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patent · US7008348

Gearbox for wind turbine

7 March 2006

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This patent is cited by material in the archive, so it is indexed here by number, title and inventor. The archive holds no copy of its text.

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Abstract

A wind turbine gear box having a compound planetary gear arrangement having bearings providing improved reliability and with greater accessibility for servicing. The gear box has planet pinions and planet gears being rotated by a planet carrier around a sun gear which drives a final reduction stage, the final reduction stage and the adjacent end of the planet carrier being removable from the gear box housing to allow easy removal of the planet pinions and their associated bea...

Provenance

Collection
Cited prior art
Filed
2004-02-12
Source
Google Patents bibliographic record
Granted
2006-03-07
Inventors
Octave LaBath; General Electric Co