Pratt-Whitney Canada Corp

Eric Ostiguy

Carmine Lisio

Kevin Nguyen

Xuening Lu

Louis-Philippe Larose

A method of regenerating an electric power storage unit for an aircraft hybrid electric propulsion (HEP) system is provided. The HEP system includes a thermal engine, an electric motor, an electric power storage unit, a primary gearbox, and a propulsion unit. The electric motor is configured to selectively provide rotational drive to the propulsion unit. The method includes: controlling the electric motor to operate as the generator; controlling the primary gearbox to be in an output disengaged configuration, wherein in the output disengaged configuration the primary gearbox is disengaged from driving the propulsion unit and the primary gearbox is transfers rotational drive produced by the thermal engine to the electric motor; operating the thermal engine to drive the primary gearbox in the output disengaged configuration; and regenerating the electric power storage unit by providing electrical energy produced by the electric motor to the electric power storage unit.

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St-Basile-le-Grand, Canada

Eric Ostiguy