US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on July 8 for "Unbalanced rotor for unbalance testing of aircraft power plant" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,177, issued on July 8, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Unbalanced rotor for unbalance testing of aircraft power plant" was invented by Jeff Lee (Burlington, Canada) and Vinod Para (Brampton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unbalanced rotor is provided to perform unbalance testing on an aircraft power plant. The unbalanced rotor includes a hollow body rotatable about a rotation axis and an unbalancing weight installed inside of the hollow body. The unbalancing weight is installed inside of the hollow body to intentionally vibrate the rotor during rotation of the rotor. The unbalancing weight ...