Patent ID: 8177160
Filing Date: 2012-05-15
Classification: B64C,F16H

Abstract:
1. A nosewheel landing gear system having a nosewheel and a clutch arrangement comprising a rotatable drive input, a rotatable output, and an epicyclic gear arrangement comprising a ring gear, a series of planet gears meshing with the ring gear, a sun gear meshing with the planet gears, and a carrier upon which the planet gears are mounted, the drive input being connected to one of the ring gear and the carrier, the output being connected to the other of the ring gear and the carrier, and a clutch device operable to control relative rotation between the ring gear and the sun gear, wherein when torque is being transmitted through the clutch device, the torque is transmitted along first and second transmission paths, the first transmission path including the ring gear, planet gears and carrier and the second transmission path including the ring gear, clutch device, sun gear, planet gears and carrier, the majority of the torque being transmitted through the first transmission path.