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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2015
Applicant:
Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp., Longueuil, CA;
Inventors:
Maksim Pankratov, Mississauga, CA;
Felix Gauthier, Longueuil, CA;
Assignee:
PRETT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP., Longueil, Quebec, unknown;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 57/00 (2012.01); F16H 57/04 (2010.01); F02C 7/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 57/0423 (2013.01); F02C 7/36 (2013.01); F16H 57/0409 (2013.01);
Abstract
A gearbox in a gas turbine engine includes an enclosed gearbox housing, at least a pair of intermeshing gears lubricated and rotatably supported within the gearbox housing, and a baffle apparatus axially spaced apart from and positioned at least at one side of the pair of gears, the baffle apparatus including a collector defining a main opening adjacent a meshing point of the intermeshing gears for collecting and redirecting lubricant squeezed out axially from the intermeshing gears.