Flight recorder, aircraft with flight recorder and method for reading out flight data from a flight recorder

US9193478B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED · DE

Inventors

• Maurice Girod · Hamburg, DE
• Uwe Bartels · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 19, 2014
• Grant date: Nov 24, 2015
• Expiry date: Mar 19, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64D2045/0065
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a flight recorder, having a memory, a control device, which is coupled to the memory and which is configured to record flight data during the flight of an aircraft and to store said flight data in the memory, a transceiver device, which is coupled to the control device and which is configured to accept stored flight data signals from the control device and to convert them into acoustic signals, and an acoustic transducer, which is coupled to the transceiver device and which is configured to emit the acoustic signals of the transceiver device into a body of water, the control device being configured to receive control signals via the transceiver device and, depending on the control signals, to retrieve partial data areas of the stored flight data from the memory and to transfer them to the transceiver device.