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US 2012/0233988 A1Published application
Aircraft capable of hovering
AssigneeAgustawestland S.P.A.
InventorsMassimo Brunetti, Andrea Cogliati, Dario Iannucci, Alessandro Scandroglio
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Abstract
An aircraft, capable of hovering, having drive means; and at least one exhaust duct connected to an outlet of the drive means to expel the exhaust gas, produced by fuel combustion, from the aircraft. At least part of the exhaust duct has a thermoelectric conversion circuit for Seebeck-effect converting to electric energy the thermal gradient produced between the inside and outside of the exhaust duct by flow of the exhaust gas.
Claims14
1) An aircraft (1), capable of hovering, comprising drive means (7);
- and at least one exhaust duct (8, 8′) connected to an outlet of said drive means (7) to expel the exhaust gas, produced by fuel combustion, from the aircraft;
- the aircraft being characterized in that at least part of said exhaust duct (8, 8′) comprises a thermoelectric conversion circuit (15) for Seebeck-effect converting to electric energy the thermal gradient produced between the inside and outside of the exhaust duct (8, 8′) by flow of said exhaust gas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.