MOUNTING DEVICE

• US 20180111689A1
• Filed: 03/21/2016
• Published: 04/26/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Telair International GmbH (Transdigm Group Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Telair International GmbH (Transdigm Group Incorporated)
• Inventors: HUBER, Thomas, HOLZNER, Richard
• Granted Patent: US 10,689,114 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 1/20 specially adapted for freight
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 2009/006 Rollers or drives for pallets of freight containers, e.g. PDU
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 9/003 Devices for retaining pallets or freight containers securing freight containers on vehicles B60P7/00
• CPC Class Codes: B64F 5/10 Manufacturing or assembling aircraft, e.g. jigs therefor

Abstract

A mounting device for mounting functional devices within a cargo hold of an aircraft. The mounting device includes at least one surface unit and a plurality of functional devices which can be mounted on the surface unit in such a way that the surface unit can be inserted together with functional devices mounted thereon into the aircraft cargo hold in the manner of a template in such a way that all the functional devices come to lie in defined mounting locations in the cargo hold and can be mounted on supporting structures of the aircraft or the cargo hold without adjustment in relation to the surface unit.

Claims

1. A mounting device for a cargo hold of an aircraft, the mounting device comprising at least one surface unit, and a plurality of functional devices which can be mounted on the surface unit in such a way that the surface unit, together with the functional devices mounted thereon, can be inserted into the cargo hold in such a way that all functional devices come to lie in the cargo hold at defined mounting positions and can be mounted without adjustment relative to the surface unit on support structures of the aircraft or of the cargo hold respectively.

2. The mounting device according to claim 1, wherein the functional devices are designed such that they can be fastened to the surface unit by screw devices.

3. The mounting device according to claim 2, wherein the screw device can be actuated on a side of the surface unit which is opposite the functional device.

4. The mounting device according to claim 1, wherein the surface unit is designed for the formation of a gas-tight and/or watertight barrier between its upper side and its underside.

5. The mounting device according to claim 1, wherein the surface unit comprises sealing lips which are arranged at edges of the surface unit.

6. The mounting device according to claim 1, wherein the surface unit is designed to form an accessible floor.

7. The mounting device according to claim 1, wherein the surface unit comprises a fibre-reinforced plastic material.

8. The mounting device according to claim 1, wherein the surface unit comprises a sandwich structure, in particular a hybrid core.

10. The mounting device according to claim 8, wherein the thickness (dS) of the foam sheet decreases in a transition region towards the edge region.

11. The mounting device according to claim 8, wherein reinforcing struts, in particular fibre-reinforced reinforcing struts, are embedded in a the sandwich structure, in particular the hybrid core.

12. The mounting device according claim 1, wherein the surface unit has reinforcing means in sections on which the functional devices are mounted or can be mounted, in particular reinforcements against forces acting perpendicularly to the surface and/or loading the surface unit with a bending moment.

13. The mounting device according to claim 1, wherein the surface units are designed for mounting in the base region.

14. The mounting device according to claim 1, wherein the surface units are designed for mounting in the side and ceiling region.

15. The mounting device according to claim 1, wherein the surface units comprise defined kink sections, preferably in the form of at least partially elastic regions, in which rigidly designed planar sections can be mounted at an angle to one another in the aircraft.

9. The mounting device according to claim 9, wherein the hybrid core comprises:

a. a first core layer of fibre-reinforced plastic;

b. a second core layer of fibre-reinforced plastic;

c. at least one, preferably synthetic resin-permeated, foam sheet, which is embedded between the first and second core layer, wherein the hybrid core preferably has a foam-free edge region for the production of a materially bonded and especially flat connection between the core layers.

16. A method for mounting functional devices within an aircraft, comprising the steps of:

a) attaching functional devices at predefined locations on surface units outside the aircraft;

b) introducing the surface units together with the functional devices into the aircraft;

c) fastening the functional device together with the surface units to supporting structures of the aircraft.