US 10,787,241 B2Granted

Aircraft joint

AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH

InventorsVernon Holmes, Rodney Evans, Stefanos Kosteletos

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Abstract

An aircraft joint between overlapping first and second components includes a fastener assembly. The fastener assembly includes a threaded fastener and a boss having an outer diameter and a threaded internal bore. The boss is fixedly attached to the second component at the overlap region. The first component has a through hole having a diameter sized to receive the outer diameter of the boss. The boss is received in the through hole from a first side of the first component. The fastener extends through the through hole from a second side of the first component opposite the first side. The fastener is threadably received in the internal bore of the boss and reacts against the second side of the first component to fasten the first component to the second component.

Claims15

Dependent claims

An aircraft joint, comprising:

a first component,
a second component overlapping the first component at an overlap region,
and a fastener assembly including
a threaded fastener and
a circular cylindrical boss having an outer diameter and a threaded internal bore, wherein a center axis of the circular cylindrical boss is co-axial with a center axis of the internal bore,
wherein the circular cylindrical boss is fixedly attached to the second component at the overlap region, the first component has a circular through hole having a diameter sized to receive the outer diameter of the circular cylindrical boss, the circular cylindrical boss is received in the circular through hole from a first side of the first component, and the fastener extends through the circular through hole from a second side of the first component opposite the first side, and
the fastener is threadably received in the internal bore of the circular cylindrical boss and reacts against the second side of the first component to fasten the first component to the second component.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/593,036Filed 11 May 2017
Priority: EP 1638600711 May 2016
Published: US 2017/0327203 A116 Nov 2017
Granted: 29 Sep 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

B64C 3/26
Wings: construction, shape, or attachment of separate skins, e.g. panels
B64C 3/28
Wings: leading or trailing edges attached to primary structures, e.g. forming fixed slots
B64F 5/45
Maintaining or repairing aircraft: repairing leakages in fuel tanks
F16B 5/02
Joining sheets or plates , e.g. panels, to one another or to strips or bars parallel to them: by means of fastening members using screw-thread