US Patent Issued to SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES on Dec. 23 for "Turboprop capable of providing a ram air turbine function and aircraft comprising such a turboprop" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,248, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES (Bordes, France).

"Turboprop capable of providing a ram air turbine function and aircraft comprising such a turboprop" was invented by Lucie Stephanie Apostin (Moissy Cramayel, France), Didier Claude Chartrain (Moissy Cramayel, France) and Jean-Michel Presse (Moissy Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turboprop includes a propeller, a propeller shaft carrying the propeller, the propeller being a variable-pitch propeller having a propeller pitch, a rotating electric machine having at least a first configuration in which it is mechanically coupled to the pr...