Aircraft data transmission system for transmitting data between an aircraft and a transmission station located outside thereof

• US 8,019,337 B2
• Filed: 07/17/2006
• Issued: 09/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS (Airbus SE)
• Original Assignee: Airbus France
• Inventors: Baron, Dominique, Galy, Laurent
• Primary Examiner(s): Afshar; Kamran
• Assistant Examiner(s): Zewari; Sayed T
• Application Number:
  US11/996,335
• Publication Number:
  US 20080214188A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,884 Days
• Field of Search: 455/431, 455/552.1, 455/552.2
• US Class Current: 455/431
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0013 with a ground station
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/18506 Communications with or from aircraft, i.e. aeronautical mobile service
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

The invention relates to an aircraft data transmission system for transmitting data between the aircraft and a transmission station located outside thereof. The inventive system includes a transmitting/receiving device for transmitting and receiving data messaged from the outside of the aircraft, a message managing device comprising a device for carrying out the PER encoding/decoding of said messages, an interface device for displaying the incoming messages to an operator and enabling said operator to generate outgoing messages, an encoding device carrying out a function of encoding the encoding/decoding device and a recording device for recording all incoming and outgoing data messages related to an internal/external communication, which passes through the message processing device and is encoded, on a recording medium.

Claims

1. An aircraft data transmission system configured to transmit data between the aircraft and at least one transmission station located outside of said aircraft during an internal/external communication, said system comprising:

a transmitting/receiving device configured to transmit outgoing data messages to outside of the aircraft and to receive incoming data messages from outside of the aircraft, said incoming and outgoing messages that pass through said transmitting/receiving device being encoded;

a message management device connected to said transmitting/receiving device and configured to receive said encoded incoming messages from said transmitting/receiving device and to transmit said encoded outgoing messages to said transmitting/receiving device;

wherein said message management device comprises an encoding/decoding unit configured to decode said encoded incoming messages, and to encode decoded outgoing messages, said encoding/decoding unit being further formed to carry out an encoding/decoding of a Packet Encoding Rule (PER) type;

at least one man/machine interface unit connected to said message management device and configured to present to an operator the decoded incoming messages output from said message management device that originate from said transmission station located outside of said aircraft and configured to allow the operator to generate messages representing decoded outgoing messages, which are transmitted to said message management device and sent to said transmission station located outside of said aircraft;

a compression device that carries out a compression for any data message which is not encoded, is relative to said internal/external communication, passes through said message management device, and is to be recorded, wherein said compression device comprises at least one encoding function of said encoding/decoding unit that is integrated in said message management device and carries out said compression in the form of an encoding of a Packet Encoding Rule (PER) type; and

a recording device, said recording device being connected to said encoding/decoding unit and formed to record, on at least one recording medium, any incoming or outgoing data message, which is relative to said internal/external communication, which passes through said message management device and which is encoded according to an encoding of the Packet Encoding Rule (PER) type.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said recording device is a cockpit voice recorder of the aircraft.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said encoding device generates and transmits to said recording device a frame comprising a frame of the PER type comprising at least one data message, together with additional information.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said encoding device generates and transmits to said recording device, a frame including the data to be recorded.

5. A communication assembly comprising:

a data transmission system which is installed on an aircraft; and

a data transmission station which is located outside of the aircraft,

wherein said data transmission system is of the type claimed in claim 1.

6. An aircraft, comprising a data transmission system of the type claimed in claim 1.