ARRANGEMENT FOR DOCUMENTING THE STATUS OF REMOVABLE PARTS ON BOARD AN AIRCRAFT

• US 20100033308A1
• Filed: 11/30/2007
• Published: 02/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lufthansa Technik AG (Deutsche Lufthansa AG)
• Original Assignee: Lufthansa Technik AG (Deutsche Lufthansa AG)
• Inventors: Muirhead, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US12/517,007
• Publication Number:
  US 20100033308A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.100
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/18506 Communications with or from aircraft, i.e. aeronautical mobile service

Abstract

A system for documenting the status of removable parts on board an aircraft, in which at least some of the removable parts are provided with a passive storage to which and from which data can be read in a contactless manner, includes at least one reading device for contactlessly reading data from the passive storage means is provided on board the aircraft, at least one central memory on board the aircraft for storing or archiving the data which have been read from the passive storage by the at least one reading device which is connected to means for acquiring operating or flight data of the aircraft and a transmitting device on board the aircraft for transmitting the data from the central memory to a memory located outside the aircraft.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A system for documenting the status of removable parts on board an aircraft, in which at least some of the removable parts comprise a passive storage to which and from which data can be read in a contactless manner, the system comprising:

a) at least one reading device contactlessly reading data from the passive storage is provided on board the aircraft,

b) at least one central memory provided on board the aircraft for storing or archiving the data which have been read from the passive storage by the at least one reading device, the central memory of the aircraft being connected to means for acquiring operating or flight data of the aircraft, and

c) a transmitting device on board the aircraft for transmitting the data from the central memory to a memory located outside the aircraft.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the passive storage comprises RFID tags.

13. The system of claim 11 or 12, wherein the reading device on board the aircraft is configured for automatically reading out the passive storage in defined operating states of the aircraft.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the defined operating states comprise an after-landing roll.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the operating or flight data comprise flying hours.

16. The system of claim 11 or 12, wherein the central memory of the aircraft or a memory arranged outside the aircraft is configured to generate a database in which operating or flight data relevant to operation of the aircraft are stored for each removable part provided with the passive storage.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the central memory of the aircraft or the memory arranged outside the aircraft is configured to store component maintenance manuals of the removable parts, data on a prehistory of each removable part or links to the manuals or data on the prehistory.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the central memory of the aircraft or the memory arranged outside the aircraft is connected to a data processing device for automatically generating maintenance orders on the basis of the stored data.

19. The system of claim 11 or 12, wherein the central memory of the aircraft is constructed as database server.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the database server is constructed as web server.