US Patent Issued to GOODRICH on Dec. 9 for "Hydrostatic shoe with face seal" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,637, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Hydrostatic shoe with face seal" was invented by Jason Bradley Allen (Waco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shoe for use with a hydraulic piston motor or pump is disclosed herein. The shoe includes an upper portion configured to receive the hydraulic piston, a lower portion configured to contact a swashplate, a counterbore formed in the lower portion, a vertical channel extending through the upper portion and the lower portion into the counterbore, and a seal disposed within the counterbore and extending around a circumference of the counterbore."

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