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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2025
GE Avio S.r.l., Rivalta di Torino, IT;
Michele Gravina, Milan, IT;
GE AVIO S.R.L., Rivalta di Torino, IT;
Abstract
A turbine engine includes a fan section including a fan, a fan shaft coupled to the fan, a turbine section including an input shaft, and a planetary gear assembly coupled to the input shaft and the fan shaft. The turbine engine further includes a lubricant transfer unit having a reservoir that has a body, a plurality of sectors angularly positioned about a circumference of the body, a plurality of dams positioned between and defining each of the plurality of sectors, at least one orifice that fluidly couples the plurality of sectors to the planetary gear assembly, and at least one opening to evacuate excess lubricant from each of the plurality of sectors. The reservoir is mounted on the fan shaft of the turbine engine, and the excess lubricant drained from the at least one opening of each of the plurality of sectors lubricates the fan shaft.