Abstract: Provided is a construction machine capable of driving each hydraulic actuator at a suitable speed while suppressing delivery flow rate of a hydraulic pump, both at a single operation time of driving each hydraulic actuator respectively singularly and at a combined operation time of simultaneously driving a plurality of hydraulic actuators.

Abstract: A steam-turbine unit has a steam turbine and an option for cooling the steam turbine by forced cooling, wherein cooling air is drawn through the steam turbine via a suction device and a drainage line of the live-steam valve is used as the access option.

Abstract: A linear compressor includes a cylinder, a piston, and a discharge valve, wherein the piston includes a first part extending in the axial direction, a second part having a diameter greater than that of the first part and formed at one end of the first part facing the discharge valve, and a third part having a diameter greater than that of the first part and formed at the other end of the first part. The second part includes a first outer circumferential surface extending backward from a front surface of the piston, and a second outer circumferential surface spaced apart from the first outer circumferential surface in a direction away from the discharge valve, and a distance between the first outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder is less than a distance between the second outer circumferential surface and the inner circumferential surface of the cylinder.

Abstract: A tank has an annular tank space, and a separating wall for separating an inflow connection from a drain connection is provided therein. Alternatively, or in addition thereto, a partition for degassing the oil in the tank is provided. Furthermore, alternatively or in addition thereto, at least one partition for extending a flow path of the oil is provided. It is also conceivable, alternatively or in addition thereto, to arrange a cooling device in the annular space.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a turbine engine part in which a first rough casting element includes a first face and a second face opposite to each other is assembled by the second face on an orifice which has a second element of the part. The method includes machining a through-cavity in the first element which opens at the first face and from the second face of the first element and machining the first face of the first element so as to form an area suitable for ensuring the attachment of a conduit on the first element. The machining of the cavity and of the first face is achieved by using a machining reference frame based on the second element.

Abstract: Radial turbomachine includes fixed case; one rotor disc installed in case and having rotor blades mounted on front face thereof; plurality of elements projecting from case and terminating proximity to rotor disc, wherein projecting elements include seal elements acting against rotor disc are operatively active on rear face of rotor disc or stator blades radially interposed between rotor blades of rotor disc; and one support plate bearing projecting elements and installed in case. Support plate is radially extended across from rotor disc and includes plurality of first circular portions concentric with rotation axis of rotor disc and plurality of second circular portions radially interposed between first circular portions.

Abstract: A fluid leakage detection system includes: a measurement unit configured to detect leakage of working oil in a hydraulic cylinder; and a controller configured to acquire a measurement result from the measurement unit, wherein the controller diagnoses that a battery depletion has been caused in a battery in a case in which it is determined that a data from the measurement unit has not been acquired and it is determined that the battery of the measurement unit has been in a low-remaining-battery-level state, and the controller diagnoses that a communication abnormality has been caused in a first communication part of the measurement unit in a case in which it is determined that the data from the measurement unit has not been acquired and it is determined that the battery has not been in the low-remaining-battery-level state.

Abstract: An efficiency-enhanced resonant system is provided with a backing mass connected to a linear vibrator, a parasitic mass connected to the linear vibrator, a positioning spring, a connecting device, and external biasing springs. The linear vibrator provides vibrating force to the parasitic mass which is connected to the connecting device, grasping a working implement. The use of separate positioning spring and external biasing springs accommodates a tuned system that balances the reduction in backing mass movement, avoids backing mass resonance within the working range of frequencies, and maintains a minimized linear vibrator stroke within the optimal range for one-dimensional implements within desired frequency ranges.

Abstract: A method for operating a pressure control device in a vehicle, in particular in a motor vehicle, wherein current is supplied by an energy source of the vehicle for operating the pressure control device, as a result of which the pressure control device carries out at least one pressure control function, for which at least two actuators of the pressure control device are actuated, wherein at least one current required at maximum for actuating the actuator is determined for each actuator and current budget management for actuating the actuators and/or for carrying out the pressure control functions is performed by the determined currents required at maximum. In addition, the invention relates to a pressure control device for carrying out the method.

Abstract: A pump comprising a volute housing, a rotatable shaft, and an impeller. The volute housing comprises a volute cavity side wall, an upper cylindrical wall, and an upper wall. The upper cylindrical wall extends upwardly from an upper perimeter edge and includes an upper recessed notch formed therein. The upper wall extends radially inwardly from the upper cylindrical wall. The rotatable impeller is operatively coupled to the rotatable shaft and comprises a top cylindrical wall and a top flange. The top cylindrical wall extends upwardly from a top perimeter edge of the top flange and includes a top recessed notch formed therein. The top cylindrical wall is separated from the upper cylindrical wall of the volute housing by an upper annular gap. The top recessed notch of the rotatable impeller and the upper recessed notch of the volute housing may be slot-shaped or wedge-shaped.

Abstract: A diffuser anti-rotation system and apparatus is described. A diffuser anti-rotation system includes a circumferential coupling ring interlocked between a top of a first diffuser and a bottom of an adjacent diffuser. One end of the first diffuser includes at least one male register tab, the opposing end of the adjacent diffuser has at least one female register slot, and the coupling ring interlocks with the male register tab and the female register slot. One of the male register tabs and one of the female register slots are aligned axially and a single projection from the coupling ring interlocks with both the male register tab and the axially aligned female register slot. Impellers are mated with and rotating within each of the first diffuser and the adjacent diffuser, and the interlocked coupling ring prevents rotation of the first diffuser with respect to the adjacent diffuser.

Abstract: A method for detecting damage to one or more mobile blades of an impeller of an aircraft engine, includes measuring the speed of the engine, and for each blade acquiring, by a plurality of sensors, measurements of blade-tip passage times; calculating for each sensor, a deflection of the blade tip; extracting a dynamic component of deflection for each of the calculated deflections; detecting the number of functioning sensors; selecting the dynamic components to be processed based on the detecting step; determining, for at least one blade, a variation of the dynamic behavior of the blade for each functioning sensor; and, for each blade for which a variation of the dynamic behavior has been determined, identification of potential damage to the blade.

Abstract: A piston assembly for a piston pump includes an actuator rod, a piston coupled to the actuator rod and configured to contact a radially-inner wall of a cylinder, and a piston support structure coupled to the actuator rod and configured to contact the radially-inner wall of the cylinder. A fluid channel extends through the actuator rod and the piston support structure, and the fluid channel is configured to deliver a lubricating fluid to an annular space positioned between the piston and the piston support structure along an axial axis of the piston assembly.

Abstract: A connecting joint for attaching a wind turbine blade to a rotor hub includes an insert configured to be coupled to the wind turbine blade. The insert includes a main body having an outer surface configured to interface with the blade, a first tubular extension extending from the main body and having inner and outer surfaces configured to interface with the blade, and a second tubular extension extending away from the main body and having inner and outer surfaces configured to interface with the blade. A wind turbine blade having such a connecting joint is also disclosed. Additionally, a method of making a wind turbine blade including the connecting joint is disclosed.

Abstract: A vortex generator for a wind turbine blade includes: a platform portion to be fixed to a surface of the wind turbine blade; and at least one fin erected on the platform portion. The platform portion includes marks disposed on a pair of opposite positions in an outer edge region of the platform portion and indicating orientation of the vortex generator.

Abstract: A hydraulic system for a working machine includes a hydraulic actuator having a first fluid chamber and a second fluid chamber, an accumulator, an outputting fluid tube to output an operation fluid, and a switching valve to be switched between a first position and a second position. The first position allows the first fluid chamber and the second fluid chamber to be communicated with the outputting fluid tube and thereby allowing a floating operation. The second position allows the first fluid chamber and the accumulator to be communicated with each other, allows the second fluid chamber and the outputting fluid tube to be communicated with each other, and thereby allows an anti-vibration operation.

Abstract: This invention relates to a versatile rotary vane actuator module and a thermal actuation system with universal adaptable shafts/installation and differential rotary and turbocharger mechanisms to actuate 0-360 degree or more for complicated, precision, extreme rotary applications like robotic excavators, airplanes, heavy or weapon machinery, satellite receivers or wind turbine position controls, remote pipeline valves, HIPP or subsea valves and BOP controls, the thermal actuation system includes three thermal elements (1) pressure sources (2) volume vessel (3) heat sources, the vane actuator comes with redundant edge seals and corner seal rings to minimize or eliminate the inherent leakage and the differential rotation mechanism and the turbocharger with a dynamic porting system to expand the rotation 360 degree more efficiently, the actuator module includes a least one housing assembly, at least one driver assembly and at least one dynamic embedded porting system.

Abstract: A fluid actuator arrangement comprises a piston rod member, at least two cylinders each said cylinder having a piston body, and a clamping mechanism associated to each cylinder. Each clamping mechanism is arranged to engage and disengage the piston body of the cylinder to the piston rod member. The fluid actuator arrangement comprises further a control element arranged to control a back and forward movement of the respective piston body so that forward movement is slower than the backward movement and to control the movement of the respective piston bodies in relation to each other such that at least one piston body is always moving forward and such that an overlap exists wherein at least two of the piston bodies are moving forward simultaneously during a cycle.

Abstract: A rotor blade for a compressor of a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil. The airfoil has a span that extends from 0% at the root to 100% at the tip and a mean camber line that extends from a leading edge to a trailing edge. The airfoil has a location of local maximum thickness defined as a ratio of a first arc distance along the mean camber line between the leading edge and a position of the local maximum thickness to a total arc distance along the mean camber line from the leading edge to the trailing edge. A value of the ratio increases from the root to a first position value, decreases from the first position value to a second position value and increases from the second position value to the tip. The first position value is at a spanwise location within 20% to 50% of the span.

Abstract: A stator vane segment for a turbomachine is provided, in particular for a gas turbine, in particular for a turbine stage of a gas turbine. The stator vane segment has at least one stator vane and at least one shroud, in particular an outer shroud, having at least one first profile disposed on the shroud and adapted for attachment of the stator vane segment to the turbomachine casing, the profile extending in the circumferential direction at least partially over a circumferential length of the stator vane segment along the shroud of the stator vane segment and having at least one functional surface which extends at least partially in the axial direction and in the circumferential direction, at least one functional surface of at least one profile having at least two different curvatures in the circumferential direction in at least one radial plane perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the turbomachine in at least one temperature range below a defined operating temperature of the turbomachine.