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Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps March listing by industry category 03/12

20120076636 - Controlled angular acceleration for air moving devices: Various methods related to air moving devices in electronic systems are disclosed. Various electronic systems including controlled air moving devices are also disclosed. Thus, in one method of controlling an air moving device in an electronic system, the air moving device is operable to accelerate between rotational speeds at a... Agent: Astec International Limited

20120076635 - Nacelle with porous surfaces: A fan nacelle for a gas turbine engine includes a leading edge region with a flow path between an intake region in a nacelle outer surface and an exhaust region in a nacelle inner surface to locally modify a flow around the leading edge region during a predefined off-design condition.... Agent:

20120076634 - Turbine blade tip shroud for use with a tip clearance control system: The present application provides a tip clearance control system for reducing an airflow through a turbo machine. The tip clearance control system may include a casing shroud and a tip shroud positioned within the casing shroud. The tip shroud may include a first step at a leading edge and a... Agent: General Electric Company

20120076637 - Variable flow rate pump: A water pump (30) includes an impeller chamber (32) formed in a housing (31), a swirl chamber (40) formed in the housing (31) to communicate with a coolant passage (8) and the impeller chamber (32), and an impeller (33) that is supported to be free to rotate in the impeller... Agent: Tbk Co., Ltd.

20120076638 - Axial turbomachine having an axially displaceable guide-blade carrier: An axial turbomachine including a rotor-blade cascade is provided. The turbomachine includes a casing in which the cascade is installed and a guide-blade carrier which encloses the cascade and is integrated into the inner side of the housing. The guide-blade carrier is arranged immediately adjacently to the blade tips faulting... Agent:

20120076639 - Shaft and turbine wheel assembly: An assembly for a turbocharger includes a shaft with an axial extension and a shaft-side groove portion, the shaft-side groove portion defined at least in part by a radial height; a turbine wheel with a counter bore and a turbine wheel-side groove portion, the turbine wheel-side groove portion defined at... Agent:

20120076640 - Seal for a controllable coolant pump: A controllable coolant pump which has a pump housing. In the pump housing a pump shaft is arranged, which connects a drive wheel to an impeller wheel. In the operating state of the coolant pump, during a rotation of the impeller wheel, coolant is sucked in via a cover disk... Agent: Schaeffler Technologies Gmbh & Co. Kg

20120076641 - Variable vane assembly for a turbine compressor: A variable vane assembly for a compressor having a plurality of vanes is disclosed. The variable vane assembly may generally include a synchronizing ring and a plurality of attachment studs secured to the synchronizing ring. The variable vane assembly may also include a plurality of lever arms, with each lever... Agent: General Electric Company

20120076642 - Sealing assembly for use in turbomachines and method of assembling same: A method of assembling a sealing assembly for a turbomachine is provided. The method includes positioning at least one sealing element that includes a substantially tortuous flow path defined therein within at least one channel defined in a rotatable element of the turbomachine. The sealing element is extended circumferentially about... Agent:

20120076643 - Sealing system for centrifugal pumps: A centrifugal pump for delivering hot fluids, having a contacting shaft seal, a seal housing (13) for the shaft seal (14), and a return line (8) for a partial flow of the delivered fluid, in which no delivered fluid is discharged out of the seal housing (13); a separate housing... Agent: Ksb Aktiengesellschaft

20120076644 - Cooled component wall in a turbine engine: A component wall in a turbine engine includes a substrate, a diffusion section, and at least one cooling passage. The diffusion section is located in a surface of the substrate and is defined by a first sidewall and a second sidewall. The cooling passage(s) include an outlet portion through which... Agent:

20120076645 - Endwall component for a turbine stage of a gas turbine engine: A component of a turbine stage of a gas turbine engine is provided. The component forms an endwall for the working gas annulus of the stage. The component has one or more internal passages behind the endwall which, in use, carry a flow of cooling air providing convective cooling for... Agent: Rolls-royce PLC

20120076646 - Steam turbine stator vane and steam turbine using the same: Suppressing profile loss of a moving blade due to radial flow without an increase in the length of a shaft of a turbine is disclosed. The degree of reaction on an inner circumferential side is set to an appropriate degree, reducing profile loss due to supersonic inflow, and improving turbine... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20120076647 - Metallic radius block for composite flange: A disclosed fan containment case includes a fan case fabricated from a plurality of non-metallic composite layers with an attachment flange formed of both a composite portion and a metallic backing. The disclosed metallic backing is mounted on a rearward facing surface of a composite portion of the attachment flange.... Agent:

20120076648 - Instream hydro power generator: A turbine apparatus is immersed in an ambient stream of a flowing fluid, such as water, so as to encapture a portion of the flowing fluid and extract power therefrom, before returning it back into the ambient stream, which may be a tidal flow of ocean water, or a relative... Agent:

20120076649 - Fan holder: A fan holder includes a fixing member and a movable member mounted to the fixing member. The fixing member includes a first plate and two sidewalls perpendicularly extending from opposite sides of the first plate, respectively. The movable member includes a second plate opposite to the first plate and a... Agent: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

20120076650 - Shroud structure for gas turbine: There is provided a shroud structure for gas turbines capable of suppressing a drop in the amount of cooling air for cooling the inner shroud by reducing the amount of cooling air leakage that occurs along the cooling air path when feeding cooling air from the one-piece outer shroud to... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20120070267 - Axial flow compressor, gas turbine system having the axial flow compressor and method of modifying the axial flow compressor: There is provided an axial flow compressor that improves reliability on an increase in a blade loading on a last-stage stator vane of the axial flow compressor due to a partial load operation of a gas turbine. An annular flow passage is formed by a rotor having multiple rotor blades... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20120070266 - Turbo-machine temperature control: A method, system, and computer program for turbo-machine temperature control is presented. The method includes: receiving an exhaust temperature (Texh) parameter, a firing temperature (Tfire) parameter, and a combustor temperature rise (Trise) parameter of the turbo-machine during operation using a computing device; comparing the Texh parameter, the Tfire parameter, and... Agent: General Electric Company

20120070268 - Single volute centrifugal pump with two stage impeller: It is appreciated that there may be ways to change the dimensions, curves, or make this design with more than the number of pieces shown, however this patent application is not limited to the embodiments above but cover and include the spirit and intent of the invention as defined in... Agent:

20120070269 - Steam turbine: A steam turbine of an embodiment includes: a nozzle box having a circular ring-shaped steam passage into which steam is led from a steam inlet pipe and having, on a downstream portion of the steam passage, a plurality of first-stage nozzles in a circumferential direction; and a second-stage nozzle side... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20120070270 - Damped assembly: A damped assembly 10 within a gas turbine, comprising a first member 12 and a second member 14 mechanically connected via an intermediate vibration dampener 18 which has at least first 20 and second 22 surfaces for contacting the first 12 and second members 14 respectively, wherein either or both... Agent: Rolls-royce PLC

20120070271 - Gas turbine engine with bleed duct for minimum reduction of bleed flow and minimum rejection of hail during hail ingestion events: A gas turbine engine includes a bleed structure which includes a forward wall and a rear structural wall to define a deposit space downstream of the bleed structure for a hail event of a predetermined duration.... Agent:

20120070272 - Method for producing metal elements, in particular sealing elements: A method for producing metallic elements, and more particularly sealing elements, wherein a sheet metal strip or a foil strip having a predefinable length, width, and thickness is generated and the sheet metal strip or foil strip is formed to obtain a tube, the mutually opposing end regions or parts,... Agent: Federal-mogul Sealing Systems Gmbh

20120070273 - Energy producing wind turbine for laboratory exhaust systems: Integration or application of an energy producing wind turbine to an exhaust system. The wind turbine is rotated by the exhaust system discharge air to produce energy. The wind turbine does not disperse potentially hazardous discharge air in an unsafe manner.... Agent:

20120070274 - Turbocharger unit with associated auxiliary component, for an internal combustion engine: A unit for an internal combustion engine includes a turbocharger unit and an auxiliary component adjacent to the turbocharger unit and provided with means for connection thereof to the structure of the engine. The auxiliary component has a fluid outlet or inlet arranged immediately adjacent to a fluid inlet or... Agent: Fiat Powertrain Technologies S.p.a.

20120070275 - Airfoil for energy extracting shrouded fluid turbines: Example embodiments described herein relate an integral and/or multi-piece airfoil and a shrouded fluid turbine having the same. The airfoil can have a generally circumferential body extending circumferentially about a central axis, and can be referred to herein as a “ringed airfoil.” The airfoil can have a front portion defining... Agent: Flodesign Wind Turbine Corporation

20120070276 - Turbine shroud thermal distortion control: A shroud suitable for use in combination with an adjacent rotor blade includes a leading portion comprising a first thickness, and a trailing portion adjacent to the leading portion and comprising a second thickness, wherein the second thickness is less than the first thickness so that stiffness in the leading... Agent: United Technologies Corporation

20120070277 - Integrated fan: An integrated fan includes a centrifugal blade unit and a frame. The centrifugal blade unit has a hub. The frame is used for accommodating the centrifugal blade unit. The frame includes a first casing, a second casing and at least one airflow-guiding plate. The first casing includes a main plate... Agent: Delta Electronics, Inc.

20120070278 - Gas turbine engine bearing arrangement: A gas turbine engine comprising first and second rotor shafts and an intershaft rolling element bearing arranged between the shafts. The first rotor shaft has a stator stage and a rotor stage; the second rotor shaft has only a rotor stage and is arranged to contra-rotate relative to the first... Agent: Rolls-royce PLC

20120063881 - Abradable bucket shroud: The present application provides an abradable bucket shroud for use with a bucket tip so as to limit a leakage flow therethrough and reduce heat loads thereon. The abradable bucket shroud may include a base and a number of ridges positioned thereon. The ridges may be made from an abradable... Agent: General Electric Company

20120063884 - Clearance control system, turbomachine and method for adjusting a running clearance between a rotor and a casing of a turbomachine: The invention relates to a clearance control system for adjusting a running clearance (L) between a rotor (12) having rotor blades (10) of a turbomachine (14), especially a gas turbine, and a casing (18) that surrounds at least sections thereof and comprises at least two segments (16a-d), the clearance control... Agent: Mtu Aero Engines Gmbh

20120063879 - Energy efficient ips blower assembly: According to the invention a method and apparatus relating to a blower that is used in an environment of particle contaminated air, as with a helicopter engine, is disclosed. The blower has a power input, a fan, a power output attaching to the fan, and a clutch disposed between the... Agent:

20120063885 - Fluid channeling device for back-to-back compressors: A fluid channeling device including a channeling body, an axial transfer channel, and a radial outlet channel. The channeling body includes first and second annular body sections spaced axially apart and a tubular body section extending between the first and second body sections. The axial transfer channel is defined axially... Agent: Dresser-rand Company

20120063882 - Internally-cooled centrifugal compressor with cooling jacket formed in the diaphragm: An internally-cooled centrifugal compressor (10) having a shaped casing (26) a diaphragm (32) disposed within said shaped casing (26) having a gas side and a coolant side so that heat from a gas flowing though the gas side is extracted via the coolant side. An impeller (28) disposed within the... Agent: Southwest Research Institute

20120063883 - Methods and devices for low speed low torque testing of a rotor in a turbomachinery: Methods and devices for performing a low torque low speed test to determine whether a rotor of a turbomachinery is free to rotate are provided. A method includes automatically applying a torque to the rotor, the torque gradually increasing up to a predetermined torque value. The method further includes monitoring... Agent:

20120063880 - Rotor assembly: A rotor assembly is disclosed herein. The rotor assembly includes a hub disposed for rotation about an axis of rotation. The rotor assembly also includes at least one blade fixed with the hub for concurrent rotation with the hub. The at least one blade extends along a height axis radially... Agent:

20120063886 - Anti-vibration fan: The fan of the invention includes a frame and a vibration absorber. The frame has a fixing recess at a corner thereof. The vibration absorber has an elastic body fastened in the fixing recess and a pin with a circular trough. A portion of the elastic body protrudes from the... Agent:

20120063887 - Double fan for a heat exchanger, in particular a coolant radiator of a motor vehicle: The utilization of double fans for engine cooling of motor vehicles is known. Said fans generate a flow of air which then serves to cool a heat exchanger, in particular a coolant radiator for motor vehicles. The double fan is herein characterized by an optimal use of the surface of... Agent: Robert Bosch Gmbh

20120063888 - Abradable coating with safety fuse: An abradable coating for interaction with tips of airfoils (such as vanes or blades of a compressor of a gas turbine engine) includes a metal bond coat thermal, a ceramic layer, and an abradable layer. The ceramic layer on the metal bond coat provides insulation and acts as a fuse... Agent: United Technologies Corporation

20120063889 - Fluid machine: A fluid machine of an embodiment includes a sealing portion formed of an annular minute gap between a runner band of a runner configuring a rotating portion and a sealing liner which is a stationary portion and arranged in opposition to the runner band. A groove having a quadrangular cross-sectional... Agent:

20120063890 - Wind turbine nacelle with cooler top: The present invention relates to a wind turbine nacelle having a first face with a longitudinal extension in a wind direction, comprising a cooling device having a cooling area and extending from the first face of the nacelle, and a cover having at least one inner face, the cooling device... Agent: Vestas Wind Systems A/s

20120063891 - Cooled component for a gas turbine: A cooled component for a gas turbine is disclosed, which by an outer side of a wall delimits hot gas passage of the gas turbine and on an inner side has a device for impingement cooling. The impingement cooling device can include a multiplicity of impingement cooling chambers which are... Agent: Alstom Technology Ltd

20120063892 - Bidirectional fan having self-adjusting vane: A bidirectional centrifugal fan having a self-adjusting vane is disclosed. In one embodiment, the fan includes a driving disc having a pivot pin extending therefrom; a vane pivotably attached to the pivot pin, the vane including an aperture extending at least partially therethrough; and a trailing disc including a guide... Agent: General Electric Company

20120063893 - Turbine exhaust plenum: In accordance with one embodiment, a system includes a turbine engine including an axial-radial diffuser section disposed about a first longitudinal axis downstream in an exhaust flow path from a turbine section. The system also includes an exhaust plenum including a first plenum portion disposed about the axial-radial diffuser section,... Agent: General Electric Company

20120063894 - Turbine nozzle assemblies and methods for repairing turbine nozzle assemblies: A method is provided for repairing a turbine nozzle assembly with an insert and a support structure. The method includes positioning the insert on the support structure of the turbine nozzle assembly; and plug welding the insert to the support structure of the turbine nozzle assembly.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20120057958 - Clearance control system, turbomachine and method for adjusting a running clearance between a rotor and a casing of a turbomachine: The invention relates to a clearance control system for adjusting a running clearance (L) between a rotor (12) having rotor blades (10) of a turbomachine (14), especially a gas turbine, and a casing (18) that surrounds at least sections thereof and comprises at least two segments (16a-d), with at least... Agent: Hermann Klingels

20120057959 - Fan: A fan includes a casing having an air inlet and an air outlet, an impeller housing located within the casing, an impeller located within the impeller housing for generating an air flow along a path extending from the air inlet to the air outlet through the impeller housing, a motor... Agent: Dyson Technology Limited

20120057960 - Ring segment with forked cooling passages: A ring segment is provided for a gas turbine engine includes a panel and a cooling system. Cooling fluid is provided to an outer side of the panel and an inner side of the panel defines at least a portion of a hot gas flow path through the engine. The... Agent:

20120057961 - Turbine stage shroud segment: A shroud segment for a turbine stage of a gas turbine engine forms an endwall for the working gas annulus of the stage. The segment also provides a close clearance to the tips of a row of turbine blades which sweep across the segment. In use, a mainstream flow of... Agent: Rolls-royce PLC

20120057963 - Compressor of an exhaust-gas turbocharger: The present invention relates to a compressor (1) of an exhaust-gas turbocharger having a compressor housing (2) which has a compressor outlet connecting pipe (3), and having a sound absorber (4), wherein the sound absorber (4) is formed as a separate component which can be connected to the outlet connecting... Agent: Borgwarner Inc.

20120057962 - Fan array fan section in air-handling systems: A fan array fan section in an air handling system includes a plurality of fan units arranged in a fan array and positioned within an air handling compartment. One preferred embodiment may include an array controller program to operate the plurality of the fan units at peak efficiency. The plurality... Agent: Huntair, Inc.

20120057964 - Impeller type water-hammer proof and silent check valve: An impeller type water-hammer proof and silent check valve includes a shell (2), a sealing ring (3), a cowl (4), a flow guide body (5) and a spring (7). Turbulent-flow blades (1) are provided on the outer surface of the flow guide body (5). Two groups of axial-flow blades are... Agent: Guangdong Liansu Technology Industrial Co., Ltd.

20120057965 - Turbomachine with mixed-flow stage and method: In one embodiment, a turbomachine for imparting energy to a multiphase fluid is provided. The turbomachine comprises a casing having an inlet and an outlet; an axial stage part comprising at least one axial stage; a mixed-flow stage part comprising at least one mixed-flow stage fluidly connected to the axial... Agent:

20120057966 - Fan and manufacturing method thereof: A fan includes a motor base, a bearing, an impeller, a stator and a magnetic element. The motor base has a bearing stand in a center portion thereof. The bearing is accommodated within the bearing stand. The impeller includes a metallic case, a hub, plural blades and a rotating shaft.... Agent: Delta Electronics, Inc.

20120057967 - Gas turbine engine: A gas turbine engine includes a diffuser section supplying cooling fluid, a rotatable shaft, shaft cover structure disposed about the rotatable shaft, support structure, and a cooling fluid channel between the shaft cover structure and the support structure. The support structure provides structural support for the shaft cover structure and... Agent:

20120057968 - Ring segment with serpentine cooling passages: A ring segment for a gas turbine engine includes a panel and a cooling system. The cooling system receives cooling fluid from an outer side of the panel for cooling the panel and includes at least one cooling fluid supply passage, at least one serpentine cooling passage, and at least... Agent:

20120057969 - Ring segment with impingement and convective cooling: A ring segment for a gas turbine engine includes an outer panel defining a structural body for the ring segment. An outer side of an inner panel is attached to an inner side of the outer panel at an interface, and an inner side of the inner panel defines a... Agent:

20120057970 - Integrated open impeller and diffuser for use with an electrical submersible pump: An electrical submersible pump having a pump section with a stack diffusers and a stack of impellers mounted on a rotatable shaft. Flow paths extends through the pump section directed axially and radially within the impellers and diffusers. Vanes define the flow path through each impeller that provide fluid communication... Agent: Baker Hughes Incorporated

20120057972 - Air conditioner for vehicle: The present invention relates to an air conditioner for a vehicle, which includes coupling portions formed on both sides of a scroll case, a connection cover coupled to one coupling portion and having an inlet ring and a dual ring, a motor housing coupled to the other coupling portion of... Agent:

20120057971 - Centrifugal blower: A centrifugal blower provided with a spiral shaped scroll chamber where a bottom part of the scroll chamber gradually expands downward in the axial direction of the fan well along with expansion of the spiral and where a flow area gradually expands toward an air outlet from a spiral start... Agent: Nippon Soken, Inc.

20120057973 - Assembly structure for a fan case: An assembly structure for a fan case comprising a first fan case, a second fan case and a fixing rod, the first fan case comprises a first frame, at least one first cavity surrounded by the first frame and a first axial hole recessed into the first frame, the first... Agent:

20120057974 - Wind power nozzle with increased throughput: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for the efficiency with which fluid energy is converted into another form of energy, such as electrical energy, where an array of fluid energy conversion modules is contained in a scalable modular networked superstructure. In certain preferred embodiments, a plurality... Agent:

20120057975 - Turbocharger: The invention relates to a turbocharger (1) in which the bearing-housing-side diffuser wall is thermally decoupled in order to reduce the heat introduction at the bearing housing cover (5). The turbocharger (1) comprises a turbine (2), a compressor (3) which has a diffuser, and a bearing housing (4) which is... Agent: Borgwarner Inc.

20120051882 - Variable geometry turbine: A variable geometry turbine comprising a turbine wheel supported in a housing for rotation about a turbine axis with an annular inlet passageway defined between a radial face of a nozzle ring and a facing wall of the housing. The nozzle ring is movable along the turbine axis to vary... Agent:

20120051883 - Geared axial multistage expander device, system and method: Method, system and axial multistage expander including a casing and a plurality of stages. A stage includes a stator part connected to the casing and having plural statoric airfoils, and a rotor part configured to rotate relative to the stator part and having plural rotoric airfoils. The axial multistage expander... Agent:

20120051884 - Air blowing device: The present invention provides an improved air blowing device formed by a base housing and a motor driving an impeller to create an air flow. A hollow housing is mounted on the base at a connection point. The housing assumes a substantially triangular configuration with the apex of the triangle... Agent: Glj, LLC

20120051885 - Double exhaust centrifugal pump: The invention relates to a centrifugal pump. The pump (10) comprises an impeller (20) and a casing (50) surrounding the impeller, the impeller having a main passage (24) that divides into a first passage (241) and a second passage (242) with a common feed inlet (22) parallel to the axis... Agent:

20120051886 - Locked spacer for a gas turbine engine shaft: A shaft assembly that includes a locked spacer mounted to a shaft shoulder.... Agent:

20120051887 - Side-channel pump with axial gas bearing: The present invention provides a pump comprising a regenerative pumping mechanism. A rotor of the pump has a generally disc-shaped pump rotor mounted on an axial driveshaft for rotation relative to a stator, the pump rotor having rotor formations disposed in a surface and defining at least a portion of... Agent: Edwards Limited

20120051888 - Abnormal vibration detection unit for wind turbine generator: An object of the present invention is to provide an abnormal vibration detection unit which is capable of stopping a wind turbine generator in a case of detecting excessive vibration that poses danger and is designed suitably for the failure detection. The abnormal vibration detection unit comprises first and second... Agent: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

20120051889 - Sound-proofed helicocentrifugal fan: The invention relates to a sound-proofed helicocentrifugal fan comprising a helicocentrifugal propeller (6) associated with a motor (5), housed in a casing formed by a central piece (1) and respective end pieces (2 and 3), which pieces are perforated with holes distributed over the entire surface except for the area... Agent: Soler & Palau Research, S.l.u.

20120051890 - Air blowing device: An air blowing device including; a fan mounted on at least one of an upper part and a lower part of a shelf; a louver having a louver board that extends in a direction intersecting with a direction of plugging in of a plug-in unit; and a louver controller to... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20120051891 - Centering device and system for driving ring: A centering device includes a pivoting part configured to pivot around a first axis that extends along an axial direction of a hole formed in the pivoting part; a roller attached to a first end of the pivoting part and configured to rotate; a rod attached to a second end... Agent:

20120051893 - Regenerative vacuum pump with axial thrust balancing means: A vacuum pump rotor suitable for use in a vacuum pump is described for a vacuum pump that comprises a regenerative pumping mechanism. The rotor has a generally disc-shaped configuration and is mounted on an axial shaft for rotation relative to a stator of a vacuum pump. The rotor has... Agent: Edwards Limited

20120051892 - Wind turbine rotor designing method, wind turbine rotor design support device, wind turbine rotor design support program and wind turbine rotor: There is provided a designing method of a wind turbine rotor which includes a rotor head, a bearing provided on the rotor head and a wind turbine blade attached to the bearing. The wind turbine rotor designing method includes: providing operation environment data indicative of an operation environment of a... Agent: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

20120051895 - Optimized aerodynamic profile for a turbine vane, in particular for a nozzle of the second stage of a turbine: When cold and in the non-coated state, the aerodynamic profile is substantially identical to a nominal profile determined by the Cartesian coordinates X,Y,Z′ given in Table 1, in which the coordinate Z′ is the quotient D/H where D is the distance of the point under consideration from a first reference... Agent: Snecma

20120051894 - Turbine assembly with end-wall-contoured airfoils and preferenttial clocking: A turbine apparatus includes: A first nozzle comprising an array of first vanes each including a concave pressure side, a convex suction side, and leading and trailing edges; A rotor downstream from the first nozzle comprising a plurality of blades carried by a rotatable disk; and a second nozzle disposed... Agent: General Electric Company

20120051896 - Turbomachine actuation system and method: An actuation system includes a driving ring configured to rotate and having a groove on an internal face facing a central point of the driving ring; at least a linkage attached with a first end to an inside of the groove; and at least a lever arm attached to a... Agent:

20120051897 - Wear reduction device for rotary solids handling equipment: A pump for solids handling is provided having a suction liner in combination with an impeller. The suction liner has a suction liner spiral design. The impeller has forward curved impeller suction side pump out vanes. The suction liner spiral design and the forward curved impeller suction side pump out... Agent: Itt Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.

20120051898 - Wind turbine component having a lightweight structure: A wind turbine component having a lightweight structure is provided and includes a metallic matrix defining a cavity, metallic foam enclosed within the cavity and a solidification metallurgical bond formed at an entire interface between the metallic matrix and the metallic foam.... Agent: General Electric Company

20120051899 - Turbine housing assembly: An assembly includes a cast cartridge component and a curved wall where the cast cartridge includes a base plate having an opening configured for receipt of a turbine wheel, an exhaust conduit having an inlet and an outlet, a cylindrical wall, and vanes disposed between the cylindrical wall and the... Agent:

20120051901 - Airfoil shape for compressor: A rotor blade is disclosed herein. The rotor blade comprises a nominal surface profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinates X, Y and Z as set forth in TABLE 1. Wherein X and Y are distances in millimeters which, when connected by smooth, continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at... Agent:

20120051902 - Hydro turbine: There is disclosed an improved hydro turbine assembly (1) that offers high productivity, high operating versatility and minimal and/or no cavitation for an improved efficiency. The present invention proposes a new hydro turbine assembly having substantially higher energy conversion process as well as versatile range of capability from low to... Agent: One Hydro Sdn. Bhd.

20120051900 - Turbine nozzle with contoured band: A turbine nozzle includes an array of turbine vanes between inner and outer bands. Each vane includes opposed pressure and suction sides extending between opposed leading and trailing edges. The vanes define a plurality of flow passages each of which is bounded between the inner band, the outer band, and... Agent: General Electric Company

20120051903 - Turbofan mounting arrangement: A gas turbine engine has a rear mounting structure incorporating a mounting apparatus attached to a bypass duct wall with a link device of six rods for transferring core portion related inertia-induced loads, from an inner case of the core portion in a short circuit across an annular bypass air... Agent: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.

20120051904 - Compact scroll fan assembly: A radial fan assembly for use in a powered air purifying respirator includes at least an impeller, a printed circuit board and a scroll casing. The scroll casing has a first and a second scroll casing element. The second scroll casing element includes at least a portion of the printed... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20120051905 - Pump designed for installation conversion: Apparatus is provided featuring a bearing cartridge in combination with a pedestal. The bearing cartridge may be configured to be coupled to a pumping assembly combination and having a predetermined centerline. The pedestal may be configured with an axial channel to receive and support the bearing cartridge and allow the... Agent: Itt Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc

20120051906 - Spring clip method for anti-rotation and thrust constraint of a rolling element bearing cartridge: To solve both axial and rotational constraint problems in turbochargers with rolling element bearings (REBs), a REB cartridge is mounted to the bearing housing in a way that is not rigid, thus allowing for an oil damping film. At the same time, the REB cartridge is held both axially and... Agent: Borgwarner Inc.