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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:
Oct. 20, 1992
Filed:
Jul. 09, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Petr Hora, West Chester, OH (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
416160 ; 416129 ;
Abstract
The invention concerns pitch-change mechanisms, of the planetary gear type, for use in aircraft propellers. Planet gears engage three ring gears at different gear ratios, thereby causing relative rotation of the ring gears to occur when the planet gears rotate. A linkage between the ring gears and the propeller blades converts the relative rotation into a change in pitch. A sun gear drives the planet gears. A planet carrier prevents excessive skew of the planets from occurring if one of the ring gears should break, and thereby release its load on the planet gear.