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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128463 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING THERMAL ISSUES IN ONE OR MORE INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES The present invention generally relates to a system that enables one to both: (i) address various thermal management issues (e.g., inlet air cooling) in gas turbines, gas turbine engines, industrial process equipment and/or internal combustion engines; and (ii) yield a ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120107088 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING VARIABLE-GEOMETRY EQUIPMENT FOR A TURBOMACHINE, USING A RELATIVE-MEASUREMENT JACK A device for controlling positioning of variable-geometry equipment of a turbomachine, including a computer, an actuator of variable geometry driven by the computer, and a drive train, the actuator including moving parts including a sensor for measuring its elongation, ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120107086 | MOTOR ASSISTED FINE PITCH STARTUP RAM AIR TURBINE A startup assistance apparatus for a fine pitch Ram Air Turbine (RAT) is provided and includes a generator to provide motive power to the RAT when operating in a first mode and to generate electricity from RAT operation when operating in a second mode and a control unit... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120107085 | Housing and Mass Airflow Rate Control System for a Wind Turbine The present invention provides control for airflow to a wind turbine that allows a wind turbine to operate cost effectively and efficiently in a wide range of speeds and a variety of ambient conditions. A system has a housing, a wind turbine assembly located within an i... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120107087 | METHOD FOR VARYING THE GEOMETRY OF A MID-TURBINE FRAME A method for varying the geometry of a mid-turbine frame includes detecting a strain in a mid-turbine frame with a piezoelectric material; applying a deformation voltage to the piezoelectric material as a function of the detected strain; deforming the piezoelectric mate... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120107089 | Fluid Flow Control System Having a Moving Fluid Expander Providing Flow Control and Conversion of Fluid Energy into Other Useful Energy Forms A fluid flow control system for controlling flow of a primary fluid to a downstream flow-inducing device includes a moving fluid expander with variable expansion ratio and variable speed arranged to receive the flow of the primary fluid and to expand the primary fluid, ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 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<... | 03/22/2012 |
| 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... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120068470 | MANUFACTURE OF WIND TURBINE ENHANCEMENT SYSTEMS Aspects of the manufacturing of Flow Deflection Devices (FDDs) for wind turbines are presented as a system that requires adjustments in order to improve power output and adjust for changes in different conditions yet provides stability of shape.... | 03/22/2012 |
| 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... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120045312 | VANE CARRIER ASSEMBLY A vane carrier assembly is provided for supporting vanes within a main engine casing of a gas turbine engine. The vane carrier assembly comprises a plurality of vane support panels positioned adjacent to one another so as to define a vane support assembly. The support p... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120045318 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AIR FLOW CONTROL According to one aspect of the invention, an air flow control apparatus includes a guide vane to be positioned between an air inlet and a rotor of a turbomachine. Further, the guide vane includes a geometry configured to control an air flow incidence on the rotor, the g... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039702 | COMPRESSOR A compressor has a housing defining a gas inlet flow path and a gas outlet and a rotatable impeller wheel between the gas inlet flow path and the gas outlet. The housing has an inner wall defining a surface located in close proximity to radially outer edges of impeller ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039701 | Closed Cycle Brayton Cycle System and Method Method and unit for generating energy with improved efficiency. A Brayton cycle unit includes a multistage compressor configured to compress a flowing medium; a first heat exchanger fluidly connected to the multistage compressor and configured to transfer heat from a wo... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120034064 | CONTOURED AXIAL-RADIAL EXHAUST DIFFUSER In accordance with one embodiment, a system includes a gas turbine diffuser. The gas turbine diffuser includes an axial diffuser section including a first duct portion having an axial flow path along a centerline of the gas turbine diffuser. The gas turbine diffuser als... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120027564 | Method for the pressure regulation of a barrier fluid and a pumping device for a method of this kind A method for the pressure regulation of a barrier fluid in a pumping device (10) is introduced, which includes a pump unit (11) with a shaft (12) and a pump housing (13), a drive unit (17), which is mechanically coupled to the pump uni... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027569 | ROTATING MACHINE WITH SHAFT SEALING ARRANGEMENT A rotating machine comprising such as an axial power turbine or a turbocharger has a housing with a bearing cavity and a chamber separated by a first wall. A shaft is rotatable about an axis in the bearing cavity, extends through an opening in the first wall and is moun... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027565 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LEAK STEAM TO STEAM SEAL HEADER FOR IMPROVING STEAM TURBINE PERFORMANCE A turbine system is provided wherein during self-sealing operating conditions, excess leakoff steam is restricted from being dumped to a steam seal header and is diverted into the working steam flow path, hence increasing net output and efficiency for the turbine system... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027566 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING A WIND TURBINE A method, system and computer program product for operating a wind turbine is disclosed. For operating the wind turbine a set of operational data points are sensed via a sensing module. The set of operational data points may include bending stress values. Based on the b... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023945 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COOLING STEAM TURBINE GENERATING FACILITY In a steam turbine 40 of opposed-current single-casing type in which a high pressure turbine part 31a and an intermediate-pressure turbine part 32a are housed in a single casing, a dummy ring 10 partitions the high-pressure turb... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027568 | LOW-PRESSURE STEAM TURBINE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THEREOF The disclosure relates to a multi-stage low-pressure steam turbine and a method for operating thereof. The steam turbine includes a last stage in which the leading edge of each vane of the last stage is skewed so as to form a W shaped K-distribution across the span of t... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027567 | MECHANICALLY-COUPLED TURBOMACHINERY CONFIGURATIONS AND COOLING METHODS FOR HERMETICALLY-SEALED HIGH-TEMPERATURE OPERATION The present invention provides a hermetically sealed turbomachine, such as a motor-driven blower and a turbine driven generator, capable of reliable high-temperature operation, especially for large sized turbomachines. The hot blower, compressor or turbine end of the tu... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120020768 | COOLED CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENT FOR A GAS TURBINE A cooled constructional element for a gas turbine includes a wall having a front and a rear side. The front side is configured to be thermally loaded during operation of the turbine, and the rear side has a plurality of pins projecting therefrom in a two-dimensional dis... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120014776 | Method and apparatus for enhancing compressor performance The present invention provides a non-axisymmetric flow member disposed in a duct of a gas turbine engine. The flow member narrows the area aft of a vane to reduce the cross sectional area through which a wake from the vane traverses.... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014777 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A REGULATED-ROTATION-SPEED LOW-PRESSURE CENTRIFUGAL FAN Method for controlling an automatic stall-prevention of a rotation-speed-regulated centrifugal fan. What is essential in the invention is that the control automatics is controlled by means of the automation system of the process, in which control automatics stalling is ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014778 | Sealing Device for Steam Turbines and Method for Controlling Sealing Device Subject: To provide a sealing structure, and control method therefor, which improve sealing performance between a rotating region and a fixed region, prevent fins from being damaged, and prevent increases in the amount of steam leakage from any clearances newly formed b... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110318160 | TURBOEXPANDER AND METHOD FOR USING MOVEABLE INLET GUIDE VANES AT COMPRESSOR INLET A turboexpander-compressor system includes an expander configured to expand an incoming gas, a first set of moveable inlet guide vanes configured to control a pressure of the incoming gas, a compressor configured to compress a gas received from the expander, a shaft con... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110318161 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A WIND TURBINE A wind turbine apparatus having a plurality of blades, a shaft connecting the blades and a housing for the blades. The housing is configured to provide an operational angle of over approximately 90 degrees. A wind turbine system having at least one wind turbine apparatu... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110311347 | Flash Steam Turbine A flash steam powered flywheel turbine is provided comprising a stator housing with an internal channel for the flash and expansion of steam, the channel having a plurality of jet orifices to direct jets of expanding steam toward a rotary flywheel which is fixed to a ro... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110311348 | MULTI-INLET VACUUM PUMP A multi-inlet vacuum pump includes a first pump device (10) including a first rotor element (18) with a plurality of first rotor disks (20) serially arranged in the conveying direction (36), and a second pump device (12) including a fu... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110309624 | DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTING TIDAL ENERGY A turbine assembly and a system for extracting tidal energy are disclosed. The turbine assembly may include identical sections disposed in a stacked arrangement. Each section may be shaftless, energizable by a fluid flow to produce lift and is appropriately oriented at ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110305554 | LIGHT WEIGHT VANELESS COMPRESSOR CONTAINMENT DESIGN A vaneless compressor containment design has an inner bolt circle with more than three fasteners situated in the vaneless space to cut up tri-hub pieces to smaller pieces prior to reaching an outer bolt circle and its associated flange. This containment design may allow... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110305555 | Isentropic method and apparatus for greatly increasing and extracting the power from wind and moving air This invention employs the isentropic acceleration of a basic air flow, supplied by the wind, through a converging/diverging De Laval Nozzle, to thereby enormously increase the air flow speed and power at the nozzle throat section and to simultaneously lower the pressur... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110305556 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VARIABLE GEOMETRY INLETS NOZZLES FOR USE IN TURBOEXPANDERS A method and system for power generation including a turboexpander with at least two expansion stages, the turboexpander being connected to a power generation unit, is provided. The system includes a controller configured to control (i) an angle of a first inlet guide v... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110305892 | POROUS PROTECTIVE COATING FOR TURBINE ENGINE COMPONENTS A method for coating a substrate of a turbine engine component, the method comprising cold spray depositing a metal-based material onto a surface of the substrate, and heating the deposited metal-based material to increase the porosity of the deposited metal-based mater... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110299972 | IMPELLER BACKFACE SHROUD FOR USE WITH A GAS TURBINE ENGINE An impeller or axial stage compressor disk backface shroud for use with a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The backface shroud includes, but is not limited to, a substantially funnel shaped body having a surface. The substantially funnel shaped body is configured to be ... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110299979 | Method for Improving the Stall Margin of an Axial Flow Compressor Using a Casing Treatment A method for determining a preferred circumferential groove arrangement for a casing treatment of an axial flow compressor is disclosed. The method includes using the results from a three dimensional steady state computational fluid dynamic analysis to generate a flow f... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110299971 | GEAR ARRANGEMENT An example gear arrangement includes a gearbox shaft and a journal shaft. The journal shaft establishes an opening that receives an end portion of the gearbox shaft. The gearbox shaft is configured to rotate the journal shaft. The journal shaft is configured to selectiv... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110293400 | INSTALLATION FOR CONVERTING HYDRAULIC ENERGY, AND A METHOD OF CONTROLLING SUCH AN INSTALLATION The invention relates to a unit comprising a hydraulic turbine (1), a duct (5) leading a forced flow of water to the turbine, a duct (8) discharging the outgoing flow from the turbine and vanes (20) for guiding the flow through the discharge ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110293399 | HYDROELECTRIC TURBINE WITH PASSIVE BRAKING This present invention relates to a hydroelectric turbine having a stator and a rotor within the stator on at least one set of bearings, the turbine having a brake which becomes operational following a predetermined level of bearing wear in order to avoid damage to the ... | 12/01/2011 |
