US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Dec. 2 for "Sealing strip, control surface arrangement, aircraft wing and aircraft" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,018, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Sealing strip, control surface arrangement, aircraft wing and aircraft" was invented by Bernhard Schlipf (Hamburg, Germany) and Martin Fees (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing strip for sealing a gap between convexly curved aerodynamic surface elements of an aircraft. The sealing strip has a convexly curved outer side, welting sections at both longitudinal edges of the sealing strip for fixing the sealing strip at the aerodynamic surface elements, and a mid-seal section between the welting sections. The welting sections protrude o...