US Patent Issued to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES on Aug. 5 for "Device for shaping a fibrous preform for producing a bladed part of a turbomachine" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,628, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Paris).

"Device for shaping a fibrous preform for producing a bladed part of a turbomachine" was invented by Maxime Marie Desire Blaise (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Hubert Jean Marie Fabre (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Jeff Pote (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for shaping at least one fibrous preform of a bladed part of a turbine engine, the device including a mould formed of multiple parts nested inside one another, the mould defining an internal cavity for enclosing the preform entirely, the cavity having two platform zones and a blade zon...