US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on April 7 for "Method of mitigating vibrations in a seal component" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,747, issued on April 7, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Method of mitigating vibrations in a seal component" was invented by Ignatius Theratil (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of mitigating vibrations of a seal component of a bearing cavity, the method includes: injecting gas jets into the bearing cavity to disrupt vortices causing the vibrations of the seal component, the vortices having a frequency and an amplitude, the gas jets one or more of: decreasing the amplitude of the vortices; and modifying the frequency of the vortices to be offset from a natural frequency of ...