http://www.freshpatents.com/Rotary-kinetic-fluid-motors-or-pumps-dtnewntc415.php USPTO Class 415 - Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps en-us Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 1000 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 141 31 http://www.freshpatents.com/index.php?rss=true http://www.freshpatents.com/images/freshpatentsnav_rss.gif http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149098.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 An engine has a blade, a casing surrounding the blade, an seal ring, and a passive system for connecting the seal ring to the casing and for accommodating thermal expansion of the seal ring relative to the casing so as to maintain blade tip clearance control. The passive system may... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149100.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A gas turbine engine with a compressor rotor having compressor impulse blades that delivers gas at supersonic conditions to a stator. The stator includes a one or more aerodynamic ducts that each have a converging portion and a diverging portion for deceleration of the selected gas to subsonic conditions and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149099.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A nacelle assembly for a high-bypass gas turbine engine includes a fan variable area nozzle movable relative a fan nacelle to vary a fan nozzle exit area to reduce a fan instability.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149101.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 Balance piston assembly, apparatus, and methods are provided. The assembly includes a balance piston coupled to a rotatable shaft and configured to rotate therewith, the balance piston including a first shelf and a second shelf, the first and second shelves being axially-overlapping and radially-offset. The assembly also includes a seal... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149102.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 An apparatus for driving a load is provided. The apparatus comprises a multiple-shaft gas turbine comprising a high pressure compressor and a high pressure turbine drivingly connected to one another by a first gas turbine shaft and a low pressure compressor and a power turbine drivingly connected to one another... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149103.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 Ballistic materials for enhanced energy absorption and fan casings for turbine engines including the same are provided. A hybrid ballistic material comprises a first ballistic fabric and at least one individual member woven through at least a portion of the first ballistic fabric. The fan casing comprises at least one... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149104.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A recirculation fan includes a casing, a covering member, and a fan assembly. The casing has a base. The covering member is coupled with the casing to define an accommodation space. The fan assembly is disposed within the accommodation space, and includes a first impeller, a second impeller, a motor,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149105.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 Part of the gas that is evacuated by the blade portions is evacuated by a thread groove portion that is formed of the rotor cylinder portion and a stator thread groove, and the rest of the gas is led into the rotor cylinder portion via the openings, and is evacuated... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149106.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A stator blade ring comprising a plurality of stator blade modules defining an annular chamber is provided. The plurality of stator blade modules comprises an elongated blade portion comprising a first and a second blade shell portion, a longitudinal passageway, and at least one opening extending through at least one... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149107.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A gas turbine engine including an outer case extending circumferentially around the central longitudinal axis. A cooling channel is associated with the outer surface of the outer case, the cooling channel having a channel inlet and a channel outlet. An air duct is provided including an inlet end in fluid... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149108.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A blade having a root portion and an aerofoil portion, wherein the aerofoil portion has a tip remote from the root portion, and a leading edge and a trailing edge, and wherein the tip of the aerofoil portion has a set-back portion extending from the leading edge or the trailing... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149109.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 The method described herein includes providing an aerofoil structure having a root portion and an aerofoil portion, wherein the aerofoil portion has a tip remote from the root portion. In certain aspects, the tip of the aerofoil structure can be substantially surrounded by a casing with a clearance gap between... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149112.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A nacelle assembly for a high-bypass gas turbine engine includes a fan variable area nozzle movable relative to a fan nacelle to vary a fan nozzle exit area and adjust a pressure ratio of the fan bypass airflow during engine operation.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149111.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A nacelle assembly for a high-bypass gas turbine engine includes a fan variable area nozzle movable relative a fan nacelle to vary a fan nozzle exit area and adjust a pressure ratio of the fan bypass airflow during engine operation.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149113.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A gas turbine engine includes a fan section with twenty (20) or less fan blades and a fan pressure ratio less than about 1.45.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149110.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 An off axis hydraulic pump for an automatic motor vehicle transmission includes an integrated chain and sprocket assembly. A first, chain drive sprocket is mounted on a shaft driven by an input to a torque converter and a second, driven chain sprocket is attached to a stub shaft which drives... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149114.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 The present invention relates to a housing for a blade wheel of a turbo machine including a flow channel which is enclosed by a housing wall; a valve flap for selectively sealing or releasing a flow opening in the housing wall; and a shaft which is connected with the valve... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149115.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A recirculation fan includes a casing, a covering member, a wind-guiding device, a passive impeller, and an active impeller. The covering member is coupled with the casing to define an accommodation space. The wind-guiding device is disposed on the covering member, and includes a wind-guiding cover and a magnetoresistive structure.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149116.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A bearing housing (1) of an exhaust-gas turbocharger (24), having a mounting bore (2), a bearing device (3) which has two bearing bushes (4, 5) arranged in the mounting bore (2), between which bearing bushes is arranged a spacer (6), and a rotational speed sensor (7) which is fixed in... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149117.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A steam turbine casing position adjusting apparatus capable of employing a compact low-resolution actuator is provided. A steam turbine casing position adjusting apparatus 40 includes turbine casings 21 and 37, a rotor 23, and actuators 14 and 15 that move the turbine casings 21 and 37 in the axial direction.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149118.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A labyrinth seal impedes leakage flow though a gap between confronting static and moving parts in a turbomachine. The seal includes axially spaced and circumferentially extending sealing fins arranged in leakage flow series and projecting across the gap from at least one of the confronting parts into sealing proximity with... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149119.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A variable capacity core type heat exchanger unit, may include a heat exchanger heat-exchanging high-temperature cooling water, a reservoir tank in which the high-temperature cooling water is inputted and thereafter, transmitted to the heat exchanger and the low-temperature cooling water is inputted and thereafter, discharged to the engine and the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149120.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A thermal barrier/cooling system for controlling a temperature of an outer case of a gas turbine engine. The thermal barrier/cooling system includes an internal insulating layer supported on an inner case surface, the internal insulating layer extending circumferentially along the inner case surface and providing a thermal resistance to radiated... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149121.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 An attachment system for attaching at least one exhaust diffuser downstream from a turbine assembly in a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The attachment system may include at least one attachment flange extending from a downstream edge and attached to a spring plate diffuser support structure and at least one... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149122.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 An air-extracting type heat dissipating apparatus includes a frame, a fan body, a plurality of air-inhaling holes and a plurality of air-exhaling holes. The side portion of the frame has an accommodating space. The fan body is disposed in the frame and has a first side and a second side.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149123.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 The present invention comprises a gas turbine engine with a compressor for generating compressed air, a turbine comprising upstream and downstream rows of vanes, vane carrier structure surrounding at least one row of vanes and plenum structure at least partially surrounding the vane carrier structure capable of impinging compressed air... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149124.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 The turbine (1) according to the present invention includes: a blade body (50) having a blade (59) provided at one of a rotor rotatably supported and a stator provided around the rotor and extending in a radial direction toward the other side from one side and a shroud (51) extending... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149125.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 The turbine includes: a shaft body supported rotatably; a plurality of turbine blade members; a casing covering the shaft body and the turbine blade row; an outer ring member that is provided on an inner periphery of the casing and includes an inner peripheral portion in which a cross-section having... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149127.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A structural platform comprises a first end, a second end, a first side wall and a second side wall, a platform body extending between the first end and the second end and further between the first side wall and the second side wall, a first fillet joining the first side... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149126.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 An aluminum alloy turbine housing includes an inlet for exhaust, a turbine wheel space configured to receive exhaust via the inlet, a wastegate opening configured to receive exhaust via the inlet and to provide received exhaust to a wastegate chamber, and a locally hardened valve seat surrounding the wastegate opening.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149128.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 An impeller of an advection-type fan includes a metal base plate, a shaft and a plurality of plastic blades. The metal base plate includes a shaft-coupling portion and a peripheral portion, with a first plane facing in a first direction and a second plane facing in a second direction opposite... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149130.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A fan hub frame comprises a circular hub having an opening extending axially wherein an engine core is capable of being positioned, the circular hub having a radially outer surface, the radial outer surface having a plurality of cradles, each of the cradles having a lower surface and fillets disposed... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149131.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A surround for housing a wind turbine directs and concentrates wind from any direction toward the wind turbine. The surround can be formed from an upper apron and a lower apron, each having three or more sides, typically four sides. A fin can be disposed between the upper and lower... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149132.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A turbomachine casing assembly including a casing adapted to encase an aerofoil structure, the aerofoil structure having a tip, a leading edge and a trailing edge, the casing substantially surrounding the tip of the aerofoil structure, wherein the casing has a set-back portion extending from a position in the region... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149129.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 An exhaust nozzle 9 has nozzle vanes 15 interposed between front and rear exhaust introduction walls 10 and 51. A space 19 is between the wall 51 and a turbine housing 1. A sealing device 25 is arranged upstream, in a direction of exhaust gas, of each through hole 24... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149134.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A fan includes a stationary portion, a rotating portion, and an impeller arranged to rotate about a central axis together with the rotating portion to produce an axial air current. The rotating portion includes a rotor holder. The impeller includes a cup portion arranged to cover the rotor holder and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149136.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A stationary blade cascade 29 of an embodiment includes stationary blade structures 50 and a ring-shaped support structure 40 supporting the stationary blade structures 50. The stationary blade structures 50 each include: a stationary blade part 51 where steam passes; and an outer circumference side constituent part 52 formed on... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149135.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A stator vane assembly for a gas turbine engine includes circumferentially spaced vanes about a common axis. The array of vanes further includes three or more sub-arrays, which are configured such that the vane spacing in one sub-array is different from the vane spacing in the other sub-arrays.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149133.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 An example stator vane assembly of a turbomachine includes a shroud having a leading edge, a trailing edge, and at least one circumferential edge. The leading edge is circumferentially offset relative to the trailing edge when installed within the turbomachine.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149137.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A fan assembly includes a fan and a screen. The fan includes a bracket, and an impeller installed in the bracket. The bracket includes two opposite sidewalls each defining an opening aligning with the impeller. A hollow fixing frame is mounted to an outer surface of one of the sidewalls... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149138.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A fastening apparatus for fastening a fan having two boards includes a bottom plate, four fastening bases, two fastening members, two receiving members, two locking members, and two elastic members. The fastening bases are fastened to the bottom plate. Each fastening base defines a through hole. Each fastening member includes... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149139.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 Bolted together first and second flanges include bolts disposed through first bolt holes in the first flange. The bolts extend at least partially through second holes in the second flange. Bolt include bolt heads, threads, and shanks therebetween. Crushable spacers disposed around the shanks of a first plurality of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149141.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A bearing arrangement 2 comprising an outer race 10, a shaft 4 arranged to rotate with respect to the outer race 10 thereby defining an axis of rotation 8 of the shaft 4. The shaft 4 and the outer race 10 are arranged to define a region of overlap between... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149140.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 A bearing structure includes a main body internally defining a shaft space; the shaft space axially extends a full length of the main body and communicates with at least one extension space; and the extension space is radially outward extended from the shaft space and also axially extends a full... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149142.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 In a sliding bearing, load carrying capacity and bearing rigidity is increased without increasing a size of the bearing and the pressure of the fluid. The sliding bearing comprises a cylindrical-shaped sleeve supporting a rotatable shaft via fluid, and hydrostatic pressure pockets provided in the inner periphery of the sleeve.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130613ptan20130149143.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:39:33 -0700 Embodiments of a gas turbine engine including a lift-off finger seal are provided, as are embodiments of a lift-off finger seal and embodiments of a method for the manufacture thereof. In one embodiment, the gas turbine engine includes an engine housing having low and high pressure cavities, a shaft rotatably...