US 11,884,172 B2
Battery charging for hybrid electric powerplants
Kyle Stephen Ives, Loves Park, IL (US); and Stephen Minshull, Bromsgrove (GB)
Assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed by Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed on Jul. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/390,026.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/058,873, filed on Jul. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0032799 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H02J 7/00 (2006.01); B60L 53/24 (2019.01); B60L 50/60 (2019.01); B60L 58/12 (2019.01); B60L 15/20 (2006.01); B64D 27/24 (2006.01); B64D 31/00 (2006.01); H02J 7/14 (2006.01); B64D 35/08 (2006.01); B64D 27/02 (2006.01)
CPC B60L 53/24 (2019.02) [B60L 15/20 (2013.01); B60L 50/60 (2019.02); B60L 58/12 (2019.02); B64D 27/24 (2013.01); B64D 31/00 (2013.01); B64D 35/08 (2013.01); H02J 7/00032 (2020.01); H02J 7/0048 (2020.01); H02J 7/1469 (2013.01); B60L 2200/10 (2013.01); B64D 2027/026 (2013.01); Y02T 50/60 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A battery charging system for a hybrid electric powerplant configured to determine a maximum available charging power available from windmilling and/or excess thermal engine power available, and to use up to the maximum available charging power and/or the excess thermal engine power available to charge a battery;
a control module configured to determine the maximum available charging power available from windmilling, wherein the control module includes a windmilling power available module configured to receive aircraft data and to determine the maximum available charging power available from windmilling.