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US 10,208,620 B2Granted
Overspeed protection device of an aircraft engine
AssigneesSafran Electronics & Defense, Safran Helicopter Engines
InventorsMichael Montoya, Nicolas Marti, Stephen Langford, Rafael Samson
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Abstract
The invention relates to an overspeed protection device of an aircraft engine.
Claims6
An overspeed protection device of an aircraft engine comprising a fuel supply system of said aircraft engine, the overspeed protection device comprising
- a voltage source delivering voltage according to negative or positive polarization via a polarizer mounted in parallel with said voltage source;
- a logic control device connected in series to the voltage source, said logic control device opening or closing the fuel supply system as a function of the polarization of the delivered voltage;
- a first electronic unit connected in series to the voltage source and the logic control device and which comprises
- a first speed sensor delivering a first discrete electric control signal as a function of a speed of the aircraft engine;
- a normally closed first switch controlled by said first discrete electric control signal;
- a second electronic unit connected in series to the voltage source and the logic control device and which comprises
- a second speed sensor delivering a second discrete electric control signal as a function of the speed of the aircraft engine;
- a normally closed second switch controlled by said second discrete electric control signal;
- the normally closed first switch and the normally closed second switch having a ‘closed’ state letting current pass through and an ‘open’ state letting no current pass through;
- the logic control device being arranged between both the first electronic unit and the second electronic unit;
- the normally closed first switch and the normally closed second switch being sensitive respectively to the first discrete electric control signal and the second discrete electric control signal only if the voltage has a same predetermined polarization, for this same predetermined polarization, the normally closed first switch and the second normally closed switch letting the first electronic unit and the second electronic unit isolate or connect the logic control device to the voltage source as a function of said discrete electric control signals, wherein the logic control device can only be supplied by the voltage source when both the normally closed first switch and the normally closed second switch are closed.
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