Patent ID: 7704178

Claim:
A carrier for an epicyclic gear train comprising: spaced apart walls with circumferentially spaced mounts interconnecting the walls, the mounts providing circumferentially spaced apart apertures between the mounts at an outer circumference of the carrier; baffles arranged between the walls near the mounts, the baffles secured to at least one of the walls and the mounts by a fastening element, gear pockets provided between the baffles, and the baffles including a lubrication passage terminating at least one of the gear pockets; wherein the lubrication passage includes a primary passage extending laterally between the walls and first and second passages in communication with the primary passage and arranged transverse to one another; and wherein intermediate gears are arranged between the baffles and intermesh with a sun gear, the first passage directed at the sun gear and the second passage directed at the intermediate gears.