Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Lubrication systems and methods with superposition gearbox
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Application No.: US17035872Application Date: 2020-09-29
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Publication No.: US11319837B2Publication Date: 2022-05-03
- Inventor: Nicholas D. Leque , Joseph H. Polly
- Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US CT Farmington
- Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US CT Farmington
- Agency: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.
- Main IPC: F01D25/20
- IPC: F01D25/20 ; F01M1/02 ; F01M11/06 ; F02C7/32 ; F02C7/36 ; F02K3/06 ; F16H1/28 ; F16H57/04 ; F01D15/08 ; F01D15/12

Abstract:
An engine includes a spool including a turbine, a second spool including a second turbine, a fan, and a fan drive gear system. A tower shaft is engaged to the spool. A second tower shaft is engaged to the second spool. A superposition gear system includes a plurality of intermediate gears engaged to the sun gear and supported in a carrier and a ring gear circumscribing the intermediate gears. The tower shaft drives the sun gear. An oil pump is driven by the carrier and supplies oil to the fan drive gear system from an oil tank through a first pickup at a first end of the oil tank and a second pickup at a second, opposite end of the oil tank. A shuttle valve at a suction side of the oil pump selectively allows oil to be supplied by one of the first and second pickup.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210207496A1 LUBRICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH SUPERPOSITION GEARBOX Public/Granted day:2021-07-08
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