Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
244137200 | Passenger | 19 |
20090020648 | Latching device for an escape chute in an aircraft - The invention relates to a latching device | 01-22-2009 |
20090057491 | TRANSITION BOARD APPARATUS FOR A PASSENGER BRIDGE AND A SPRING LEAF THEREOF - The invention provides a transition board apparatus for a passenger bridge and a spring leaf thereof. A transition board apparatus includes a transition board and a spring leaf, wherein the transition board comprises a hinged end, a free end and the transition portion between them. The hinged end hinges on the end of the first tunnel bottom plate. The spring leaf is provided with the holding portion, which is secured on the sidewall of the first tunnel, and the bearing portion, which is used to raise the transition board up. Thus, there is a clearance between the free end and the bottom plate ornament laid on the second tunnel bottom plate. Therefore, when the second tunnel is moving back and forth relative to the first tunnel, the friction between the transition board and the bottom ornament can be avoided in order to protect the bottom plate ornament. | 03-05-2009 |
20100243814 | Emergency Evacuation System, in Particular for a Tailless Aeroplane - A device for selective emergency evacuation of persons from a first level to a second level situated above the first level, or to a third level situated below the first level. For evacuation to the second level a stair arrangement is provided. One end of the device is connected to the first level while the other end is displaceable between the second level and the third level or vice versa. For evacuation to the third level, the device is changeable to a slide. The device may provide for emergency evacuation of persons from a first level deck, or passenger deck of a blended wing-body aircraft, selectively to the top, second level of the aircraft, or to the bottom third level of the aircraft. | 09-30-2010 |
20100258677 | Evacuation slide systems - Evacuation slide systems having extendable portions are detailed. The extendable portions of slides may be inflated separately from the main portions and actuated manually if desired. Consequently, attitude changes of, for example, an aircraft subsequent to inflation of the main portion of a slide would not necessarily defeat its use, as inflation of the extendable portion could still occur. | 10-14-2010 |
20100327118 | Aircraft walkway - An aircraft | 12-30-2010 |
20110139934 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREVENTION OF INADVERTENT ESCAPE SLIDE DEPLOYMENT FOR AN AIRCRAFT - The invention relates to a system and a method for preventing inadvertent slide deployment for an aircraft, comprising at least one sensor for sensing the proximity of a person in front of an aircraft door, and at least one optical warning means operable to provide an optical indication in the vicinity of a slide arming lever when the sensor detects the proximity of a person in front of the aircraft door. The system according to the invention provides an effective prevention for inadvertent slide deployment that is capable to guide trained and untrained persons to the information they need in order to disarm the slide in sufficient time before the door handle is gripped and pulled to open the aircraft door in normal operation conditions. | 06-16-2011 |
20110309198 | COUPLING MODULE AS INTERFACE BETWEEN AN AIR PASSENGER BRIDGE AND AN AIRCRAFT - The subject of the invention is a coupling module as interface between the cabin of an air passenger bridge and an aircraft, wherein the coupling module has a canopy roof and a floor spanned over by the canopy roof, wherein the coupling module is held by the cabin of the air passenger bridge to be pivotable about the centre axis. | 12-22-2011 |
20120018582 | Device and Method for Boarding an Aircraft | 01-26-2012 |
20120145831 | FLOOR OF A DOME MODULE AS AN INTERFACE BETWEEN AN AIR PASSENGER BRIDGE OR AIR PASSENGER STAIRS AND AN AIRPLANE - The subject matter of the invention is a floor of a dome module as an interface between an air passenger bridge or air passenger stairs and the airplane, wherein the floor comprises a stationary floor section and a floor head part, wherein the floor head part exhibits several floor segments, which are connected to one another by a buffer cross-beam that is flexible over at least a portion of its length, wherein several floor segments are horizontally displaceable relative to one another. | 06-14-2012 |
20120211606 | Automated terminal to aircraft conveyance system - One embodiment of an automated system for carrying passengers between airport terminal or concourse facilities and parked aircraft is shown. The embodiment comprises PRT guideways ( | 08-23-2012 |
20130068890 | Dual Boarding System for Aircraft - A method and apparatus for boarding an aircraft. Passengers may be lined up in a first line and a second line relative to a doorway for the aircraft. A flow of the passengers in the first line and the second line may be controlled through a corridor connecting the doorway to a first aisle and a second aisle in an interior of the aircraft. The flow of the passengers may pass through a number of spaces in the corridor. The number of spaces may be reserved for a number of crew members during an emergency operation in which the passengers exit the aircraft. | 03-21-2013 |
20130119203 | AIRCRAFT CABIN ENABLING PASSENGERS TO BE RECEIVED ON SEVERAL LEVELS AND CORRESPONDING AIRCRAFT - An aircraft according to the invention enables passengers to be received and comprises a first deck for receiving passengers, a second deck for receiving passengers, which is placed over the first deck, as well as at least one access door. The first deck has at least one first zone having a substantially planar floor and situated on the same level as the access door and at least one second zone having a floor offset in height relative to the first zone. The cabin further comprises at least one rectilinear ramp linking the first zone of the first deck to the second zone of the first deck, and at least one rectilinear ramp linking the first zone of the first deck to the second deck. | 05-16-2013 |
20130161450 | BOARDING AID - A computing unit allocates boarding paths, available for boarding a transport unit, in particular an aircraft, to passengers of the transport unit. An associated method allocates boarding paths, available for boarding the transport unit to passengers of the transport unit. A computer program carries out the method, and a directing system directs passengers of the transport unit along boarding paths available for boarding the transport unit. The computing unit is configured to form two or more changeable seat groups from a plurality of seats provided in the transport unit and to allocate the boarding paths, available for boarding the transport unit, to the two or more seat groups formed. | 06-27-2013 |
20130200217 | RESTRAINTS PRINCIPALLY FOR INFLATABLE EVACUATION SYSTEMS - Detailed are restraints intended principally (but not necessarily exclusively) for inflatable evacuation slides or rafts. At least one such restraint may be designed to release based on geometric shape of an object (such as a slide) rather than merely as a function of its inflation pressure or length. One version of this type of restraint includes a connector pin attached to a cord, with tensioning of the cord eventually retracting the pin to effect release of the restraint. | 08-08-2013 |
20150008286 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF AIRCRAFT GATE SERVICES AND TURNAROUND - A system and method is provided for improving efficiency of aircraft gate services and reducing time spent by an aircraft parked parallel to an airport terminal wherein aircraft utilities and gate services provided during turnaround are supported by an arrangement of flexibly movable, service and utility-carrying extendable passenger boarding bridges that enable passenger and baggage exchange concurrently with connection of utilities and provision of gate services to the aircraft. Aircraft are maneuvered by a pilot into and out of a parallel parking location in a forward direction by an engines-off electric taxi system that does not rely on the use of aircraft main engines to drive the aircraft, enabling loading bridge, utility, and service connections to be made to multiple aircraft doors as soon as the aircraft arrives at a parking space and then quickly disconnected upon departure. | 01-08-2015 |
20150034769 | MECHANISM AND METHOD FOR ARMING/DISARMING THE ACTUATION OF AN EMERGENCY SLIDE - A mechanism for arming and disarming an actuation of an emergency slide retained on a door of an aircraft and selectively configurable between an armed configuration and a disarmed configuration. The mechanism includes at least one transport hook extending radially from the rotating shaft and rotatable therewith about the longitudinal axis of the shaft. The transport hook has interconnected top and bottom portions defining a carrying slot therebetween. In the disarmed configuration, the transport hook receives the girt bar in the carrying slot, such that the transport hook carries the girt bar upon opening of the door. In the armed configuration, the transport hook is pivoted away from the girt bar and oriented such as to move over the girt bar without contact therewith upon opening of the door. | 02-05-2015 |
20150097083 | EVACUATION SLIDE READINESS INDICATING SYSTEMS - Evacuation systems including slide readiness indicators are detailed. The indicators may include lights colored, preferably, red and green and powered using either pre-existing or dedicated electricity sources. Associated switching equipment defaults to illumination of a red light until a slide is satisfactorily inflated and deployed, at which time the red light is extinguished and a green light is illuminated to provide affirmative indication that evacuation via the slide may commence. | 04-09-2015 |
20160376006 | ROPE DEPLOYMENT MECHANISM FOR AN AIRCRAFT - A rope deployment mechanism for use on an aircraft is provided. The present invention includes a mounting bracket attachable to the aircraft. An arm assembly is pivotally connected to the mounting bracket about a vertical axis. A rope connector is disposed at an end of the arm assembly. The present invention further includes a dual link, compass style mechanism connecting the arm assembly to the support bracket and a locking mechanism operable to lock the rope deployment mechanism in a retracted position and a deployed position. Using the invention, the arm assembly may be pivoted to a deployed position, locked in the deployed position, and a rope may be attached to the rope connector all using one hand. | 12-29-2016 |
20170233075 | ROPE DEPLOYMENT MECHANISM AND METHOD | 08-17-2017 |