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Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps January recently filed with US Patent Office 01/11

20110020106 - Blade containment structure: The fan duct of a ducted fan gas turbine engine has a fan case lined with a honeycomb structure that acts to absorb the energy of a separated part of a blade. A layer of composite material lining honeycomb structure delaminates/breaks when a separated blade part passes through a further,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20110020105 - Nacelle flow assembly: A nacelle assembly for a turbine engine has a cowl for a turbine engine. The cowl has a first surface spaced from a second surface. The second surface defines defining a bypass flow passage. A flow volume is spaced between the first surface and the second surface. A plurality of... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20110020107 - Molded wind turbine shroud segments and constructions for shrouds: A wind turbine shroud that comprises a plurality of wind turbine shroud segments engaged to each other in a radial pattern about a central axis. Each wind turbine shroud segment may be created through a rotational molding and/or blow molding process and can be engaged with other wind turbine shroud... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20110020108 - Two-stage turbo-charger engine system: A turbine housing for a high-pressure turbo-charger of a turbo-charger engine system for an internal combustion engine is provided that includes, but is not limited to a low-pressure charger opening for taking up a low-pressure turbo-charger and a high-pressure charger opening for taking up a high-pressure turbo-charger. A high-pressure exhaust... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gme)

20110020109 - Peripheral tunnels propeller: This disclosure is related with propeller noise and cavitation abatement in applications like propulsion, ventilation, pumping or turbine systems on liquid or gas fluids working like a propellers, pumps, fans or turbines, by novel techniques that allows a stronger propellers and improves laminar flow and allow a smooth acceleration or... Agent: Jose Angel Acosta

20110020110 - Wind turbine with reduced radar signature: Various components of a shrouded wind turbine are coated with carbonyl iron powder. The resulting wind turbine has a reduced radar signature compared to conventional wind turbines.... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20110020111 - Turbocharger: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a variable geometry turbine comprising: a turbine wheel mounted on a turbine shaft within a housing assembly for rotation about a turbine axis, the housing assembly defining a gas flow inlet passage upstream of the turbine wheel; an annular... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20110020112 - Sewage seperation generator: A system is presented that can partially separate solids from liquids and produce energy simultaneously.... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20110020113 - Seal structure for preventing leakage of gases across a gap between two components in a turbine engine: A seal structure is provided for preventing leakage of gases across a gap between first and second components in a turbine engine. The seal structure is adapted to be received in first and second adjacent slots provided in the first and second components. The seal structure may comprise: a wear... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20110020114 - Seal assembly: A seal assembly disposed between a rotor and a stator especially of a turbo-machinery is provided with a close clearance gap there between. The clearance gap is bordered by a rotor surface at the side of the rotor and by a stator surface at the side of the stator. The... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20110020116 - Gas turbine: A gas turbine including exhaust chamber defined by a cylindrical casing wall and a bearing case that supports a bearing part of a rotor in the casing wall, struts provided at equal intervals in circumferential direction of the bearing case and extending in tangential direction of the bearing case to... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20110020115 - Refractory metal core integrally cast exit trench: A refractory metal core for use in casting a turbine engine part has a main portion and a plurality of tabs extending from the main portion. An end portion having a first edge which joins together the plurality of tabs and a second edge, opposed to the first edge, located... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C. (p&w)

20110020117 - Casing structure of steam turbine: In a steam turbine according to a first embodiment, an outer casing 11 is divided into an upper casing 31 and a lower casing (a lower block) 32 on a horizontal plane through which a rotor passes, and the upper casing 31 is divided into a middle block 33 having... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20110020118 - Turbine nozzle assembly including radially-compliant spring member for gas turbine engine: Embodiments of a turbine nozzle assembly are provided for deployment within a gas turbine engine (GTE) including a first GTE-nozzle mounting interface. In one embodiment, the turbine nozzle assembly includes a turbine nozzle flowbody, a first mounting flange configured to be mounted to the first GTE-nozzle mounting interface, and a... Agent: Honeywell/ifl Patent Services

20110020119 - Jet engine nacelle intended to equip an aircraft: The invention relates to a jet engine nacelle intended to equip an aircraft, comprising a forward air inlet section, a mid-section intended to surround a fan of the jet engine, and an aft section formed from at least first and second hath-shells rotatably mounted about an axis such that they... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP

20110020120 - Unison ring assembly for an axial compressor casing: A unison ring assembly for an axial compressor casing is provided. The unison ring assembly includes a unison ring and at least three unison ring supports being radial inwardly and equally spaced arranged along a circumference of the unison ring, wherein each unison ring support has a unison ring bracket... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20110014028 - Compressor cooling for turbine engines: Systems, apparatuses and methods (“utilities”) for use in “internally” cooling the compressor of a gas turbine engine so as to approximate isothermal compression and thereby increase the power and/or efficiency of the engine. In one arrangement, a “cooling jacket” or heat exchanger having coolant circulating or passing therethrough may be... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20110014029 - Seals for a turbine engine, and methods of assembling a turbine engine: A side seal for sealing the side edges of adjacent combustors of a turbine engine include extended ends. The extended ends of the side seal abut and seal against inner and outer circumferential seals to prevent leakage of combustion gases.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20110014030 - Rotating machine and additional ring: The present invention aims at providing a technique for providing a stepped structure separately to a rotating shaft in a later step of assembly for preventing oil leakage from a bearing box. To this end, the rotating machine of the present invention includes a rotating shaft having a rotating member,... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20110014031 - Seal member, steam turbine, and method of avoiding resonance: A first seal member 21A according to a first embodiment of the present invention includes a double-structure bellows 22 in corrugated form, and vibration control means provided on the outside of the bellows 22 such as to cover part of the bellows 22. A flat portion 23 that is not... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20110014033 - Turbocharger with a variable turbine geometry vtg: A turbocharger with a variable turbine geometry, includes at least one rolling body element respectively disposed on an associated fixing element for the variable turbine geometry. A device for adjusting the variable turbine geometry can roll off on the respective rolling body element.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20110014032 - Vane grille arrangement of an exhaust gas turbocharger, exhaust gas turbocharger, and method for producing a vane grille arrangement: A vane grille arrangement of an exhaust gas turbocharger with variable turbine geometry, contains at least one carrier ring formed from at least one sheet metal part and used to mount VTG guide vanes, the VTG guide vanes being rotatably mounted in recesses of the carrier ring. Ideally, an exhaust... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20110014034 - Turbocharger: A turbocharger, comprising: at least one of a turbine housing, a bearing housing and a turbine wheel, wherein the turbine wheel is rotatably mounted about an axis and includes a guide apparatus with a plurality of guide vanes rotatably mounted in pivot bearings on a guide vane support, wherein the... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20110014035 - High-reliability turbine metal sealing material: A metal sealing material used in a sealing device which can reduce a gap between a stator and a rotor of a turbine. The metal sealing material used in a sealing device for a stator and a rotor of a turbine includes a surface layer and a lower layer composed... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20110014036 - Heat shield and turbocharger having a heat shield: A heat shield, in particular for a turbocharger, has a disk or a pot shape which is stepped once or multiple times. The disc or pot shape has an outer edge, and the outer edge is provided with at least one opening section. The opening section forms a web section... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20110014037 - Axial-flow compressor with a flow pulse generator: Axial-flow compressor including, within a compressor casing (4), at least one rotor (2) of rotor blades (3) connected to a drive shaft (1) and a stator (5) held on the casing inner wall and, associated to the rotor gap (6) between the blade tips and the casing inner wall, a... Agent: Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.L.C

20110014038 - Wind turbine with skeleton-and-skin structure: A wind turbine comprises a turbine shroud and optionally an ejector shroud. The turbine shroud and/or the ejector shroud include a skeleton support structure, with a skin covering at least a portion of the turbine shroud and/or ejector shroud skeleton. In other embodiments, leading and trailing edges of the turbine... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20110014039 - Turbine with axial discontinuity: A turbocharger turbine containing a separate insert affixed within the housing. The insert is of a stamped metal configuration, and forms at least a portion of inlet passageway outer wall. An axial discontinuity is machined into the inlet passageway outer wall, the axial discontinuity being characterized by a size and... Agent: Honeywell/griecci Patent Services

20110014040 - Fluid flow machine with blade row group: t

20110014041 - Rotary drum of an axial compressor having a composite web: A rotary drum of an axial compressor having a web made of composite material has an upstream flange for fastening the fan, a segment having a sealing flange upstream, a segment with a groove adapted to receive the bases of the vane of a first row of vanes, a segment... Agent: Law Offices Of James E. Walton, PLLC

20110014042 - Pump flow optimizer: A pump flow optimizer is disclosed. In one embodiment, the pump flow optimizer comprises: at least one primary output nozzle that is configured to direct outflow from a pump on which is positioned, the primary output nozzles being configured to redirect outflow at approximately a twenty nine degree angle relative... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - AtlantaIPDepartment

20110014043 - System for controlling the cowl of a turbojet engine nacelle thrust reverser: A nacelle (1a, Ib) of a turbojet engine (3a, 3b) comprises a rear section equipped with at least one thrust-reversal system having, on the one hand, means of deflecting at least part of the turbojet engine air flow and, on the other hand, at least one moving cowl (4a, 5b,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP

20110014044 - Locking system for air intake structure for turbojet engine nacelle: The invention relates to a nacelle for a turbojet engine that comprises an air intake structure (2) capable of directing an air flow towards a fan of the turbojet engine, and an intermediate structure for surrounding said fan and to which the air intake structure is attached in order to... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP

20110014045 - Fan exhaust nozzle for turbofan engine: The cross sectional flow area of a fan discharge nozzle on one side of a central plane of an associated gas turbine engine power plant is greater than the corresponding flow area of the fan discharge nozzle on an opposite side of the central plane to compensate for the blockage... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20110008149 - Blood pump bearings with separated contact surfaces: Rotary hydrodynamic blood pumps have been used to treat over a thousand patients. The Jarvik 2000 has supported a patient for seven years and uses blood immersed bearings washed by high flow to avoid excessive thrombus formation. This permits the pump to be very simple and small. Nonetheless, the present... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20110008150 - Wheel for a hydraulic machine, a hydraulic machine including such a wheel, and an energy conversion installation equipped with such a hydraulic machine: The invention relates to a wheel (R) of the Francis type that comprises a ring (1) with revolution symmetry about the rotation axis (Z) of the wheel (R), and curved blades (21, 22) connected to the ring (1) and each having an outer peripheral edge (212, 222) and an inner... Agent: Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20110008152 - Transfer device and blower having the same: A transfer device having an inlet member, an outlet member, and a transition member. The inlet member is connected with the outlet member via the transition member; the inlet member, the outlet member, and the transition member are one-step cast; and the transition member is tilted upwards so that the... Agent: Matthias Scholl

20110008151 - Turbine and method for cleaning turbine blades under operation conditions: A method for cleaning a number of turbine blades of a turbine under operation conditions by means of a cleaning fluid which is sprayed onto the turbine blades by a number of nozzles is disclosed. The method is characterised in that the cleaning fluid is distributed to the nozzles such... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20110008153 - Drain pump: A drain pump that maintains pump performance and reduces noise and vibration accompanying water scooping of a rotary impeller includes a large-diameter blade divided into an inner blade and an outer blade. A radius of an impeller scooping up water is the sum of the lengths of the inner and... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20110008154 - Sealing arrangement for turbine engine having ceramic components: A sealing arrangement for use in a turbine engine having ceramic components. The sealing arrangement is retained in a seal gap formed between adjacent segments and is compliant to accommodate variations in the size of the seal gap as the adjacent segments move relative to one another.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20110008155 - Heat transfer passage: This invention relates to heat transfer passage (102) within a component (100) and a component having such a heat transfer passage. The passage (102) comprises opposing side walls (112), a base (110) extending between said side walls and one or more upstanding formations (122) depending from said base between said... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20110008156 - Composite turbine nozzle: A composite nozzle segment includes one or more airfoils extending radially between arcuate radially outer and inner band segments having band plies curved about a centerline axis, an outer chordal seal line on an outer aft flange of the outer band segment, and thickened areas in corners of the outer... Agent: Steven J. Rosen Patent Attorney

20110008158 - Cooled housing consisting of a turbine housing and a bearing housing for a turbocharger: A housing of a turbo charger has a turbine housing and a bearing housing. A cooling jacket is formed of at least one or more shell elements that are fixed to the outside of the housing and that form therewith a cavity into which a coolant can be introduced.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20110008157 - Turbine stator airfoils with individual orientations: In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a turbine stator component includes a first endwall; a second endwall; a first stator airfoil coupled between the first and second endwalls; and a second stator airfoil adjacent to the first airfoil and coupled between the first and second endwalls. The first stator airfoil... Agent: Honeywell/ifl Patent Services

20110008160 - Cover disk for a closed impeller: A cover disk (1) for a closed rotor of a radial flow machine or diagonal flow machine for defining a flow channel has a wall thickness which has a local maximum along the profile mean line of the meridional cross section of the cover disk between a first front side... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20110008159 - Ventilator: A ventilator includes a body casing having an opening formed in its lower portion and an exhaust port formed on one side; a fan that is provided in the body casing, for sucking indoor air from the opening and exhausting the indoor air from the exhaust port; a resin fan... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20110008161 - Fan: Provided is a fan of a microwave oven. The fan, discharging air in two directions, cools a plurality of components. Thus, the components are cooled with more simple configuration.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20110008162 - Structure of radial turbine scroll: A structure of a radial turbine scroll avoids a gas flow heading from a radially outer side toward a radially inner side in the vicinity of a tongue portion so as to restrain turbine performance from deteriorating and also reduces, to a maximum, thermal stress caused by the formation of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20110008163 - Composite article and support frame assembly: A support frame includes a rail engaging a hook of a composite article having plys. The rail included a rail contact surface generally conformal to and contacting a hook contact surface of the hook. The rail and hook contact surfaces being substantially normal to the plys beneath the hook contact... Agent: Steven J. Rosen Patent Attorney

20110008164 - Wind turbine: A shrouded wind turbine includes a shroud. The shroud is a ring airfoil and has a cross-sectional airfoil shape. The airfoil shape is optimized to minimize flow separation of the airstream passing inside the shroud.... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20110008165 - Engine case system for a gas turbine engine: The present invention provides engine case systems for gas turbine engines. Embodiments of the engine case systems include a plurality of ring cases and a tie-bolt case. The ring cases may house blades and vanes for the compressor and/or for the turbine. The ring cases may be stacked in series,... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20110002769 - Centrifugal pump for de-watering: A method of de-watering during intermittent dry running periods with a self-priming centrifugal pump is presented. Centrifugal pumps, as opposed to diaphragm pumps, are advantageous because they are less expensive and can provide greater capacity. The shaft seals are sensitive, however, to frictional heating when water flow is interrupted. In... Agent: Lawrence E. Lambelet Jr.

20110002770 - Compressor: A compressor comprises an impeller wheel mounted within a housing defining an inlet and an outlet. The wheel has a plurality of vanes and is rotatable about an axis. The housing has an inner wall defining a surface located in close proximity to radially outer edges of the impeller vanes... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20110002772 - Control device and method for an aerodynamic brake of a wind energy converter: A wear-free, self-contained control device for an aerodynamic emergency brake of a wind energy converter is presented that comprises multiple components in order to provide a most effective means to control the rotation of a vertical axis wind turbine by a brake, which is able to activate itself without external... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20110002771 - Rotor blade over-tip leakage control: A system is provided for controlling rotor blade over-tip leakage of a working fluid in rotating machine. The system has a circumferential row of rotor blades, and a circumferential row of seal segments for sealing with the radially outer tips of the rotor blades to reduce over-tip leakage of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20110002773 - Circular ring, rotating duct, shroud, trunk and cylindrical external wall prepared by lamination of sheet belt, and apparatus and method for preparing the same: The invention provides a ring, rotatable duct, shroud, fuselage or cylindrical external wall fabricated so as to have desirable strength even if its diameter exceeds about 2.7 meters by using arbitrary metallic and non-metallic materials. Such ring and others may be readily fabricated by laminating a thin sheet band made... Agent: Smith Patent Office

20110002774 - Active clearance control for a centrifugal compressor: Apparatus and method of operating a centrifugal compressor and active control system includes a centrifugal compressor with compressor blades mounted on an impeller, an annular cavity bounded in part by a shroud adjacent to the blades, and an active control system for controlling a clearance between the shroud and the... Agent: Steven J. Rosen Patent Attorney

20110002775 - Centrifugal fan and noise reduction method in centrifugal fan: A centrifugal fan having a sound reduction effect for noises in a wide frequency range is provided. The centrifugal fan comprises a motor to which an impeller is connected, a casing which surrounds the impeller and which has a bell-mouth-like suction port, and a bell-mouth-like orifice which has a suction... Agent: Panasonic Patent Center

20110002776 - Actuatable seal for aerofoil blade tip: The present invention relates to an actuatable seal (14) for an aerofoil blade tip, for providing a seal between the blade tip (12) and an adjacent surface (10) over which the blade tip passes in use. The seal comprises a flexible member that is arranged in use to be mounted... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20110002777 - Systems and apparatus relating to turbine engines and seals for turbine engines: A turbine engine that includes a vortex protrusion disposed upon a component that rotates during operation of the turbine engine; wherein the vortex protrusion includes an outer surface that is configured to induce a vortex flow pattern as the component rotates during operation.... Agent: Ge Energy General Electric C/o Ernest G. Cusick

20110002778 - Gas turbine housing component: A gas turbine housing component includes a wall structure including two adjacent wall parts and a connection arrangement arranged between adjacent edges of the two wall parts. The connection arrangement includes an elongated seal strip positioned along the wall part edges and bridging the distance between the wall part edges.... Agent: Wrb-ip LLP

20110002779 - Method for manufacturing by molding a machine structural element having an abradable surface, and structural element: A method for manufacturing a machine structural element from a molded composite material includes manufacturing of an abradable layer made integrally from the material of the element. The method consists in adding a filler material to the resin at the surface to be made abradable, the filler material being able... Agent: Law Offices Of James E. Walton, PLLC

20110002780 - Centrifugal compressor: To provide a centrifugal compressor having a high pressure ratio, which can achieve a large flow rate while suppressing a decrease in efficiency, the centrifugal compressor being adapted to compress and discharge a gas, which has been sucked in by rotation of an impeller (10) pivotally supported in a casing... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20110002781 - Wind turbine with pressure profile and method of making same: A wind turbine produces a unique pressure profile downstream of the wind turbine. This pressure profile reflects the structure of the wind turbine, which includes a shroud that has mixing lobes on a trailing edge thereof. The pressure profile includes high pressure and low pressure regions corresponding to the number... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20110002782 - Device for supporting and securing a piece of equipment on an aircraft engine or nacelle case: A device for supporting and securing a piece of equipment on an aircraft engine or nacelle case, including a vibration damper including a first part secured to the case and a second coaxial part rigidly connected to the piece of equipment, the damper associated with a safety member configured to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.