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Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps October categorized by USPTO classification 10/12

20120269612 - Turbine inlet casing with integral bearing housing: The present application provides a compressor inlet casing. The compressor inlet casing may include an inner bellmouth and a bearing housing. The bearing housing may include an integrally cast first half connected to the inner bellmouth and a cavity positioned between the inner bellmouth and the integrally cast first half... Agent: General Electric Company

20120269613 - Independently-controlled gas turbine inlet guide vanes and variable stator vanes: A system adjusts positions of gas turbine inlet guide vanes (IGVs) and variable stator vanes (VSVs). The system includes a hydraulic power unit providing a supply of hydraulic fluid, an IGV servo in fluid communication with the hydraulic power unit, and a VSV servo in fluid communication with the hydraulic... Agent:

20120269614 - Submersible centrifugal pump for solids-laden fluid: A submersible centrifugal pump is disclosed. The submersible centrifugal pump includes a pump housing having a pump intake disposed generally opposite a pump outlet. A shaft extends at least partially through the pump housing and is adapted to be driven by a submersible motor. A centrifugal impeller is attached to... Agent: Global Oilfield Services LLC

20120269615 - Blade member and rotary machine: The airfoil member of the present invention is provided with an airfoil body, an end wall which is installed at an end part of the airfoil body in a blade span direction and extends so as to intersect in the blade span direction, a fillet portion which smoothly connects the... Agent: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

20120269617 - Cooling fan: A cooling fan comprising a base, a lid, a fan wheel, and an auxiliary shaft assembly is disclosed. The lid is arranged above the base. The fan wheel has a shaft rotatably coupling with the base and a highest point spaced from the lid by a first gap. The auxiliary... Agent:

20120269616 - Turbine driveshaft for ram air turbine: A driveshaft for an aircraft ram air turbine includes a tubular body and a flange. The tubular body defines an axis of rotation and includes a forward portion and a frusto-conical portion located rearward of the forward portion. The flange adjoins the forward portion of the tubular body opposite the... Agent: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation

20120269618 - Blade support in a quasiturbine pump: A pump comprises a housing having an inner contour and defining an ovaloidal chamber with a rhomboidal rotor assembly positioned therein and being configured to rotate. The housing includes intake and exhaust ports in communication with the chamber providing for intake of fluid therein and exhaust of fluid therefrom. A... Agent: Gullivert Technologies

20120269619 - Fluid-flow machine: A fluid-flow machine includes at least one rotor having a rotary element with a plurality of rotor blades arranged on the rotary element, and a circumferential casing having a central axis and surrounding the rotor. The circumferential casing or a part connected thereto has an annular space surface on the... Agent: Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co Kg

20120269620 - Turbocharger housing having a sealing device: A turbocharger housing is divided along the longitudinal direction into at least two housing halves. The turbocharger housing includes a sealing device between the two housing halves for sealingly connecting the two housing halves.... Agent: Continental Automotive Gmbh

20120269621 - Multiblade air blower: A multiblade air blower has a multiblade impeller, an orifice, an axially overlaid portion, and an airflow collision prevention device. The multiblade impeller includes a main plate and a blade. The blade is provided at the main plate to form a blade inner periphery. The orifice has an open end... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20120269623 - Guide vane with a winglet for an energy converting machine and machine for converting energy comprising the guide vane: An energy converting machine includes a guide vane. The guide vane includes a guide vane body for guiding a streaming fluid. The guide vane body has a pressure surface and a suction surface, a trailing edge and a leading edge, and a winglet for reducing leakage of the streaming fluid... Agent:

20120269622 - Turbine vane and gas turbine: A turbine vane of the invention includes: a plurality of outer shrouds (8a) that are provided along the turbine circumferential direction so as to be adjacent to each other and form an outer wall of a main passageway; inner shrouds (8b) that form an inner wall; a airfoil body (8c)... Agent: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

20120269624 - Axial bearing arrangement for a shaft of a turbocharger: A turbocharger has a turbocharger housing. At least one section of the turbocharger housing is divided in the longitudinal direction into at least two housing halves. A shaft is supported in the turbocharger housing and at least one axial bearing arrangement is provided for supporting the shaft in the axial... Agent: Continental Automotive Gmbh

20120263572 - Turbine for converting energy and method for operating the same: A turbine and a method for converting energy are provided, wherein an angular position of an exit of a cooling duct in the casing depends on angular positions of a downstream edge 21 of a guide vane and on an angular position of a fluid entry duct for supplying streaming... Agent:

20120263571 - Variable vane for gas turbine engine: A turbomachine includes a variably positioned vane, an outer spindle integral with a vane outer button, where the vane is coupled to the vane outer button, an annular sleeve defining the spindle, where the annular sleeve contacts the vane outer button at a radially inward extent and contacts a turbine... Agent:

20120263573 - Cross flow fan, air blower and air conditioner: A cross flow fan being rotatably placed in a horizontally-long air trunk, and including a plurality of annular rings that are substantially parallel to each other and a plurality of blades that are radially interposed between adjacent rings, each having a circular arc cross sectional shape, and a camber angle... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

20120263574 - Pressure compensating wet seal chamber: Some embodiments of the invention provide a pump including a pump chamber, a shaft at least partially positioned in the pump chamber, an impeller coupled to the shaft, and a seal coupled to the shaft. The pump also includes a wet seal chamber with a first fluid. The wet seal... Agent:

20120263575 - Low pressure cooling seal system for a gas turbine engine: A low pressure cooling system for a turbine engine for directing cooling fluids at low pressure, such as at ambient pressure, through at least one cooling fluid supply channel and into a cooling fluid mixing chamber positioned immediately downstream from a row of turbine blades extending radially outward from a... Agent:

20120263576 - Turbine shroud segment cooling system and method: The present embodiments are generally directed toward systems and methods for cooling one or more shroud segments of a gas turbine engine. For example, in a first embodiment, a shroud segment is provided that is configured to at least partially surround a turbine blade of a turbine engine. The shroud... Agent: General Electric Company

20120263577 - Device for detecting the axial position of a rotary shaft and its application to a turbo-molecular pump: A device for detecting the axial position of a rotary shaft of a rotary machine comprises a target of ferromagnetic material placed at the end of the rotary shaft, an induction coil associated with a stationary magnetic circuit and placed facing the target while leaving an airgap, and a power... Agent: Societe De Mecanique Magnetique

20120263578 - Gas turbine engine front center body architecture: A method for servicing a gas turbine engine includes providing access from a forward section of the gas turbine engine to a gearbox contained within a bearing compartment.... Agent:

20120263579 - Gas turbine engine front center body architecture: A gas turbine engine includes a central body support that provides an inner annular wall for a core flow path. The central body support includes first splines. A geared architecture interconnects a spool and a fan rotatable about an axis. A flex support interconnects the geared architecture to the central... Agent:

20120263580 - Flexible seal for turbine engine: A turbine includes a turbine seal. The turbine seal includes a first straight portion extending along a first axis. The turbine seal also includes a second straight portion extending along the first axis. The first and second straight portions of the turbine seal intersect to form a V-shaped cross section... Agent: General Electric Company

20120263581 - Heating pump: A heating pump includes an electric motor, a pump housing fixed to the motor, an impeller driven by the motor, and a ring heater with an inner hole for heating fluid in the pump housing. The pump housing has a pump chamber and a pump inlet and a pump outlet... Agent:

20120263582 - Ceramic matrix composite shroud attachment system: Shroud assembly for use in a turbine, having an outer shroud having a side proximate to flow of operative fluid of the turbine, the side having a boss and an outer shroud aperture extending through the boss. An inner shroud is located between the side of the outer shroud proximate... Agent: General Electric Company

20120263583 - Fan casing for a turbofan engine: A fan casing for a turbofan engine including an annular casing component of composite material including a body portion having an outwardly directed stiffening flange at one end, the stiffening flange being connected to the body portion by a radially outwardly stepped region, the fan casing also including a metallic... Agent: Rolls-royce PLC

20120263584 - Compressor housing of a radial compressor: A compressor housing (16) of a radial compressor at least two housing portions (10, 12, 14) at least partially of plastic material and defines compressor impeller installation space (48) and a spiral duct (46) that surrounds it radially on the outside with regard to a rotational axis (18) of an... Agent: Mann+hummel Gmbh

20120263585 - Sealing device for turbocharger: A seal body 24 is formed annularly to have a fitted/fixed portion 25 airtightly fitted and fixed to a shoulder 22 in a turbine housing 1 formed facing a scroll passage 8 and have a clearance facing portion 27 facing an outer periphery of a turbine-housing-side exhaust introducing wall 9a... Agent: Ihi Corporation

20120263586 - Inlet guide vane for a compressor: A compressor assembly (10) has a fluid inlet positioned to facilitate the passage of a fluid. The compressor assembly includes a compressor housing (60) defining a compressor inlet (35), a compressor rotating element (45) rotatably supported at least partially within the compressor housing, and an inlet guide vane assembly (500)... Agent: Ingersoll-rand Company

20120263587 - Turbomachine with axial compression or expansion: The turbomachine has a ring of radial blades which are connected to an annular end wall. Situated on the end wall upstream of each blade is a deflector wedge with two divergent guide surfaces. The deflector wedge generates pressure-side and suction-side vortices of which the vortices caused by the blade... Agent:

20120263588 - Fan: A fan is used to be fixed on an enclosure to dissipate heat from the enclosure. The fan includes a body, a magnetic fixing element mounted on the body, a power connector connected to the body; and a universal serial bus (USB) connector connected to the power connector. The body... Agent: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

20120263589 - Turbocharger: A turbocharger is provided with a rotor shaft and a semi-floating bearing arranged in a bearing chamber and rotatably supporting the rotor shaft. The semi-floating bearing has a pair of bearing portions located at two longitudinal ends. A region between the pair of bearing portions in an outer peripheral surface... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

20120257954 - Method for cooling turbine stators and cooling system for implementing said method: A method and system for cooling turbine engine turbines, the system includes: at least one pair of parts to be cooled, the pair including a stator upstream from the rotor valve, and a sealing ring mounting a downstream movable blade rotor that is adjacent to the stator; a turbine casing;... Agent: Turbomeca

20120257955 - Offshore hydroelectric turbine assembly and method: The invention is directed to a single moored offshore marine turbine assembly having a central control vessel which includes a main vessel tethered to a control buoy. The main vessel having a first cap, a corresponding second cap and a tubular shell positioned between both the first cap and second... Agent:

20120257956 - Turbine fuel pump for vehicle: Provided is a turbine fuel pump for a vehicle. More particularly, provided is a turbine fuel pump for a vehicle that can improve efficiency of the fuel pump and solve pressure instability caused by collision of fuel by forming a separate independent channel in a lower casing, an impeller, and... Agent: Coavis

20120257957 - Counter-rotating axial flow fan: Provided here is a counter-rotating axial flow fan with improved air flow-static pressure characteristics and reduced power consumption and noise compared to the related art. A plurality of struts are disposed to be stationary between a front impeller and a rear impeller in an air channel. A plurality of front... Agent: Sanyo Denki Co., Ltd.

20120257958 - Windage shield: A windage shield 2 for an array of fasteners 34, the shield 2 comprising a channel 4 for accommodating portions of the fasteners 34 extending into a fluid flow path. The windage shield 2 also comprises a closure flap 12 which extends between opposite side walls 8, 10 of the... Agent: Rolls-royce PLC

20120257959 - Steam turbine in a three-shelled design: A turbomachine including a rotor and an inner interior housing an outer interior housing and an exterior housing, wherein the turbomachine has a first flow and a second flow arranged opposite the first flow for a high-pressure blading or medium-pressure blading, wherein the inner interior housing is made of a... Agent:

20120257960 - Engine bearing support: A turbofan engine comprises an engine case. A gaspath extends through the engine case. A fan has a circumferential array of fan blades. A fan case encircles the fan blades radially outboard of the engine case. A plurality of fan case vanes extend outward from the engine case to the... Agent: United Technologies Corporation

20120257961 - Multistage vacuum pump: A multistage vacuum pump has a pair of rotors disposed in each of pump chambers connected in stages. As the rotors rotate while intermeshing, a suctioned gas is compressed and discharged, angles of the rotors are adjusted so that a phase angle Δθ of the rotors of adjacent pump chambers... Agent: Anest Iwata Corporation

20120257962 - Positive displacement pump: A positive displacement pump having a variable flow volume comprises a housing having an outer ring inserted in an internal space of the housing, the outer ring supporting a rotor set comprising a rotor, rotor elements and a cam ring. The rotor is surrounded by the cam ring. Working chambers... Agent:

20120257963 - Inner diameter shroud assembly for variable inlet guide vane structure in a gas turbine engine: An inner shroud assembly includes an aft core segment mountable to a forward core segment to support a multiple of vanes for rotational movement relative thereto. A shroud backing plate segment engageable with the aft core segment and at least one fastener which passes through the shroud backing plate, the... Agent:

20120257964 - Stator vane assembly: There is disclosed a stator vane assembly comprising a support structure 14 arranged to be mounted to a mounting structure 16, a stator vane 12 radially extending from the support structure 14 and a continuity member 28 coupled to the support structure 14 and arranged in use to extend between... Agent: Rolls-royce PLC

20120257965 - Cooling fan: A cooling fan, which may be installed on a corresponding position of the cooling fins of a CPU or a cooling hole-plate of a computer mainframe, includes: a fan body, a fan frame and a fan impeller. The fan frame is circular in shape. The fan body is arranged along... Agent: Beijing Deepcool Industries Co., Ltd.

20120257966 - Turbocharger having a bearing block device for a turbocharger housing divided in the longitudinal direction: A turbocharger has a turbocharger housing. Wherein at least one section of the turbocharger housing is configured divided along a longitudinal axis into at least two housing halves. A bearing block device is provided in the turbocharger housing and receives a shaft and impellers of the turbocharger. The shaft with... Agent: Continental Automotive Gmbh

20120251290 - Aspirating face seal, and a related method thereof: An aspirating face seal includes a primary seal, a secondary seal, and a biasing device. The primary seal includes a first seal component and a second seal component. The first seal component is configured to be coupled to a rotor and rotatable with the rotor. The secondary seal includes a... Agent: General Electric Company

20120251292 - Method and arrangement for estimating flow rate of pump: A method and arrangement for determining the flow rate (Q) produced by a pump, when the pump is controlled with a frequency converter, which produces estimates for rotational speed and torque of the pump, and the characteristic curves of the pump are known. The method includes determining the shape of... Agent: Abb Oy

20120251291 - Stator-rotor assemblies with features for enhanced containment of gas flow, and related processes: A stator-rotor assembly is described, including at least one interface region and a gap between a surface of the stator and a surface of the rotor. The stator is a nozzle or vane that includes circumferential endwalls. Each endwall includes at least one leading edge and one trailing edge, relative... Agent: General Electric Company

20120251293 - Fully enclosed seal and bearing assembly for between-bearing pumps: A bearing and seal assembly for supporting and sealing a terminating outboard end of an impeller shaft in a centrifugal pump such as a between-bearings pump includes only one seal but provides advantages typical of a dual-seal assembly, including barrier fluid protection against seal damage caused by abrasive slurries, and... Agent: Flowserve Management Company

20120251294 - Shaft seal for steam turbines: A steam turbine with a shaft seal is provided. The shaft seal steam barrier is supplied with a slight excess pressure. In order to avoid complex additional devices necessary for liquefying the water vapor once again, a condensation chamber, which is sealed from the surrounding air as well as from... Agent:

20120251295 - Gas turbine engine component: A component of a gas turbine engine is provided. The component includes an external wall which, in use, is exposed on one surface thereof to working gas flowing through the engine. The component further includes effusion cooling holes formed in the external wall. In use, cooling air blows through the... Agent: Rolls-royce PLC

20120251296 - Aromatic nebulizing diffuser: An aromatic nebulizing diffuser includes a base panel, a holder defining therein an oscillation chamber, a power switch, an electric fan, a fluid container, an ultrasonic oscillator, a fluid intake control device set in between the oscillation chamber and the fluid container, a dip tube in communication between the oscillation... Agent:

20120251297 - Scalable high pressure compressor variable vane acuation arm: A variable vane arm has a hook portion comprising a radially inner leg connected to a radially outer leg by an arcuate connection, and an actuation lever extending from the hook portion. The hook portion and actuation lever are formed from a singular piece of material.... Agent: United Technologies Corporation

20120251298 - Turbine: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a variable geometry turbine comprising: a turbine wheel mounted for rotation about a turbine axis within a housing, the housing defining an annular inlet surrounding the turbine wheel and defined between first and second inlet sidewalls; and a cylindrical sleeve... Agent:

20120251299 - Turbocharger: The invention relates to a turbocharger (1) with variable turbine geometry (VTG), having a turbine housing (2) with a supply duct (9) for exhaust gases, having a turbine rotor (4) which is rotatably mounted in the turbine housing (2); and having a guide grate (18), which surrounds the turbine rotor... Agent: Borgwarner Inc.

20120251301 - Compressor: A front housing configuring a scroll compressor is provided in its shaft hole with a first bearing, and the front housing rotatably supports a rotation shaft. The first bearing includes a ball bearing having a plurality of balls. First and second seal rings and are provided between an outer ring... Agent: Keihin Corporation

20120251300 - Journal air bearing for small shaft diameters: A bearing foil assembly includes a top foil, an intermediate foil, and a bump foil. The bump foil is provided with corrugations at circumferentially spaced locations. The bump foil has an end that is bent radially outwardly from a center of the foil assembly. The top foil has a bent... Agent:

20120251302 - Turbocharger with variable turbine geometry: b

20120251303 - Rotating brush seal: A brush seal for use between a rotating component and a stationary component in a turbomachine is disclosed. The brush seal according to embodiments of this invention include a set of bristles having a fixed end and a free end, wherein the fixed end is attached to the rotating component,... Agent: General Electric Company

20120251304 - Low pressure steam turbine: The invention provides a low-pressure steam turbine (1) including an inner casing (2), an outer casing (4) arranged outside the inner casing (2) so as to cover the inner casing (2), a heat carrier heating channel (16) provided between the inner casing (2) and the outer casing (4) so that... Agent:

20120251306 - Fan rotor support: A turbofan engine comprises an engine case. A gaspath extends through the engine case. A fan has a circumferential array of fan blades. A fan case encircles the fan blades radially outboard of the engine case. A plurality of fan case vanes extend aftward and outward from the engine case... Agent: United Technologies Corporation

20120251305 - Impactor containment: A containment system 20 is described, e.g. for a gas turbine engine. The system 20 includes a containment casing 22 and may also include a face sheet 30 and a backing layer 32. The casing 22 includes a matrix material 24 and regions 26 formed of a second material different... Agent: Rolls-royce PLC

20120251308 - Multi-stage centrifugal pump unit: A multi-stage centrifugal pump assembly includes at least two impellers (2, 6) and two impeller groups (4, 8) which are consecutive in a flow direction and each with at least one impeller (2, 6). A backflow channel (24) connects an exit side of the first impeller group (4) to an... Agent: Grundfos Management A/s

20120251307 - Rotor of rotary machine and rotary machine: A rotor (10) of a rotary machine (T1) according to the invention includes a plurality of rotor members (20, 30, and 40) which are joined to each other in the axial direction in which the axis (P) extends, and among the plurality of rotor members (20, 30 and 40), the... Agent:

20120251309 - Cmc turbine nozzle adapted to support a metallic turbine internal casing by an axial contact: Composite material turbine nozzle blade including an airfoil (10) adapted to have a cooling fluid flow through it and extending between a shroud (11) and a root (12), said shroud being shaped to be attached to one or more turbine casings (6, 7) of a turbomachine and said root being... Agent: Snecma

20120251310 - Method for producing an abradable coating on a turbomachine: In a method for producing an inlet coating (21) on a surface of a turbomachine (10), an electric arc (37) is produced between a first electrode (31) having a first material and a second electrode (32) having a second material. A gas stream (42) is produced through the electric arc... Agent: Mtu Aero Engines Gmbh

20120251311 - Fuel pump: A fuel pump, including at least one driven impeller made of plastic, which rotates in a pump housing and on the sides having guide blades that each delimit at least one ring of blade chambers, and further having partial ring-shaped channels arranged on both sides in the region of the... Agent:

20120251312 - Stator of an axial compressor stage of a turbomachine: The present invention relates to a stator of an axial compressor stage of a turbomachine featuring a radially outer blade ring forming an outer ring surface, a radially inner blade ring forming an inner ring surface, and several stator blades connected to the blade rings. It is provided that the... Agent: Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & Co Kg

20120251313 - Apparatus and method for gas turbine engine vane retention: A vane assembly of a gas turbine engine has a plurality of vanes extending radially and inwardly from an annular casing. An outer end of each vane radially and outwardly projects from the casing and is received in one of apertures defined in an elastomeric ring which is placed around... Agent: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.

20120251314 - Cmc turbine nozzle adapted to support a metallic turbine internal casing by a radial contact: Composite material turbine nozzle blade including an airfoil (10) adapted to have a cooling fluid flow through it and extending between a shroud (11) and a root (12), said shroud being shaped to be attached to one or more turbine casings (6, 7) of a turbomachine and said root being... Agent: Snecma

20120251315 - Turbine housing made of sheet metal: In the neighborhood area X of the tongue part 27 forming the winding end part of the scroll part 3, the wall part members 31 are provided on both the sides of the welding part (the facing part) ‘a’ of the first scroll part 5 and the second scroll part... Agent: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.,