US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on July 29 for "Hydrogen pipe coupling arrangement with enhanced inner sealing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,185, issued on July 29, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Hydrogen pipe coupling arrangement with enhanced inner sealing" was invented by Florian Kedor (Hamburg, Germany), Tran Quang Tue Nguyen (Hamburg, Germany) and Jorg Steiner (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupling for a hydrogen pipe for coupling multi-wall pipe sections which is equipped with an inner seal and an outer seal and a pressing device that presses the pipe sections together. The hydrogen pipe coupling arrangement comprises at least one spring element configured to apply a pre-pressing force onto the inner seal in addition...