Patent 8181443 was granted and assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada on May, 2012 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A cooling system of a gas turbine engine, includes a heat exchanger having a common wall shared by a first air passage for directing a portion of a compressor air flow to be used as cooling air, and a second air passage for directing a portion of a bypass air flow, the portion of the compressor air flow being thereby cooled by the portion of the bypass air flow through the common wall.