US Patent Issued to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES on May 20 for "Device for sealing and reinjecting a bypass flow for a turbine nozzle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,515, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Paris).

"Device for sealing and reinjecting a bypass flow for a turbine nozzle" was invented by Jerome Claude George Lemonnier (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Franck Davy Boisnault (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Antoine Bruno Van Noort (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine comprising a sealing device connected to a nozzle with a radial degree of freedom. The sealing device comprises a reinjection pipe configured to collect a fluid present in a cavity which is located between tongues and is formed by the sealing device, and to reinject the fluid coll...