US Patent Issued to Doosan Enerbility on April 15 for "Turbine vane platform sealing assembly, and turbine vane and gas turbine including same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,198, issued on April 15, was assigned to Doosan Enerbility Co. Ltd. (Changwon-si, South Korea).

"Turbine vane platform sealing assembly, and turbine vane and gas turbine including same" was invented by Hyuk Hee Lee (Gimhae-si, South Korea), Hyun Woo Joo (Changwon-si, South Korea), Ha Neul Kim (Changwon-si, South Korea) and Hong Seung Seo (Uijeongbu-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine vane platform sealing assembly, a turbine vane, and a gas turbine are proposed. The turbine vane platform sealing assembly includes a first sealing member inserted into a first groove formed in a turbine vane platform in a first direc...