Non conducting material

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10329024-B2
Application number	US-201615220417-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 27, 2016
Priority date	Jul 28, 2015
Publication date	Jun 25, 2019
Grant date	Jun 25, 2019

Abstract

A heater of a piece of aeronautic equipment is intended to be arranged at the skin of an aircraft. The equipment includes a part intended to be arranged at the skin of the aircraft and elements for heating the part. The heating element include a thermodynamic loop including a closed circuit in which a heat transfer fluid circulates, the closed circuit including an evaporator and a zone in which a condensation of the heat transfer fluid can occur in the appendage to heat it. Outside the evaporator, the circuit in which the fluid circulates is formed by a tubular channel with an empty section. At least part of the equipment is made from a material with a low heat conductivity.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A piece of aeronautic aircraft equipment, the equipment comprising:
at least one part arranged at a skin of the aircraft;
a heater that heats the part, said heater comprising a thermodynamic loop comprising a closed circuit in which a heat transfer fluid circulates; and
a single material having a heat conductivity gradient,
wherein:
the closed circuit comprises an evaporator and a zone in which condensation of the heat transfer fluid occurs in an appendage to heat the zone,
outside the evaporator, the circuit in which the fluid circulates is formed by a tubular channel with an empty section, wherein no porous material is present in the tubular channel, and
at least the part of the equipment is made from the single material, the single material with a heat conductivity at 50° C. below 100 W/m·K.

2. The aeronautic aircraft equipment according to claim 1 , wherein the channel is configured for the fluid to circulate therein by capillarity.

3. The aeronautic aircraft equipment according to claim 1 , further comprising a circulation pump for the heat transfer fluid.

4. The aeronautic aircraft equipment according to claim 1 , wherein the tubular channel forms a second single thermodynamic loop outside the evaporator.

5. The aeronautic aircraft equipment according to claim 1 , wherein the tubular channel forms a plurality of second thermodynamic loops in which the heat transfer fluid circulates in parallel outside the evaporator.

6. The aeronautic aircraft equipment according to claim 1 , wherein the part is flush with the skin of the aircraft.

7. The aeronautic aircraft equipment according to claim 1 , wherein the part is the appendage that protrudes relative to the skin of the aircraft.

8. The aeronautic aircraft equipment according to claim 7 , further comprising a base that fastens the piece of equipment on the skin of the aircraft, wherein the appendage is arranged on a first side of the base and the evaporator is arranged on a second side of the base, opposite the first side.

9. The aeronautic aircraft equipment according to claim 1 , wherein the single material has a heat conductivity at 50° C. below 60 W/m·K.

10. The aeronautic aircraft equipment according to claim 1 , further comprising at least two materials with different conductivities.

11. The aeronautic aircraft equipment according to claim 1 , further comprising an aerodynamic measuring probe.

12. A method for producing a piece of aeronautic aircraft equipment according to claim 1 , the method comprising:
producing a body of the equipment using an additive manufacturing method; and
producing the tubular channel with an empty section in the body of the equipment.

Assignees

• Thales Sa

Inventors

• Hodot Romain
• Sarno Claude
• Martin Frederic
• Pineau Jean-Philippe

Classifications

• B22F10/20

  Direct sintering or melting · CPC title

• B64D15/12 Primary

  by electric heating (heating arrangements specially adapted for transparent or reflecting areas H05B3/84) · CPC title

• B64D15/06 Primary

  Liquid application · CPC title

• B64D43/02

  for indicating aircraft speed or stalling conditions · CPC title

• B64F5/00

  Designing, manufacturing, assembling, cleaning, maintaining or repairing aircraft, not otherwise provided for; Handling, transporting, testing or inspecting aircraft components, not otherwise provided for · CPC title