US Patent Issued to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER on May 19 for "Bellows with controlled shift of mean effective diameter" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,253, issued on May 19, was assigned to EATON INTELLIGENT POWER Ltd. (Dublin).

"Bellows with controlled shift of mean effective diameter" was invented by Steven Paul Bender (Attleboro, Mass.), Edward Nicholas Ruggeri (Westport, Mass.), Jeffrey Robert Lavin (Mattaposett, Mass.), Michael Christopher Petrarca (Coventry, R.I.) and Gerald Maurice Berard (North Providence, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a bellows seal arrangement having a bellows designed with a controlled shift in effective mean diameter when the bellows is exposed to a pre-determined pressure."

The patent was filed on Jan. 9, 2024, u...