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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 12, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
John M Vance, Bryan, TX (US);
Assignee:
The Texas A&M University System, College Station, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
277-1 ; 277 53 ; 4151745 ;
Abstract
A damper seal (310) and method of sealing and damping a rotating shaft (312) are disclosed. The damper seal (310) includes a stator housing (314), a plurality of cavities (C.sub.1, C.sub.2, C.sub.3, C.sub.4), a first sealing blade (316) for modulating the fluid flow into the cavities, and a second sealing blade (318) with notches (330) and/or holes (340) for modulating the fluid flow exiting the cavities (C.sub.1, C.sub.2, C.sub.3, C.sub.4) less than the fluid flow entering the cavities (C.sub.1, C.sub.2, C.sub.3, C.sub.4) to provide improved damping and sealing.