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US 2025/0026481 A1Published application
Aircraft nacelle comprising a sealed box structure and a door which opens the box structure to the outside
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsLionel CZAPLA, Christophe LABARTHE, Kotaro FUKASAKU
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Abstract
A nacelle comprising a cowl which has a window, a box structure around the window and containing a conditioning device for conditioning dihydrogen, a door mounted pivotably on the cowl between a closed position and an open position, a maneuvering system for moving the door from the closed position to the open position, a detector for detecting the presence of dihydrogen in the box structure, and a control unit designed to make the maneuvering system open on the basis of information supplied by the detector.
Claims9
A nacelle of an aircraft, comprising:
- a structure,
- a cowl, mounted on the structure, having an inner face facing into the nacelle and at least one window,
- a box structure sealingly fixed around the at least one window to the inner face so as to delimit, with the cowl, an internal volume configured to contain a conditioning device provided for conditioning dihydrogen,
- for each window, a door mounted pivotably on said cowl between a closed position, in which the door blocks the window, and an open position, in which the door does not block the window,
- for each door, a maneuvering system comprising means for moving the door from the closed position to the open position,
- detecting means provided for detecting a presence of dihydrogen in the box structure and for supplying information indicative of such a presence, and
- a control unit designed to make the maneuvering system open on a basis of the information supplied by the detecting means.
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