US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Jan. 27 for "Clutch assembly for a hybrid-electric aircraft propulsion system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,216, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Clutch assembly for a hybrid-electric aircraft propulsion system" was invented by Eric S. Durocher (Boucherville, Canada) and Michel Labrecque (Ste-Julie, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft propulsion system includes an engine, an electric machine, and a gearbox. The gearbox includes an output shaft with an axis, an electric machine drive gear mounted on the output shaft and driven by the electric machine, and an engine drive gear couplable with the output shaft by a clutch assembly. The clutch assembly includes a first coupling ...