ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,808, issued on Nov. 3.
"Subsea torque limiter" was invented by Vigil Davis (Secundarabad, India), Neelesh Chandola (Nainital, India) and Teja Adiraju (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A torque limiter includes a housing; an input shaft which is rotatably supported in the housing; an output shaft which is rotatably supported in the housing coaxially with the input shaft; and a ball detent mechanism which is connected between adjacent ends of the input and output shafts. The ball detent mechanism includes a ball ring and has a plurality of ball members; a detent ring which is connected to the input shaft and has a plurali...