US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 8 for "Aircraft propulsion system with reduced rotational load of an engine shaft" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,330, issued on July 8, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Aircraft propulsion system with reduced rotational load of an engine shaft" was invented by Akinori Kita (Wako, Japan), Takeshi Matsumoto (Wako, Japan) and Daiko Tsutsumi (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft propulsion system capable of reducing a rotational load of an engine shaft is provided. An aircraft propulsion system includes a plurality of engines (60-1 and 60-2) and a controller (100). When a flight state is a first state, the controller (100) causes some of the plurality of engines (60-1 and 60-2) to operate while stopping the remaining ...