US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on Feb. 10 for "Ducted supplemental power unit of aircraft" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,427, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Ducted supplemental power unit of aircraft" was invented by Robert C. Cooney (Janesville, Wis.) and David M. Kucharski (Delavan, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supplemental power generation arrangement for an aircraft includes a duct defined in the aircraft, a ram air turbine located in the duct and driven to rotate about a turbine axis by a ram airflow through the duct. One or more accessory components are operably connected to the ram air turbine. The ram air turbine is configured to provide rotational energy to power the one or more access...