Kopter Group Ag

Kopter Germany Gmbh

Andreas Dummel

Andreas Löwenstein

Detlev Matthias Even

Johann Werner Hettenkofer

Daniel Redmann

Johannes Hettenkofer

Detlev Even

Nicolai Stadlmair

A drive unit, particularly for the main rotor of a rotary wing aircraft, comprises: a planetary gear mechanism including a plurality of planetary gears. Each planetary gear has at least one planet wheel with toothing and the planetary gears are arranged concentrically to a central axis inside the planetary gear mechanism so that a rotatable shaft, in particular a rotor shaft of the rotary wing aircraft, can be driven by the planetary gears or the sun wheel. A compact and simplified drive unit can be provided in a very wide range of fields of use, particularly for driving a main rotor of a rotary wing aircraft. This can be achieved in that a first drive, particularly an electric drive, is integrated into at least one planetary gear, comprising a planet wheel and a planet wheel carrier, to form a first drive unit, so that the shaft can be set rotating by the first drive.

Drive unit with gear mechanism and electric drive for a main rotor of a rotary wing craft

Disclosed is a rotor system for an aircraft including a rotor having multiple rotor blades disposed about an axis of rotation of the rotor substantially radially. A plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation, which extends through the rotor blades in a radial direction, forms a rotor plane. A rotor shroud surrounds the rotor circumferentially with regard to the axis of rotation, confines an air duct of the rotor extending in an axial direction of the axis of rotation, and forms a hollow structure extending circumferentially with regard to the axis of rotation. The hollow structure has on its circumferential face facing the rotor in the radial direction an area permeable to gas. The rotor plane intersects the area, and the hollow structure is configured to at least partially absorb acoustic waves of at least one frequency penetrating through the area.

Rotor system for an aircraft

A rotorcraft having an electric drive for driving a main rotor of a rotorcraft, more particularly a helicopter, the electric drive comprising: a coupler for coupling the electric drive to a rotor mast, which can be coupled for conjoint rotation with a drive unit of a helicopter rotor transmission, for coupling for conjoint rotation with the main rotor or tail rotor. A rotorcraft with an electric drive is provided with which the space requirement is reduced, the construction is simplified and the maintenance requirement is reduced. This problem is solved in that the electric drive is designed as an electric ring motor, with the electric ring motor being arranged and attached coaxially with the rotor mast.

Rotorcraft having an electric drive for driving a main and/or tail rotor of the rotorcraft

A hybrid propulsion system with controllers and a drive shaft of a helicopter with a main rotor connected to a gearbox which can keep a flight attitude set by a pilot stable. It includes a pilot controller, a combustion engine and an electric motor, both of which act directly on the drive shaft. The VM is connected to a VM controller, and the EM is connected to an EM controller. One torque sensor and one tachometer are each arranged on the drive shaft, wherein during operation both the VM controller and the EM controller are able to receive values for the current speed and the current torque. Specified values for speed and torque, in which the VM can attain its optimum efficiency, are stored in memory and can be retrieved by the EM controller, wherein the first value can also be retrieved by the VM controller.

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Andreas Dummel