US Patent Issued to SAFRAN on Sept. 30 for "Method for manufacturing a composite turbomachine bladed disk (BLISK) with ceramic reinforcement" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,714, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).

"Method for manufacturing a composite turbomachine bladed disk (BLISK) with ceramic reinforcement" was invented by Pierre Jean Sallot (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Jean-Michel Patrick Maurice Franchet (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a metal bladed wheel of a turbomachine reinforced by an insert made of metal matrix composite material, includes winding the ceramic fibers around a mandrel in order to form the insert, the ceramic fibers being surrounded by a material constituting the matrix; and spark plasma sintering the insert ...