US Patent Issued to DOOSAN ENERBILITY on Dec. 23 for "Turbine blade having non-axisymmetric endwall contour and gas turbine including same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,952, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to DOOSAN ENERBILITY Co. LTD (Changwon, South Korea).

"Turbine blade having non-axisymmetric endwall contour and gas turbine including same" was invented by Jeong Ju Kim (Seongnam, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a turbine blade which includes an airfoil including a pressure surface, a suction surface, a leading edge, and a trailing edge, an endwall formed integrally on a lower portion of the airfoil, and a root part formed integrally on a lower portion of the endwall, wherein an outer peripheral surface of the endwall is formed with a curved surface from a rim seal position...