Patent Abstract:
The invention aims to integrate the activation of the opening/closing phases around a single electric motor, including the treatment of the external window that may be present. An airplane electric door according to the invention has a locking system provided with means for locking a safety catch and a system ( 200 ) for coordinating door movements having a single actuating electric motor ( 2 ), a cylindrical support ( 501 ) having a vertical rotation axis (Z′Z), said support ( 501 ) being intended to be rotated by the motor ( 2 ), and a fixed guide ( 91 ). The support ( 501 ) has at least one guideway ( 511 ) connected to the arm ( 6 ), this guideway ( 511 ) being at least partially helical along the vertical axis (Z′Z) of the support ( 501 ). The fixed guide ( 9 ), which is likewise cylindrical with a vertical axis (Z′Z), possesses at least one double, vertical ( 91   v ) and horizontal ( 91   h ), camway for guiding the arm ( 6 ) successively in these two directions in a manner connected to the arm ( 6 ) in order to prevent it from lifting vertically and then to pivot it.

Full Description:
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION 
       [0001]    This application is a national stage entry of PCT/Ep2013/003429 filed Nov. 14, 2013, under the International Convention claiming priority over French Patent Application No. 1260893 filed Nov. 16, 2012. 
     
    
     FIELD OF THE INVENTION 
       [0002]    The invention relates to a method for opening/closing an aircraft electric door for a pressurized airframe, together with an electric door intended for implementing this method. This door can be a passenger door, a service door, a cargo door, in nominal or emergency use, or even an emergency exit door. 
       BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
       [0003]    The opening of an aircraft door can generally be broken down into several phases that succeed each other: unlocking and releasing the safety catch, lifting, pivoting and disengaging the door along the external side of the aircraft fuselage. In particular, triggering the lifting phase can enable the ice that may be present on the external side of the fuselage to be broken before continuing with opening the door through the pivoting and disengaging phases. For closing, the phases take place in the reverse order and according to inverse kinematics. 
         [0004]    In emergency situations, it is necessary to be able to trigger door opening in a single operation. Due to operability constraints on airline personnel, the opening or closing force on the door actuation handle must be limited in normal utilization conditions and in emergency conditions. 
         [0005]    In particular, slight icing of the door (for example, of the order of 2.5 mm thickness of ice on the fuselage) already causes opening difficulties, which does not allow an emergency evacuation of passengers in the safety conditions required in the event of evacuation to be performed. Heavy icing of the door (for example, of more than 6 mm thickness of ice) makes it difficult to open the door, which necessitates the intervention of several operators and causes a delay in disembarking the passengers. 
         [0006]    The doors are therefore advantageously equipped with electric motors that will act to guarantee their opening through an appropriate supply of power. These motors control actuators that guide the door according to pre-established kinematics, with a lifting phase to break the ice on the exterior of the fuselage. 
         [0007]    An aircraft electric door is known from the patent document EP 0 465 785, whose opening and closing kinematics are implemented by a dozen electric motors. These motors are digitally controlled to perform different functioning phases in a coordinated manner: pivoting, closing and locking, as well as the reverse functions. 
         [0008]    The patent document U.S. Pat. No. 5,163,639 furthermore describes an aircraft electric passenger door equipped with two electric motors for controlling the operations: a motor for controlling the rotation of the door and a motor for controlling the means of opening/closing the door. 
         [0009]    The electric door of the patent document EP 1 090 834 is also equipped with two electric motors actuated by a control and management unit. This unit transmits control signals to a first motor to lock/unlock and to lift a door lifting and (un)locking arm, and to a second motor to pivot the door and bring it to its final open position. 
         [0010]    In critical emergency exit situations—fire risk, unsecured landing, serious technical problem—the door must be capable of releasing itself automatically from the fuselage after having actuated the handle. This actuation is generally provided by a pneumatic jack linked with a gas supply. 
         [0011]    These solutions present major drawbacks with regard to safety, especially in cases of emergency opening, and more generally, with regard to the kinematics sequence. These problems are related to the coordination complexity between the motors in performing the different door opening/closing phases, and also to the presence of a pneumatic jack with its gas supply for activation in the event of an emergency. Moreover, breaking the external ice is not the subject of any special treatment in the motorized solutions. 
       SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
       [0012]    The invention aims to remedy these drawbacks of the prior art by integrating the activation of the different phases of releasing the door and harmonizing its movements by means of a single electric motor, including the treatment of the external ice that may be present. 
         [0013]    More precisely, the object of the present invention is a method for opening/closing an aircraft electric door for a pressurized airframe, passenger or service door, being driven by a single electric motor controlled by a door computer: 
         [0014]    for opening the door, after disarming the toboggan, to successively link the sequential phases of unlocking, lifting and pivoting the door by 
         [0015]    unlocking the safety catch of the door by releasing locking means of a locking system; 
         [0016]    electrically lifting the door with a door arm hinged on a vertical hinge mounted on the door, and, driven by the electric motor, with mechanically forced guidance along the vertical axis by preventing a horizontal rotational drive along the same axis; 
         [0017]    releasing a horizontal guideway when the vertical guideway comes against the stop, then pivoting the door arm on a horizontal guideway along a cylindrical surface of a vertical axis of rotation in order to disengage the door along the external aircraft fuselage; 
         [0018]    for closing the door, to rotate the door arm and the door in the reverse direction to that for opening, by horizontal guidance along the cylindrical surface, to stop the horizontal guidance for pivoting the door arm when this guidance comes to the stop, then of lowering the door arm and the door  1 , with mechanically forced guidance along the vertical axis by preventing the rotational drive. 
         [0019]    The door can be opened just as well from the exterior as from the interior of the aircraft, after disarming the toboggan and unlocking the safety catch, by lifting the door with the door arm then by rotating the door arm. 
         [0020]    According to preferred implementations: 
         [0021]    lifting is initiated by an accelerated phase using a lever for multiplying from a few millimeters to about ten millimeters that produces a sufficiently high force to break the ice that may have formed on the aircraft, between the perimeter of the door and the fuselage; 
         [0022]    the door computer manages the movements of the door according to the information transmitted by all of the position sensors fitted opposite the rotating parts equipped with roller bearing Hall effect tracks; 
         [0023]    in the event of an emergency, the unlocking of the door safety catch is triggered in a single operation by actuating an internal handle, which, through detection of its movement, transmits an unlocking signal to the door computer. 
         [0024]    The invention also relates to an aircraft electric door for a pressurized airframe, namely a passenger or service door, comprising a locking system provided with means for locking a safety catch and a system for coordinating door movements having a single electric motor driving a mobile cylindrical support having a vertical rotation axis, managed by a door computer, and a fixed guide, the mobile support and fixed guide being intended to control and coordinate the movement of the door arm. The support has at least one guideway linked with the arm, this guideway being at least partially helical along the vertical axis of the support. The door arm is capable of pivoting around a vertical hinge and is linked with door lifting means mounted between a shaft of the safety catch and the door arm. The fixed guide, likewise cylindrical with a vertical axis, possesses at least one double, vertical and horizontal, camway for guiding the arm successively in these two directions, respectively to prevent it from lifting vertically and then to pivot it. 
         [0025]    According to preferred embodiments: 
         [0026]    at least one lifting slider is associated with a lifting ramp of the door in order to form at least one lever for multiplying the initiating force for lifting the door in order to break the ice that may have formed on the aircraft, between the perimeter of the door and the fuselage; 
         [0027]    a triggering means, internal or external to the aircraft, is capable of actuating the unlocking of the safety catch, this means being chosen between a handle associated with an end of travel detection sensor and a push-button triggering an electrical signal linked with the door computer; 
         [0028]    position sensors are fitted opposite the rotating parts equipped with roller bearing Hall effect tracks and are linked with the door computer in order to transmit position information about these parts; 
         [0029]    in the event of an emergency opening, only the internal handle is capable of directly triggering the unlocking of the safety catch, this triggering being provoked by a signal from a sensor situated at the end of travel of the handle; 
         [0030]    a multiplying lifting lever is placed at each extremity of the safety catch shaft; 
         [0031]    the horizontal camway of the fixed cam is chosen among a groove, a raised edge of a support and a horizontal track, in order to keep the door lifted and to prevent it from lowering; 
         [0032]    the means of locking the safety catch comprise locks mounted on a lock shaft and associated with counter-locks mounted on the safety catch shaft, the locking link between the locks and the counter-locks being released by the triggering means; 
         [0033]    the cylindrical support is a sleeve, rotationally mobile, comprising a camway formed from a helical portion, globally slanting, linked with a guiding slider coming from the door arm; and the sleeve is surrounded by a cylindrical cam support, forming the fixed guide having a double, vertical and horizontal, camway linked with the same guiding slider; 
         [0034]    the mobile cylindrical support is a sleeve rotated by the motor via a vertical column, this sleeve comprising a camway formed from a helical portion, globally slanting, linked with a guiding slider coming from the door arm; and the fixed guide is constituted from a second sleeve coaxial with the first sleeve, forming the double, vertical and horizontal, camway linked with a second guiding slider coming from the door arm via a hinge arm with the motor vertical column passing through it; 
         [0035]    the vertical column is driven by a reducing gear associated with the electric motor; 
         [0036]    the cylindrical support is a screw rod rotated by a back-geared motor via a nut mounted on the rod, this threaded rod forming a helical guideway; and the fixed guide is constituted from a guideway sleeve coaxial with the rod and a hinge plate coming from a fuselage fitting. This sleeve forms a camway, vertical and horizontal, linked with a guiding slider coming from the rod, and the hinge plate forms a horizontal camway linked with another slider coming from the rod; 
         [0037]    the threaded rod is a rod with balls and the nut is a nut with balls. 
         [0038]    In this text, the term “slider” designates both a bearing part such as a roller, rotationally mobile as it moves in a camway or slide, and a non-rotating finger moving in translation in a camway or a slide. The term “motor” or electric motor includes the driving motors used in the field, the motors associated with reducing gears and back-geared motors. 
     
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         [0039]    Other data, characteristics and advantages of the present invention will emerge on reading the non-limited description that follows, with reference to the attached figures, which show, respectively: 
           [0040]      FIG. 1 , an overall view of the internal side of an aircraft door equipped with an example of a system for coordinating door movements according to the invention, implementing a set of door movement rollers; 
           [0041]      FIG. 2 , a perspective view of the locking system for the safety catch of the preceding example; 
           [0042]      FIGS. 3   a  to  3   c , perspective views illustrating the door arm lifting operation in the preceding example; 
           [0043]      FIGS. 4   a  to  4   c , side views of the door lifting lever and the safety catch shaft during an initial door lifting phase to break the ice covering the joining perimeter between the external fuselage and the door; 
           [0044]      FIGS. 5   a  to  5   c , perspective views ( FIGS. 5   a  and  5   b ) illustrating the door arm pivoting operation by horizontal guidance according to the preceding example, and also a partial sectional view showing the installation of the set of rollers ( FIG. 5   c ); 
           [0045]      FIGS. 6   a  and  6   b , two perspective views along two complementary viewing angles of the door in the closed position, the door being equipped with a second example of a system for coordinating movements with two door movement rollers; 
           [0046]      FIGS. 7   a  and  7   b , two perspective views along two complementary viewing angles of the door in the intermediate lifting position, the door being equipped with the second example of a system for coordinating movements; 
           [0047]      FIGS. 8 to 10 , perspective views of the door, respectively in the lifted position, in the intermediate position during its horizontal pivoting rotation, and in the final open position after its horizontal pivoting rotation, the door being equipped with said second example of a system for coordinating movements; 
           [0048]      FIG. 11 , a perspective view of a third example of a system for coordinating movement of an aircraft door having two rollers and a ball rod according to the invention, the door being in the closed position; 
           [0049]      FIGS. 12   a  to  12   c , overall and detailed perspective views, and also a vertical sectional view in a plane of symmetry of the third example of a system for coordinating movements, in the initial door closed position; 
           [0050]      FIGS. 13   a  and  13   b , and respectively  FIGS. 14   a  and  14   b , perspective and vertical sectional views in the plane of symmetry of this third example, respectively in the door ready-to-lift position and in the position of door lifted to the upper position, and 
           [0051]      FIGS. 15   a  and  15   b , respectively perspective and sectional views in the plane of symmetry of this third example, in rotation around the vertical axis, in order to pivot the door to the open position. 
       
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 
       [0052]    In all of this text, the qualifiers “vertical” and “horizontal” (and their derivatives), relative to the position of items in use, refer to the direction of the Earth&#39;s gravity, in relation to land or on water, and to a plane perpendicular to this direction. Furthermore, identical reference characters on the figures refer to the same items with the same functions and the paragraphs that describe them. 
         [0053]    With reference to  FIG. 1 , which illustrates an overall view of the internal side  1   a  of an example of an aircraft door  1  for passengers according to the invention, a single actuating electric motor  2  is managed by a digital control data processing unit  3 , known by the name “door computer”. An internal locking handle  4  allows a locking system S 4  to be released. A sensor C 1  is placed at the end of travel of the handle  4  in order directly to trigger the starting of the motor  2  in the event of an emergency opening. In normal conditions, this starting is triggered by a dual push-button B 4  of the “on/off” (open/closed) type. 
         [0054]    The electric door likewise comprises a system for coordinating movements  110 , vertical lifting movement and horizontal door pivoting movement. This system  110  comprises the single actuating electric motor  2 , a cylindrical sleeve  50  having a vertical rotation axis Z′Z, intended to be rotated by the motor  2 , and a fixed cam  9 . 
         [0055]    The electric motor  2  is likewise linked with a mobile cam  5  formed in the cylindrical sleeve  50  having the vertical rotation axis Z′Z. This mobile cam  5  is intended to perform the lifting of the door  1  and its pivoting. It has a guideway, called the camway  51 , of a door arm  6 . The arm  6  is hinged on a vertical hinge  61  mounted on the door  1 , in order to pivot the door  1  around the fuselage (see the description referring to  FIGS. 5   a  and  5   b ). The door arm  6  thus remains free in vertical translation along the axis Z′Z. In particular, during the flight phases, the arm  6  is not loaded by the weight of the door  1 . 
         [0056]    This arm  6  is furthermore linked, in axial rotation along the axis X′X, with a central linking lever  8 , itself linked in axial rotation on a safety catch shaft  43 . 
         [0057]    A fixed cam  9  fitted in a cylindrical sleeve around the sleeve  50  of the mobile cam  5  is likewise intended to guide the door arm  6  in two directions.  FIGS. 3   a  to  3   c  and  5   a  to  5   c  will more accurately illustrate these guideways in two directions. 
         [0058]    Moreover, a set of guide links  102  is provided on the upper part of the door  1  in order to ensure circular translation when the door opens. 
         [0059]    The perspective view of  FIG. 2  is a detailed illustration of the locking system S 4  of the safety catch. 
         [0060]    In this system, a lifting action (arrow F 1 ) through 180 degrees of the internal safety handle  4  (or the actuation of the push-button B 4  of  FIG. 1 ) unlocks the safety catch consisting of the tight contact of locks in the form of locking stops  41  of a lock shaft  42  against counter-locks  44  of the safety catch shaft  43 . The shaft  43  is then electrically released from the stop  41  by rotation of the lock shaft  42 , driven by the motor  2  actuated by the door computer  3  (see  FIG. 1 ). 
         [0061]    The rotation of the shafts  42  and  43  is detected and electronically monitored by position sensors C 2  and C 3  ( FIG. 1 ), respectively fitted opposite an extremity of the shafts  42  and  43 . These sensors receive a variable induction emitted by Hall effect tracks integrated in the shaft bearings. The sensors C 3  send the angular position of the shafts  42  and  43  to the door computer. 
         [0062]    More generally, the computer manages the movements of the door according to the information transmitted by all of the position sensors fitted opposite the rotating parts, especially—in the illustrated example—opposite the sensors of the shafts  42  and  43  and also that of the motor column (see below). 
         [0063]    This figure also shows the linking lever  8  mounted to rotate axially on a lever roller  81  arranged in a fitting  62  linking with the door arm  6 . 
         [0064]    The lifting operation of the door arm, which starts door opening, is illustrated by the perspective views of  FIGS. 3   a  to  3   c . In these figures (and also in  FIGS. 5   a  to  5   c ), the door arm  6  appears as transparent in order to avoid masking the components situated behind. 
         [0065]    The end of unlocking the safety catch, described above, transmits, via the door computer  3 , a command to the electric motor  2  to rotate the mobile cam  5  of vertical axis of rotation Z′Z. To do this, the angular position of the lock shaft  42  is detected, for example by the Hall effect sensors of the lock shaft  42 . 
         [0066]    For this lifting operation, a traveler, presented in the example as a set  63  of coaxial rollers (see  FIG. 5   c ) coming from the door arm  6 , is positioned in the helical and globally slanted camway  51  formed on the sleeve  50 . The roller  63  is likewise inscribed in a vertical guideway called the camway  9   v  of the fixed cam  9 . 
         [0067]    With reference to  FIG. 3   a , in which the safety catch is unlocked but the safety catch shaft  43  remains in the “door closed” position, the roller  63  is simultaneously placed at the low extremity of the slanted camway  51  and the vertical camway  9   v.    
         [0068]    After actuation of the rotation of the cam  5  (arrow F 2 ) by the electric motor  2  and unlocking of the safety catch shaft  43  (see the later passage referring to  FIG. 4   b ), the roller  63  rises in the slanted camway  51  of the mobile cam  5 , and also in the vertical camway  9   v  of the fixed cam  9  (see  FIG. 3   b ). This vertical camway  9   v  being fixed, the roller  63  rises vertically in the direction Z′Z and, in this rise, drives the door arm  6 , which therefore likewise rises vertically. The linking lever  8  is then axially rotated by the door arm  6 , and releases the safety catch shaft  43  from its locked position. 
         [0069]    The door arm  6  likewise drives a vertical lifting of the door  1 , and this lifting continues until the roller  63  ( FIG. 3   c ) reaches the upper extremity of the slanted camway  51  and that of the vertical camway  9   v.    
         [0070]    Respectively at the same moments when the views of  FIGS. 3   a  to  3   c  were taken,  FIGS. 4   a  to  4   c  illustrate more accurately, in side views in the frame  100  of the door  1 , the rotation of safety catch levers  4   a  placed at the extremities of the safety catch shaft  43  in the aim of unlocking the safety catch shaft  43 . In  FIG. 4   a , the shaft  43  is in the locked position relative to safety catch ramps  4   b  and to unlocking rollers  40  fitted on the safety catch levers  4   a . The unlocking rollers  40  are released, which at the same time releases the safety catch shaft  43  ( FIG. 4   b ). The rotation of the linking lever  8  then rotates the safety catch levers  4   a . In  FIG. 4   c , the door is lifted to the upper position, this lift corresponding to that of the linking fitting  62 . 
         [0071]    During this rotation, lifting rollers  7   a , mounted at the extremity of the safety catch shaft  43 , bear against lifting ramps  7   b , which allows a significant lifting force to develop, in order if necessary to break the ice covering the external skin of the aircraft ( FIGS. 4   b  and  4   c ). The moment exerted by the short lever arm formed between the rollers  7   a  and the ramps  7   b  supplies a large force, which, guided by the lifting ramp  7   b , increases the lifting force: the door is raised by a few millimeters with a force sufficient to break, mainly by shearing, the ice localized between the perimeter of the door and the fuselage. 
         [0072]    With reference to  FIGS. 5   a  and  5   b , which illustrate the pivoting operation of the door  1  when the door  1  is in the upper position at the end of the lifting operation (as illustrated by  FIG. 3   c ), the cam  5  continues to turn (arrow F 2 ). The set of coaxial rollers  63 , which abut the extremity of the slanted camway  51 , is no longer guided by the vertical camway  9   v . Driven by the sleeve  50 , it turns with the latter around the vertical axis Z′Z, while still bearing against a horizontal guideway, called the camway  9   h , of the cam  9 . This rotation causes that of the door arm  6 , pivoting around the hinge  61  of the door  1  (see  FIG. 1 ), and therefore causes the door  1  to move forward along the aircraft fuselage. 
         [0073]    The partial sectional view of  FIG. 5   c  more particularly illustrates the installation of the rollers  63   a  and  63   b  constituting the set  63 . The rollers  63   a  and  63   b  are mounted coaxially on a single axle  6   x.    
         [0074]    For door closing, the operations of door pivoting, door lowering, safety catch locking and immobilizing, take place in the reverse order through a control of the motor  2  in inverse rotation and through closing the internal safety handle  4  ( FIG. 1 ). 
         [0075]    A second embodiment of a system for coordinating door movements with two separate rollers is illustrated in  FIGS. 6   a  to  10 .  FIGS. 6   a  and  6   b  show two complementary perspective views of this system  200  in the door closed position. These complementary views  6   a  and  6   b , and also views  7   a  and  7   b  described below, make it possible to illustrate the relative positions of the rollers. 
         [0076]    In this second embodiment, the camway sleeves are separate: the coordination system  200  comprises a mobile cylindrical sleeve  501 , mounted on the vertical column  20 , which is rotated by the motor  2  via a reducing gear  21 , and a fixed cylindrical sleeve  91  coaxial with the mobile sleeve  501  along the axis Z′Z. The rotation of the column  20  is monitored by a Hall effect sensor C 4  ( FIG. 1 ), as are the lock shaft  42  and the safety catch shaft  43 . 
         [0077]    The mobile sleeve  501  comprises a camway  511  formed from a helical portion, globally slanted on the axis Z′Z, linked with a first door movement guide roller  631  coming from the door arm  6 . 
         [0078]    The fixed sleeve  91 , coaxial with the first sleeve  501 , furthermore forms a double camway  91   h  and  91   v , respectively vertical and horizontal, linked with a second door movement guide roller  632 . This second roller  632  comes from the door arm  6  via a lower yoke in which a bore  601  has been made such that the vertical column  20  of the motor can pass through it. 
         [0079]    The complementary perspective views of  FIGS. 7   a  and  7   b  illustrate an intermediate lifting position of the door arm  6  (and therefore of the aircraft door). In  FIG. 7   a , the first roller  631  appears to move forward in the slanted camway  511 , this camway rotating around the vertical axis Z′Z. Because the second roller  632  is vertically guided in the camway  91   v  ( FIG. 7   b ), the first roller  631  can only move likewise in a vertical movement when it travels the slanted camway  511 . 
         [0080]    With reference to the perspective view of  FIG. 8 , the rollers  631  and  632  are at the upper stops of the camways  511  and  91   v . The door arm  6  (and therefore the aircraft door), is then in the upper lifting position. 
         [0081]    As illustrated by the perspective view of  FIG. 9 , the first roller  631  is then driven in rotation around the axis Z′Z by the reducing gear  21  via the mobile sleeve  501 . In fact, the second roller is simultaneously guided through the horizontal camway  91   h , which extends as a continuation of the vertical camway  91   v.    
         [0082]    During this rotation, the door arm  6  pivots and  FIG. 9  illustrates the arm  6  in the intermediate pivoted position. When the second roller  632  has reached the stop of the horizontal camway  91   h  ( FIG. 10 ), the door arm  6  has fully pivoted and the door is fully disengaged along the external skin of the fuselage. 
         [0083]    A third embodiment of the system for coordinating movements of doors with rollers and with ball rods is illustrated in  FIGS. 11 to 15   b.    
         [0084]    In the perspective view of  FIG. 11 , the system for coordinating movements  300  corresponds to the position of the door arm  6  when the door is closed. This coordination system  300  comprises a vertical rod  23 , forming a threaded rod  502  with balls, and a fixed guideway sleeve  92  coaxial with the rod  23 . The coordination system  300  rests on fittings  330   s  and  330   i  via cylindrical hinge plates: two upper hinge plates  331   a  and  331   b  linked with an upper fitting  330   s , an intermediate hinge plate  331   c  and a lower hinge plate  331   d  linked with a lower fitting  330   i . The sleeve  92 , which is part of the lower fitting  330   i , has the intermediate hinge plate  331   c  as its base. 
         [0085]    The rod  23 , intended to be rotated by the back-geared motor  210 , forms a helical guideway  512  linked with a ball nut  633  for lifting the door arm  6 . 
         [0086]    Also illustrated in  FIG. 11  are the upper and lower hinge yokes  64  and  65  for rotationally mounting the door arm  6  on the rod  23 , and also an intermediate yoke  66 . These yokes are mounted on guide rings (not illustrated). 
         [0087]    With reference to the perspective and sectional views of  FIGS. 12   a  to  12   c , which illustrate the door arm  6  in the initial door closed position, the ball nut  633  appears to be mounted around the rod  502  of the rod  23 . The nut and rod with balls assembly forms a rotation system around the rod  23  that is virtually devoid of any friction. 
         [0088]    The fixed sleeve  92  of the intermediate fitting  331   c  comprises a vertical camway  92   v  ( FIGS. 12   b  and  12   c ). This vertical camway  92   v  is devoted to a guide roller  634  mounted on a portion  24   a  of a transverse rod  24 , consisting of two coaxial portions  24   a  and  24   b , and integral with the rod  23 . This transverse rod  24  is made to lift the door arm  6  vertically via the intermediate yoke  66 . Another upper transverse rod  25 , mounted above the intermediate yoke  66  of the door arm  6 , passes through the rod  23 . This upper transverse rod  25  is terminated by two rollers  635  and  636  mounted to turn around this transverse rod  25 . 
         [0089]    After the back-geared motor has been triggered by the push-button B 4  or by the sensor C 1  ( FIG. 1 ), the rod  23  is driven in translation in the direction of lift (arrow F 3 ) along the axis Z′Z, via the ball nut  633  linked with the threaded rod  502  ( FIG. 12   a ). The perspective and sectional views of  FIGS. 13   a  and  13   b  illustrate a position of the rod  23  ready to lift the door arm. 
         [0090]    From the initial door closed position ( FIGS. 12   a  to  12   c ) to the position of the rod  23  ready to lift the door ( FIGS. 13   a  and  13   b ), the rod  502  is mechanically prevented from rotating by the vertical guidance imposed by the roller  634  moving in the vertical camway  92   v  of the fixed sleeve  92 . In the ready-to-lift position ( FIGS. 13   a  and  13   b ), the transverse rod  24  has become embedded in the intermediate yoke  66  in order to lift it vertically. The transverse rod  25  lifts with the rod  23 . 
         [0091]    Such a vertical lifting of the door (still according to the arrow F 3  along the axis Z′Z), via the intermediate yoke  66  of the door arm  6 , finishes at the door lifting position called upper. This position is illustrated by the perspective and sectional views of  FIGS. 14   a  and  14   b . At this stage, the roller  634  has exited the vertical camway  92   v  of the fixed sleeve  92 , and coaxially along the vertical axis Z′Z, the upper transverse rod  25  has become embedded in the upper hinge plate  331   b.    
         [0092]    With reference to the perspective and sectional views of  FIGS. 15   a  and  15   b , the movements coordination system  300  is in the rotation phase for pivoting the arm  6  and opening the door along the external skin of the aircraft fuselage. 
         [0093]    During this phase, the exit of the roller  634  from the vertical camway  92   v  ( FIGS. 14   a  and  14   b ) releases the rotational drive (arrow F 4 ) of the rod  23  through the nut  633 . Until then, this rotation was mechanically prevented by the vertical camway  92   v . The rollers  635  and  636  then move in a horizontal camway  92   h  formed in the upper hinge plate  331   b  ( FIG. 15   b ). The vertical translation along the axis Z′Z is then blocked by the hinge plate  331   b . Furthermore, the lower transverse rod  24  is likewise driven in horizontal rotation in a toric groove provided in the intermediate yoke  66 . 
         [0094]    The invention is not limited to the embodiment examples described and illustrated. A battery can therefore be provided to supply electrical energy if the on-board network is no longer capable of supplying electrical current, especially in the event of an emergency. It is moreover possible to provide a substitute manual device to open the door if neither the on-board network nor the battery is capable of supplying electrical current. Such a device is not directly accessible, so that it cannot be deregulated, and is connected directly to the motor or back-geared motor. 
         [0095]    The airborne vehicle is usually an aircraft, but it could be a cargo airplane and, more generally, any flying machine capable of transporting passengers. 
         [0096]    Several parallel camways can furthermore be formed on the sleeves, these camways and the corresponding sliders being vertically aligned in the vertical camway of the fixed cam.

Technology Classification (CPC): 4