US Patent Issued to Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S. on Oct. 27 for "Air motor with increased dwell at max vane extension" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,656, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S. Inc. (Davidson, N.C.).

"Air motor with increased dwell at max vane extension" was invented by Edward C. Eardley (Easton, Pa.) and Timothy R. Cooper (Titusville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic motor includes a stator having a stator inner wall including a dwell region and a rotor eccentrically disposed within the stator. The rotor is configured to rotate about the axis of rotation and includes a plurality of vanes disposed around the rotor. Each vane of the plurality of vanes is configured to slide within a respective slot formed in the outer surfa...