Patent ID: 6168114
Filing Date: 2001-01-02
Classification: B64C

Abstract:
Door system for a passenger aircraft, having a supporting device that supports a door panel in a pivotably movable fashion on a door frame and with a lifting device connected thereto which carries the door panel on a curved lifting movement path into a complete closed position at the end of an inward pivoting movement, transversely to the pivoting direction, with a shapewise engagement with receiving elements integral with the door frame, and moves outward in an opposite lifting direction out of shapewise engagement at the beginning of the opening process, and with a lifting and pivoting drive that is jointly associated with the lifting and supporting device and is reversed at the end of the opening travel between the lifting and supporting device, wherein a lift lock is provided that is actuated in the completely closed position of door panel and locks the panel to door frame independently of the lifting and supporting devices and the lifting and pivoting drive.