US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on May 20 for "Cooling method and structure of vane of gas turbine" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,532, issued on May 20, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Cooling method and structure of vane of gas turbine" was invented by Satoshi Mizukami (Houston), David Allen Flodman (Houston) and Satoshi Hada (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shroud of a vane of a turbine is provided. The shroud comprises a shroud main body; and a shroud edge disposed on a circumference of the shroud main body to surround the shroud main body, the shroud edge comprising a shroud edge passage therein, the shroud edge passage is disposed along the circumference of the shroud main body. The shroud edge comprises a plurality of c...