US Patent Issued to GOODRICH on June 2 for "Ceramic infiltration of aircraft brakes via injection for wear improvement" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,833, issued on June 2, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Ceramic infiltration of aircraft brakes via injection for wear improvement" was invented by Jecee Jarman (Pueblo, Colo.) and Christopher T. Kirkpatrick (Pueblo West, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for infiltrating a wear liner is disclosed herein. The method includes infiltrating a ceramic solution into a carbon/carbon (C/C) substrate, drying the C/C substrate to produce oxide particulates within the C/C substrate, and densifying the C/C substrate, including heating the C/C substrate and oxide particulates to a first temperature, wherein heating t...