US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on June 17 for "Gas turbine stationary blade and gas turbine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,653, issued on June 17, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Gas turbine stationary blade and gas turbine" was invented by Takuya Okamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoko Morikawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Satoshi Hada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine stationary blade is a turbine stationary blade that includes: a blade body; and a shroud formed in an end portion of the blade body in a blade height direction. The shroud includes: a bottom plate in contact with a combustion gas flow passage; a peripheral wall formed in the blade height direction and along a peripheral edge of the bottom plate; a rec...