Patents by Inventor LEROY EUGENE LEARN

LEROY EUGENE LEARN has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Fan apparatus
    Patent number: 10294955
    Abstract: A fan apparatus (e.g., for a vehicle radiator) includes a hub and plural fan blades. The hub has an annular hub body with an outer peripheral wall, an interior, and a central axis. The hub body defines plural blade retention apertures spaced apart from one another around the hub body and extending radially outward from the interior through to the outer peripheral wall. The fan apparatus also includes plural fan blades respectively removably disposed in the plural blade retention apertures. The fan blades and the blade retention apertures are complimentary in shape for the fan blades to be retained by the hub solely by centrifugal force when the hub is rotated for operation of the fan apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: GE Global Sourcing LLC
    Inventors: Leroy Eugene Learn, Joel Terence Montione
  • FAN APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20170298952
    Abstract: A fan apparatus (e.g., for a vehicle radiator) includes a hub and plural fan blades. The hub has an annular hub body with an outer peripheral wall, an interior, and a central axis. The hub body defines plural blade retention apertures spaced apart from one another around the hub body and extending radially outward from the interior through to the outer peripheral wall. The fan apparatus also includes plural fan blades respectively removably disposed in the plural blade retention apertures. The fan blades and the blade retention apertures are complimentary in shape for the fan blades to be retained by the hub solely by centrifugal force when the hub is rotated for operation of the fan apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: LEROY EUGENE LEARN, JOEL TERENCE MONTIONE