US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on Sept. 16 for "Turbine support case with axial spokes and heat shields" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,249, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Turbine support case with axial spokes and heat shields" was invented by Guy Lefebvre (St-Bruno-de-Montarville, Canada) and Remy Synnott (Longueuil, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft engine, has: a turbine including a turbine rotor rotatable about a central axis; a scroll case having an inlet connected to a source of combustion gases and an outlet fluidly connected to the turbine, and a conduit extending around the central axis from the inlet to the outlet; a bearing housing; a turbine support case secured to the bearing housi...