Patent ID: 7815147

Claim:
Reinforced cover for cut-outs in an aerodynamic contour of a vehicle, particularly for an aircraft, comprising a first section for securing the cover to an external panel of a structural element of the vehicle by attachment means, the external panel having an inner surface and an outer surface, a flexible second section being tongue-shaped and having an extension that at least partially covers a cut-out between the external panel and a moving part of the vehicle and with a free end which ends on said moving part, the second section having an inner surface and an outer surface, reinforcement means, and a low-friction layer which at least partially covers the inner surface of said second section, the first section being secured on the inner surface of the external panel and the outer surface of the second section flushing with the outer surface of the external panel as a continuation of said outer surface of the external panel; the reinforcement means comprising a reinforcement member with at least one fiberglass layer in epoxy resin having a thickness and formed at the outer surface of the first section and at least in one adjacent area to said first section of the outer surface of said second section; said reinforcement member in the first section having an under surface and extending substantially in a first axial plane and in the said second section extending substantially in a second axial plane, said first axial plane being different from said second axial plane; an elastic member connected on the under surface of the reinforcement member on at least the adjacent area of the second section; and the second section comprises a first area plan view which extends from said adjacent area with a first cross-section, and a second area plan view with a second cross-section smaller than the cross-section of the first area and which extends towards said free end.