Patents Represented by Attorney James R. Walton
  • Patent number: 8141812
    Abstract: A transmission for a rotary-wing aircraft has a differential torque-splitting mechanism associated with an input shaft. The differential has a drive disk coaxial with the shaft and integral in rotation with the shaft, a first driven member coaxial with the shaft and generally adjacent the drive disk, and a second driven member coaxial with the shaft and generally adjacent the drive disk. At least one pin engages each of the drive disk, the first driven member, and the second driven member. The first driven member is configured to drive a first transfer gear, and the second driven member is configured to drive a second transfer gear for supplying torque to a bull gear associated with a rotor mast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: Frank B. Stamps, Dudley Smith, Charles J. Kilmain, Ryan Ehinger, Bob Collins