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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. 01, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2013
Applicant:

Airbus Operations Limited, Bristol, GB;

Inventors:

Timothy J. Sanderson, Bristol, GB;

Jonathan Price, Bristol, GB;

James Eden, Bristol, GB;

Chetan Korya, Bristol, GB;

Robert James Heath, Bristol, GB;

Peter Baker, Bristol, GB;

Richard Smith, Bristol, GB;

Graham Morgan, Bristol, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 3/00 (2006.01); B64C 3/18 (2006.01); B64C 1/06 (2006.01); B64C 3/10 (2006.01); B64C 3/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 3/185 (2013.01); B64C 1/065 (2013.01); B64C 3/10 (2013.01); B64C 3/20 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49622 (2015.01);
Abstract

The present invention provides an aircraft structure comprising a first sub-structure, having a first box cross-section, a second sub-structure, having a second box cross-section, and a joint joining a first end region of the first sub-structure to second end region of the second sub-structure, wherein the joint comprises an overlap region where the end regions of the first and the second sub-structures overlap such that the first sub-structure is inside the second sub-structure. The present invention also provides an aircraft comprising such an aircraft structure and a method of manufacturing an aircraft structure.


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