US Patent 10570855 Gas turbine engine with geared architecture

A gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a turbo fan shaft and a turbo fan supported on the fan shaft, a compressor section having compressor hubs with blades driven about an axis, and an epicyclic gear system driving the fan shaft. The gear system includes a carrier supporting intermediate gears that mesh with a sun gear, a ring gear surrounding and meshing with the intermediate gears, the ring gear including first and second portions each having an inner periphery with teeth, the first and second portions abutting one another at a radial interface, each of the first and second portions including a flange extending radially outward, and the first and second portions having grooves at the radial interface which form a hole that expels oil through the ring gear to a gutter, and an input shaft driving the fan shaft through the gear system, the input shaft connected to the sun gear.