US Patent Issued to B/E Aerospace on Sept. 30 for "Additively manufactured energy absorbing strut device" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,105, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Additively manufactured energy absorbing strut device" was invented by Pradeep Acharya (Bangalore, India), Sreekanth Rao (Bangalore, India), Maxime Dempah (Atlanta) and Mahesh Hosmani (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additively manufactured strut device including a cylinder body forming a chamber and a piston having a first part disposed in the internal chamber and a second part disposed outside of the chamber. A first deformable element formed as a lattice structure breaks to permit initial withdrawal of the piston when a tensive ...