US Patent Issued to GE AVIATION SYSTEMS on Oct. 21 for "Method and apparatus for cooling a rotor assembly" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,742, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LLC (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Method and apparatus for cooling a rotor assembly" was invented by Balamurugan Sridharan (Bengaluru, India), Anirban Chatterjee (Bengaluru, India) and Sarveshwar Chandrakant Wadgaonkar (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of cooling rotor winding end turns extending from a rotor core includes coupling a collar to a rotatable shaft of the rotor core. The collar has a first wall confronting the rotor core, a second wall spaced from and opposing the first wall, a third wall between the first and second walls defining a set of ape...