US Patent Issued to Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie-S.R.L on July 15 for "Turbomachine sealing system and turbomachine including the sealing system" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,577, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie-S.R.L (Florence, Italy).

"Turbomachine sealing system and turbomachine including the sealing system" was invented by Luciano Mei (Florence, Italy), Marco Boncinelli (Florence, Italy) and Egidio Pucci (Florence, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing system is described for effecting a seal of a gap (G1; G2) in a turbomachine (1) between a first structural member (21; 23) and a second structural member (31). The sealing system includes a sealing apparatus comprising a sealing member (47; 77) comprising a first edge portion (49; 79) and a second edge portion (51; ...