US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Sept. 29 for "Clutch assembly for a hybrid-electric aircraft propulsion system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,028, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Clutch assembly for a hybrid-electric aircraft propulsion system" was invented by Eric S. Durocher (Boucherville, Canada) and Daniel Ouimette (Terrebonne, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft propulsion system includes an engine, an electric machine, and a gearbox. The gearbox includes an output shaft, an electric machine drive gear, an engine drive gear, and a clutch assembly. The electric machine drive gear is mounted on the output shaft and driven by the electric machine. The engine drive gear is couplable with the output shaf...