Aircraft window member, method of manufacturing the same, and aircraft window assembly

• US 9,156,539 B2
• Filed: 02/18/2008
• Issued: 10/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Inventors: Oguri, Kazuyuki, Okada, Katsuto
• Primary Examiner(s): O'Hara, Brian M
• Assistant Examiner(s): KREINER, MICHAEL B
• Application Number:
  US12/525,912
• Publication Number:
  US 20100304069A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,794 Days
• Field of Search: 244/129.1, 244/129.3
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 1/1484 Windows B64C1/1492 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 45/0063 by avoiding the use of electronic equipment during flight, e.g. of mobile phones or laptops
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 9/0086 comprising a single discontinuous metallic layer on an electrically insulating supporting structure, e.g. metal grid, perforated metal foil, film, aggregated flakes, sintering
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 9/0094 being light-transmitting, e.g. transparent, translucent
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/10 Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/10 Scrim [e.g., open net or mesh, gauze, loose or open weave or knit, etc.]

Abstract

An aircraft window member includes film made of acrylic resin, a conductive mesh, which is formed on the film and in which a conductive material, is formed in a mesh shape so as to have optical transparency for ensuring visibility and to have electromagnetic-wave shielding properties, and a window main body, which is made of acrylic resin, and to which the film on which the conductive mesh is formed is attached.

Claims

1. An aircraft window member comprising:

a film made of polymethyl methacrylate resin, and the film has flexibility;

a conductive mesh disposed on the film, and in which a conductive material is disposed in a mesh shape so as to have optical transparency for ensuring visibility and to have electromagnetic-wave shielding properties; and

a window main body made of polymethyl methacrylate resin and to which the film on which the conductive mesh is disposed is attached.

2. An aircraft window member according to claim 1, wherein an adhesive layer is disposed between the film on which the conductive mesh is disposed and the window main body;

and

the adhesive layer is made of urethane adhesive.

3. An aircraft window member according to claim 2, wherein the conductive mesh disposed on the film is between the film and the window main body.

4. An aircraft window member according to claim 1, wherein the conductive mesh is above the window main body with the film therebetween;

and

a protective layer is disposed on the conductive mesh so as to provide an exposed region for an electrical connection at an edge portion of the conductive mesh.

5. An aircraft window assembly comprising:

an aircraft window member according to claim 1; and

a window frame holding the aircraft window member.