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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8171632 | Method of manufacturing integrally designed rotor wheels to exhibit an essentially identical natural frequency and mass using chemical etch machining In the manufacture of integrally designed rotor wheels (BLISKs), the natural frequency of each blade is measured after forming by conventional shaping methods and the respective blade mass and its divergence from the smallest blade mass is calculated therefrom. The ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8152467 | Blade with tangential jet generation on the profile A blade of a fluid-flow machine has at least one cavity 2 arranged in the blade 1, with the cavity 2 connecting to a fluid supply, and at least one outlet opening 3 connecting the cavity 2 to a flow path, in which the blade 1 | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152463 | Method for impingement air cooling for gas turbines In impingement air cooling of gas turbine components, cooling air velocity packs of a certain amplitude and a given frequency are applied to impingement air openings, with intervallic annular swirl structures being formed which penetrate a cross-flow and hit a compo... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152455 | Suspension arrangement for the casing shroud segments A suspension arrangement for the casing shroud segments of the high-pressure turbine of a jet engine with inclination or graduation of the rotor blade tips (4) includes spaced apart attaching hooks (11) formed onto the casing shroud segments (2)... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152445 | Fluid flow machine with fluid injector assembly A fluid flow machine has a flow duct confined by a wall of a casing, with a fluid supply chamber being arranged in an area of the wall, which is in flow connection with an injector insert. The injector insert is provided with an injector nozzle for supplying fluid f... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152444 | Fluid injector nozzle for a main flow path of a fluid flow machine A fluid flow machine includes an annulus duct formed between a casing and a rotor drum, which is rotatable about a machine axis. At least one row of rotor blades is arranged in the annulus duct, with the latter forming a main flow path and with at least one fluid in... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151831 | Carousel for processing containers filled with liquid or powder products Containers for packaging liquid or powder products are directed onto a carousel (1) presenting a support element (9) equipped with a number of peripheral stations (10), each accommodating a relative container (2), and set in rotation abou... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151802 | Method for manufacturing pouches of cohesionless material Pouches (2) of cohesionless material, typically a smokeless tobacco product, are manufactured by conveying portions of the tobacco initially on a dispensing disc (5a) with cavities (7) from a delivery station (8) to a transfer stat... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8122893 | Machine for manufacturing pouches of cohesionless material Pouches (2) of a smokeless tobacco product are manufactured on a machine comprising an intermittently rotatable dispensing disc (3) with peripheral cavities (4), a station (5) at which each cavity (4) is filled with a given quantit... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8118160 | Packet for tobacco products A cigarette packet of substantially parallelepiped geometry comprises an outer wrapper (3) divided into two portions (17, 18) connected one to another by a longitudinal hinge (19) extending along one of the two flanks (7, 8), each portion... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8104206 | Signage retrofit kit for vending machines A holder of product identification indicia incorporated with a specifically printed illuminated sign in a beverage vending machine. The holder allows enhanced product identification relating to a separate, existing selection button panel. The holder is securely atta... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8100662 | Fan blade made of a textile composite material A gas-turbine engine fan blade made of a textile composite material includes short carbon fiber intermediate layers (8) for forming the blade root arranged between splayed carbon fiber layers (7) in the blade root (2). In a compressive stress-af... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8100653 | Gas-turbine blade featuring a modular design A gas-turbine blade has a root 5 and an airfoil 2, with the airfoil 2 including an internal load carrier 6 as well as an airfoil element 8 enclosing the internal load carrier 6 by forming a cavity 7 extending along th... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8100646 | Two-shaft engine for an aircraft gas turbine On a two-shaft engine for an aircraft gas-turbine with a central low-pressure shaft, with a high-pressure shaft co-axially surrounding the low-pressure shaft and with bearing units supporting the shafts on the engine casing, the bearing loads of the high-pressure sh... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8100630 | Fluid flow machine with multi-flow rotor arrangement A fluid flow machine includes at least one casing 1 and at least one rotor drum 3 rotatable about a machine axis 4, with stator vanes 8 and rotor blades 7 being arranged in an annulus duct 2 formed between the casing 1 | 01/24/2012 |
| 8100613 | Device for machining workpieces, in particular aeronautical parts manufactured from solid blocks of raw material Complex workpieces, particularly aeronautical parts made of solid stock presenting a bottom wall and at least one stiffening rib transverse to the bottom wall, are machined using a device having a tool head furnished with a transmission component rotatable about a r... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8100321 | Packet serving to contain loose items, and a blank from which to fashion such a packet A rigid packet for loose pastilles, sweets or similar items is composed of an outer casing (2), and an inner casing (3) with a small opening (4), accommodated slidably in the outer casing (2). The packet can assume a closed configuration ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099961 | Gas-turbine combustion chamber wall A gas-turbine combustion chamber wall for a gas-turbine has a combustion chamber wall 9, on the inner side of which several tiles 10 are arranged, with an interspace 14 being formed between the tiles 10 and the combustion chamber wall ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8096343 | Method for precision casting of metallic components with thin passage ducts In precision casting of metallic components with very thin passage ducts, in particular turbine blades, by the lost-wax process, the ceramic core pins provided for forming the passage ducts are covered and stabilized via a low-melting reinforcing coat prior to injec... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8096096 | Machine for packaging products in wrappers of sheet material In a packaging machine, typically a cellophaner for overwrapping packets of cigarettes, each of the packets is enveloped by a wrapping unit in a heat shrinkable wrapper presenting at least two opposite faces disposed parallel one with another. The machine also compr... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8076810 | Method for assembling an electric motor and motor obtained using this method A method for assembling an electric motor of the type having a stator unit (5) and a rotary unit (6) housed in a containment compartment (2a) delimited by a casing (2), includes exposing the compartment (2a) to a diff... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074453 | Combustion chamber lining A combustion chamber for a gas turbine has a metallic supporting structure 6 and several circumferentially distributed ceramic bodies 2 attached to the supporting structure 6. The ceramic bodies 2 each have a straight hollow tubular profi... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8057620 | Unit and a method for forming absorbent pads used in nappies/diapers Multilayer absorbent pads for nappy/diaper pants are manufactured on a unit (1) comprising a first device (3a) and a second device (3b) by which respective first and second layers (4a, 4b) of absorbent m... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8047802 | Course of leading edges for turbomachine components The course of the leading edges of turbomachine components, such as rotor blades and stator vanes is defined mathematically exactly and repeatedly as well as aerodynamically advantageously by the respective axial coordinate in the direction of the machine axis in re... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8047000 | Gas turbine combustion chamber The invention relates to a gas turbine combustion chamber with a combustion chamber wall 1, with at least part of the combustion chamber wall 1 being provided with a liquid-cooling system. ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8043451 | Wedge-shaped heating element and method for producing it The invention relates to a wedge-shaped heating element (or heating wedge) for an apparatus for contact welding of plastic films or plastic sheets (2, 3) and to a method for producing it. In order to provide that the heating element (1) is usable for d... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8043046 | 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 c... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8039773 | Method and apparatus for the repair of gas-turbine blisks A method and an apparatus for repairing gas-turbine blisks uses an endoscope 15 provided with processing optics featuring a flexible light guide arrangement 16. A laser source 9 is connected to a flexible optical fiber arrangement 10, wit... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8038409 | Turbomachine with rotors of high specific energy transfer A turbomachine has at least one rotor blade row designed for extremely high work coefficients (high-load), 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 trai... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037832 | Meeting table A meeting table (1), below its horizontal top (7) which forms a working area, has a container (10) housing a system (2) for remote conferences, in particular for telepresence or videoconference meetings; inside the perimeter of the top ( | 10/18/2011 |
| 8029865 | Method for coating or heat treatment of blisks for aircraft gas turbines A method for hard-material coating or heat treatment of the blade airfoils of blisks for gas turbines includes insulating portions of the blisk other than the blade airfoils against a furnace atmosphere; loading the blisk as a whole into a heat treatment furnace/coa... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8024137 | Method for determining blade mistuning on integrally manufactured rotor wheels For determining production-inherent mistuning of integrally manufactured rotor wheels (blisks) on the basis of the identification of blade natural frequencies, the individual blades are excited independently of each other and the vibratory response is measured for t... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8022590 | Electric machine An electric machine comprises: a casing (2); a stator (3) and a rotor (4) supported by the casing (2), the rotor (4) having at least one rotor winding (7); a commutator (9) connected permanently to the rotor (4... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8020296 | Method for the production of secondary fluid ducts A method for the production of secondary fluid ducts for a turbomachine, especially for fluid supply or fluid removal to/from a flow-wetted surface of the turbomachine, with the secondary fluid ducts being produced by an electrochemical machining process. ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8015782 | Case packer Cigarette cartons are boxed by a case packer comprising a frame mounted on a base, a feed unit supplying collapsed box blanks, a station at which the boxes are packed, a feed unit by which the cartons are directed along a path running perpendicular to a feed path fo... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7976656 | Gumming device and a method for gumming a web of wrapping material A method of gumming a web of paper material in a filter tip attachment machine is implemented using a gumming device that comprises a gumming roller and a transfer roller counter-rotating tangentially one to another about horizontal and parallel axes, and creating a... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7971924 | Gangway bellows cover-style connecting device for articulated vehicles A gangway bellows cover-style connecting device for articulated vehicles comprises a plurality of bands (2) made of flexible material, equipped with stiffening frames (3), connected to each other and forming a tunnel (4) which has an upper wall ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971711 | Folded and sealed coupon insertable in packs containing tobacco products, and a blank from which to fashion the coupon A folded and sealed cigarette coupon is inserted typically between the outermost face of a cigarette packet and its transparent overwrap. The coupon is fashioned from a flat blank divided by crease lines into a set of panels and extended at either end to create a co... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971694 | Automatic transmission and shaft system therefor A shaft system for an automatic transmission includes a stator support shaft having an internal axial bore for receiving an input shaft, a forward engagement portion for engaging a stator of a torque converter of the automatic transmission and an integral stator sup... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7967556 | Turbomachine with means for the creation of a peripheral jet on the stator A turbomachine has at least one stator (4) and at least one downstream rotor (7), with the stator (4) being provided with stationary stator blades and the rotor (7) comprising several rotor blades attached to a rotating shaft. A casing ( | 06/28/2011 |
