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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2025
Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp., Longueuil, CA;
Gabriel Naccache, Longueuil, CA;
Daniel Alecu, Longueuil, CA;
PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP., Longueuil, CA;
Abstract
A de-aerator has: a housing defining an air-oil inlet, an oil outlet, and an air outlet; a rotor within the housing and rotatable about a rotation axis and having: inner and outer rims and blades, passages between the blades and communicating with the air-oil inlet; a conduit extending around the rotation axis and defining a central passage extending axially and communicating with the air outlet, the conduit being radially spaced apart from the outer rim by radial passages communicating with the oil outlet; and openings located inwardly of the blades and communicating with the central passage, wherein one or more of: a cross-sectional area of the central passage taken on a plane transverse to the rotation axis increasing in an axial direction away from the air-oil inlet; and the openings located at least partially radially between an inner face of the conduit and an outer face of the inner rim.