ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,087, issued on Sept. 30.
"Journal foil air bearing for preventing separation of top foil" was invented by Kyeong Su Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a journal foil air bearing for supporting a load applied along a radial direction of a rotating shaft rotating about a centerline, the journal foil air bearing including a first top foil disposed to face an outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft and surround the rotating shaft, a second top foil disposed to surround the first top foil, a bump foil provided as an elastically deformable member and disposed to surround the second top foil, a...