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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2023
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Nicholas Taylor Moore, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Andrew James Fleming, Franklin, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Evendale, OH (US);
Abstract
An aircraft includes an aircraft heat source; a propulsion system including an electric propulsion engine, the electric propulsion engine including an electric motor and a fan rotatable by the electric motor, the electric propulsion engine further defining a fan air flowpath; a thermal management system including a heat source exchanger in thermal communication with the aircraft heat source, a heat sink exchanger in thermal communication with the fan air flowpath of the electric propulsion engine, and a thermal distribution bus extending from the heat source exchanger to the heat sink exchanger; and a control system operably connected to the thermal management system for selectively thermally coupling the heat sink exchanger with the heat source exchanger.