US Patent Issued to GE AVIO on Sept. 29 for "Turbine engine and lubricant reservoir for planetary gearbox" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,696, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to GE AVIO S.R.L. (Rivalta di Torino, Italy).

"Turbine engine and lubricant reservoir for planetary gearbox" was invented by Michele Gravina (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine includes a fan section including a fan, a fan shaft coupled to the fan, a turbine section including an input shaft, and a planetary gear assembly coupled to the input shaft and the fan shaft. The turbine engine further includes a lubricant transfer unit having a reservoir that has a body, a plurality of sectors angularly positioned about a circumference of the body, a plurality of dams positioned betwee...