Aircraft with a fuel storage system
AssigneeAirbus Helicopters Deutschland GmbH
InventorMarcello BARRETO DE PINHO
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Abstract
An aircraft with a fuselage that accommodates a floor panel and a fuel storage system, wherein the fuel storage system comprises a tank system with at least one main tank 5a that is arranged underneath the floor panel; a cross ventilation system with a plurality of ventilation lines for venting the tank system, wherein the plurality of ventilation lines comprises at least one crossing ventilation line 11a that is routed from a first lateral side of the tank system to an opposite second lateral side of the tank system; and wherein the at least one crossing ventilation line is routed underneath or in the floor panel from the first lateral side of the tank system to the second lateral side of the tank system.
Claims20
An aircraft with a fuselage that accommodates a floor panel and a fuel storage system, wherein the fuel storage system comprises:
- a tank system with at least one main tank that is arranged underneath the floor panel;
- and
- a plurality of ventilation lines that vent the cross tank system, wherein at least one crossing ventilation line is routed from a first lateral side of the tank system to an opposite second lateral side of the tank system,
- wherein the at least one crossing ventilation line is routed underneath or in the floor panel from the first lateral side of the tank system to the second lateral side of the tank system.
A fuel storage system for an aircraft with a fuselage having a floor panel, wherein the fuel storage system comprises:
- a fuel tank system having at least one fuel tank arranged underneath the floor panel;
- a cross ventilation system comprising:
- a fuel volume expansion space;
- and
- a plurality of ventilation lines interconnect that vent the at least one fuel tank and having least one crossing ventilation line that is routed from a first lateral side of the tank system to an opposite second lateral side of the tank system.
A fuel storage system for an aircraft with a fuselage having a floor panel, wherein the fuel storage system comprises:
- a fuel tank system having at least one fuel tank arranged underneath the floor panel;
- a cross ventilation system comprising:
- an expansion tank arranged at the second lateral side;
- a plurality of ventilation lines interconnect that vent the at least one fuel tank;
- and
- at least one crossing ventilation line that is routed underneath or in the floor panel from a first ventilation point provided at the first lateral side on the at least one fuel tank to the expansion tank on the main tank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.