US Patent Issued to Copeland on Sept. 1 for "Centrifugal compressor with controlled tolerance stack and methods of assembling the same" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,598, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Copeland LP (Sidney, Ohio).

"Centrifugal compressor with controlled tolerance stack and methods of assembling the same" was invented by Patrick Shawn O'Meara (Tipp City, Ohio) and Michael M. Perevozchikov (Tipp City, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centrifugal compressor includes a compressor housing, a motor and a rotatable shaft. A bearing housing defines a center bore that receives the shaft, and a volute assembly is positioned in the socket adjacent the bearing housing. The volute assembly has a back axial surface facing the bearing housing, stops protruding from the back axial surfac...