SEALING SYSTEM WITH A POSITIONING DEVICE

• US 20130169130A1
• Filed: 02/25/2013
• Published: 07/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH (Airbus SE)
• Original Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH (Airbus SE)
• Inventors: SEECK, Joerg, BRUNSWIG, Hans
• Application Number:
  US13/775,456
• Publication Number:
  US 20130169130A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 312/236
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 11/0007 Devices specially adapted for food or beverage distribution services
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 11/04 Galleys
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 15/581 the swinging axis laying in the sliding direction E05D15/1015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 1/10 for swinging wings , e.g. counterbalance
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2800/12 Sealing
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/502 for aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/538 Interior lids
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/602 for containers
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 7/16 Sealing arrangements on wings or parts co-operating with the wings specially adapted for fireproof or similar closures E06B5/164; E06B7/098 takes precedence ; fixed sealing joints E04B1/68; devices for fitting sealing strips E04F21/00
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 23/087 Sealing strips
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2400/20 Carts specially adapted for transporting objects to be cooled

Abstract

A sealing system for an aircraft device to be sealed off from the environment includes a door, which, when connected to the housing, is movable between an open position, in which the door clears a door aperture in the housing, and a closed position, in which the door closes the door aperture. The sealing system includes a sealing element, on which a sealing surface is formed, wherein the sealing surface is adapted to interact sealingly with a contact surface when the door is situated in its closed position. A positioning device is provided, which is adapted to move the door substantially at right angles to the sealing surface or to the contact surface between a first position, in which the sealing surface is not movable into sealing contact with the contact surface, and a second position, in which the sealing surface is movable into sealing contact with the contact surface.

Claims

1. Sealing system for use in an aircraft device that is to be sealed off from the environment, comprising:

a door element, which is connectable to a housing of the aircraft device and in the state of connection to the housing of the aircraft device is movable between an open position, in which the door element clears a door aperture formed in the housing of the aircraft device, and a closed position, in which the door element closes the door aperture formed in the housing of the aircraft device,

a sealing element, on which a sealing surface is formed, wherein the sealing surface of the sealing element is adapted to interact sealingly with a contact surface when the door element is situated in its closed position, and

a positioning device, which is adapted to move the door element substantially at right angles to the sealing surface of the sealing element or to the contact surface between a first position, in which the sealing surface of the sealing element is not movable into sealing contact with the contact surface, and a second position, in which the sealing surface of the sealing element is movable into sealing contact with the contact surface.

2. Sealing system according to claim 1,

wherein the positioning device is adapted to move the door element, during a movement of the door element between its open position and its closed position, substantially at right angles to the sealing surface of the sealing element or to the contact surface.

3. Sealing system according to claim 1,

wherein the positioning device is a spring element, which is adapted to exert on the door element a spring force, by means of which the door element is moved away from the sealing surface of the sealing element or from the contact surface.

4. Sealing system according to claim 1,

wherein the positioning device comprises an activating device, which is adapted to exert on the door element a force, by means of which the door element is moved towards the sealing surface of the sealing element or towards the contact surface.

5. Sealing system according to claim 4,

wherein the activating device comprises a wedge element, which is fastened to an outer peripheral surface of the door element and adapted to interact with an inner peripheral surface of the door aperture that lies opposite the outer peripheral surface of the door element when the door element is situated in its closed position.

6. Sealing system according to claim 5,

wherein a wedge surface of the wedge element fastened to the outer peripheral surface of the door element that is provided for interacting with the inner peripheral surface of the door aperture is inclined in such a way that in an outer region of the outer peripheral surface of the door element the wedge surface is at a greater distance from the outer peripheral surface of the door element than in an inner region of the outer peripheral surface of the door element.

7. Sealing system according to claim 4,

wherein the activating device comprises a wedge element, which is fastened to an inner peripheral surface of the door aperture and adapted to interact with an outer peripheral surface of the door element that lies opposite the inner peripheral surface of the door aperture when the door element is situated in its closed position.

8. Sealing system according to claim 7,

wherein a wedge surface of the wedge element fastened to the inner peripheral surface of the door aperture that is provided for interacting with the outer peripheral surface of the door element is inclined in such a way that in an outer region of the inner peripheral surface of the door aperture the wedge surface is at a smaller distance from the inner peripheral surface of the door aperture than in an inner region of the inner peripheral surface of the door aperture.

9. Sealing system according to claim 1,

wherein the sealing element is configured in the form of a profile seal.

10. Aircraft device comprising:

a housing, in which a door aperture is formed, and

a sealing system according to claim 1, which seals off the door aperture formed in the housing of the aircraft device from the environment, wherein the aircraft device is preferably an aircraft device that is to be cooled, in particular a cooling chamber that is suitable for example for receiving a trolley.