US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Jan. 13 for "Mounting seal runner onto aircraft powerplant rotor" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,174, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Mounting seal runner onto aircraft powerplant rotor" was invented by Rose-Elizabeth Banville (Longueuil, Canada), Julien Lalonde Hamel (Varennes, Canada) and Frederic Labrie (St-Jude, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for assembling a structure of an aircraft powerplant. This method includes mounting a seal runner onto a rotor using an installation tool, the installation tool including an inner locating surface and an outer locating surface, the inner locating surface axially recessed from and radially inboard of the ou...