US Patent Issued to GE AVIO on Sept. 29 for "Integrated in-line emergency lube pump assembly for planetary gearbox configurations" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,677, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to GE AVIO S.R.L. (Rivalta di Tornino, Italy).

"Integrated in-line emergency lube pump assembly for planetary gearbox configurations" was invented by Michele Gravina (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an integrated in-line emergency lube pump assembly for a planetary gearbox, including a main lube pump, a coaxial lube pump coaxially aligned with and coupled to the planetary gearbox, and an oil tank having a main section and an auxiliary section. There is no physical boundary between the main section and the auxiliary section of the oil tank. When the detected pressure in t...