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Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps April category listing, related patent applications 04/11

20110097188 - Structure and method for improving film cooling using shallow trench with holes oriented along length of trench: A turbine airfoil includes a plurality of shallow trenches. Each trench includes a plurality of film holes disposed within and located along the lengthwise direction of the trench and angled through an airfoil substrate in the lengthwise direction of the trench.... Agent: General Electric Company

20110097189 - Boundary layer effect turbine: Described herein are embodiments of a boundary layer effect turbine and a hydrodynamic speed reducer. Described is a boundary layer effect turbine that utilizes the phenomena of the boundary layer to drive a turbine impeller that is made of a plurality of spaced disks oriented along a rotatable shaft. As... Agent:

20110097190 - Rotation device: The invention relates to a rotation device, such as a pump or a hydromotor of the rotating type, wherein a rotation-symmetrical rotor bounds at least two rotor channels together with radial baffles. The rotor comprises two generally goblet-shaped dishes, the innermost dish of which is stiffened by a first stiffening... Agent: Bronswerk Radiax Technology B.v.

20110097191 - Method and structure for cooling airfoil surfaces using asymmetric chevron film holes: A film-cooled turbine structure is configured with one or more asymmetric chevron film cooling holes for improving film cooling for a variety of airfoil surfaces or airfoil regions, particularly in regions and applications where the surface fluid streamline curvature is significant.... Agent: General Electric Company

20110097192 - Pyrometer with spatial resolution: A pyrometer for gas turbines is provided. Incident thermal radiation is split between a plurality of optical wave guides by a reflection prism and a lens according to regions on the surface of a turbine blade. The pyrometer is built into the wall of the turbine without protruding and enables... Agent:

20110097193 - Device for reducing vibration generated by rotorcraft rotor, and rotorcraft provided with such device: A device (10) for reducing vibration of a main rotor (1) having a support (20) and a plurality of heavy elements (30) and of rollers (50). Each heavy element (30) includes two first openings (31) respectively at least partially in registration with two second openings (22) of the support (20.... Agent: Eurocopter

20110097194 - Radial compressor: A radial compressor for a turbo charger has a housing with an inflow passage and a spiral passage. A compressor wheel is supported rotatably in the housing. The housing has at least two housing parts between which a cavity is formed. At least one opening is provided in the inflow... Agent: Mann+hummel Gmbh

20110097195 - Heat dissipating fan: A heat dissipating fan includes a housing having a base and a sidewall coupled to the base. The sidewall defines a compartment. The housing further includes an air inlet, an air outlet, and a dust channel. The air inlet, the air outlet, and the dust channel are in communication with... Agent:

20110097196 - Air discharge system for an aeronautical turbine engine compressor: The invention relates to an air discharge system for an aviation turbomachine compressor, the discharge system including at least one discharge valve (10) each valve comprising a valve body suitable for moving between an open position and a closed position of the discharge valve, a camshaft (22) comprising a cylindrical... Agent: Snecma

20110097197 - Nozzle assembly of variable geometry turbocharger: According to the present invention, it is possible to achieve improved durability by improving the connection structure of operation links and a control ring to reduce friction and wear between the operation links and the control ring, facilitate manufacturing by simple configuration and structure, and achieve silent and stable operation... Agent: Hyundai Motor Company

20110097198 - Turbo machine efficiency equalizer system: A system for a turbo machine is provided, including one or more channels that redirect steam that leaks through the root and/or the tip regions of a stage of the turbine to mix with the high efficiency main steam flow at the pitch region of the turbine where efficiency is... Agent: General Electric Company

20110097199 - System and method to insulate turbines and associated piping: An insulation system includes at least one turbine insulation compartment configured to enclose at least a portion of a turbine; an insulation storage compartment configured to store a supply of insulation; a plurality of first pipes that connect to the turbine insulation compartment and the insulation storage compartment; and a... Agent:

20110097200 - Wind power turbine: A wind power turbine includes a frame, a drag-type fan unit and a lift-type fan unit. The frame has a base, a shaft, an electricity generator and a plurality of air-guiding vans. The air-guiding vans are disposed on the base, and the shaft has one end connected to the electricity... Agent:

20110097201 - Steam turbine casing system: The disclosure relates to a steam turbine outer casing that can be at least partially cast out of a first material and has a plurality of support regions adapted to support an inner casing. The outer casing can be at least one support region that has a metal insert, made... Agent: Alstom Technology Ltd

20110097202 - Paneling of a nacelle of a wind energy installation: A paneling (30) of a nacelle (12) of a wind energy installation (10), in which an upturned panel ceiling (40) is provided in installation position, is created with a hatch opening (46), that is provided in the panel ceiling (40). The hatch opening (46) is advantageously provided so large, that... Agent: Multibrid Gmbh

20110097204 - Turbine engine with diffuser: A turbomachine including an annular combustion chamber; a centrifugal compressor; an annular diffuser with a radially oriented upstream portion presenting diffusion passages connected to the outlet of the compressor; a curved intermediate portion; and a downstream portion having a series of circularly spaced-apart deflector vanes. The turbomachine also includes an... Agent: Snecma

20110097203 - Turbo machinery: Turbo machinery comprising an impeller and a diffuser positioned on a downstream side of the impeller that a channel wall surface of the diffuser is composed of a pair of a shroud side diffuser plate and a hub side diffuser plate which surface each other and a channel width is... Agent: Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.

20110097205 - Turbine airfoil-sidewall integration: An arrangement for turbine bucket or nozzle airfoils that accounts for the radial variation of inlet flow angle with the boundary layer of flow adjacent to the inner and outer sidewalls. Local chambering of the airfoil sections in the region of the sidewalls provides an airfoil and fillet with an... Agent: General Electric Company

20110097206 - Annular flange for fastening a rotor or stator element: A radial annular flange of a rotor or stator element of a turbomachine including, at an inner/outer periphery, alternating solid portions and hollow portions, the solid portions including orifices for passing fastener bolts. The flange in the bottom of at least one hollow portion has a radius relative to the... Agent: Snecma

20110091310 - Thermomechanical part constituting a body of revolution about a longitudinal axis and including at least one abradable ring for a sealing labyrinth: The invention relates to a turbomachine thermomechanical part forming a body of revolution about a longitudinal axis, and including at least one abradable ring for a labyrinth seal. In characteristic manner, the abradable ring is made up of angular sectors that present different stiffnesses between adjacent pairs of sectors. The... Agent: Snecma

20110091311 - High efficiency turbine system: The present invention is a high efficiency turbine system which can increase a pressure differential between an upstream location and a downstream location. The turbine system includes a propeller attached to a shaft, which can both be located in a shroud. The shroud includes a projection, such as a brim,... Agent: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America

20110091312 - Maintenance system of helical turbine: Disclosed is an assembled helical turbine system, which can prevent its assembly/disassembly from being hindered by a rotational force generated during the assembly/disassembly process. The assembled helical turbine system includes a helical turbine formed with a plurality of blades in such a manner as to continuously generate a rotational force... Agent:

20110091313 - Fan assembly with vibration absorbing member: A fan assembly includes a chassis and a fan bracket secured in the chassis. The chassis has a bottom wall. The fan bracket includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall perpendicular to the bottom wall, and it is configured for securing the fans. A securing flange extends from an... Agent: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

20110091314 - Fan structure: f

20110091316 - Fan assembly with snap-on cover: An exemplary fan assembly includes a fan and a snap-on cover. The fan includes a bracket and an impeller disposed in the bracket. The cover includes a base body, a number of first clasps extending outwardly from a first side of the base body, a number of retaining clasps extending... Agent: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.

20110091315 - Fan with pressurizing structure: A fan with pressurizing structure includes a rotor having a main body, blades spaced on the main body, a magnetic body annularly mounted in the main body, and a shaft axially connected to an inner side of the main body; a frame having a sleeve and at least one bearing... Agent: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.

20110091317 - Fairing device for nacelle of an aircraft propulsion power unit: A nacelle, a part of which is the fairing device, surrounds a gas turbine engine (4) and a support pylon (7) on an aircraft fuselage (15). The pylon extends into a substantially horizontal plane of symmetry containing the longitudinal axis of the propulsion power unit (1), and comprises a central... Agent: Snecma

20110091318 - Turbine housing for an exhaust gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine: In a turbine housing for an exhaust gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine with at least one spiral channel, which can be coupled into an exhaust gas flow of an exhaust tract of the internal combustion engine, and a receiving space for a turbine wheel which is disposed downstream... Agent:

20110091319 - Centrifugal water pump: A centrifugal water pump for use in a diesel engine cooling system provides an improved water pump construction including multiple features which combine to provide increased operating life for the supporting and wearing components of the pump. The improvements include one or more of: a water seal system is provided... Agent: Vrc, Inc.

20110091320 - Circulating pump: In order to provide a circulating pump, comprising a stator, a rotor, a bearing device with a convex bearing member and at least one concave bearing shell, via which the rotor is mounted for rotation, and an impeller which is connected non-rotatably to the rotor, which has improved lubrication possibilities... Agent: Itt Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.

20110085887 - High temperature radially fed axial steam turbine: The disclosure relates to a radially fed axial steam turbine with a cold inlet duct, axially displaced from a hot inlet duct such that is it further away from a first blade row than the hot inlet duct. The cold inlet duct receives a cold steam from a cold inlet... Agent: Alstom Technology Ltd

20110085886 - System and method for cooling steam turbine rotors: A steam turbine includes a rotor having a plurality of early stages and a stator portion surrounding a portion of the rotor and arranged such that a leakage region exists between the stator portion and the rotor and having a cooling steam channel that passes cooling steam from one portion... Agent: General Electric Company

20110085885 - Variable vane actuation system: A variable vane actuation system is disclosed herein. The variable vane actuation system includes a first vane having a first vane axis. The variable vane actuation system also includes an actuator operably engaged with the first vane to selectively pivot the first vane about the first vane axis. The variable... Agent:

20110085888 - Sealing arrangement for use with gas turbine engine: A sealing member has a first portion. The first portion has a central axis, a first peripheral surface extending in a direction parallel to the central axis, and a central aperture. A first wall portion of a groove has a recess communicated with the first opening of the first channel.... Agent: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

20110085889 - Mechanism for attenuating torque pulsations between an engine and a rotorcraft rotor driven by the engine: The invention provides a mechanism for attenuating torque pulsations between an engine (2) and a rotor (1) of a rotorcraft. Torsion means (5) are interposed between the driving and driven shafts and comprise a torsion shaft (6) axially engaged with the drive shaft (3) and the driven shaft (4) an... Agent: Eurocopter

20110085890 - Harmonization of multiple gear train configurations: A gear arrangement is disclosed herein. The gear arrangement includes a housing. The gear arrangement also includes a plurality of gears at least partially disposed in the housing and engaged with respect to one another. The gear arrangement also includes a support post mounted to the housing. The support post... Agent:

20110085891 - Variable capacity turbine: There is provided a variable capacity turbine that is capable of suppressing separation from an outer peripheral face of an involute dividing wall at an inlet portion of an outer scroll, enhancing performance, and increasing a flow rate. The variable capacity turbine includes: a turbine housing having an involuted scroll... Agent:

20110085892 - Vortex chambers for clearance flow control: An apparatus is provided and includes a first member with a flow diverting member extending from a surface thereof and a second member disposed proximate to the first member with a clearance gap area defined between a surface of the second member and a distal end of the flow diverting... Agent: General Electric Company

20110085893 - Countoured honeycomb seal for a turbomachine: A turbomachine includes a housing having an inner surface, a compressor, a turbine and a rotary member including a plurality of blade members configured as part of one of the compressor and the turbine. Each of the plurality of blade members includes a base portion and a tip portion. The... Agent: General Electric Company

20110085894 - Gas turbine with a stator blade: A gas turbine with a stator blade is disclosed. The stator blade is fastened on a blade carrier and includes a blade airfoil which extends inwards in the radial direction from an outer platform into a hot gas passage. A cooling medium can flow through an interior of the blade... Agent: Alstom Technology Ltd

20110085895 - Oil tube with integrated heat shield: A gas turbine engine has an oil tube for delivering oil through a high temperature zone of the engine to an engine component for cooling and lubrication. An insulation tube surrounds the oil tube and extends in a substantial length of the oil tube. The opposed ends of the insulation... Agent: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.

20110085897 - Casing comprising a peripheral shroud for a turbomachine rotor: The present invention relates to a casing (5) for a rotor of a turbomachine, more particularly for a fan (1) of a turbojet engine (2), comprising a peripheral shroud (6) designed to form a clamping collar around the casing, characterized in that the shroud has at least one fitting (12,... Agent: Aircelle

20110085896 - Casing for a moving-blade wheel of turbomachine: A casing for a turbomachine rotor wheel includes a plurality of circumferential grooves, each of substantially constant section, with the section areas of the circumferential grooves decreasing from upstream to downstream on going from the first groove to the last groove. By treating the casing in this way, the efficiency... Agent: Snecma

20110085898 - Vertical axis turbine foils: Geometries of foil shapes that act particularly well to increase the power output of adjacent vertical axis turbines are presented.... Agent:

20110085899 - Shroud assembly with discourager: A turbine shroud assembly is disclosed, the shroud assembly including an outer shroud, at least one inner shroud attached to the outer shroud, and at least one discourager enclosed within the inner shroud. The discourager prevents the hot gas or steam in the turbine from having a direct line of... Agent: General Electric Company

20110085900 - Housing for a compressor of a gas turbine, compressor, and method for producing a housing segment of a compressor housing: The invention at hand relates to a housing for a compressor of a gas turbine, in particular of an aircraft gas turbine, with an external housing with at least one air supply opening and an interior housing formed by at least two housing segments, with the housing segments having at... Agent: Mtu Aero Engines Gmbh

20110085901 - Shrouded wind turbine with scalloped lobes: A shrouded wind turbine comprises an impeller and a turbine shroud surrounding the impeller. The shroud includes alternating inward and outward curving elements that form mixing elements on a trailing edge of the turbine shroud. The inward and outward curving elements have exposed lateral surfaces, or in other words do... Agent:

20110085902 - Low-noise ported-shroud compressor for a turbocharger: Various embodiments of ported-shroud centrifugal compressors are described. In some embodiments a wall of a compressor housing defines a pair of bulb-shaped hollow spaces or “bulbs”, one located proximate the compressor wheel and the other spaced upstream from the wheel, and having a connection therebetween. The downstream bulb is connected... Agent: Honeywell International, Inc.

20110085903 - Omnidirectional electric fan: The present invention relates to wind supply devices, particularly to an omnidirectional electric fan, comprising a support frame, characterized in that a support ring is movably connected to the support frame, and a fan body is movably connected in the support ring so as to turn to left and right... Agent: Jiangmen Keye Electrical & Mechanical Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

20110085904 - Divided turbomachine housing having optimized parting line flanges: A turbomachine housing having a parting line is provided. The turbomachine housing has a first housing part with a first parting line bead, which is implemented on the parting line, a second housing part with a second parting line bead which is implemented on the parting line, and a plurality... Agent:

20110081226 - Method for operating a wind turbine: The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a wind turbine with the steps: detection of the values of predetermined operating parameters by means of suitable sensors, detection of at least one predetermined initial condition, comparison of the detected values to stored values of the operating parameters. The disclosure... Agent:

20110081227 - Impactor containment: An impactor containment system including a laminate material, the laminate material having a face sheet, a cellular filling providing a crushable layer one side of which layer is arranged on the face sheet, and a stiff backing layer arranged on other side of the crushable layer, wherein the face sheet... Agent: Rolls-royce PLC

20110081228 - Interturbine vane with multiple air chambers: A gas turbine engine has a mid turbine frame disposed between turbine rotor assemblies. The mid turbine frame includes hollow airfoils radially extending through an annular gas path duct. The airfoils each include a double-walled leading edge structure to define a front chamber separated from a rear chamber defined in... Agent: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.

20110081229 - Method for attaching a connector to deposited material: A method for attaching a connector to deposited material includes the steps of depositing material on a substrate using a thin- or thick-film deposition process and attaching at least one connector to the deposited material using a high energy beam welding process.... Agent: General Electric Company

20110081230 - Method for forming a pressure measurement hole in a component: A method for forming a pressure measurement hole in a component includes the step of forming a hole in a body of the component, the hole extending from a body surface of the component. An insert having a longitudinal passage is fitted into the hole such that the insert protrudes... Agent: Rolls-royce PLC

20110081231 - Pump bearing arrangement: A pump bearing arrangement, suitable particularly for rapidly rotating pumps such as turbomolecular pumps, comprises a pump rotor (10) con-nected to a rotor shaft. The rotor shaft (14) is supported in a shaft housing (20) by two bearing arrangements (12). Each bearing arrangement (12) has an inner bearing ring (16)... Agent: Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum Gmbh

20110081232 - Enhanced axial air mover system with grill: Implementations of an enhanced axial air mover system address various issues such as drying performance, transportability, storage, use, and assembly. Some implementations include ergonomic positioning of a carrying handle relative to positioning of a fan-assembly to make the system easier to carry. Enclosures with variable diameter profiles increase air flow... Agent:

20110081233 - Enhanced axial air mover system with matrix: Implementations of an enhanced axial air mover system address various issues such as drying performance, transportability, storage, use, and assembly. Some implementations include ergonomic positioning of a carrying handle relative to positioning of a fan-assembly to make the system easier to carry. Enclosures with variable diameter profiles increase air flow... Agent:

20110081234 - Gas turbine engine thermal expansion joint: A thermal expansion joint apparatus includes an insert extending passages passing through respective first and second components to loosely restrain the first component between the second component and an enlarged head of the insert thereby allowing thermal expansion of the respective first and second components relative to each other. The... Agent: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.

20110081235 - Turbine engine alloys and crystalline orientations: A method is provided for engineering a single crystal cast gas turbine engine first component for cooperating with a second component. An at least local first operational stress on the first component is determined. The first operational stress has a first direction. A crystal orientation within the component or a... Agent: United Technologies Corporation

20110081236 - Static seal: The static seal (30) includes a rotary seal body (32) comprising an annular base portion (34) which is drivingly mountable on a rotary component such as a shaft and an annular cantilever portion (40) connected at one end to the base portion (34). The seal (30) 5 further includes a... Agent:

20110081237 - Sealing for vane segments: A seal housing is provided to substantially cover at least one duct wall of vane array duct of a gas turbine engine, and one example arrangement is employed in a mid-turbine frame. The arrangement provides improved sealing of the vane array duct through the provision of a plurality of cavities... Agent: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.

20110081238 - Gas turbine engine sheet metal vane: A gas turbine engine stator vane has a sheet metal body with a pressure surface and a suction surface extending chordwise from a leading edge to a trailing edge. The sheet metal body has opposed pressure and suction side trailing end portions that meet at a joint upstream from the... Agent:

20110081239 - Fabricated static vane ring: A strut configuration of a static vane ring used in a gas turbine engine having an enlarged end section at least at one of the opposed ends thereof to be welded or brazed to either an outer or inner duct wall of the vane ring. The enlarged end section provides... Agent: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.

20110081240 - Fabricated gas turbine vane ring: A static vane ring for gas turbine engines includes a plurality of radial struts extending between and interconnecting outer and inner duct walls which define an annular duct therebetween. A load transfer apparatus is attached to at least one of the outer and inner duct walls to transfer load from... Agent: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.

20110081241 - Enhanced axial air mover system with floor edge: Implementations of an enhanced axial air mover system address various issues such as drying performance, transportability, storage, use, and assembly. Some implementations include ergonomic positioning of a carrying handle relative to positioning of a fan-assembly to make the system easier to carry. Enclosures with variable diameter profiles increase air flow... Agent:

20110081242 - Enhanced axial air mover system with enclosure profile: Implementations of an enhanced axial air mover system address various issues such as drying performance, transportability, storage, use, and assembly. Some implementations include ergonomic positioning of a carrying handle relative to positioning of a fan-assembly to make the system easier to carry. Enclosures with variable diameter profiles increase air flow... Agent: