US Patent Issued to ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER on July 1 for "Non-lubricated compressor with abradable sealing element and related method for assembling it" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,262, issued on July 1, was assigned to ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP (Wilrijk, Belgium).

"Non-lubricated compressor with abradable sealing element and related method for assembling it" was invented by Pierre-Yves Luyckx (Wilrijk, Belgium), Bartel Buls (Wilrijk, Belgium) and Karen Marien (Wilrijk, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The non-lubricated compressor (10) for compressing a gas, comprises: a stationary stator (12) with a housing (18) comprising a rotor cavity (20) delimited by a bottom wall (22), a top wall (24), and a lateral wall (26) connecting said bottom wall (22) and said top wall (24), a rotor element ...