US Patent Issued to GOODRICH on Nov. 3 for "Coating of a carbon/carbon (C/C) disk providing oxidation protection and wear improvement" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,820, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Coating of a carbon/carbon (C/C) disk providing oxidation protection and wear improvement" was invented by Jecee Jarman (Pueblo, Colo.) and Virginia Collier (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for providing oxidation protection and wear improvement for a densified carbon/carbon (C/C) friction disk. The method includes applying a first coating to a radially inward non-wear surface and a radially outward non-wear surface of the densified C/C friction disk and applying a second coating to the radially inward non-wear surface...