Slide door device for aircraft
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasaki KOBAYASHI, Hiroshi Yamanouchi
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Abstract
A slide door device for an aircraft includes an upper guide roller at a tip end of an upper arm provided at an upper part of a slide door and a lower guide roller at a tip end of a lower arm provided at a lower part of the slide door that are rollably engaged with an upper guide rail and a lower guide rail that are fixed along an upper edge and a lower edge of a door opening frame formed in a fuselage of an aircraft, respectively. An intermediate guide roller, provided at a tip end of an intermediate arm provided in a door opening, is rollably engaged with an intermediate guide rail that is fixed to an inner surface of the slide door, while smoothly guiding the slide door with the upper guide rail, the lower guide rail, and the intermediate guide rail.
Claims20
A slide door device for an aircraft, the slide door device opening and closing a door opening formed in a fuselage of an aircraft, comprising:
- an upper guide roller at a tip end of an upper arm provided at an upper part of a slide door and a lower guide roller at a tip end of a lower arm provided at a lower part of the slide door, the upper guide roller and the lower guide roller being rollably engaged with an upper guide rail and a lower guide rail that are fixed along an upper edge and a lower edge of the door opening, respectively;
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- an intermediate guide roller provided at a tip end of an intermediate arm provided in the door opening, the intermediate guide roller being rollably engaged with an intermediate guide rail fixed to an inner surface of the slide door.
A slide door adapted to open and close a door opening formed in a fuselage of an aircraft, comprising:
- an upper arm operatively connected to an upper portion of the slide door;
- an upper guide roller rotatably mounted at a tip end of the upper arm;
- a lower arm operatively connected to a lower portion of the sliding door;
- a lower guide roller rotatably mounted at a tip end of a lower arm;
- an upper guide rail and a lower guide rail that are fixed along an upper edge and a lower edge of the door opening, respectively, said upper guide roller being rollably engaged with the upper guide rail and the lower guide roller being rollably engaged with the lower guide rail;
- an intermediate arm operatively connected to the fuselage of the aircraft;
- an intermediate guide roller provided at a tip end of the intermediate arm;
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- an intermediate guide rail fixed to an inner surface of the slide door, said intermediate guide roller being rollably engaged with the intermediate guide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.