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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2023
Airbus Operations Sas, Toulouse, FR;
Airbus Operations SAS, Toulouse, FR;
Abstract
In an aircraft, a fuel return valve (FRV) controls a flow of fuel, used to cool an oil feeding a propulsion engine and an oil of an integrated drive generator (IDG). A first sensor supplies measurements of the oil temperature at an output port of the IDG and a second sensor supplies measurements of oil temperature of the propulsion engine. An FRV operation monitoring system: determines, for each flight of the aircraft, an oil temperature maximum at an output port of the IDG and/or a maximum oil temperature of the propulsion engine; assesses a trend of one and/or the other of the oil temperature maxima over several flights; and generates an alarm when the trend of one and/or the other of the oil temperature maxima shows that a predetermined threshold has been exceeded.