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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7318394 | Mount for connecting automotive fan motor to housing The motor of an automotive cooling fan system is attached to a housing by either bayonet mount, screw mount, or axial-snap features on both motor and housing, as well as a cradle structure on the housing. ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7186072 | Recirculation structure for a turbocompressor A recirculation structure for turbo-compressors has an annular chamber that is positioned in the area of the free blade ends of a rotating blade ring and that radially borders the main flow channel, and has a multitude of guide vanes arranged in the annular chamber ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7156615 | Fan shroud structure for reducing resonance, improving stiffness and manufacturability A fan shroud structure 10 is constructed and arranged to carry a fan. The fan shroud structure includes a body 12 having a periphery, a main surface, and an annular rim 26 defining a generally central opening 28. The opening 28 is ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7086825 | Fan A fan is provided for use with a casing having a bellmouth and a conduit portion. The fan has a hub, a number of blades extending from the hub, and a shroud. In cooperation with the casing and the conduit portion surrounding the shroud, the shroud has means for gene... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7074006 | Endwall treatment and method for gas turbine An endwall treatment for a gas turbine engine having at least one rotor blade extending from a rotatable hub and a casing circumferentially surrounding the rotor and the hub, the endwall treatment including, an inlet formed in an endwall of the gas turbine engine ad... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7066365 | Transportable shooting apparatus An apparatus, which can be secured to a vehicle, and which can be used to affix, transport, and deploy shooting sports equipment such as a target dispenser, or a gun-sighting bench rest assembly. The apparatus is most commonly secured to and transported by an all-te... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7025557 | Secondary flow control system The present invention is a system (20) for controlling various fluid flows, e.g., secondary fluid flows including cavitating fluid flows, typically developed along the shroud line and usually in or around a leading edge (21) within a flow channel (2... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6935833 | Recirculation structure for turbo chargers Recirculation structure for turbocompressors, having a ring chamber which is arranged in the area of the free blade ends of a blade ring largely upstream of the latter and adjoins the main flow duct. A plurality of guiding elements are arranged in the ring chamber d... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6648591 | Tip treatment assembly for a gas turbine engine A tip treatment assembly is provided including a tip treatment bar (16) and retaining means (24, 26) which cooperate with a retaining element (30, 32) to retain the tip treatment bar (16) with respect to support means (44) of the assembly. The retaining m... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6619909 | Casing treatment for a fluid compressor An axial or centrifugal flow compressor having arrays of blades (16) extending across a working medium flowpath (18) includes a casing treatment for enhancing the compressor's fluid dynamic stability. The casing treatment features a circumferentially exte... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6591516 | Hair dryer A hair dryer including a main body, a centrifugal fan, at least one air inlet and at least one inlet guide. The main body has an air outlet. The centrifugal fan is provided in the main body and configured to blow air toward the air outlet. The centrifugal... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6432302 | Water circulation apparatus system and method This circulation device is equipped with a water impeller that is larger than and tightly fitted over the top of the draft tube through which the water from the pond or reservoir is drawn. The water drawn up and directed outwardly over a large diffuser pl... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6409470 | Tip treatment bars in a gas turbine engine A gas turbine engine casing includes a tip treatment ring 20 which comprises end supports 18 which support tip treatment bars 16. Each tip treatment bar 16 is mounted at its ends within the respective end supports 18 by damping elements 22, which isolate ... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6302640 | Axial fan skip-stall An axial fan includes a hub within a housing. A cavity is formed between the hub and housing. A plurality of blades is on the hub, with an air separator ring disposed operatively adjacent to the blades. The ring supports a plurality of vanes that are long... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6264425 | Fluid-flow machine for compressing or expanding a compressible medium A fluid-flow machine for compressing or expanding a compressible medium is described, having a rotor on which there is arranged perpendicularly to the rotor axis at least one moving-blade row, the individual moving blades of which have moving-blades ends,... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6238180 | Leak reducing structure in a steam turbine The present invention relates to a leak reducing structure in a steam turbine having high pressure, intermediate pressure, and low pressure turbine sections in a single casing, in which steam leaking from the high pressure side to the intermediate pressur... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6231301 | Casing treatment for a fluid compressor An axial flow or centrifugal flow compressor having arrays of blades (16) extending across a working medium flowpath (18) includes a casing treatment for enhancing the compressor's fluid dynamic stability. In one variant of the invention the casing treatm... | 05/15/2001 |
| 5607284 | Baffled passage casing treatment for compressor blades A tip shroud assembly comprising a segmented annular shroud, each segment comprising an first arcuate member having a first radially inner surface and a circumferentially extending channel extending radially outward therefrom, and a second arcuate member ... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5586859 | Flow aligned plenum endwall treatment for compressor blades A tip shroud assembly comprising a segmented annular shroud, each segment comprising a radially outer surface, and a radially inner surface including a plurality of first holes defining a first row and a plurality of second holes defining a second row, wi... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5562404 | Vaned passage hub treatment for cantilever stator vanes The cantilevered stator vanes of the compressor section of the gas turbine engine are treated by including a rotating hub having a by-pass passage for removing the low momentum fluid from the main air stream adjacent to the tips of the stator vanes in the... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5489186 | Housing with recirculation control for use with banded axial-flow fans Stationary flow control vanes positioned to encounter and redirect recirculating airflow provide a surprising combination of efficiency, low noise, and manufacturability for shrouded, banded, axial fans that are positioned in a housing. Such fan and housi... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5474417 | Cast casing treatment for compressor blades A tip shroud assembly comprising a segmented annular shroud, each segment comprising first, second and third arcuate members and a plurality of vane walls integral with the first second and third members, and each arcuate member has a radially inner surfa... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5431533 | Active vaned passage casing treatment The recirculating flow in the vaned passage in the case surrounding the tips of the fan blades of a turbo fan engine or ducted fan propulsor is modified or blocked off during certain engine or aircraft operating modes. In one embodiment an aneroid valve c... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5308225 | Rotor case treatment To enhance stall margin without degrading engine performance the case of the fan of a fan-jet engine is treated by incorporating a passageway to remove flow from the main flow stream. The location and amount of the low momentum flow relative to the rotor ... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5282718 | Case treatment for compressor blades The outer shroud of an axial flow compressor is treated to remove the low momentum flow adjacent the tips of the compressor blades in a judiciously located and sized passageway that removes the low momentum flow relative to the rotor blades at a location ... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5232333 | Single flow turbopump with integrated boosting Inside a single casing the turbopump comprises a main shaft driven by a turbine, a secondary shaft coaxial with the main shaft, a low pressure impeller mounted on the secondary shaft to create a medium pressure flow which is brought back to flow parallel ... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5224817 | Shunt flow turbopump with integrated boosting Inside a single casing the turbopump comprises a main shaft driven by a turbine, a secondary shaft coaxial with the main shaft, a low pressure impeller mounted on the secondary shaft to create a medium pressure flow which is brought back to flow parallel ... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5197851 | Axial flow turbopump with integrated boosting Inside a single casing the turbopump comprises a main shaft driven by a turbine, a secondary shaft coaxial with the main shaft, at least one low pressure boost impeller mounted on the secondary shaft. The LP fluid flow is brought parallel to the axis of t... | 03/30/1993 |
| 4884943 | Method and apparatus for pumping high-consistency fiber suspension A method and an apparatus for treating high-consistency fiber suspension are especially suitable for short distance conveyances of thick fiber suspensions (consistency more than 15%) in pulp and paper industry, for example for discharge of mass towers eit... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4871294 | Axial-flow fan An axial-flow fan having a stepped housing defined by an inlet part and an outlet part, the outlet part having the inside diameter smaller than the inside diameter of the inlet part, the inlet part adjoined to an inlet tube of an inside diameter substanti... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4673331 | Axial blower An axial blower with an intake that tapers conically into a cylindrical component. An impeller rotates inside the cylindrical component. A stationary channeling ring of approximately the same diameter as the cylindrical component is positioned upstream of... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4642023 | Vented shrouded inducer A pump having a shrouded inducer rotatably mounted within a housing. An outer periphery of the shroud and an adjacent inner surface of the housing defines an annular space through which a recirculation flow of fluid occurs during operation of the pump. Th... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4630993 | Axial-flow fan The rotor (1) of the fan is surrounded by a casing (5) having inlet and outlet sections (6, 8) interconnected by an enlarged intermediate section (7) defined between and end wall (10) located upstream of the rotor and an end wall (11) axially disposed bet... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4441855 | Compressors In an axial flow rotary compressor a fluid flow inlet is circumferentially separated from a fluid flow outlet by a dynamic flow splitter comprising at least one toroidal chamber providing a loop fluid flow path intersecting the path of the rotor blades su... | 04/10/1984 |
