US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on Aug. 4 for "Metal plated additively manufactured plastic ACM housings with internal thermally adaptive structure" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,769, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Metal plated additively manufactured plastic ACM housings with internal thermally adaptive structure" was invented by Brent J. Merritt (Southwick, Mass.) and Viktor Kilchyk (Lancaster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a housing for an ACM, having steps of: forming a base: a first section adjacent to a seal of an ACM compressor rotor when installed; a second section that is fixed to an ACM forward frame member when installed; a third section adjacent to a bearing and sleeve disposed around an ACM compressor rotor shaft when insta...