US Patent Issued to LATECOERE on Dec. 9 for "Aircraft door architecture comprising an emergency energy source" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,980, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to LATECOERE (Toulouse, France).

"Aircraft door architecture comprising an emergency energy source" was invented by Sebastien Devillez (Saint Jean, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft door architecture having: a door (1); an ejector (3); an inflatable evacuation device (4); an emergency energy source (6) connected to the ejector (3) and to the inflatable evacuation device (4); a control unit (9) having the two following operating states: a nominal operating state in which the inflatable evacuation device (4) is kept in its retracted position and the emergency energy source is deactivat...