Aircraft fuselage structure

US9487285B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED · DE

Inventors

• Robert Alexander Goehlich · Hamburg, DE
• Alexander Gahn · Hamburg, DE
• Kai Fink · Hamburg, DE
• Alexei Vichniakov · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 26, 2014
• Grant date: Nov 8, 2016
• Expiry date: May 24, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64C1/18
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Provided is an aircraft fuselage structure having an outer skin, a support structure arrangement comprising a multiplicity of frame elements and a floor structure arrangement having a multiplicity of floor support struts. The aircraft fuselage structure provides a connection between the floor structure arrangement and the support structure arrangement which is as simple and quick to produce as possible, while not significantly increasing the weight or weakening the structure. Either the floor structure arrangement or the support structure arrangement can have at a connection there between a male connector element or a female connector element. The male connector element can have a peg which extends in the engagement direction and which has a circumferential outer surface which is provided with a multiplicity of circumferential projections. The female connector element can have a cavity, the inner surface of which is provided with a multiplicity of circumferential tabs.