Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co. Kg

Jakob Violet

Stephan Uhkötter

Uwe Kracht

A planetary gearbox of a gas turbine engine has a planet gear which, via a bearing, is arranged rotatably on a planet pin of a rotatable planet carrier. Oil is introduced through an opening, arranged radially within the bearing, into an oil feed which is open at a feed side and which is connected to the bearing and rotationally joined to the carrier. As the carrier rotates, the oil downstream of the opening is conducted toward the bearing unit by centrifugal force. The open oil feed is, between the opening and the bearing, configured an oil filter through which the oil is conducted. The filter extends counter to the flow direction of the oil from the opening in the direction of the bearing unit, in a flow direction of the oil in the open oil feed.

Planetary gear box and method for operating a planetary gear box and gas turbine engine having at least two central shafts and having a planetary gear box

A planetary gearbox device, a gas turbine engine with a planetary gearbox device, and a method for producing a scoop pump. The planetary gearbox device includes an oil supply appliance, wherein the oil supply appliance has a ring-shaped scoop pump that is connected to the rotatable shaft of the planetary gearbox device and an oil supply fixedly arranged at the housing and by which oil is supplied to the scoop pump. The scoop pump has multiple blades that extend in a circumferentially arranged manner and extend from a radially outer area in the direction of a radially inner area. The blades delimit grooves extending in the circumferential direction in the radial direction and respectively form a groove base of the grooves. The oil is conducted from the oil supply to outlets via which oil is conducted out of the scoop pump in the radial direction outwards.

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Jakob Violet