Propulsion system for an aircraft, said propulsion system comprising a fuel cell

    公开(公告)号:US11945593B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-02

    申请号:US17783117

    申请日:2020-10-05

    Applicant: Airbus SAS

    Inventor: Daniel Kierbel

    Abstract: A propulsion system comprising a nacelle with an air channel along a longitudinal direction, an electric motor whose output drives a propeller, and a fuel cell, comprising a core outside the air channel, open channels, each of which has an inlet and an outlet opening in the air channel, and, for each open channel, a fuel chamber, an electrolyte between the open channel and the fuel chamber, a cathode, and an anode, each open channel having an inlet surface area which is less than the surface area of an intermediate area between the inlet and the outlet, the surface area of the outlet being smaller than the surface area of the intermediate area. Such a system makes it possible to have the fuel cell close to the electric motor, thereby reducing the lengths of the electrical conductors between them, and consequently improving the operation of the fuel cell.

    Aircraft having articulated horizontal tail units

    公开(公告)号:US11220323B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-11

    申请号:US16297841

    申请日:2019-03-11

    Applicant: Airbus SAS

    Inventor: Daniel Kierbel

    Abstract: An aircraft comprising a fixed structure, a fuselage mounted on the fixed structure and a tail unit system comprising a structural element housed inside the fuselage and mounted to be rotationally mobile relative to the fixed structure about a transverse axis of rotation parallel to a transverse axis of the aircraft. A first actuation system displaces the structural element in rotation about the transverse axis of rotation, on either side of the structural element. A horizontal tail unit has one end rotationally mobiley mounted on the structural element about a longitudinal axis of rotation parallel to a longitudinal axis of the aircraft and another end which extends out of the fuselage by passing through a window in the fuselage. For each horizontal tail unit, a second actuation system displaces the horizontal tail unit in rotation about the longitudinal axis of rotation.

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