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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2024
Applicant:
Rtx Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Inventors:
Lawrence A. Binek, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Leslie F. Guzman, West Palm Beach, FL (US);
Sean R. Jackson, Palm City, FL (US);
Evan J. Butcher, Suffield, CT (US);
Assignee:
RTX Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D 25/18 (2006.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01); B33Y 80/00 (2015.01); F01D 25/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D 25/18 (2013.01); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12); B33Y 80/00 (2014.12); F01D 25/16 (2013.01); F05D 2260/98 (2013.01); F16C 2360/23 (2013.01);
Abstract
A gas turbine engine with a lubrication system includes a ball bearing assembly and a rotor circumscribing a rotational axis and journaled within the ball bearing assembly. The gas turbine engine also includes a lubrication system located radially outward from a rotational axis and radially outward and adjacent to the ball bearing assembly, which includes a lubrication channel having an inlet and an outlet and a dispersion cone adjacent to the outlet of the lubrication channel.