Patent ID: 9168996
Filing Date: 2015-10-27
Classification: B64C

Abstract:
1. An aircraft pressurized cabin door defining a height direction, a width direction, and a depth direction, the aircraft pressurized cabin door comprising: an integral door structure unit made of a fiber composite and including an outer skin and a door framework disposed on an inner side of the outer skin, the framework including a plurality of edge supports and a plurality of longitudinal supports that extend in the width direction between the edge supports, such that a plurality of door framework interstices, each delimited by the inner side of the outer skin, by an edge support and a longitudinal support, are configured in a manner open toward an inner side of the door; wherein the door structure unit has at least one outer cover ply and a plurality of inner plies, each inner ply comprising a bottom, two lateral edge limbs generally transverse to the bottom, and two lateral longitudinal limbs generally transverse to the bottom and generally transverse to the lateral edge limbs, each inner ply extending continuously in a pan-shaped form, each lateral edge limb cooperating with an adjacent lateral edge limb to form a strut of one of the plurality of edge supports, each lateral longitudinal limb cooperating with an adjacent lateral longitudinal limb to form a strut of one of the plurality of longitudinal supports, wherein each continuous inner ply forms, at an end of the lateral edge limbs and lateral longitudinal limbs opposed to the bottom, a free-end flange facing away from the outer skin and generally transverse to the struts of the edge supports and the struts of the longitudinal supports; and wherein the outer skin is formed by the outer cover ply and the bottoms of the plurality of inner plies.