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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 1993

Filed:

Apr. 15, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:

Peter H Birch, Brighton, GB;

Toshiyuki Kondo, Brighton, GB;

Shinji Kono, Brighton, GB;

Assignee:

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Kariya City, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H / ; F16H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
7442 / ; 74413 ; 7442 / ;
Abstract

An epicyclic gear comprises housing, pinion forming on an input shaft supported in the housing, at least three planetary gears supported in the housing via shafts and geared with the pinion, an internal gear supported in the housing via an output shaft and surrounding and geared with the planetary gears, a passage for lubricating oil through the housing into the shafts of the planetary gears, a conduit supported on at least one shaft and for conveying oil from the shafts towards the center of the housing via outlet jets, and a bridge supported between at least two shafts and supporting the outlet jets, wherein at least one planetary gear overlaps the remaining adjacent planetary gears in an axial direction of the pinion without mutual interfering with each other.


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