Frame for an opening provided in an aircraft fuselage
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsMarc Dugerie, Guillaume Gallant, Romain Delahaye
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Abstract
A door frame is provided at an opening made in a fuselage of an aircraft that is delimited by a skin. The frame includes an upper longitudinal stiffener and a lower longitudinal stiffener and two vertical substructures, each arranged on one side of the opening, connected by the upper and lower longitudinal stiffeners. The frame also comprises at least one stop provided at the level of the opening that uptakes radial forces exerted by the door. Each vertical substructure comprises at least three walls made of composite material that are connected to one another to form a box substructure having a closed and hollow cross-section in a sectional plane perpendicular to an axis of the length of the vertical substructure.
Claims14
A door frame provided at an opening made in a fuselage of an aircraft that is delimited by a skin, said door frame comprising:
- an upper longitudinal stiffener and a lower longitudinal stiffener;
- two vertical substructures connected by said upper and lower longitudinal stiffeners, each of said vertical substructures being arranged on a respective opposite side of the opening;
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- at least one stop provided at a level of the opening that uptakes radial forces exerted by the door;
- wherein each vertical substructure has a structure made of composite material with a first wall, a second wall that is connected to the first wall, and arranged essentially perpendicular to the first wall, and a third inclined wall that connects the first wall and the second wall in such a way as to obtain a box substructure having a closed and hollow cross-section in a sectional plane perpendicular to a vertical extent of the vertical substructure,
- wherein the first wall forms an edge of the opening, and the second wall is configured to be arranged in the plane of the skin of the fuselage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.