Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps August inventions list 08/06

20060193719 - Bolt-on radial bleed manifold: A compressor radial bleed manifold and compressor case assembly includes a compressor case having one or more bleed flow exit passages therein; and a discrete bleed manifold mounted on the compressor case and having one or more inlet passages extending radially between a manifold plenum and the one or more...

20060193720 - Device for adjusting the centering of a ring for synchronizing the control of pivoting vanes in a turbomachine: The invention provides a device for adjusting the centering of a control ring for pivoting vanes of a turbomachine, the device comprising a plurality of pads for coming into contact with a circular surface that is coaxial with the ring, each pivoting vane being connected to the control ring via...

20060193721 - Turbomachine inner casing fitted with a heat shield: e

20060193722 - Molding compounds for use in furnace blower housings and blower housings molded from these compounds: The invention provides blower housings for air handlers and hot air furnaces which are made from molding compounds that allow for wide flexibility in molding complex configurations so as to improve blower efficiency, which improve manufacturing efficiency and safety and provide suitable mechanical properties, safety in use, and sound dampening....

20060193723 - Fan enabling increased air volume: A fan enabling increased air volume includes at least a fan wheel and a driving unit for driving the fan wheel to maintain a uniform rotating speed. The fan wheel includes a hub and a plurality of blades radially extended from an outer periphery of the hub. The blades may...

20060193724 - Fan enabling increased air volume: A fan enabling increased air volume includes at least a fan wheel and a driving unit for driving the fan wheel to maintain a uniform rotating speed. The fan wheel includes a hub and a plurality of blades radially extended from an outer periphery of the hub. The blades may...

20060188364 - Vertical axis wind turbine: The United States of America consumes nearly 20 million barrels of oil a day, 6.6 billion per year. This depleting chemical composition, in part, ends up in our air, on our trees, on our clothing, in our lungs, in our blood streams. A large portion of this oil is imported...

20060188365 - Device comprising a shaft with a plurality of fan bodies provided thereto and a method for mounting the device as well as a use of the device: A device for obtaining circulation of air, a method for mounting the device and a use of the device. For a number of applications there is a need for a cold or warm curtain of air, for example to ensure adequate chilling of food products in a refrigerated/freezer counter. It...

20060188366 - Air filter assembly: A kit for forming an air filtering assembly from a portable box fan assembly having a parallelepiped housing with square open sides through which an electric motor driven fan in the housing propels air, and a filter assembly including a parallelepiped frame with opposite sides with through openings generally corresponding...

20060188369 - Device for varying the section of the throat in a turbine nozzle: A device for varying the section of the throat of a turbine nozzle, the nozzle being formed by a plurality of stationary vanes extending radially between outer and inner annular platforms and spaced apart from one another in order to define a throat presenting a minimum flow section. The device...

20060188368 - Structure of scroll of variable-throat exhaust turbocharger and method for manufacturing the turbocharger: According to the present invention, the A/R, the ratio of cross sectional area A of scroll passage to scroll radius R can be increased without increasing the size of the turbine casing and with very simple construction and exhaust turbine capacity can be increased, so a variable-throat exhaust turbocharger with...

20060188367 - Turbine housing of an exhaust gas turbocharger with a variable turbine geometry: A turbine housing of an exhaust gas turbocharger with a variable turbine geometry is provided, having a support ring to which vanes are fastened which are adjustable for controlling the charge pressure, and having a covering ring for the vanes. The support ring and covering ring are spaced for forming...

20060188370 - Fan assembly: A fan assembly includes a metal frame, a vane, and a driving means; wherein the driving means is installed at the middle of the metal frame and the vane is installed at an end of the driving means. With better tensile strength and structural strength of a metal, the thickness...

20060182621 - Fluid transfer device and method for conveying fluid to a rotating member: A fluid transfer device and a method for conveying a fluid from a fluid transfer device to a rotating member are provided. The fluid transfer device includes a housing disposed around a first rotating member extending along an axis. The housing has a first plurality of apertures extending therethrough that...

20060182622 - Shroud block with enhanced cooling: A shroud for surrounding a portion of a turbine flow path having improved cooling and durability is disclosed. The shroud includes a plurality of generally axial cooling holes spaced a substantially equal distance apart and a plurality of generally circumferential cooling holes oriented generally perpendicular to the generally axial cooling...

20060182623 - Taking air away from the tips of the rotor wheels of a high pressure compressor in a turbojet: A turbomachine compressor comprises at least one plurality of moving blades and spaced apart therefrom in an axial direction relative to a central longitudinal axis of the turbomachine, a plurality of stationary vanes, and a stationary casing surrounding said plurality of moving blades and including a plurality of bleed holes...

20060182624 - Sealing arrangement, in particular for the blade segments of gas turbines: In a sealing arrangement, in particular for the blade segments of gas turbines, two bodies, with two end faces which extend along a longitudinal axis, adjoin one another while forming a gap, the width of which can vary between zero and a maximum width. The gap is covered by a...

20060182625 - Steam turbine nozzle box: A nozzle box includes a torus, bridge ring and nozzle ring portions wherein steam flowing generally circumferentially in the torus portion is redirected for flow generally axially by the bridge ring portion. The steam exiting the bridge ring portion flows into nozzles formed by adjacent partitions of the nozzle ring...

20060182626 - Axial flow supercharger and fluid compression machine: A compression and vacuum-producing machine includes a housing, at least one rotating disk having a plurality of blades rotationally supported within the housing, and at least one stationary disk having a plurality of blades fixedly attached to the housing. A drive shaft includes a generally tapered surface and rotatably drives...

20060182628 - Blowing device: Disclosed herein is a blowing device for small-sized electronic appliances such as cleaning apparatuses. The blowing device comprises a housing, a centrifugal impeller, a guide vane, and a motor for rotating the centrifugal impeller. The centrifugal impeller comprises a shroud, a hub, and a plurality of impeller blades which have...

20060182627 - Hydraulic submersible mud pump: Apparatus 10 discloses a submersible hydraulic powered pump for removing matter such as liquid, abrasive particulate, slurries or mixtures 12, from a sump or container. The pump has a housing 14 with an integral stand 16 projecting therefrom comprised of a plurality of legs extending to a base plate that...

20060182629 - Methods and apparatus useful for servicing engines: A seal/locking apparatus includes a tapered cover, a locking cap, and a housing. The housing has a opening configured to engage, in a first part of the opening, the tapered cover, and, in a second part of the opening, the locking cap. The tapered cover and the locking cap are...

20060182630 - Flow development and cogeneration chamber: A fluid handling and cogeneration system has an inlet conduit receiving a fluid, a housing having a inlet end, a outlet end and an interior surface. The housing encloses an inner body which together with the housing is arranged to form an annular space between the interior surface of the...

20060177300 - Baffle configurations for molecular drag vacuum pumps: A molecular drag compressor includes a rotor disk coupled to a drive shaft for rotation about an axis, a stator disposed about the rotor disk, the stator defining a tangential flow channel, an inlet to the tangential flow channel and an outlet from the tangential flow channel, and a stationary...

20060177301 - Gas turbine stationary blade: The gas turbine stationary blade comprises a stationary blade section provided therein with a passage for cooling air, an inner shroud for supporting the stationary blade section on the side of a discharge port of the cooling air, and a plurality of segments each of which includes at least one...

20060177302 - Axial flow compressor: An axial flow compressor is disclosed. The axial flow compressor includes a tapered housing, having a first open end and a second open end forming a fluid channel therebetween; a shaft, disposed axially within the tapered housing from the first open end to the second open end; a plurality of...

20060177303 - Radial-flow, horizontal-axis fluid turbine: A rotary, fluid-flow-to-mechanical/electrical power-conversion device including a generally cup-shaped, squirrel-cage rotor having a rotational axis, and including plural, circumferentially spaced, elongate, transverse-cross-sectionally arcuate airfoil (fluid-foil) blades sized and disposed about the rotational axis of the rotor with their respective long axes substantially paralleling the mentioned rotational axis. Blade-related dimensions and...

20060177304 - Centrifugal fan and apparatus using the same: A lateral plate and a main plate are provided inside a casing, and a plurality of blades are circularly arranged on this main plate. A plurality of asperities are formed from the front blade edge toward the rear blade edge on at least one of dorsal and ventral sides of...

20060177305 - Centrifugal volute pump with discontinuous vane-island diffuser: A centrifugal pump includes a casing containing a volute channel having a cutwater at an entrance thereof. An annular vane-island diffuser is fixed in the casing concentrically within the volute. The diffuser is arranged to be separate and discontinuous from the cutwater of the volute. An impeller rotatably mounted on...

20060177306 - High efficiency air conditioner condenser fan with performance enhancements: Twisted blades for outdoor air conditioner condensers and heat pumps that improve airflow efficiency to minimize operating power requirements. The blades can run at approximately 850 rpm to produce approximately 1930 cfm of air flow using approximately 110 Watts of power from an 8-pole motor with an improved diffuser assembly....

20060171798 - Power generation assemblies, and apparatus for use therewith: A floating power generation assembly comprises at least three floating units (900) floating on a body of water, and at least three anchors (916) secured to a solid surface beneath the body of water, each of the floating units (900) being provided with power generation means, the floating units (900)...

20060171799 - Counter-rotation drive: The mechanical counter-rotation drive according to the present invention is based on the laws of relative motion of an eccentric part of one of at least two shafts, which are constitutive parts of this drive, with respect to the plates of a determined shape whose motion is confined by pins...

20060171800 - Drain pump and air conditioner with the same: A drain pump is provided that reduces the operating noise when the head is low. The drain pump has a pump casing, and an impeller. The pump casing has a drain inlet for sucking in drain water at a lower end part and a drain outlet for discharging drain water...

20060171801 - Heatsink apparatus: A heatsink apparatus has a radiator and a centrifugal pump in a closed circulation channel for circulating a coolant, wherein the centrifugal pump contacting a heat-generating component dissipates heat from the heat-generating component through heat exchange with the coolant. The centrifugal pump includes: a lower casing provided with a contact...

20060171803 - Centrifugal fan: A centrifugal fan includes a scroll casing consisting of first and second flat base walls, a circumferential side wall. An air inlet is formed on the first base wall, an exhaust port is formed on the side wall. A backflow prevention mechanism is arranged in the airflow path to prevent...

20060171802 - Centrifugal fan impeller: In this case, when a radial width of the inner circular hub is set to A2 and the radial width of the outer circular hub is set to A1, the widths A1 and A2 are set substantially equal, and, when a difference between an inner diameter of the inner circular...

20060171804 - Fluid moving device: The present invention relates to a fluid moving device having a plurality of blades on a core and a substantially spherical housing surrounding the blades, the housing having an inlet section with a plurality of inlet vanes, the inlet vanes configured to direct fluid in a rotational direction within the...