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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2021
Applicant:
Rtx Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Inventors:
Frederick M. Schwarz, Glastonbury, CT (US);
William G. Sheridan, Southington, CT (US);
Assignee:
RTX CORPORATION, Farmington, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02C 7/36 (2006.01); F02K 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02C 7/36 (2013.01); F02K 3/06 (2013.01); F05D 2260/40311 (2013.01);
Abstract
A turbofan engine includes a geared architecture for driving a fan about an axis. The geared architecture includes a sun gear rotatable about an axis, a plurality of planet gears driven by the sun gear and a ring gear circumscribing the plurality of planet gears. A carrier supports the plurality of planet gears. The geared architecture includes a power transfer parameter (PTP) defined as power transferred through the geared architecture divided by gear volume multiplied by a gear reduction ratio.