US Patent Issued to SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL on Sept. 1 for "Sealing ring having overlapping sealing parts, and stator arrangement having same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,655, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Sealing ring having overlapping sealing parts, and stator arrangement having same" was invented by Fathi Ahmad (Kaarst, Germany), Olivier Gand (Dusseldorf, Germany), Ralph Gossilin (Gladbeck, Germany), Nihal Kurt (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Stephan Schwarz (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing ring for sealing off a gap, surrounding a rotor shaft, between a rear and a front stator unit, includes an upper left-hand sealing part and a lower right-hand sealing part that is opposite the latter via the rotor shaft, and an upper rig...