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Fluid reaction surfaces (i.e., impellers)

20130121825 - Callibration of wind turbine sensor: P

20130121826 - Fluid interface device as well as apparati and methods including same: A fluid interface device, such as an airfoil assembly, can include a device structure and at least one movable band oriented such that the band moves in a direction of fluid flow. The at least one movable band can be supported on the device structure such that an outer surface... Agent:

20130121842 - Propeller / turbine blade power channel: The disclosed propeller/turbine blade enhancement will be used in the moving fluid kinetic energy conversion field. This power channel blade enhancement will increase the kinetic energy conversion of propeller/turbine blades by collecting, redirecting, channeling, compressing and then expelling a portion of the moving fluid that would otherwise be lost. The... Agent:

20130121827 - Dual mode rotor hub assembly: A rotor hub assembly and method for controlling movement of a rotor blade relative to a swashplate. The hub assembly having an attachment device operably associated with the rotor blade and the swashplate. The attachment device provides pivot and rotational blade movement relative to the swashplate. A dual spring-rate damper... Agent: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.

20130121828 - Rotor hub bearing system: The bearing system is configured for treating and reacting dynamic loading within a rotor hub of rotorcraft. The bearing system includes an outer member having a plurality of alternating outer elastomeric layers and shim layers. The outer member has an inboard surface configured for bonding to an inboard bearing support,... Agent: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.

20130121829 - Bearing/stator set retainer structure: A bearing/stator set retainer structure includes a base seat, a stator set and a retainer member. The base seat has a bearing cup having an internal bearing hole in which a bearing is disposed. The stator set is assembled on the base seat and has an abutment section on one... Agent:

20130121831 - Drive of a tail rotor of a helicopter: The invention relates to a drive (1) of a tail rotor (12) of a helicopter (10) by a permanently excited transversal flux machine in duplex arrangement in such a way that between two stators (4), which each have a toroidal winding system (8), there is arranged a disc-shaped impeller (5),... Agent: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

20130121830 - Thin fan and manufacturing method thereof: A thin fan and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The thin fan has a fan frame, a sleeve, a bearing, an impeller, a magnetic element and at least one coil. The fan frame includes a base and a cover connected to the base. The fan frame has an inlet... Agent: Delta Electronics, Inc.

20130121832 - Wind turbine with cable supported perimeter airfoil: A wind turbine 10 includes a turbine wheel 14 that includes a circular air foil 22 surrounding the turbine blades 24, with the angle of attack 39 of the air foil directing some of the trailing air outwardly in a cone-shaped path to form an area of low air pressure... Agent:

20130121833 - Structural stator airfoil: An airfoil comprises a leading edge, a trailing edge, and pressure and suction surfaces defined therebetween. An inner platform is coupled to a root section of the airfoil, with a curvilinear gusset extending along a lower surface of the inner platform, opposite the root section. An outer platform is coupled... Agent: United Technologies Corporation

20130121834 - Fan hub design: A fan rotor has a fan web and a plurality of circumferentially spaced-apart fan blades extending radially outwardly from an outer rim of the fan web. The outer rim is integrally connected to an inner rim through an axially facing web section. The web section has an inward concavature and... Agent:

20130121835 - Wind-powered modular savonius rotor electrical generation and fluid pumping device: Provided are systems and methods for a wind-powered electrical generation and fluid pumping device, including: a drive shaft; a generator comprising a rotor, wherein the generator may be coupled to the drive shaft by means of the rotor; and at least one vane pair, the vane pair comprising ribs and... Agent:

20130121836 - Blade connection for a rotor blade of a wind turbine: A blade connection for a rotor blade of a wind turbine having a plurality of receptacles which extend in the longitudinal direction of the rotor blade and can each receive a longitudinal bolt and are in contact with a component having an inner thread for the longitudinal bolt. The rotor... Agent: Nordex Energy Gmbh

20130121837 - Device for reducing the drive power requirements of a watercraft: A device is provided for reducing the drive power requirement of a watercraft includes a fore-nozzle, wherein at least one outer fin projects outwards from the fore-nozzle.... Agent: Becker Marine Systems Gmbh & Co. Kg

20130121838 - Runner for direct-connected low-speed small mixed flow type water turbine applied in hydrodynamic energy-saving cooling tower: The invention relates to a runner for a direct-connected low-speed small mixed flow type water turbine applied in a hydrodynamic energy-saving cooling tower, which comprises an upper crown (1), a lower ring (3) and curved surface blades (2) mounted between the upper crown (1) and the lower ring (3), and... Agent: Nanjing Xingfei Cooling Equipment Co., Ltd.

20130121839 - Turbine airfoil and method for thermal barrier coating: A turbine airfoil including an airfoil body is disclosed. The airfoil includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, an exterior surface including a suction side extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge and a pressure side extending from the leading edge to a trailing end. The pressure side... Agent: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

20130121840 - Frame assembly of ring-type fan with pressure-releasing function: A frame assembly of a ring-type fan with a pressure-releasing function includes a fan wheel, a pressuring-releasing portion, and a frame body. The fan wheel is received in an accommodating space of the frame body. The fan wheel has a hub and a plurality of blades. The pressure-releasing portion is... Agent:

20130121841 - Power producing spinner for a wind turbine: A power producing spinner (28) for a wind turbine (10), the wind turbine (10) having a plurality of blades (18) interconnected about an axis of rotation (30) by a hub (20). The power producing spinner (28) includes an aerodynamic shape (34) extending radially outward from the axis of rotation (30)... Agent:

20130115081 - High solidity and low entrance angle impellers on turbine rotor disk: According to an embodiment disclosed herein, an apparatus for cooling a rotating part having cooling channels therein, the rotating part attaching to a disk rotating about an axis, the disk having a conduit for feeding a cooling fluid to the cooling channel is described. The apparatus has a first impeller... Agent:

20130115082 - Independent blade pitch control: A system and method are provided to increase efficiency of turbines in wind farms. A sensor is configured to detect direction and speed of an inflow of wind. A controller is configured to generate a control signal based the detected direction and speed of the inflow of wind. A pitch... Agent: Bluescout Technologies, Inc.

20130115083 - Turbine engine having two unducted propellers: A turbine engine including two outer coaxial counter-rotating unducted propellers, of an upstream propeller and a downstream propeller, respectively. The blades of the downstream propeller are retractable in the lengthwise direction thereof so as to reduce the diameter of the propeller. The reduction in the diameter of the downstream propeller... Agent: Snecma

20130115084 - Turbine: The turbine (T) of the invention comprises at least one rotor (2) which can rotate in connection with at least one base (3); at least one blade (1) which rotates said rotor (2) by fluid flow (F). Said blade (1) has such a form that it can slide in at... Agent:

20130115085 - Thermal barrier for turbine blades, having a columnar structure with spaced-apart columns: A process for depositing a ceramic layer on a metal substrate for producing a thermal barrier, the process including depositing the ceramic in a columnar structure. The deposition is carried out through a grid pierced with holes, which is positioned parallel to a surface of the substrate so as to... Agent: Snecma

20130115100 - Bucket assembly for turbine system: A bucket assembly for a turbine system is disclosed. The bucket assembly includes a main body having an exterior surface and defining a main cooling circuit, and a platform surrounding the main body and at least partially defining a platform cooling circuit. The bucket assembly further includes a passage defined... Agent: General Electric Company

20130115101 - Bucket assembly for turbine system: A bucket assembly for a turbine system is disclosed. The bucket assembly includes a main body having an exterior surface and defining a main cooling circuit, and a platform surrounding the main body and at least partially defining a platform cooling circuit. The platform includes a forward portion and an... Agent: General Electric Company

20130115102 - Bucket assembly for turbine system: A bucket assembly for a turbine system is disclosed. The bucket assembly includes a main body having an exterior surface and defining a main cooling circuit, and a platform surrounding the main body and at least partially defining a platform cooling circuit. The platform includes a forward portion and an... Agent: General Electric Company

20130115103 - Film hole trench: An article is disclosed that comprises a thermal material having a first surface and a second surface. The thermal material defines a film hole between the first surface and the second surface, and the film hole includes a metering portion adjacent the first surface and a diffuser portion adjacent the... Agent: General Electric Company

20130115086 - Vertical axis wind turbine: A vertical axis wind turbine may comprise a plurality of sail members arranged about a substantially vertical axis of rotation, the sail members having first ends converging to and rotatably supported at a substantially single point, and second ends coupled to a base member substantially aligned with the axis of... Agent:

20130115087 - Axial fan: An axial fan has a hub whose axis coincides with the rotational axis of the fan, a plurality of vanes that extend from the hub, and an outer ring which is coaxial with the hub. The ring has a front portion and a rear portion. The outer ring defines within... Agent: Johnson Electric S.a.

20130115088 - Compressor wheel shaft with recessed portion: A turbocharger assembly includes a compressor wheel with a base surface, a nose surface, a z-plane disposed between the base surface and the nose surface and a bore extending from the base surface to the nose surface and a shaft that includes a first pilot surface disposed in the bore... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20130115089 - Rotatable component with controlled load interface: A rotatable component includes a first section and a second section that is located radially outwards of the first section with regard to an axis of rotation about which the sections are co-rotatable. These sections are attached together at a bonded interface. At a perimeter region of the bonded interface... Agent:

20130115092 - Isothermal structural repair of superalloy components including turbine blades: Structural repair of cracks and other defects in superalloy components, such as steam or gas turbine blades in stationary or aero gas turbines, are performed by heating the blade substrate to an isothermal hold temperature below the substrate's incipient melting point and filling the crack with molten superalloy filler material.... Agent:

20130115091 - Splice insert repair for superalloy turbine blades: A damaged portion of a superalloy material turbine blade body is removed, forming an excavated recess. A repair splice is formed of a same material with similar mechanical structural properties, having a mating outer profile conforming to the corresponding recess profile. The repair splice is inserted and captured within the... Agent:

20130115090 - Turbomachine component and method of connecting cooling circuits of a turbomachine component: A turbomachine component is provided and includes a turbine blade, which is rotatable about a rotor of a turbine for power generation operations and a platform with which the turbine blade is to be assembled. The turbine blade is formed to define a main circuit having an appendage. The platform... Agent: General Electric Company

20130115093 - Wide faced propeller / turbine blade assembly: An improved propeller/turbine blade assembly with wide faced blades in order to more efficiently convert a moving fluid's kinetic energy into mechanical rotational energy by optimizing the bladed assembly's frontal surface interaction with the swept blade area of a moving fluid. This improved blade surface interaction is accomplished through new... Agent:

20130115094 - Vacuum pump: Provided is a vacuum pump in which no finish processing has to be carried out after shaping of a cylindrical rotor even in use of a cylindrical rotor obtained by shaping a fiber-reinforced plastic material into a cylindrical shape. The vacuum pump has a turbo-molecular pump section and a thread... Agent:

20130115095 - Notch-reduced composite joint: A wind turbine blade comprising a profiled hollow contour, at least one reinforcing beam (15) placed between two shell body parts (13, 14), the beam comprising a first beam flange (16a) and an opposing second beam flange (16b), a beam body (17) connected to the first beam flange (16a) by... Agent: Lm Glasfiber A/s

20130115096 - Rotating airfoil component of a turbomachine: A rotating airfoil component equipped with one or more angel wings that inhibit the ingress of a hot working fluid into interior regions of a turbomachine in which the component is installed. The component includes an airfoil and a feature for mounting the component to enable rotation of the component... Agent: General Electric Company

20130115097 - Corrosion-resistant diffusion coatings: A metal article such as a gas turbine component may include a super-diffusion coating with unusually high content of the desired constituent. The coating may be provided by combining two or more diffusion coating processes, each process interdiffusing the desired constituent with the metal article from a different metal source.... Agent: Barson Composites Corporation

20130115098 - Wind turbine blade with narrow shoulder and relatively thick airfoil profiles: A blade (10) for a rotor of a wind turbine having a profiled contour divided into: a root region (30), an airfoil region (34), and a transition region (32) between the root region (30) and the airfoil region (34). A shoulder (40) is located at the boundary between the transition... Agent: Lm Glasfiber A/s

20130115099 - Nacelle for a wind turbine: It comprises a main wind turbine frame and at least one housing member defining an interior where parts of the wind turbine are received. The housing members are arranged at a lateral portion of the main frame such that their interior is separated from the main frame. The housing members... Agent: Alstom Wind, S.l.u.

20130108443 - Methods for operating a wind turbine: A method for operating a wind turbine having at least one blade includes determining an ambient air operating envelope and controlling a power output of the wind turbine at least partially based on the determined ambient air operating envelope. Determining an ambient air operating envelope includes measuring at least one... Agent: General Electric Company

20130108441 - Turbine bucket angel wing features for forward cavity flow control and related method: A turbine bucket includes a radially inner mounting portion, a shank radially outward of the mounting portion, a radially outer airfoil and a substantially planar platform radially between the shank, and the airfoil. At least one axially-extending angel wing seal flange is formed on a leading end of the shank... Agent: General Electric Company

20130108442 - Variable-geometry fan and method for control thereof: A variable-geometry fan, for cooling the lubricant of an internal-combustion engine includes a hub bearing a ring of blades having an elastically deformable structure and incorporating laminas made of a shape-memory alloy. The application of thermal energy to the laminas, so as to vary the geometry of the blades, envisages... Agent: Rosati Fratelli S.r.l.

20130108444 - Turbomachine blade including a squeeler pocket: A turbine blade includes an airfoil portion including a suction side having a suction side contour, a pressure side having a pressure side contour, a leading edge, a trailing edge and a tip portion, and a squeeler pocket formed in the tip portion. The squeeler pocket includes a first side... Agent: General Electric Company

20130108445 - Spoked rotor for a gas turbine engine: A rotor for a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of blades which extend from a rotor disk, each of the plurality of blades extend from the rotor disk at an interface, the interface defined along a spoke.... Agent:

20130108446 - Thermal plug for turbine bucket shank cavity and related method: A turbine rotor disk includes a row of buckets secured about a radially outer periphery of the rotor disk, each bucket having an airfoil, a platform, a shank and a mounting portion, the mounting portion received in a radial slot formed in the rotor disk such that adjacent buckets in... Agent: General Electric Company

20130108466 - Asymetrically slotted rotor for a gas turbine engine: A spacer for a gas turbine engine includes a rotor ring defined along an axis of rotation, the rotor ring defines a forward circumferential flange which defines a first thickness and an aft circumferential flange which defines a second thickness, the first thickness different than the second thickness. A plurality... Agent:

20130108467 - Turbine wheel for a turbine engine: A turbine wheel for a turbine engine, the wheel comprising a disk carrying blades (14″) including internal channels for passing a flow of cooling air, each blade having a platform (16) carrying an airfoil (15) and connected by a tang (17) to a root (13), the blade roots being engaged... Agent: Snecma

20130108469 - Airfoil and method of fabricating the same: An airfoil includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a pair of sides extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge. The airfoil also includes an internal cooling flow passage defined between the sides, wherein the passage has a passage axis along which cooling air is to flow.... Agent:

20130108470 - Rotor blade with bonded cover: An airfoil comprises an airfoil body with an internal cavity and inner and outer covers. The airfoil body defines a first major surface of the airfoil, and a rib extends along the internal cavity. The inner cover is bonded to the airfoil body over the internal cavity, and includes a... Agent: United Technologies Corporation

20130108468 - Spoked spacer for a gas turbine engine: A spacer for a gas turbine engine includes a rotor ring defined along an axis of rotation and a plurality of core gas path seals which extend from the rotor ring, each of the plurality of core gas path seals extend from the rotor ring at an interface, the interface... Agent:

20130108471 - Turbine blade and engine component: A turbine blade that is used in a turbine of a gas turbine engine and cooled by cooling air, and includes a cooling channel that is formed within the turbine blade and in which the cooling air flows, plural bottomed recesses that are formed on a blade surface of the... Agent: Ihi Corporation

20130108447 - Increased capacity spherical lined bearings: A rotary system and method to control feathering movement of a rotor blade. The system having a yoke arm configured to rotate a rotor blade. A first bearing and a second bearing are utilized to secure the rotor blade to the yoke arm and are configured to restrict longitudinal and... Agent: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.

20130108448 - Turbine bucket platform shaping for gas temperature control and related method: A turbine bucket includes a radially inner mounting portion; a shank radially outward of the mounting portion; at least one radially outer airfoil having a leading edge and a trailing edge; a substantially planar platform radially between the shank and the at least one radially outer airfoil; at least one... Agent: General Electric Company

20130108449 - System for coupling a segment to a rotor of a turbomachine: Embodiments of the present disclosure include a system having a turbine blade segment having a blade and a mounting segment coupled to the blade. The mounting segment is configured to couple to a slot in a rotor, and the mounting segment has a cavity extending radially into the mounting segment.... Agent: General Electric Company

20130108451 - Turbine bucket angel wing features for forward cavity flow control and related method: A turbine bucket includes a radially inner mounting portion, a shank radially outward of the mounting portion, a radially outer airfoil and a substantially planar platform radially between the shank and the airfoil. At least one axially-extending angel wing seal flange is formed on a leading end of the shank... Agent: General Electric Company

20130108450 - Turbine bucket platform leading edge scalloping for performance and secondary flow and related method: A turbine bucket includes a platform and an airfoil. A leading edge of the platform leading is circumferentially defined by a continuous curve forming at least one axially extending projection and an adjacent recess, the axially-extending projection located adjacent a leading edge of the airfoil.... Agent: General Electric Company

20130108452 - Turbomachine blade with tip flare: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure include a system having a turbomachine including a plurality of turbomachine blades coupled to a rotor, wherein each turbomachine blade has a blade base portion and a flared blade tip portion flared relative to the blade base portion. Additionally, a trailing edge of each... Agent: General Electric Company

20130108453 - Lightweight composite truss wind turbine blade: A lightweight wind turbine blade formed with a truss support structure assembly of composite truss joints including composite spar and cross members attached to and supporting in spaced relation a spine of lightweight rib panels. The rib panels are oriented in parallel spaced relation from one another and individually molded... Agent: Modular Wind Energy, Inc.

20130108454 - Rotor blade: A rotor blade for a wind turbine includes a longitudinal rotor blade base body. A stiffening structure is disposed within the base body. The stiffening structure is divided in at least two, axially adjacently disposed stiffening structure segments, wherein at least one first stiffening structure segment is disposed with a... Agent: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

20130108455 - Wind turbine blade for a rotor of a wind turbine: A wind turbine blade comprises a profiled contour having a pressure side and a suction side, a leading edge and a trailing edge with a chord extending between the leading edge and the trailing edge. The profiled contour generating a lift when being impacted by an incident airflow is formed... Agent: Lm Glasfiber A/s

20130108456 - Blade for a gas turbine engine: A gas turbine airfoil blade comprises an airfoil having a leading edge and a trailing edge defining fore and aft points of an airfoil chord relative to a flowpath direction. The airfoil extends generally radially from a root to a tip, the root of the airfoil intersecting a platform of... Agent:

20130108457 - Wind turbine blade comprising a vortex-generator: A blade of a wind turbine and a method to manufacture the blade are provided. The blade of the wind turbine includes at least one vortex-generator. The vortex generator is constructed and arranged at the blade in a way that it contributes to the aerodynamic characteristics of the blade. The... Agent:

20130108458 - Vertical axis wind turbine with soft airfoil sails: One embodiment of vertical axis wind turbine, having a soft sail (101), receiving airfoil form in the relative air flow. The soft sail (101) is attached to a mast (102), connected to a rotating shaft (202), transferring motion to a generator or alternator (203). Another embodiment of vertical axis wind... Agent:

20130108460 - Component or coupon for being used under high thermal and stress load and method for manufacturing such component or coupon: A component or coupon for use in a thermal machine under extreme thermal and mechanical conditions comprises an alloy material having a controllable grain size (d). A grain size distribution (d(X,Y,Z)) of the component or coupon corresponds to at least one of an expected temperature distribution (T(X,Y,Z)), an expected stress... Agent: Alstom Technology Ltd

20130108459 - Mold compositions and methods for casting titanium and titanium aluminide alloys: The disclosure relates generally to mold compositions and methods of molding and the articles so molded. More specifically, the disclosure relates to mold compositions and methods for casting titanium-containing articles, and the titanium-containing articles so molded.... Agent: General Electric Company

20130108461 - Propeller fan and manufacturing method thereof: A propeller fan molded by injection molding using a resin material containing a continuous fiber, includes a hub having an end surface wall and a peripheral wall; and a plurality of blades on an outer periphery of the hub, the propeller fan being molded by providing a plurality of injection... Agent: Fujitsu General Limited

20130108463 - Mating structure and method of forming a mating structure: A mating structure is provided and includes a first article having a first mating surface formed of a metallic material, a second article having a second mating surface, the second article being disposed such that the first and second mating surfaces mate with one another and a coating disposed on... Agent: General Electric Company

20130108465 - Tower for a wind power plant and method for erecting a tower for a wind power plant: The invention relates to a tower for a wind energy plant having walls which are produced at least partially from individual wall sections made from a wooden material, the wall sections being connected to one another via connecting means, and to a method for erecting a tower of this type.... Agent:

20130108462 - Turbine cover plate assembly: The present application provides a cover plate assembly for use with a rotor disk. The cover plate assembly may include a radial flange extending from the rotor disk, a flange aperture extending through the radial flange, a cover plate segment with a fastening aperture and a hook for receiving the... Agent: General Electric Company

20130108464 - Wind or tidal turbine blade having an attachment: A wind or tidal turbine blade having an attachment, the attachment including: a support portion of the turbine blade, the support portion having opposite surfaces; an insert adapted to mount a bolt for attaching the support portion to another structure; and a mounting for fitting the insert to the support... Agent: Gurit (uk) Ltd.

20130101414 - Rotor blade de-icing: A rotor blade (10) of a wind power plant having a first and a second duct (16, 17) running inside the rotor blade (10) for conducting an air flow (21, 22) is provided. A method for de-icing a rotor blade (10) of a wind power plant is also provided. The... Agent: Repower Systems Se

20130101413 - Wind turbine with air density correction of pitch angle: A method of controlling the pitch angle of a wind turbine is provided. The wind turbine includes a rotor having at least one rotor blade. A pitch angle of the at least one rotor blade can be variably set. The method includes setting the pitch angle of the at least... Agent: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

20130101416 - Lighting and heating assembly for ceiling fan: A lighting assembly for a ceiling fan, the ceiling fan having an attachment interface having an electrical connection for powering an external assembly, the lighting assembly including a housing configured to be connected to and supported by the attachment interface of the ceiling fan, a plurality of lighting arms extending... Agent:

20130101415 - Wind turbine blade, wind turbine and method for manufacturing a wind turbine blade: A wind turbine blade includes one or more electric powered modules powered by light beams so as to provide a galvanic separation between the electric powered modules and a lightning protection system in a wind turbine blade. The modules have a power supply converting an energy source in the form... Agent: Vestas Wind Systems A/s

20130101417 - Wind turbine rotor blades with ultraviolet light-reflective substances: A wind turbine rotor blade is disclosed that includes a body extending between a blade root and a blade tip. The body may include a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge and may define an outer surface. In addition, an ultraviolet... Agent: General Electric Company

20130101418 - Adjustable paddle: Embodiments are disclosed that relate to adjustable kayak paddles. One disclosed embodiment provides a paddle including a first shaft section having an outer surface with one or more indicia and a second shaft section angularly positionable relative to the first shaft section about a paddle axis, the second shaft section... Agent: Werner Paddles, Inc.

20130101436 - Fan rotor with cooling holes: A disc for a fan rotor (with a pilot to connect to a rotating shaft, a hub and a plurality of blades) includes a flat circular portion connecting to the pilot at an inner edge and to the hub at an outer edge; a plurality of first circular cooling holes... Agent: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation

20130101419 - Turbomachine blade incidence control system and turbomachine: Turbomachine blade incidence control system including a fluidic cylinder with a first and a second chamber and having a pressurized fluid network adapted to selectively supply pressurized fluid to the first and/or the second chamber, the fluid network having one fluid routing device having a first normal position and a... Agent: Snecma

20130101420 - Axial flow fan: An axial flow fan, with which effective work of blades is ensured and blade tip vortices are suppressed, thereby reducing noise. The axial flow fan includes blades, which are each formed such that a chord centerline connecting chord center points from inner to outer peripheral ends of the blade is... Agent:

20130101422 - Fastening assembly for blades of turbomachines having axial flow and method for producing such an assembly: A fastening assembly for blades of turbomachines through which axial flow can take place, preferably compressors, includes a blade carrier having a lateral face, in which retaining groves are distributed along the circumference, with blades being inserted in the grooves, wherein a resilient tensioning element is provided between each groove... Agent:

20130101421 - Wear-resistant part for the support of a blade of a turbojet fan: An aircraft turbojet fan including multiple fan blades including a support that includes a rear portion including a first surface located on an intrados side and a second surface located on an extrados side. A fan disk includes, between recesses, attaching flanges radially protruding towards the outside such that the... Agent: Snecma

20130101423 - Airfoil devices, leading edge components, and methods of making: In a method of making a leading edge component for an airfoil device a first elongate sheet is provided and has a shape substantially conforming to a surface on one of a suction side or a pressure side of an airfoil. A second elongate sheet is provided and has a... Agent:

20130101424 - Overflow vortex transfer system: The present invention is directed to a molten metal pump comprising an elongated pumping chamber tube with a base end and an open top end. A shaft extends into the tube and rotates an impeller therein, the impeller rotates proximate the base end. The tube has a diameter at least... Agent:

20130101426 - Blade and laminated protective sheet for the blade: A scratch-resistant blade such as an FRP wind turbine blade and a blade protective sheet which can be easily repaired when scratched. A blade is provided with a laminated protective sheet bonded to at least part of a leading edge of an FRP blade body of said blade, wherein the... Agent: Fujikura Rubber Ltd

20130101425 - Turbine blade, and turbine rotor and steam turbine using the turbine blade: Disclosed is a turbine blade including a turbine blade substrate including an iron-base alloy; an erosion shield plate including a Co-base alloy; and a shim including a Ni—Fe alloy, in which the erosion shield plate is fixed to a leading edge of the turbine blade substrate with the shim therebetween... Agent:

20130101427 - Blade structure and ceiling fan having the same: A blade structure and ceiling fan having the same are disclosed. The blade structure includes a blade root, a blade tip, and a first vertex and a second vertex between the blade root and the blade tip. The blade bends from blade root to the first vertex, the blade tip... Agent: Pan Air Electric Co., Ltd.

20130101428 - Rotor blade for a wind turbine and methods of manufacturing the same: In one aspect, a method for manufacturing a rotor blade for a wind turbine is disclosed. The method may generally include assembling a blade blank comprising a shear member and a volume of core material and removing material from the blade blank to form a body having a pressure side... Agent: General Electric Company

20130101430 - Textile composite wind turbine blade: A wind turbine blade includes at least one mandrel and a sock that covers the at least one mandrel. The sock includes a plurality of braided fibers within a matrix material. The fibers can be made of different materials. Also, stiffness of the sock can vary across the wind turbine... Agent: The Regents Of The University Of Michigan

20130101429 - Turbomachine blade or vane having complementary asymmetrical geometry: A turbomachine blade is made of composite material. The blade includes a first portion constituting at least an airfoil exhibiting two faces each connecting a leading edge to a trailing edge, the first portion forming a single part with at least one second portion present only on one of the... Agent: Snecma

20130101432 - Erosion resistant helicopter blade: A rotor blade including a main portion having a main portion leading edge shield; a main portion impact-resistant layer formed on a nose of the leading edge shield; a main portion erosion-resistant layer formed on a top and bottom of the main portion, rearward of the main portion impact-resistant layer;... Agent:

20130101431 - Rotor, a steam turbine and a method for producing a rotor: A rotor having a first low temperature material section, a second low temperature material section attached to a first end of the first low temperature material section and a third low temperature material section joined to a first end of the second low temperature material section. The first, second and... Agent: General Electric Company

20130101434 - Support ring for a rotary assembly: A support ring for a rotary assembly such as a propeller assembly includes support cups for receiving blade roots of propeller blades. The support cups are interconnected by bridging structures. Each bridging structure includes bridging walls which extend radially from a bridging web. The bridging structures thus have a channel-shaped... Agent: Rolls-royce PLC

20130101433 - Tie rod: A tie rod for extending between a fan shroud and a shaft cap in a rotative assembly includes a first end with threads; a second end with threads; and an elongated portion between the first end and the second end. The tie rod has diameter to length ratio of about... Agent: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation

20130101435 - Shaft cap: A shaft cap to connect between a shaft and a tie rod on a rotative assembly includes a circular portion with a central opening for connecting to the tie rod; a conical portion extending out from the circular portion at a slope; and a pilot around the outer edge of... Agent: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation