US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on June 17 for "Structure of cooling turbine vane shroud and manufacturing method thereof" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,662, issued on June 17, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Structure of cooling turbine vane shroud and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Satoshi Mizukami (Houston), David Allen Flodman (Houston), Satoshi Hada (Houston), Yasumasa Kunisada (Tokyo), Saki Matsuo (Tokyo), Ryo Tanaka (Tokyo), Takuro Kameda (Tokyo) and Yusuke Akada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shroud of a vane of a turbine is provided. The shroud includes a shroud main body comprising a first wall having a gas-passage face facing a hot gas passage of the turbine and a cooling face facing opposite to the hot gas passage, a shro...