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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2024
Rtx Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Orin G. Avidane, Lighthouse Point, FL (US);
Javier A. Cue, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US);
Nathan A. Snape, Tolland, CT (US);
RTX Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
A power and thermal management system thermal bus vapor cycle architecture including a bypass duct formed between a gas turbine inner fan duct and a gas turbine outer fan duct; a condenser coil located within the bypass duct, the condenser coil being configured as an annulus disk shape heat exchanger; at least one evaporator coil fluidly coupled to the condenser coil and located within the bypass duct upstream of the condenser coil relative to a bypass air flow direction; a gearbox in operative communication with the gas turbine engine; and a variable speed compressor in operative communication with the gearbox, the variable speed compressor being fluidly coupled with the at least one evaporator coil and the condenser coil.