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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,339, issued on May 5, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Destabilizer induced buckling in 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, a second bearing axially offset from the first bearing, a first bearing support extending from a bearing housing to the first bearing to support the first bearing and a second bearing support extending to and supportive of the second bearing. One or more radial bearing supports include a plurality of radial spokes extending...