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US 9,789,961 B2Granted
Aircraft comprising a cockpit delocalized outside an upper part of the nose
AssigneeAirbus SAS
InventorsJason Zaneboni, Bruno Saint-Jalmes
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Abstract
An aircraft including a fuselage, a cockpit and a cabin, wherein the cockpit is situated below the cabin and outside the nose, such as a lancet-shaped nose, of the aircraft and may extend to a front end of the aircraft, and the viewing surfaces in the cockpit may be entirely formed of digital display screens.
Claims17
An aircraft comprising:
- a fuselage including an outer skin and a tapered portion of the outer skin which tapers inward to a front end of the fuselage,
- a cockpit in the fuselage and including a seat for a pilot of the aircraft,
- a cabin in the fuselage configured to receive passengers and the cabin extends to the front end of the aircraft;
- a floor of the cabin which separates the cockpit from the cabin, wherein the cockpit is entirely below the cabin and rearward of the tapered outer skin of the fuselage, and
- a door in the outer skin of the fuselage and leading to the cabin, wherein the cockpit is rearward of the door.
2 more elements
An aircraft comprising:
- a fuselage having an outer skin;
- a nose region defined as a region of the fuselage in which the outer skin tapers inwardly to a forward end of the fuselage;
- a cockpit in the fuselage and rearward of the nose region of the fuselage, wherein the cockpit includes a seat for a pilot of the aircraft, a digital display device including a viewing surface configured to present a digital image of a scene of the environment outside of and forward of the aircraft, and the viewing surface faces the seat for the pilot, wherein the viewing surface is devoid of glazed surfaced windows in the fuselage providing a view to the outside of the aircraft;
- a cabin in the fuselage configured to seat passengers, wherein the cabin extends into the nose region of the fuselage;
- a cabin floor in the fuselage which separates the cockpit from the cabin, wherein the cockpit is entirely below the cabin, and
- a door in the outer skin of the fuselage and leading to the cabin, and the cockpit is rearward of the door.
3 more elements
An aircraft comprising:
- a fuselage having an outer skin;
- a nose region of the fuselage, wherein the nose region extends from a position on the fuselage at which the outer skin tapers inward and to a front end of the fuselage;
- glazed surfaced windows in the outer skin and at the front end of the fuselage,
- a cockpit in the fuselage and reward of the nose region, wherein the cockpit includes a seat for a pilot of the aircraft, a digital display device including a viewing surface configured to present a digital image of a scene of the environment outside of and forward of the aircraft, and the viewing surface faces the seat for the pilot;
- a cabin in the fuselage and configured to seat passengers, the cabin extending into the nose region, wherein the glazed surfaced windows at the front end face the cabin and provide a forward facing view from the cabin;
- a floor of the cabin which separates the cockpit from the cabin, wherein the cockpit is entirely below the floor, and
- a door in the outer skin of the fuselage and leading to the cabin, wherein the cockpit is rearward of the door.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.