US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on May 12 for "Low-pressure turbine" (Turkish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,642, issued on May 12, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Low-pressure turbine" was invented by Brandon W. Miller (Middletown, Ohio), Arda Unsal (Umraniye, Turkey) and Paul Pezzi (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-pressure (LP) turbine includes an LP shaft, one or more stages of LP turbine stator vanes and LP turbine rotor blades, and one or more interstage seals. The LP turbine rotor blades are coupled to, and rotate with, the LP shaft. The one or more interstage seals are disposed between the one or more stages. The one or more interstage seals each includes a seal disk that extends radially in...