ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,470, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Planetary gearbox system and method therefor" was invented by Charles J. Ott (Keller, Texas), Nathaniel Bernklau (Keller, Texas) and Trenton Hamm (Cleburne, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved compound planetary gear system. In embodiments, a compound planetary gear system includes a flexure. A seal is disposed within a portion of the flexure of the ring gear, to create a dam for oil to accumulate behind the ring gear, thermally coupling the ring gear to the casing of the compound planetary gear system, which may increase the thermal co...