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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2009
Kevin Richard Hadley, Much Wenlock, GB;
John Herbert Harvey, Wolverhampton, GB;
Andrew Robert Hawksworth, Shifnal, GB;
Edward George Hill, Redditch, GB;
Mark Whitehouse, Ellesmere, GB;
Kevin Richard Hadley, Much Wenlock, GB;
John Herbert Harvey, Wolverhampton, GB;
Andrew Robert Hawksworth, Shifnal, GB;
Edward George Hill, Redditch, GB;
Mark Whitehouse, Ellesmere, GB;
Goodrich Actuation Systems Limited, Solihull, GB;
Abstract
A clutch arrangement, especially adapted for use in an aircraft nose wheel landing gear steering arrangement, includes a rotatable drive input, a rotatable output, and an epicyclic gear arrangement, and a carrier upon which the planet gears are mounted, the drive input being connected to the ring gear of the gear arrangement or the carrier, the output being connected to the other of the ring gear or the carrier, and a clutch operable to control relative rotation between the ring gear and the sun gear and to direct the major portion of the torque being transmitted therethrough the first of two transmission paths.