Fluid reaction surfaces (i.e., impellers) inventions 07/08

20080181772 - Conductive device for cooling fan with luminous figures: A conductive device for a cooling fan with luminous figures provides a first circuit board, which surrounds and fits with the axial barrel in the fan frame, and the first and second conductors of the first circuit board connect with the first and second bearings respectively. The central shaft of... Agent: G. Link Co., Ltd.

20080181773 - Systems and methods for tethered wind turbines: According to some embodiments, systems and methods for tethered wind turbines may be provided. In some embodiments, a system may comprise an airborne body extending horizontally along an axis between a first point and a second point, wherein the body is at least partially filled with a gas. The system... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20080181774 - Blades, casting cores, and methods: An article includes a blade casting core combination. The combination includes a ceramic feedcore and a metallic core. The ceramic feedcore has: a root end; a tip end; a leading end; a trailing end; a first side; a second side; and a plurality of legs extending between the root and... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C. (p&w)

20080181775 - Integrated leading edge for wind turbine blade: A wind turbine blade that includes integrated erosion, lightning and icing protection for a leading edge. The leading edge includes a frontal surface with an erosion shield positioned external to the frontal surface. An internal lightning conveyance path is provided with an electrical connection from the erosion shield to the... Agent: Ge Energy General Electric C/o Ernest G. Cusick

20080181784 - Convectively cooled gas turbine blade: A gas turbine has a cooling air passage which extends along the leading edge of the blade airfoil, which cooling air passage has an outlet opening which is arranged in the region of the blade tip. The contour of the outlet opening is geometrically similar to the cross section of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080181776 - Phase control structure for crank-connecting control disk: A phase control structure for crank-connecting control disk has a control disk on a helicopter body. The control disk is connected with a crank assembly pivotally connected to the body. The crank assembly includes a connecting element, a first crank and a second crank. The connecting element, the first crank,... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080181777 - Turbine with desirable features: A power generating turbine is disclosed having a vertical axis, a generator connected to the vertical axis, and coupled blades connected to the vertical axis. The coupled blades are a horizontal axis; one or more blades, comprising a first set of blades, attached near one end of the horizontal axis;... Agent: John William Sparks

20080181778 - Locking and fixing device for a heat shield element for a rotor unit of a turbomachine: A locking and fixing device for a heat shield element which can be connected to a rotor unit of an axial-flow turbomachine is described, which heat shield element can be arranged along a heat shield row axially directly next to at least one blade provided in a blade row and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080181779 - Blade assembly in a combustion turbo-machine providing reduced concentration of mechanical stress and a seal between adjacent assemblies: A blade assembly 100 (FIG. 5) configuration that includes a means for distributing mechanical stress (e.g., a stress dissipater 54) is provided. The stress dissipater is configured to reduce the concentration of a peak mechanical stress without compromising the effectiveness of a seal between adjacent rotating blade assemblies.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080181780 - Airfoil for axial-flow compressor capable of lowering loss in low reynolds number region: In a transonic region with a Reynolds number not more than a critical Reynolds number, a flow velocity distribution on an extrados of an airfoil has a single supersonic maximum value within a range of up to 6% from a leading edge on a chord, or a shape factor has... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080181781 - Preform spar cap for a wind turbine rotor blade: A spar cap for a wind turbine rotor blade. The spar cap may include multiple preform components. The multiple preform components may be planar sheets having a swept shape with a first end and a second end. The multiple preform components may be joined by mating the first end of... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080181782 - Mounting system for supporting a ceiling fan assembly: A ceiling fan mounting system (10) is disclosed which includes an upper pre-mounted assembly (12) and a lower hanging assembly (13). The upper pre-mounted assembly includes a mounting plate (14) with a peripheral flange (16) having threaded mounting holes (17) therein. The upper assembly also includes a hanger (21) coupled... Agent: Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz

20080181783 - Mounting system for supporting a ceiling fan assembly: A ceiling fan mounting system (10) is disclosed which includes an upper pre-mounted assembly (12) and a lower hanging assembly (13). The upper pre-mounted assembly includes a mounting plate (14) with a peripheral flange (16) having threaded mounting holes (17) therein. The upper assembly also includes a hanger (21) coupled... Agent: Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz

20080175716 - Moving blade for a turbomachine: A turbomachine moving blade without a top platform, the blade including a fastener root (110) surmounted by an airfoil (112) that presents an end face (114), a pressure-side face (116), and a suction-side face, said fastener root and said end face being situated respectively at bottom and top ends of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080175709 - High efficiency turbine with variable attack angle foils: A high-efficiency turbine generates energy from a fluid flow, such as wind or water currents. The turbine has a central axis with a plurality of foils rotatable about the central axis in a general paddlewheel arrangement. Each of the foils has a foil axis parallel to the length of the... Agent: Aka Chan LLP

20080175710 - Fan blade mounting system: A ceiling fan (50) is disclosed having a motor housing (51) which encases an electric motor (53). The motor includes a bottom mounting plate (54) that rotates and thereby drives an annular array of blade irons (56), each having a blade (57) mounted thereto in conventional fashion. Each blade iron... Agent: Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz

20080175711 - Pitch controlled wind turbine blade, a wind turbine and use thereof: The invention relates to a pitch controlled wind turbine blade including a pressure surface side and a leeward surface side, where the surfaces establishes a leading edge and a trailing edge. The blade includes a turbulence generating mechanism where the mechanism is placed on the leeward surface sides of the... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, Llc

20080175712 - Steam turbine rotor blade: A subject of the present invention is to prevent the reduction of rigidity caused by the increased length of a steam turbine rotor blade and the degradation of vibration characteristics. A steam turbine rotor blade according to the present invention comprises a profile and a cover integrally formed on and... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080175713 - Fan blade mounting system: A ceiling fan is disclosed having an electric motor (81) with a bottom plate (80) having two internally threaded screw mounting holes (82) associated with each blade iron (83). Each blade iron has two, elongated, arcuate mounting holes (84) therethrough which are alignable with motor bottom plate mounting holes (82).... Agent: Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz

20080175714 - Dual cut-back trailing edge for airfoils: A cooling system for an airfoil portion of a turbine engine component is provided. The cooling system includes a first cavity dedicated to cooling a trailing edge portion of an airfoil portion and a second cavity dedicated to cooling an aft portion of a pressure side wall.... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.c. (p&w)

20080175715 - Fan blade mounting system: A ceiling fan (10) is disclosed having a motor housing (11) which encases an electric motor (13). The motor includes a bottom mounting plate (14) that rotates and thereby drives an annular array of blade irons (16), each having a blade (17) mounted thereto in conventional fashion. Each blade iron... Agent: Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz

20080170945 - Aerofoil configuration: A turbine blade comprising a pressure wall and a suction wall joined together at leading and trailing edges and having a root portion and a blade tip region, the walls further define a hollow chamber and through which cooling air is directed in use from the root portion to the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080170946 - Impingement cooled bucket shroud, turbine rotor incorporating the same, and cooling method: A localized directional impingement cooling is used to reduce the metal temperatures on highly stressed regions of the tip shroud.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20080170941 - Wind turbine: A wind turbine is disclosed. The wind turbine comprises a casing with an inlet and outlet; a rotating shaft positioned within said casing wherein said rotational shaft provides rotational power to a generator; a plurality of impeller blades and guide vane blades arranged in at least one set within an... Agent: Law Office Of Jay R. Hamilton, PLC.

20080170942 - Assembly for an aircraft engine compressor comprising blades with hammer attachment with inclined root: The invention relates to a disk/blade assembly for an aircraft engine compressor, comprising a disk (2) and a plurality of blades with hammer attachment (6), each blade comprising a blade root provided with an upstream bearing surface (32) situated on a leading edge side of the airfoil and a downstream... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080170943 - Composite inlet guide vane: A composite vane includes an airfoil portion having an inner core composed primarily of fiberglass epoxy; a carbon epoxy fabric located outward of the inner core; a relatively thin layer of fiberglass epoxy, and an outer metal sheath.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20080170944 - Insertable impingement rib: An insertable impingement rib assembly inside of a turbine vane. The turbine vane has an airfoil portion with a leading edge and a trailing edge. The turbine vane has an inner diameter platform and an outer diameter platform. A guide channel is located in the airfoil portion of the turbine... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20080166234 - Blade and fan having the same: A blade of a hybrid type fan includes: a blade body 21 made of a synthetic resin; and a metallic insert 22 that is insert molded simultaneously with the blade body 21 and mounted to a mounting arm of a spider. At a corner on an outer side of a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080166236 - Fan with improved heat dissipation: A fan includes a rotatable center member that is centered relative to an axis of rotation of the fan. The fan includes a number of blades radially extending from the rotatable center member. Each blade may have one or more ribs extending therefrom non-parallel to the axis of rotation of... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20080166237 - Fan with improved heat dissipation: A fan includes a rotatable center member that is centered relative to an axis of rotation of the fan. The fan includes a number of blades radially extending from the rotatable center member. Each blade may have one or more ribs extending therefrom non-parallel to the axis of rotation of... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20080166238 - Fan with improved heat dissipation: A fan includes a rotatable center member that is centered relative to an axis of rotation of the fan. The fan includes a number of blades radially extending from the rotatable center member. Each blade may have one or more ribs extending therefrom non-parallel to the axis of rotation of... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20080166239 - Fan with improved heat dissipation: A fan includes a rotatable center member that is centered relative to an axis of rotation of the fan. The fan includes a number of blades radially extending from the rotatable center member. Each blade may have one or more ribs extending therefrom non-parallel to the axis of rotation of... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20080166235 - Wind turbine airfoil family: A family of airfoils for a wind turbine blade. Each airfoil may include a blunt trailing edge, a substantially oval shaped suction side, and a substantially S-shaped pressure side.... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080166240 - Advanced cooling method for combustion turbine airfoil fillets: The present invention is directed to a hollow turbine airfoil having a cooling system designed to provide enhanced cooling to the fillet of a turbine airfoil. The turbine airfoil may include at least one fillet cooling channel, passing proximate to the fillet. A portion of the fillet cooling channel may... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080166241 - Wind turbine blade brush: A wind turbine blade for use in a wind energy system comprises a blade body having a trailing edge and a leading edge, and a plurality of bristles disposed on an outer surface of said blade body. The bristles are typically attached to said blade body in the vicinity of... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20080166242 - Wind turbine rotor projection: An horizontal axis wind turbine having a rotor (3) with a frontal projection comprising a stationary spherical head (1) upstream of its multibladed turbine rotor (3) displaces and increases the speed of wind addressed over 70% of the total frontal area. A series of thin airfoils (12) radially and evenly... Agent: Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, LLP (other)

20080159861 - Compressor with centripetal air takeoff: A compressor with a centripetal air takeoff system that includes pipes installed between an outer collar and an inner collar. Each pipe is fitted in a hole in the outer collar and in a hole in the inner collar. The system further includes a locking mechanism between the pipe and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080159874 - Turbine blade trip strip orientation: A turbine component includes a coolant passage and a plurality of trip members that extend within the coolant passage. Each of the plurality of trip members includes an orientation relative to an expected flow direction through the coolant passage. At least three of the trip members have orientations that are... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20080159862 - To rotorcraft rotors fitted with inter-blade dampers: The present invention relates to an improvement to rotorcraft rotors (1) fitted with inter-blade drag dampers (15) such that for each blade (4), the two joints (16) connecting said blade (4) to two inter-blade drag dampers (15) are disposed on either side of the pitch variation axis (101) of said... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080159863 - Methods and apparatus to facilitate lubrication of components: A method facilitates lubrication of components. The method includes coupling a blade to a pitch control mechanism such that a bearing is positioned between the blade and the pitch control mechanism. The method further includes coupling a control system to the pitch control mechanism and configuring the control system to... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (22402)

20080159865 - Fan: A fan includes a main plate and at least one or more blades connected to the main plate. At least a portion of a boundary portion between the main plate and a pressure surface of the blade is provided as a curved boundary portion such that the blade and the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080159864 - Non-positive-displacement machine and rotor for a non-positive-displacement machine: The invention relates to a rotor for a non-positive-displacement machine provided with a hollow shaft, which is arranged coaxial to the rotation axis, is supported, on both sides and on the face, on two axially opposed sections of the rotor, and which encloses an inner hollow space. In order to... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080159866 - Fan blade for a gas turbine engine: An injection-moulded thermoplastic mini-platform (42) is adhesively bonded, in use, to the aerofoil surfaces of a fan blade (312) in a gas turbine engine. The mini-platform (42) is divided into a number of leaves (46), to increase its flexibility, and ribs (48) beneath the leaves (46) provide additional stiffness in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080159867 - Impeller assembly: This invention relates to an impeller assembly comprising at least one ring member and an impeller, in which the ring member has an inner peripheral edge and an outer peripheral edge oppositely facing to each other; the impeller includes a body and multiple blades, wherein each blade has a front... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080159868 - Method and apparatus for gas turbine engines: A method of assembling a gas turbine engine includes providing at least one blade assembly. The method also includes forming at least one blade tip fuse within at least a portion of the at least one blade assembly. The method further includes coupling the at least one blade assembly into... Agent: John S. Beulick (12729) C/o Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080159869 - Methods and apparatus for fabricating a rotor assembly: In one aspect, a method for assembling a rotor assembly is provided. The method comprises providing a rotor blade including a first sidewall, a second sidewall, where the first and second sidewalls are connected at a leading edge and a trailing edge and extend in span from a root portion... Agent: John S. Beulick (12729) C/o Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080159870 - Method and coating for protecting and repairing an airfoil surface using molded boots, sheet or tape: Disclosed is a field repairable airfoil structure such as a wing or a rotor blade and a method for repair and removal of erosion or impact damage to elastomeric coatings on surfaces such as the leading edge of the airfoil using special hand sandable coatings and preformed molded boots, preformed... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080159871 - Method of manufacturing a wind turbine blade shell member: A method for preparing a wind turbine blade shell member (2) comprising a plurality of elements (8) of cured fibre-reinforced sheet material is provided. A plurality of elements of cured fibre-reinforced sheet material is provided in a mould, a resin is introduced between the elements of cured fibre-reinforced sheet material... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080159872 - Air conditioner fan: A fan of an air conditioner is provided. A discharge portion of a hub of the fan increases in outer diameter toward a discharge end of the hub such that air can diverge from the hub. The hub accommodates a portion of a motor such that the fan can vibrate... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080159873 - Cross fluid-flow axis turbine: f