Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Planetary gearbox having compliant journal bearings
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Application No.: US16861871Application Date: 2020-04-29
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Publication No.: US11300007B2Publication Date: 2022-04-12
- Inventor: Vincent Savaria , Michel Desjardins
- Applicant: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
- Applicant Address: CA Longueuil
- Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
- Current Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Longueuil
- Agency: Norton Rose Fulbright Canada
- Main IPC: F01D25/16
- IPC: F01D25/16 ; F02C7/36 ; F16H1/28 ; F16H57/04 ; F16H57/08

Abstract:
A planetary gear train for an aircraft engine, has: a sun gear; planet gear assemblies having main gears meshed with the sun gear, fore lateral gears and aft lateral gears disposed on opposite sides of the main gears and rotating therewith; journal bearings rotatably supporting the planet gear assemblies for rotation about rotation axes, gaps defined between the journal bearings and the planetary gear assemblies; a planet carrier supporting the journal bearings; a fore ring gear meshed with the fore lateral gears; an aft ring gear meshed with the aft lateral gears; and a lubrication system extending within the planet carrier and hydraulically connected to the gaps between the journal bearings and the planet gear assemblies.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200263564A1 PLANETARY GEARBOX HAVING COMPLIANT JOURNAL BEARINGS Public/Granted day:2020-08-20
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