US Patent Issued to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS on Dec. 16 for "Monitoring system for monitoring a hybrid power plant of a rotorcraft, associated rotorcraft and method" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,183, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS (Marignane, France).

"Monitoring system for monitoring a hybrid power plant of a rotorcraft, associated rotorcraft and method" was invented by Marc Gazzino (Marseilles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system for monitoring a hybrid power plant of a rotorcraft comprising at least one rotor. The hybrid power plant has an electric motor comprising a first drive shaft, a heat engine comprising a second drive shaft and a gearbox. The monitoring system includes at least one first sensing device measuring a first item of torque information representative of a firs...