By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Defense & Aerospace Week — According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by VerticalNews journalists, a patent application by the inventors Hartman, Timm E. Phoenix, AZ; Hanlon, Casey Queen Creek, AZ; Laidlaw, Mitchell Tempe, AZ; Geck, Kellan Chandler, AZ, filed on April 4, 2013, was made available online on October 16, 2014.
The assignee for this patent application is Honeywell International Inc.
Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “There are many mechanisms that include one or more shaft-mounted devices. The shaft-mounted devices are, in many instances, secured on the shaft via a threaded nut, such as a spanner nut. That is, the threaded nut is threaded onto mating threads that are formed on the shaft, and engages, either directly or indirectly, the shaft-mounted device. The threaded nut may be torqued to a predetermined torque, whereby frictional forces between the shaft and the threaded nut provide a passive locking means to prevent rotation of the threaded nut.(…)
via Patent Application Titled “Threaded Fastener Positive Anti-Rotation Locking Device” Published Online.