ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,491, issued on March 24, was assigned to P3 TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Jupiter, Fla.).
"High-speed pressurized impeller disk" was invented by Brandon A Demski (Jupiter, Fla.) and Robert W Sanders (Stuart, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centrifugal impeller includes a pressurized cavity that reduce the stresses in the impeller disk, blades, shroud and hub as the stiffness of the rotor is not compromised while weight is reduced across the component and peak stress regions are shifted across the part. The centrifugal impeller can be a centrifugal pump or a radial inflow turbine. The pressurized cavity is formed between a forward wall and...