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US 12,325,528 B2Granted
Aircraft cooling system including parallel cooling circuits with common pipe
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorYuichi Fukuchi
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Abstract
A cooling system includes a rotor (VTOL rotor, cruise rotor) for generating at least one of lift or thrust of an aircraft, a component group formed of a plurality of electrical components for rotating the rotor, and a cooling circuit for cooling the component group, wherein a plurality of the component groups corresponding to a plurality of the rotors are provided, and the plurality of component groups are cooled by the same cooling circuit.
Claims6
An aircraft comprising:
- a first rotor configured to generate at least one of lift or thrust;
- a second rotor configured to generate at least one of lift or thrust;
- a first component group formed of a plurality of electrical components each configured to rotate the first rotor;
- a second component group formed of a plurality of electrical components each configured to rotate the second rotor;
- and
- a cooling circuit configured to cool the first component group and the second component group,
- wherein
- the cooling circuit includes
- piping,
- a radiator,
- a first pump, and
- a second pump, and
- the piping includes
- a first pipe provided with the first pump and arranged so as to cool the first component group,
- a second pipe provided with the second pump and arranged so as to cool the second component group, and
- a common pipe provided with the radiator and connected to an upstream-side end and a downstream-side end of each of the first pipe and the second pipe.
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