Patent ID: 11866190
Assignee: ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  Y | IPC B

Claim 16:
17. An aircraft including a cabin, an original cabin floor and an auxiliary fuel port, and further comprising a floor system designed for use with the aircraft, the floor system being configured to be detachably installed within said cabin and overlying the original cabin floor, the floor system comprising:
one or more bottom panels configured to match at least a portion of the original cabin floor;
one or more top panels configured for providing, when the floor system is installed in the aircraft over the original cabin floor, a replacement cabin floor of the cabin overlying and replacing said at least portion of the original cabin floor,
wherein said replacement cabin floor is configured for providing a similar load-carrying capacity for the aircraft as said original cabin floor,
wherein said one or more top panels each define a general planar surface;
and
one or more fuel tanks disposed between the one or more top panels and the one or more bottom panels and defining an internal space for containing liquid fuel therewithin, at least one of said one or more fuel tanks being configured for connection to an auxiliary fuel port of the aircraft for enabling supplying said fuel to the aircraft;
wherein the floor system comprises a height, a width and a length, wherein said height is less than said width, and wherein said height is less than said length; and
wherein said height is independent of a level of fuel accommodated in the tank,, wherein the floor system is detachably installed within the cabin and overlying the original cabin floor such as to provide the replacement cabin floor, and wherein at least one of said one or more fuel tanks is connected to the auxiliary fuel port.