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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2012
Applicant:
Airbus Operations Gmbh, Hamburg, DE;
Inventors:
Bernhard Schlipf, Bremen, DE;
Xavier Hue, Bremen, DE;
Assignee:
Airbus Operations GmbH, Hamburg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 3/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 3/56 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention relates to a wing with an extension in the wingspan direction, in the wing chord direction and in the wing thickness direction for use in an aircraft, with a retractable wing end piece. A mechanical lever system is here used, which can execute a pivoting motion of a wing end piece comprising both a rotational component and a translational component. The lever kinematics here comprises two lever arrangements, for which a respective two hinged devices are provided.