US Patent Issued to General Electric on Aug. 11 for "Disconnector system for disconnecting a drive shaft" (North Carolina, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,156, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Disconnector system for disconnecting a drive shaft" was invented by Jan Zywot (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Xiaochuan Jia (Centerville, Ohio) and Dhaval Thaker (Sugarcreek Township, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disconnector system for disconnecting a drive shaft of a drive mechanism from rotating equipment, upon a failure of the drive mechanism or rotating equipment, includes a disconnector mechanism having a disconnector shaft disposed in a casing and moveable relative thereto, between a first position and a second position, and a cam surface on a dista...