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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7322792 | Cooling fan without returning flow A cooling fan without returning flow comprises a motor stator, a frame and a motor rotor. The frame is joined to the stator with a support device at the inlet side thereof. The motor rotor is disposed at the stator. A fan blade set is disposed under the rotor and at... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7311492 | Duct fan A duct fan comprises a housing (4) having substantially the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped and inside thereof an impeller (5) and a motor for rotation thereof. The fan has also a member for connecting an inlet side of the housing to an upstream ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7304844 | Cooling fan assembly A cooling fan assembly includes a cooling fan (1) having a rotary hub (14) and a plurality of fan blades extending radially from an outer periphery of the hub, a hood (20) connected with the cooling fan, and a guiding member (40) located ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7255527 | Wind power generator A wind power generator has a base, a wind driving wheel, a transmission unit and a power storage unit. The wind driving wheel has a spindle at a center of the wind driving wheel. The spindle is positioned to the lateral frame. A plurality of connecting frames are ex... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7176584 | Wind power apparatus A wind power apparatus utilizing an anchor which is rotatably fixed to a surface. A chute attaches to the anchor and is provided with a chamber. A restriction is located in the chamber to concentrate the wind within an annular are of the chute and direct it to a pow... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7168918 | High performance cooling fan A cooling fan comprises a rotor configured to generate airflow. The cooling fan further comprises an outlet guide vane adapted to receive the airflow generated by the rotor and to orient the airflow in a substantially axial direction relative to the rotor. The cooli... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7110255 | Heat-dissipating device and a housing thereof A heat-dissipating device and a housing thereof. The housing includes a passage for guiding an air stream flowing from an opening to another opening, wherein an inner wall of the passage at at least one of the opening sides extends radially outwards with a rotationa... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7094018 | Wind power generator A wind power generator has an arcuate converging-diverging flow passage and a support body that is prolate in shape and is located in the flow passage. The support body is rotatably supported and a plurality of rotor blades are mounted on the support body. The suppo... | 08/22/2006 |
| RE39228 | Field-serviceable solids-handling vertical turbine pump A vertical turbine pump which operates with its inlet sub-merged in a body of liquid to be pumped employs an impeller provided with two or three equiangularly spaced vanes and a diffuser section provided with three equiangularly spaced stationary vanes. A vertical t... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7052236 | Heat-dissipating device and housing thereof A heat-dissipating device and a housing thereof. The heat-dissipating device includes an impeller and a housing. The impeller includes a hub and a plurality of rotor blades disposed around the hub. The housing includes an outer frame, an air-guiding part, and a plur... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7048499 | In-line centrifugal fan An inline centrifugal mixed flow fan (20) includes an axially extending intake conduit (22). An inlet cone (28) is disposed at an intake end (24). An impeller (30) is disposed downstream of the inlet cone and includes a centrally d... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7044711 | Helical device for conversion of fluid potential energy to mechanical energy This device utilizes a helical baffle inside of generally cylindrical housing to convert potential energy of a fluid to kinetic and/or mechanical energy that can be captured for productive use. The housing's axis is positioned at an angle from horizontal and the flu... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7011501 | Energy generating system A system (1) designed to generate energy with the aid of, primarily, sea currents, comprising a rotation body (4) having a front inlet side (2) and a rear outlet side (3), and at least one transfer member (6) connected between the ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6948912 | Heat dissipation device and its impeller thereof A heat dissipation device and a blade structure thereof are employed to increase input air volume, A new impeller, mounted on the driving means, includes a hub and a plurality of rotor blades arranged around the hub. Preferably, the inner side of each rotor blades e... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6814542 | Blower especially for ventilating electronic devices The invention relates to a blower, especially for a personal computer. The air of the invention is to reduce the noise produces by such a blower. To this end, the inventive blower comprises: a) a blower housing (10) including a guide surface (22) that ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6702038 | Hydraulic motor A hydraulic motor, especially for driving of rotating tools, consisting of a chamber (2) provided with an inlet (10) for supplying fluid, and with at least one outlet hole (6), before which, on a holding device, a rolling rotor (7) is seated, the rolling ... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6457949 | Fan tray apparatus and method A fan tray apparatus and method includes a mounting body portion having a length and a width. The mounting body portion further includes first and second longitudinal sides and first and second lateral sides. A plurality of fans is operatively attached to... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6312221 | End wall flow path of a compressor The end wall of the compressor adjacent the stator vanes and compressor blades is configured so that the annular region between the vanes and blades is held at a constant area and that the flow path convergence of the stator is increased to compensate for... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6171053 | Device for thermally insulating a steam turbine casing A device for thermally insulating casing parts of a steam turbine contains a shim element that can be inserted into a bearing region of supporting bearings of the casing parts. The supporting bearings face one another and the shim element has a number of ... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6139267 | Fluid machine A fluid machine comprising a fluid storage tank (1), provided with an inlet (2) and at least with one outlet nozzle (3), and in the area of the outlet nozzle (3) there is mounted, on a holding device (4), at least one rolling rotor (5) represented by a bo... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6056518 | Fluid pump A fluid pump includes a housing having a passage therethrough with an inlet and an outlet. An impeller is positioned within the housing and includes an impeller axis, an inlet side and an outlet side. The impeller is axially supported only at the outlet s... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5997242 | Hydraulic turbine An hydraulic turbine includes a rotatable turbine runner. The turbine runner has a circumferential inlet for receiving a fluid and an axial outlet for discharging the fluid. The turbine runner also includes a conical-shaped hub rotatable about a central a... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5803709 | Axial flow fan An axial flow fan primarily for use in harsh and/or corrosive environments such as agricultural barns has a one-piece plastic moulded housing which defines an air flow passageway, and a direct drive fan assembly supported in the air flow passageway by a n... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5749704 | Heat gun fan assembly A heat gun having a fan assembly for use therein having a flow straightener to reduce turbulence in air passing through the fan assembly. The fan assembly also includes a blower housing with a reduced diameter outlet, a relatively large diameter radial fl... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5695318 | Diagonal fan This invention relates to a diagonal fan with a truncated cone shaped hub (4a) of the fan wheel (4) and a truncated cone shaped air housing (2). The angle of the truncated cone of the hub (4a) and of the truncated cone of the air housing (2) are relativel... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5549451 | Impelling apparatus A pumping device is provided having a housing comprised of an inlet housing (70) and a discharge housing (98). The inlet housing (70) contains an impeller device (80) that is comprised of a conical structure (82) rotatable about a rotational axis (86). Th... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5496150 | Field-serviceable solids-handling vertical turbine pump A vertical turbine pump which operates with its inlet submerged in a body of liquid to be pumped employs an impeller provided with two or three equiangularly spaced vanes and a diffuser section provided with three equiangularly spaced stationary vanes. A ... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5332355 | Impelling apparatus This invention relates to an impelling device having a suction casing having an axially located intake port, and providing a conically shaped suction cavity, and an impeller located within the conically shaped suction cavity having a conically shaped impe... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5224833 | Fan for a gas turbine engine air intake A ducted fan gas turbine engine spinner is so configured so as to be generally outwardly flared at its downstream end. The flared portion provides a decrease in the local axial velocity of the air flow over the spinner. This in turn leads to the reduction... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5217351 | Small fan The small fan has an air conduction housing (2) of plastic, in which an impeller (1) is rotatably supported. It is designed as a meridian-accelerated fan. The blades (1a) of the impeller (1) are not twisted and have the same angle of pitch over the entire... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5213474 | Pump unit A vacuum pump, denoted "VUMP", comprises a pair of nested conical or bell-shaped housings, wherein at least the outer bell-shaped housing forms a part of the pump chamber and has a central inlet. The impeller structure of the pump comprises a circular ser... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5167489 | Forward swept rotor blade A rotor blade includes a root, tip, leading edge, trailing edge, forward surface, and aft surface, and a pitch section disposed equidistantly between the root and tip. The blade has a forward sweep from at least the pitch section to the blade tip relative... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5096373 | Integrated forced convection air cooling systems A fan assembly with a single fan housing that has at least one fan passage adapted to allow air to flow through the housing. A separate fan subassembly is snapped into a motor housing formed within the passages of the fan housing. The subassembly includes... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5063661 | Method of fabricating a split compressor case A method for fabricating a split compressor case for a gas turbine engine is described which comprises the steps of assembling the two axial sections of the split case along corresponding flanges of the sections with a flat shim disposed between correspon... | 11/12/1991 |
| 4955434 | Radiator assembly and a cowl assembly therefor A radiator assembly (11) is described in which a cowl assembly (20) associated with the radiator assembly (11) is secured to heat exchange matrix (12). The cowl assembly (20) has two securing means (22, 23) which can be brought into locking engagement wit... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4909711 | Small fan with electric drive motor A fan is disclosed comprising an electric drive motor having a shaft with an impeller coaxially disposed thereon, the impeller configured to suck axially and to blow with radial directional components and including a hub which is turned down over the moto... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4880352 | Centrifugal liquid pump A centrifugal liquid pump including a housing section having an intake cavity and defining a rotational axis of the pump. An impeller section is in communication with and extends coaxially of the intake cavity of the housing section. An impeller is mounte... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4878821 | Detachable anti-rupture ring for the housing of a turbo power plant An anti-rupture ring is slit axially at least at one location and is provided thereat with clamping devices which permit a rapid tightening and loosening of the anti-rupture ring. In one embodiment, the clamping of the anti-rupture ring can be varied hydr... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4858683 | Stamped discharge grille including two louvred sections A cover for an air conditioner condenser unit which is formed from a single unitary sheet of material. The cover includes a peripheral portion, a central portion, and an unbroken ring portion located intermediate the peripheral and central portions. The p... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4815933 | Nozzle flange attachment and sealing arrangement The invention comprises a boltless turbine nozzle and nozzle support assembly that includes a turbine nozzle mounting flange seated in a nozzle seat forming a part of the nozzle support. Pins are used for affixing the nozzle mounting flange to the nozzle ... | 03/28/1989 |
