US Patent Issued to SAFRAN POWER UNITS on June 30 for "Method for the piloted start-up of a gas turbine of an aircraft, and corresponding system" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,091, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAFRAN POWER UNITS (Toulouse, France).

"Method for the piloted start-up of a gas turbine of an aircraft, and corresponding system" was invented by Marc Daniel Tunzini (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine of an aircraft includes start-up system configured to drive a shaft of the gas turbine in rotation. The start-up system includes a control system and a brushless asynchronous electric machine and is supplied with a DC voltage. A method for starting the gas turbine includes the steps of converting the DC voltage into a three-phase voltage control system based on ...