US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on May 27 for "Wing for an aircraft having a flap with a speed brake panel mounted in a rotatable manner" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,084, issued on May 27, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Wing for an aircraft having a flap with a speed brake panel mounted in a rotatable manner" was invented by Bernhard Schlipf (Hamburg, Germany) and Dort Daandels (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wing for an aircraft has a main wing and a trailing edge high lift assembly which has a flap and a connection assembly movably mounting the flap to the main wing. The connection assembly has a first actuator unit for moving the flap between the retracted position and at least one extended position. The flap has a leading edge part and a trailin...