Patents by Inventor Vincenzo Anastasio

Vincenzo Anastasio has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9422905
    Abstract: A multi-shaft aeronautical turboprop engine in which a compressor draws in air coming from an air intake and drives, through an outer first shaft, a first stage of a turbine, which is provided with a second stage that drives a propeller by means of a second shaft mounted coaxially inside the first shaft. A starting system is provided that comprises: an asynchronous reversible electric machine connected by means of a transmission to the first shaft; a synchronous electric machine connected by means of a transmission to the second shaft; a reconfigurable electrical network that, in a phase of dynamic starting of the turboprop engine following its cutting out during flight, enables the transfer of energy produced by the synchronous electric machine, set in rotation by the propeller driven by dynamic effects, to the asynchronous electric machine, which is set in rotation at a lower speed than the asynchronous machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: ALENIA AERMACCHI S.P.A.
    Inventors: Vincenzo Anastasio, Fabrizio Cuomo
  • Publication number: 20140225378
    Abstract: A multi-shaft aeronautical turboprop engine in which a compressor draws in air coming from an air intake and drives, through an outer first shaft, a first stage of a turbine, which is provided with a second stage that drives a propeller by means of a second shaft mounted coaxially inside the first shaft. A starting system. is provided that comprises: an asynchronous reversible electric machine connected by means of a transmission to the first shaft; a synchronous electric machine connected by means of a transmission to the second shaft; a reconfigurable electrical network that, in a phase of dynamic starting of the turboprop engine following its cutting out during flight, enables the transfer of energy produced by the synchronous electric machine, set in rotation by the propeller driven by dynamic effects, to the asynchronous electric machine, which is set in rotation at a lower speed than the asynchronous machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Inventors: Vincenzo ANASTASIO, Fabrizio CUOMO
  • Patent number: 8505697
    Abstract: A braking system for an aircraft provided with undercarriage, wherein an axial-flux reversible electrical machine is associated to at least one wheel of the undercarriage and is set in rotation by the rotation of the wheel. Current-dissipator is provided, which can be connected to the windings of the axial-flux reversible electrical machine during rotation of the wheel in the landing phase for dissipating in the current-dissipator the induced currents generated by the machine, which behaves as current generator, and producing a braking effect that slows down the movement of the wheel. An epicyclic reducer is provided between the wheel of the undercarriage and the rotor of the reversible electrical machine. The epicyclic reducer provides a transmission ratio T in such a way that the rotor will turn at a velocity T? with respect to the velocity of rotation ? of the wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Alenia Aeronautica S.p.A.
    Inventors: Vincenzo Anastasio, Fabrizio Cuomo
  • Patent number: 8294394
    Abstract: A braking system for an aircraft provided with undercarriage, wherein an axial-flux reversible electric machine is set between the wheel and the frame of the undercarriage; current-dissipating resistors are provided, which can be connected to the windings of the axial-flux reversible electric machine during rotation of said wheel for dissipating by the Joule effect the induced currents generated by the axial-flux electric machine, which behaves as current generator, and producing a braking effect that slows down the movement of the wheel, thus exerting a braking action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Alenia Aeronautica S.p.A.
    Inventor: Vincenzo Anastasio
  • Publication number: 20110253833
    Abstract: A braking system for an aircraft provided with undercarriage, wherein an axial-flux reversible electrical machine is associated to at least one wheel of the undercarriage and is set in rotation by the rotation of the wheel. Current-dissipator means are provided, which can be connected to the windings of the axial-flux reversible electrical machine during rotation of the wheel in the landing phase for dissipating in the current-dissipator means the induced currents generated by the machine, which behaves as current generator, and producing a braking effect that slows down the movement of the wheel. An epicyclic reducer is provided set between the wheel of the undercarriage and the rotor of the reversible electrical machine; the epicyclic reducer provides a transmission ratio T in such a way that the rotor will turn at a velocity T? with respect to the velocity of rotation ? of the wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: ALENIA AERONAUTICA S.p.A.
    Inventors: Vincenzo ANASTASIO, Fabrizio Cuomo
  • Publication number: 20100188029
    Abstract: A braking system for an aircraft provided with undercarriage, wherein an axial-flux reversible electric machine is set between the wheel and the frame of the undercarriage; current-dissipating resistors are provided, which can be connected to the windings of the axial-flux reversible electric machine during rotation of said wheel for dissipating by the Joule effect the induced currents generated by the axial-flux electric machine, which behaves as current generator, and producing a braking effect that slows down the movement of the wheel, thus exerting a braking action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventor: Vincenzo Anastasio