Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps inventions

20090280002 - Method and system for determining gas turbine tip clearance: A system for sensing at least one physical characteristic associated with an engine including a turbine having a plurality of blades turning inside a casing, the system including: a pressure sensor coupled substantially adjacent to the casing and including at least one output; a port in the turbine casing for... Agent: The Plevy Law Firm

20090280003 - Method and system for monitoring particulate: Methods and systems for monitoring particulate in a flow of gases are provided. A particulate monitor system includes an emitter coupled to an exhaust duct and downstream from a turbine engine. The emitter emits light at a predetermined intensity through a flow of gases discharged from the turbine engine into... Agent: John S. Beulick (17851) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090280004 - Labyrinth seal for a motor-fan unit: A labyrinth seal for a bypass discharge-type motor-fan unit includes a motor unit from which extends a rotating shaft that passes through an aperture in an end plate to drive a fan unit. Disposed within the aperture is a labyrinth seal configured to prevent liquid entrained in a working airflow... Agent: Renner Kenner Greive Bobak Taylor & Weber

20090280005 - Use of a thermal barrier coating for a housing of a steam turbine, and a steam turbine: The invention relates to the use of a thermal insulating layer for a housing of a steam turbine in order to even out the deformation behaviour of different components based on different heatings of the components.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090280006 - Turbine housing with integrated ribs: A flow direction system (200) for a turbocharger (1) or other fluid impeller device is provided that can reduce swirl or turbulence of exhaust gases being supplied to a turbine rotor (4). The system (200) uses one or more ribs (250) or fins that extend from an inner surface (110)... Agent: Borgwarner Inc. C/o Patent Central LLC

20090280007 - Multi-functional air circulation system: A multi-functional air circulation system includes a bottom base, a flow-splitting base, a filter and a main engine. The bottom base has a lower flow-guiding surface, a net, and a space used to contain diverse improving agents. The flow-splitting base is fixed on the bottom base, including an inner flow-guiding... Agent: J.c. Patents

20090280008 - Vorticity reducing cowling for a diffuser augmented wind turbine assembly: A vorticity reducing cowling for a diffuser augmented wind turbine assembly is provided. The diffuser augmented wind turbine assembly includes a shroud, a wind turbine disposed within the shroud, and a diffuser coupled to an outlet of the shroud. The wind turbine includes a wind turbine housing and a plurality... Agent: Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP

20090280009 - Wind turbine with different size blades for a diffuser augmented wind turbine assembly: A wind turbine for a diffuser augmented wind turbine assembly is provided. The wind turbine comprises a wind turbine housing, a hub mounted within the wind turbine housing, and a plurality of blades rotatably coupled with the hub and radially extending from the hub. The plurality of blades includes a... Agent: Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP

20090274547 - Rotating unit for an axial-flow compressor: An axial-flow compressor has at least one stator vane row. At least one blade (8) of the stator vane row (18) is provided as a rotating unit (6), with the rotating unit (6) being completely rotatable about a drive axis (26) and with the drive axis (26) being essentially vertical... Agent: Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.L.C

20090274548 - Contaminant-deflector labyrinth seal and method of operation: A seal assembly for deflecting contaminated fluid flowing through the seal assembly from an upstream space to a downstream space includes an annular housing, at least one vent hole peripherally disposed on the annular housing, a first set of seals disposed within the annular housing adjacent to the downstream space,... Agent: Honeywell/shimokaji Patent Services

20090274550 - Gas turbine components and method for machining gas turbine components: The present technology relates to the problem that during diverse machining steps of application to the production or reconditioning of internally cooled gas turbine blades, an undesired effect may be had on sections of the gas turbine blades and proposes, as an improvement, to inject the cavity of the gas... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090274549 - Wall cooling arrangement: A wall cooling arrangement comprising on one side of a wall a multiplicity of cooling fluid inlet apertures and on the opposite of the wall a multiplicity of cooling fluid exit apertures, and in the body of the wall linking said inlet and exit apertures a network of multiply branched... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090274551 - Air distribution blower housing with adjustable restriction: An air distribution blower housing has an adjustable restriction in the interior of the blower housing. The adjustable restriction has the configuration of a rectangular plate. One edge of the plate is connected by a pivoting connection to an interior wall of the blower housing in the air flow path... Agent: Thompson Coburn LLP

20090274552 - Turbo machine and gas turbine: A gas turbine (1) includes a rotor (2) which has two rotor blade rows (5) with a plurality of rotor blades (6), and also a rotor heat shield (7), which is arranged between them, with a plurality of heat shield elements (12), and with a stator (3) which has a... Agent: Cermak Kenealy Vaidya & Nakajima LLP

20090274553 - Repaired internal holding structures for gas turbine engine cases and method of repairing the same: A method of repairing a case for a gas turbine engine includes identifying areas of damage on its internal holding structures in a gas turbine case, and utilizing cold metal transfer to deposit weld material to the internal holding structures.... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090274554 - Fluid flow machine including rotors with small rotor exit angles: A fluid flow machine includes at least one rotor blade row designed for high work coefficients, which—in its center section and/or averaged over the blade height—provides for an essentially swirl-free relative outflow. The respective rotor, in its trailing edge area, is essentially orientated in meridional direction, which essentially corresponds to... Agent: Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.L.C

20090274555 - Multiple-stage centrifugal pump of inline design: The present invention relates to a multiple-stage centrifugal pump of inline design, comprising a connection housing (1) with connectors (2, 3) in the form of suction and pressure connectors, and a pump body (4). The pump body (4) is surrounded at a spacing by a casing tube (6) with the... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20090274556 - Gas turbine engine case with replaced flange and method of repairing the same using cold metal transfer: A method of repairing an engine case for a gas turbine engine includes the steps of identifying a damaged flange on an engine case, removing the damaged flange down to a surface of the engine case to receive a replacement flange. The replacement flange is placed on the surface, and... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090263232 - Compact air cooling system: An apparatus for air cooling an object. The apparatus includes a plate including a first surface and a second surface and a plurality of aerodynamic fins being fixedly disposed on the first surface in an arrangement along periphery of the plate. The arrangement of the plurality of aerodynamic fins defining... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090263233 - Fluid flow machine with blade row-internal fluid return arrangement: A fluid flow machine has a flow path (2) which is confined by at least one wall, on which at least one row of blades (6, 7) is fixedly mounted. At least one fluid offtake opening (9) and at least one fluid supply opening (10), which are connected by at... Agent: Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.L.C

20090263234 - Centrifugal compressor with surge control, and associated method: A centrifugal compressor for compressing a fluid comprises a compressor wheel having a plurality of circumferentially spaced blades, and a compressor housing in which the compressor wheel is mounted. The compressor housing includes an inlet duct through which the fluid enters in an axial direction and is led by the... Agent: Honeywell Turbo Technologies

20090263235 - Damper: Dampers (56, 76, 96) are utilised with regard to mounting arrangements (50, 70, 90) in gas turbine engines (10) in order to facilitate cooling. It is known to provide slotted upper surface or cottage roof dampers to enhance cooling effect. However, cooling efficiency cannot be optimised and improving cooling effectiveness... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090263236 - Electromechanical drive for actuating valves: The invention relates to an electromechanical drive for actuating valves, especially in steam turbines including an electromotor, a linear unit, a clutch and an electronic control unit. The linear unit includes a piston rod which is guided in a power-transmission thread of a screw nut, and is arranged, at least... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20090263237 - Coated turbine component and method of coating a turbine component: Turbine components with different types of coatings on different parts thereof are described. The coatings are chosen such that they are especially adapted to the thermal and corrosive conditions being present on the parts of the component during use. A method to coat a turbine component is also described.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090263238 - Ducted fan with inlet vanes and deswirl vanes: A fan apparatus includes a ducted housing with an axis of rotation including a first section and a second section. The fan apparatus further includes a first plurality of vanes being radially coupled within the first section and a second plurality of vanes being radially coupled within the second section.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090263239 - Ring structure with a metal design having a run-in lining: A ring structure with a metal design for a moving blade of axially flowed through compressor and turbine stages, particularly in gas turbine engines is provided. The ring structure includes a circular ring-shaped outer wall, a circular ring-shaped inner wall, which is located at a short radial distance from the... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090263240 - Multiblade centrifugal blower: A multiblade centrifugal blower in which a length from a rear end to a front end of an outer edge of a blade is shorter than a length from a rear end to a front end of an inner edge of the blade. Moreover, a bell mouth is located at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090263241 - Diffuser and exhaust system for turbine: A diffuser and exhaust system is provided for a turbine having an axial-radial diffuser and an exhaust hood including diffuser inner and outer flow guides that extend from an inlet to an outlet. The exhaust hood includes two throats or flow passages between the diffuser outlet and an exhaust hood... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Alstom

20090263242 - Fan arrangement: A miniature fan arrangement has a fan (10) including an electronically commutated drive motor (21), a first circuit board (52) associated with said motor, and a fan housing (30). The fan also has a mounting part arranged radially outside the fan housing (30), and has a membrane (32), made of... Agent: Oliver Intellectual Property LLC

20090263243 - Combustion turbine including a diffuser section with cooling fluid passageways and associated methods: A combustion turbine includes a compressor section, a combustion section downstream from the compressor section, and a turbine section downstream from the combustion section. A diffuser section is downstream from the turbine section and has an outer wall, an inner wall, and at least one strut member extending therebetween. The... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department