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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7493752 | Control system for aircraft engine A control apparatus 50 for a gas turbine engine for an aircraft includes engine control means 52 forming part of an outer fuel control loop and fuel control means/overthrust protector 76 forming part of an inner fuel control loop. Overthrust pro... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7459551 | Method for preparing cyclic compounds The present invention provides a method for preparing a β-lactam compound of the following Formula (3), which comprises the step of reacting a compound of the following Formula (1) with a trialkyl phosphite represented by the formula (R5O)3P (... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459477 | Substituted N-phenyl-phenoxy nicotinic acid-(thio)amides and their use as herbicides The present invention relates to a substituted anilide derivative represented by general formula (I): (wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom, a (C1-C6)alkyl group, a halo(C | 12/02/2008 |
| 7458766 | Turbine blade cooling system Efficient cooling of a stage of gas turbine engine turbine blades (36) is achieved by first reducing the pressure of the cooling air after it has been bled from the annulus of the compressor (12) by passing it through a diffuser (30), to a press... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7452070 | Single lens pince-nez A single lens pince-nez, comprising a bridge member (11) adapted to extend over the bridge of the nose of a person and engage the sides of the bridge of the nose, and a single lens (10) attached to the bridge member (11) in a position located in... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7449063 | Method and mould for casting articles with a pre-determined crystalline orientation Previously a number of techniques have been used in order to form single crystal or pre-determined crystallography components and articles. Each one of these techniques has its own particular problems, including susceptibility to error. By utilisation of a bi-crysta... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7448851 | Seal arrangement A seal arrangement 30 presents a barrier in the form of a combined seal and anti-fret liner 36 across a shroud ring cavity 32 in order to inhibit air leakage in the platform gap between platforms 33. It will be understood that these gaps ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7448849 | Seal A turbofan gas turbine engine (10) comprises a compressor rotor (24) carrying a plurality of circumferentially spaced radially extending rotor blades (26) and a casing (28) surrounding the compressor rotor (24) and compressor rotor... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7448845 | Gas turbine engine A turbofan gas turbine engine (10) comprises a fan rotor and a compressor rotor (62). The fan rotor (24) carries a plurality of circumferentially spaced radially outwardly extending fan blades (26). The compressor rotor carries a pluralit... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7448215 | Combustion chamber for a gas turbine engine A combustion chamber suitable for a gas turbine engine is provided with at least one Helmholtz resonator having a resonator cavity and a resonator neck in flow communication with the chamber interior. The resonator neck is provided with at least cooling holes extend... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7444826 | Fault current limiter A fault current limiter comprising: an input node; an output node; a variable impedance element coupled between the input node and the output node; a multi-cycle refrigeration system, comprising a first coolant cycle for cooling the variable impedance element and a ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444802 | Gas turbine engine including stator vanes having variable camber and stagger configurations at different circumferential positions Within an intake for a gas turbine engine provision is provided through stator vanes 25, 45 in the stator whereby back pressure from a necessary obstruction 34, 46 can be utilised to balance forward pressure variations caused by intake droop or crosswi... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7443072 | Brush card for window lift motors A brush card assembly 10 includes a brush card member 12, conductive contacts 14 provided on the brush card member, and brushes 16 mounted to be electrically in contact with the conductive contacts. The assembly 10 also includes br... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440392 | Wireless receiver deinterleaver having partitioned memory A deinterleaver module in an OFDM wireless transceiver includes partitioned memory banks for storage of code word fragments from an interleaved data stream, each code word fragment associated with a prescribed subcarrier frequency. Each code word fragment includes a... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7434303 | Nacelle assembly for a gas turbine engine A nacelle assembly 40 adapted for mounting on a ducted fan gas turbine engine 20 comprising a generally annular body 46 having an air inlet 42 and an air outlet 44, the generally annular body 46 encircling a region of the en... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7435290 | Centrifugal gas/liquid separators A centrifugal gas/liquid separator for location in a liquid reservoir comprises a generally cylindrical wall defining a separation chamber having a closed end, an open end, an inlet in the cylindrical wall for supplying a gas/liquid mixture into the separation chamb... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430622 | Extended fairness arbitration for chains of point-to -point devices having multiple virtual channels Buffer-level arbitration is used to allocate released buffers, based on received flow control credits, between local packets and received packets on respective virtual channels in accordance with a determined insertion rate relative to a second number of received pa... | 09/30/2008 |
| D577417 | Shower handset | 09/23/2008 |
| 7422820 | Solid oxide fuel cell stack A solid oxide fuel cell stack (10) comprises a plurality of modules (12). Each module (12) comprises an elongate hollow member (14). Each hollow member (14) has at least one passage (32) extending longitudinally through the ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7419026 | Seat belt device A seat belt for constraining an occupant to a seat is provided with both a tension varying means 16 allowing for providing a tension to the seat belt to vary, and a tension detecting means for detecting an actual tension on the seat belt. There is provided fa... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7419082 | Friction welding process A friction welding process providing a workpiece having a weld surface, and a second workpiece having a weld surface. The workpieces being welded together at respective weld surfaces. Oscillatory motion is affected to the workpieces such that one weld surface moves ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7414199 | Joined cable assembly A joined cable assembly joins the interfacing ends of cables, one to another. The joint includes a pair of cables, each cable having an end and comprising a first plurality of conductor strands. A terminal enlarging member is provided longitudinally of each cable pr... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409848 | Apparatus and method for bulge testing an article An apparatus (10) for bulge testing an article (12) comprises a pressure vessel (14) arranged to define a chamber (15), the pressure vessel (14) has a first aperture (28) and a second aperture (30), means to pressuriz... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7410089 | Method of making aerofoil blisks A method of making an aerofoil blisk (10) comprising a plurality of aerofoil blades (12) joined to a disc (14) to extend radially outwardly therefrom includes the step of forming a blade member (28) having a stub (30) for joining t... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7407606 | Electroconductive powder and method for production thereof A method for producing a titanium dioxide powder having a well electroconductive layer containing substantially no antimony, which comprises providing a titanium dioxide powder containing specific amounts or less of alkali metals, such as sodium and potassium, alkal... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406828 | Power augmentation of combustion turbines with compressed air energy storage and additional expander with airflow extraction and injection thereof upstream of combustors A combustion turbine power generation system (10) includes a combustion turbine assembly (11) including a main compressor (12) constructed and arranged to receive ambient inlet air, a main expansion turbine (14) operatively associated wit... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7408917 | Enabling mobile stations of multiple configurations to sync to a CDMA system based on multiple protocol identifiers on multiple channels An IS-2000 Rev. A base station enables synchronization of a mobile station configured for receiving, via a sync channel, a sync channel message, based on sending a first sync channel message on the sync channel specifying a first protocol (P_REV=5), and sending a se... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7407622 | Method of manufacturing a metal article by powder metallurgy A method of manufacturing a fan blade (26) for a gas turbine engine by powder metallurgy comprises the steps of forming a container (52) and placing at least one metal insert (52) at a predetermined position within the container (52) and ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400994 | Method and test component for rotatable disc parts Rotatable discs combined with turbine blades in engines must be tested for critical life analysis. Thus, consideration must be made as to life expectancy for such components as a result of tensile circumferential hoops as generated by the weight of blades under rota... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400286 | Device and method for use in the verification of handwriting A device (10) for use in the verification of handwriting, comprising: a body (12) having a surface (11) over which a writing instrument (8) is moved during the generation of a piece of handwriting; a transducer (14) for transducing... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7399546 | Solid oxide fuel cell A solid oxide fuel cell (10) comprises an anode electrode (12), a cathode electrode (14) and an electrolyte (16) between the anode electrode (12) and the cathode electrode (14). A gaseous fuel is supplied to an anode chamber... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7399160 | Turbine component A turbine component such as a turbine blade has a cooling chamber that is tapered. The taper induces and maintains a helical swirl that improves the cooling efficiency of the cooling process and enables the turbine component to operate at higher temperatures. ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7399158 | Blade arrangement A blade arrangement 31 includes an array of radially extending blades 20, which may for example comprise a fan of a gas turbine engine for an aircraft. The blades 20 are mounted for rotation about a central axis X-X. The blade arrangement 31 | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398641 | Aeroengine intake having a heat exchanger within an annular closed chamber A gas turbine engine comprising a nacelle having an intake, the intake defining a generally annular chamber, an engine accessory and a heat exchanger for cooling a fluid of the accessory. The chamber is closed and the heat exchanger is disposed within the chamber op... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7389644 | Power augmentation of combustion turbines by injection of cold air upstream of compressor A combustion turbine power generation system 10 includes a combustion turbine assembly 11 including a main compressor 12 constructed and arranged to receive ambient inlet air, a main expansion turbine 14 operatively associated with the ma... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7384439 | Vents for fluid systems A vent for a fluid system includes a chamber through which fluid can flow along either a first flow path or a second flow path, in which the resistance to fluid flow is relatively high when the fluid follows the first flow path and relatively low when the fluid foll... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7384240 | Composite blade A composite blade (26) comprises a root portion (36) and an aerofoil portion (38). The aerofoil portion (38) has a tip (42), a chord (C), a leading edge (44), a trailing edge (46), a suction surface (48) extend... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382831 | Viterbi decoder utilizing compressed survival metrics for reduced memory size requirements A Viterbi decoder is configured for subtracting each survivor metric for each corresponding encoder state by a prescribed subtraction operator based on a prescribed event. The subtraction of each survivor metric by a prescribed subtraction operator based on a prescr... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7377111 | Carbon dioxide recirculation Carbon dioxide recirculating apparatus (20, 120) is disclosed for use in an arrangement having combination means (115) and a path for the flow of a gas through the combustion means (115). The apparatus (20, 120) comprises extraction means... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7378174 | Fuel cell module A solid oxide fuel cell module comprises a hollow support member and a plurality of fuel cells spaced apart longitudinally on one surface of the hollow support member. A plurality of interconnectors electrically connect the fuel cells in electrical series. Each fuel... | 05/27/2008 |