US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Aug. 25 for "Bearing support having arcuate damper elements" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,367, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Bearing support having arcuate damper elements" was invented by Nathan Tomes (Hamilton, Canada) and Tyler Richardson (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bearing damper systems for gas turbine engines include a bearing structure and, a housing arranged outward from the bearing structure and defining a plurality of axially extending recesses arranged circumferentially about the axis. A set of energy dissipating elements are arranged within the recesses and are axially constrained therein. The energy dissipating elements are arranged to receiv...