Airbus Helicopters

Pierre Gavanier

Christian Mercier

Pierre-Julien Hubert

Yann Balastrier

An internal combustion engine having at least one crankcase for defining a guide housing in which at least one crankshaft is guided in rotation about an axis of rotation and lubricated by a lubricating fluid, the at least one crankcase being of the 'dry-sump' type. Such an internal combustion engine has at least two pumps forming a pump train of pumps on a common axis, the pump train being fitted in a cylindrical bore of the at least one crankcase.

Internal combustion engine having at least one crankcase of the dry-sump type

The present invention relates to a combustion engine which includes at least one crankshaft rotating about a first rotation shaft; at least one output shaft outputting an engine torque, said output shaft rotating about a second rotation shaft separate from said first rotation shaft; at least one transmission assembly rotating about said first rotation shaft and being rotated by said crankshaft in order to transmit said engine torque to said output shaft.

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Croissy sur Seine, France

Pierre Gavanier