US Patent Issued to MTU Aero Engines on July 15 for "Blade for a turbomachine including blade tip armor and an erosion protection layer, and method for manufacturing same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,573, issued on July 15, was assigned to MTU Aero Engines AG (Munich).

"Blade for a turbomachine including blade tip armor and an erosion protection layer, and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Thomas Uihlein (Munich) and Ralf Stolle (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blade for a turbomachine is provided. The blade at its blade tip (4) includes blade tip armor (5), and an erosion protection layer (11) above the blade tip armor. For the blade, the erosion protection layer in the area of the blade tip has a layer thickness in the range of 5 micro metre to 100 micro metre, in particular 10 micro metre to 50 micro metre...