ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,397, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).
"Overspeed safeguards in hydraulically controlled fuel boost pump" was invented by Martin Augustine Clements (Loveland, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic motor-driven fuel boost pump includes redundant safeguards against overspeeding the impellers. A flow limiter limits the amount of hydraulic fluid that can be supplied to the hydraulic motor, thereby limiting the torque that can be applied to the impellers. A control valve also transitions between a non-restrictive operating state and a restrictive operating state. In the restrictive operati...