US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on May 27 for "Method for the nondestructive crack testing of surfaces of rotor blade-receiving blade reception slots of a rotor, and ultrasound device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,596, issued on May 27, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Bayern, Germany).

"Method for the nondestructive crack testing of surfaces of rotor blade-receiving blade reception slots of a rotor, and ultrasound device" was invented by Michael Clossen-von Lanken Schulz (Issum, Germany) and Stefan Obermayr (Duisburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the nondestructive crack testing of surfaces of rotor blade-receiving blade reception slots of a rotor, includes the following steps: positioning a guide rail on a rotor surface section between two rotor blades; positioning an ultrasound test head oriented i...