Tank system with a valve in the form of a pendulum system
AssigneesAirbus Operations GmbH, Airbus SAS
InventorsThomas Andrieu, Jérôme Milliere, Julien Laverne, Jonathan Landolt
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Abstract
A tank system comprising a tank, a drainage line fixed in the bottom part of the tank and having a drainage port at each end and, for each drainage port, a funnel having a wall through which at least one window passes, a body that can move in translation, for each funnel, a plug that is secured to the body and arranged to be able to move inside said funnel between an open position and a closed position, and an arm, a first end of which is mounted in an articulated manner to the top part of the tank and a second end of which is mounted in an articulated manner on the body.
Claims5
A tank system for an aircraft having a longitudinal direction, said tank system comprising:
- a tank configured to contain a liquid,
- a drainage line housed and fixed in a bottom part of the tank, the drainage line extending parallel to the longitudinal direction, and having two ends with a drainage port at each end,
- for each drainage port, a funnel secured to the drainage line, wherein an axis of the funnel is parallel to the longitudinal direction, wherein a top of the funnel opens into the drainage port, and wherein the funnel has a wall, through which at least one window passes,
- a body configured to move in translation parallel to the longitudinal direction,
- for each funnel, a plug secured to the body and configured to move inside said respective funnel alternately between an open position in which the plug blocks off neither the windows in the funnel nor the drainage port and a closed position in which the plug blocks off at least the drainage port, and
- an arm having a first end mounted in an articulated manner to the tank above the body and a second end mounted in an articulated manner on the body via a connection combination that pivots about an axis perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and horizontal and slides perpendicular to the longitudinal direction in a plane perpendicular to said axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.