US Patent Issued to Safran Nacelles on Oct. 27 for "Tooling and method for manufacturing apertured elements such as thrust reverser cascades for an aircraft nacelle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,813, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Safran Nacelles (Gonfreville l'Orcher, France).

"Tooling and method for manufacturing apertured elements such as thrust reverser cascades for an aircraft nacelle" was invented by Mathieu Preau (Moissy Cramayel, France), Bertrand Desjoyeaux (Moissy Cramayel, France), Franck Maze (Moissy Cramayel, France) and Mickael Sorel (Moissy Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tooling for manufacturing an air deflection cascade for a thrust reverser system of an aircraft nacelle includes a plurality of spars, each spar being connected to at least one adjacent spar by a plurality of deflection va...