US Patent Issued to Korea Institute of Science and Technology on March 24 for "Integrated hybrid thrust bearing" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,517, issued on March 24, was assigned to Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, South Korea).

"Integrated hybrid thrust bearing" was invented by Yong Bok Lee (Seoul, South Korea), YunSeok Ha (Seoul, South Korea), Jungwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Byul An (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a hybrid thrust bearing that combines an airfoil bearing and a magnetic bearing to support a rotating shaft with a disk-shaped thrust disk, and the magnetic bearing includes a disk-shaped housing into which the rotation shaft is inserted through a hole formed in a center and facing the...