Epicyclic gear system
AssigneeGoodrich Actuation Systems Limited
InventorsRaphaël Medina, Maxime Serrand, Thomas Moulon, Vincent Potel
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Abstract
A kit of parts to provide a reconfigurable epicyclic gear system, The kit of parts includes at least one sun gear; a planet carrier; a plurality of sets of planet gears configured to be mounted on the planet carrier and to mesh with the at least one sun gear; and a plurality of ring gears configured to mesh with the plurality of sets of planet gears; wherein the at least one sun gear, the plurality of sets of planet gears and the plurality of ring gears all have the same modulus such that they can be arranged in different configurations that each produce a different output torque.
Claims18
A kit of parts to provide a reconfigurable epicyclic gear system, the kit of parts comprising:
- at least one sun gear;
- a planet carrier;
- a plurality of sets of planet gears configured to be mounted on the planet carrier and to mesh with the at least one sun gear;
- and
- a plurality of ring gears configured to mesh with the plurality of sets of planet gears;
- wherein the at least one sun gear, the plurality of sets of planet gears and the plurality of ring gears all have the same modulus such that they can be arranged in different configurations that each produce a different output torque;
- wherein the planet carrier is configured to receive gears mounted in at least two planes;
- wherein the plurality of sets of planet gears comprises at least three sets of planet gears;
- and
- wherein only one of the ring gears is fixed;
- wherein the at least one sun gear comprises at least two sun gears which each have the same modulus.
A kit of parts to provide a reconfigurable epicyclic gear system, the kit of parts comprising:
- at least one sun gear;
- a planet carrier;
- a plurality of sets of planet gears configured to be mounted on the planet carrier and to mesh with the at least one sun gear;
- and
- a plurality of ring gears configured to mesh with the plurality of sets of planet gears;
- wherein the at least one sun gear, the plurality of sets of planet gears and the plurality of ring gears all have the same modulus such that they can be arranged in different configurations that each produce a different output torque;
- wherein the planet carrier is configured to receive gears mounted in at least two planes;
- wherein the plurality of sets of planet gears comprises at least three sets of planet gears;
- and
- wherein only one of the ring gears is fixed;
- wherein the plurality of ring gears comprises three ring gears.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.