Assembly of an attachment pylon with an aircraft engine
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsOlivier Pautis, Michael Berjot, Jean-Baptiste Vignes
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Abstract
An assembly of an attachment pylon with an aircraft engine comprising a front engine mount comprising a front tang and a front clevis, a lower tang and a lower clevis connecting the attachment pylon and the engine via a front pin mounted in the front tang and clevis and a lower pin mounted in the lower tang and clevis, and port/starboard links mounted between the attachment pylon and the engine via mounting pins, wherein the front and lower pins are orthogonal to a mid-plane, and wherein the mounting pins of the links are parallel to the mid-plane.
Claims12
An assembly of an attachment pylon with an aircraft engine, the attachment pylon comprising a primary structure comprising an upper spar, a lower spar, port and starboard lateral panels and a front transverse reinforcement, the assembly having a vertical mid-plane and comprising:
- a front engine mount fastened to the attachment pylon and to a casing of the engine, and comprising:
- in the vertical mid-plane and on one of the front transverse reinforcement of the attachment pylon and the casing of the engine, a front tang,
- centered on the vertical mid-plane and on the other of the front transverse reinforcement of the attachment pylon and the casing of the engine, a front clevis,
- in the vertical mid-plane and on one of the lower spar of the attachment pylon and the casing of the engine, a lower tang,
- centered on the vertical mid-plane and on the other of the lower spar of the attachment pylon and the casing of the engine, a lower clevis,
- for each port and starboard lateral panel or on the front transverse reinforcement, a first port tang and a first starboard tang extending orthogonally to the vertical mid-plane,
- for the casing of the engine, a second port tang and a second starboard tang,
- at least a first port link and a first starboard link,
- a front pin connecting the front tang and the front clevis,
- a lower pin connecting the lower tang and the lower clevis,
- a first port pin and a first starboard pin connecting the first port tang and the first starboard tang with the first port link and the first starboard link, and,
- a second port pin and a second starboard pin connecting the second port tang and the second starboard tang with the first port link and the first starboard link.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.