US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on March 25 for "Integrated alternator for aerial vehicle engine" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,511, issued on March 25, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Integrated alternator for aerial vehicle engine" was invented by Michael Glynn Glucksman (Montgomery, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for generating electrical power from an engine in an aerial vehicle includes providing an alternator disk structure (ADS) between the engine and a propeller of the vehicle. The ADS is disposed concentrically with an engine drive shaft that drives the propeller and includes at least two concentric regions, a first region having a stator and a second region having a rotor. The first region is rotational...