Circumferentially Or Radially Angulated Or Discontinuous Blades Or Sections (e.g., Stepped, Etc.) Patents (Class 416/183)
  • Patent number: 11933185
    Abstract: A rotor includes a base member including a first side, a second side opposite the first side, and a central opening passing through the first side and the second side. The second side includes an outer circumferential edge having a first dimension and the central opening having an inner circumferential edge having a second dimension. A plurality of blades extend outwardly from the first side. The plurality of blades extend about the central opening. A fuse element is formed in the second side and extends along one of a radial direction and a circumferential direction. The fuse element has a length that is less than the first dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeremy Clavette, Mark R. Gurvich
  • Patent number: 11767850
    Abstract: A pump assembly includes multiple impeller stages, each impeller stage including at least one impeller vane. At least one impeller stage includes at least one impeller vane with at least one perforation disposed therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignees: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & MINERALS
    Inventors: Hassan Mohamed Badr, Chidirim Enoch Ejim, Jinjiang Xiao, Abdelsalam Mohammad AlSarkhi, Muhammad Mustafa Kamal
  • Patent number: 11085459
    Abstract: A centrifugal blower includes a centrifugal fan and a case that houses the centrifugal fan. A blade of the centrifugal fan has an intake side edge portion extending from a shroud inward in a radial direction. The intake side edge portion has a negative pressure side inclined portion inclined to a negative pressure surface side of the blade with respect to an axial direction. The negative pressure side inclined portion has an inclination length in the axial direction, and the inclination length is larger in a reverse flow portion of the intake side edge portion close to the shroud than in a radially innermost portion of the intake side edge portion located at an innermost side in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumiya Ishii, Shuzo Oda, Shouichi Imahigashi
  • Patent number: 11073165
    Abstract: A blower configured for a breathing apparatus which can have a diffuser for increasing static pressure and/or reducing noise and/or mitigating pressure instabilities and/or managing reverse flow. The diffuser can be located within a housing, such as along with a motor, between an impeller and an outlet. The diffuser can include diffuser elements arranged in cascades, and can include one or more circumferential rings to direct air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
    Inventor: Johannes Nicolaas Bothma
  • Patent number: 11053952
    Abstract: An impeller includes: a disk that has a disk shape and is configured to rotate around an axis; and a plurality of blades that are provided at intervals in a circumferential direction on a side of a surface of the disk toward a direction of the axis and extend to a rear side in a rotation direction as the plurality of the blades go toward an outer side in a radial direction. Each of the plurality of the blades has: a primary blade which extends to the rear side in the rotation direction as the primary blade goes from an inner side toward the outer side in the radial direction, and a secondary blade which is provided at intervals on a side in front of the primary blade in the rotation direction to correspond to the primary blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Nakaniwa, Akinori Tasaki
  • Patent number: 10687440
    Abstract: A multi-radial-zone varying blade density fan system includes a fan in a fan chassis including a plurality of fan blades. A first radial fan zone on the fan includes a first fan blade density provided by fan blades located in the first radial fan zone. A second radial fan zone on the fan is located adjacent the first radial fan zone and includes a second fan blade density that is greater than the first fan blade density and that is provided by fan blades located in the second radial fan zone. A third radial fan zone on the fan is located adjacent the second radial fan zone and includes a third fan blade density that is greater than the second fan blade density and that is provided by fan blades located in the third radial fan zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Qinghong He, Travis Christian North
  • Patent number: 10662971
    Abstract: A fluid displacement device including a center shaft and a plurality of vanes. Each of the plurality of vanes has an inner edge, an outer edge, and a spiraling edge disposed between the inner edge and the outer edge. The spiraling edge of each of the plurality of vanes follows a Fibonacci spiral based on circular arcs traced through a Fibonacci tiling comprising squares having side lengths that are a multiple of at least five successive Fibonacci numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Inventor: Gilbert H. Krahn
  • Patent number: 10662969
    Abstract: A centrifugal fan may include an impeller arranged to rotate about a rotation axis, an impeller case arranged to accommodate the impeller, a motor arranged to rotate the impeller, and a motor case arranged to accommodate the motor. The impeller may include a boss portion joined to a shaft arranged to rotate about the rotation axis, a hub arranged to extend radially outward from the boss portion, and a plurality of blades. Each blade may be arranged to extend radially outward. An inner wall of the impeller case may include an inside surface extending radially outward along an upper end portion of each blade. A side end portion of an air inlet defined in a central portion of the impeller case may include a curved surface projecting radially inward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Teramoto, Hiroyoshi Teshima
  • Patent number: 10626880
    Abstract: An impeller assembly for centrifugal pumps has two disk members that have different diameters, are arranged coaxially to a rotation axis and face each other so as to form an interspace; blades are radially arranged in the interspace; the two disk members are also centrally provided with a fastening means for fastening to a transmission shaft, which rotates about the rotation axis. The particularity of the present invention resides in having contoured vanes that protrude radially from the peripheral region of the disk member that has the smallest diameter and are arranged substantially at the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Obuchi, So Kuroiwa, Dai Sakihama, Renato Groppo, Fabio Balbo, Mariano Matteazzi, Lucio Cardillo, Alessandro Corsini, Giovanni Delibra, Franco Rispoli
  • Patent number: 10502208
    Abstract: A magnetically engaged pump includes a pump housing with a rotatable magnetic drive assembly, a cylindrical canister and a rotatable driven magnet assembly. This magnetic coupling is associated with a pump rotor and a laterally positioned gear wheel to define a gear pump. This magnetic coupling is alternatively associated with a pump rotor with an impeller to define a centrifugal pump. Either pump includes a stationary shaft to mount the driven magnet assembly and pump rotor. A rotatable carrier with bushings and thrust bushings coaxially supports the rotatable driven magnet assembly and pump rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: WILDEN PUMP AND ENGINEERING LLC
    Inventors: Brian James Sandore, Loren Michael Libby, Nicholas William Ortega, Robert George Schwartz, Christoplher Leopold, Clark Shafer, William Blankemeier
  • Patent number: 10436195
    Abstract: A magnetically engaged pump includes a pump housing with a rotatable magnetic drive assembly, a cylindrical canister and a rotatable driven magnet assembly. This magnetic coupling is associated with a pump rotor and a laterally positioned gear wheel to define a gear pump. This magnetic coupling is alternatively associated with a pump rotor with an impeller to define a centrifugal pump. Either pump includes a stationary shaft to mount the driven magnet assembly and pump rotor. A rotatable carrier with bushings and thrust bushings coaxially supports the rotatable driven magnet assembly and pump rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: WILDEN PUMP AND ENGINEERING LLC
    Inventors: Brian James Sandore, Loren Michael Libby, Nicholas William Ortega, Robert George Schwartz, Christopher Leopold, Clark Shafer, William Blankemeier
  • Patent number: 10400781
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a turbo fan, which is capable of implementing high efficiency of ventilation and reducing noise by providing a bended portion being bended in a reverse direction against a rotational direction of a wing between a leading edge and a tailing edge thereof to reattach an air separation generated at a negative pressure surface of the wing, and an air conditioner having the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Suguru Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10267313
    Abstract: A centrifugal pump impeller in an electromotive centrifugal pump, the impeller including a base body having a bearing to which is attached, on a first end, a permanent-magnetic rotor and, on a second end, a cover disk that is mounted on the base body; and a plurality of pump blades made of first and second parts, the first part being a base blade segment attached to the base body thus forming a first unitary piece and a cover disk blade segment attached to the cover disk thus forming a second unitary piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: BÜHLER MOTOR GMBH
    Inventors: Georg Bernreuther, Olai Ihle, Klaus Weiske
  • Patent number: 10221858
    Abstract: According to one aspect, an impeller comprises a hub and a plurality of blades extending from the hub. At least one blade includes a curved root portion proximal the hub, a curved tip portion disposed at an outer blade location, and a mid-portion intermediate the root portion and the tip portion. The mid-portion is substantially linear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Tibor Berenyi, Wayne D. Koester
  • Patent number: 10208765
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an axial compressor for a gas turbine, in particular an aircraft engine, having at least one rotor blade or guide vane having a blade or vane element, which is arranged in a flow duct, and a leading edge and a trailing edge, which are joined to each other through a pressure side and a suction side, wherein, a new and novel profile section of the blade or vane element is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Tobias Froebel, Sebastian Mann, Nina Wolfrum, Sergio Elorza Gomez
  • Patent number: 10125773
    Abstract: In a centrifugal fluid machine, the secondary flow loss inside an impeller is reduced and the occurrence, when the flow rate decreases, of a flow separation/stall on the shroud-side suction surface near the leading edge of each impeller blade is suppressed, thereby making it possible to maintain the operating range of the impeller. For this, at the trailing edge of each impeller blade, the trailing edge of each impeller blade is inclined so that the shroud side of the impeller blade is positioned more backward in the rotation direction than the hub side thereof as the impeller is seen from the suction direction upstream of the rotary shaft of the impeller. Also, out of two adjacent impeller blades, the shroud side of one impeller blade trailing the other impeller blade in the impeller rotation direction overlaps with the other impeller blade at around the leading edge of the one impeller blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Hiradate, Yasushi Shinkawa, Satoshi Joko, Toshio Ito
  • Patent number: 9951788
    Abstract: An impeller is arranged to rotate about a central axis, and includes a disk-shaped portion arranged to extend radially with respect to the central axis, and a plurality of rotor blades arranged along a circumferential direction on one surface of the disk-shaped portion. Each rotor blade has one end arranged at an outer edge portion of the disk-shaped portion, and an opposite end arranged radially inward of the outer edge portion of the disk-shaped portion. The rotor blades include a plurality of first rotor blades each of which includes a first curvature portion and a plurality of second curvature portions. A center of the radius of curvature of the first curvature portion of each first rotor blade is arranged on a first side of the first rotor blade with respect to the circumferential direction. A center of the radius of curvature of each second curvature portion of each first rotor blade is arranged on a second side of the first rotor blade with respect to the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryosuke Hayamitsu
  • Patent number: 9719523
    Abstract: An apparatus, system and method for pumping gaseous fluid are described. The centrifugal pump of the invention homogenizes at least a portion of the gas and liquid contained in produced well fluid thereby improving the efficiency of the pump in electric submersible pump (ESP) applications and decreasing the downtime of the ESP system. The impeller of the invention comprises an increased inlet area. The centrifugal pump of the invention comprises a single shroud located on the bottom side of an impeller, an increased inlet area of the impeller and an increased clearance gap between the impeller and a diffuser. One or more truncated vanes extend substantially upstream from the single shroud, wherein each truncated vane sits at a mid-pitch location between untruncated vanes starting from the bottom side of the impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Summit ESP, LLC
    Inventors: Shiv Jayaram, Steven Keith Tetzlaff
  • Patent number: 9683445
    Abstract: An impeller for a centrifugal compressor is characterized in that a shroud side of a front edge 7a of a splitter blade 7 is disposed so as to be displaced toward a negative-pressure surface Sb of a full blade 5F from a position equidistant from the full blades 5R and 5F in a circumferential direction such that a blade-end leakage vortex generated during a high flow rate which occurs from a blade-end clearance between the tip of the full blade 5F and a shroud toward the portion of the front edge 7a of the splitter blade 7 gets over the front edge 7a of the splitter blade 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Hoshi, Isao Tomita, Kenichiro Iwakiri, Takashi Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 9638208
    Abstract: Provided is a centrifugal compressor including a first splitter blade 7 arranged nearer to a suction side Sb of a full blade 5F located upstream in a rotating direction of the compressor, and a second splitter blade 8 provided farther from the suction side Sb of the full blade 5F and being shorter than the first splitter blade 7. Leading edges 7a and 8a on the shroud side of the first splitter blade 7 and the second splitter blade 8 are offset from positions dividing the space between the full blades at equal intervals by the number of splitter blades therebetween toward the suction side Sb of the full blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Isao Tomita, Toru Hoshi
  • Patent number: 9587841
    Abstract: Provided are a turbo fan and an air conditioner using the same. The turbo fan includes a main plate rotating by power provided from a fan motor, a blade having one end connected to the main plate to rotate, a shroud connected to the other end of the blade, and an orifice guiding a flow of indoor air in a direction of the shroud. The shroud includes a guide surface defining one surface of the shroud, the guide surface having a predetermined curvature and an air guide connected to a side of the shroud, the air guide being disposed in a direction of the orifice from the shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Namjoon Cho, Kyungrock Kim, Dongkeun Yang
  • Patent number: 9494160
    Abstract: Provided is a centrifugal compressor impeller which is characterized in that leading edges 7a on a shroud side of splitter blades 7 are offset from a circumferentially equidistant position between full blades 5R and 5F toward a suction side Sb of the full blade 5F, and trailing edges 7b on a hub side of the splitter blades 7 are offset from a circumferentially equidistant position between the full blades toward the suction side Sb of the full blade 5F, so that a tip leakage vortex W flowing from a tip clearance between the tips of the full blades 5F and the shroud toward the leading edges 7a of the splitter blades 7 flows over the leading edges 7a of the splitter blades 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Isao Tomita, Toru Hoshi, Tadashi Kanzaka
  • Patent number: 9470146
    Abstract: The invention relates to a shaft assembly (1A) of an exhaust-gas turbocharger (1) having a shaft (5), having a turbine wheel (2) which can be connected to one end of the shaft (5) to form a rotor, having a compressor wheel (12) which can be connected to the other end of the shaft (5), having a sealing sleeve (14) which can be located on the shaft (5) on that side of the compressor wheel (12) which faces toward the turbine wheel (2), having a shaft nut (15) which can be screwed by means of an internal thread (17) onto a free end region (16) of the shaft (5) to fix the compressor wheel (12), wherein the shaft nut (15), in a portion (19) adjacent to the compressor wheel (12), has a turned recess (18) which adjoins the internal thread (17) and which has an inner diameter (D2) greater than the internal thread diameter (D1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Georg Scholz, Martin Becker
  • Patent number: 9410557
    Abstract: A fan module including a first fan, a second fan and an actuator is provided. The first fan has a first pivot portion and a plurality of first fan blades. Each first fan blade has a first blade face. The second fan has a second pivot portion and a plurality of second fan blades corresponding to the first fan blades. Each second fan blade has a second blade face. The second pivot portion is slidably disposed at a containing cavity of the first pivot portion. The actuator is adapted to drive the first fan to rotate. The first fan is adapted to drive the second fan to rotate. When the second pivot portion protrudes out of the containing cavity, a part of each of the second blade faces does not overlap with the corresponding first blade face along a direction perpendicular to the corresponding first blade face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Chun-Chih Kuo, Che-Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 9140271
    Abstract: Interference of a leakage vortex flow generated at the tip end side of the full blade with the leading edge of the splitter blade is avoided and high pressure ratio and enhanced efficiency can be achieved. A throat of am impeller is formed so that a distance from a leading edge of a rear side full blade on the rear side of the rotation direction of the compressor to a front side full blade adjacent to the rear side full blade is minimized, and the leading edge of the splitter blade is placed in a fluid flow streaming along the flow passage between the mutually adjacent full blades, on the downstream side of a leakage vortex line formed to connect the middle location of the throat to the leading edge of the front side full blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Sugimoto, Kenichiro Iwakiri, Isao Tomita
  • Patent number: 9115589
    Abstract: An impeller integrally includes a substrate and multiple impeller blades provided upright along a curved shape and circumferentially spaced apart on one face of the substrate. The impeller blades expand in diameter and each include an inner circumferential-side blade portion on the inner circumferential side of the substrate and extending in the rotary shaft core direction and have a tip side that is bent, and an outer circumferential-side blade portion on the outer circumferential side of the substrate and extending in the rotary shaft core direction. In the direction along the rotary shaft core, the length of the inner circumferential-side blade portion from the substrate side to the tip side is longer than the length of the outer circumferential-side blade portion from the substrate side to the tip side, and the blade thickness of the inner circumferential-side blade portion gradually decreases from the substrate side toward the tip side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motohisa Ishiguro, Tomoyasu Hirano
  • Patent number: 9062681
    Abstract: A fan device includes a frame including an axle base and a vane including a hub disposed on the axle base pivotally and blade assemblies disposed circumferentially on the sidewall surface. The hub includes a windward side and a sidewall surface. Each blade assemblies includes a first blade and a second blade protruded from the sidewall surface radially. The second blade is farther away than the first blade from the windward side. The angle of between an extending surface of a second side edge of the second blade extending and the windward side is greater than another angle of between an extending surface of a first side edge of the first blade extending and the windward side. The gap between the partial second side edge and the windward side is less than another gap between the first side edge and the windward side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: MSI COMPUTER (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin-Yu Lee, Shang-Chih Yang
  • Patent number: 9033668
    Abstract: A combined fan-compressor impeller comprises a single hub and a plurality of spaced main blades extending outwardly from the hub such that an air passage channel is defined between two of the main blades. Each of the main blades is a mixed flow blade which continuously extends from a fan section at an inlet end of a channel to a compressor section at an outlet end of the channel without any axial clearance between the fan section and the compressor section, providing aerodynamic matching of pressurized air flowing through the channel from the fan section to the compressor section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: RAFAEL ADVANCED DEFENSE SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Yakov Bronfeld, Savely Khosid
  • Patent number: 9033667
    Abstract: An impeller of a centrifugal includes, a plurality of full blades provided from the fluid inlet part to the fluid outlet part of the impeller; a plurality of splitter blades provided on the hub surface, wherein the geometry of a flow entering part of the splitter blade is compatible with the complicated flow inside the compressor so that the evenly distributed flow rate distribution, the increased pressure ratio and the enhanced efficiency are achieved. The leading edge blade angle ? in the tip end part of the flow entering front-end-part of the splitter blade 7 in the area of the higher height level from the hub surface is further inclined smoothly toward the blade suction surface side Sb of the full blade 5 in comparison with the inclination standard curve, the increased inclination angle becoming smoothly greater in response to the increase of the height level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Iwakiri, Isao Tomita
  • Publication number: 20150125302
    Abstract: In an impeller for a fluid energy machine with a hub and a plurality of rotor blades which are mounted on the hub and around which a medium may flow through the fluid energy machine and which form a blade duct between two neighboring rotor blades with a blade duct length which extends in the axial direction of the impeller, wherein each rotor blade is connected to the hub via a first transition region with a first curvature and via a second transition region with a second curvature and with a straight conical blade duct bottom of the blade duct formed between the first transition region and the second transition region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 1, 2015
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: DE SANTIS ROBERTO, DANIEL JUST
  • Publication number: 20150118080
    Abstract: A turbocharger (5) comprising a housing (10) including a compressor shroud (14) and a turbine shroud (12). The turbocharger (5) also includes a compressor wheel (18) and a turbine wheel (116, 216, 316, 416). The compressor wheel (18) includes a compressor hub (44) and a plurality of circumferentially spaced compressor blades (45, 46) extending radially from the compressor hub (44). The turbine wheel (116, 216, 316, 416) includes a turbine hub (124, 224, 324, 424) and a plurality of circumferentially spaced blades (126, 226, 326, 426) extending radially from the turbine hub (124, 224, 324, 424) with a hub surface (125, 225, 325, 425) extending between adjacent blades (126, 226, 326, 426). The turbine wheel (116, 216, 316, 416) also includes at least one surface discontinuity (135, 235, 335, 435) on the turbine hub surface (125, 225, 325, 425).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventor: Stephanie Dextraze
  • Patent number: 9011097
    Abstract: A turbine wheel includes a plurality of blades having a scallop cut-out profile. The scallop cut-out profile is formed by cutting-out a back side wall part of the blade between the suction surface side of a blade part and the pressure surface side of the adjacent blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Yokoyama, Katsuyuki Osako, Toyotaka Yoshida, Motoki Ebisu
  • Patent number: 8998582
    Abstract: An impeller for a centrifugal pump includes a radially inner hub, and a plurality of blades extending straight and along a direction that is perpendicular to a rotational axis of the impeller. The blades extend from a radially outer end to a radially inner end, and define a generally frusto-conical envelope. A flow control feature is formed between the radially inner end of the blades and the hub. The flow control feature has a curved upper surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Sundyne, LLC
    Inventors: Scott R. Wait, John E. Sidelko
  • Patent number: 8997486
    Abstract: A compressor wheel for use with turbochargers or superchargers for forced air induction of internal combustion engines includes a base having a hub portion, and a plurality of blades extending from the base, each blade having a length defined by the distance between opposite axial extremities of the blade, the plurality of blades including at least three different types of blades, each having a substantially different length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Bullseye Power LLC
    Inventor: David M. Hall
  • Patent number: 8961107
    Abstract: A heat-dissipation fan including a base and an impeller disposed at the base, wherein the impeller includes a plurality of first blades, a plurality of second blades and a plurality of connection ribs. Each of the first blades and each of the second blades are arranged alternately. Each of the connection ribs comprises a first edge, a second edge and a third edge. The first edge is connected with the first blade, the second edge is connected with the second blade, the third edge is connected with the first edge and the second edge, and the third edge and the second blade are spaced apart to form a first vent. The first edge comprises a first length, the second edge comprises a second length, and the first length is larger than the second length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: ADDA Corp.
    Inventors: Yen-Min Su, Kao-Chuan Huang, Chi-Ping Lai, Jiun-Shian Guo
  • Patent number: 8956118
    Abstract: Provided is an impeller of a centrifugal compressor including: a hub; a plurality of blades protruding from a surface of the hub, wherein a passage is formed by the hub and a blade being adjacent with the hub, so that a fluid, flowing in along an axial direction at an inner circumferential side in a radial direction, is flowed out toward an outer circumferential side in a radial direction; each of the plurality of blades includes a main body part and a leading edge, the main body part including a pressure side and a suction side; an angle between a component central line of the main body part and the axial direction increases from an inner end toward an outer end; and a radius of curvature at a central position, intersecting with the component central line of the leading edge, decreases from the inner end toward the outer end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tokiya Wakai, Akihiro Nakaniwa, Yasuro Sakamoto, Takashi Hiyama
  • Patent number: 8915711
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor wheel including a hub, a web extending radially from the hub, and a plurality of blades carried by the wheel. The web includes an erosion indicator of the wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Turbomeca
    Inventors: Geoffroy Billotey, Olivier Descubes, Sylvain Gourdant, Olivier Tuot
  • Patent number: 8827649
    Abstract: A fan assembly according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a hub; and a plurality of blades including a leading edge corresponding to a side hit by air and a trailing edge corresponding to an opposite side of the leading ledge, the plurality of blades configured to be extended radially from an outer peripheral surface of the hub, wherein each of the plurality of blades includes a first part extended radially from the outer peripheral surface of the hub, a bent part stepped on the end of the first part, and a second part further extended radially on the end of the bent part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Myoungju Kang, Jindong Kim, Hosan Kim
  • Patent number: 8814541
    Abstract: An impeller is provided with a rotating shaft rotatably supported at the upper and lower ends thereof by an upper bearing and a lower bearing, a plurality of vanes connected to the rotating shaft on the inner circumferential edge side thereof, an annular coupling portion connecting outer circumferential edges of the vanes, and driven magnet portions provided in a lower portion of the annular coupling portion. The rotation of a rotor is transmitted to the impeller through magnetic coupling between the driven magnets and drive magnets provided to the rotor. The upper edge of each of the vanes has a bend point, and an angle ? formed by a peripheral upper vane edge and an angle ? formed by a central upper vane edge relative to the downward direction of the rotating shaft are both acute angles and have a relationship of ?<?. An inner wall surface of a housing in a region opposed to the upper edge of the vane has a shape following the upper edge of the vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: JMS Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masayoshi Omori
  • Patent number: 8776394
    Abstract: A blower for supplying and exiting the air to and from a treating chamber of a clothes dryer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Catauro, Mark J. Christensen, Steven P. Lentz, Roy E. Masters
  • Patent number: 8747071
    Abstract: A drain pump that maintains pump performance and reduces noise and vibration accompanying water scooping of a rotary impeller includes a large-diameter blade divided into an inner blade and an outer blade. A radius of an impeller scooping up water is the sum of the lengths of the inner and outer blades in a radial direction. The large-diameter blade is divided at a position where the amount of generated air bubbles is large, and the inner and outer blades are alternately disposed. Accordingly, air bubbles are escaped to a downstream side in a rotational direction, so that the intensity of the collision between the blades and air bubbles is decreased reducing noise caused by the burst of air bubbles and vibration caused by a collision load of the flow of a gas-liquid mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Fujikoki Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya Kato, Shinichi Nemoto, Kenji Yamabiraki, Katsushi Sato
  • Patent number: 8721287
    Abstract: A compressor impeller including at least one blade connected to an impeller hub via a junction of curved shape, the blade extending along a defined chord between a leading edge and a trailing edge of the blade. The junction presents the shape of an ellipse that varies along the chord.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Turbomeca
    Inventors: Geoffroy Louis-Henri Marie Billotey, Pierre Biscay, Gilles Cazenave-Larroche, Jean-Philippe Ousty
  • Patent number: 8702394
    Abstract: An air boost device such as a turbocharger, wherein the compressor wheel thereof is re-designed to permit die inserts (20), which occupy the air passage and define the blades (4, 5) during a process of forming a wax pattern (21) of a compressor wheel, to be pulled without being impeded by the blades. This modified blade design enables the automated production of wax patterns (21) using simplified tooling. The compressor wheel improves low cycle fatigue, withstands high temperatures and temperature changes, and permits operation at high boost pressure ratio while, on the other hand, having low weight, low inertial drag, and high responsiveness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: BorgWarner, Inc.
    Inventors: David Decker, Stephen I. Roby
  • Patent number: 8678769
    Abstract: A compressor impeller and a method of manufacturing the compressor impeller. The magnesium alloy compressor impeller as a die-cast part comprises a hub shaft part, a hub disk part having a hub surface extending from the hub shaft part in the radial direction, and a plurality of vane parts disposed on the hub surface. The impeller can be manufactured by a die-cast method in which a magnesium alloy heated to a liquidus temperature or higher is supplied into molds with cavities corresponding to the shape of the impeller for a filling time of 1 sec. or shorter, a pressure of 20 MPa or higher is applied to the magnesium alloy in the cavities, and the pressurized state is maintained for a time of 1 sec. or longer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignees: Hitachi Metals Precision, Ltd., Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kubota, Hirokazu Itoh, Mikio Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8662848
    Abstract: The invention is a magnetically driven pump with a floating impeller and driven magnet, and the invention includes an impeller surface having geometric figures acting as the pumping bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Gulfstream Inc.
    Inventors: Minh Sang Tran, Christopher Alexander
  • Publication number: 20140050587
    Abstract: The invention relates to a Francis runner (200) for a hydraulic machine, comprising: a wheel (1), which is rotationally symmetrical about an axis of rotation (Z) of the runner (200); a crown (12); and a plurality of inwardly curved vanes (21), each of which has a peripheral edge (212). The peripheral edge (212) of at least one of the vanes is curved, the concavity thereof facing to ward the outside of the runner (200). The maximum value of the distance measured between any point on the peripheral edge (202) and a straight line passing through a first connection point between the peripheral edge (212) and the wheel (1), and through a second connection point between the peripheral edge (212) and the crown (12), is at an intermediate point on the peripheral edge (212). The radius (Rn) from the intermediate point (N) is strictly smaller than the radius (Ra) from the first connection point (A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: ALSTOM RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Sylvain Lavigne, Jean-Bernard Houdeline, Claude Beral
  • Patent number: 8647051
    Abstract: An impeller for a centrifugal fan includes a hub, impeller blades, and struts for supporting the blades in a circumferential array spaced apart from the hub. The number of struts can equal the number of blades, each strut extended from the hub to support two blades while each blade is supported by one strut nearer to its leading edge and another strut nearer to its trailing edge. Another arrangement features two struts per blade, with one of the struts coupled to the hub and a given blade, and the other strut coupled between the given blade and an adjacent blade. The struts are recessed inwardly from the leading and trailing edges to promote smoother air flow. The blades and struts are provided with aerodynamic thickness profiles to further improve air flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: The Bergquist Torrington Company
    Inventors: John F. O'Connor, Jan Najman, Michael C. Brauer
  • Patent number: 8641364
    Abstract: A paddle wheel rotatable about an axis and exposed to radial inward and crosswise water flow has a hub on the axis and about which the wheel is rotated in a rotation direction about the axis and a plurality of angularly spaced blades spaced radially outward from the hub, forming spaces through which water can flow, and each formed by a plurality of radially spaced arcuate elements each in turn having a radially outer end and a radially inner end. These elements are each concave between the respective ends toward the incoming water flow with the radial outer ends more widely spaced than radial inner ends such that each element forms an acute angle with the adjacent element or elements and the spaces between the blades narrow in a direction of flow of water through them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Bew Betriebs und Entwicklung von Wasserkraftanlagen GmbH
    Inventor: Hermann Riegerbauer
  • Patent number: 8475130
    Abstract: An axial flow fan comprises a central hub (2) and a plurality of blades (3), each fixed to the central hub (2) and extending from a respective first end (3a) proximal to the hub (2) to a respective second end (3b) distal from the hub (2); the blades (3) are inclined at a keying angle (?) to a rotation plane (R) of the fan which also comprises a plurality of aerodynamic protrusions (11), each extending from a first lateral edge (6) of a corresponding blade (3) in the vicinity of its second end (3b); each protrusion (11) lies in a plane (PP) perpendicular to an axis (A) of fan rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: SPAL Automotive S.r.l.
    Inventor: Alessandro Spaggiari
  • Patent number: 8454317
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fan wheel in a version as a radial or diagonal fan, of a baseplate and of a plurality of fan blades arranged so as to be distributed over the circumference of the inlet port and around an axis of rotation. The fan wheel has a shroud with an inlet port and the shroud and/or the baseplate have/has in this case a nonrotationally symmetrical geometry which in each case has a continuous and point-invariable profile, as seen in the axial or axially parallel direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: EBM-Papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Katrin Bohl, Marc Schneider, Jürgen Schöne