US 11,807,371 B2
Aircraft having hybrid-electric propulsion system with electric storage located in fuselage
Frank Becker, Saint Lambert (CA); Frank Abruzzese, Dollard-des-Ormeaux (CA); Patrick Linteau, St. Lambert (CA); Xi Wang, Montreal (CA); Antonio Pizzi, Verdun (CA); Charles E. Lents, Amston, CT (US); and John N. Buzzard, Rockford, IL (US)
Assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed by Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed on Jun. 12, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/900,681.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/861,861, filed on Jun. 14, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0031934 A1, Feb. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. B64D 27/24 (2006.01); B64C 1/16 (2006.01); B64D 27/02 (2006.01)
CPC B64D 27/24 (2013.01) [B64C 1/16 (2013.01); B64D 2027/026 (2013.01); B64D 2221/00 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An aircraft comprising:
a fuselage defining a longitudinal axis between a forward end and an aft end;
an airfoil extending laterally from the fuselage; and
an electrical system configured to power an electric motor of a hybrid electric propulsion system, the electrical system including:
an electric storage and an electric-motor controller electrically connected to the electric storage, wherein the electric-motor controller is positioned on or in the fuselage and wherein the electric storage is positioned within the fuselage; and
at least one conductor configured to extend from the electric storage to the electric motor to electrically connect the electric storage and the electric motor, wherein the at least one conductor follows a circumferential curvature of the fuselage, wherein at least one conductor of the at least one conductor extends from the electric storage up a first side of a cabin wall circumferentially about the longitudinal axis of the fuselage to the electric motor controller, wherein at least one conductor of the at least one conductor extends from the electric motor controller to the electric motor in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.