Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hybrid tiltrotor drive system
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Application No.: US15967831Application Date: 2018-05-01
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Publication No.: US10906656B2Publication Date: 2021-02-02
- Inventor: Colton James Gilliland , Mark Alan Przybyla , Eric Stephen Olson
- Applicant: Bell Textron Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Fort Worth
- Assignee: Bell Textron Inc.
- Current Assignee: Bell Textron Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Fort Worth
- Agency: Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP
- Main IPC: B64D27/02
- IPC: B64D27/02 ; B64C29/00 ; B64D27/10 ; B64D27/24

Abstract:
An exemplary tiltrotor aircraft with a hybrid drive system includes a first propulsion system having a first engine and a first supplemental driver operably coupled to a first proprotor that is operable between a helicopter mode and an airplane mode and a second propulsion system having a second engine and a second supplemental driver operably coupled to a second proprotor that is operable between a helicopter mode and an airplane mode.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190337629A1 HYBRID TILTROTOR DRIVE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2019-11-07
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