Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps inventions 12/06

20060291993 - Wind powered turbine engine: A wind turbine engine comprising rotor blades disposed within an outer casing and a half-spherical head located in front of the rotor blades and blocking the inner 50% of the radius of the rotor blades, the casing and head creating an acceleration chamber wherein incoming wind is speeded up and... Agent: Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, LLP (other)

20060291994 - Cooling apparatus and method for controlling the same: A cooling apparatus and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The cooling apparatus is adapted to cool a system in which a heat source generating heat is arranged. The cooling apparatus includes an air stream forming unit which cools the heat source to a certain temperature, a sensing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060291995 - Motor-integrated pump and fuel supply system therewith: A motor-integrated pump (10) includes a pump portion (12) and a motor portion (14) integrally. The pump portion (12) permits fluid to be drawn thereinto, pressurized and discharged, while the motor portion (14) drives the pump portion (12). A pump-portion fluid path (47), which permits fluid to flow through the... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald

20060291996 - Impeller for supercharger and method of manufacturing the same: [Problems]To provide a lost-wax cast impeller for a supercharger having no parting line corresponding part on a hub surface and a blade surface in each space demarcated by pairs of long blades adjacent to each other and having excellent aerodynamic performance. [Means for Solving Problems]This method of manufacturing the impeller... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060291997 - Fluid flow chambers and bridges in bladeless compressors, turbines and pumps: A disk in a bladeless turbine, compressor or pump comprising of a working surface, a hub for axial mounting and one or more bridges connecting the hub to the working surface. Said disk configuration forming fluid flow chambers in the disk for the entrance or exit of fluid for the... Agent: Erich A. Wilson

20060291998 - Borescope inspection port device for gas turbine engine and gas turbine engine using same: An adapter to permit borescope access inside a gas turbine engine including a compressor stator having a plurality of compressor stator segments comprises a body portion defining a bore extending longitudinally therethrough from a first end to be disposed adjacent to outside surfaces of adjacent compressor stator segments to a... Agent: Pratt & Whitney

20060291999 - Air purifier: An air purifier includes a bell-mouth having an enhanced structure to prevent an increase of noise at a particular frequency when air flows into the blowing fan through the bell-mouth. The air purifier includes a housing, a filter unit and a blowing fan placed inside the housing, and a bell-mouth... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060292000 - Liquid ring pump: Disclosed is a liquid ring pump with one or several stages, each of which comprises a working chamber, an impeller that is eccentrically mounted therein, flat control disks that axially delimit the working chamber on both sides, and ducts or chambers that are located adjacent to the control disks and... Agent: Alix Yale & Ristas LLP

20060292001 - Ring seal attachment system: Aspects of the invention relate to a system for attaching a ring seal to a vane carrier in a turbine engine such that the ring seal can radially expand and contract at least partially independently of the vane carrier. The system can also be configured to substantially restrict axial and/or... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20060292002 - Fan duct blade containment assembly: The fan cowl (12) of a ducted fan gas turbine engine (10) has a downstream portion including an inner casing (30) that surrounds a honeycomb structure (36) in abutting engagement. Honeycomb structure (36) is made up of a number of closely spaced honeycomb blocks (36a) fixed about a liner (40),... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060292003 - Steam turbine: The invention relates to a steam turbine, in particular for a power plant, comprising an outer casing, an inner casing arranged in the outer casing, and a plurality of guide blade rows. In order to reduce leakage flows in the inner casing, a blade ring is provided, which is arranged... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20060285966 - Screw compressor and freezer: A screw compressor has a screw rotor (10) and a cylinder (11) having an economizer port (12). The economizer (12) communicates with a compression chamber (13) before closing the compression chamber (13) between the screw rotor (10) and the cylinder (11). Accordingly, the economizer port (12) can be communicated with... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20060285967 - Blower for air conditioner of automotive vehicles: The blower for air conditioner of automotive vehicles comprises a scroll case formed with upper/lower suction openings at the upper/lower surfaces and a discharge opening at one side; a double suction type centrifugal fan mounted rotatably at the scroll case, and having the upper/lower blowing wheels integrated with a hub... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060285968 - Turbine rotor cooling flow system: Disclosed herein is an apparatus comprising a disk coverplate for a turbine rotor, the disk coverplate comprising a plurality of cooling holes, wherein the distance between the centers of any two adjacent cooling holes is greater than twice the average diameter of the two adjacent cooling holes. A method to... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20060285969 - Device for controlling variable-pitch vanes in a turbomachine: A device for controlling variable-pitch vanes in a turbomachine has rods each having at one end a finger for mounting in a control ring and at its other end an assembly orifice for mounting on a drive square of a vane, the axis of the vane being inclined relative to... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060285972 - Ceramic abradable material with alumina dopant: A ceramic abradable material is provided for use for clearance control between turbine blade tips and the shroud or casing in gas turbine engines for industrial and/or aerospace applications. The ceramic abradable material includes an yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) that is doped in alumina (Al2O3). The ceramic abradable in accordance... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLPIPGroup, Columbia Square

20060285970 - Hub-centered brush seal arrangement for use in a gas turbine: An arrangement is provided for a non-hermetical seal between the stator and the rotor of a gas turbine. The arrangement comprises a brush seal which is arranged in a receiving chamber that is formed by at least one spacer or reinforcing element arranged between preferably two cover or guide elements.... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20060285971 - Shroud tip clearance control ring: The present invention is a shroud tip clearance control ring for use in a gas turbine engine in which a rotary blade and a shroud ring form a gap that forms a blade outer air seal, and where the shroud ring is formed of two shroud segment halves, each shroud... Agent: Paul Matheny Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc.

20060280593 - Utilization of spillover steam from a high pressure steam turbine as sealing steam: A steam-driven turbine system for a power plant in which a high pressure and a low pressure turbine are coupled to a common shaft to drive an external generator. Process steam supply is used as gland sealing steam for the low pressure turbine and turbine driven steam pumps. The high... Agent: Bracewell & Patterson, L.L.P. Attention: Albert B. Kimball, Jr.

20060280594 - Beam jet propellor: A beam jet propellor is provided, especially a beam jet propellor which increases the friction force of the fluid by means of spiral or linear diversion protrusions or diversion grooves on the inner wall of a tube, such that original loose fluid can be twisted together into a beam shape... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20060280595 - Stator disc for a turbomolecular pump: A stator disc for a turbomolecular pump has an inner ring (3), an outer ring (4), and a plurality of vanes (2) formed of a stator disc plane, extending between the inner and outer rings (3, 4), and having, in connection regions of the vanes with the inner and outer... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20060280596 - Blower and cleaner including the same: A blower designed to reduce noise generated between impeller blades and diffuser blades positioned around the impeller blades upon rotation of an impeller, and a cleaner including the same are disclosed. The diffuser blades are non-uniformly spaced from each other in a circumferential direction such that interaction between the plurality... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060280597 - Rotating member, housing, bearing, gearbox, rotating machine, shaft structure, and surface treatment method: In a rotation member (5) rotatably engaged with a housing (3), a pulsing electric discharge is generated in a processing liquid or in a gas, between an electrode and the rotation member (5). The electrode is a chemical compound from metallic powder or metal, or a molded body formed by... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060280598 - Engine-mounted fan shroud and seal: The invention concerns an engine-mounted fan shroud for use in a vehicle that has a shroud body supported by a vehicle engine, including an outer ring made of a first material having a first stiffness, and a bodyside seal extending from and being integral with the outer ring, with the... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20060280599 - Centrifugal pump and a static seal thereof: The present invention relates to a centrifugal pump and a static seal of the dynamic sealing thereof. The invention especially relates to modifying the attachment of said static seal and a seal cover acting as a counter ring thereof in such a way that, for example, when the static seal... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20060280600 - Electrothermal inlet ice protection system: A modular fan inlet ice protection system includes a center ring, an outer ring and a plurality of struts. The struts are each coupled at a first end to the center ring, and at a second end to the outer ring. A plurality of shell members are each configured to... Agent: Pratt & Whitney

20060280601 - Cooling fan assembly for electronic apparatus: A cooling fan assembly for an electronic apparatus includes a casing and first and second centrifugal fans for creating airflow through the casing to dissipate heat associated generated by the electronic apparatus. The casing has at least first and second air inlets and an air outlet. The first centrifugal fan... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20060280602 - Turbo blower structure: A turbo blower, include an air hood provided with an air inlet and an air outlet, and a turbine disposed within the air hood driven and rotated by a motor. The turbine consists of a plurality of guide vanes fitted between a circular base plate and a top plate. The... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060275105 - Aerodynamic-hybrid vertical-axis wind turbine: An aerodynamic-hybrid, vertical-axis wind turbine which includes a rotor airfoil and stator blade combination which maximizes energy production by increasing wind velocity and pressure while eliminating back pressure and improving the laminar flow of wind both around and through the device. The rotor airfoils have a horizontal cross-section with a... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20060275106 - Blade neck fluid seal: Disclosed are assemblies and articles for restricting leakage of a pressurized fluid from a cavity. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a vane support defines a land, and a neck region of a bladed rotor assembly defines a segmented ring. The segmented ring protrudes outward from the bladed... Agent: Pratt & Whitney

20060275107 - Combined blade attachment and disk lug fluid seal: Disclosed are assemblies and articles for restricting leakage of a pressurized fluid from a cavity. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a vane support defines at least one land, and an interrupted rim region of a bladed rotor assembly defines at least one segmented ring. The at least... Agent: Pratt & Whitney

20060275108 - Hammerhead fluid seal: Disclosed are assemblies and articles for restricting leakage of a pressurized fluid from a cavity flanked by a vane support and a bladed rotor assembly. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, the vane support defines a circumferential channel, and a interrupted rim region of the bladed rotor assembly... Agent: Pratt & Whitney

20060275109 - Apparatus for oscillating a vane: An apparatus for oscillating a vane comprising a main lever pivoted at one end about a reference axis, and pivotally coupled at the other end to the vane about a vane axis remote from the reference axis; an angle change assembly connected to the vane such that rotation of the... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.

20060275111 - Forward tilted turbine nozzle: A turbine nozzle includes a row of vanes joined to radially outwardly inclined outer and inner bands. Each vane has camber and an acute twist angle for importing swirl in combustion gases discharged at trailing edges thereof. The trailing edges are tilted forwardly from the inner band to the outer... Agent: Francis L. Conte, Esq.

20060275110 - Gas turbine compression system and compressor structure: The invention relates to a gas turbine compression system (1) comprising a gas channel (5), a low pressure compressor section (8) and a high pressure compressor section (9) for compression of the gas in the channel and a compressor structure (14) arranged between the low pressure compressor section (8) and... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP

20060275112 - Turbine airfoil with variable and compound fillet: A turbine airfoil may be a rotating blade having a single platform, or a stationary nozzle having a pair of platforms. The airfoil body has pressure and suction sidewalls extending between leading and trailing edges. A compound fillet is disposed between the airfoil body and at least one of the... Agent: Adams Evans P.A.

20060275115 - Centrifugal fan and frame thereof: A frame for a centrifugal fan. The frame includes an air inlet and an air outlet. A first barricade is formed on one side of the air inlet and extends outwardly, preventing impurities from entering the air inlet. A second barricade is formed on part of the periphery of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060275114 - Combination of compressor and permanent magnet motor for sewage aeration: A sewage aeration turbocompressor for continuously delivering air at a relatively low pressure to a sewage sludge treatment plant. The compressor has a housing, an impeller (10) mounted on an impeller shaft within the housing, and an electric drive motor having an output shaft coupled to and rotating in synchronism... Agent: The Boc Group, Inc.

20060275113 - Compressor: A compressor for a turbocharger comprising: a compressor wheel having compressor blades and being mounted for rotation on a shaft a shroud mounted adjacent the wheel and defining a gas flow path between the shroud and the blades from a compressor inlet to a diffuser outlet; wherein in cross-section the... Agent: Honeywell Turbo Technologies

20060275116 - Fan: This is related to a fan including a casing, a first impeller structure, a second impeller structure, and at least one driving device. The casing has an outlet and an air-containing portion having an entrance and an exit provided inside the casing. The first impeller structure and the second impeller... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060275117 - Propeller pump system for handed propeller applications: A pump system includes an inlet port, a discharge port, a drive aperture and a drain aperture. The drive aperture and the drain aperture are interchangeable such that the pump system may be utilized on either a clockwise or counterclockwise driven propeller. A propeller gearbox driven pump drive shaft is... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.