The present invention includes a cooling system for a gearbox, the cooling system comprising: a pressurized housing in fluid communication with the gearbox configured to circulate a pressurized lubricant; and one or more cooling fins about the pressurized housing, wherein heat from the pressurized lubricant within the pressurized housing is actively convected through the one or more cooling fins.
Convective Cooling of a Pressurized Gearbox
2018-03-29
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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