ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,725, issued on May 20, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"All-CMC brake with wear debris delivery system" was invented by Christopher T. Kirkpatrick (Pueblo West, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wear debris delivery system includes a brake component fabricated from a ceramic matrix composite (CMC). The brake component includes a stator disk, the stator disk having at least one wear surface, and a torque plate barrel having a series of axially extending stator splines, wherein the stator splines are configured to support the stator disk. The wear debris delivery system includes an injector configured to inject w...