US Patent Issued to SAFRAN NACELLES on Sept. 30 for "Thrust reverser comprising means facilitating the mounting of a membrane for sealing off the secondary flow path" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,013, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAFRAN NACELLES (Gonfreville-l'Orcher, France).

"Thrust reverser comprising means facilitating the mounting of a membrane for sealing off the secondary flow path" was invented by Julien Chandelier (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Patrick Gonidec (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Francois Bellet (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Patrick Andre Boileau (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thrust reverser including a sealing membrane designed to deflect at least one portion of a secondary flow towards a deflection cascade when a movable structure of the reverser is in the retracted reverse-th...