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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kenneth Lee Fisher, Lockland, OH (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C 1/900 ;
Abstract
A fluid multiplexer for delivering lubricant to bearings in a gas turbine engine. The bearings are adjacent bearing races on a shaft. Lubricant passages within the shaft extend from the races to scoops on the surface of the shaft. A nozzle ejects a jet of lubricant across open space toward the scoops. As the shaft rotates, the scoops sequentially cross the jet, each scoop collecting a charge of lubricant, which it delivers to its passage.