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Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps December patent applications/inventions, industry category 12/10

20100329838 - Aerodynamic performance enhancements using discharge plasma actuators: The current invention provides significant performance improvements or significant energy savings for fans used in these applications: personal, industrial and automotive cooling, ventilation, vacuuming and dust removal, inflating, computer component cooling, propulsors for unmanned and manned air vehicles, propulsors for airboats, air-cushion vehicles, airships and model aircraft. Additionally, the invention... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20100329835 - Airfoil with hybrid drilled and cutback trailing edge: An apparatus for a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil, a metering opening for metering a cooling fluid, a cutback slot configured to deliver the cooling fluid from the metering opening, and a cooling hole. The airfoil defines a trailing edge, opposite first and second faces, and a mean camber... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20100329836 - Method of operating a heated guide vane assembly: A method of operating a heated guide vane assembly for turbomachinery, the heated guide vane assembly including a plurality of guide vanes each having two major surfaces joined about their periphery by edges and an associated electric heater element secured to at least one major surface of the guide vanes.... Agent: General Electric Company

20100329839 - Screw shaft turbine compressor and system: Disclosed herein are screw shaft turbine compressors having (i) a compressor section, (ii) a turbine section, (iii) a combustion section coupling to the compressor section and the turbine section, and (iv) a grooved shaft. The grooved shaft can include one or more grooves for providing fuel from the compressor section... Agent: Leyendecker & Lemire, LLC

20100329837 - System and method for aligning turbine components: Embodiments include a system having a turbine support key having a set of key segments selectively stackable together in a plurality of combinations to adjust a thickness between turbine supports based solely on a selection of the key segments from the set.... Agent: Ge Energy-global Patent Operation Fletcher Yoder PC

20100329840 - Flow deflection device construction: New devices and methods for the construction of large Flow Deflection Devices (FDDs) are presented.... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20100329842 - Arrangement and method to control the yawing of a wind turbine: A wind turbine and a method of controlling yawing of a wind turbine are provided. A nacelle is mounted rotatable around a first axis by an adjustable yaw angle and a hub is mounted rotatable around a rotational axis. The hub includes a blade rotating around the rotational axis, the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100329841 - California wind engine: The CWE Concepts are designed to extract the maximum possible wind energy passing through a given square footage area of influencing machine interface at given calculated velocities, to deliver that energy to two power take off shafts for end user's useful work (electrical power generation and other requirements). A multi-bucket... Agent: John Lee O'neil

20100329843 - Panel for supporting abradable material in a turbomachine: A panel for supporting abradable material in a turbojet, the panel comprising a rigid support for fastening to an inside wall of a fan casing and having one face covered in a laminated structure carrying a layer of abradable material, the laminated structure comprising sheets of fibers embedded in a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100329844 - Propulsive fan system: A propulsive fan system comprises a fan unit comprising a first stage array of rotatable blades upstream of a second stage array of rotatable blades. The first stage is coupled to a first drive means. The second stage is coupled to a second drive means. The first drive means is... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100329845 - Turbo-machine having bellows unit for automatic axial thrust control: The turbo-machine of the present invention includes a volute casing, a rotating shaft, an impeller, seals, an axial thrust control member and a bellows unit. The volute casing defines therein a fluid passage. The rotating shaft is rotatably provided in the volute casing. The impeller is coupled to the rotating... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100329848 - Shroudless blade: A shroudless blade for use in a compressor or fan of an axial flow gas turbine engine includes a treatment to the tips of the blades to improve the surge margin of the compressor. A series of cross bleed holes are formed at the tip of the blade, which may... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20100329847 - Stationary blade and steam turbine: A stationary blade and a steam turbine capable of reducing self-excited vibrations with a simple configuration are provided. A stationary blade has a cavity, extending in a blade-width direction, formed therein and slits communicating between the cavity and the outside. A wave-shaped plate spring that is in sliding contact with... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20100329846 - Turbine engine components: A turbine engine component includes a wall, a main opening, and two clusters of two or more auxiliary openings. The wall includes cool and hot air sides. The main opening extends between the cool air side and the hot air side and has an inlet and an outlet. The inlet... Agent: Honeywell/ifl Patent Services

20100329849 - Turbine rotor: A turbine rotor which is easy to manufacture and has a high tolerable temperature is provided. A highly efficient steam turbine power plant is also provided. The turbine rotor is configured from a rotor shaft, an inner rotor disc constructed integrally with the rotor shaft, and an outer rotor disc... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100329850 - External extractor fan for exhaust hood: An external fan for an extractor device, wherein the external fan includes a fan housing; a ventilator housing that is arranged in the fan housing and that has an air discharge; and a sound absorbing member that is arranged in the fan housing and that is opposite the air discharge... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100329851 - Inlet guide vane for a gas compressor: An inlet guide vane for a compressor is provided. The inlet guide vane is adjustable to modify gas flow properties in the compressor, wherein electroactive polymers are arranged in the inlet guide vane such that the shape of the inlet guide vane is adjusted in a specified manner upon applying... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100329852 - Circulation structure for a turbo compressor: A circulation structure for a turbo compressor, in particular for a compressor of a gas turbine, is disclosed. The circulation structure includes at least one annular chamber that can be traversed in a circumferential direction, is concentric with a shaft of the turbo compressor in the region of the free... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100329853 - Moisture removal provisions for steam turbine: Disclosed herein is a moisture removal system for a steam turbine including at least one perforated ring in an outer casing enclosing a stage of the steam turbine. The ring is configured to allow moisture to pass therethrough out of a steam path of the steam turbine.... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20100329854 - Supercharger: A centrifugal supercharger is provided. One embodiment of the supercharger comprises a two-piece housing wherein a parting area is substantially aligned with a rotational axis of a drive or impeller shaft. Another embodiment comprises a sleeve, or intermediate member disposed substantially between the housing and a bearing assembly(s) located within... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20100329855 - Fan shroud with modular vane sets: A fan shroud with modular vane members for a cooling system. A plurality of modular vane set members are positioned around the inner surface of the fan shroud ring, each of the modular vane set members having a plurality of vane members. The modularity provides flexibility and versatility for the... Agent: John A Artz

20100329856 - Supersonic compressor comprising radial flow path: The present invention provides novel supersonic compressors comprising novel supersonic compressor rotors. The supersonic compressor rotors are designed to operate at very high rotational speed wherein the velocity of the gas entering the supersonic compressor rotor is greater than the local speed of sound in the gas, hence the descriptor... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20100329857 - Compact fan: The present invention relates to a compact fan, comprising a fan wheel, in particular a radial fan wheel (1), which is fastened on a rotor of an external rotor motor (82). The fan wheel (1) is supported between a front plate (8) having an air inlet opening (9), which is... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/ann Arbor

20100329858 - Roof wind-power generator device: Roof wind-power generator device of the present invention includes a rotor with a horizontal axis of rotation substantially at right angles with respect to the direction of the wind. The rotor is placed in a frame aimed at being arranged on the ridge of a roof. The frame includes, on... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20100329859 - Fan assembly: A fan assembly includes a first fan and a second fan mounted on the first fan. The first fan includes a plurality of locking units and a plurality of positioning dots extending upwardly therefrom. Each of the locking units includes a perpendicular portion and a horizontal portion. The second fan... Agent: Altis Law Group, Inc. Attn: Steven Reiss

20100329860 - Fan assembly: A fan assembly includes a first fan and a second fan mounted on the first fan. The first and second fans respectively include first and second frames. The first frame includes four pairs of first flakes on a top thereof. The first flakes of each pair are arranged face to... Agent: Altis Law Group, Inc. Attn: Steven Reiss

20100329861 - Inlet connecting piece for an axial-flow compressor: An inlet connection piece for an axial compressor, particularly for a turbocompressor, includes an inlet housing (1) in which is arranged a bearing housing (2) with a bearing (3), particularly a radial and/or axial bearing, for a rotor. The bearing housing (2) is connected to the inlet housing (1) by... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20100322755 - Use of non-uniform nozzle vane spacing to reduce acoustic signature: A stator for a turbomachine. The stator includes a plurality of nozzle vanes, with the distance between each of the plurality of nozzle vanes varying circumferentially around the stator in a repeating pattern configured to distribute a vibration energy over a plurality of side band vibration frequencies around a nominal... Agent: Edmonds Nolte, PC

20100322756 - Grinder pump: A pump is provided including a cutter plate disposed at a pump inlet including a plurality of holes. Multiple embodiments provide that the pump includes a rotatable cutter blade disposed substantially adjacent to the cutter plate. Embodiments include those wherein the plurality of holes are angled in a direction of... Agent: Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC

20100322757 - Variable geometry turbocharger with stand-off members: A turbocharger (1) is provided with one or more movement control members (300) that are connected to the housing (2, 3, 3a) and limit axial movement of the adjustment ring (5). The members (300) can be inserted into one or more holes (400) formed in the housing (2, 3, 3a)... Agent: Borgwarner Inc. C/o Patent Central LLC

20100322758 - Compressor of a gas turbine: The invention relates to a compressor, particularly a high pressure compressor, of a gas turbine, particularly of a gas turbine aircraft engine, having at least one rotating blade ring on the rotor side, and having at least one guide blade ring on the stator side, wherein the, or each, guide... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20100322759 - Structure of exhaust section of gas turbine and gas turbine: There is provided an exhaust section of a gas turbine and a gas turbine that can cool a strut and the periphery of a bearing without decreasing the efficiency of the gas turbine. A structure of an exhaust section of a gas turbine has: a casing in which a gas... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20100322760 - Interlocked cmc airfoil: A ceramic matrix composite (CMC) airfoil assembled from a pressure side wall (42) and a suction side wall (52) joined by interlocking joints (18, 19) at the leading and trailing edges (22, 24) of the airfoil to produce a tapered thin trailing edge. The trailing edge (24) is thinner than... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100322761 - Flow output nozzle for centrifugal pump: A flow outlet for a pump includes a pocket section which defines a pocket section diameter. A throat section downstream of the pocket section, the throat section defines a throat section diameter less than the pocket section diameter.... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20100322762 - Centrifugal impeller and centrifugal blower using it: Centrifugal impeller (14) of centrifugal air blower (1) has main plate (15); a plurality of blades (18); ring-shaped plate (20); and a cylindrical wall (22). The blades (18) are circumferentially disposed on the side of the outer periphery of front side (17) of main plate (15). Ring-shaped plate (20) is... Agent: Panasonic Patent Center

20100322763 - Method for manufacturing vanes integrated into a ring and rectifier by the method: n

20100322764 - Cooling fan: A cooling fan with high heat-dissipating performance includes a plurality of blades; and a frame for receiving the blades therein, wherein the frame has a reduced height for exposing the blades to outside of the frame so as to allow air to enter into the frame via a top portion... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100322765 - Turbo engine with improved compensating piston gasket: A flow machine (1) has an outer housing (2) with an inner housing (6), particularly a guide blade carrier, arranged therein and a rotor shaft (10) which is situated in the latter, a cover (4; 8) which is fastened to the outer housing (2) and separates an inlet pressure (p1)... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20100316484 - Mechanical joint for a gas turbine engine: A mechanical joint for a gas turbine engine includes:(a) an annular first component having an annular, radially-extending first flange; (b) an annular second component having an annular, radially-extending second flange abutting the first flange; (c) a plurality of generally radially-extending radial channels passing through at least one of the first... Agent: Trego, Hines & Ladenheim, PLLC

20100316485 - Turbocharger: In a turbocharger with an oil thrower 36 arranged between a bearing portion 31 for support of a turbine shaft 5 in a bearing housing 3 and an impeller 6 in front thereof, a seal plate 44 facing a front portion outer periphery of the oil thrower 36 for prevention... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100316486 - Cooled component for a gas turbine engine: There is disclosed a cooled component for a gas turbine engine, the component preferably taking the form of a shrouded turbine blade, and having a segment region defining a segment of an annulus for the passage of hot gases therethrough. The segment region has a pair of opposed side faces... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100316487 - Wind turbine: A shrouded wind turbine includes a shroud with an exterior surface that includes a smooth outer surface. The smooth outer surface is large enough that additional devices, particularly advertising displays or solar panels, can be mounted to the shroud to more efficiently use available surface area, both on the wind... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20100316488 - Mixing hotter steam with cooler steam for introduction into downstream turbine: Apparatus and methods are presented for mixing a high temperature steam, perhaps leaked from an upstream turbine, with the cooler steam from a lower temperature, downstream turbine and introducing the mixture into the downstream turbine.... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20100316489 - Supercharger device: A supercharger device, including, at least one of a variable turbine and a compressor geometry; a guide vane device arranged in a housing, wherein the guide vane device includes at least one vane mounting ring; at least one guide vane is at least one of rotatably mounted thereon the vane... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20100316490 - Turbocharger having nozzle ring locating pin and an integrated locator and heat shield: A turbocharger with a variable nozzle includes a pin mounted in the center housing and extending axially therefrom and engaged in a hole in the nozzle ring to orient the nozzle ring rotationally relative to the center housing. A portion of a length of the pin has a substantially greater... Agent: Honeywell/alston & Bird Patent Services

20100316491 - Thermal insulation structure for structural member, and scroll structure: To provide a thermal insulation structure for a structural member and a scroll structure which can be easily used even in integrally constructed structural members and which can ensure reliability and thermal insulation properties. Provided are securing portions (52 and 53) extending outward from an outer wall of the structural... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20100316492 - Cooling structure for gas turbine transition duct: A transition duct for conveying hot combustion gas from a combustor to a turbine in a gas turbine engine. The transition duct includes a panel including a middle subpanel, an inner subpanel spaced from an inner side of the middle subpanel to form an inner plenum, and an outer subpanel... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100316493 - Turbine with mixers and ejectors: A Mixer/Ejector Wind 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 turbines for potential power generation improvements of 50% and above. Applicants' preferred MEWT embodiment comprises: an aerodynamically contoured turbine... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20100316494 - Turbine housing for gas turbochargers: A turbine housing for exhaust gas turbochargers includes an outlet pipe and an external housing connected therewith. A rotor housing is disposed in the external housing and has a pipe-shaped neck operably coupled with the outlet pipe and axially displaceable relative to the same. A separate sealing ring is positioned... Agent: Price Heneveld Cooper Dewitt & Litton, LLP

20100310355 - Moving vertical axis turbine foil: A new movable foil for accelerating the fluid hitting the blades of a vertical axis turbine is presented.... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20100310353 - Rotor casing treatment with recessed baffles: A compressor rotor casing treatment comprises a plurality of axially spaced-apart circumferential grooves defined in the inner surface of the compressor casing adjacent the tips of the compressor rotor blades. A plurality of circumferentially spaced-apart recessed baffles projects from a bottom surface of each groove to a distance less than... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP (pwc)

20100310354 - Tandem seal arrangement with reverse flow secondary seal: A process fluid communication system includes a fluid source in communication with a process seal and a gearbox seal to communicate a pumping medium into a turbomachinery housing and a gearbox housing through the process seal and the gearbox seal.... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20100310356 - Clutched steam turbine low pressure sections and methods therefore: Solutions for clutching steam turbine low pressure sections are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes: a first low pressure steam turbine including a first shaft; a second low pressure steam turbine including a second shaft; a clutch for coupling and uncoupling the first shaft and the second shaft; a... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20100310357 - Ring wing-type actinic fluid drive: Disclosed is an actinic (radial) fluid drive (AF) which can replace any propeller used, e.g. for fans, ventilators, pumps, hydraulic power plants and wind power plants (repeller), watercraft and aircraft (boats, helicopters, etc.) and can also reduce form drag (in tips of rockets, etc.) or wave-making resistance (in bulbous bows... Agent: Jerome D. Jackson (jackson Patent Law Office)

20100310358 - Inner diameter shroud assembly for variable inlet guide vane structure in a gas turbine engine: An inner shroud assembly includes an aft core segment mountable to a forward core segment to support a multiple of vanes for rotational movement relative thereto. A shroud backing plate segment engageable with the aft core segment and at least one fastener which passes through the shroud backing plate, the... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20100310359 - Process for calibrating a variable-nozzle assembly of a turbochanger and a variable-nozzle assembly facilitating such process: A process for calibrating a variable-nozzle assembly (200) prior to its installation in a turbocharger. The variable-nozzle assembly facilitating such process is installed in a calibration fixture (20) having internal flowpath contours configured to replicate corresponding internal flowpath contours of a turbocharger into which the variable-nozzle assembly (200) is to... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20100310360 - Guide vane assembly: A guide vane assembly for a turbomachine, comprising a guide vane and a liner: the guide vane comprising an aerofoil portion having a radially outer platform, wherein one of the outer platform and the liner has a hook element, the hook element comprising an opening and a circumferentially extending channel,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100310361 - Wind turbine with two successive propellers: A wind turbine comprises a tubular casing having an inlet opening, an outlet opening, an outer surface generating a pressure decrease, an inner surface presenting a convergent section joined to the inlet opening, a divergent section joined to the outlet opening and to the convergent section by a throat, and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100310362 - Housing for a blade wheel: A turbine housing for a turbine wheel of an exhaust gas turbocharger, is formed from a casting material and comprises at least two flow chambers that are separated from each other by a flow separator. The flow separator is embodied as a separate insert especially as a sheet metal part... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100310364 - Turbine housing and method for producing a turbine housing: In a turbine housing, for an exhaust gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine with an exhaust gas guide section which has at least one spiral channel that can be coupled to an exhaust path of an exhaust tract and a reception chamber for accommodating a turbine wheel arranged downstream... Agent: Klaus J. Bach

20100310363 - Turbocharger: In a turbocharger comprising a turbine housing 1 having a scroll passage 8 outwardly of an exhaust nozzle 9 which in turn is arranged outwardly of a turbine impeller 4 rotatably supported on a bearing housing 3, the exhaust nozzle 9 having a plurality of nozzle vanes 15 between front... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100310365 - Turbocharger: A turbocharger includes an exhaust nozzle arranged between a scroll passage of a turbine housing and a turbine impeller, a gap formed between a rear surface of the exhaust nozzle and the turbine housing, and a sealing device for closing the gap. The sealing device includes a seal member which... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100310366 - Supercharger: Means to Solve the Problems The supercharger is provided with a thrust bearing (30) rotatably supporting a thrust force applied to a turbine shaft (12). The thrust bearing (30) is constituted by a disc-shaped thrust collar (32) rotating together with the turbine shaft, and a turbine side thrust bearing (34)... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20100303605 - Removal of moisture from process gas: Embodiments of the disclosure may provide an exemplary method for operating a compressor system, wherein the method may include cooling a process gas containing water vapor to a first temperature. The water vapor may form a condensate at the first temperature, and cooling the process gas may produce residual heat.... Agent: Edmonds Nolte, PC

20100303604 - System and method to reduce acoustic signature using profiled stage design: To reduce noise and thereby increase turbine efficiency, the end walls and airfoils of a turbine are designed to reduce or eliminate radial pressure gradients on rotor blades and their incipient secondary flow vortices which may noisily excite downstream blade and vane rows. Instead of generating inefficient noise, the fluid... Agent: Edmonds Nolte, PC

20100303607 - Turbine exhaust diffuser flow path with region of reduced total flow area: An exhaust diffuser system and method for a turbine engine includes an inner boundary and an outer boundary with a flow path defined therebetween. The inner boundary is defined at least in part by a hub that has an upstream end and a downstream end. The outer boundary has a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100303606 - Turbomachine compressor wheel member: A turbomachine includes a rotor assembly including a wheel member. The wheel member includes a first portion that extends to a second portion through an intermediate portion. The intermediate portion partially defines a first wheel space and a second wheel space. The wheel member further includes a rotor inertia belt... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP

20100303608 - Two-shaft gas turbine: A two-shaft gas turbine includes a high-pressure turbine having an annular gas-passage outlet, a low-pressure turbine having an annular gas-passage inlet, an annular intermediate duct that connects the gas-passage outlet to the gas-passage inlet, a bearing that supports a rotor of the high-pressure turbine and that is attached to a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20100303609 - Substance transfer device: A material delivery apparatus is provided which is capable of delivering a material in a large amount per unit area per unit time without damaging the material, and capable of discharging the delivered material powerfully from the outlet port. A rotary body 30 rotates on the rotation axis, a line... Agent: Patenttm.us

20100303610 - Cooled gas turbine stator assembly: A stator assembly for a gas turbine engine is provided having an annular body, an inner gas path platform, a plurality of fairings, and at least one nozzle. The annular body has an outer gas path platform and a circumferentially extending annular cavity disposed radially outside of the outer gas... Agent: O''shea Getz P.C.

20100303611 - Methods and systems for turbine line replaceable unit fault detection and isolation during engine startup: Systems and methods for isolating a performance anomaly within one or more line replaceable units (LRUs) on a gas turbine engine by monitoring the start up transient are presented. The system comprises a set of sensors, an anomaly detector and a fault isolation reasoner. Each sensor of the set monitors... Agent: Honeywell/ifl Patent Services

20100303612 - System and method for clearance control: A system, in one embodiment, includes a turbine clearance controller. The turbine clearance controller is configured to independently adjust clearances of a plurality of shroud segments about a plurality of blades via first and second magnets opposite from one another in fixed and movable portions of each shroud segment.... Agent: Ge Energy-global Patent Operation Fletcher Yoder PC

20100303613 - Rotation device: The invention relates to a rotational device to be used in a fluid to extract energy from a moving fluid stream or to convert energy into a motion of a fluid comprising main rotating means which is fixedly connected to a central rotary shaft of the rotational device, one or... Agent: Host M. Kasper

20100303614 - Energy collection system: A turbine assembly converts kinetic energy from a flowing fluid into electrical or mechanical energy. The turbine assembly includes a turbine and a vane assembly. The turbine has a plurality of vanes disposed on its circumference and rotates about a vertical axis responsive to the flowing fluid contacting the vanes.... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20100303615 - Hydraulic machine, an energy conversion installation including such a machine, and a method of adjusting such a machine: This hydraulic machine has a wheel (2) mounted to move in rotation relative to a stationary structure (9) and about a stationary axis, said wheel being designed to pass a forced flow of water therethrough. At least one leak limiter device (100) for limiting water leaks is disposed between the... Agent: Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20100303616 - Cooling system for an aero gas turbine engine: A cooling system is provided for an aero gas turbine engine. The system has a duct which diverts a portion of a bypass air stream of the engine. A heat exchanger located in the duct receives cooling air for cooling components of the engine. The cooling air is cooled in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100303617 - Powerless diversion plate of a ceiling air-conditioning circulation machine: A powerless diversion plate of a ceiling air-conditioning circulation machine including a bearing block and a bearing within a circular inflow/outflow hole for installing a diversion disc. The diversion disc includes a plurality of radial separation pieces, and a plurality of conic and ring-shaped diversion pieces are concentrically and outwardly... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20100303618 - Wind power station with darrieus-rotor: The power output of a wind power station with a Darrieus Rotor is enhanced by wind guides positioned around the Darrieus Rotor to form a wind concentrator. The wind guides include at least two parallel wind deflection plates, displaced along parallel direction with respect to each other.... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20100303620 - Corrugated hood for low pressure steam turbine: An arrangement and method adapted for providing a reinforced lower exhaust hood for a steam turbine. Double-wall sidewalls and endwalls for a lower exhaust hood include an outer corrugated wall joined to an inner plate wall. The enhanced strength provided by the corrugation provides reduced deformation of the lower exhaust... Agent: Ge Energy General Electric C/o Ernest G. Cusick

20100303619 - Shaped and stiffened lower exhaust hood sidewalls: An arrangement and method adapted for providing a stiffened lower exhaust hood for a steam turbine. Sidewalls of the lower exhaust hood may taper inward between a horizontal joint and an inlet to a condenser for the steam turbine, providing an enhanced flow path for the exhaust steam. Stiffening of... Agent: Ge Energy General Electric C/o Ernest G. Cusick

20100303621 - Construction of an in-pipe turbine: Devices and methods of manufacturing important parts of a Benkatina Turbine are described.... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch