Patent ID: 11946540
Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
Field: Mechanical elements (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F | IPC F

Claim 0:
1. A fan drive gear system for a gas turbine engine comprising:
a sun gear rotatable about an axis;
a plurality of intermediate gears driven by the sun gear;
a carrier supporting the intermediate gears;
a ring gear circumscribing the intermediate gears, wherein the ring gear is fixed and the carrier rotates about the axis;
a forward gutter forward of the carrier;
an aft gutter aft of the carrier; and
a baffle attached to the carrier and disposed between at least two of the plurality of intermediate gears for defining a lubricant flow path from an interface between the sun gear and at least one of the plurality of intermediate gears, the baffle including a channel with at least one flow splitter directing flow forward and aft of the baffle, an inlet opening into the channel, a first ramp portion directing lubricant forward toward the forward gutter, a second ramp portion directing lubricant aft toward the aft gutter, wherein the flow splitter includes a splitter portion and a support portion extending radially within the channel from the splitter portion toward the first ramp portion and the second ramp portion and the inlet is disposed radially inward of the first ramp portion and the second ramp portion.