TIBS - Electrically driven airplane doors - power supply
Overview
Background & policy context:
Doors from passenger aircrafts are opened and closed manually. Normally, the cabin crew engages in unlocking, opening and closing of the doors. Opening aircraft doors requires a certain physical strength because of the design of contemporary aircrafts and thus constitutes a challenge to some cabin crew members. Particularly in emergency situations this might endanger evacuation and rescue procedures.
Objectives:
To support cabin crews of commercial passenger airplanes the project aims at developing technical aids to unlock and open aircraft doors in particular under hazardous conditions. More precisely: the project will develop an emergency power supply with a new storage technique consisting of Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) batteries for aircraft doors and manufacture a respective prototype.
Methodology:
The project pursued the following tasks:
- Conceptualizing the Li-Ion battery technology;
- Manufacturing the prototype;
- functionality, temperature and vibration tests.
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