US Patent Issued to RTX on Oct. 21 for "Localized thickening ply reinforcement within ceramic matrix composite airfoil cavity" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,896, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Localized thickening ply reinforcement within ceramic matrix composite airfoil cavity" was invented by Howard J. Liles (Newington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CMC component for a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil including a leading edge, a trailing edge, a suction sidewall, and a pressure sidewall having a locally-thickened region, the locally-thickened region being a maximum thickness region of the pressure sidewall. The locally-thickened region has a first thickness, a maximum thickness region of the suction sidewall has a second thickness, and...