# US 9,434,478 B2 · Aircraft cockpit with emergency exit via a central pane > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,434,478 B2 - Document ID: US9434478B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/106,113 - Filed: 2013-12-13 - Published: 2014-06-26 - Granted: 2016-09-06 - Earliest claimed: 2012-12-13 - Assignees: Airbus Operations GmbH - Applicants: Airbus Operations (SAS) - Inventors: Yves Durand; Bernard Guering - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9434478B2 ## CPC - B64D 43/00: Arrangements or adaptations of instruments - B64C 1/1476: {Canopies; Windscreens or similar transparent elements} - B64C 1/32: Severable or jettisonable parts of fuselage facilitating emergency escape - B64D: EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT - B64C: AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS ## Abstract The present invention relates to an aircraft cockpit with a double flight deck in which a central pane of a windscreen can be removed in order to at least partially clear an opening in order to constitute an emergency exit and ensure natural ventilation of the cockpit. Moreover, a central portion of a glare shield and of a flight station instrument panel are optionally moveable in order to facilitate access to the opening in the event of the need for emergency evacuation. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An aircraft cockpit with a double flight deck, comprising: a windscreen comprising a plurality of panes and a windscreen frame delimiting a central opening, the central opening having sufficiently large dimensions to constitute an emergency exit; wherein a central pane of the plurality of panes is movable between a closed position in which the central pane fills the central opening and an open position in which the central pane is removed from the central opening in order to at least partially clear the central opening delimited by the windscreen frame, the central pane of the windscreen being retractable downwards to a storage location when moved between the closed position and the open position. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The cockpit according to claim 1, wherein the central pane has moreover at least one intermediate position, between the closed position and the open position, in which it allows ventilation of the cockpit. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The cockpit according to claim 1, wherein the central pane is mounted capable of sliding on at least one guide track the geometry of which makes it possible to extract the central pane from its windscreen frame and to guide it to its storage location, the central pane being guided and displaced in at least this track via rollers. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The cockpit according to claim 1, comprising a flexible element designed to increase a force that is needed for moving the central pane as and when it is displaced. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The cockpit according to claim 3, comprising a dynamic braking device of the central pane. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The cockpit according to claim 1, comprising a glare shield having a moveable central portion. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The cockpit according to claim 1, comprising a flight station instrument panel having a moveable central portion. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The cockpit according to claim 6, comprising a flight station instrument panel having a moveable central portion; wherein the central portion of the glare shield is linked to the central portion of the flight station instrument panel by a first hinged joint, wherein the central portion of the glare shield is linked to the windscreen frame by a second hinged joint, and wherein the central portion of the flight station instrument panel is linked to a pylon by a slide hinge. ### Claim 9 A method for opening an emergency exit arranged at the centre of a windscreen in a cockpit, the method comprising at least one step of controlling the movement of a central pane among a plurality of panes of the windscreen of the cockpit in which the central pane of the windscreen slides downwards relative to a windscreen frame of the windscreen to an open position, at least partially clearing an opening having sufficiently large dimensions to constitute an emergency exit. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The method according to claim 9, comprising a step of displacing a central portion of a flight station instrument panel. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The method according to claim 9, comprising a step of displacing a central portion of a glare shield. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) An aircraft comprising a cockpit according to claim 1. ### Claim 13 An aircraft cockpit with a double flight deck, comprising: a windscreen comprising, in a windscreen frame delimiting a central opening, a central pane, having a closed position in which the central pane fills the central opening and from which the central pane can be removed in order to at least partially clear the central opening delimited by the windscreen frame, the opening having sufficiently large dimensions to constitute an emergency exit, the central pane of the windscreen being retractable downwards between the closed position and an open position in which the central pane is in a storage location, a glare shield having a moveable central portion, and a flight station instrument panel having a moveable central portion, wherein the central portion of the glare shield is linked to the central portion of the flight station instrument panel by a first hinged joint, to the windscreen frame by a second hinged joint, and wherein the central portion of the flight station instrument panel is linked to the central portion of the glare shield by the first hinged joint, and to a pylon by a slide hinge.