ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,419, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Oil-cooled carbon seal" was invented by Nigel David Sawyers-Abbott (South Glastonbury, Conn.), Armando Amador (Wethersfield, Conn.) and Todd A. Davis (Tolland, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal system has: a first member; a seal carried by the first member and having a seal face; and a second member rotatable relative to the first member about an axis. The second member has: a seat on a first piece of the second member, the seat having a seat face in sliding sealing engagement with the seal face; and a radially outwardly closed collection channel for co...