US Patent Issued to MTU AERO ENGINES on April 8 for "Rotor blade for a turbomachine, associated turbine module, and use thereof" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,315, issued on April 8, was assigned to MTU AERO ENGINES AG (Munich).

"Rotor blade for a turbomachine, associated turbine module, and use thereof" was invented by Karl Maar (Munich), Joerg Frischbier (Munich) and Hans-Peter Hackenberg (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rotor blade (20) to be arranged in a gas conduit (3) of a turbomachine (1), having a rotor blade airfoil (23), which radially inwardly has a chord length Si, radially outwardly has a chord length Sa, and in a radial positionrx inbetween has a chord length Sx, the chord length Sx in the radial position rx being at least equal to the chord length Si radially inwardly...