US Patent Issued to ANDRITZ HYDRO on May 12 for "Bucket of a Pelton turbine" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,676, issued on May 12, was assigned to ANDRITZ HYDRO GmbH (Vienna).

"Bucket of a Pelton turbine" was invented by Gervais Nicolas (Les Longevilles, France) and Loic Andolfatto (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bucket of a Pelton turbine with an outlet edge curved at least in segments. To achieve a particularly high efficiency the outlet edge forms a rear hump in a side view, wherein a center of curvature of the hump is positioned below the outlet edge in the side view and a peak of the hump is located closer to the cup base than to the bucket face."

The patent was filed on March 20, 2023, under Application No. 18...