617 results about "Planetary gearbox" patented technology

A hybrid propulsion system (100) for use in road vehicle operations, which propulsion system includes a power splitting mechanical transmission (108), suitably a three shaft epicyclic gearbox (117, 118, 119), for coupling to a tailshaft (115) of the vehicle; a first drive unit (105) arranged for regenerative operation and coupled to the power splitting mechanical transmission (108); a second drive unit (110) arranged for regenerative operation and coupled, independently of said first drive unit, to the power splitting mechanical transmission (108); a non-regenerative third drive unit (113) for coupling, in parallel to said power splitting mechanical transmission, to the tailshaft; and a propulsion control system (122) for coordinating operation of the drive units in accordance with a plurality of predetermined modes corresponding to a drive cycle of the vehicle. Two forms of the invention are disclosed, being suited to non-transit and transit operations, respectively. Methods for the optimal control of the hybrid propulsion system of each form of the invention are also disclosed.

A counter-rotatable low pressure turbine includes counter-rotatable outer and inner drum rotors. The outer drum rotor is connected to a sole shaft for transmitting torque and power out of the low pressure turbine. Low pressure outer drum turbine blade rows extend radially inwardly from an outer shell of the outer drum rotor. Low pressure inner drum turbine blade rows extend radially outwardly from the low pressure inner drum rotor. The outer drum turbine blade rows are interdigitated with the inner drum turbine blade rows. The drum rotors are geared together through an epicyclic gearbox for transmitting all the torque and power produced by the drum rotors to the shaft. The gearbox may be located aft of the drum rotors. A differential thrust bearing is disposed between the drum rotors. A single stage fan section of an engine is connected to the turbine by the shaft.

A counter-rotatable low pressure turbine includes counter-rotatable outer and inner drum rotors. The outer drum rotor is connected to a sole shaft for transmitting torque and power out of the low pressure turbine. Low pressure outer drum turbine blade rows extend radially inwardly from an outer shell of the outer drum rotor. Low pressure inner drum turbine blade rows extend radially outwardly from the low pressure inner drum rotor. The outer drum turbine blade rows are interdigitated with the inner drum turbine blade rows. The drum rotors are geared together through an epicyclic gearbox for transmitting all the torque and power produced by the drum rotors to the shaft. The gearbox may be located aft of the drum rotors. A differential thrust bearing is disposed between the drum rotors. A single stage fan section of an engine is connected to the turbine by the shaft.

A drive mechanism for use in a drug delivery device comprising an epicyclic gearbox. This drive mechanism includes a housing having a helical thread; a piston rod having a non-circular cross section and an external helical thread; a dose dial sleeve, which is threadedly engaged with the housing and being rotatable with respect to the housing; and a drive sleeve, located between the housing and the piston rod, which is threadedly engaged with the piston rod.

A new, useful and compact wheel motor drive arrangement for applications on such construction equipment as scissor lifts and other similar scaffolding equipment where hydraulically driven systems have historically been used to provide power to the wheels to move the equipment is disclosed. An electric motor is mounted to a spindle bracket which is pivotably connected to the frame of the equipment to allow the unit to be pivoted around a vertical axis for steering purposes. A gear reducing planetary gear system is mounted around the drive shaft of the motor is positioned totally within the rotating wheel hub. The output ring gear of the planetary gear system is integrally formed to the interior of the wheel hub so that there is a direct application through the planetary gear system to the wheel hub to provide greater efficiency.

The drive device is provided for inclusion in a windmill with two counter-rotating screws. The shafts of the screws are each connected to a spindle of an epicyclical gearbox, the third spindle providing the energy for the user. The device further comprises a brake device simultaneously acting on the two shafts of the screws. In particular, said device permits the installation of a second screw on a windmill mast designed for a single screw on a windmill mast designed for a single screw, thus greatly increasing the power supplied.

A direct drive electric shift two speed planetary gearbox using a linear actuator to engage selectively the ring gear either to the housing or to the carrier by means of a synchronizing clutch to provide a low speed mode, a neutral mode, and a high speed mode of operation resulting in significant fuel efficiencies.

A gas turbine engine (10) comprising: a low pressure turbine (19); a fan (13) drivable by the low pressure turbine. A high pressure turbine (18) and a high pressure compressor (16) coupled by a high pressure shaft (24). An epicyclic gearbox (14) in planetary configuration coupled between a low pressure shaft (23) and the fan. The engine having a bypass ratio greater than or equal to 13. Or the fan having a diameter greater than or equal to 85 inches and less than or equal to 170 inches. Or the engine arranged to generate thrust in the range 35,000 lbf to 130,000 lbf.

A method facilitates assembling a gas turbine engine. The method comprises coupling a low-pressure turbine rotatable about a drive shaft to a counter-rotating fan assembly including a first fan assembly and a second fan assembly wherein the first fan assembly rotates in a first direction and the second fan assembly rotates in an opposite second direction. The method also comprises coupling a planetary gearbox substantially circumferentially about the drive shaft such that an input of the gearbox is coupled to the low-pressure turbine and an output of the gearbox is coupled to the counter-rotating fan assembly, and such that the gearbox is positioned within a lubrication fluid sump that substantially circumscribes the gearbox.

The invention belongs to the technical field of rotation machinery fault diagnosis, especially relates to a planetary gear case fault diagnosis method based on order complexity, and is specially applied to a fault diagnosis method of a wind power planetary gear case under a variable working condition. The method comprises the following steps: preprocessing vibration signals; dividing faults of a planetary gear train into two kinds; obtaining a fault feature parameter; analyzing the vibration signals under a variable working condition of a planetary gear case; and performing instance verification discovery. According to the invention, the influence of the variable working condition can be avoided by use of an order analysis method, and the Lempel-Ziv complexity of angle-domain signals after order analysis processing is more stationary than that of time-domain signals. According to the Lempel-Ziv complexity of the vibration angle-domain signals of the planetary gear case, local faults and distribution faults of planetary gears can be identified, through simulation and analysis of actual cases, the effectiveness of the method is verified, and at the same time, under the condition of lack of fault data, the complexity can also be taken as the feature parameter for determining whether there is a fault or not.

The invention relates to a wind turbine comprising at least one gearbox. The gearbox comprises one or more sensors for measuring condition values of the wind turbine, and is characterized in that the one or more sensors are mounted on one or more rotating parts of the gearbox. The invention further relates to an epicyclic gearbox comprising a gearbox housing, one or more gearbox parts rotating in relation to the housing, and one or more sensors for measuring condition values of the gearbox. The epicyclic gearbox is characterized in that, the one or more sensors are mounted on one or more of the rotating parts of the gearbox.

A variable speed wind turbine including a variable speed rotor, a large constant speed generator, and a small variable speed generator is characterized by a three-shaft variable ratio gearbox connecting the shaft of the rotor with the two generator shafts. The variable ratio gearbox is an epicyclic gearbox which enables the combination of the high performance of a variable speed rotor with the low cost of a large constant speed generator. The torque of the small variable speed generator controls the rotor speed. Variable frequency power conditioning cost is less than that of a prior art variable speed wind turbine, reduced by the ratio of the rated capacity of the small generator to total rated capacity. Also, the small generator enables efficient low wind velocity energy capture. The low rotational inertia of the small variable speed generator further reduces drive train dynamic stress.

A brake mechanism includes a fixed housing in which the brake mechanism substantially resides. A plate closes the fixed housing and includes a cylindrical portion extending partially within the fixed housing. A parking piston and a service piston are employed to act against a brake stack which includes a plurality of stators and rotors interleaved together. A wear adjuster is press-tit onto the cylindrical portion of the plate and engages the service piston daring actuation of the service piston and compensates for wear of friction material from the rotors or stators such that the distance between the service piston and the brake stack is substantially the same during the life of the brake mechanism. If neither the service piston nor the parking piston engage the brake stack prohibiting rotation of the input drive, the planetary gear set drives the rotating output drive with respect to the fixed housing.

A journal bearing for use in an epicyclical gearbox including a journal pin, a journal bearing body into which the journal pin is disposed and at least one lubricating fluid inlet. The lubricating fluid inlet is configured to provide for an input of a lubricating fluid in a loaded arc portion proximate at least one high pressure point exerted upon the journal bearing body during a high pressure event, thereby permitting a free flow of a lubricating fluid there between the journal pin and the journal bearing body during the high pressure event. In an embodiment, the journal pin is configured to mimic the shape of the journal bearing body at least at a high pressure point exerted upon the journal bearing body during a high pressure event. An epicyclical gearbox including the journal bearing and method of facilitating a hydrodynamic oil flow in the planet gear journal bearing.

A drivetrain for a generator in a wind turbine is disclosed. In one embodiment, the drivetrain includes an input shaft configured to provide an input rotational speed, and a planetary gearbox in communication with the input shaft. The planetary gearbox includes a stationary carrier and a plurality of rotatable gears. The planetary gearbox is configured to convert the input rotational speed to an output rotational speed. The drivetrain additionally includes an output shaft in communication with the planetary gearbox. The output shaft is configured to rotate at the output rotational speed. The drivetrain further includes a load isolation device disposed between the input shaft and the planetary gearbox. The load isolation device is configured to reduce transmission to the planetary gearbox of bending loads on the input shaft.

A brake mechanism includes a fixed housing in which the brake mechanism substantially resides. A plate closes the fixed housing and includes a cylindrical portion extending partially within the fixed housing. A parking piston and a service piston are employed to act against a brake stack which includes a plurality of stators and rotors interleaved together. A wear adjuster is press-fit onto the cylindrical portion of the plate and engages the service piston during actuation of the service piston and compensates for wear of friction material from the rotors or stators such that the distance between the service piston and the brake stack is substantially the same during the life of the brake mechanism. If neither the service piston nor the parking piston engage the brake stack prohibiting rotation of the input drive, the planetary gear set drives the rotating output drive with respect to the fixed housing.

The invention discloses a planetary gearbox health state assessment method. The planetary gearbox health state assessment method comprises a step of acquiring original vibration signals of a device to be diagnosed, a step of carrying out empirical mode decomposition of original vibration signals, a step of calculating energy values of original vibration signals, a step of extracting characteristic vectors, and a step of assessing health state of a planetary gearbox. The planetary gearbox health state assessment method is advantageous in that the extracted characteristics are normally more stable than the original signals, and at the same time, the data dimension can be reduced, and therefore the planetary gearbox health state assessment method is more effective. The planetary gearbox health state assessment method is suitable for the processing of the non-linear and non-stationary vibration signals, and the required characteristic parameters extracted from the vibration signals having the severe noise pollution can be used for the assessment of the health state. By adopting the planetary gearbox health state assessment method, the assessment result can be directly provided without analyzing the frequency spectrum, and therefore the method is more intelligent, and is easier to use.

In a bearing oil supply structure for a wind turbine generator provided with a planetary-type planet gear box having a planet gear that rotates about a planet pin fixed to a carrier with a slide bearing interposed therebetween, lubrication of the slide bearing is achieved by supplying lubricant oil by using an oil bath in a lower rotation region and by supplying lubricant oil by injecting lubricant oil pressure-fed from a lubricant oil source through a nozzle in an upper rotation region.

The invention discloses a compound fault diagnosing method for a planetary gearbox by using matrix wavelet transformation. The compound fault diagnosing method comprises the following steps of: firstly, transforming an acquired one-dimensional vibration signal of a planetary gearbox into a multi-dimensional input signal by using a repeated sampling pre-processing mode in matrix wavelet transformation; secondly, constructing an optimal matrix wavelet function by a lifting method, adaptively decomposing the multi-dimensional signals by using the constructed optimal matrix wavelet function, and decomposing a plurality of fault features into signals in different branches; and finally, extracting and identifying represented planetary gearbox faults in various frequency band signals by a spectrum enveloping method, and separating and diagnosing features of composite faults of the planetary gearbox according to failure mechanism analysis. The result of the method is reliable, and the real-time capability of the method is high. Moreover, the method is simple and practicable, and is applicable to diagnosing compound faults of planetary gearboxes of equipment transmission mechanisms such as a satellite communication antenna, a wind driven generator and a heavy-load crane.

The invention, which belongs to the technical field of the rotation machinery fault diagnosis, especially relates to a divergence-index-based fault diagnosis method of a variable-working-condition wind-power planetary gearbox, wherein the method is especially suitable for the fault diagnosis field of the variable-working-condition wind-power planetary gearbox. The method comprises: on the basis of an order ratio re-sampling technology, pretreatment is carried out on a vibration signal collected by the variable-working-condition wind-power planetary gearbox sensor and a non-linear and non-stable time-domain signal is converted into an angular-domain signal with stability; because the planetary gearbox with the structural characteristics and diagnosis difficulties is different from the traditional fixed-shaft gearbox, faults of the planetary gearbox are graded and are diagnosed; a fault characteristic set is extracted; a fault diagnosis parameter is obtained; and then an experiment is carried out for verification. According to the invention, the non-stable characteristic of the vibration signal can be avoided and the fault characteristic order ratio can be identified effectively and clearly; the J-divergence and the KL-divergence can represent fault generation positions and types of the planetary gearbox; and when a fault occurs, a fault diagnosis can be carried out based on mutual assistance and the sensitivity is high.

A drive system for a vehicle utilizes a series of drive motors and a single planetary gear box to provide driving input to a differential for an axle assembly. The differential drives a pair of axle shafts that drive a pair of laterally spaced wheels. The planetary gear box includes a sun gear, a plurality of planet gears in meshing engagement with the sun gear, a planet carrier that supports the planet gears, and a ring gear that is in meshing engagement with the planet gears. One drive motor drives the sun gear and another drive motor drives the ring gear. The planet carrier provides the output driving force from the planetary gear box to the differential. The motor that drives the sun gear provides for high output torque by taking advantage of a high gear ratio reduction and the motor that drives the ring gear provides for high output speed by taking advantage of a low gear ratio reduction. When both motors are simultaneously powered, a variable gear ratio is provided.

The invention discloses a characteristic parameter-based method for the condition monitoring and the fault identification of a planetary gearbox. According to the characteristic parameter-based method, two characteristic parameters, i.e. filtered root mean square (FRMS) and difference spectrum energy (DSE), are proposed, the running condition of the planetary gearbox is monitored respectively through a time domain and a frequency domain due to the two characteristic parameters, and the fault of the planetary gearbox is finally identified by combining the time domain with the frequency domain. The characteristic parameter-based method has the advantages that: the two characteristic parameters are proposed aiming at the problem of fault diagnosis of the planetary gearbox, the defects that the traditional parameters, such as root mean square, kurtosis, FM0, FM4 and the like, for the condition monitoring of a fixed-axle gearbox cannot used for effectively monitoring the running condition of the planetary gearbox, are overcome, and thus, the condition monitoring and the fault identification of the planetary gearbox can be accurately achieved.

An epicyclic gearbox comprises a gearbox housing including an inner cavity receiving an input shaft from a low pressure turbine and an output shaft connected to a fan. A sun gear is disposed within the housing and at least one planetary gear engages and orbits the sun gear. The at least one planetary gear is formed of a first material and an insert is disposed between a gear rim of the at least one planetary gear and a journal. The insert is formed of a second material distinct from the first material and of a weight which is lighter than the first material. The gearbox may include but is not limited to both star gearbox and planetary gearbox configurations.

The invention relates to a mechanical and hydraulic compound transmission device which comprises an engine, a speed changer, a planetary gear box, a hydraulic variable pump, a hydraulic motor and a reduction gearbox; the engine is sequentially connected with the transmission speed changer and the planetary gear box, and a planetary gear mechanism of the planetary gear box distributes the power driven by the motor to respectively drive the hydraulic variable pump and a center gear; the hydraulic variable pump is sequentially connected with a transmission hydraulic motor and a half shaft, the half shaft converges mechanical power flow driven by the center gear and hydraulic power flow driven by the hydraulic motor and protrudes outside the planetary gear box to output the power, and a transmission gear box is connected with the half shaft to redrive a rear shaft to drive a vehicle. A special vehicle refit by the technology with a single-engine configuration can run at a stepless variable speed in a mechanical and hydraulic compound transmission mode, meanwhile, the vehicle can drive a vehicle-mounted operating device in the mechanical transmission mode; during transition, the mechanical transmission mode can be adopted to cause the device to run quickly, the power system occupies little vehicle space, and has low emission, high transmission efficiency and low oil consumption.

There is described a bicycle (1) in which the rear wheel (3) is provided with a planetary hub gearbox (17) and is mounted on a single rear arm (13) positioned to one side of the rear wheel. The planetary gearbox comprises an outer casing (19) having an external bearing surface to engage a bearing mounted to the rear arm (13) of the bicycle, and releaseable mounting means for attaching the rear wheel (3) of the bicycle to the outer casing (19) of the planetary hub gearbox (17). The rear arm is of tubular or hollow construction, with the drive chain (15) or belt running enclosed within the rear arm (13).

The invention belongs to the technical field of fault diagnosis of rotary machines, and relates to a fault diagnosis method for a condition-variable planetary gear box based on multi-sensor information fusion, especially to a fault diagnosis method suitable for the condition-variable complex wind power planetary gear box. The method comprises the following steps that (1) according to the structural characteristic and diagnosis difficulty of the planetary gear box, proper vibration measuring point positions and sensor types are selected, and a collection scheme is made; (2) according to the order reconstruction technology, vibration signals are preprocessed, nonlinear non-smooth time domain signals are converted into smooth angle domain signals, and non-smooth vibration time-domain signals sampled in equal time interval are converted into angle domain vibration signals with smooth feature; (3) information of multiple sensors is fused; (4) faults of the planetary gear box are divided into distributed faults and local faults; (5) fault modes are identified; and (6) verification is carried out. According to the diagnosis method, the accuracy of a diagnosis result is high, and the practicality is high.

Described is a tightening device for automatically tightening a lace. The tightening device includes a housing with a power source and a pair of motors. A pair of planetary gear boxes are connected with the motors. A pair of spools are connected with the gear boxes. Laces are wound around the spools such that activation of the motors causes rotation of the spools. The housing can be attached with or otherwise incorporated into the tongue of a shoe, such that the laces are operable as shoe laces. Thus, when a user activates the motors, the laces are wound around the spools to automatically tighten the shoe laces.