US Patent Issued to SAFRAN on June 2 for "Facility and method for pairing a shield to a preform for the production of an aircraft turbine engine vane" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,296, issued on June 2, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).

"Facility and method for pairing a shield to a preform for the production of an aircraft turbine engine vane" was invented by Thierry Patrick Chauvin (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Benoit Bazin (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Adrien Touze (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facility for pairing a metal shield to a leading edge of a preform made of composite material for the production of an aircraft turbine engine blade, the facility including a support configured to receive and hold the metal shield, -a movement hexapod which carries the support and is able to mov...