LINE REPLACEABLE UNIT WITH INTEGRAL MONITORING AND DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE COMPRISING SUCH A UNIT

• US 20120197480A1
• Filed: 01/31/2012
• Published: 08/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Snecma (Safran SA)
• Original Assignee: Snecma (Safran SA)
• Inventors: BENINCA, Marc Tony, MASSE, Jean-Rémi André, MISSOUT, Marc
• Application Number:
  US13/362,809
• Publication Number:
  US 20120197480A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/29.9
• CPC Class Codes: B64F 5/60 Testing or inspecting aircraft components or systems

Abstract

A line replaceable unit for aircraft, the line replaceable unit including: a measuring device configured to measure useful data to define the status of the line replaceable unit, a predictive monitoring device configured to calculate indicators of potential breakdown of the line replaceable unit from useful data to define the status of the line replaceable unit, a communication interlace capable of forwarding indicators of potential breakdown to a central unit.

Claims

1. A line replaceable unit for aircraft, the line replaceable unit comprising a nominal operating mode and comprising:

a measuring device configured to measure useful data to define the status of the line replaceable unit,

a predictive monitoring device configured to calculate indicators of potential breakdown of the line replaceable unit from useful data to define the status of the line replaceable unit,

a communication interface configured to forward indicators of potential breakdown to a central unit,

a memory comprising at least one reference model which corresponds to the nominal operating mode, the predictive monitoring device being configured to calculate the indicators of potential breakdown by comparing the useful data to define the status of the line replaceable unit with the reference model.

2. The line replaceable unit according to claim 1, wherein the reference model is specific to the line replaceable unit.

3. The line replaceable unit according to claim 1, wherein the reference model is recorded during tests making it possible to define the nominal operation of the line replaceable unit.

4. The line replaceable unit according to claim 1, wherein the predictive monitoring device comprises a microprocessor.

5. The line replaceable unit according to claim 1, wherein the predictive monitoring device comprises an operating time measuring device for the unit.

6. The line replaceable unit according to claim 5, wherein the predictive monitoring device comprises at least one extraction algorithm for the indicators of potential breakdown from useful data to define the status of the line replaceable unit and from the operating time of the line replaceable unit.

7. A distributed architecture for aircraft comprising:

a central unit;

at least one line replaceable unit according to claim 1, and

a communication device between the central unit and the line replaceable unit.