Patent ID: 7832686

Claim:
A hinge mechanism for an aircraft door positioned in a fuselage, the hinge mechanism positioned and configured to generate a combined displacement and swivel movement, the hinge mechanism comprising: a displacement mechanism physically linked to the aircraft door, and positioned and configured kinematically such that activation of the displacement mechanism displaces in a displacement direction the aircraft door from a home position, in which the aircraft door is closed, to a first open position, the displacement direction being a circumferential direction of the fuselage; a telescopic scissor-type mechanism physically linkable to the fuselage, the scissor-type mechanism being positioned and kinematically configured such that activation of the telescopic scissor-type mechanism swivels the aircraft door from the first open position of the aircraft door at the fuselage to a final wide open aircraft door position on a polar axis perpendicular to the direction of displacement; and an activation device positioned and configured to provide a continuous force impingement to the displacement mechanism and to the scissor-type mechanism such that for opening the aircraft door from the home position to the first open position, the continuous force impingement on only the displacement mechanism rotates the displacement mechanism in a moving direction while the telescopic scissor-type mechanism is stationary, and such that for opening the door beyond the first position to the final wide open aircraft door position, the continuous force impingement rotates the telescopic scissor-type mechanism in the moving direction while leaving unchanged a position of the displacement mechanism with respect to the door, wherein the moving direction of the displacement mechanism and a moving direction of the telescopic scissor-type mechanism comprise at least one coinciding direction component such that a continuous course of motion occurs.