Airbus Operations Gmbh

Airbus Deutschland Gmbh

Thomas Lund

Hans Henrik Jochumsen

Joyce Tan

Christian Boe

Peter Rosenbeck-Mortensen

Anders Jensen

A sliding door system includes at least one sliding door having an upper and lower sliding-door mount, as well as an upper and lower guide rail for displaceably receiving the upper and lower sliding-door mount, respectively. The guide rails extend parallel to each other and each have a clear inner width that is at least twice as large as the thickness of the sliding door. The upper and lower sliding-door mounts are each at most half as wide as the clear inner width of each guide rail, allowing moving the sliding door into recessed and lifted-out positions, each constituting a stable state. By overcoming a resistance force, the sliding door can be moved between stable states. The sliding door system is lightweight and robust, and enables sliding doors to be displaced freely without a particular sliding door being assigned in a fixed manner to a particular opening to be covered.

Sliding door system

A vertical lift system is constructed for transporting a receptacle, such as a food or supply receptacle from one deck to another deck, particularly in an aircraft. For this purpose, a vertical lift () is equipped with a number of lifting hooks () each mechanically coupled to a respective locking pawl (). Each receptacle is equipped with a respective number of latch elements () such as recesses () to be engaged by a respective hook (). The latching and unlatching is caused by the cooperation of the hooks () and pawls () with each other, with a stationary activating member () engaging a cam track () of a pawl (), with biasing forces and with the latch elements (). Latching requires a small downward motion of the vertical lift. Unlatching requires a slight further downward motion of the vertical lift. During latching and unlatching the receptacle () is supported on a floor ().

Vertical transport lift for moving containers from deck to deck in a commercial aircraft

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Vedbaek, Denmark

Thomas Lund