US Patent Issued to RTX on June 30 for "Blade outer air seal segment assembly using sleeve-rail configuration and method" (Connecticut, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,064, issued on June 30, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Blade outer air seal segment assembly using sleeve-rail configuration and method" was invented by Jonas Banhos (West Hartford, Conn.), James T Roach (Vernon, Conn.), Russell Kim (Temecula, Calif.) and Raymond Surace (Newington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blade outer air seal (BOAS) segment of a gas turbine engine includes a support component extending circumferentially in an arc and an arcuate ceramic matrix composite (CMC) sleeve that slides onto the support component. The support component may be made of metal such as a high Nickel (Ni) content allo...