Patents Examined by Andew Nguyen
  • Patent number: 8677755
    Abstract: A process for management of thermal effluents of an aircraft that includes an airframe (110) and at least one propulsion system (112), whereby the at least one propulsion system (112) includes a gas turbine engine (116) that is supplied with fuel via a fuel supply circuit (122) that extends from a reservoir (124) that is arranged at the airframe (110), whereby the airframe (110) includes at least one source of thermal effluents (134), wherein the process includes at least partially dissipating—at the level of at least one propulsion system (112)—the thermal effluents that are generated at the airframe (110) by using as coolant the fuel that is used for supplying the gas turbine engine (116).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignees: Airbus Deutschland GmbH, Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Guillaume Bulin, Jan Dittmar