Lubrication system for aircraft engine reduction gearbox
AssigneePratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
InventorsMichel Desjardins, Vincent Savaria
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AssigneePratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
InventorsMichel Desjardins, Vincent Savaria
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An epicyclic gear train includes a sun gear and planet gears mounted to a carrier and engaged to the sun gear. The planet gears and the carrier are rotatable about a center axis, and the carrier is engaged with a power output at a carrier-output engagement location. Ring gears are in meshed engagement with the planet gears. Planet gear bearings are disposed between one of the planet gears and the carrier. A lubrication interface is defined between each planet gear bearing and one of the planet gears. A bearing lubrication system includes a lubricant supply conduit extending between a conduit inlet at the carrier-output engagement location and conduit outlets at the lubrication interfaces of the planet gear bearings. A lubricant strainer is mounted about the conduit inlet at the carrier-output engagement location.
A gas turbine engine, comprising:
A method of operating a reduction gearbox of an aircraft engine, the reduction gearbox having an epicyclic gear train with a sun gear, planet gears mounted to a carrier, and one or more ring gears, the method comprising:
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