US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on July 28 for "Turbine exhaust case and bearing housing assembly" (Canadian, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,802, issued on July 28, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Turbine exhaust case and bearing housing assembly" was invented by Hyunjae Kim (Yongin-Si, South Korea) and Guy Lefebvre (St-Bruno-de-Montarville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine has a bearing housing concentrically disposed inside the inner case of a turbine exhaust case (TEC). The bearing housing has a tubular body and an outer flange projecting from a radially outer surface of the tubular body. The outer flange has an axially extending segment spaced from the radially outer surface of the tubular body by an annular...