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20100129192 - Compression method and means: The invention is a compression method having characteristics of smooth compression and internal cooling of the gas. Embodiments of the invention employ a cylindrical chamber and an orbiting rotor to create a moving duct or chamber whose walls converge, relative to a static gas packet drawn into the moving duct,... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20100129193 - System and method for extracting power from fluid using a tesla-type bladeless turbine: Smooth, preferably variable-sweep fluid collection device surfaces disposed into opposition with wind, river, surf, ocean or tidal currents generate enhanced velocity fluid flows at length driven into onboard work-extracting disc turbines at advantageous angles of attack. Keyed to shafts turning freely through optionally extendable volutes, disc turbines comprising a dense... Agent: Law Offices Of Khalilian Sira, LLC

20100129194 - Castings, casting cores, and methods: The pattern has a pattern material and a casting core combination. The pattern material has an airfoil. The casting core combination is at least partially embedded in the pattern material. The casting core combination comprises a metallic casting core and at least one additional casting core. The metallic casting core... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C. (p&w)

20100129195 - Castings, casting cores, and methods: The pattern has a pattern material and a casting core combination. The pattern material has an airfoil. The casting core combination is at least partially embedded in the pattern material. The casting core combination comprises a plurality of metallic casting cores. Each metallic casting core has opposite first and second... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C. (p&w)

20100129196 - Cooled gas turbine vane assembly: A gas turbine vane to improve vane performance by addressing known failure mechanisms. A cooling circuit to the trailing edge of a vane airfoil is fed from the outer diameter platform, which prevents failure due to an oxidized and eroded airfoil trailing edge. The gas turbine includes an outer diameter... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100129198 - Hydraulic machine including means for injecting a flow drawn from a main flow: The invention relates to a hydraulic machine through which a main flow (E) of water passes, including at least one turbine blade profile (1) having an upstream end (8) and a downstream end (10), with at least a turbulent zone, reduced-pressure zone or cavitation zone (14) being formed close to... Agent: Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20100129197 - Method and system for cooling engine components: A method and system for a rotatable member of a turbine engine are provided. The rotatable member includes a substantially cylindrical shaft rotatable about a longitudinal axis, and a hub coupled to the cylindrical shaft through a conical shaft portion wherein the conical shaft portion includes a plurality of circumferentially-spaced... Agent: John S. Beulick (12729) C/o Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20100129199 - Platform cooling of turbine vane: A turbine vane is provided which includes a radial outer platform, a radial inner platform and an airfoil extending between the outer platform and the inner platform. Each platform has a gas washed surface facing towards the respective other platform, a non gas washed surface facing away from the respective... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100129201 - Hydraulic machine including means for injecting a flow drawn from a main flow: The invention relates to a machine through which a main flow (E) of water passes, including a turbine wheel (4), with at least a turbulent zone, reduced-pressure zone or cavitation zone (8, 10, 33) being formed close to said wheel. The wheel includes blades (6) disposed between a ceiling (28)... Agent: Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20100129200 - Pelton hydraulic machine including means for injecting a flow drawn from a main flow: The invention relates to a Pelton machine through which a main flow (E) of water passes, including at least one Pelton turbine (54) manifold (56), with at least a turbulent zone or a reduced-pressure zone (64) being formed close to said manifold. The machine also includes means for injecting a... Agent: Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20100129202 - Gas turbine engine: A gas turbine engine has a signal transmission system comprising a waveguide 40 which enables the transmission of microwave radio signals between a rotor 24 and stationary receiving electronics 32 of the engine. The waveguide 40 is centred on the engine axis 9.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100129203 - Control of shockwave-boundarylayer-interaction using mems plasma devices: A micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) based aerodynamic actuator is configured to modify a shockwave boundary layer interaction and limit incident boundary layer growth caused by a reflected shockwave.... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20100129205 - Compressor housing and turbocharger: The present invention relates to a compressor housing (30) for a compressor (9) of a turbocharger (7) with an integral accommodation region (34, 36) for accommodating at least parts of an actuator (23, 29). The present invention further relates to a turbocharger (7) with a turbine (10) and a compressor... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20100129204 - Variable diffuser and compressor: There is provided a variable diffuser for a compressor in which the efficiency can be further improved. In a variable diffuser 30 in which a diffuser passage 33, which restores a static pressure from a dynamic pressure by decelerating an air flow that is discharged from an outer peripheral end... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20100129206 - Impulse turbine: An impulse turbine is provided. By providing brush seals on the free ends of the guide vanes, which form an acute angle with the radial line in relation to the radial line in the direction of rotation of the rotor, leakage losses may be reduced and the rotor friction between... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100129207 - Steam turbine: A steam turbine (10), especially for the high-pressure range or intermediate-pressure range, includes a rotor (11) which is rotatably mounted around an axis and concentrically enclosed at a distance by an inner casing (12), wherein between the rotor (11) and the inner casing (12) a flow passage (13) is formed,... Agent: Cermak Kenealy Vaidya & Nakajima LLP

20100129208 - Assembled fan frame: An assembled fan frame suitable for a case body includes a framework, a plurality of first assemblies, a back slab, and a plurality of second assemblies. The framework includes a fixing slab, a first side wall and a second side wall facing each other, and an accommodation space is defined... Agent: J C Patents

20100129209 - Centrifugal compressor: There is provided a centrifugal compressor having a diffuser structure in which airflow is unlikely to separate from a hub side wall surface on a hub side wall surface downstream side within a diffuser passage. In a centrifugal compressor provided with a diffuser passage 15 for recovering static pressure by... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20100129211 - Compressor vane diaphragm: A compressor diaphragm for a gas turbine engine having improved wear capability, manufacturability, and assembly techniques is disclosed. The diaphragm includes a shiplap-type joint at an outer vane platform for connecting to adjacent vane assemblies and a clamshell-like assembly of a seal box secures and seals regions around the inner... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100129210 - Vane with reduced stress: An airfoil assembly is described comprising an airfoil, a band coupled to the airfoil for providing at least a portion of support for the airfoil in the airfoil assembly and a slot capable reducing stress in the airfoil wherein the slot is located in the band near a portion of... Agent: General Electric Company

20100129212 - Unit assembly system for an exhaust-gas turbocharger: In order to be able to realise in as economical a manner as possible different exhaust-gas turbocharger types that differ from one another by differing loads of the at least one axial bearing (6), the unit assembly system comprises different thrust elements (18, 19) having the respective thrust surface (10,... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20100124482 - Transverse fan assembly having a supplementary air feed inlet for infill of air flow deficiencies to effect a desired output air flow pattern, and method of use thereof: A transverse fan assembly, including for use with agricultural combine harvesters, which fan assembly includes a supplementary air feed inlet for the infill of air flow voids or deficiencies in the air flow pathway from the air inlet of the transverse fan assembly to the air inlet entryway so as... Agent: Cnh America LLC

20100124484 - Aerofoil and method for making an aerofoil: Within aerofoils, and in particular nozzle guide vane aerofoils in gas turbine engines problems can occur with regard to coolant flows from respective inlets at opposite ends of a cavity within the aerofoil. The cavity generally defines a hollow core and unless care is taken coolant flow can pass directly... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100124485 - Aerofoil cooling arrangement: Within aerofoils (50, 150, 250, 350), and in particular nozzle guide vane aerofoils in gas turbine engines problems can occur with regard to coolant flows (56, 57; 156, 157; 256, 257; 356, 357) from respective inlets at opposite ends of a cavity (60, 160, 260, 360) within the aerofoil (50,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100124483 - Apparatus and method for cooling a turbine airfoil arrangement in a gas turbine engine: A turbine airfoil arrangement for a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil having an inlet and an exit, the inlet configured to receive a cooling gas flow operable to cool at least part of an other airfoil; and a passage disposed in the airfoil and fluidly coupled to the inlet... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20100124488 - Actuator in turbocharger of vehicle and method for controlling the same: Actuator in a turbocharger of a vehicle and method for controlling the same is disclosed, in which a position of a vane is followed up in controlling a PWM signal to be applied to a motor according to time for preventing an overcurrent from flowing to the motor connected to... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20100124487 - Multi-vane variable stator unit of a fluid flow machine: A fluid flow machine has a main flow path which is confined by a hub (3) and a casing (2) and in which at least one row of variable stator vanes (1) is arranged. The stator vanes (1) are rotatably borne around a rotary axis 4. On at least one... Agent: Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.L.C

20100124489 - Variable-capacity exhaust turbocharger equipped with variable-nozzle mechanism: A variable-capacity exhaust turbocharger is provided which is equipped with a variable-nozzle mechanism having a lever plate and a peripheral structure capable of ensuring regular operability of a nozzle vane and of preventing an occurrence of local excessive stress by increasing rigidity of the lever plate without increasing a thickness... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100124490 - Rotating member and method for coating the same: A pulsed discharge is generated between tip ends of a rotating member such as a blade and a discharge electrode including a hard material such as cBN in dielectric liquid or gas by a power supply for discharge to melt the discharge electrode, and a part of the discharge electrode... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20100124491 - Multistage radial turbocompressor: A multistage radial turbocompressor has at least first, second, and third intake parts each forming a respective intake spaced along an axis and first, second, and third output parts each forming a respective output axially juxtaposed with the respective intakes. Respective first, second, and third fans having axially directed vanes... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20100124492 - Turbine nozzles and methods of manufacturing the same: Turbine nozzles and methods of manufacturing the turbine nozzles are provided. In an embodiment, by way of example only, a turbine nozzle includes a first ring, a vane, and a first joint. The first ring comprises a single unitary component and having a first opening and including a first metal... Agent: Honeywell/ifl Patent Services

20100124493 - Multi-vane segment design and casting method: Provided is an industrial gas turbine multi vane segment, which can be cast in one piece using a wax pattern method. The multi vane segment includes a platform; at least three airfoils, extending radially from the platform, having a combined airfoil volume, a chord length and an airfoil thickness; and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100124494 - Integrated inlet design: A nacelle assembly and a method for assembling the same is provided. The nacelle assembly includes an inner barrel and an outer structure comprising a highlight and an outer aft section, wherein the highlight is defined by a forward end of the outer structure, wherein the outer aft section includes... Agent: John S. Beulick (12729) C/o Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20100124495 - Turbine engine rotor hub: A rotor has a central shaft having a central longitudinal axis. The rotor has a longitudinal stack of a plurality of disks surrounding the shaft. An aft hub couples the stack to the shaft. The aft hub has a proximal portion and a distal portion. The distal portion tapers at... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C. (p&w)

20100124496 - Turbomachine: A turbomachine such as a turbocharger comprises a housing 3 defining a bearing cavity and a turbine wheel 4 mounted to a shaft 8 for rotation about an axis. A housing wall 3a is disposed between the bearing cavity and the turbine wheel 4, the shaft 8 extending into the... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20100124497 - Method for mounting components at a wind turbine: A method for mounting components at a wind turbine support unit of a wind turbine is provided. The method includes the steps of providing a captive bolt gun, providing a fastening means, inserting a captive bolt into the fastening means, and shooting the captive bolt into the wind turbine support... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20100119353 - Systems for improved fluid flows through a turbine: A system for installing and extracting a flowing water turbine below the surface of the water includes a flow inducer assembly for improving the conversation of the kinetic energy of a waterway to mechanical energy. The flow inducer assembly includes a nozzle that may be shaped as a cowling and... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

20100119354 - Turbomachine with failure protection: A turbomachine has a housing, a rotor shaft extending along and rotatable about an axis in the housing, and a pair of axially spaced axial-thrust bearings in the housing carrying the shaft and normally only permitting a predetermined small axial displacement of the shaft in the housing. An impeller is... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20100119355 - Calibration of an actuator for a variable geometry turbine: A variable geometry turbine of the kind used in a turbocharger has a variable geometry element such as a nozzle ring or an annular array of swing vanes that is operated by an actuator. The actuator has an output shaft coupled to a transmission mechanism for moving the variable geometry... Agent: Calvin Howard Cox

20100119356 - Device for regulating the flow rate of air feeding a turbine ventilation cavity of a turbomachine turbine section: The invention relates to a device for regulating the flow rate of air feeding a turbine ventilation cavity of a turbomachine turbine section, the device comprising at least one tubular duct opening into a take-off cavity and leading into a turbine ventilation cavity, the pressure inside the take-off cavity being... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100119357 - Gas turbine: A gas turbine including a rotor shaft, a plurality of rotor blades that extend generally radially outwardly from the rotor shaft, each rotor blade including a shroud radially outward of an aerofoil, and a plurality of guide vanes located adjacent to the plurality of rotor blades, the plurality of guide... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100119358 - Fluid-powered motors and pumps: Fluid-powered devices are detailed. The devices may be utilized as motors or pumps, for example, and are capable to switching dynamically between these functions. They additionally may use surface-area, rather than solely pressure, differentials to produce rotary motion.... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20100119359 - Steam turbine: A steam turbine with an operating temperature of more than 650° C. includes a thermally highly-loaded housing (G) which is produced by a casting technique at least partially from a nickel-based alloy. Production of such a steam turbine is simplified by the housing (G) being divided into a multiplicity of... Agent: Cermak Kenealy Vaidya & Nakajima LLP

20100119360 - Heatable part of a pump housing: The description relates to a heatable pump housing part comprising a heat distribution sheet fixed on the housing part and a tubular heating element fixed on the heat distribution sheet. According to the invention the tubular heating element is positioned in a groove or a step on the housing part... Agent: Walter A. Hackler, Ph.d. Patent Law Office

20100119362 - Shrouded turbine assembly: A turbine that allows for the conversion of the kinetic energy of waterway to mechanical power for use in an energy accepting apparatus is described. The turbine has complimentary components that improve the power efficiency of the turbine. The turbine may include a blade shroud and a plurality of blades... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

20100119361 - Turbine with mixers and ejectors: A Mixer/Ejector Wind/Water Turbine (“MEWT”) system is disclosed which routinely exceeds the efficiencies of prior wind turbines. Unique ejector concepts are used to fluid-dynamically improve many operational characteristics of conventional wind/water turbines for potential power generation improvements of 50% and above. Applicants' preferred MEWT embodiment comprises: an aerodynamically contoured turbine... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20100119363 - High-efficiency, multi-stage centrifugal pump and method of assembly: A high-efficiency, multi-stage centrifugal pump and method of assembly. The pump can include three pump stages with each one of the three pump stages including a front casing, a back casing, an impeller, and a bladed diffuser. The front casing and the back casing are removeably coupled around the impeller... Agent: Greenberg Traurig (phx)

20100119364 - Stator - rotor assemblies having surface features for enhanced containment of gas flow, and related processes: A stator-rotor assembly which includes at least one interface region between the stator and rotor is described. At least one stator or rotor surface in the interface region includes a pattern of concavities. The concavities restrict gas flow through a gap between the stator and the rotor. Various turbomachines which... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20100119365 - Submersible centrifugal pump with normal and ejector modes of operation: The present invention relates to a submersible centrifugal pump assembly comprising an impeller suspended in the end of a drive shaft, and driven in rotation relative to an impeller seat which is stationary in normal operation and which defines an axial intake for liquid to be transported by the impeller... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20100119366 - Outlet guide vanes for axial flow fans: An improved outlet guide vane system is disclosed for axial flow fans. Construction details are described which reduce losses in the end wall regions of the vanes, particularly for axial flow fans operating at low flow coefficient with strong localized swirl associated with upstream rotor tip clearance flows. In the... Agent: Marjama Muldoon Blasiak & Sullivan LLP

20100119368 - Double seal with pressurised lip: A sealing device for providing sealing between a casing and a shaft rotatably mounted in the casing. The device includes first and second annular lip gaskets for placing axially side by side between the casing and the shaft. A stream of pressurized gas is delivered into an annular casing defined... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100119367 - Sealing device for rotary fluid machine, and rotary fluid machine: The invention provides a sealing device for a rotary fluid machine and a rotary fluid machine capable of stabilizing the behavior of a rotary shaft in the rotary fluid machine. The sealing device includes: a housing that rotatably accommodates a rotary shaft; a plurality of guide parts that extend along... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20100111666 - Method for fan control according to the position of a device and device implementing the procedure: The present invention relates to a control method for the operation of a fan equipping an electronic device. A determination step detects the vertical or horizontal position of the electronic device. The fan is not started up during the powering up of the device while the device is in a... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations

20100111667 - Ring fan and shroud air guide system: A ring fan and shroud guide system which includes a rotating fan member with a conical outer ring and a cylindrical shroud member overlapping at least a portion of the outer ring. A plurality of guide vanes are provided in the shroud which minimize the tangential velocity component of the... Agent: John A. Artz John A. Artz P.C.

20100111668 - Ultra high power density wind turbine system: An ultra-high power density wind turbine system for producing energy from a wind including a structure having a shape adapted to produce a positive wind pressure on a high-pressure portion of a surface that faces into the wind and to produce a vacuum on two low pressure portions of its... Agent: John R. Ross

20100111669 - Variable phase turbine apparatus:

20100111672 - Hesting power turbine device: A power turbine employs a plurality of turbine blades which allows the turbine to regulate pressure and ventilate for a greater ability to generate power without back pressure of the power source. It also relieves much of the stress on the uni-body construction. The vent ports #30 work at various... Agent: Daniel O Hesting

20100111671 - Methods and apparatus involving shroud cooling: A turbine cooling component comprising a circumferential leading edge, a circumferential trailing edge, a pair of spaced and opposed side panels connected to the leading and trailing edges, an arcuate base connected to the trailing and leading edges having a fore portion, a midsection portion, an aft portion, opposed side... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100111670 - Shroud hanger with diffused cooling passage: A shroud hanger for a gas turbine engine has an arcuate body with opposed inner and outer faces and opposed forward and aft ends, the channel having at least one cooling passage therein which includes: (a) a generally axially-aligned channel extending through the body, the channel having one end open... Agent: Trego, Hines & Ladenheim, PLLC

20100111674 - System and method for reducing bucket tip losses: A system including an airfoil portion of an unshrouded turbine bucket, which includes a pressure-side surface and suction-side surface each extending from a root surface to a tip surface and joined at a leading edge and a trailing edge, the pressure-side surface having a generally concave shape and the suction-side... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100111673 - Turbine with interrupted purge flow: A blade attachment apparatus for a turbine is provided and includes a member, which rotates about an axis of the turbine, including fore and aft disk posts that retain corresponding fore and aft turbine blades, respectively, fore and aft of a turbine nozzle and a central portion proximate the turbine... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100111675 - Fan case for turbofan engine: A gas turbine engine rotor containment structure comprises an inner structurally supporting case having an inner surface positioned adjacent to a gas turbine engine rotor component to be contained. A layer of acoustic material is wrapped around and bounded to a radially outer surface of the inner case. A thin... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP (pwc)

20100111676 - Compressor for an exhaust gas turbocharger: A compressor for an exhaust gas turbocharger includes an exhaust gas turbocharger housing having a gas intake port, which substantially radially encloses a gas inflow area. Disposed in the exhaust gas turbocharger housing is a compressor wheel, which can be driven by an exhaust gas turbine. The compressor wheel bounds... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100111677 - Variable stator blade assembly: A variable stator blade assembly of a compressor, in particular of a gas turbine, including a compressor casing with a counterbore and a receptacle, a stator blade with a spindle, a spindle bush and a seal is provided. The spindle bush is placed inside the receptacle and spindle is placed... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100111678 - Turbine ring assembly for gas turbine: A turbine ring assembly for a gas turbine, the assembly comprising a complete ring (10) forming a single piece of ceramic matrix composite material (CMC), a metal structure for supporting the CMC ring having metal annular supports (20, 30) between which the CMC ring is placed while allowing differential expansion... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20100111679 - Asymmetrical gas turbine cooling port locations: A method is disclosed for improving a turbine's thermal response during transient and steady state operating conditions in which the flow of cooling fluid in the turbine's casing is caused to be asymmetrical relative to the horizontal and vertical symmetry planes of the casing so that the turbine's cooling symmetry... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20100111680 - Delivery pump: A delivery pump for conveying a liquid between a pump inlet and a pump outlet, the pump being constructed as a single-stage centrifugal pump with a radial impeller (2) having a centrifugal construction arranged rotatably in an impeller chamber (6) of a pump casing (1); the impeller being connected to... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100111681 - Bearing device of gas turbine power generation equipment and gas turbine power generation equipment: The bearing devices have sleeves provided on the outer circumference sides of the bearing main bodies and bearing housings holding the respective sleeves via O-rings while each forming an annular clearance passage between each of the outer circumferences of the sleeves and a corresponding one of the bearing housings. The... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20100111682 - Crenelated turbine nozzle: A turbine nozzle includes a row of vanes extending radially between annular outer and inner bands. The outer band includes a pair of radial flanges defining an annular seal groove therebetween. One of the flanges is crenelated to improve nozzle life.... Agent: Francis L. Conte, Esq.

20100111683 - Fluid flow machine: A fluid flow engine (1), in particular a turbo engine, has at least one guide vane row (5) with a plurality of guide vanes (6) and at least one rotor blade row (7) with a plurality of rotor blades (8). One guide vane row (5) and one rotor blade row... Agent: Cermak Kenealy Vaidya & Nakajima LLP

20100111684 - Turbine airfoil clocking: An assembly of airfoils in a turbine engine, the assembly comprising: at least three successive axially stacked rows of airfoils in one of a compressor and a turbine: a first airfoil row, a second airfoil row, and a third airfoil row; wherein the first airfoil row and the third airfoil... Agent: Ge Energy General Electric C/o Ernest G. Cusick

20100111685 - gas turbine engine component, a turbojet engine provided therewith, and an aircraft provided therewith: A gas turbine engine component is provided including at least one ring element, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced load carrying vanes extending in a radial direction of the ring element. The load carrying vanes have an internal structure with an anisotropic load carrying property, and the internal structure is... Agent: Wrb-ip LLP

20100111686 - Air diffuser system for industrial pumps: An air diffuser device suitable for use in an air diffuser system for a centrifugal pump the pump including a pump casing with a pumping chamber therein, an impeller mounted within the pumping chamber for rotation about a rotation axis, the impeller including a front side and a rear side.... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.C.

20100111687 - Centrifugal pump comprising a spiral housing: A centrifugal pump includes a spiral housing with a first housing part and a second housing part. The central region of the second housing part is cup-shaped in order to receive the rotor situated in a wet chamber and forms a bearing at the base of the cup-shaped region rotatably... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20100111688 - Axial-centrifugal compressor with ported shroud: A compressor includes a housing, a rotor, an impeller, and a ported shroud. The rotor is mounted within the housing, and has a first leading edge and a first trailing edge. The rotor is operable, upon rotation thereof, to compress air and to discharge the air in an approximately axial... Agent: Honeywell/ifl Patent Services

20100111690 - Bearing support structure for turbine: Bearing support structure for turbines comprising an inner ring (1) and an outer ring (2) radially connected by means of structural hollows (5) and aerodynamic vanes (6) in a circumference-like arrangement between both rings (1, 2). The aerodynamic vanes (6) are thinner and lighter than the structural vanes (5), and... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20100111689 - Ultimate wind turbine system method and apparatus: An Ultimate Wind Turbine Energy Generator that will start moving and generating energy at very low wind speeds (i.e. very slight motion or torque), that has magnetic bearings with near zero friction which support the Generator and Wind turbine apparatus without consuming external energy to control them.... Agent: Cionca Law Group P.C.

20100111692 - Exhaust gas turbocharger for a motor vehicle:

20100111691 - Turbine engine components: A turbine engine component includes a shaft and two sets of hollow radial plates. The shaft includes an axial section forming a portion of a main passage having a substantially uniform diameter. The axial section has two ends and a center located substantially halfway between the two ends. The first... Agent: Honeywell/ifl Patent Services