Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vented gear spline lubrication
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Application No.: US14961086Application Date: 2015-12-07
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Publication No.: US10260615B2Publication Date: 2019-04-16
- Inventor: Matthew Allen Slayter , Michael R. Blewett
- 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: F16H57/027
- IPC: F16H57/027 ; F16H57/04 ; F01D25/18 ; F02C7/32 ; F16N7/36

Abstract:
A gearbox assembly includes an outer housing and a gear box shaft at least partially disposed in the outer housing. The gear box shaft includes an interior region and a reservoir dam that separates the interior region into a reservoir volume and a spline volume. The reservoir dam has a vent hole formed therein that passes through it such that a surface of the dam is in fluid communication with a region defined by the outer housing and outside of the gear box shaft.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170159796A1 VENTED GEAR SPLINE LUBRICATION Public/Granted day:2017-06-08
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