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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7314347 | Pressurized fluid bladeless turbine engine with opposing fluid intake assemblies A bladeless pressurized fluid turbine engine having a bladeless turbine, internal, concentric or circumferential shaft fluid ways which transmit pressurized gas to the turbine, and a pair of opposing pressurized fluid intake assemblies. Each intake assembly has a fi... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7253536 | Water supply apparatus A water supply apparatus includes an apparatus body disposed in a flow passage for sucking water to an indoor facility and a power generation unit installed in the apparatus body. Further, the power generation unit further comprises a rotating shaft extended in a di... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7241106 | Combined cycle boundary layer turbine A two staged fluid propulsion apparatus of the type which utilizes prior art pitched blades combined with solid boundary layer disks supported by a novel rotating tubular flow conduit perforated to allow fluid flow to from the interior of the tube to the exterior su... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7119451 | Self-powered miniature liquid treatment system with ultraviolet dosing A liquid treatment system that may be self-powered includes a filter, an ultraviolet light source and a hydro-generator. A flow of liquid may be filtered with the filter and used to rotate the hydro-generator to generate electric power. The ultraviolet light source ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7067936 | Self-powered miniature liquid treatment system with multiple liquid flow paths A liquid treatment system that may be self-powered includes a filter, an ultraviolet light source and a hydro-generator in a first flow path. The first flow path may provide treated liquid at a first outlet of the liquid treatment system. A second flow path included... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6997674 | Pressurized fluid turbine engine A bladeless pressurized fluid turbine engine having a bladeless turbine, internal, concentric or circumferential shaft fluid ways which transmit pressurized gas to the turbine, and a pressurized fluid intake assembly. The intake assembly has a fixed outer housing, t... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6927501 | Self-powered miniature liquid treatment system A liquid treatment system that may be self-powered includes a filter, an ultraviolet light source and a hydro-generator in a first flow path. The first flow path may provide treated liquid at a first outlet of the liquid treatment system. A second flow path included... | 08/09/2005 |
| 5636509 | Flywheel engine improvements Improvements in a flywheel engine are described which includes a flywheel with non radial propulsion units for generating thrust by combustion to rotate the flywheel in a first direction about a flywheel axis. A drive shaft mounts the flywheel for rotatio... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5263814 | Water driven turbine An improved water turbine which has a first rotatable cylinder having a water inlet hole and a plurality of nozzles, and a second rotatable cylinder having a plurality of rotating blades on the inner surface is disclosed. Water dropped from an altitude en... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5219270 | Reaction barrel with rocket nozzles in staggered alignment and connecting ducts of unequal length A method and apparatus for recovering energy from a wet oxidation products stream flow includes channeling the stream flow to an energy recovery assembly (10). The assembly (10) includes a rotatable reactor barrel (32). The reaction barrel (32) is mounted... | 06/15/1993 |
| 4479115 | Fan speed and/or fan failure detector A pressure transducer, such as a microphone, is placed in proximity to the blades of a fan, such as a fan used to cool electronic equipment. As each blade passes the transducer, a pressure wave is generated that is converted into an electrical pulse by th... | 10/23/1984 |
| 4453885 | Counter deflection torque device A counter deflection torque device is disclosed. The counter deflection torque device includes an inner hollow shaft in communication with a source of high pressure working fluid and an outer hollow shaft surrounding at least a portion of the inner hollow... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4430042 | Velocity pump reaction turbine An expanding hydraulic/two-phase velocity pump reaction turbine including a dual concentric rotor configuration with an inter-rotor annular flow channel in which the inner rotor is mechanically driven by the outer rotor. In another embodiment, the inner r... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4410279 | Apparatus for agitating the contents of storage tanks An apparatus for agitating and transforming settled sludges into slurries which are then capable of being pumped by conventional means. The apparatus comprises a housing immersible in the contents of a tank or chamber and containing separate variable driv... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4336039 | Geothermal turbine A turbine for the generation of energy from geothermal sources including a reaction water turbine of the radial outflow type and a similar turbine for supersonic expansion of steam or gases. The rotor structure may incorporate an integral separator for re... | 06/22/1982 |
| 4332520 | Velocity pump reaction turbine An expanding hydraulic/two-phase velocity pump reaction turbine including a dual concentric rotor configuration with an inter-rotor annular flow channel in which the inner rotor is mechanically driven by the outer rotor. In another embodiment, the inner r... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4278396 | Hub seals for thrust-assisted centrifugal pump This invention relates to a centrifugal pump characterized by a pair of novel self-aligning impeller hub seals located in the high pressure cavity and subjected to the influence thereof to maintain them in fluid-tight sealed contact with the adjacent cavi... | 07/14/1981 |
| 3930744 | Pressure gas engine A pressure gas engine having an inner first member of circular cross section with a periphery containing first energy conversion means for converting gas pressure to power and an outer second member extending around the first member and with a generally c... | 01/06/1976 |
