Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps inventions 03/09

20090081019 - Systems and methods for controlling the stability of a water brake dynamometer: A system for stabilizing a water brake including at least two rotor disks, a chamber of the water brake for containing water positioned between the at least two rotor disks, a pressure measuring device for measuring a partial pressure in the chamber, and an air injection device for injecting air... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20090081020 - Wind turbine: A wind turbine for use in generating electricity. The wind turbine includes a housing being secured atop a tower. A wheel is mounted within the housing and is rotatable about a horizontal axis when struck by winds passing over the front of housing. The wheel has a hub and a... Agent: Stephen R. Greiner, Esquire Greiner Law Offices, P.C.

20090081021 - Blower: A blower comprising: a vane wheel including a pair of grooves, and blades extending in a radial direction of the vane wheel in each groove, and a casing including stationary flow paths facing to the grooves respectively so that the gas urged in the grooves is capable of flowing in... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090081022 - Radially staged microscale turbomolecular pump: A radial turbomolecular vacuum pump that includes a rotor made from a silicon rotor surface comprising monolithically fabricated micro blades, and a stator made from a silicon stator surface comprising corresponding monolithically fabricated grooves. The micro blades and grooves are arranged in multiple rings, and the rotor and stator disks... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090081023 - Wind collector: A wind collector including a number of upright columns being arranged in a closed geometric form. A roof is affixed to the tops of the columns. A number of horizontal beams connect each adjacent pair of columns together beneath the roof. Each of the beams has an inner surface and... Agent: Stephen R. Greiner, Esquire Greiner Law Offices, P.C.

20090081025 - Segmented cooling air cavity for turbine component: A component for a gas turbine engine has an airfoil with internal cooling channels for delivering air from a radially outer end of the airfoil toward a radially inner end of the airfoil. The cooling channels are separated from adjacent cooling channels by sets of at least two disconnected wall... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090081024 - Turbine blade: An aerofoil for a gas turbine engine, the aerofoil comprises a leading edge and a trailing edge, pressure and suction surfaces and defines therebetween an internal passage for the flow of cooling fluid therethrough. A particle deflector means is disposed within the passage to deflect particles within a cooling fluid... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090081026 - Method and system for monitoring fluid levels in wind turbine component systems:

20090081027 - Seal in gas turbine: A seal assembly for a gas turbine is arranged in grooves of a rotor heat shield having several bends. The assembly comprises four seal portions overlapping one another and extending in the axial, radial, and circumferential direction with respect to the turbine rotor. A holding means retains the radial sections... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090081028 - Developments relating to a rotor arrangement: A rotor arrangement comprising a rotor-section and a circumferential moveable seal around the rotor-section, the arrangement being such that, for a given rotation rate, the rotor-section is subject to an associated radial growth and a corresponding related axial displacement, relative to the seal, wherein the rotor-section is provided with an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090081029 - Gas turbine component with reduced cooling air requirement: Introducing a plurality of geometrically shaped members (27) into a cooling passage (16) of a gas turbine airfoil (10) will effectively reduce the cross-sectional flow area while simultaneously retaining a sufficiently thick external contour desired for proper gas path aerodynamic behavior. Small cooling sub-passages (18a, 18b) formed around the geometric... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090081030 - Bolt assembly for steam turbine engines and method of assembling the same: A method of assembling a turbine casing is provided. The method includes inserting a bolt assembly through a first opening defined generally vertically through a first flange extending from a first casing member, such that a portion of the bolt assembly extends a distance upward from an upper surface of... Agent: John S. Beulick (17851) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090081031 - Vertical vapor compressor: A vapor compressor for use with a distillation system, the compressor including a housing defining an interior volume. The housing includes an inlet and an outlet. A shaft has a first end and a second end and extends along a longitudinal axis of the housing. A first compression stage includes... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20090081032 - Composite airfoil: A turbine component includes mounting structure for attaching the turbine component. A core is attached to the mounting structure. The core is made from a structural material. A plastic airfoil portion envelopes at least a portion of the core.... Agent: Ge Energy General Electric C/o Ernest G. Cusick

20090081034 - Oilfield equipment composed of a base material reinforced with a composite material: Oilfield equipment is provided that includes a base material less subject to abrasion, corrosion, erosion and/or wet fatigue than conventional oilfield equipment materials such as carbon steel, and a reinforcing composite material for adding stress resistance and reduced weight to the oilfield equipment.... Agent: Schlumberger Technology Corporation David Cate

20090081033 - Stacked lamellae ceramic gas turbine ring segment component: A gas turbine ring segment (10) for use in gas turbine engines made from a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) material is disclosed. The ring segment includes a stacked multiplicity of CMC thin-sheet lamellae (25a, 25b) each comprising a peripheral surface collectively defining a cross-section profile of the ring segment. The... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090081035 - Gas turbine engine compressor case mounting arrangement: A compressor case support arrangement for a gas turbine engine includes a fan section having a central axis and a compressor case for housing a compressor. An inlet case guides air to the compressor. The compressor case is positioned axially further from the fan section than the inlet case. A... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090081036 - Axial flow fan: The inner air guide members and the outer air guide members each include a first edge member and a second edge portion. A length of he first edge member and that of the second edge member of the outer air guide member are greater than those of the first edge... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20090081037 - Member for locking ring sectors onto a turbomachine casing, comprising means allowing it to be grasped: The present invention relates to a locking member (24) for a device for attaching ring sectors to an aircraft turbomachine casing, said member comprising two longitudinal clamping branches (28, 30) extending rearward and connected at their rear ends by a transverse connecting branch (32), their front ends being intended, between... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090081038 - Cooling fan: A cooling fan includes a frame (100) and an impeller (200) with blades (240) disposed in the frame (100). The frame (100) has a base (140) and a sidewall (160) extending from a periphery of the base (140) with an air outlet (180) defined therein. The base (140) has an... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090081039 - Gas turbine engine front architecture modularity: A gas turbine engine is disclosed that includes a spool having a compressor section. An inlet case is arranged axially upstream from the compressor section. A gearbox is secured to the inlet case. The gearbox couples the spool and a fan. A sealing assembly is arranged between the inlet case... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090081040 - Rolling bearing device and turbocharger incorporating same: A rolling bearing device includes a bearing housing supported on a casing of a turbocharger, and a pair of rolling bearings mounted within the bearing housing and rotatably supporting a turbine shaft. A middle position between the pair of rolling bearings in an axial direction and a central portion of... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090074559 - Fuel pump: A fuel pump includes an impeller and a casing member. The impeller defines a plurality of vane grooves arranged in a circumferential direction. The casing member receives the impeller, and the casing member defines therein a pump passage configured to have an arcuate shape along the vane grooves. The discharge... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090074561 - Axial thrust offloading device: the thrust balance ring and the restrictor element are so arranged that one of the two components is stationary in the axial direction and the other component follows an axial movement of the assigned machine shaft, wherein by means of a relative axial movement between the thrust balance ring and... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP

20090074560 - Thrust balancing device for cryogenic fluid machinery: An improvement for a turbine generator or pump having main bearings separated by a span of shaft and a thrust equalizing mechanism adjacent one of said main bearings, the improvement comprising a stationary length compensator interposed between the thrust equalizing mechanism and its adjacent main bearing to reduce the span... Agent: Ray K. Shahani, Esq., Attorney At Law

20090074562 - Nozzle guide vanes: A turbine nozzle guide vane 10 with passages 28 leading from a hollow core 32 to respective seal strip slots 20, to deliver cooling air to abutment faces 18 on each end of the vane 10.... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter

20090074563 - Seal for gas turbine engine component: A gas turbine engine component includes a pressurized fluid source, an airfoil, and a seal member for selectively providing sealing at an end of the airfoil. The seal member includes a stowed position for non-sealing and a deployed position for sealing. The seal member is operatively connected with a pressurized... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090074564 - Air inlet noise attenuation assembly: An air inlet assembly comprising an entrance region configured to receive an airflow, an exit region configured to output the airflow, and an attenuation region disposed between the entrance region and the exit region. The attenuation region has a cross section aspect ratio of at least about 5-to-1, and comprises... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090074565 - Turbine engine with differential gear driven fan and compressor: A gas turbine engine (10) provides a differential gear system (58) coupling the turbine (20) to the bypass fan (14) and the compressor (16). In this manner, the power/speed split between the bypass fan and the compressor can be optimized under all conditions. In the example shown, the turbine drives... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090074566 - Wind power generating device: A wind power generating device includes a housing, a transmission unit, at least one winding disc, at least one magnetic disc, and a rotating unit. When there are a plurality of winding discs and a plurality of magnetic discs, the winding discs and the magnetic discs are axially spaced and... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090074567 - Positive-displacement turbine engine: The invention attains frictionless positive displacement by keeping its flat rectangular turbine blades constantly in lateral orientation throughout engine shaft rotation, the blades within a close-fitting combustion channel that accordingly widens and narrows so as to accomplish intake, positive compression, combustion, expansion and exhaust continuously during every rotation. The turbine... Agent: John Howard Seagrave

20090074568 - Variable fan inlet guide vane assembly, turbine engine with such an assembly and corresponding controlling method: A turbine engine includes a plurality of variable fan inlet guide vanes. Where the turbine engine is a tip turbine engine, the variable fan inlet guide vanes permit the ability to control engine stability even though the fan-turbine rotor assembly is directly coupled to the axial compressor at a fixed... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090074569 - Lever for rotating a turbomachine variable-pitch stator vane about its pivot: The present invention relates to a lever for rotating about its pivot a turbomachine variable-pitch stator vane comprising three zones: a first zone for attachment to a lever drive member, a second zone for attachment to said variable-pitch stator vane, and a third zone of elongate shape between the first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090074570 - Local application of a protective coating on a shrouded gas turbine engine component: A gas turbine engine component includes a blade section having an inner end and an outer end, a shroud section at the outer end, and a platform at the inner end. A protective coating is disposed on the shroud, where the blade section is substantially free of the protective coating.... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090074571 - Vane structure of an airflow generator: The present invention provides a vane structure of an airflow generator. The plate of predefined thickness and width has a locating portion and a swinging end. The swinging end of the vane is wider than the locating portion. There is an oblique section placed between the swinging end and locating... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20090067978 - Variable area turbine vane arrangement: A turbine section of a gas turbine engine includes a ring of turbine nozzle segments each having paired turbine vanes. Turbine throat area is modulated by rotating each rotational turbine vanes about an axis of rotation which is located such that rotation changes the turbine throat area concurrently between one... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090067979 - Composite case armor for jet engine fan case containment: A gas turbine fan blade containment assembly includes a fan case having an inner surface surrounding a jet engine fan and an outer surface. Mounted on the inner surface and across a blade containing region of the fan case is a load spreader layer for initially receiving a point load... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090067980 - Pressure relief arrangement for a pump: A pressure relief arrangement for a pump, which includes a pump housing assembly with a pumping chamber therein, is provided in the pump housing assembly of the pump and includes a section mounted for movement between a normal operating position and a venting position, further includes a shearing element adapted... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.C.

20090067981 - Flow control device: The present invention provides a flow control device for controlling fluid flow into a turbine, said turbine comprising: a stator comprising a plurality of vanes extending radially inwards from a casing and arranged to define therebetween a plurality of nozzles extending radially inwards from casing; a rotor located in a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090067982 - Cross flow fan: An improved cross flow fan assembly applicable but not limited to a panel meter of fitness equipments includes: a housing and a cross flow fan made of plastic; a fan body, having symmetric circular flanges integrally formed on both lateral ends by plastic injection molding; two side covers, embedded into... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090067983 - Centerline compression turbine engine:

20090067984 - Gas turbine with axial thrust balance: A method for axial thrust control of a gas turbine, and a gas turbine with a device for controlling axial thrust are provided. A gas turbine, with regard to aerodynamic forces and pressure forces, which exert an axial force upon the rotor, is configured such that at no-load and low... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090067985 - Roller bearings, and struts and gas turbine engines having such bearings: Roller bearings, and struts and gas turbine engines using such bearings are provided. In this regard, a representative roller bearing for a gas turbine engine includes: a roller having a rolling surface and an end; a race having a flange and defining a raceway, the raceway terminating at the flange,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090067987 - Airfoil replacement repair: A method of repairing a vane segment for a gas turbine engine includes removing an engine-run cooling baffle from the vane segment, forming a non-engine-run manufacturing detail that includes an inner platform, an outer platform, and an airfoil, attaching the engine-run cooling baffle to the non-engine-run manufacturing detail, and marking... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090067986 - Vortex spoiler for delivery of cooling airflow in a turbine engine: A vortex spoiler (180) for delivery of a cooling airflow (192) in a turbine (108) engine (100) including a plurality of inlet ports (182) formed circumferentially about a radial exterior sidewall (188), and a plurality of outlet ports (184) formed circumferentially about a radial interior sidewall (190). The plurality of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090067988 - Mixer for cooling and sealing air system for turbomachinery: A system for mixing flows from a compressor is provided. The system comprises an ejector that combines a first flow and a second flow, from the compressor, into a third flow. A bypass flow is connected between the first flow and the third flow. A mixer combines the bypass flow... Agent: Ge Energy General Electric C/o Ernest G. Cusick

20090067990 - Method and sensor setup for determination of deflection and/or strain for failure detection: A method for determining the deflection and/or strain of an elongated member of a component is provided, in which a first point (16) and a second point (17) are assigned to the same side (11, 12) of an elongated member of the component, wherein the deflection and/or strain of the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090067989 - Occlusion sensing system for infusion pumps: Some embodiments of an infusion pump system may include an occlusion sensor system that communicates with control circuitry to detect the presence of an occlusion. In some embodiments, the occlusion sensor system includes first components that are located within a disposable and non-reusable pump device, and second components that are... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090067991 - Cooling fan: A cooling fan (100) includes a housing (50) and an impeller (20) rotatably received in the housing. The housing includes a bottom base (52) and a top cover board (59). The impeller includes a plurality of fan blades (25). A bump (58) extends upwardly from the base and surrounds a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090067992 - Sewage pump: A sewage pump is to mount a blade set coaxially mounted between a water paddle disk and a first wheel blade within the blade chamber, wherein the blade set comprises a stationary annular blade base and a movable second wheel blade. The second wheel blade is within the annular blade... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20090067993 - Coated variable area fan nozzle: A variable area fan nozzle for use with a gas turbine engine system includes a nozzle section that is movable between a plurality of positions to change an effective area associated with a bypass airflow through a fan bypass passage of a gas turbine engine. A protective coating is disposed... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090067996 - Blade bearing ring assembly of a turbocharger with a variable turbine geometry: The invention relates to a turbocharger with a variable turbine geometry. Said turbocharger comprises a blade bearing ring assembly (1) with a blade bearing ring (2) and a disc (3), which can be fixed to the blade bearing ring (2) to create a flow channel (4) and also comprises at... Agent: Borgwarner Inc. C/o Patent Central LLC

20090067994 - Blade outer air seal: A turbine engine blade outer air seal segment has a body having a base portion. The base portion has a transversely concave ID face, a forward end, an aft end, and first and second circumferential edges. The body has at least one mounting hook. At least one cover plate is... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C. (p&w)

20090067997 - Gas turbine engine with canted pocket and canted knife edge seal: A gas turbine engine is provided with turbine sealing structures including knife edge seals which extend at an angle relative to an axial center line of the engine. Each knife edge seal is associated with a control pocket defined between a radially inner surface and a spaced radially outer surface.... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090067998 - Component having a film cooling hole: Conventionally coated components with film cooling holes are known, comprising a diffuser, extending through the layers into the substrate. According to the invention, the component is embodied such that the whole diffuser is largely arranged in the layer.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090067999 - Extended impingement cooling device and method: An extended impingement cooling structure to cool outside an air supply plenum comprises an inner wall; an impingement sheet; a series of supports to maintain the inner wall in spaced relation to the impingement sheet, and a baffle supported between the inner wall and the impingement sheet. The baffle has... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090068000 - Compressor: An air bleeding passage 31 through which an intake chamber 7 and a crankcase 5 communicate with each other includes at least: a radial passage 31b which is formed in the driving shaft 10 to be directed in the radial direction, and which indirectly communicates with the intake chamber 7;... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090068001 - Steam turbine: A steam turbine has a stationary section, a turbine rotor, nozzle diaphragms, and a nozzle box. The stationary section includes a casing. The turbine rotor includes moving blade stages arranged in an axial direction. Each of the moving blade stages is provided with moving blades arranged in a circumferential direction,... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090068002 - Pump housing assembly with liner: A pump housing assembly which includes a pump casing and a liner, where the pump casing includes at least two parts which are adapted to be connected together in an assembled position with the pump casing having opposed front and rear sides and a common junction region which is disposed... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.C.

20090068003 - Gas turbine engine systems and related methods involving vane-blade count ratios greater than unity: Gas turbine engine systems and related methods involving vane-blade count ratios greater than unity are provided. In this regard, a representative turbine stage for a gas turbine engine includes a first set of rotatable blades operative to be positioned downstream of and adjacent to a first set of vanes, a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090068004 - Brazed joint between a titanium-based metal part and a ceramic part based on silicon carbide (sic) and/or carbon: The assembly comprises a stack structure made up of the following elements assembled together in pairs by brazing: the titanium-based metal piece (10); a first intermediate piece (11) suitable for deforming to accommodate differential expansion between the metal piece (10) and a piece (20) made of ceramic material based on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090068005 - Airfoil shape for a turbine nozzle: An article of manufacture having a nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth TABLE I. The X and Y values are distances in inches, which when connected by smooth continuing arcs define airfoil profile sections at each distance Z in inches... Agent: Ge Energy General Electric C/o Ernest G. Cusick

20090068006 - Tilted cone diffuser for use with an exhaust system of a turbine: An exhaust system for a turbine includes an annular diffuser and a collector. The annular diffuser is positioned adjacent to a final stage of the turbine and includes a hub portion surrounding a turbine shaft and an outer cone having a substantially frusto-conical shape that is radially symmetrical about a... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090068009 - Fan frame: A fan frame includes a housing (10), a supporting base (20) and a plurality of ribs (30) connecting the housing with the supporting base. One of the ribs includes a bottom wall (33), and first and second lateral walls (31, 32) extending from two opposite sides of the bottom wall,... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090068008 - Fastening structure and rotary vacuum pump: Disclosed is a fastening structure for fastening a gas inlet flange of a turbo-molecular pump by a bolt to a flange of a target unit that will be subjected to a vacuum. The gas inlet flange has a slot-shaped bolt hole formed at a position adjacent to an outer peripheral... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090068007 - Mounting system for impingement cooling manifold: A manifold mounting system for mounting an impingement cooling manifold to a casing of a turbine including a mounting pin affixed to a shroud pin of the turbine wherein the mounting pin extends through the impingement cooling manifold wherein the mounting pin comprises a securing device operable for securing the... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20090068010 - Electric fan structure: The present invention provides an improved electric fan structure, in which an electric fan is structured from an air converging vent; a main body and a base. The air converging vent comprises a plurality of guide strips, which are used to concentrate the air at an upper portion of the... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20090068011 - Vacuum pump arrangement: A vacuum pump arrangement, especially a turbomolecular pump arrangement, comprises a rotor (14) and a stator (16) in a pump housing (10). The pump housing (10) is connected to a vacuum chamber housing (26) through a pump flange (10). Retaining elements (34) are provided for this connection. To avoid a... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20090060704 - Active flow control for nacelle inlet: The disclosed turbine engine includes a fan nacelle surrounding a fan and including an inlet arranged upstream from the fan. The inlet includes an inlet surface having a boundary layer flow. A flow control actuator is in fluid communication with the inlet surface. A boundary layer sensing device is associated... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090060706 - Ball bearing and pump for cryogenic use: A ball bearing for use in cryogenic applications has an inner ring and an outer ring that define a raceway between them, and there is a set of rolling balls in the raceway with slug ball separators between adjacent rolling balls. The bearing may be used in a pump for... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20090060705 - Sanitary air jet device: A sanitary air jet device [1000] is operated by a user blowing air into its first stage inlet [1111] of a mouthpiece [1110]. The air stream causes a first stage turbine [1130] to rotate and spin a shaft [1205]. The shaft passes through a separator wall [1140]. A second stage... Agent: Zale Patent Law

20090060707 - Compressor inlet guide vane de-ice control system and method: A system and method are provided for effectively removing ice that may have formed on gas turbine engine compressor inlet guide vanes and/or preventing, or at least inhibiting, reformation of ice on gas turbine engine compressor inlet guide vanes after the ice has been removed. A determination is made as... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090060708 - Radial flow compressor for a turbo-supercharger: To increase the efficiency of the compressor (1) and/or the charger (5) equipped with the compressor, a control device (15) is provided for varying the flow-through cross section, namely at least opening and closing the flow-through cross section, of the at least one recirculation path (12).... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090060709 - Impeller, fuel pump having the impeller, and fuel supply unit having the fuel pump: A fuel pump has substantially coaxial outer and inner pump chambers. An impeller has partition walls correspondingly to the inner pump chamber to define inner vane grooves. A rear surface is located at a rear side in a rotative direction of each inner vane groove. At least a radially inner... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090060710 - Fan: A fan assembly for creating an air current includes a bladeless fan assembly including a nozzle and a device for creating an air flow through the nozzle. The nozzle includes an interior passage and a mouth receiving the air flow from the interior passage. A Coanda surface located adjacent the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090060711 - Fan: A bladeless fan assembly includes comprising a nozzle mounted on a base housing a device creating an air flow through the nozzle. The nozzle includes an interior passage receiving the air flow from the base and a mouth through which the air flow is emitted. The nozzle extends substantially orthogonally... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090060715 - Cooled component: A component, such as a turbine blade of a gas turbine engine, has an internal cooling system which includes a passage (28) having a passage inlet (22) and a passage exit (30), which may be in the form of passageways at or adjacent to the trailing edge of the component.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090060713 - Direction-switchable pneumatic cylinder: A direction-switchable pneumatic cylinder includes: a cylinder body with two intakes, several exhaustion ports and a rotary shaft; and a predetermined number of movable wheels and fixed wheels arranged in the cylinder body and interlaced with each other. Each of the movable wheels and fixed wheels is formed with several... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090060714 - Multi-part cast turbine engine component having an internal cooling channel and method of forming a multi-part cast turbine engine component: A multi-part cast component for a turbine engine includes a first component section having a main body portion including at least one cooling flow passage section, and a second component section having a main body including at least one cooling flow passage section. The first and second component sections are... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090060712 - Turbine airfoil cooling system with rotor impingement cooling: A turbine airfoil cooling system of a turbine engine having a hollow, disc post body positioned between adjacent roots of turbine airfoils and aligned with the roots to cool inner aspects of the turbine engine. The hollow, disc post body may be configured to pass cooling fluids through impingement orifices... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090060716 - Compressor casing for an exhaust gas turbocharger: A compressor casing for an exhaust gas turbocharger is disclosed. The exhaust gas turbocharger has a rotatable turboshaft, a compressor wheel mounted on the turboshaft, and a turbine wheel mounted on the turboshaft. The compressor casing includes a sensor for measuring a rotational speed of the turboshaft. The sensor is... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090060718 - Component with a damping filler: A component (10) and method for manufacturing a component. The component comprises first and second panels (16, 18) spaced apart from each other, the first panel (16) having at least one protrusion (20) extending therefrom towards the second panel (18). The protrusion (20) extends partially across the space (19) between... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090060717 - Synchronous signal generator for trim balancing of jet engine: A synchronous signal generator is provided for use in conjunction with an aircraft engine having a spool and an engine output shaft driven by the spool. The synchronous signal generator includes a generator housing, a generator output member rotatably mounted in the generator housing, a once-per-revolution timing mark on the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090060719 - Dual volute turbocharger: A two-volute low pressure turbocharger is provided with a VGT mechanism in one turbine volute only.... Agent: David H. Read Usepa, Nvfel

20090060720 - Slipring bushing assembly for moveable turbine vane: A bushing assembly for a turbine vane includes a bushing and a housing. The bushing includes a bore for receiving a trunnion of the vane, a first electrical contact carried on an outer surface thereof, and a first conductor extending from the first electrical contact. The first electrical contact is... Agent: Trego, Hines & Ladenheim, PLLC

20090060721 - Bushing and clock spring assembly for moveable turbine vane: A bushing assembly for a turbine vane includes a bushing, housing, and a flexible conductor. The bushing includes a bore for receiving a trunnion of the vane and a first conductor extending from the bushing. The first conductor is adapted to be connected to a heater element disposed on the... Agent: Trego, Hines & Ladenheim, PLLC

20090060722 - Variable-pitch vane of a turbomachine: A stator stage of a compressor of a turbomachine, comprising an annular row of variable-pitch vanes, each vane comprising an external cylindrical pivot defining the axis of rotation of the vane, and an internal cylindrical pivot mounted in a housing of an internal ring, the internal pivot of each vane... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090060723 - separator for feeding cooling air to a turbine: The invention relates to the field of combustion chambers. A combustion chamber is fitted with a separator disposed between the radially inner wall of the chamber and the inner flange of the chamber, the separator having both a tubular portion and a fastener portion, the tubular portion being centered on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090060724 - Methods and apparatus for fabricating gas turbine engines: Methods and apparatus of fabricating a gas turbine engine component are provided. The method includes selecting a surface of a component to apply a wear-resistant material, applying a formed wear pad fabricated from a wear-resistant alloy and a braze material, and vacuum brazing the component and applied wear pad wherein... Agent: John S. Beulick Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090060725 - Engine with intake air temperature control system: A gas turbine engine system includes a gas turbine engine using vaporized liquefied gas as fuel. The gas turbine engine is configured to ingest intake air from an intake port and direct exhaust gases to an exhaust port. The gas turbine engine system also includes a heat exchanger with a... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20090060726 - Retainer for a turbocharger: Disclosed are retainers for a turbocharger. In one embodiment, the retainer includes a generally annular body that defines a bore and one or more channels. The bore is generally directed along a central axis of the body and can be configured to mate with a nose of a center housing... Agent: John Christopher James Honeywell International Inc.

20090060727 - Compressor housing remanufacturing method and apparatus: A compressor housing defines an inlet bore having a first inlet collar disposed therein. The inlet collar is connected to the housing with a first plurality of radially extending posts. The first plurality of posts is removed to detach the inlet collar from the housing, and the inlet collar is... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090060728 - Pumps and pump-heads comprising internal pressure-absorbing member: An exemplary pump includes a pump housing defining a pump cavity, a movable pumping member situated in the pump cavity, and at least one pressure-absorbing member located inside the pump housing. The housing also has an inlet and an outlet, and includes at least one interior non-wearing location that contacts... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090060729 - Gas turbine engine adapted for use in combination with an apparatus for separating a portion of oxygen from compressed air: A gas turbine engine is provided comprising an outer shell, a compressor assembly, at least one combustor assembly, a turbine assembly and duct structure. The outer shell includes a compressor section, a combustor section, an intermediate section and a turbine section. The intermediate section includes at least one first opening... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090060730 - Centrifugal fan and impeller thereof: A centrifugal fan includes a fan frame (20) and a fan impeller (10) received in the fan frame. The fan impeller includes a hub (12) and a plurality of fan blades (14) extending radially from an outer periphery of the hub. Each of the fan blades has a leeward lateral... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090060731 - Compressor wheel housing: An exemplary compressor wheel housing for a turbocharger compressor wheel includes a substantially cylindrical shroud surface definable with respect to a radial dimension and an axial dimension along a rotational axis of a compressor wheel with an origin coincident with a z-plane of the compressor wheel wherein the axial position... Agent: Honeywell Turbo Technologies

20090060732 - Serial fan module and frame structure thereof: A serial fan module includes a first fan, a second fan and a plurality of guide elements. The first fan has a first frame body and a first impeller disposed within the first frame body. The second fan has a second frame body and a second impeller disposed within the... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090060734 - Blower housing of hydrogen recirculation device of fuel cell vehicle: A blower housing of a hydrogen recirculation device for a fuel cell vehicle includes a plurality of cooling pins installed on a perimeter of a housing body installed in a fuel processing system of the recirculation device. The cooling pins are arranged in parallel with air flow, thereby reducing a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090060733 - Overlap interface for a gas turbine engine composite engine case: A composite engine case with an axial interface. One configuration includes an alternating mix of full length and partial plies, in order to provide the total thickness needed for the axial overlap. Another configuration provides only full-length structural plies with a flyaway insert adjacent the axial interface.... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090060735 - Turbine rotor apparatus and system: A segmented turbine rotor is disclosed. The segmented turbine rotor has a plurality of rows of a plurality of turbine blades. At least one rotor segment of a plurality of rotor segments of the segmented turbine rotor includes a ring disposed circumferentially about and having an axis substantially parallel to... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090060736 - Compressor: A compressor 13, for example for a gas turbine engine (10, FIG. 1), comprises a circumferentially extending static casing component 20 defining a generally axially extending main gas flow path 24. The compressor also includes a rotating aerofoil arrangement 26 comprising an aerofoil support 30 and a plurality of aerofoils... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090060737 - Turbocharger: The invention relates to a turbocharger (1) having a cartridge (K), which is arranged in a turbine housing (2), for the variable turbine geometry, having a bearing housing (3) which is arranged between the turbine housing (2) and a compressor housing of a compressor wheel and in which is arranged... Agent: Borgwarner Inc. C/o Patent Central LLC

20090060738 - Fan and manufacturing method thereof: A fan integrated with a sensor is provided and includes a transmission terminal, a frame, a stator, a rotor with the blades. The transmission terminal is electrically connected to the sensor. The frame includes a main body and a supporting structure. The main body forms an inlet, and the supporting... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC