Latecoere

Office National D'etudes Et De Recherches Aerospatiales

Latelec

Societe Industrielle D'avation Latecoere

Gerard Boucourt

Bastien Puertolas

Cyrille Delame

Bernard Amalric

Laurent Groux

Vincent Banasiak

Nicolas Riviere

Martial Grimm

Jean Charles Bernadac

Olivier Escalaup

Xavier Carrier

Damien Morrison

Philippe Gri

The aim of the invention is to provide an architecture of a laser imager having high spatial resolution, compatible with an application installed on board a vehicle, in particular on board an aircraft. For this purpose, the invention proposes the generation of a piece of wide-field laser ranging information by a suitable remote optical system. An example of a piece of equipment () according to the invention installed on board an aircraft moving in an environment that is likely to contain obstacles (), in particular an aircraft on the ground, includes a laser range finder () coupled to an optical fibre (F) emitting laser pulses (I), which is itself coupled to an optical system providing an interface with the environment () via an optical cross-connect () coupled to a covered optical fibre bundle, in the form of laser illuminations (Fi). An echo detector () detecting echoes of the laser pulses reflected by an obstacle () in the environment is connected to a processing unit () for processing the echoes (Er), which is itself connected to a central data unit () containing data relative to the conditions of movement of the aircraft and to a display system () for displaying the obstacle () location data.

Method and on-board equipment for assisting taxiing and collision avoidance for a vehicle, in particular an aircraft

An aircraft () includes an enclosure and a system for surveilling areas of interest inside the enclosure. The enclosure includes a transverse aisle () and a longitudinal aisle () that intersect at an intersection zone (), a first access door () being located at one end of the transverse aisle () and a second access door () being located at one end of the longitudinal aisle. In addition, the surveillance system includes a panoramic camera () with a panoramic field of view, the camera being positioned at the intersection zone () such that an area of interest associated with the first access door () and an area of interest associated with the second access door is located within the field of view of the panoramic camera.

Aircraft provided with a surveillance system

The invention relates to optimize the use of electronic cabinets in connector technology, using simplified internal connector technology and flexibility in adapting the external connector technology to the connectors of the cabling assemblies&#x2014;electronic and/or optical connector technologies&#x2014;and on the structurally. To this end, according to an embodiment, an overall box-shaped electronic cabinet () that is fitted with at least one detachable interconnection module () is provided with a bottom wall () including a bottom card () connected to a set of electronic modules (). The rear wall () is extended by edges () provided with connectors (C, C) that are capable of being coupled to the connectors (C, C) that are arranged on a side surface () of the detachable interconnection module () (). Devices for closing and releasably locking the at least one detachable interconnection module () are provided between a handle () of an interconnection module () and the side wall () of the cabinet ().

Method for integrating a detachable interconnection module in a cabinet, cabinet thus fitted, and aircraft comprising a bay consisting of such cabinets

This device comprises at least one sensor of a CCD camera of very short spectral band lying between 0.4 &mgr;m and 1.1 &mgr;m, fitted with an infrared filter eliminating the spectral band lying between around 0.4 &mgr;m and 0.8 &mgr;m, this sensor being associated with a computer catering in particular for image processing, at least one display screen and a control board. It is thus possible, with the aid of a single type of sensor, to detect hot spots, flames, smoke and the shifting of objects, and to provide a visualization of the inside of the enclosure.

Device for monitoring an enclosure, in particular the hold of an aircraft

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Gerard Boucourt