ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,073, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Center tie rotor annular seal" was invented by Luis Manuel Torres (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Matthew E. Bintz (West Hartford, Conn.), Fadi S. Maalouf (East Hampton, Conn.) and Ryan Hamilton Quinn (Berlin, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine rotor has a central shaft and a disk stack having a plurality of disks encircling the shaft. A seal has a first member having, in central axial cross-section: a rearwardly-open channel receiving a portion of one of the disks; a sleeve extending rearward from the channel and between the disk and the shaft; and a portio...