US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on May 26 for "Aircraft ball bearing squirrel cage with beams with enlarged ends" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,960, issued on May 26, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Aircraft ball bearing squirrel cage with beams with enlarged ends" was invented by Bernard Chow (Mississauga, Canada) and Lucas Da Silva Maciel (Etobicoke, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ball bearing assembly for an aircraft includes an inner race, a plurality of balls and an outer race positioned radially outwardly of the plurality of balls. The outer race is secured to a squirrel cage that will connect the outer race to static structure. The squirrel cage has a central axis that will be parallel to an axis of rotation of a rotating mem...