ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,201, issued on April 21, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).
"Impeller containment system" was invented by Hamid Khorrami (Longueuil, Canada), Michael Fryer (Oakville, Canada) and Amir Masoud Tahvilian (Mississauga, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressor impeller containment system includes a catcher ring surrounding an impeller hub at an axial location spaced from the impeller blades. The catcher ring has a radially inner diameter surface and a radially outer diameter surface defining therebetween a radial thickness R1. The catcher ring has a hollow body portion extending along at most one ...