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ROTATION FLEXURE WITH TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED MODAL FREQUENCY

United States Patent Application

20170356501
A1
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A flexure bearing includes an inner race, an outer race, and a plurality of substantially planar radially extending blades coupled between the inner and outer race. The blades have a thickness that is thinner than a thickness of the inner and outer races. The inner race, outer race, and blades have substantially the same height. At least one heating element is coupled to the inner race and/or the outer race. The heating element is configured to apply heat to the race that it is coupled to in order to tune the flexure bearing.
Salas, Theodore E. (Los Lunas, NM), Barney, Patrick S. (Albuquerque, NM), Ison, Aaron M. (Albuquerque, NM), Akau, Ronald L. (Albuquerque, NM), Weir, Nathan (Albuquerque, NM)
15/ 667,524
August 2, 2017
STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENTAL INTEREST [0002] This invention was developed under Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000 between Sandia Corporation and the U.S. Department of Energy. The U.S. Government has certain rights in this invention.