US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on May 5 for "Controlled contact induced buckling of spoked bearing support" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,340, issued on May 5, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Controlled contact induced buckling of spoked bearing support" was invented by Nathan Tomes (Hamilton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing arrangement of a gas turbine engine includes a first bearing supportive of a shaft, and a second bearing axially offset from the first bearing. A first bearing support extends from a bearing housing to the first bearing, and a second bearing support extends from a bearing housing to the second bearing. One or more radial bearing supports including a plurality of radial spokes extend between the beari...