US Patent Issued to Solar Turbines on Sept. 29 for "Turbine tip shroud removal feature" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,667, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Solar Turbines Inc. (San Diego).

"Turbine tip shroud removal feature" was invented by Garrett P Prins (Poway, Calif.) and Sudhakar Bollapragada (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tip shroud, comprising a plurality of tip shoes encircling a rotor assembly, in a turbine may deform due to thermal gradients experienced during operation of the turbine. This can make it difficult to remove the tip shroud during disassembly of the turbine. In an embodiment, to facilitate consistent and reliable removal of the tip shroud during each disassembly of the turbine, one or more, including potentia...