Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation

Sundstrand Corporation

Gary L Voss

Cory M Crandall-Seibert

Timothy Michael Mayer

Andrew N Baines

Sean Bradshaw

Roger F Glenn

David J Lang

Neil L Brown

A selector lever that comprises a shaft rotatably attached to a pivot and arranged between two detent plates, each of the detent plates having a plurality of slots arranged for receiving a detent pin located on the shaft. Each of the plurality of slots on each of the two detent plates is defined by a radial depth. One or more of the plurality of slots is a failure detection slot having an extended radial depth. When one of the detent pins has failed, the opposing detent pin is allowed to travel into the extended radial depth when placed in the failure detection slot. This action reveals a failure indicator, providing a visual indication that one of the detent pins has failed.

Visual failure indication for selector lever

A selector lever with redundant detent pins and detent plates and a method for using the selector lever to test for a failure of one or more detent pins. The selector lever includes at least two slides for independently moving the detent pins within the detent plates. The independent slides allow one detent pin to remain engaged. With only one detent pin engaged, the operator may test the ability to move the shaft and conclude whether or not the detent pin has failed.

Selector lever with independent slides

A selector lever with two detent plates and corresponding detent pins that travel along a shaft includes a float that moves with each of the detent pins. When a detent pin fails, a float pin remains engaged with a catch, thereby preventing rotational movement of the shaft.

Device for preventing rotational movement of failed selector lever

A safelock system for removable gears is provided having a self-seating gear segment rotatably mounted on a helical ball spline for bi-directional axial movement with respect to the gear teeth to be locked. A relubrication structure is provided to service the interior of the ball spline. The interlocking teeth are two-dimensionally tapered from the point of initial engagement. Diverse biasing structures are employed to facilitate the axial self-seating reaction of the gear segment after initial engagement with the gear to be locked.

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Bryon, IL, United States of America

Gary L Voss