US Patent Issued to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS on Aug. 11 for "Modular power plant for a rotorcraft and associated rotorcraft" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,500, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS (Marignane, France).

"Modular power plant for a rotorcraft and associated rotorcraft" was invented by Douchane Fages (Saint-Cannat, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular power plant for a rotorcraft comprising at least one lift rotor, the power plant comprising: at least one combustion or electric engine; a main gearbox, comprising a gearbox housing and a toothed wheel arranged in an internal space at least partially delimited by the gearbox housing, the toothed wheel having a degree of rotational freedom about a primary axis of rotation relative to the gearbox hous...