COVER PANEL FOR A STRUCTURAL COMPONENT

• US 20170152043A1
• Filed: 11/29/2016
• Published: 06/01/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH (Airbus SE)
• Original Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH (Airbus SE)
• Inventors: SCHAEFER, Bastian, HOLST, Stefan, WENGORRA, Anna
• Granted Patent: US 10,450,067 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 11/00 Passenger or crew accommodation; Flight-deck installations not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 11/0023 Movable or removable cabin dividers, e.g. for class separation bulkheads B64C1/10
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 11/0698 Seats suspended from aircraft walls
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 2011/0046 Modular or preassembled units for creating cabin interior structures
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 2011/0092 Arrangements for mounting stretchers in aircraft cabins
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 50/40 Weight reduction

Abstract

A cover panel for a core panel of a structural aircraft component includes a protection cover having an outer shape corresponding to the outer shape of the core panel and including at least one cutout aperture, and at least one fabric panel mounted to the protection cover and covering the at least one cutout aperture.

Claims

1. A cover panel for a core panel of a structural aircraft component, comprising:

a protection cover having an outer shape corresponding to an outer shape of the core panel and including at least one cutout aperture; and

at least one fabric panel mounted to the protection cover and covering the at least one cutout aperture.

2. The cover panel of claim 1, wherein the at least one fabric panel is fastened to the protection cover with hook-and-pile fasteners.

3. The cover panel of claim 1, wherein the at least one fabric panel has an outer shape that is congruent to an outer shape of the at least one cutout aperture.

4. The cover panel of claim 1, wherein a size of the at least one fabric panel is larger than a size of the at least one cutout aperture and comprises a fastening flange portion fastened to the protection cover at a rim portion of the at least one cutout aperture.

5. The cover panel of claim 1, comprising a plurality of cutout apertures of different outer shapes.

6. The cover panel of claim 1, further comprising:

a plurality of bores adapted to receive fastening members for fastening the cover panel to the core panel.

7. The cover panel of claim 1, wherein the protection cover comprises fiber-reinforced polymer material.

8. The cover panel of claim 7, wherein the protection cover comprises one of glass fiber-reinforced polymer, GFRP, material, natural fiber-reinforced polymer, NFRP, material and carbon fiber-reinforced polymer, CFRP, material.

9. The cover panel of claim 1, further comprising:

a rim protector formed around an inner rim of the at least one cutout aperture.

10. The cover panel of claim 9, wherein the rim protector comprises a U-shaped elongated profile member manufactured in an Additive Manufacturing, AM, process.

11. A structural aircraft component, comprising:

a substantially planar core panel having a space frame structure of load bearing space frame rods; and

a cover panel comprising a protection cover having an outer shape corresponding to an outer shape of the core panel and including at least one cutout aperture, and at least one fabric panel mounted to the protection cover and covering the at least one cutout aperture, the cover panel being mounted to a front face of the core panel, with the at least one fabric panel sandwiched between the core panel and the protection cover.

12. The structural aircraft component of claim 11, wherein the structural aircraft component is a partition element of a passenger cabin of an aircraft.

13. The structural aircraft component of claim 11, further comprising:

an attachment panel comprising a wall-mounted cabin attendant seat bench mounted to the cover panel and the core panel.