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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
May. 31, 2017
United Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Brian P. Cigal, Windsor, CT (US);
Christopher T. Anglin, Manchester, CT (US);
Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
A gear assembly is provided. The gear assembly includes a first gear that rotates about a first axis and includes a first gear face with a plurality of first gear teeth; a second gear that rotates about a second axis and includes a second gear face with a plurality of second gear teeth, where the first axis is not parallel with the second axis and the first and second teeth rotatably engage as the first gear rotates about the first axis and the second gear rotates about the second axis; a scraper that includes a distal interference surface in face-to-face proximity with at least one of the first plurality of teeth as the first gear rotates about the first axis, where the interference surface removes oil entrained adjacent to the plurality of first or second gear teeth as the first or second gears rotate.