Patent ID: 7470115

Claim:
A rotor assembly, comprising: a rotor; a shaft coaxial with the rotor; and a nut for axially loading the rotor and the shaft, wherein: the rotor includes a rotor axial facing surface and a rotor radially inward surface, the rotor includes a nut-receiving portion defining an annular recess within the rotor, the annular recess is bounded by the rotor axial facing surface and the rotor radially inward surface, the nut comprises a braced nut including a nut brace for bracing the braced nut into a nut bracing corner within the nut-receiving portion of the rotor, the nut bracing corner is disposed within the nut-receiving portion at the rotor axial facing surface, the nut includes a nut axial facing surface, the nut has a radially outward surface, and radial piloting of the nut to the rotor occurs between the rotor radially inward surface and the nut radially outward surface.