Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft structure – Passenger or crew accommodation
Patent
1993-12-09
1996-02-13
Barefoot, Galen L.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft structure
Passenger or crew accommodation
244 58, 60 3933, 62134, 454 71, 454 76, B64D 1306
Patent
active
054906458
ABSTRACT:
An aircraft subsystem provides the aircraft with all its electrical and conditioned air requirements without requiring the extraction of either shaft power and/or pressurized air from the aircraft's main engines. At the core of this subsystem are two rotating assemblies journaled on non-oil lubricated bearings to a housing. One assembly includes a cooling turbine, a starter/generator, a core compressor, and a high pressure stage of a two stage axial turbine, all mounted on a single shaft. A combustor is disposed between the core compressor and the turbine. The other assembly is comprised of the low pressure stage of the axial turbine coupled to a load compressor via a second shaft. The high pressure turbine stage and cooling turbine are sized to drive the core compressor and starter/generator which provides all the aircraft's electrical needs both on the ground and inflight. The low pressure turbine stage drives the load compressor, which produces pressurized air that is conditioned through heat exchange components and then expanded and cooled across the cooling turbine before being delivered to the aircraft cabin.
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Allied-Signal Inc.
Barefoot Galen L.
Holden Jerry J.
McFarland James W.
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