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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2010
Vishwas Kumar Pandey, Karnataka, IN;
Upendra Prabhu Nath Vemula Gopinath, Karnataka, IN;
Bhaskar Mani, Karnataka, IN;
Donkada Santhosh, Karnataka, IN;
Vishwas Kumar Pandey, Karnataka, IN;
Upendra Prabhu Nath Vemula Gopinath, Karnataka, IN;
Bhaskar Mani, Karnataka, IN;
Donkada Santhosh, Karnataka, IN;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A seal apparatus including at least first and second adjacent seal segments, each including an elongate body with ends defined at opposing elongate body ends, to be arranged such that an end of the first seal segment joins with a complementary end of the second seal segment, the end of the first seal segment including a first male component protruding from a plane of a first seal surface to define a first female mating section about the first male component, the end of the second seal segment including a second male component protruding from a plane of a second seal surface to define a second female mating section about the second male component, the first and second male components being receivable in the second and first female mating sections, respectively, to form first and second male component overlaps in at least two dimensions.