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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020
Filed:
May. 24, 2017
Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US);
Louis J. Bruno, Ellington, CT (US);
Harold W. Hipsky, Willington, CT (US);
HAMILTON SUNSTRAND CORPORATION, Charlotte, NC (US);
Abstract
An airplane is provided. The airplane includes a compressing device including a turbine and a compressor. The turbine includes first and second inlets and provides energy by expanding one or more mediums. The first inlet is receives a first medium of the one or more mediums. The second inlet receives a second medium of the one or more mediums. The compressor receives a first energy derived from the first and second mediums being expanded across the turbine during a first mode of the compressing device, receives a second energy derived from the first medium being expanded across the turbine during a second mode of the compressing device, and compresses the second medium in accordance with the first mode or the second mode.