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Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps February patent applications/inventions, industry category 02/11

20110044794 - Method of controlling turbine equipment and turbine equipment: To provide a method of controlling a turbine equipment and a turbine equipment capable of carrying out a starting operation of controlling a load applied to a speed reducing portion while complying with a restriction imposed on an apparatus provided at a turbine equipment. The invention is characterized in including... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20110044797 - Electrical conductor paths: A component, for example an aerofoil vane or other gas path structure in a gas turbine machine such as a gas turbine engine, in which an insulated electrical conductor path (2) is embedded structurally integrally, and in which electromagnetic shielding (1, 2, 20, 22), for the embedded electrical conductor path... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20110044796 - Fluidfoil tip vortex disruption: A fluidfoil tip vortex disruption arrangement. There is a fluid inlet on a pressure side of the fluidfoil; and a fluid outlet in a low pressure region at or near the tip of the fluidfoil. Fluid exiting the fluid outlet inserts instability into a tip vortex to disrupt or destroy... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20110044798 - Turbine nozzle for a turbomachine: A turbine nozzle for a turbomachine, the nozzle including two coaxial platforms interconnected by radial vanes, an inner platform being connected to an annular partition that is festooned or crenellated and on which there is fastened an annular support carrying elements made of abradable material. The support is capable of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20110044795 - Turbine vane platform leading edge cooling holes: A vane for use in a gas turbine engine has a platform connected to an airfoil. There is a cooling passage for supplying cooling air to the platform. A cooling chamber supplies cooling air to a plurality of cooling slots at the platform. The cooling slots have a non-uniform cross... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20110044799 - Fan apparatus: A fan apparatus includes first axial fans each arranged with a rotation axis thereof extending perpendicularly or substantially perpendicularly to a mounting surface provided in a case designed to contain an electronic device; and second axial fans each having a rotation axis coinciding with the rotation axis of a separate... Agent: Nidec Corporation C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20110044803 - Blade outer air seal anti-rotation: A blade outer air seal (BOAS) assembly includes a static turbine shroud formed by BOAS segments and a support ring formed by BOAS support segments. Each BOAS support segment supports one or more BOAS segments. The BOAS assembly further includes an anti-rotation apparatus for restricting relative circumferential movement between the... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP (pwc)

20110044801 - Blade outer air seal cooling: A blade outer air seal (BOAS) segment has a plurality of cooling passages axially extending through a platform of the BOAS segment. The passages each have an inlet defined in a radially outer surface and an exit defined on a leading edge of the platform. At least one of the... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP (pwc)

20110044804 - Blade outer air seal support: A blade outer air seal (BOAS) support segment for supporting at least one BOAS segment of a static turbine shroud of a gas turbine engine, includes a radially and outwardly extending front leg for engagement with an outer case of the engine. The BOAS support segment further includes a pair... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C. (pwc)

20110044802 - Blade outer air seal support cooling air distribution system: A blade outer air seal (BOAS) of a gas turbine engine has a segmented support ring to support a segmented turbine shroud. The support ring has a cooling air distribution system which includes a plurality of inlet cavities extending axially and inwardly to communicate with an inner cooling air passage... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP (pwc)

20110044800 - Compressor blade and production and use of a compressor blade: The invention relates to a compressor blade of a compressor which, along a main axis, comprises a blade base, a platform area and an adjacent blade profile having a profile tip. The blade profile is configured by a convex wall at the suction end and a concave wall at the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20110044805 - Cooling system of ring segment and gas turbine: A cooling system of ring segment is provided with: a collision plate that has a plurality of small holes; a cooling space that is enclosed by the collision plate and a main body of the segment body; a first cavity that arranged is the upstream end portion of the segment... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20110044806 - Turbomachine casing assembly: A turbomachine casing assembly comprises a first casing portion for at least partially encasing one or more rotating aerofoil structures of a turbomachine and a second casing portion; the first casing portion being movable with respect to the second casing portion. One or more resilient elements are arranged so as... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20110044807 - Adjustable fan case liner and mounting method: A liner for an interior surface of an engine casing (18), comprises a number of liner panels (32) disposed radially outwardly of a rotatable component (56) of the engine, such as a fan blade, and mounting means (46) arranged to mount the panels on the interior surface of the casing,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20110044808 - Radial fan and a high-pressure cleaning device having a radial fan: Proposed is a centrifugal fan with a pot-like impeller (10) and with a housing (11) accommodating the impeller (10), the circumferential wall (18) of which, starting from a first circumferential wall region (19) with an arc-like curvature which extends directly along the impeller (10), comprises on the one hand in... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, PLLC

20110044809 - Open-blade engine-cooling fan shroud guide vanes: To make manifest the above noted desire, a revelation of the present invention is brought forth. A fan assembly (7) is provided including a hub (10) with a plurality of projecting fan blades (12). A recirculating flow element (18) is provided which is generally forward adjacent an outer diameter of... Agent: John A. Artz John A. Artz P.C.

20110044810 - Bearing support: A bearing support that includes a body through which a bore extends and a plurality of grooves formed in a wall of the bore. Each groove extends from a first end of the bore and terminates prior to a second end of the bore. A bearing can be secured within... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20110038705 - Device for converting wave energy into mechanical energy: A wave power plant for extracting energy from the wave movement of a water surface area, which wave power plant comprises a frame construction (1), in which at least two rotors (3, 3a) are journalled, and wherein each rotor (3, 3a) is suspended in the frame construction (1) to the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C. (ny)

20110038706 - Turbine section architecture for gas turbine engine: A turbine section of a gas turbine engine is described, which includes an aftmost rotor extending, an aftmost stator located upstream of the aftmost rotor, and a second to last aftmost rotor located upstream of the aftmost stator. The second to last aftmost rotor being spaced apart a first axial... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP (pwc)

20110038707 - Bladeless fluid propulsion pump: A bladeless pump for fluids, such as gases that may contain particulate matter, drivable by a motor, consisting of an assembly of rotors or discs stacked against each other. Each rotor/disc has a runner portion on an outer area separated from its center, and a central portion having two or... Agent: Jackson Walker LLP

20110038710 - Application of dense vertically cracked and porous thermal barrier coating to a gas turbine component: A configuration for coating a turbine component such as a blade or vane with various forms of thermal barrier coating to provide enhanced temperature capability and increased strain tolerance is disclosed. A gas path surface of the platform, airfoil and airfoil fillet region are first coated with a bond coating.... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Intellectual Property Department

20110038708 - Turbine endwall cooling arrangement: An airfoil is provided and includes an airfoil body having a pressure surface extendable between radial ends and a fluid path in an airfoil interior defined therein. The pressure surface is formed to further define a passage by which coolant is deliverable from the fluid path in the airfoil interior,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP

20110038709 - Turbine vane for a gas turbine engine having serpentine cooling channels: A turbine vane for a gas turbine engine having an internal cooling system formed from at least one serpentine cooling channel with enhanced cooling elements. The serpentine cooling channel may include a first turn manifold with purge air discharge orifices inline with a first pass of the serpentine cooling channel.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20110038711 - Steam turbine and system for start-up: A steam turbine and a start-up system for a steam turbine are disclosed comprising: a plurality of stages, a steam path through the plurality of stages, an inlet port for introducing steam to a first stage, an exhaust port at a last stage for allowing exhaust to exit the steam... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20110038712 - System and method for measuring efficiency and leakage in a steam turbine: In certain embodiments, a system includes a physical computing device having a tangible machine-readable medium including code. The code is adapted to determine an efficiency of a section of a steam turbine based on a relationship between enthalpy difference values and leakage flow rate values between adjacent sections of the... Agent: Ge Energy-global Patent Operation Fletcher Yoder PC

20110038713 - Dry running flexible impeller pump and method of manufacture: This invention relates to a Dry Running Flexible Impeller Pump and Method of Manufacture designed to provide a flexible impeller pump capable of being run dry for extended periods of time without damage. The pump's components are comprised of low friction materials limiting the heat of friction created by the... Agent: Law Offices - Eric R. Benson, Esq.

20110038714 - Variable geometry turbine: A variable geometry turbine of the kind used in a turbocharger has a variable geometry element such as a nozzle ring that is operated by an actuator. The actuator comprises a motor which drives a cross-shaft in rotation. The cross-shaft in turn drives a pair of guide rods on which... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20110038715 - Variable nozzle for a turbocharger, having nozzle ring located by radial members: A variable nozzle for a turbocharger (10) has a nozzle ring (138) supporting an array of vanes (134) that are variable in setting angle. The nozzle ring (138) is rotationally oriented and fixed in position by a plurality of circumferentially spaced, radially outwardly extending locating members (170) that engage corresponding... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20110038717 - Oil-free turbocharger assembly: The present invention relates to an oil-free turbocharger assembly using an airfoil bearing that may be useful in high speed conditions. The assembly can be cooled easily. A heat-proof coating can also be easily applied to the turbo charger's rotating shaft. In one embodiment, an oil-free turbocharger assembly has a... Agent: Jones Day

20110038716 - Thrust bearing, especially for a turbocharger: The invention relates to an axial bearing (10) comprising at least one or more segments (18) on each of the front side (22) and the rear side (26) thereof, wherein the segments (18) on the opposite sides (22, 26) each are disposed at least partially offset from each other.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20110038718 - Fluid flow machine: A fluid flow machine has a stator, a rotor which is supported so as to be rotatable relative to the stator, and a brush seal which seals a gap formed between the stator and rotor in a radial direction to prevent the passage of fluid. The brush seal has a... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20110038720 - Fan and fan assembly: An assembly includes a fan and a heat sink for detachably fixing the fan. The fan includes a pair of first and a pair of second sidewalls, with two pair of rims respectively extending from the first and second sidewalls. Ends of the rims of the first sidewalls, which are... Agent: Altis Law Group, Inc. Attn: Steven Reiss

20110038719 - Simplified housing for a fuel cell compressor: A compressor includes a shaft assembly including a thrust disk disposed on a main shaft and a housing having a first portion and a second portion, the first and second portions adapted to receive the shaft assembly and enclose the shaft assembly therebetween, wherein the shaft assembly is rotatably disposed... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20110038721 - Fan with dust-resistant coating: A method of making a fan having one or more dust-resistant surfaces comprises the steps of: providing (S50) an open mold for injection-molding purposes, having a cavity (43) corresponding to the desired configuration of fan components to be formed; wetting (S52) the surface of the cavity (43) with a mixture... Agent: Oliver Intellectual Property LLC

20110038722 - Fluid intake assembly: A fluid intake assembly adapted for use with a turbo-machine is provided. The fluid intake assembly provides an efficient fluid inlet assembly including a casing adapted to guide fluid into the turbo-machine. The casing includes an inner wall, the inner wall having a lining of a resin infused composite material.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20110038723 - Turbine housing with wall cladding: A turbine housing for a turbine is provided. The turbine housing includes a wall cladding on an inner wall of the turbine housing. In a region of joint flanges, the wall cladding is arranged and embodied such that the wall cladding reduces convective heat transfer and thermal radiation in a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20110038724 - Flow trim for vane-axial fans: A fan comprises a fan housing which includes a fan inlet, a motor which is connected to the fan housing, and an impeller which is removably connected to the motor. The impeller includes an impeller hub, a number of impeller blades which extend radially outwardly from the impeller hub, an... Agent: Henry C. Query, Jr.

20110038725 - Coupling device intended to connect first and second elements which can move relative to one another: The invention relates to a coupling device (14) intended to connect first and second elements (4, 5) which can move relative to one another, comprising a connecting rod (16) coupled to the first and second movable elements (4, 5) at first and second ends (18, 19) respectively, at least one... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP

20110033279 - Rotor drive mechanism and pump apparatus: A rotor drive mechanism (53) is capable of causing an external screw type rotor (22) of an uniaxial eccentric screw pump (23) to rotate and carry out a revolution movement, the uniaxial eccentric screw pump (23) is configured such that the external screw type rotor (22) is attached to an... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20110033280 - Hybrid ram air turbine with inlet guide vanes: A hybrid ram air turbine includes a generally conical-shaped shaft which mounts a number of vanes wrapped in a substantially helical orientation along the shaft with a portion of each vane being formed in the general shape of a reaction turbine blade and another portion in the general shape of... Agent: Gray Robinson, P.A.

20110033281 - Steam turbine, method of cooling steam turbine, and heat insulating method for steam turbine: A steam turbine 10 is provided with a double-structure comprising an inner casing 20 and an outer casing 21. A turbine rotor 22, in which plural stages of moving blades 24 are circumferentially implanted, is operatively disposed in inner casing 20. A diaphragm outer ring 25 and a diaphragm inner... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20110033282 - Charging device, more preferably exhaust gas turbocharger for a motor vehicle: The invention relates to a charging device, such as an exhaust gas turbocharger for a motor vehicle, with a shaft carrying a compressor wheel, with a fixing device for fixing the compressor wheel on the shaft, with at least one component fixed on the shaft together with the compressor wheel... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20110033283 - Turbomachine rotor comprising an anti-wear plug, and anti-wear plug: A turbomachine rotor including a disc including a rim and axial slots machined in the rim for the individual housing of blades, a ring being attached to one face of the rim, the ring being pierced with holes in the axial continuation of the slots, at least some of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20110033284 - Structurally diverse thermal barrier coatings: A coated article includes an article having at least one surface and a thermal barrier coating system disposed upon the at least one surface. The thermal barrier coating system has at least two layers, with each layer having a different microstructure. The microstructure of each layer may be any one... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C. (p&w)

20110033285 - Assembly for a stator stage of a turbomachine, the assembly comprising an outer shroud and at least one stationary vane: c

20110033286 - Nacelle for turbojet engine: The present invention relates to a nacelle for a turbojet engine comprising an air intake structure able to channel an airflow towards a fan of the turbojet engine, and a middle structure comprising a casing (9) intended to surround the said fan and to which the air intake structure is... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP

20110033287 - Blower scroll having an aspirator venturi: A blower assembly for use with an HVAC module is provided. The blower assembly includes a scroll or volute shaped housing having an air inlet in a wall of the housing for receiving air to be blown by an impeller, and an air outlet from which the blown air passes... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20110033289 - Bypass-type motor protecting device for a vacuum cleaner: A bypass-type motor protecting device includes: a casing fitted into a bypass opening in a body housing of a vacuum cleaner and having an inner abutment wall; a seat body having a bypass entry port; a valve body unit movable within the casing relative to the bypass entry port and... Agent: The Mueller Law Office, P.C.

20110033288 - Omnidirectional vertical-axis wind turbine: A two-stage, omnidirectional vertical axis wind turbine includes a first chamber in which a plurality of angularly spaced horns guide wind from any side of the wind turbine into a chamber to rotate a first rotor. Wind exiting the first rotor passes through a diverter to produce laminar flow. A... Agent: George A. Herbster

20110033290 - Strut for an intermediate turbine housing, intermediate turbine housing, and method for producing an intermediate turbine housing: The present invention relates to a strut for a turbine center frame of a jet engine, in particular a gas turbine, with a first end for disposition on an internal structure of the turbine center frame and a second end opposite the first end for attaching the strut on a... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20110027065 - Axial compressor vane: A gas turbine engine axial compressor vane is disclosed having an aperture capable of flowing a relatively high pressure working fluid to change a direction of a flow vector downstream of the vane. The relatively high pressure working fluid can originate from a compressor discharge. The vane may have any... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20110027061 - Method for braking a rotor of a turbine engine and a turning gear for driving the rotor of a turbine engine: The invention relates to a method for braking a rotor of a turbine engine, comprising a turning gear, with a drive supplied from an energy source, having an input shaft to which the rotor may be coupled, whereby, during a cooling phase for the turbine, the rotor may be driven... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20110027066 - Method of controlling turbine equipment and turbine equipment: To provide a method of controlling a turbine equipment and a turbine equipment capable of carrying out a starting operation of controlling a load applied to a speed reducing portion while complying with a restriction imposed on an apparatus provided at a turbine equipment. The invention is characterized in including... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20110027062 - System and method for improved wind capture: A system for improved fluid capture comprises a first vertical turbine. A first radial vane support module comprises a first vertical pole and a second vertical pole and is disposed adjacent to the first vertical turbine. The first radial vane support module comprises a first radial vane storage module coupled... Agent: The Caldwell Firm, LLC

20110027064 - System and method for modifying rotor thrust: A gas turbine includes a compressor, a turbine downstream of the compressor having stators, and a rotor connecting the compressor to the turbine. The rotor includes rotor cavities. A supply plenum containing a process by-product gas and a control valve is connected to at least one of the rotor cavities... Agent: Dority & Manning, PA And General Electric Company

20110027063 - System and method for online monitoring of corrosion of gas turbine components: A system and method capable of performing online corrosion monitoring of a component installed in a gas turbine. A sensing device is located so that electrodes thereof are exposed to an operating environment within the gas turbine section containing the component. The electrodes are formed of a material so that... Agent: Hartman & Hartman, P.C.

20110027067 - Coated shrouded wind turbine: A wind turbine has an impeller surrounded by a shroud. The shroud includes an interior surface and an exterior surface. The surface is coated with a silicone polyurethane polymer. The resulting surface has reduced surface energy, and can shed rain, snow, and ice more easily.... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20110027068 - System and method for clearance control in a rotary machine: A system includes a turbine casing including a first hook configured to mate with a second hook to support a turbine shroud about a plurality of turbine blades. The turbine casing includes a coolant circuit configured to adjust clearance between the turbine shroud and the turbine blades based on coolant... Agent: Ge Energy-global Patent Operation Fletcher Yoder PC

20110027069 - Hybrid tesla-pelton wheel disc turbine: Utility Model Patent for a hybrid turbine that consists in a Tesla turbine improved with the replacement partial or total of its smooth discs by innovative discs called ‘Pelton type discs (2)’. The parts of the Tesla turbine are: stator, shaft, inlet, exhaust outlet (4) and smooth discs (2). The... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk

20110027070 - Systems and methods for reducing noise from jet engine exhaust: An aircraft jet engine with a longitudinal axis, including a wall enclosing a gas flow ejected from a downstream end of the wall in the longitudinal axis, plural ducts being distributed around the periphery of the downstream end of the wall each including a terminal section, including an outlet opening.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20110027071 - Multi-stage inducer for centrifugal pumps: An inducer assembly comprising at least two sets of rotating and non-rotating helical inducer vanes. As the fluid enters the inducer, the fluid moves up through a first set of rotating vanes, and gains rotational momentum. The fluid then enters a second set of non-rotating vanes that use the rotational... Agent: Silversky Group LLC

20110027072 - Bypass system for purging air from a submersible pump: A submersible pump, and method of making the submersible pump, is disclosed. The pump comprises a housing, a plurality of impeller stages serially disposed in the housing from a bottom impeller stage to a top impeller stage, an impeller bypass hole extending through one of the impeller stages and a... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20110027074 - Securing element and exhaust gas turbocharger having variable turbine geometry: A securing element includes a head section and a shank. The cross-section of the shank changes in the axial direction in such a way that, by taking into account a qualitative and/or quantitative predetermined bending torque profile in the shank, the cross-section has a substantially uniform bending stress profile in... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20110027073 - Variable geometry turbine: A variable geometry turbine comprises: a turbine wheel mounted within a housing assembly for rotation about a turbine axis, the housing assembly defining a radial gas flow inlet passage; an annular wall member defining one wall of the inlet passage and which is displaceable in a direction substantially parallel to... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20110027075 - Ventilation fan: A ventilation fan includes a rotor holder rotating around a rotation axis, an impeller cup including a plurality of blades provided on an outer circumference thereof, and a base portion arranged to rotatably support the rotor holder through a bearing portion. The base portion includes an outer circumferential wall extending... Agent: Nidec Corporation C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20110027076 - Counter rotation inducer housing: An inducer with an exterior housing and/or interior hub that incorporates grooves or vanes that are helical in nature and in counter rotation with respect to the rotation of the blades of the inducer, which grooves or vanes capture fluid rotating with the inducer blades and use that rotation to... Agent: Silversky Group LLC

20110027077 - Shaftless centrifugal pump: A centrifugal pump has impellers that are not connected by a central shaft. More specifically, each of the impellers has a separate hub segment that interlocks with an adjacent hub segment from another impeller. The hub segments are rotated in unison with each other to rotate the impellers.... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20110027078 - Blower: The present invention discloses a blower comprising: a snail-shaped base, a snail-shaped cover, blades and a motor, wherein the snail-shaped base and the snail-shaped cover form a exhaust channel, the blades are horizontally provided in the exhaust channel, the snail-shaped cover above the blades is provided with an air intake... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts