US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on March 3 for "Air intake lip of an aircraft engine nacelle provided with a passive shut-off device for an exhaust device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,326, issued on March 3, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Air intake lip of an aircraft engine nacelle provided with a passive shut-off device for an exhaust device" was invented by Benoit Przybyla (Toulouse, France) and Szymon Fulara (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air intake lip of an aircraft engine nacelle provided with a passive shut-off device for exhaust devices. The passive shut-off device is capable of adopting a shut-off position in which it shuts off the exhaust devices and an open position in which it clears the exhaust devices as a function of the temperature perceived by the ...