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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2009
Anant Pal Singh, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Michael Slusher, Hamilton, OH (US);
Albert Frank Storace, Cincinnati, OH (US);
James C. Austrow, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Tony Metz, Harrison, OH (US);
Anant Pal Singh, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Michael Slusher, Hamilton, OH (US);
Albert Frank Storace, Cincinnati, OH (US);
James C. Austrow, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Tony Metz, Harrison, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A bearing damper includes: (a) an annular sleeve having spaced-apart grooves formed in a radially-facing surface therein; (b) an annular bearing race received in the sleeve; and (c) a resilient seal ring disposed in each of the grooves, wherein the seal rings cooperate with the sleeve and a radially-facing surface of the bearing race to define a closed annular gap, and further wherein the seal rings are sized so as to urge the bearing race towards a coaxial position relative to the sleeve.