Patents Assigned to PRETT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
  • Gearbox having gear baffle apparatus
    Patent number: 9939058
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: PRETT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Maksim Pankratov, Felix Gauthier