Patent 7686249 was granted and assigned to Airbus Deutschland GmbH on March, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a frame member for an aircraft is provided comprising a clip region and a frame region. According to an aspect of this exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the clip region, shear web region and the frame region are integrated into the frame member and be formed from an extrusion mold by a milling process. Advantageously, this allows for a reduced number of individual elements for forming a frame member and provides the flexibility of variation of the forms and dimensions of a frame member for an aircraft.