Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps inventions 12/08

20080317582 - Vertical axis dual vortex downwind inward flow impulse wind turbine: A wind-powered turbine has a housing with an inlet and an outlet. Located in the housing is a cylindrical stator array having a plurality of spaced-apart stators located in it. An annular cylindrical rotor array having a plurality of cups rotates about a central axis, fits inside of the stator... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080317583 - Offshore wind turbine with device for ice prevention: Offshore wind turbine (14) including a tower (1) rising above sea level (12) and one or ore blades (4), which can be put into rotation by wind. The offshore wind turbine includes a pump (6), which is adapted to pump sea water (13) up form the sea. At the delivery... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20080317584 - Compressor: A compressor includes a housing, a rotary shaft, a bearing, a seal, a shaft seal chamber, a lug plate, a thrust bearing, a first passage for connecting the crank chamber to the shaft seal chamber, a second passage provided in the housing for connecting the crank chamber to the shaft... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080317585 - Reciprocal cooled turbine nozzle: A turbine nozzle includes first and second vanes joined to outer and inner bands. The vanes include outboard sides defining outboard flow passages containing axial splitlines, and opposite inboard sides defining an inboard flow passage without axial splitline. The two vanes include different cooling circuits for differently cooling the inboard... Agent: Francis L. Conte, Esq.

20080317586 - Centrifugal air blower: A centrifugal air blower guides returning air from a fan rotated by a rotational drive source out of interference with air delivered by a fan. The centrifugal air blower includes a rotational drive source having a rotational drive shaft, a housing including a holder which holds the rotational drive source... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20080317587 - Variable-shape variable-stagger inlet guide vane flap: A variable shape inlet guide vane (IGV) system includes a variable-shape IGV flap with a flexible portion that enables the desired spanwise distribution of Cx, alpha, and beta at a fan rotor inlet. An actuation system that rotates a root section of the variable-shape IGV flap to flex the flexible... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20080317588 - Managing spool bearing load using variable area flow nozzle: A turbine engine provides a spool supporting a turbine. The spool is arranged in a core nacelle and includes a thrust bearing. A fan is arranged upstream from the core nacelle and is coupled to the spool. A fan nacelle surrounds the fan and core nacelle and provides a bypass... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20080317589 - Compressor housing for use at low temperatures: The invention relates to a turbo machine comprising a housing. Said turbo machine is designed especially as a turbo compressor for use at low temperatures, the housing preferably being made of a cold-resistant material that has a martensitic structure.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080317590 - Production method of stator blade and turbo-molecular pump with the stator blade: Disclosed is a method of producing a stator blade for use in a turbo-molecular pump. The method includes subjecting a metal plate to a slitting process to form a blade element having an upstream edge surface and a downstream edge surface, wherein a laser beam is emitted onto the metal... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080317591 - Centerline suspension for turbine internal component: A centerline suspension arrangement (42) for a turbine (40). A turbine inner casing (44) is supported within an outer casing (46) via a support member (60) that includes an inner portion (62) contacting the inner casing and an outer portion (66) extending into a slot (68) formed in the outer... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080317592 - Pump housing with two-point mount: The invention relates to a pump housing having means for fastening the pump to a holding face, wherein the housing has only two fastening points, wherein in each case one fastening point is situated on in each case one flange of the pump housing, and wherein the fastening points are... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20080317593 - Turbocharger with stepped two-stage vane nozzle: A turbocharger having a variable nozzle with stepped two-stage vanes (50), the variable nozzle comprising a tubular piston (70) disposed in the bore (44) of the turbine housing (38) such that the piston (70) is axially slidable adjacent to the vanes (50) that extend across the nozzle. Each vane defines... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080317594 - Installing a shaft in a bearing comprising a self-releasing nut: The present invention relates to a gas turbine engine comprising a shaft, a bearing, a coupling supported by the bearing, the shaft being engaged by an end trunnion inside the coupling and fixed to the coupling by means of a cylindrical nut. The engine is characterized in that the nut... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080317595 - Fluid pump: A pump pulley is supported on a pump body via a bearing interposed between the outer peripheral surface of the pump body and the pump pulley so that the pump pulley can freely rotate relative to the pump body. A pump shaft extends along the rotation axis of the pump... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080317596 - Turbocharger: The invention relates to a turbocharger (15) comprising a bearing housing (7) which mounts a rotor shaft (12) and has a bearing-housing oil space (13); comprising a compressor housing which is connected to the bearing housing (7) and has a compressor space (14); and comprising a sealing device (20) which... Agent: Borgwarner Inc. C/o Patent Central LLC

20080310949 - Casing and gas turbine: A valve (6) for supplying the external air to the inside of an upper casing (5a) is provided to the upper casing (5a), and when the operation of a gas turbine is stopped, the external air is introduced from the upper casing (5a) to the inside of the casing (5).... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080310950 - Flow cavity arrangement: It is known with regard to particularly cavities below high pressure turbine discs that mixing of hot gas leakage flows through an inner seal with cooling flows can diminish the effectiveness of that cooling flow when presented to other parts for cooling. By providing a path within a wall which... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080310952 - Sectional fan frame structure: The present invention discloses a sectional fan frame structure composed of two units or two units and a circular plate frame. The units can be made in different shapes as needed, and the units come with fasteners. The circular plate frame is formed by enclosing a plate, and the fasteners... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080310951 - Turbine cooling air centrifugal particle separator: A centrifugal particle separator (202) is provided for removing particles such as dust particles from the compressed airflow (110) prior to reaching and cooling the turbine blades (122, 124, 126) of a turbine engine (100). A particle separator structure (208) has a side facing the axis (118) about which it... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080310953 - Carbon hydrostatic face seal: A force balanced seal for use with a rotor in the turbomachine has a member in opposed facing disposition to the rotor with a face dam portion of the member having a surface parallel with the sealing surface of the rotor, a groove in the member facing the rotor and... Agent: Charles N. Quinn Fox Rothschild LLP

20080310954 - Pump having heat-dissipating mechanism: A pump includes a DC motor (10) defining a chamber (108) and having a rotor (112) and a shaft (110) suitably received in the chamber, a motor shell (20) set around the DC motor, a rear cover assembly (30) jointed to the motor shell, a front cover assembly (40) secured... Agent: Moore Patents

20080310955 - Hybrid cooling of a gas turbine engine: A hybrid cooling system for a gas turbine engine includes a vapor cooling assembly and a cooling air cooling assembly. The cooling air cooling assembly is configured to remove thermal energy from cooling air used to cool a first component of the gas turbine engine. The vapor cooling assembly configured... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20080310956 - Variable geometry gas turbine engine nacelle assembly with nanoelectromechanical system: A nacelle assembly includes an inlet lip section and a cowl section downstream of the inlet lip section. At least a portion of the cowl section is flexed to take various shapes through a nanoelectromechanical system and thereby influence an effective boundary layer thickness of the nacelle assembly.... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20080310957 - Extended length cutoff blower: A blower assembly including a blower housing having a side wall with a first portion extending from the initial cutoff through an angle of at least 45° or more, the first portion having a radius which is substantially constant or which increases at a relatively small rate. The side wall... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20080310958 - Exhaust casing for a turbomachine: A turbomachine exhaust casing with connection roots between the structural arms of the casing and the annular endplates of the hub of the casing, each of said the roots having a profile that is optimized so as to reduce the level of stress in the connection portions, and thus increase... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080304953 - Augmented vaneless diffuser containment: A containment system comprises at least one passage obstructer extending from a housing inlet cover through a diffuser passage and into a housing back cover. The passage obstructer includes a fastener portion, such as a bolt, and an obstructing portion extending from and integral to a shaft of the fastener... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080304955 - Centrifugal pump casing relief system: In a fluid flow network including a centrifugal pump, a system and kit for monitoring said centrifugal pump and relieving the pump of fluid when the pump is operating at no-flow conditions. The system comprises a fluid conduit connected to the pump, at least one sensor for indicating when the... Agent: Laura A. Dable Ryan Kromholz & Manion, S.c.

20080304954 - Highly supercharged gas turbine generating system: A highly supercharged gas-turbine generation system include a gas turbine power plant that is supercharged to a high inlet pressure, preferably over about 1.15 pressure ratio and preferably includes a transmission system with refrigerated transformers for increased output. The gas turbine power plant includes a precompressor that supercharges to a... Agent: Novak Druce Deluca + Quigg LLP

20080304956 - Coal nozzle tip shroud: An outer shroud for a solid fuel nozzle tip includes: an top shell portion and a bottom shell portion, each portion fabricated from a preform produced from a single sheet of flat stock and each shell portion including a forward area and a backward area and outlet sidewalls, wherein a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - Alstom Power

20080304957 - Pane arrangement for a turbocharger: The invention relates to a turbocharger (1) provided with a turbine housing (2) for turbine wheels, a cartridge (K) for the variable turbine geometry positioned in the turbine housing (2), a bearing housing (3) which is arranged between said turbine housing (2) and a compressor housing of the compressor wheel... Agent: Borgwarner Inc. C/o Patent Central LLC

20080304958 - Gas turbine engine with air and fuel cooling system: A gas turbine engine is provided with a first heat exchanger associated with a cooling air flow to deliver cooling air to a turbine section. A second heat exchanger is associated with a fuel supply line for delivering fuel into a combustion section. An intermediate fluid cools air at the... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20080304959 - Joint between a metal part and a ceramic part based sic and/or c: An assembly between a metal piece and a ceramic material piece made of SiC and/or C based ceramic material. The assembly includes a stack structure including the following elements assembled together in pairs in this order, by brazing: the metal piece; a first intermediate piece; a second intermediate piece; and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080304960 - Plastic compressor housing and method for producing a plastic compressor housing: A plastic compressor housing, in particular a radial compressor housing, preferably for a turbocharger, includes at least one first housing part and at least one second housing part, which respectively comprise at least in some areas at least one thermoset material. The first housing part and/or the second housing part... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080304961 - Noise reduced variable displacement vane pump: A novel and useful improvement to vane pumps, both variable displacement vane pumps and fixed displacement vane pumps, provides a supply of pressurized fluid to the region within the diameter of the pump rotor which would otherwise be a region of reduced pressure wherein air could be ingested by the... Agent: Magna International, Inc.

20080298950 - Nacelle compartment plenum for bleed air flow delivery system: A gas turbine engine is provided with a nacelle having a hollow inner space. The inner space is utilized as a plenum for directing air from an inlet to an outlet at the upstream end of the nacelle to allow control of an effective lip width of the nacelle under... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20080298951 - Air reinjection compressor: Reinjecting air to the inlet of a compressor in order to improve its pumping margin. The inlet stator of the compressor includes injection holes passing through at least some of the vanes in the vicinity of their pivots.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080298952 - Fan with means of detecting degradation of the bearings: The temperature sensor is fitted directly on a bearing race in contact with the support structure.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080298953 - Wastegate assembly: A wastegate assembly (200) for a turbocharger (101) or the like is provided having a support plate (300), an actuator (275), a linkage (250) operably connected to the actuator (275), and a valve plate (225) operably connected to the linkage (250). The linkage (250) translates actuation of the actuator (275)... Agent: Borgwarner Inc. C/o Patent Central LLC

20080298954 - Bypass passage for fluid pump: A fluid pump (10) includes a pumping chamber (14), an inlet (16) and an outlet (18) fluidly connected with the pumping chamber, and a passage (24) fluidly connected between the inlet and the outlet. Fluid flowing through the passage bypasses the pumping chamber. In one example, the fluid pump (10)... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20080298955 - Inlet guide vane inner air seal surge retaining mechanism: An inner air seal carrier for use in a gas turbine engine having an inlet guide vane surge retainer comprises a body, a stationary sealing element and an outcropping. The body secures around an inlet guide vane inner diameter shroud. The stationary sealing element is disposed on a radially inward... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20080298956 - Shroud configuration having sloped seal: A stator shroud segment is provided that includes an outer shroud having a leading edge groove and a trailing edge groove; and a plurality of inner shrouds each having a leading edge hook and a trailing edge hook, the leading and trailing hooks of each of the inner shrouds being... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20080298957 - Inlet air conditioning system: An embodiment of the present invention provides an air conditioning system located upstream of the inlet system for a gas turbine. The air conditioning system may comprise at least one conditioning module for adjusting the temperature of the airstream. The at least one conditioning module may have a plurality of... Agent: Ge Energy General Electric C/o Ernest G. Cusick

20080298958 - Gear assemlby including a wear component for use with metal housings: A gear assembly is provided for use in a metal housing having a bore formed therein. The gear assembly includes a plurality of rotating gear members and at least one bushing for supporting the plurality of rotating gear members. A wear component, defined by a ring-like structure and including an... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080298959 - Unit for treating air with controlled flow: A unit for treating air with controlled flow, comprising a free rotor (GL), single or double inlet, combined with a directional conveyor (CD), which is designed so as to be able to directionally exploit the high static efficiencies, typical of free rotors (GL), and so as to be able to... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20080298960 - Micro-air motor: A micro-air motor comprises a collector rotatably mounted in a casing for the compressed air supply and discharge to or from the rotor. By twisting the collector as far the end positions a direction of rotation reversal as well as continuous speed regulation is possible. In a neutral position of... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20080298961 - Fan assembly having improved hanger arrangement: A fan assembly includes an elongate support member having a first end portion and a second end portion. The fan assembly further includes a motor assembly including (i) a motor having an output shaft, and (ii) a support assembly that supports the motor, the support assembly being secured to the... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower