ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,094, issued on June 10, was assigned to Cummins Ltd. (London).
"Compressor seal system" was invented by Matthew Purdey (Huddersfield, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal system for a bearing chamber (22) of a turbomachine includes the baffle element (70) encircling the axis (25) of the machine. The baffle element is formed with front surface including both a recess (73) which defines a circumferentially-extending oil-receiving channel (74), and an oil-deflecting surface (78) on a gutter (77). The channel decreases in cross-sectional area close to the oil-deflecting surface, and a circular line which is within the chan...