US 12,319,441 B2
Referential positioning device intended to position relative to each other at least one cabin floor grid and one side shell of an aircraft in order to assemble a fuselage barrel of the aircraft
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); Sjoerd Van Der Veen, Toulouse (FR); and Ralph Titze, Hamburg (DE)
Assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.), Toulouse (FR); and AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH, Hamburg (DE)
Filed by AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.), Toulouse (FR); and AIRBUS OPERATIONS GmbH, Hamburg (DE)
Filed on Jul. 24, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/357,768.
Claims priority of application No. 2207610 (FR), filed on Jul. 25, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0025560 A1, Jan. 25, 2024
Int. Cl. B64F 5/10 (2017.01); B64C 1/18 (2006.01); B64F 5/50 (2017.01)
CPC B64F 5/10 (2017.01) [B64C 1/18 (2013.01); B64F 5/50 (2017.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A referential positioning device configured to position relative to each other at least one cabin floor grid and one side shell of an aircraft (AC) in order to assemble a fuselage barrel of the aircraft, the cabin floor grid being able to be transported by a transport system comprising two pairs of arms, each pair disposed at a longitudinal end of a rectangular spreader (P) to which the cabin floor grid is able to be fixed, each arm of the two pairs of arms having an end with a V-shaped surface, the V-shaped surface having a first plane portion and a second plane portion extending away from each other to form a V, the fuselage barrel, after assembly, being linked to an orthogonal frame of reference (R) defined by an axis X parallel to a longitudinal axis of the fuselage barrel, a horizontal axis Y and a vertical axis Z, the referential positioning device being configured to be used in cooperation with three other referential positioning devices,
wherein a first fixing support is configured to fix the referential positioning device to the top of an alignment post of an assembly platform;
a partially spherical support fixed to the first fixing support, the partially spherical support having at least in part a spherical surface (S) with a center, the spherical surface (S) being intended to receive the V-shaped surface of an end of an arm of the transport system,
the referential positioning device further comprising a rod passing diametrically all the way through the partially spherical support, the rod having a longitudinal axis (L2) parallel to the axis X and passing through the center of the spherical surface (S), the rod having two ends protruding from either side of the spherical surface (S), the two ends of the rod each being intended to receive a tooth of an end of a fork that has two teeth of a device for positioning a side shell, to which device a side shell is fixed.