Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Turbomachines and epicyclic gear assemblies with axially offset sun and ring gears
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Application No.: US17307948Application Date: 2021-05-04
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Publication No.: US11542829B2Publication Date: 2023-01-03
- Inventor: Marco Facchini , Gianluca Andrei , Paolo Altamura
- Applicant: GE Avio S.r.l.
- Applicant Address: IT Rivalta di Torino
- Assignee: GE Avio S.r.l.
- Current Assignee: GE Avio S.r.l.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Rivalta di Torino
- Agency: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP
- Priority: IT102020000010123 20200506
- Main IPC: F16H1/28
- IPC: F16H1/28 ; F01D25/00 ; F01D5/02 ; F16H1/46 ; F02C7/36 ; F16H3/44 ; F16H57/08 ; F16H1/32

Abstract:
A turbomachine engine includes a fan assembly and a core engine comprising a turbine and an input shaft rotatable with the turbine is provided. A single-stage epicyclic gear assembly receives the input shaft at a first speed and drives an output shaft coupled to the fan assembly at a second speed. A sun gear rotates about a longitudinal centerline of the gear assembly and has a sun gear-mesh region along the longitudinal centerline of the gear assembly where the sun gear is configured to contact a plurality of planet gears. A ring gear-mesh region is provided along the longitudinal centerline of the gear assembly where a ring gear is configured to contact the plurality of planet gears. The sun gear-mesh region is axially offset from the ring gear-mesh region along the longitudinal centerline.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210348521A1 TURBOMACHINES AND EPICYCLIC GEAR ASSEMBLIES WITH AXIALLY OFFSET SUN AND RING GEARS Public/Granted day:2021-11-11
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