) is shaped in such a way that air that is fed to the air guide element (10) through the air inlet opening (14), as it flows through the air guide element (10), is deflected at an angle of ca. 45° to 135° relative to the direction of the air flow through the air inlet opening (14). A cross-sectional area of flow of the housing (12) that is disposed at right angles to the direction of the air flow through the air outlet opening (16) is subdivided into at least two regions (18a, 18b, 18c). In each of said regions (18a, 18b, 18c) an easily accessible, removable and exchangeable calibrating element (20a, 20b, 20c) is disposed, which is designed to generate, in the air flow passing through a region (18a, 18b, 18c) that is associated with a respective calibrating element (20a, 20b, 20c), a pressure loss that is constant over said region (18a, 1b, 18c).