US Patent Issued to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES on April 8 for "Turbine rotor for a turbomachine" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,307, issued on April 8, was assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Paris).

"Turbine rotor for a turbomachine" was invented by Julian Nicolas Girardeau (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Benoit Guillaume Silet (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor of a turbine extending around a longitudinal axis includes a rotor disc bearing at its periphery one or more rotor blades, each blade including an airfoil provided at its radially outer end with a platform equipped with an upstream lip and a downstream lip, the platform having a front lateral edge and a back lateral edge with respect to the normal direction of rotation of ...