US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on Jan. 27 for "Thermally adaptive bearing sleeve" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,102, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Thermally adaptive bearing sleeve" was invented by Brent Merritt (Southwick, Mass.) and Viktor Kilchyk (Lancaster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component of a gas foil bearing, having a plurality of material layers forming a composition gradient that defines a first coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) and a second CTE that differs from the first CTE, wherein: the plurality of material layers include at least two dissimilar metals, plastics, or fiber filled metals or plastics, that are layered on top of each other; when the component is s...