Thales

Frederic Martin

Claude Sarno

Romain Hodot

Jean-Philippe Pineau

Adrien Desjardins

Jacques Mandle

Serge Desbiolles

The invention relates to an aircraft provided with at least one piece of aeronautic equipment fastened to the outside skin of the aircraft and a heater for heating the piece of aeronautic equipment. The heater is in the form of a thermodynamic closed circuit loop circulating heat-transfer fluid and including an evaporator and a heat source located inside the aircraft and a condenser located in the piece of aeronautic equipment or an appendage thereto. Fasteners in the form of tubular tabs include tubular channels for circulating the heat-transfer fluid.

Heating for an avionic equipment

A heater of a piece of aeronautic equipment is intended to be arranged at the skin of an aircraft. The equipment includes a part intended to be arranged at the skin of the aircraft and elements for heating the part. The heating element include a thermodynamic loop including a closed circuit in which a heat transfer fluid circulates, the closed circuit including an evaporator and a zone in which a condensation of the heat transfer fluid can occur in the appendage to heat it. Outside the evaporator, the circuit in which the fluid circulates is formed by a tubular channel with an empty section. At least part of the equipment is made from a material with a low heat conductivity.

Non conducting material

A piece of aeronautic equipment intended to equip an aircraft, the equipment () including a part intended to be arranged at a skin () of the aircraft and elements for heating the part, characterized in that the heating elements include a thermodynamic loop including a closed circuit in which a heat transfer fluid circulates, the closed circuit including an evaporator () associated with functional elements () of the aircraft forming a heat source giving off heat during their operation and a zone in which a condensation of the heat transfer fluid can occur in the appendage to heat it, and in that outside the evaporator (), the circuit in which the fluid circulates is formed by a tubular channel with an empty section.

Avionic equipment heating

A piece of aeronautic equipment intended to equip an aircraft, the equipment piece () including at least one part intended to be arranged at a skin () outside of the aircraft and heating elements for that part, which include a thermodynamic loop including a closed circuit in which a heat transfer fluid circulates, the closed circuit including an evaporator and a zone in which condensation of the heat transfer fluid can occur in the appendage to heat it, outside the evaporator, the circuit in which the fluid circulates is formed by a tubular channel with an empty section, at least the part of the piece of equipment arranged outside the aircraft is made by additive manufacturing and includes a fastening base () for fastening on the skin of the aircraft from which support elements () for a Pitot tube () provided with lateral static pressure taps () extend.

Biphase heating

A probe for measuring the total pressure of an airflow is intended to equip an aircraft and a method of using the probe. The probe comprises a Pitot tube, two separate heating wires supplied separately and allowing each one to heat an external part of the probe, and means of distribution of a given maximum power to each of the two heating wires as a function of the current temperature of each of the two parts. A method consists in giving priority to the reaching of a predefined minimum temperature of a first of the two parts of the probe by allocating to the first part of the probe a predefined share of the given maximum power for as long as the temperature of the first part is below a predefined minimum temperature.

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Vendome, France

Frederic Martin