US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies on April 29 for "Turbine assembly with spring biased clearance sensor mount" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,886, issued on April 29, was assigned to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Turbine assembly with spring biased clearance sensor mount" was invented by Brett Hartnagel (Indianapolis) and Brandon R. Snyder (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine assembly includes a bladed rotor mounted for rotation about an axis of the gas turbine engine, a case assembly, and an actively-cooled tip clearance system. The tip clearance system includes a tip clearance sensor located radially outward of an inner case of the case assembly. The actively-cooled tip clearance system includes a sensor is configured to m...