US Patent Issued to SAFRAN on June 23 for "Treatment of a non-axisymmetric casing comprising a plenum, with controlled opening" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,020, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).

"Treatment of a non-axisymmetric casing comprising a plenum, with controlled opening" was invented by Simon Pierre Michel Martin (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Gabriel Perez (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and William Henri Joseph Riera (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A casing of a turbine engine compressor including an inner annular wall and an outer annular wall delimiting therebetween an annular cavity. The inner annular wall includes a plurality of slots hollowed out in the thickness of the wall, the slots being arranged next to one another in a circumferential...