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Aircraft override for an energy storage system

Grant US12583602B2 Kind: B2 Mar 24, 2026

Assignee

Rolls-Royce Corporation

Inventors

Stephen Andrew Long, Michael Dougherty, Tomasz Marek Lubecki, Firman Sasongko, Chandana Gajanayake, Michael Adam Zagrodnik

Abstract

A power reduction system for an energy storage system of an aircraft includes a controller configured to control power reduction of power supplied from the energy storage system to an aircraft engine supply bus; and an override switch configurable in an override state and a non-override state. The override switch is configured to: in the non-override state, permit the controller to control the power reduction according to a default configuration comprising one or more parameters that trigger the power reduction; and in the override state, control the power reduction to be performed according to a relaxed configuration that at least one of relaxes and omits the one or more parameters in the default configuration.

CPC Classifications

B64D 31/00 B64D 27/24 B64D 27/026 B64D 2221/00 B60L 58/10 B60L 2200/10 H02J 3/322 H02J 7/0063 H02J 2310/44

Filing Date

2023-09-06

Application No.

18462210

Claims

15