Patent ID: 11859659
Assignee: BLADON JETS HOLDINGS LIMITED
Field: Mechanical elements (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F | IPC F

Claim 10:
11. A method of rotatably supporting a thrust disk on a thrust plate comprising:
providing a thrust plate comprising an axially recessed surface;
stacking on the thrust plate a spring plate comprising an annular mating ring and a plurality of deflection elements disposed radially inwardly from the spring plate mating ring;
stacking on the spring plate a force transfer plate comprising an annular mating ring and a plurality of force transfer elements disposed radially inwardly from the force transfer plate mating ring, wherein the plurality of force transfer elements comprises axial through-holes;
stacking on the force transfer plate a fluid plate comprising fluid foil elements arranged to overlap with the force transfer elements, wherein:
axial force transmitted from the thrust disk is transferred through each fluid foil element, through a corresponding underlying force transfer element and to a corresponding underlying deflection element, which deflection element deflects axially towards the recessed surface of the thrust plate.