Airbus Operations Gmbh

Sven Knefelkamp

Nicholas E Brownjohn

Jan Mueller

Stéphane Poulain

Joerg Pump

Jan Müller

Gerald Coto-Lopez

Jörg Pump

Eric Duraz

Johannes Hertel

Igor Ibáñez Martin

Fabian Binternagel

Igor Ibáñez Martín

A wireless aircraft network includes a plurality of aircrafts having transceiver devices for transceiving wireless communication, a plurality of ground-based network stations having transceiver devices for transceiving wireless communication, and a network operator station configured to store location data regarding the current geographical location of the plurality of aircrafts in a location data table of the network operator station and to determine a most efficient network path for each of the plurality of aircrafts to one of a plurality of ground-based network stations depending on the current geographical location of the plurality of aircrafts and the geographical location of the plurality of ground-based network stations.

Wireless aircraft network and method for wirelessly connecting aircraft in a network

The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for detecting a communication channel in whose frequency band radio signals are transmitted by different radio signal sources inside a cabin. In this case a wide band antenna receives the radio signals transmitted inside the cabin. Different demodulators are provided, each of which demodulate the radio signals received by the wide band antenna within an associated frequency range of the demodulator. A configuration logic establishes whether, in a frequency band within a demodulated frequency range, radio signals are being transmitted simultaneously by different radio signal sources. In the case of impermissible signal transmissions of a radio signal source, e.g. when a non-safety-relevant system transmits signals in the same frequency band of a safety-relevant system in the same frequency bands of a safety-relevant system, the non-safety-relevant system is reconfigured by the configuration logic and an alarm or warning signal is generated as an indication of the impermissible condition.

Apparatus and a method for detecting a communication channel

The present invention discloses a static mesh network in or for a cabin of a vehicle, in particular an aircraft, the cabin having a predetermined, known cabin layout, comprising at least three different network levels which are arranged hierarchically in relation to one another, respectively adjacent network levels in the hierarchy being in wireless communicative connection with one another, and comprising a plurality of network nodes which operate mutually independently and of which the position in the cabin layout is fixedly predetermined by the configuration of a respective network node, the network nodes within a respective network level having an equal logic. The present invention furthermore discloses an aircraft and a method for data communication using such a network in an aircraft.

Static mesh network, aircraft and method for data communication

A control device that shields a room from incoming signals includes an interference device which is adapted for querying an interference signal for rendering a signal that enters a room unrecognizable by superposition with the interference signal.

Control device for shielding a room

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