US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on Feb. 24 for "Integrated air cycle machine for an environmental control system of an aircraft" (New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,098, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Integrated air cycle machine for an environmental control system of an aircraft" was invented by Viktor Kilchyk (Williamsville, N.Y.) and John Giuliano (North Granby, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air cycle machine (ACM), having a heat exchanger having a front end and an aft end; a compressor at the front end of the heat exchanger; a turbine at the aft end of the heat exchanger; a shell having a shell front part that surrounds the compressor and defines a shell inlet, a shell aft part that surrounds the turbine and defines a shell outlet, ...