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US 2017/0321784 A1Published application
Modular multiengine system
OwnerShamir Shmuel SNIR, Shimshon NAGARinventors
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A modular multi-engine system having a plurality of engines and a plurality of gear units each gear unit having at least one rotatable member and a drive shaft being driven by one of the plurality of engines, where at least one of the gear units is a main gear and the other peripheral gear unit(s). Each rotatable member of each gear unit engages at least one other rotatable member of an adjacent gear unit such as to ultimately transfer torque from all the engines operable in said modular multiengine system to an output drive shaft connected to said main gear unit. The rotatable member of at least one of the peripheral gear units is located at a different height than at least one other cogwheel of another gear unit. The main gear unit includes an upper rotatable member and a lower rotatable member coaxially connected being operatively associated via at least one transmission unit configured and located such as to transfer torque from the upper or lower rotatable member to the other lower or upper rotatable member, respectively.
A modular multiengine system comprising:
A modular multiengine system comprising:
The system of claim 10 wherein torque is transferred between rotatable satellite gear units and main rotatable gear units by means of a friction wheels, toothed gear wheels, or any combination thereof.
The system of claim 10 further comprising transmission gears of various diameters such as to change the ratio of speed and torque transmission between adjacent engines within the multi-engine cluster.
The system of claim 10 wherein at least one Attachable Module incorporates a rotatable gear unit of a larger diameter and a frame housing of fractal shape, thus multiplying the number of adjacent Attachable Module's gear units that could be engaged to its own main gear unit.
The system of claim 10 further comprising an Attachable Module which incorporates at least two engine units, serially located one beneath the other, each individually engaged to satellite gear units, thus enabling attachment of adjacent Attachable Modules in different heights, in respect to each of the serially located engine units.
The system of claim 14 wherein at least one engine is a dual shaft engine, thus transferring torque between the at least two engines and to a shaft drive connected to the upper-most engine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.