US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Dec. 16 for "Aircraft part having a floor joined to a fuselage portion via elastic link rods" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,155, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Aircraft part having a floor joined to a fuselage portion via elastic link rods" was invented by Jerome Durand (Toulouse, France) and Benoit Orteu (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft part has a fuselage portion and a floor, at least a part of which is joined to the fuselage portion via elastic link rods. Each elastic link rod is provided with a first end that is configured to be fixed to the floor and with a second end that is configured to be fixed to the fuselage portion. The elastic link rods are configured to exhibit a stif...