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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2019
Applicant:
Rolls-royce Plc, London, GB;
Inventor:
Giles E Harvey, Derby, GB;
Assignee:
ROLLS-ROYCE PLC, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 1/36 (2006.01); F02C 7/32 (2006.01); F02C 7/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 1/36 (2013.01); F02C 7/32 (2013.01); F02C 7/36 (2013.01); F05D 2220/323 (2013.01); F05D 2220/76 (2013.01); F05D 2260/40311 (2013.01);
Abstract
A star-configuration epicyclic gearbox is shown. It comprises a sun gear () for connection with a first shaft (), a plurality of planet gears () intermeshed with the sun gear and located in a static carrier (), and a ring gear () for connection with a second shaft () and which is intermeshed with the plurality of planet gears. It further comprises one or more electric machines () drivingly connected with a respective one of the plurality of planet gears.