US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on June 23 for "Thermally adaptive bump foil of a gas foil bearing" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,039, issued on June 23, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Thermally adaptive bump foil of a gas foil bearing" was invented by Brent Merritt (Southwick, Mass.) and Viktor Kilchyk (Lancaster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component of a gas foil bearing, having a plurality of material layers forming a composition gradient that defines a first coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) and a second CTE that differs from the first CTE, wherein the plurality of material layers include at least two dissimilar metals, plastics, or fiber filled metals or plastics, that are layered on top of each other, and whe...