Patents by Inventor Michael Richard HANCOX

Michael Richard HANCOX has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Oil scavenge arrangement
    Patent number: 9121491
    Abstract: An epicyclic gearbox including: a sun gear, a ring gear, an array of planet gears that each mesh with the sun gear and the ring gear and rotate relative thereto, and a planet carrier that couples the planet gears in relative position to each other. The planet carrier includes interplanetary portions that are located between adjacent pairs of planet gears and have a first and a second circumferential surface facing each adjacent planet gear; and direction features on at least one of the circumferential surfaces that, in use, direct fluid ejected with a radial component from the planet gears and direct it with an axial component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventor: Michael Richard Hancox
  • OIL SCAVENGE ARRANGEMENT
    Publication number: 20140106922
    Abstract: An epicyclic gearbox including: a sun gear, a ring gear, an array of planet gears that each mesh with the sun gear and the ring gear and rotate relative thereto, and a planet carrier that couples the planet gears in relative position to each other. The planet carrier includes interplanetary portions that are located between adjacent pairs of planet gears and have a first and a second circumferential surface facing each adjacent planet gear; and direction features on at least one of the circumferential surfaces that, in use, direct fluid ejected with a radial component from the planet gears and direct it with an axial component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventor: Michael Richard HANCOX