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Modular oil monitor

  • US 5,610,341 A
  • Filed: 04/08/1996
  • Issued: 03/11/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/08/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A modular oil monitor for a gas turbine engine having a bearing supplied with oil from an oil tank and which discharges said supply oil into an oil sump as scavenge oil, comprising:

  • a mounting pad having a flat seat with a plurality of laterally spaced apart oil inner ports disposed therein and joined in flow communication with said tank and sump;

    a service module having a flat base removably fixedly joined to said mounting seat, with said base having a plurality of laterally spaced apart oil outer ports disposed therein and joined in flow communication with respective ones of said inner ports; and

    whereinsaid module further includes a filter circuit disposed in flow communication between first and second ones of said outer ports, said filter circuit including an oil filter removably joined to said module for filtering said supply oil channeled therethrough, and a first sensor removably joined to said module for measuring oil temperature or pressure.

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