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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2019
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Gert Johannes van der Merwe, Lebanon, OH (US);
Raymond Floyd Martell, Wyoming, OH (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02K 3/072 (2006.01); F02C 3/067 (2006.01); F02C 7/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02K 3/072 (2013.01); F02C 3/067 (2013.01); F02C 7/36 (2013.01); F05D 2260/4031 (2013.01);
Abstract
A thrust balancing gear assembly for a turbo machine is provided. The gear assembly includes an input gear connected to an input drive shaft, an output gear connected to an output drive shaft, and a compound planet gear including a first planet gear and a second planet gear each connected to one another and positioned in axially adjacent arrangement. The first planet gear is connected to the input gear at a first interface and the second planet gear is connected to the output gear at a second interface.