Aircraft sliding door
AssigneeFacc AG
InventorMichael SEIS
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Abstract
The invention relates to an aircraft sliding door comprising: a door leaf, which is slidable between a closed position and an open position in the opening and closing direction, respectively, and has a door top part and a door bottom part, which are arranged in a pulled-out state in the closed position and in a pushed-together state in the open position; a guide rail; and a drive device having an electric motor for assisting the movement of the door leaf from the open position to the closed position, wherein the drive device has a spindle that is connected to the electric motor and is inclined with respect to the opening and closing direction such that the door leaf is automatically transferred into the open position along the spindle when the electric motor is in a de-energised state.
Claims10
An aircraft sliding door comprising:
- a door leaf, which is slidable between a closed position and an opened position in an opening and closing direction respectively, and has a door top part and a door bottom part, which are arranged in a pulled-out state in the closed position and in a pushed-together state in the opened position,
- a guide rail, inclined with respect to the opening and closing direction, for guiding the door leaf between the closed position and the opened position,
- a drive device having an electric motor for assisting the movement of the door leaf from the opened position to the closed position,
- wherein the drive device comprises a spindle which is connected to the electric motor and is inclined with respect to the opening and closing direction such that the door leaf is independently transferred into the opened position along the spindle when the electric motor is in a de-energised state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.