Airbus Defence and Space Gmbh

Thomas Schuster

Kay Dittrich

Christian Karch

Ulrich Prechtel

Franz Stadler

Thomas Koerwien

Thomas Körwien

Herbert Zippold

Michael Sabielny

Wilhelm Wulbrand

Matthias Bleckmann

Bernhard Schoenlinner

Markus Rothenhaeusler

Kay W Dittrich

Bernhard Schönlinner

Markus Rothenhäusler

A structural part for lightning strike protection, preferably of an aircraft includes a first structure element, wherein the first structure element includes a conducting material and is adapted to conduct electric currents into a grounded conducting airframe structure, and a second structure element, wherein the second structure element includes an outer layer with a first surface, wherein the outer layer includes a composite, preferably carbon-fibre reinforced plastic, CFRP or glass-fibre reinforced plastic GFRP. The structural part further includes a first elongated, preferably wedge-shaped, electrical conductor, with a first end and a second end, wherein the first end of the first elongated electrical conductor is connected to the first structure element and extends through the second structure element to the first surface, so that the second end of the first elongated electrical conductor serves as a lightning receptor without impairing the radar cross section of the aircraft.

Structural part for lightning strike protection

A method is provided for manufacturing a radome. The method has the following steps: creation of a contoured fit of at least one section of an inner surface of a wall of the radome; arrangement of a plurality of planar photosensitive semiconductor elements on an outer surface of the contoured fit; placement of the contoured fit with the plurality of planar photosensitive semiconductor elements on the at least one section of the inner surface of the wall; establishing of a connection between the plurality of planar photosensitive semiconductor elements and the wall; and removal of the contoured fit from the radome. This method enables the simple manufacture of a radome with a layer having several semiconductor elements for the electromagnetic shielding of the interior of the radome.

Method for manufacturing a radome

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Taufkirchen, Germany

Thomas Schuster