ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,726, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to The GSI Group LLC (Assumption, Ill.).
"Fan casing with defined belt pocket" was invented by Joshua Sander (Assumption, Ill.), Laszlo Talaber (Budapest, Hungary) and Brian Daniel Duke (Shellbyville, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan assembly has a propeller with a plurality of fan blades and a fan power system including a driven sheave on a fan shaft connected to a drive sheave with a drive belt. The propeller is mounted within a fan shroud having an inner surface facing the propeller such that a tip clearance is formed between outer tips of the fan blades and the inner surface. The fan ...