Doors for an easy access to the pressurized housing of a flying wing, from the trailing edge

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10407151-B2
Application number	US-201715441510-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 24, 2017
Priority date	Feb 26, 2016
Publication date	Sep 10, 2019
Grant date	Sep 10, 2019

Abstract

An aircraft of flying wing or blended wing body type comprising, for access to a pressurized housing, a non-pressurized door in the trailing edge of the aircraft and a pressurized door on the pressurized housing. The distance between the center of the pressurized door and a plane of symmetry of the aircraft is less than or equal to the distance between the center of the non-pressurized door and the plane of symmetry, and the pressurized door is located on a wall other than a rear wall of the pressurized housing or upstream of a rear extremum point of the housing in the absence of any such rear wall.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An aircraft of flying wing or blended wing body type comprising:
for access to a pressurized housing of the aircraft, at least one pair of doors comprising a non-pressurized door in the trailing edge of the aircraft and a pressurized door on said pressurized housing,
a distance between a geometric center of the pressurized door and a plane of symmetry of the aircraft being less than or equal to a distance between a geometric center of the non-pressurized door and said plane of symmetry; and
the pressurized door being located either on a wall other than a rear wall of the pressurized housing, or upstream of a rear extremum point of said pressurized housing in an absence of any such rear wall.

2. The aircraft as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising at least two turbine engines disposed at the rear of the aircraft and wherein the non-pressurized door is in the trailing edge not within a region of the trailing edge delimited by the engines of said at least two engines that are the farthest apart.

3. The aircraft as claimed in claim 1 , wherein when the non-pressurized door is closed, its lateral edges each lie in a vertical plane inclined relative to the plane of symmetry of the aircraft.

4. The aircraft as claimed in claim 1 , wherein when the pressurized door is closed, the pressurized door lies in a plane parallel to the plane of symmetry of the aircraft.

5. The aircraft as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the non-pressurized door has an external surface with no discontinuity of slope relative to adjacent portions of the external surface of the rest of the aircraft.

6. The aircraft as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the non-pressurized door has a shape that is integrated into the aerodynamic profile of the aircraft.

7. The aircraft as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the non-pressurized door comprises an upper part and a lower part that are mounted to pivot toward the exterior of the aircraft, the upper part being mounted to pivot on a rotation element that extends along the upper edge of said door and the lower part being mounted to pivot on a rotation element that extends along the lower edge of said door.

8. The aircraft as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the non-pressurized door is equipped with folding stairs attached to the lower part of said door and wherein the stairs include folding steps to transform the stairs into a ramp and vice versa.

9. The aircraft as claimed in claim 7 , wherein lateral walls are attached to the upper part of the non-pressurized door, and are inside the aircraft when the non-pressurized door is closed, and outside the aircraft when the non-pressurized door is open.

Assignees

• Airbus Operations Sas

Inventors

• Cazals Olivier
• Genty De La Sagne Jaime

Classifications

• B64C1/143 Primary

  of the plug type · CPC title

• B64C1/1423 Primary

  Passenger doors · CPC title

• B64C1/24

  Steps mounted on, and retractable within, fuselages · CPC title

• B64C39/10

  All-wing aircraft · CPC title

• B64C2039/105

  of blended wing body type · CPC title