ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,131, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).
"Fan case assembly of turbo fan engine" was invented by Takahiro Ando (Kobe, Japan) and Hirokazu Sasaki (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan case assembly of a turbo fan engine including a tubular fan case surrounding a fan of the turbo fan engine from an outside in a radial direction. The assembly also includes a tubular panel set covering an inner peripheral surface of the fan case and including panels lined up in an axial direction of the turbo fan engine and at least one elastic body compressed by two members selected from the fan case and t...