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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8172543 | Airfoil shape for a compressor An article of manufacture having a nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in TABLE A. X and Y are distances in inches which, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at ea... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8152474 | Cooling fan impeller An impeller of a centrifugal fan includes a hub and a plurality of blades arranged on and around the hub. Each of the blades includes a root portion and a tip portion. The tip portion of each of the blades has a concave surface and a convex surface in rear and front... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8038411 | Compressor turbine blade airfoil profile A turbine blade includes an airfoil having a profile substantially in accordance with at least an intermediate portion of the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Table 1. The X and Y values are distances, which when smoothly connected by an approp... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8038409 | Turbomachine with rotors of high specific energy transfer A turbomachine has at least one rotor blade row designed for extremely high work coefficients (high-load), which—in its center section and/or averaged over the blade height—provides for an essentially swirl-free relative outflow. The respective rotor in its trai... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8038410 | Optimized aerodynamic airfoil for a turbine blade When cold and in the uncoated state, the aerodynamic airfoil is substantially identical to a nominal airfoil determined by the Cartesian coordinates X, Y, Z′ given in Table 1, in which the coordinate Z′ is the ratio D/H where D is the distance from the point in ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7988424 | Bucket for the last stage of a steam turbine A turbine bucket including a bucket airfoil having an airfoil shape is provided. The airfoil shape has a nominal profile according to the tables set forth in the specification. The X and Y coordinate are smoothly joined by an arc of radius R defining airfoil profile... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7967571 | Advanced booster rotor blade A rotor airfoil having a leading edge extending from a root to a tip, an inner span region and an outer span region the leading edge having a sweep angle profile such that the sweep angle increases from the root a first height location at a first rate of change of s... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7708530 | Rotor blade for a wind power plant The invention concerns a rotor blade of a wind power installation and a wind power installation. One advantage of the present invention is to provide a rotor blade having a rotor blade profile, and a wind power installation, which has better efficiency than hitherto... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7625186 | Large area fan and fan blades usable for large spaces Conventional large area fans generally create a cylinder of air having a diameter that is essentially equal to the diameter of the fan. Larger diameter fans require heavier-duty motors and gearboxes to drive the longer fan blades and are heavier, and thus are more d... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7618240 | Airfoil for a first stage nozzle guide vane The present invention provides an airfoil for a first stage nozzle guide vane having an external surface with first and second sides. The external surface extends spanwise between a hub and a tip and streamwise between a leading edge and a trailing edge of the airfo... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7614852 | Wind turbine blade and assembly A blade is disclosed for use in a wind turbine, with the blade having a longitudinal axis for extending radially outwardly from a center of rotation of the blade on the wind turbine. The blade has a front side with a front surface for orienting in a windward directi... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7530794 | Rotor blade for a first phase of a gas turbine Blade (1) of a rotor for a first phase of a gas turbine having a profile identified by means of a series of closed intersection curves (20) between the profile itself and planes (X,Y) lying at distances (Z) from the central axis, each closed curve (... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7438522 | Fan A fan has an air conveying conduit (16) and a fan wheel (22) arranged therein, which wheel is rotatable about a central axis (25) and is formed with a central hub (20; 120) having an outer periphery (27) on which fan blades (26 | 10/21/2008 |
| 7422418 | Cross flow fan A cross flow fan of an indoor unit of, for example, an air conditioner includes a pair of disc-shaped end plates and a plurality of fan blades attached to the end plates in a ring-shaped arrangement. Each of the fan blades has a cross sectional area ratio of Sa/Sb i... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7419353 | Blade of a turbomachine with block-wise defined profile skeleton line A turbomachine blade with a profile skeleton line extending along a meridional flow line, the blade being radially divided into at least three zones (Z0, Z1, Z2) with profile skeleton lines of each zone (Z0, Z1, Z2) provided... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7413410 | Ceiling fan blade A ceiling fan blade is disclosed that is twisted rather than flat and has a graduated dihedral. The dihedral is provided for a wider distribution of divergence of air in the space beneath the fan. The blade (10) is demarked to have three sections which includ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7396205 | Rotor blade for a rotary machine A rotor blade having a wing and beam construction for a tip shroud is disclosed. Various construction details are developed for providing a transition zone that extends from the suction side and pressure side of the airfoil to provide a flow path surface of the shro... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7396212 | High efficiency twisted leaf blade ceiling fan Twisted leaf shaped ceiling fan blades for low, medium and high speed operation of less than approximately 250 rpm. The novel blades twisted blades can be configured for 52″, 54″, 56″, 60″ and 64″ diameter fans, and have less blades (3 for example) than co... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7384242 | Impeller blade and fan An impeller blade includes an elongate impeller blade body having opposing proximal and distal ends, opposing first and second edges extending from the proximal end to the distal end, and opposing upper and lower sides. The lower side includes a major generally conc... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7364406 | Segmented vertical axis air rotor and wind generator apparatus An apparatus is provided for generating electricity in response to a fluid flow. The apparatus includes a top rotor element coupled to a center axis with an arm extending substantially perpendicular to a center axis. The arm moves in response to the fluid flow to ro... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7357624 | Rotor blade for a wind power plant The invention concerns a rotor blade of a wind power installation and a wind power installation. One advantage of the present invention is to provide a rotor blade having a rotor blade profile, and a wind power installation, which has better efficiency than hitherto... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7329093 | Nozzle blade airfoil profile for a turbine First stage stator vanes for a turbine comprised airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in inches in Table I, which define a plurality of radially spaced profile sections forming the nominal profile. The ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7329092 | Stator blade airfoil profile for a compressor Twelfth stage stator vanes for a compressor comprise airfoil profiles substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of Z, Y and Z set forth in inches in Table I, wherein the Z coordinate values are perpendicular distances from planes normal to a radiu... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7318703 | Impeller for a pump An impeller for a pump, particularly for a cooling water pump of an internal combustion engine, includes a hub (11), a cover disc (14) which is disposed on the intake side and is provided with a central opening (15) for sucking in a conveyed med... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7284960 | Fan blades A fan blade comprises an airfoil having a generally elliptical top surface and a generally elliptical bottom surface. The fan blade has a lower radius of curvature toward its leading edge as compared to a higher radius of curvature toward its trailing edge. When mou... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7273354 | High efficiency axial fan Disclosed is an axial fan (1) rotating in a plane (XY) about an axis (2) having a central hub (3) and a plurality of blades (4), which have a root (5) and a tip (6). The blades (4) are delimited by a concave leading e... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7249931 | High efficiency air conditioner condenser fan with performance enhancements Twisted blades for outdoor air conditioner condensers and heat pumps that improve airflow efficiency to minimize operating power requirements. The blades can run at approximately 850 rpm to produce approximately 1930 cfm of air flow using approximately 110 Watts of ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251592 | Boundary layer transition model A method for analyzing performance of an airfoil includes determining: an estimated laminar separation location; a freestream turbulence intensity; a momentum thickness; and a turbulence length scale. Based upon the freestream turbulence intensity, momentum thicknes... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7229248 | Blade structure in a gas turbine In the blade structure in a gas turbine, front-edge including angles are made large. As a result, a curve of a relative relationship between incidence angles ic1 and is1 and pressure loss becomes mild. Entrance metal angles are made small. As a result,... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7223075 | Turbine wheel for driving rapidly rotating tools A turbine wheel for driving rapidly rotating tools, in the form of a circular disk or ring, configured for mounting so as to be rotatable about an axis. Disposed thereon in circular formation are turbine blades having axially parallel front and back faces curved in ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7217102 | Countering laser shock peening induced airfoil twist using shot peening A gas turbine engine blade is laser shock peened by laser shock peening a thin airfoil of the blade, forming a laser shock induced twist in the airfoil, and shot peening a portion of the airfoil to counter the laser shock induced twist in the airfoil. The shot peeni... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7210910 | Enhancements to high efficiency ceiling fan Twisted ceiling fan blades for low, medium and high speed operation of less than approximately 250 rpm. The novel blades twisted blades can be configured for 60″ and 64″ diameter fans, and have less blades (3 for example) than conventional flat type bladed fans ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7204677 | Countering laser shock peening induced blade twist A method for laser shock peening a gas turbine engine blade includes laser shock peening a thin airfoil of the blade, forming a laser shock induced twist in the airfoil, and altering a root of the blade to counter the laser shock induced twist in the airfoil. The al... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7204676 | Fan blade curvature distribution for high core pressure ratio fan A method for reducing vortex promotion of a rotor blade used in high core PR fans comprises shifting a curvature distribution of a blade section immediately adjacent to the hub such that a major turning of the suction side of the section is located near a trailing e... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7198470 | Francis turbine A Francis turbine with an improved shape of blades, which can reduce cavitations generated on the surface of the blades or reduce the secondary flow around the blades, is provided. A Francis turbine comprises a rotating shaft, a crown, a plurality of blades, and a b... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7195460 | Francis turbine A Francis runner and a hydraulic turbine equipped with such a runner, wherein the runner includes a ceiling, a belt, and blades which extend between the ceiling and the belt and which define liquid flow channels therebetween. A ratio (e/L) of a maximum thickness Ce)... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7195456 | Turbine engine guide vane and arrays thereof An exit guide vane array for a turbine engine includes a set of guide vanes 28 having a solidity and defining fluid flow passages 74 with a chordwisely converging forward portion 80. The high solidity and convergent passage portion 80 res... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7192254 | Radial fan having axial fan blade configuration The present invention is a radial fan having an axial fan blade configuration. The present invention comprises a hub; a first set of blades around the hub; and a second set of blades on the extending part. Therein, the hub comprises a hollow at the center, an axle, ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7186090 | Air foil shape for a compressor blade An article of manufacture having a nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in a table. The table selected from the group of tables consisting of TABLES 1S–16S, 1R–17R, and IGV. Wherein X and Y are dist... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7179058 | Aerodynamically wide range applicable cylindrical blade profiles The present invention relates to the improved aerodynamic design of a pair of blade profiles valid over a wide range of flow regime. The so formed blades, pertain to high pressure, intermediate pressure and first few stages of low pressure cylinders of axial steam t... | 02/20/2007 |
