US Patent Issued to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES on April 15 for "Mounting of a sealing ring on an aeronautical turbine engine" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,209, issued on April 15, was assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Paris).

"Mounting of a sealing ring on an aeronautical turbine engine" was invented by Simon Nicolas Morliere (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Nicolas Jean-Marc Marcel Beauquin (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Thierry Fachat (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Alain Dominique Gendraud (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention proposes an aeronautical turbine engine assembly comprising an upstream casing (55) to which guide blading (48a) is fastened, and a downstream casing (58) to which a sealing element (62) provided with an abradable material for rotor bladi...