US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on Jan. 27 for "Joint between aircraft engine components with spring beams" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,034, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Joint between aircraft engine components with spring beams" was invented by Michael Fryer (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly includes a case, a housing and a component. The case includes an aperture, an exterior side and an interior side. The aperture extends axially along an axis through the case from the exterior side to the interior side. The interior side forms a peripheral boundary of an internal volume of the aircraft engine. A cavity is formed by and extends axially between the housing and the case. The componen...