US Patent Issued to SAFRAN POWER UNITS on March 18 for "Lubrication of bearings of a turbomachine shaft" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,999, issued on March 18, was assigned to SAFRAN POWER UNITS (Toulouse, France).

"Lubrication of bearings of a turbomachine shaft" was invented by Romain Quinton (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Serge Marie Gabriel Cot (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Jean-Paul Salvador Lopez (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for a gas turbine includes a hollow central shaft which is guided in rotation by at least one bearing, the assembly further including a device for lubricating said at least one bearing, the device including a hollow lubricant delivery tube which is arranged fixedly in the central shaft and is configured ...