Patent ID: 9038951
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: B64C,F16B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An aircraft assembly comprised of an aircraft skin cover, an aircraft edge panel adjacent said cover and a coupling assembly for joining said cover to said panel, the coupling assembly comprising: a shaft for connecting to said edge panel; a bracket including a mounting plate for connecting to said skin cover, a bracket arm extending from the mounting plate, and a head having a through-bore on the bracket arm, the shaft being received in the through-bore; and a setting device configured to act between the head and the shaft and to adjust and set the position of the edge panel with respect to the skin cover in the axial direction of the shaft, wherein the coupling assembly includes at least one spherical bearing surface configured to permit self-alignment of the setting device and to accommodate tilting of the shaft with respect to the head about a central point in two orthogonal directions.