Connecting arrangement comprising a coupling element and two curved ribs of an aircraft or spacecraft
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsCarsten Paul, Marc Schimmler
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Abstract
A connecting device having two curved ribs of an aircraft or spacecraft, with: a coupling element which can be connected by means of predetermined coupling sections to respective connecting sections of the two ribs; wherein at least the predetermined coupling sections of the coupling element are rectilinearly designed; and wherein at least the respective connecting sections of the two ribs each have rectilinearly running inner belt regions for a respective rectilinear connection of the predetermined coupling sections of the coupling element.
Claims8
A connecting arrangement comprising a coupling element and two curved ribs of an aircraft or spacecraft, the curved ribs comprising respective inner belts and outer belts, the coupling element being connectable by means of predetermined coupling sections to respective connecting sections of the two ribs, the respective outer belts, in the region of the respective connecting sections, having a curvature corresponding to a curvature of an outer skin of the aircraft or spacecraft, and abutting on the outer skin of the aircraft or spacecraft, wherein at least the respective connecting sections of the two ribs each have inner belt regions running rectilinearly in a longitudinal direction of said ribs for a respective rectilinear connection of the predetermined coupling sections of the coupling element;
- and wherein at least the predetermined coupling sections of the coupling element are rectilinearly formed in a longitudinal direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.