Airbus Deutschland Gmbh

Daimler-benz Aerospace Airbus Gmbh

Daimlerchrysler Aerospace Airbus Gmbh

Sven Uhlemann

Thomas Scherer

Rainer Mueller

Heiko Luetjens

Michael Race

A window for an aircraft door includes an outer pane, an inner pane, and a Fresnel lens element provided in the interspace formed between the inner and outer panes. The Fresnel lens element may be a self-supporting lens element pane positioned intermediately within the interspace between the inner and outer panes, or a lens film adhesively bonded onto the surface of the inner pane facing the interspace, or a Fresnel lens configuration provided directly on the surface of the inner pane facing the interspace. The Fresnel lens element provides an expanded field of view, especially in a downward direction, when looking out through the window, to comply with safety regulations that require visual inspection of the area outside of the aircraft door and especially below the door, before opening the door.

Windows with a lens for an aircraft door

A double pane window for an aircraft cabin has a passive air dehumidifying channel (,A) that is in heat exchange contact with a window metal frame (,) which is in turn in heat exchange contact with the atmosphere outside the aircraft. The air dehumidifying channel (,A) communicates through a first air flow port (,) with the cabin space and through a second air flow port (,) with a space enclosed between the double panes.

Double pane window for an aircraft cabin

A double-pane aircraft cabin window arrangement avoids fogging, frosting, or icing of the window without using any active pressure regulating system or other active components. An inner pane and an outer pane are held in a window seal that is mounted in a frame connected to the aircraft fuselage. An interspace is formed between the two panes and sealed by the window seal. A condensation inducing tube is connected by a hose to an adapter tube, which passes through the window seal into the window interspace. The condensation inducing tube is connected in a direct thermally conducting manner to the outer fuselage skin of the aircraft. An open end of the condensation inducing tube is arranged to receive pressurized air from the aircraft cabin interior. As the air flows through the condensation inducing tube, any condensable moisture in the air condenses out on the interior walls of the tube, so that only dry air flows into the window interspace.

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