US Patent Issued to GOODRICH on Aug. 12 for "Self-sustaining shimmy damper system for landing gear shock strut assemblies" (Indian, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,530, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Self-sustaining shimmy damper system for landing gear shock strut assemblies" was invented by Hemanth Nagaraja (Hassan, India), Basavaraj Bodki (Bangalore, India) and Bhuwan Jain (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shimmy damper assembly may comprise: a damper piston including a piston head, the piston head comprising a first permanent magnet, a shimmy cylinder including a second permanent magnet disposed on an axial surface of the shimmy cylinder, and a gland nut coupled to the shimmy cylinder, the gland nut including a third permanent magne...