Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Shaft internal lubrication with rifling grooves
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Application No.: US16203825Application Date: 2018-11-29
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Publication No.: US10969000B2Publication Date: 2021-04-06
- Inventor: Matthew Allen Slayter , Richard A. Himmelmann
- Applicant: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NC Charlotte
- Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
- Current Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NC Charlotte
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Main IPC: F16H57/04
- IPC: F16H57/04 ; F16N7/36 ; F02C7/275

Abstract:
According to an aspect, a method of providing internal shaft lubrication includes drip feeding a lubricant to a feed tube within a central bore of a shaft body. The lubricant is urged along a lubrication flow path including at least one rifling groove on an inner wall of the shaft body formed by the central bore and a plurality of lubrication holes axially distributed along the shaft body that fluidically connects the inner wall with an outer wall of the shaft body. The lubricant is sprayed out of the lubrication holes responsive to rotation of the shaft body.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190093752A1 SHAFT INTERNAL LUBRICATION WITH RIFLING GROOVES Public/Granted day:2019-03-28
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