ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,511, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to AIRBUS OPERATIONS Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Composite core structures for aircraft" was invented by Guilherme Barsali (Bristol, Great Britain) and Dominique Chasteau (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A core structure (300) for a composite panel for an aircraft, for example a door fairing for a landing gear bay, including a sandwich structure in which core cells (301) are sandwiched between first and second body sides (skins 303, 305). The core cells are square or rectangular in shape and each have a void formed by cell walls (307). The first and second body sides and ...