Patent ID: 7824153

Claim:
A stator vane for a turbo molecular pump, the stator vane comprising: two stator vane, halves each having inner and outer rim portions and a plurality of radially arranged stator blades connected integrally between the inner and outer rim portions, the inner rim portion of each stator vane half having a pair of inner rim ends and the outer rim portion of each stator vane half having a pair of outer rim ends, the stator vane halves being disposed in abutment with one another along an abutment line to form an annular body with the inner rim ends of one of the stator vane halves being disposed in confronting relation with the respective inner rim ends of the other of the stator vane halves and with the outer rim ends of the one of the stator vane halves being disposed in confronting relation with the respective outer rim ends of the other of the stator vane halves, at least each of the inner rim ends or each of the outer rim ends of one of the two stator blade halves being formed shorter in a circumferential direction of the annular body with respect to the abutment line to form a gap between the confronting inner rim ends or the confronting outer rim ends.