US Patent Issued to Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie-S.r.l. on March 24 for "Closed-loop cooling fluid circuit for magnetic bearings of an expander-compressor system" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,420, issued on March 24, was assigned to Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie-S.r.l. (Florence, Italy).

"Closed-loop cooling fluid circuit for magnetic bearings of an expander-compressor system" was invented by Massimiliano Ortiz Neri (Florence, Italy), Francesco Cangioli (Florence, Italy), Davide Biliotti (Florence, Italy) and Duccio Fioravanti (Florence, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expander-compressor system comprising an expander, a compressor and a shaft located in a casing which mechanically couples the expander and the compressor; the expander-compressor system comprises further a magnetic bearing which is positioned inside th...