US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Feb. 3 for "Combined rotating component and fluid port baffle" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,667, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Combined rotating component and fluid port baffle" was invented by Cedric Chan Chuen (Laval, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft engine has a gearbox having a casing defining an internal chamber and a scavenge port. A gear is rotatably mounted inside the internal chamber for rotation about a rotation axis. The gear is axially spaced from the scavenge port. A baffle is disposed inside the internal chamber. The baffle includes a perforated plate disposed radially between the gear and the scavenge port relative to the rotation axis. Th...