Unison Industries, Inc.

Mark Leslie Rickert

David Allan Dranschak

Ravindra Shankar Ganiger

David Raju Yamarthi

Subrata Nayak

Harsha Sanjeewa Bulathsinghalage

Sharad Pundlik Patil

Pallavi Tripathi

Ramana Reddy Kollam

Parmeet Singh Chhabra

Marc David Zinger

Steven Ryan Kerley

Shiloh Montgomery Emerson Meyers

Matthew Keith Murdock

Shiloh Montgomery Meyers

An air turbine starter having a housing defining an interior with a primary inlet and a primary outlet to define a primary air flow path from the primary inlet to the primary outlet. A nozzle is located within the interior and has circumferentially spaced vanes. A shroud is also located within the interior and circumscribes at least a portion of the vanes. A retention mechanism constrains the axial movement of nozzle.

Air turbine starter with nozzle retention mechanism

An apparatus for an air turbine starter for an engine. The air turbine starter includes a housing defining an inlet, an outlet, and a flow path extending between the inlet and the outlet for communicating a flow of gas there through. A turbine member is journaled within the housing and disposed within the flow path for rotatably extracting mechanical power from the flow of gas and having a turbine output shaft. The air turbine starter further includes a planetary gear system drivingly coupled with the turbine output shaft and including a sun gear, a ring gear mounted to the housing, and a set of planetary gears operably coupling the sun gear and the ring gear with the sun gear is coupled to the turbine output shaft.

Planetary gear system and air turbine starter

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Fairborn, OH, United States of America

Mark Leslie Rickert