Patents by Inventor Michael BESTWICK

Michael BESTWICK has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Balanced rotor for a turbine engine
    Patent number: 9163513
    Abstract: A balanced rotor of a turbine engine, having a rotor disc with a circumferential slot and a row of rotor blades mounted in the slot and a balance weight having a land which extends beneath the root of a blade and having a mass-adjustment protrusion extending from the land in a radial direction relative to the axis of the rotor component and which lies wholly between the blade root and an adjacent blade root.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventor: Michael Bestwick
  • BALANCED ROTOR FOR A TURBINE ENGINE
    Publication number: 20100296937
    Abstract: A balanced rotor of a turbine engine, having a rotor disc with a circumferential slot and a row of rotor blades mounted in the slot and a balance weight having a land which extends beneath the root of a blade and having a mass-adjustment protrusion extending from the land in a radial direction relative to the axis of the rotor component and which lies wholly between the blade root and an adjacent blade root.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventor: Michael BESTWICK