Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Plunger seal for driveshaft connection
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Application No.: US15911143Application Date: 2018-03-04
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Publication No.: US11662023B2Publication Date: 2023-05-30
- Inventor: Eric Stephen Olson , David Russell Bockmiller
- Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Fort Worth
- Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
- Current Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US RI Providence
- Agency: Lightfoot & Alford PLLC
- Main IPC: B64C29/00
- IPC: B64C29/00 ; F16J15/3224 ; B64C3/56 ; F16H57/04 ; F16C3/02 ; F16D1/10 ; F16C33/72

Abstract:
Systems and methods include providing an aircraft with a fuselage and a wing assembly rotatable relative to the fuselage about a stow axis between a flight position and a stowed position. The aircraft includes an engine reduction gearbox having a retractable driveshaft that selectively engages the mid-wing gearbox via axially translatable motion along a rotation axis when the wing assembly is in the flight position. The mid-wing gearbox includes a plunger seal that is displaced in response to contact with the retractable driveshaft. Displacement of the plunger seal allows lubricant to flow through an inner bore in the retractable driveshaft, across splines of the retractable driveshaft and the mid-wing gearbox, and through lubrication ports in the mid-wing gearbox to lubricate the engine reduction gearbox, splines of the retractable driveshaft and the mid-wing gearbox, and the mid-wing gearbox via a single lubrication system.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190271398A1 PLUNGER SEAL FOR DRIVESHAFT CONNECTION Public/Granted day:2019-09-05
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