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20110236178 - Branched airfoil core cooling arrangement: An example airfoil cooling arrangement includes a airfoil wall having a first face and a second face opposite the first face. The airfoil wall establishes a channel that is configured to communicate fluid between an inlet aperture and an outlet aperture. The channel includes secondary portion that branch from a... Agent:

20110236180 - Gas driven rotation motor, a tool provided with a gas driven rotation motor and a method for regulating speed of a gas driven rotation motor: A gas driven motor includes a housing, a gas driven rotating member including a rotor and a rotor shaft carrying the rotor and journalled in a first bearing and a second bearing supported in the housing, and a speed governor for controlling a pressure gas inlet flow in response to... Agent: Atlas Copco Tools Ab

20110236179 - Seal clearance control on non-cowled gas turbine engines: A method for controlling turbine blade tip seal clearance on a non-cowled gas turbine engine includes the step of directing a flow of relatively hot, pressurized air in contact with an exterior surface of the engine core casing circumscribing the turbine. The flow of relatively hot, pressurized air may be... Agent: United Technologies Corporation

20110236177 - Steam seal system: The present application provides a variable steam seal system for use with a steam turbine. The variable steam seal system may include a seal steam header, a first pressure section, a first pressure seal positioned about the first pressure section, and a flow path through the first pressure seal and... Agent: General Electric Company

20110236181 - Vertical axis wind turbine: A vertical axis wind turbine comprises upper and lower rotor blades and upper and lower bearing assemblies. Horizontal members connect the upper rotor blades to the upper bearing assembly and the lower blades connect the upper rotor blades to the lower bearing assembly. The upper rotor blades can be arranged... Agent: The Arizona Board Of Regents On Behalf Of The University Of Arizona

20110236182 - Control of blade tip-to-shroud leakage in a turbine engine by directed plasma flow: An electrode (54) in the tip (31) of a turbine or compressor blade (30), and a series of electrodes (68) in a shroud (36, 64) that surrounds a rotation path (33) of the blade tip. As the blade tip reaches each shroud electrode, a controller (74) activates an electrical potential... Agent:

20110236183 - Bimetallic spline seal: A spline seal for a hot gas path component is provided. The spline seal may include a first metal layer and a second metal layer. The first metal layer may have a first volumetric thermal expansion coefficient. The second metal layer may be disposed adjacent the first metal layer and... Agent: General Electric Company

20110236184 - Axial compressor for a gas turbine having passive radial gap control: An axial compressor for a gas turbine having passive radial gap control is provided. The axial compressor includes a guide vane support on which guide vanes are fastened so as to be arranged in a ring, wherein the vane tips of the guide vanes lie opposite a wall section. Thermal... Agent:

20110236187 - 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:

20110236185 - Interstage seal: An interstage seal is provided for installation between forward and aft stage discs of a turbine section of a gas turbine engine. The seal has a forward annular portion, which extends forward to contribute to an air seal at the outer periphery of the forward stage disc, and an aft... Agent: Rolls-royce PLC

20110236186 - Wind turbine and a pitch bearing for a wind turbine: A wind turbine includes a rotor having at least one wind turbine blade connected to a rotor hub through at least one blade pitch bearing. The pitch bearing includes at least one outer ring, at least one centre ring and at least one inner ring. The pitch bearing has a... Agent: Vestas Wind Systems A/s

20110236188 - Blade outer seal for a gas turbine engine: A blade outer air seal for a gas turbine engine is provided. The blade outer air seal includes a body having an outer radial surface, an inner radial surface, and a plurality of cooling air apertures. The body extends between a forward edge and an aft edge. The inner radial... Agent: United Technologies Corporation

20110236189 - Rotor oscillation preventing structure and steam turbine using the same: A rotor oscillation preventing structure for a steam turbine includes: a stator vane 3; a moving blade 1; a shroud cover 2 installed on an outer circumferential side distal end of the moving blade 1; and a plurality of seal fins 6 installed, at any interval in the axial direction... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110236192 - Compressor housing resistant to titanium fire, high-pressure compressor including such a housing and aircraft engine fitted with such a compressor: A compressor housing resistant to a titanium fire (burning titanium). A mixed housing is constructed, in which a structure holding stator blades includes a single-cast part made from titanium or titanium alloy, and at least one element forming a shield made from refractory alloy(s), and which is incombustible in presence... Agent: Snecma

20110236191 - Exhaust-gas turbocharger: An exhaust-gas turbocharger includes a bearing flange for securement of the exhaust-gas turbocharger to a bearing housing of a turbine wheel. The bearing flange is provided with an outer circumferential fin having a base portion which terminates in a free end. The base portion is defined by a width which... Agent: Benteler Automobiltechnik Gmbh

20110236190 - Turbine rotor wheel: A rotor wheel is provided and includes a body having first and second opposing faces and portions recessed from a plane of the first face to define therein an annular groove and a plurality of tributary grooves, the annular groove being receptive of fluid from an external source and formed... Agent: General Electric Company

20110236193 - Turbocharger bearing lubrication: A turbocharger assembly includes a turbocharger housing, an elongated cylindrical center housing, a turbine in a turbine housing, a compressor in a compressor housing and a bearing assembly on a rotary shaft. The bearing assembly including balls, ball retainers, an inner and outer ring with raceways thereon, a lubrication port... Agent: Schaeffler Technologies Gmbh & Co. Kg

20110236195 - Compressor: In a compressor including stator blades 4 circumferentially mounted to an inner circumferential surface side of a casing 6 forming a annular path; and an inner barrel 7 supported by the casing and arranged on the radially inside of the stator blade as a partition wall on the radial side... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110236194 - Fan apparatus with air duct: An air duct includes a cover and two adjusting pieces. The cover includes a top board and two end boards extending downwards from two opposite ends of the top board. The cover defines an air outlet in a front of the cover and an air intake in a rear of... Agent: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

20110236196 - Turbo-molecular pump: In a turbomolecular pump, in connection with a dimensionless number X that is the ratio of an inter-vane distance S to a chord length C for moving vane blades of rotor impeller (4B) and stationary vane blades of stator impeller (2B), with dimensionless numbers at the outer circumferential portion and... Agent: Shimadzu Corporation

20110236197 - Flow guide structure for an exhaust gas turbine: In a flow guide structure for an exhaust gas turbine of a turbocharger including a support ring and a contoured casing which are disposed at a distance from one another by means of spacer elements and between which adjustable guide vanes are rotatably supported, the contoured casing being disposed in... Agent:

20110236198 - Twin scroll exhaust gas turbocharger: A twin scroll exhaust gas turbocharger for an internal-combustion engine, includes a turbine housing and a first and a second gas inlet port separated from one another by the turbine housing. The inlet ports lead into a first and a second spiral duct, respectively, which extend radially on the outside... Agent: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

20110236200 - Gas turbine engine with non-axisymmetric surface contoured vane platform: A vane segment for a gas turbine engine according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes an inner vane platform relative an axis, the inner vane platform having a non-axisymmetric surface contour.... Agent:

20110236199 - Nozzle segment with reduced weight flange: A nozzle segment for a gas turbine engine includes a flange which extends from a vane platform, the flange includes a hollow cavity.... Agent:

20110236201 - Method and apparatus for radial exhaust gas turbine: A radial exhaust gas turbine apparatus has a gas turbine engine that includes a radial exhaust diffuser section and a casing apparatus consisting essentially of polygonal walls, substantially straight plates, and substantially straight sidewalls. The casing apparatus encloses the radial exhaust diffuser section and is configured to direct at least... Agent:

20110236202 - Casing structure: Provided is a casing structure including: an annular seal member which is disposed at a connection portion between first and second casings to keep air-tightness between an internal space formed by connecting the first and second casings to each other and an outside of the internal space; a first screw... Agent:

20110236203 - Ring segment positioning member: A positioning member for presenting a ring segment for a turbine wheel mounted to rotate about an axis inside a casing. The member presents: a fastener portion for fastening to the casing; a resilient portion forming a spring; and a bearing portion connected to the resilient portion and serving to... Agent: Turbomeca

20110236204 - Method of manufacturing rotor assembly, rotor assembly, and turbo compressor: A method of manufacturing a rotor assembly in which a first impeller and a second impeller are fixed to a rotation shaft which is supported by a bearing so as to be rotatable, the method including: fixing the second impeller to the rotation shaft; fitting and fixing a sleeve to... Agent:

20110236205 - Sealing mechanism with bellows and steam turbine provided with the sealing mechanism: Providing a sealing mechanism provided with bellows-joints, the sealing mechanism being manufactured without surplus time and labor; thereby, the natural frequencies regarding the sealing mechanism surrounding a to-be-sealed shaft body are easily handled. Around a rotor shaft 26 of a steam turbine 10, between an outer turbine casing 12 and... Agent:

20110229301 - Active tip clearance control for shrouded gas turbine blades and related method: A turbine bucket tip clearance control system includes a rotor assembly having a rotor supporting a plurality of axially spaced wheels, each wheel mounting an annular row of buckets, the annular row of buckets on at least one of the plurality of axially-spaced wheels having a radially outer tip shroud... Agent: General Electric Company

20110229300 - Apparatus and method for individual pitch control in wind turbines: In a method for blade load reduction control of a rotor of a wind turbine, the rotor includes a plurality of blades, and a pitch angle of each blade is controllable by an actuator. The method includes measuring mechanical load parameters on the rotor, providing control for a collective pitch... Agent: Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland

20110229303 - Method for operating a multistage compressor: A method for operating a multistage compressor is provided. The method includes monitoring the pump limit, wherein at least a first measurement parameter measured during operation is compared to a reference parameter. The reference parameter is characteristic of reaching the surge limit or a specific distance of the operating point... Agent:

20110229302 - Wind 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/water turbines for potential power generation improvements of 50% and above. Applicants' preferred MEWT embodiment comprises: an aerodynamically contoured turbine... Agent: Flodesign Wind Turbine Corp.

20110229304 - Vertical axis wind turbine system: A wind turbine system utilizes three vertical shaft rotor units, each rotor unit consisting of three blades. The rotor units are synchronized such that the blades of each unit are maintained at twenty degree intervals, so as to capture head on wind at maximum efficiency. The front rotor unit comprises... Agent:

20110229305 - Cover plate for turbine vane assembly: Embodiments of a cover plate and material blank for forming the cover plate may include features and characteristics to accommodate tolerance issues in a turbine vane assembly. In one embodiment, the cover plate is formed from a material blank configured to provide the cover plate with a flexible flange area... Agent: Pratt & Whitney

20110229306 - Rotor blade tip clearance control: A gas turbine engine has a row of circumferentially spaced rotor blades and a plurality of seal segments circumscribing the rotor blade tips and attached to a radially inward side of a casing of the engine. The seal segments are spaced from the casing by a spacing cavity. A flow... Agent: Rolls-royce PLC

20110229307 - Optical monitoring system for a turbine engine: The monitoring system for a gas turbine engine including a viewing tube assembly having an inner end and an outer end. The inner end is located adjacent to a hot gas flow path within the gas turbine engine and the outer end is located adjacent to an outer casing of... Agent:

20110229308 - Centrifugal pump having an apparatus for the removal of particles: A centrifugal pump (1, 110) includes an apparatus for the removal of particles, wherein the centrifugal pump includes an impeller (6, 106). A fluid (2, 102) can be conveyed by means of the impeller (6, 106) through a suction passage (5, 105) from a suction stub (3, 103) to a... Agent: Sulzer Pumpen Ag

20110229309 - Lightweight stow abort mechanism: A ram air turbine (RAT) includes a movable turbine support structure that is prevented from moving to a stowed position by a stow abort mechanism when turbine blades are not locked in a desired position. The stow abort mechanism includes a pawl that is driven by a cam on a... Agent:

20110229310 - System for controlling variable geometry equipment of a gas turbine engine particularly comprising a barrel link: A system for controlling at least two variable geometry apparatuses of a gas turbine engine that includes at least a first body and a second body, the first apparatus including a stator blade stage with a variable setting angle of a compressor of the first body capable of switching between... Agent: Snecma

20110229312 - Rolling bearing assembly and wind turbine equipped therewith: A rolling bearing arrangement comprising two rings arranged concentrically and at least regionally one inside the other, and a gap between the rings, such that the rings are rotatable in opposite directions about an axis at the center of the rings and perpendicular to a ring plane, wherein at least... Agent:

20110229311 - Seal assembly: A seal assembly comprising a first movable stator member movable between a sealing position and a non-sealing position, a second fixed stator member, the first stator member being movable relative to the second stator member, the seal assembly further comprising at least one flexure member coupled to the second stator... Agent:

20110229313 - Thrust bearing cooling path: A compressor rotor compresses and delivers compressed air across a turbine rotor. The turbine rotor is connected to the compressor rotor such that rotation of the turbine rotor drives the compressor rotor. A shaft is connected to rotate with the turbine rotor and the compressor rotor. A thrust bearing is... Agent:

20110229315 - High efficiency rotor blades for a fluid turbine: A shrouded fluid turbine includes an impeller surrounded by a turbine shroud. The turbine shroud has a plurality of mixing lobes on a trailing edge, resulting in the trailing edge having a circular crenellated shape. An ejector shroud is located downstream of the turbine shroud, an inlet end of the... Agent:

20110229314 - High-pressure turbine for turbomachine, associated guide vane sector and aircraft engine: An assembling of a guide vane assembly of a turbomachine turbine, formed by an annular row of stationary flow-stabilizing vanes. An outer edge of the guide vane assembly is axially bearing on a line of an external casing of the turbine and an inner edge of the guide vane assembly... Agent: Snecma

20110229316 - Improved aeolian apparatus: The invention relates to an eolic silos (1) comprising, from the bottom toward the upper portion, or vice versa, a base (2), a body (1) and a turbine, said silos (1) providing n conducts for inlet of air, with n 2, a first outer conduct (3), with intake of air... Agent:

20110229317 - Hp turbine vane airfoil profile: A two-stage high pressure turbine includes a second stage vane having an airfoil with a profile substantially in accordance with at least an intermediate portion of the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Table 2. The X and Y values are distances, which when smoothly... Agent:

20110223003 - Oil cooled runner: An oil cooled runner, for a rotary seal between an engine case and a shaft rotationally mounted to the case, includes an annular runner ring having a platform with a radially outer seal engagement surface and a radially inner surface, and an oil distributor having a radially inner portion in... Agent:

20110223005 - Airfoil having built-up surface with embedded cooling passage: A component in a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil extending radially outwardly from a platform associated with the airfoil. The airfoil includes opposed pressure and suction sidewalls, which converge at a first location defined at a leading edge of the airfoil and at a second location defined at a... Agent:

20110223004 - Apparatus for cooling a platform of a turbine component: The present subject matter discloses a turbine component including a platform and an airfoil extending radially upward from the platform. A plurality of curved cooling passages may be defined in the platform. Each of the curved cooling passages may have at least one end disposed at an exterior surface of... Agent: General Electric Company

20110223006 - System, device, and method for noise-based operation of wind turbines: A method for use in operating a plurality of wind turbines is provided. An aggregate noise level at one or more geographic positions is calculated. The aggregate noise level is compared to a target noise level associated with the geographic position. When the aggregate noise level differs substantially from the... Agent:

20110223007 - Radial fan wheel arrangement: A radial fan wheel arrangement includes a circular bottom plate (2) and a circular cover plate (3) with a central inflow opening (4), as well as wheel blades (6) running between the bottom plate (2) and the cover plate (3). Pocket-shaped recesses (9) are configured at least on one side... Agent:

20110223008 - Turbine engine fan comprising a balancing system with blind holes for accommodating masses: A fan for an aircraft turbine engine, including an intake cone including a balancing system including a plurality of mass accommodation holes and at least one balancing mass mounted in one of the holes. The balancing system further includes an attachment mechanism exerting pressure that flattens the balancing mass against... Agent: Snecma

20110223010 - Device for sealing a bearing housing of an exhaust gas turbocharger: A device for sealing a bearing housing, which holds lubricating oil, from which a rotor supported inside the housing of an exhaust gas turbocharger is guided into a compressor housing, loadable by a mass flow of a charger. The device includes a fixed partition with a wall extension, a sealing... Agent: Abb Turbo Systems Ag

20110223009 - Pump assembly: A pump assembly with a rotatable rotor shaft (10), wherein the rotor shaft (10) includes at least one axial bearing (36, 40) and a radial bearing (30, 32), which are integrated into a common bearing assembly (16).... Agent: Grundfos Management A/s

20110223011 - Turbocharger with a bearing arrangement for mounting a rotor shaft: A turbocharger, which is particularly suitable for a motor vehicle, includes: a rotor shaft with a turbine impeller and a compressor impeller disposed thereon. The rotor shaft has a roller bearing assembly for mounting in the housing of the turbocharger.... Agent: Continental Automotive Gmbh

20110223012 - Turbine rotor assembly and steam turbine: A turbine moving blade cascade 30 of a turbine rotor assembly 35 has root portions of plural moving blades 13 fitted and held in a root groove circumferentially formed on the outer circumferential portion of a rotor disk 15 of a turbine rotor 14 and has a notch blade 40... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20110223013 - Reduced monobloc multistage drum of axial compressor: A rotor stage of an axial turbomachine compressor drum includes a symmetrical wall in rotation around the axis of rotation. The wall comprises a veil defining the general form of the drum and an annular area intended to support a row of vanes, the aforesaid area being integrally formed with... Agent:

20110223014 - Fan assembly: A fan assembly for creating an air current includes a nozzle mounted on a base. The base comprises an outer casing, an impeller housing located within the outer casing, the impeller housing having an air inlet and an air outlet, an impeller located within the impeller housing and a motor... Agent: Dyson Technology Limited

20110223015 - Fan: A fan assembly for creating an air current includes a bladeless fan assembly including a nozzle and a device for creating an air flow through the nozzle. The nozzle includes an interior passage and a mouth receiving the air flow from the interior passage. A Coanda surface located adjacent the... Agent: Dyson Technology Limited

20110223016 - Air circulator: An air circulator is disclosed comprising a mounting portion, and a fan portion. The fail portion includes a housing and a fan, and the fan portion is pivotally coupled to the mounting portion. The fan portion may be pivoted between a first position and a second position relative to the... Agent: Vornado Air, LLC

20110217155 - Cooling gas turbine components with seal slot channels: A segment of a component for use in a gas turbine includes a leading edge; a trailing edge; a pair of opposed lateral sides between the leading and trailing edges; and a seal slot provided in each lateral side. The seal slot includes a surface having a channel extending in... Agent:

20110217156 - Containment casing: A containment casing is provided comprising a radially outer layer; an intermediate energy absorbing layer, and a retention framework for retaining an aerofoil blade in the event of detachment of whole or part of the blade. The retention framework is distributed axially and circumferentially along the casing and extends substantially... Agent: Rolls-royce PLC

20110217157 - Control valve with radial seals: A control valve is provided that includes a valve body, a valve element, a first radial seal, and a second radial seal. The valve body forms an inlet, an outlet, and a fluid flow passage therebetween. The valve element is disposed at least partially within the valve body, and is... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20110217158 - Cooled turbine rim seal: A rim seal assembly includes an annular seal element circumscribing an engine centerline or axis and mounted on an annular platform including a radially inwardly extending annular platform flange disposed between and connected to forward and aft flanges at distal ends of forward and aft annular elements respectively. Annular forward... Agent:

20110217159 - Preferential cooling of gas turbine nozzles: Turbine nozzle assemblies include a plurality of circumferentially spaced first components and second components, which are designed to provide different amounts of cooling. The second components, which are generally aligned with an opening of transition pieces, are designed to provide more cooling than the first components, which are generally aligned... Agent: General Electric Company

20110217160 - Component comprising a resin matrix: A composite material comprises plies 2, 4, 6, 8, which may be prepregs. Film elements 10 are provided between at least two adjacent ones of the plies 2, 4, 6, 8. The film elements are made from a release material which inhibits adhesion between regions of the resin on opposite... Agent: Rolls-royce PLC

20110217161 - Blower and fan frame: The blower includes a fan blade 5 extending in a centrifugal direction from an outer peripheral surface of a hub part having a cylindrically-shaped outer peripheral surface, a driving part for supporting and driving the fan blade 5, and a fan frame 2a which supports the driving part and has... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20110217162 - Turbo charger housing: A turbocharger compressor housing apparatus comprises a compressor housing and diffuser. These components are configured to provide an interference fit when assembled. An annular projection extends outwardly from one of such components toward the other of the components and engages the other of the components to form an annular joint.... Agent: Amsted Industries Incorporated

20110217163 - Double-ducted fan: A double-ducted fan includes a hub, a rotor having a plurality of blades rotatably and coupled to the hub, a first duct, a second duct, and a channel defined between the first duct and second duct. The first duct circumscribes the rotor, and the second duct circumscribes at least a... Agent: The Penn State Research Foundation

20110217164 - Axial cooling fan shroud: A fan shroud for a cooling fan assembly with a fan that is rotatable about an axis of rotation defines a downstream direction along the axis of rotation. The shroud includes a barrel for containing the fan. The barrel is concentric with the axis of rotation and further includes a... Agent: Robert Bosch Gmbh

20110217165 - Fan frame structure with integrated sintered oil-impregnated bearing through insert molding and method of manufacturing the same: A fan frame structure with integrated sintered oil-impregnated bearing through insert molding and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The fan frame includes a sintered oil-impregnated bearing and a fan frame. The bearing has a first and a second end face and an axially extended through hole communicating... Agent:

20110217166 - Layered composite components: A layered composite component 100, 200 is disclosed comprising a plurality of plies of reinforcement fibres embedded in a matrix material. The component comprises a fuse region 134, 144, 157, 233, 244 in which an initiating feature 180, 190, 155 is operable to initiate delamination of plies within the fuse... Agent: Rolls-royce PLC

20110211940 - System and method for inspection of stator vanes: Embodiments of the invention include an inspection system to inspect internal components of a compressor of a gas turbine engine. The inspection system includes an image recording assembly having one or more image recording devices, light sources, storage devices, and power supplies. The image recording assembly may be inserted into... Agent: General Electric Company

20110211941 - Structure for mounting between rotation shaft and lever, method for mounting between rotation shaft and lever, and fluid machine: A structure that mounts to a rotation shaft a lever that causes this rotation shaft to rotate, including a plurality of engaging members that are provided in the lever so as to be offset from the center axis of the rotation shaft, and that are capable of advancing toward and... Agent: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

20110211944 - Air conditioner: There is provided an air conditioner having a fan guard assembly which is easy to assemble, and the transversal crosspieces of the fan guard assembly are not easily disengaged from the longitudinal crosspieces. The air conditioner includes: an air conditioner, comprising: a housing accommodating therein an air delivery fan and... Agent:

20110211942 - Method and system for a leakage controlled fan housing: A method and system for a fan assembly that includes a fan casing having a longitudinal centerline axis extending from an upstream inlet opening to a downstream outlet opening is provided. The fan assembly also includes a first substantially cylindrical casing segment extending circumferentially about and substantially axially aligned with... Agent:

20110211943 - Panelled assembly: A panelled assembly has a spacer 26 of cuboid, or rectangular prism, shape located between adjacent first panels 16 in order to maintain separation of the panels 16 at a desired minimum distance during mounting of the panels. During installation, the spacer 26 abuts the first side edge 16b of... Agent: Rolls-royce PLC

20110211945 - Method for the manufacture of a circular revolution thermomechanical part including a titanium-based load-bearing substrate lined with steel or superalloy, a turbomachine compressor housing which is resistant to titanium fire obtained according to this me: A method for manufacture of a compressor housing which is resistant to a titanium fire (burning titanium). An explosion cladding of a circular blank made of steel, or steel alloy, or superalloy which is incombustible in the presence of a titanium fire is accomplished on a circular blank made from... Agent: Snecma

20110211946 - Welded nozzle assembly for a steam turbine and assembly fixtures: A nozzle blade and nozzle ring assembly includes a nozzle blade having radially inner and outer sidewalls with an airfoil portion extending therebetween; the inner and outer sidewalls walls formed with axially-extending first surface features along forward and aft marginal edges of the inner and outer sidewalls, respectively; and radially... Agent: General Electric Company

20110211947 - Bypass duct of a turbo engine: A guide blade ring (1) arranged downstream of the fan in the bypass duct of a turbofan engine for untwisting the airflow generated by the fan comprises guide stator vane support struts (3) integrated into the guide blade ring at regular intervals respectively in place of a guide stator vane,... Agent: Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co Kg

20110211948 - Fan bracket and fan fixing apparatus using the same: A fan bracket and the fan fixing apparatus using the same are disclosed, in which the fan bracket, including a pair of fixing members, is used for fixing a fan assembly inside a housing. Each fixing member has a first panel and two positioning elements, in which the first panel... Agent: Accton Technology Corporation

20110211949 - Free-tipped axial fan assembly: A free-tipped axial fan assembly includes fan having a blade tip geometry which provides a desired blade loading in the presence of a tip gap. The maximum camber exhibits a sudden and significant increase as the blade tip radius R is closely approached in the direction of increasing radial position.... Agent: Robert Bosch Gmbh