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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026

Filed:

Nov. 01, 2022
Applicants:

Airbus Operations S.l.u., Getafe, ES;

Airbus Operations Limited, Bristol, GB;

Inventors:

David Vicente Oliveros, Getafe, ES;

Javier Ruiz De Pablo, Getafe, ES;

Chris Wood, Bristol, GB;

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F 23/292 (2006.01); B64D 37/00 (2006.01); B64D 37/04 (2006.01); F17C 13/02 (2006.01); G01D 5/353 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F 23/2924 (2013.01); B64D 37/005 (2013.01); B64D 37/04 (2013.01); F17C 13/02 (2013.01); G01D 5/35312 (2013.01); G01D 5/35316 (2013.01); F17C 2201/0109 (2013.01); F17C 2221/012 (2013.01); F17C 2221/032 (2013.01); F17C 2223/0161 (2013.01); F17C 2250/03 (2013.01); F17C 2250/0408 (2013.01); F17C 2250/0491 (2013.01); F17C 2270/0189 (2013.01);
Abstract

A fuel gauging sensing device for a fuel tank for aircrafts includes an optical fiber harness along the internal surface of the tank, a master optical controller connected to a first terminal of the optical fiber harness, a slave optical controller connected to a second terminal of the optical fiber harness, wherein the optical fiber harness includes Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors spaced in the optical fiber harness between 1 mm and 25 mm to provide temperature gradients inside the tank and wherein the master and slave optical controllers are configured to obtain the fuel gauging of the tank based on the output from the FBG sensors.


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