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Distributed approach to electronic engine control for gas turbine engines

  • US 8,295,995 B2
  • Filed: 04/22/2009
  • Issued: 10/23/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A distributed electronic engine control system comprising:

  • an airframe module, an electronic engine control module, and an engine I/O module, the modules arranged in locations remote from one another, each of the modules removably secured to a docking station at each of the locations;

    a serial communications bus interconnecting the modules with one another;

    a first engine controls device connected to the engine I/O module and configured to interact with an engine component and provide a first data; and

    wherein the engine I/O module includes inner loop control logic using the first data and producing a second data in response thereto, the electronic engine control module including an outer loop control logic using the second data and producing a third data in response thereto, the airframe module receiving power and distributing the power to the electronic engine control and engine I/O modules, the first, second and third data provided on the serial communications bus.

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