US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on July 29 for "Aircraft engine with squeeze film damper" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,028, issued on July 29, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Aircraft engine with squeeze film damper" was invented by Daniel Alecu (Brampton, Canada) and Laslo Tibor Diosady (Etobicoke, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft engine, comprising: a shaft; a bearing housing extending around the shaft and defining a bearing cavity; a bearing in the bearing cavity and rotatably supporting the shaft; a squeeze film damper including: a first seal proximate a first end of the bearing, and a second seal proximate a second end of the bearing; an annulus between the first seal and the second seal, the a...