Aircraft cabin portion, and aircraft having a fluid collector
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorAlexander Weng
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Abstract
An aircraft cabin portion having a cabin device module which has an upper face, a fluid-guiding element located on the upper face of the cabin device module, and a fluid collector located at a lower end of the fluid-guiding element. The fluid collector may consist substantially of a flexible material which forms a lumen for draining a fluid, wherein the lumen has an entry opening located at the lower end of the fluid-guiding element so that the fluid flows from the at least one fluid-guiding element into the lumen. Also an aircraft having such an aircraft cabin portion.
Claims19
An aircraft cabin portion comprising:
- a cabin device module which has a top side;
- a liquid-conducting element arranged on the top side of the cabin device module;
- and
- a liquid collector arranged at a lower end of the liquid-conducting element,
- wherein the liquid collector comprises a flexible material which forms a lumen for discharging a liquid, the lumen having an inlet opening arranged at the lower end of the liquid-conducting element, such that liquid flows from the liquid-conducting element into the lumen,
- wherein the flexible material forms a shell surrounding the lumen, the shell having a top shell side and a bottom shell side at least partially in surface contact with the top shell side,
- wherein at least a portion of the bottom shell side in surface contact with the top shell side becomes separated from the top shell side when the liquid flows through the flexible material.
The aircraft cabin portion as claimed in 1, wherein the flexible material comprises two flexible material portions which are placed on one another and are welded along two opposite longitudinal sides of the liquid collector.
An aircraft cabin portion comprising:
- a cabin device module which has a top side;
- a liquid-conducting element arranged on the top side of the cabin device module;
- and
- a liquid collector arranged at a lower end of the liquid-conducting element,
- wherein the liquid collector comprises a flexible material which forms a lumen for discharging a liquid, the lumen having an inlet opening arranged at the lower end of the liquid-conducting element, such that liquid flows from the liquid-conducting element into the lumen, and
- wherein the flexible material forms a shell enclosing the lumen, the shell having a top shell side and a bottom shell side, the top shell side and the bottom shell side oblongly defining the inlet opening such that the inlet opening extends linearly at the lower end of the liquid-conducting element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.