US Patent Issued to Safran Nacelles, SAFRAN on May 13 for "Additive manufacturing process of a part for an aircraft propulsion unit nacelle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,791, issued on May 13, was assigned to Safran Nacelles (Gonfreville l'Orcher, France) and SAFRAN (Paris).

"Additive manufacturing process of a part for an aircraft propulsion unit nacelle" was invented by Flavie Hubert-Choinard (Gonfreville l'Orcher, France), Aurelie Soula (Gonfreville l'Orcher, France), Jean-Francois Thouement (Gonfreville l'Orcher, France) and Sebastien Richard (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for additively manufacturing a part of a nacelle of an aircraft propulsion unit such as an exhaust conduit portion a step of depositing a compound including a TiAl-based powdery intermetallic alloy and consolida...