US Patent Issued to IHI on Feb. 24 for "Aircraft hybrid motive power source system and method for controlling same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,247, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to IHI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Aircraft hybrid motive power source system and method for controlling same" was invented by Naoki Seki (Tokyo) and Hitoshi Oyori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft hybrid motive power source system includes: a gas turbine engine mounted on an aircraft and including a low-pressure shaft and a high-pressure shaft as rotary shafts; a first motor generator drivingly connected to the high-pressure shaft; a second motor generator drivingly connected to the low-pressure shaft; a fuel cell to which a fuel gas and an oxidant gas are supplied; a fuel gas generator confi...