Aircraft structural assembly having an area element which comprises a core and an outer layer

US9327821B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED · DE

Inventors

• Pierre Zahlen · Stade, DE
• Ichwan Zuardy · Hamburg, DE
• Markus Mueller · Walldorf, DE
• Axel Herrmann · Lehrte, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 27, 2013
• Grant date: May 3, 2016
• Expiry date: Feb 27, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/24612
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An aircraft structural assembly includes an area element which has a core and an outer layer. A first surface of the area element is convexly curved, at least in certain sections, relative to an imaginary central area of the area element extending through the core of the area element. By contrast, a second surface of the area element located opposite the first surface is oriented, at least in certain sections, parallel to the imaginary central area of the area element extending through the core of the area element. The area element is configured in the form of a floor panel of a floor system. The first or the second surface of the area element is designed to form a walkable floor surface of the floor system in the state of the aircraft structural assembly when mounted in an aircraft.