Window element with a non-concealing cover, aircraft region and aircraft with a window element
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsVolkhard Schulz, Hinnerk Kleinwort
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Abstract
A window element for an aircraft comprises a window frame which has a frame reveal forming an opening, and a receptacle adjoining the frame reveal, an inner window pane which is configured to be inserted into the receptacle, a holding frame which is configured to be inserted into the receptacle and to fix the inner window pane in the receptacle, and a cover which has an opening and is configured to be attached to the window frame and to conceal the window frame around the frame reveal. An encircling inner edge of the cover that forms the opening of the cover lies radially substantially outside an encircling inner edge of the receptacle.
Claims13
A window element for an aircraft, comprising:
- a window frame which has a frame reveal forming an opening, and a receptacle adjoining said frame reveal;
- an inner window pane which is configured to be inserted into the receptacle;
- a holding frame which is configured to be inserted into the receptacle and to fix the inner window pane in the receptacle;
- and
- a cover which has an opening and is configured to be attached to the window frame and to conceal the window frame around the frame reveal,
- wherein the cover is further configured to conceal a portion of an interior paneling of an aircraft,
- wherein an encircling inner edge of the cover that forms the opening of the cover lies radially substantially outside an encircling outer edge of the holding frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.