US Patent Issued to MTU AERO ENGINES on May 20 for "Guide vane ring and rotor blade ring for a turbofan engine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,538, issued on May 20, was assigned to MTU AERO ENGINES AG (Munich).

"Guide vane ring and rotor blade ring for a turbofan engine" was invented by Christoph Mueller-Schindewolffs (Munich), Markus Brettschneider (Munich), Guenter Ramm (Munich) and Franz Malzacher (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide vane ring and/or a rotor blade ring for a low-pressure turbine of an aircraft gas turbine of a turbofan engine includes a plurality of airfoils disposed consecutively in a direction of rotation. The plurality of airfoils includes a first airfoil and a second airfoil adjacent to the first airfoil in the direction of rotation. The f...