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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2021
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
David Alexander Hiett, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Stefan Joseph Cafaro, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
David Marion Ostdiek, Liberty Township, OH (US);
Robert Jon Mcquiston, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Paul Robert Gemin, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Mason, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Evendale, OH (US);
Abstract
A method for operating a hybrid-electric propulsion system of an aircraft is provided. The hybrid-electric propulsion system includes a gas turbine engine having a high pressure system, a low pressure system, and an electric machine coupled to one of the high pressure system or low pressure system. The method includes receiving data indicative of an actual or anticipated in-flight shutdown of the gas turbine engine; and adding power to the gas turbine engine through the electric machine in response to receiving data indicative of the actual or anticipated in-flight shutdown of the gas turbine engine.