US 12,252,272 B2
Aircraft floor grid transport system for assembling an aircraft fuselage barrel and method of calibrating said transport system
Jean-Marc Datas, Toulouse (FR); Thomas Cartereau, Toulouse (FR); Jacques Bouriquet, Toulouse (FR); André Aquila, Blagnac (FR); Nicolas Darbonville, Blagnac (FR); Thomas Autret, Blagnac (FR); Joël Barboule, Toulouse (FR); Sébastien Bayonne, Toulouse (FR); Patrick Guerin, Toulouse (FR); and Sjoerd Van Der Veen, Toulouse (FR)
Assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.), Toulouse (FR)
Filed by AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.), Toulouse (FR)
Filed on Jul. 24, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/357,741.
Claims priority of application No. 2207611 (FR), filed on Jul. 25, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0025559 A1, Jan. 25, 2024
Int. Cl. B64F 5/10 (2017.01)
CPC B64F 5/10 (2017.01) 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for transporting an aircraft floor grid configured to manipulate a floor grid of an aircraft to assemble a fuselage barrel, comprising:
a rectangular spreader having an upper face and a lower face, the rectangular spreader having two longitudinal ends;
a stabilizer device configured to associate with referential positioning devices of an assembly platform, the stabilizer device is located at and fixed to the two longitudinal ends of the rectangular spreader;
a plurality of fixing devices distributed over the lower face of the rectangular spreader and configured for fixing the floor grid to the rectangular spreader, each of the fixing devices including a fixing element configured to fix to the floor grid, each of the fixing devices having an adjustment length (L) between the fixing element and the lower face of the rectangular spreader that is adjustable vertically.