Aircraft water tank

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11427399-B2
Application number	US-201816762486-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 29, 2018
Priority date	Nov 7, 2017
Publication date	Aug 30, 2022
Grant date	Aug 30, 2022

Abstract

An aircraft water tank is provided. With an aircraft water tank being suspended by a fuselage via bushes, a load applied to each of the bushes is transferred from the bush and an attachment hole to a metal plate. The load transferred to metal plate is transferred to a total of four prepreg projection portions at a section of a thick wall portion of the metal plate and transferred to a total of eight prepreg projection portions at a section of a thin wall portion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An aircraft water tank comprising a tank installation attachment portion provided on a cylindrical body portion of a tank body,
the tank installation attachment portion comprising:
a base portion that includes a plurality of prepregs being band-like and layered on an outer circumferential surface of the body portion in a radial direction of the body portion, and that extends in a circumferential direction of the outer circumferential surface;
a flange that is formed by folding, from the base portion and outward of the body portion in the radial direction, the plurality of prepregs layered and that extends along an extension direction of the base portion; and
an attachment plate portion provided on at least one section in an extension direction of the flange,
the attachment plate portion including an attachment plate portion prepreg that includes the plurality of prepregs projecting outward from the flange in the radial direction of the body portion while extending along the extension direction of the base portion, a metal plate housed in a housing space inside the attachment plate portion prepreg, and an attachment hole formed to extend through the attachment plate portion prepreg and the metal plate in a direction parallel to an axial direction of the body portion,
the metal plate having a length along a circumferential direction of the body portion and a thickness along the direction parallel to the axial direction of the body portion,
the attachment hole being formed in an intermediate portion of the metal plate in a longitudinal direction,
a thickness of the intermediate portion of the metal plate in the longitudinal direction having a dimension larger than a dimension of a thickness of each of both side portions of the metal plate in the longitudinal direction, and
a number of prepregs located on both side portions of the metal plate in the longitudinal direction and outward of both surfaces of the metal plate in a thickness direction being larger than a number of prepregs located in the intermediate portion of the metal plate in the longitudinal direction and outward of both surfaces of the metal plate in the thickness direction.

2. The aircraft water tank according to claim 1 , wherein
the metal plate includes a thick wall portion forming an intermediate portion of the metal plate in the longitudinal direction, and a thin wall portion forming both side portions of the metal plate in the longitudinal direction and having a smaller thickness than a thickness of the thick wall portion.

3. The aircraft water tank according to claim 2 , wherein
the thin wall portion projects from a center of the thick wall portion in the thickness direction along the extension direction of the base portion.

4. The aircraft water tank according to claim 2 , wherein
one surface of both surfaces of the thick wall portion in the thickness direction and one surface of both surfaces of the thin wall portion in the thickness direction are located flush with each other.

5. The aircraft water tank according to claim 2 , wherein
the metal plate includes two division metal plates that are located opposite to each other and at a distance from each other in the direction parallel to the axial direction of the body portion, and that extend in the circumferential direction of the body portion, and
each of the division metal plates includes a thick wall portion forming an intermediate portion of the division metal plate in the longitudinal direction, and a thin wall portion forming both side portions of the division metal plate in the longitudinal direction and having a smaller thickness than the thick wall portion.

6. The aircraft water tank according to claim 2 , wherein
the thickness of each of the thick wall portion and the thin wall portion is an integral multiple of a thickness of each of the prepregs.

7. The aircraft water tank according to claim 2 , wherein
the number of prepregs located on both sides of the thick wall portion is equal, and
the number of prepregs located on both sides of the thin wall portion is equal.

8. The aircraft water tank according to claim 1 , wherein
the metal plate has a height projecting outward of the body portion in the radial direction,
a height of a section of the metal plate provided with the attachment hole is formed as a top portion that is higher than any other section of the metal plate, and
the metal plate on both sides of the top portion in the longitudinal direction of the metal plate is formed with an inclined portion that gradually decreases in height away from the top portion.

9. The aircraft water tank according to claim 1 , wherein
metal plate includes a thick wall portion forming an intermediate portion of the metal plate in the longitudinal direction, and a thin wall portion forming both side portions of the metal plate in the longitudinal direction and having a thickness gradually decreasing away from the thick wall portion along the longitudinal direction of the metal plate.

10. The aircraft water tank according to claim 1 , wherein
the base portion has a width in the direction parallel to the axial direction of the body portion, and
the attachment plate portion prepreg includes prepreg projection portions located on both surfaces of the metal plate in the thickness direction, and a prepreg upper portion connecting, on the metal plate, upper portions of prepreg projections located away from the metal plate and included in the prepreg projection portions located on both surfaces.

11. The aircraft water tank according to claim 1 , wherein
the plurality of prepregs have an identical thickness.

12. The aircraft water tank according to claim 1 , wherein
a bush having a length of a dimension identical to a dimension of a thickness of the attachment plate portion is inserted into the attachment hole and fixed.

Assignees

• Yokohama Rubber Co Ltd

Inventors

• Taguchi Yuji
• Hagiwara Hiroshi

Classifications

• B64D11/04

  Galleys · CPC title

• B65D90/12

  Supports · CPC title

• B64D11/0007

  Devices specially adapted for food or beverage distribution services · CPC title

• B29C70/70 Primary

  Completely encapsulating inserts {(B29C70/86 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• B29L2031/3076

  Aircrafts (blades, propellers B29L2031/08) · CPC title