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US 2009/0255270 A1Published application
Jet engine with at least one emergency drive unit
AssigneeRolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
InventorDetlef Rensch
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Abstract
A jet engine (1) includes at least one emergency drive unit (10), with the jet engine (1) having at least one engine shaft (2a) coupled via at least one gear train (4) with at least one auxiliary gearbox (7), which is connected to at least one auxiliary equipment (8), especially an electric generator. The emergency drive unit (10) includes at least one rotatable component. In order to provide a jet engine with an emergency drive unit in a simple configuration, the rotatable component of the emergency drive unit (10) is attached to the gear train (4).
Claims20
A jet engine, comprising:
- at least one engine shaft;
- at least one gear train;
- at least one auxiliary gearbox coupled to the engine shaft via the gear train;
- at least one auxiliary equipment coupled to the auxiliary gearbox;
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- an emergency drive unit having at least one rotatable component, the rotatable component being attached to the gear train.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.