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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182228 | Turbine blade having midspan shroud with recessed wear pad and methods for manufacture A durable blade, a method of manufacturing it and a method of repairing blades are described and claimed. Durable blade includes an airfoil having a pressure side and a suction side, a midspan shroud located on the airfoil, at least one recess on the midspan shroud ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 7942636 | Annulus filler seal A seal for an annulus filler for a gas turbine engine comprises a seal body releasably attached in use to the fan annulus filler, the seal body supporting two seal members so that in use one seal member is brought into contact with, and forms a seal against, an aero... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7484936 | Blades for a gas turbine engine with integrated sealing plate and method A blade for a rotor assembly including a root portion, a platform with an overhang, an airfoil portion and a sealing plate. The sealing plate protrudes from the blade along a circumferential direction. ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7465155 | Non-axisymmetric end wall contouring for a turbomachine blade row A turbomachine blade row is provided having a hub that includes a non-axisymmetric end wall modified by a transformation function. The blade row further includes a circumferential row of a plurality of airfoil members radially extending from the non-axisymmetric end... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7413399 | Method and apparatus for distributing fluid into a turbomachine An apparatus for distributing a fluid in a gas flow path inside a turbomachine, comprising: a device for introducing the fluid into the gas flow path; and wherein the device is positioned within the gas flow path. A method for installing an apparatus that will distr... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7331886 | Sliding arrow stabilizer An improved arrow and sliding stabilizer therefor are provided. The sliding stabilizer is used for stabilizing arrow flight, instead of fixed or glued tail feathers, vanes or other fletching. The invention improves current projectile technology with reduced assembly... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7302310 | Machining stock and part offset control One or more embodiments of the presently preferred invention provides a method and a computer-program product for generating a boundary path from a part geometry and a part boundary, where the part boundary is parametrically associated with the part geometry such th... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7284959 | Apparatus and method for securing a rotor blade in a rotor of a turbine-type machine A rotor of a turbine-type machine, in particular a gas turbine rotor, is disclosed. The rotor has a rotor base body, where the rotor base body has a groove extending in the circumferential direction of the rotor base body, and has multiple rotor blades or rotor blad... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7270519 | Methods and apparatus for reducing flow across compressor airfoil tips An airfoil for a gas turbine engine includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, a tip, a first side wall that extends in radial span between an airfoil root and the tip, wherein the first side wall defines a first side of said airfoil, and a second side wall connected... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7244103 | Windmill rotor comprising multiple separate wind channels Round honeycomb rotor for wind generators and most propellers has bent tubular trapezoids, two or more concentric tubular cylinders and a variable number of round bent tubular trapezoids. Both cylinders and trapezoids form modular trapezoidal tubes, which have large... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7219490 | Nested core gas turbine engine A gas turbine engine comprising a combustion chamber section, a turbine section, and a compressor section. The turbine section surrounds the combustion chamber and the compressor section surrounds the turbine section. ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7219408 | Tool for securing a component A method enables a component to be secured within a tool for manufacture. The tool includes a fixture, a component locator, and a clamping member. The method includes fixedly coupling the component locator to the fixture, coupling the clamping member to the fixture,... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7153099 | Inter-vane platform with lateral deflection for a vane support of a turbine engine An inter-vane platform, for a vane support disk of a turbine engine fan, includes a central part of one piece with the support disk between two adjacent vanes, and two lateral parts, forming extensions to two lateral edges of the central part, and each designed in s... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7094033 | Methods and apparatus for assembling gas turbine engines A method for assembling a fan platform for a gas turbine engine is provided. The method includes determining an area of vulnerability to impact and erosion damage across the platform, forming a sheet of cladding metal to substantially conform to a contour of the ide... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7011496 | Ring unit for decreasing eddy flow area of a fan module A fan device for decreasing eddy flow area includes a fan module and a ring unit. The fan module has a fan rotor and a motor stator set and the fan rotor is movably connected to the motor stator set. The motor stator set has a guide flow device, which provides a plu... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6969237 | Turbine airfoil cooling flow particle separator A vane assembly for a turbine engine comprising a plurality of vanes each comprising a pressure side wherein the pressure side of at least one of the plurality of vanes comprises at least one opening extending through the pressure side into an interior portion of th... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6951443 | Wind turbine ring/shroud drive system A wind turbine capable of driving multiple electric generators having a ring or shroud structure for reducing blade root bending moments, hub loads, blade fastener loads and pitch bearing loads. The shroud may further incorporate a ring gear for driving an electric ... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6832896 | Blade platforms for a rotor assembly A rotary assembly comprising a disk having recesses at its periphery; a plurality of blades carried by the disk, each blade having a blade root engaged in a corresponding recess of the disk, and a plurality of fitted platforms each mounted on the disk between two ad... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6599085 | Low tone axial fan structure A low tone axial flow fan structure includes a hub 12; an inner fan 14 including a number of inner blades 16 attached to the hub and extending radially outwardly to a first circumferentially extending blade support structure 18; and an outer fan 20 includ... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6568908 | Steam turbine The moving blades of a rotor included in a steam turbine are formed so that the width of a gap between opposite end surfaces of first connecting members of adjacent blades along the direction of rotation of the rotor and the width of a gap between opposit... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6454535 | Blisk A blisk for use in a turbine engine. The blisk includes an annular disk, an inner row of blades including a plurality of circumferentially spaced airfoils integrally formed with the disk, an annular splitter integrally formed with the inner row of blades ... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6413039 | Impeller for coolant pumps A cooling water pump for internal combustion engine includes a base and an outer cover forming a water input chamber, an impeller supported on a shaft within said chamber, fed shaft includes a bearing/seal unit mounted within the base and the shaft extend... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6413049 | Axial fan To provide an axial fan of a high performance at a low cost and with a high fan efficiency. An axial fan comprising a frusto-conical ring disposed on the downstream side of the fan. The frusto-conical ring is so mounted integrally with a fan boss on the o... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6354780 | Eccentric balanced blisk A blisk includes a disk having a rim from which extends a row of blades. The rim includes axially opposite overhangs one of which includes an arcuate balance land disposed eccentrically to the centerline axis of the disk for balancing the blisk.... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6341941 | Steam turbine A steam turbine for use in a thermal or nuclear power plant includes moving blades of a rotor which vibrate as the rotor rotates, inducing an excessive stress in joints of connecting members for connecting the adjacent moving blades and blade portions of ... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6266958 | Stator wheel for a hydrodynamic torque converter A stator wheel for a hydrodynamic torque converter comprises a stator wheel hub arrangement and a plurality of stator wheel blades arranged successively in the circumferential direction of the stator wheel hub arrangement. Each stator wheel blade has a ra... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6164909 | Radial fan The invention concerns a radial fan (1), especially as a fan for the cooling unit (2) of a vehicle. The fan includes an impeller (3) with radial blades (4), a cover disc (5) designed nozzle-like, and an air guide ring (6), as well as a stationary inflow n... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6053700 | Ducted turbine A turbine 400 has a central duct 410 which accelerates fluid passing through it and a blade configuration which retards the flow of fluid near the tips of the turbine. This structure results in a vortex having a higher fluid pressure behind the tips of th... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5988980 | Blade assembly with splitter shroud A blade assembly, which may have blisk for a gas turbine engine, includes an annular rim disposed about a rotor axis and a blade assembly disposed around the rim. The blade assembly has circumferentially disposed and radially extending inner and outer row... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5860788 | Low drag fan assembly A fan assembly includes a circular first array of first fan blades; a first primary ring member supportively connecting inner extremities of the first blades about a fan axis, respective end extremities of at least a majority of the first blades defining ... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5800123 | Bladed pump capstan An apparatus for tensioning a subsurface float line and the like during doyment of the line and thereafter includes a capstan rotatably mounted and located in a liquid medium, the capstan having a bore extending from one end of the capstan to the other e... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5755557 | Axial flow fan An axially compact axial flow fan with improved air-moving properties has a first array of fan blades that extend radially from a fan hub to a circumferential blade support member, a second array of fan blades extend from the first support member to a rad... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5695323 | Aerodynamically optimized mid-span snubber for combustion turbine blade An aerodynamically optimized mid-span snubber for combustion turbine blades provides sufficient stiffness to ameliorate vibratory stress but does so with minimal degradation of aerodynamic performance. The snubber has an optimized aerodynamic cross-sectio... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5667361 | Flutter resistant blades, vanes and arrays thereof for a turbomachine An array (32) of flow directing elements such as fan blades (20) for a turbine engine (10) is disclosed. Each blade in the array has a set of circumferentially shrouds (42, 44) whose contact edges (46, 48) abut each other during engine operation. A shroud... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5562419 | Shrouded fan blisk A blisk includes a disk and a plurality of inner airfoils extending radially outwardly therefrom, with each of the inner airfoils having an integral shroud support at a radially outer end thereof. A plurality of outer airfoils extend radially outwardly fr... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5498136 | Fluid machinery having blade apparatus and blade apparatus for fluid machinery The total number (M) of plural blades of a blade apparatus is selected so as not to be a prime number and not to be a power multiplier of a prime number. Plural blades are divided into at least a first blade group in which one blade group has the blades o... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5460488 | Shrouded fan blade for a turbine engine A compressor or fan blade (112) for a gas turbine engine includes a suction surface midspan shroud (122) which is cambered so that the shroud trailing edge (132) is substantially aligned with the direction of the air flow in the vicinity of the shroud tra... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5445498 | Bucket for next-to-the-last stage of a turbine A next-to-the-last stage steam turbine bucket has a profile according to the table set forth in the specification. The buckets also include continuous couplings at the bucket mid-point including nubs on each bucket projecting from opposite sides thereof i... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5328333 | Rotating thrust-producing apparatus A circular foil connectable to a source of power for producing thrust in an axial direction when rotated, includes a flat circular plate and a plurality of closely spaced-apart fins fixed to an upper face of the circular plate, which occupy substantially ... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5288209 | Automatic adaptive sculptured machining An improved method of adaptive machining is disclosed which affords automatic blending between a machined surface and a complex variable contour forged surface. An adaptive postprocessor generates an adaptive NC part program from a conventional APT file w... | 02/22/1994 |
