US Patent Issued to MTU AERO ENGINES on June 10 for "Guide vane arrangement for a turbomachine, compressor module, and turbomachine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,091, issued on June 10, was assigned to MTU AERO ENGINES AG (Munich).

"Guide vane arrangement for a turbomachine, compressor module, and turbomachine" was invented by Alexander Halcoussis (Munich) and Harsimar Sahota (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide vane for arrangement in a gas duct of a turbomachine, including a guide vane blade and an outer platform which, relative to a longitudinal axis of the turbomachine, is arranged radially on an outside on the guide vane blade. The outer platform delimits the gas duct with an inner wall surface radially to the outside. The inner wall surface has a curved profile with an inflect...