Tined Or Irregular Periphery Patents (Class 416/228)
  • Patent number: 10400604
    Abstract: An axial fan includes: a hub; a plurality of blades arranged in a circumferential direction of the hub; a cutout in a rear edge part of each of the plurality of blades, the cutout divides the rear edge part into an outer rear edge part and an inner rear edge part; a first groove part disposed in the outer rear edge part, the first groove part including a plurality of grooves extending toward the front edge part; and a second groove part disposed in the inner rear edge part, the second groove part including a plurality of grooves extending toward the front edge part, the plurality of grooves of the first groove part and the plurality of grooves of the second groove part having different shapes when viewed in a rotational axis direction of the hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Hirotaka Sawada
  • Patent number: 10393138
    Abstract: The invention relates to a blade for a fan impeller. In particular, the invention relates to the geometric configuration of the blade in its end area facing a hub. Furthermore, the invention relates to a fan impeller. A blade according to the invention for a fan impeller has an end area facing a hub, whereby the blade has at least one rib in the end area facing the hub, whereby the rib has an outer contour that simulates a flow profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: EMB-PAPST MULFINGEN GmbH & CO KG
    Inventors: Daniel Gebert, Thorsten Pissarczyk, Oliver Haaf, Erhard Gruber
  • Patent number: 10370086
    Abstract: A blade for a turbine engine propeller, in particular a propfan engine, comprising a protruding part on the leading edge thereof, wherein said blade comprises means for controlling the position of the protruding part along the leading edge thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Laurence Francine Vion, Rasika Fernando, Norman Bruno André Jodet
  • Patent number: 10344764
    Abstract: An axial blower includes: a housing including a wind tunnel; an impeller that is disposed in the wind tunnel and includes a plurality of blades; and a motor that includes a rotation shaft and is secured to the housing, the impeller being secured to the rotation shaft. When an angle between a chord of the blade at a cross-sectional surface of the blade cut by a virtual cylindrical surface centering the rotation shaft, and a surface perpendicular to the rotation shaft is defined as a mounting angle, the blade includes an intermediate part between an inside diameter side part and an outside diameter side part of the blade, and this intermediate part has a mounting angle equal to or larger than a mounting angle of the inside diameter side part, and larger than a mounting angle of the outside diameter side part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Nakamura, Shuji Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 10337540
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wind turbine blade oscillation preventer comprising an aperture and a sleeve and having a peripheral extent and a longitudinal extent, the preventer being configured for removable application over a wind turbine blade and configured to extend longitudinally thereover and peripherally thereabout; the preventer having a non-aerodynamic exterior surface which exhibits a rough surface capable of disrupting smooth or laminar airflow over a substantial portion of the longitudinal and peripheral extent of the sleeve when the preventer is in place on a wind turbine blade. The preventer further comprises a smooth interior surface extending along a substantial portion of the longitudinal extent of the sleeve. The invention also relates to a method of application of a blade oscillation preventer over wind turbine blades which comprise serrations at a trailing edge thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventors: Steve Wardropper, Adrian Edwards, Arran Wood
  • Patent number: 10301942
    Abstract: An aerofoil component (32) defining an in use leading edge (38) and a trailing edge (40). At least one of the leading edge and the trailing edge (38, 40) comprises a plurality of first and second recesses (52, 56) projecting in a direction corresponding with an in use flow direction, the first and second recesses being spaced apart normal to the in use flow direction and having a different chordal extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventors: Philip Joseph, Narayanan Subramanian, Chaitanya Paruchuri, Jae-Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 10288036
    Abstract: The stability of power generation efficiency against variation of fluid speed and direction can be improved. The disclosed rotor 1 for a wind or water power machine includes a hub 10, supported by a main shaft, and blades 20, each having a root end 21 connected to the hub. In a projection plane perpendicular to a rotational center axis O of the rotor, a leading edge 31 of the blade has leading edge bulge portions 36 and 37 protruding forward in the rotor rotational direction only at two different locations in the rotor radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: TERAL INC.
    Inventors: Hao Liu, Takeo Fujii, Ryosuke Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 10247169
    Abstract: A rotor blade for a wind turbine with an aerodynamic device, and an aerodynamic device is provided. The rotor blade includes a main body defining a pressure side and a suction side of the rotor blade, and includes a main body trailing edge section. The rotor blade includes an aerodynamic device with an attachment section for attaching the aerodynamic device to the main body trailing edge section, an aerodynamic section for influencing the aerodynamic properties of the rotor blade, and a buckling section for controlling the orientation and/or the shape of the aerodynamic section with regard to the main body. The aerodynamic device is configured such that it deforms elastically for a force component acting in flapwise direction on the buckling section, and deforms abruptly if a force component of about the size of the stability limit of the buckling section acts in flapwise direction on the buckling section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alejandro Gomez Gonzalez, Alex Loeven, Sigmund Wenningsted Torgard
  • Patent number: 10220943
    Abstract: A blade of a rotor for a rotary wing aircraft. The blade presents a combination of relationships for variation in the sweep, the chord, and the twist of the airfoil profiles of the sections of the blade in order, firstly to improve the aerodynamic performance of the blade both in forward flight and in stationary flight, and secondly to reduce the noise given off during approach flight. The blade is double-tapered and presents three sweeps. The twist relationship is substantially constant over a first portion of the blade, and then decreases over the remainder of the blade in linear or in non-linear manner. Suitable variation in the gradient of the twist of the blade makes it possible to improve the aerodynamic performance of the blade in forward flight and in hovering flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS
    Inventors: Debbie Leusink, David Alfano, Vincent Gareton
  • Patent number: 10202865
    Abstract: An unducted thrust producing system has a rotating element with an axis of rotation and a stationary element. The rotating element includes a plurality of blades each having a blade root proximal to the axis, a blade tip remote from the axis, and a blade span measured between the blade root and the blade tip. The rotating element has a load distribution such that at any location between the blade root and 30% span the value of ?RCu in the air stream is greater than or equal to 60% of the peak ?RCu in the air stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow, Syed Arif Khalid, Leroy Harrington Smith, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10060274
    Abstract: A rotor blade for a wind turbine having a blade root, a transition piece and an aerodynamic part, wherein the blade root essentially is optimized for fixation of the blade to the hub and the aerodynamic part essentially is optimized to extract energy from the wind and wherein the transition part realizes a beneficial transition between the blade root and the aerodynamic part. The rotor blade can perform better both aerodynamically and structurally compared to a classic design when the blade part located near the axis, approximately the part between 0% L and 50% L is provided with one or more of the following characteristics: more twist than usual, attached flow stimulating measures at the suction side, flow blocking measures at the pressure side, thicker profiles than usual, a triangular shape of the profile back and back twist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: CORTEN HOLDING BV
    Inventor: Gustave Paul Corten
  • Patent number: 10041358
    Abstract: A blade for a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil having a tip with a terminal end surface and multiple squealer pockets recessed into the terminal end surface. A method of cooling a blade includes the steps of providing cooling fluid to a first squealer pocket in an airfoil tip, and providing cooling fluid to a second squealer pocket in the airfoil tip in an amount that is different than that provided to the first squealer pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley, San Quach
  • Patent number: 10035582
    Abstract: A propeller blade extending radially between a blade root and a blade tip and having a leading edge and a trailing edge, together with a pressure side face and a suction side face. Along the leading edge, the angle (?) between the radial direction and a tangent to the leading edge passes through a local maximum zmax situated in the range 60% to 80% of the height of the blade. Furthermore, the suction side face of the blade includes an indentation extending axially from the leading edge to the trailing edge and located at a height of the blade between the local maximum zmax and the blade tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jonathan Evert Vlastuin, Clement Marcel Maurice Dejeu
  • Patent number: 10012089
    Abstract: A component according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, an airfoil that includes a pressure sidewall and a suction sidewall that meet together at both a leading edge and a trailing edge. The airfoil extends to a tip. A tip pocket is formed in the tip and terminates prior to the trailing edge. A heat transfer augmentation device is formed in the tip pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: San Quach, Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley, Steven Bruce Gautschi
  • Patent number: 9951626
    Abstract: A blade for a rotating machine, particularly for a gas turbine engine, has a leading edge and a trailing edge joined by pressure and suction surfaces. The trailing edge has a serrated form including a first periodic variation and a second periodic variation of higher frequency and lower amplitude than the first periodic variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Mathieu Gruber, Philip Joseph, Mahdi Azarpeyvand
  • Patent number: 9951631
    Abstract: A rotor blade for a turbomachine, including an airfoil (1) for flow deflection, a blade root (2) for attachment to a rotor of the turbomachine, an inner platform (3) between the airfoil and the blade root, and at least one pocket (4, 5) defined by two axially spaced walls (4.1, 4.2; 5.1, 5.2) extending from the side of the platform opposite the airfoil toward the blade root. A first (4.1, 5.1) of these walls has an outer side (4.1A, 5.1A) that faces away from the pocket and, in at least one cross section perpendicular to a radial longitudinal axis of the rotor blade, slopes outwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Krzysztof Skura, Marcin Kozdras, Lukasz Sosnowka, Manfred Feldmann, Manfred Schill
  • Patent number: 9951749
    Abstract: A system and method for reducing the operational noise of a blunt trailing edge of a wind turbine blade is described. The system involves increasing the trailing edge solid angle at the blade trailing edge by providing a wedge element or projection adjacent the trailing edge of the blade, the wedge element acting to provide improved mixing of the suction side and pressure side flows at the blunt trailing edge, thereby reducing the strength of vortex shedding at the trailing edge and the associated operational noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: LM WP PATENT HOLDING A/S
    Inventors: Ashish Singh, Ganesh Ramanathan, Jitendra Bijlani, Naveen Parihar
  • Patent number: 9945357
    Abstract: A flap arrangement for a wind turbine rotor blade, which includes a leading edge, a trailing edge and a chord line between the leading edge and the trailing edge, is described. The flap arrangement includes a support portion and a flap portion which is passively moveable with respect to an angle between a surface normal of a surface of the flap portion and the chord line. The support portion and the flap portion are positioned relatively to each other such that the support portion provides a limit to the movement of the flap portion. Also described are a wind turbine rotor blade including the flap arrangement and a method of enhancing the aerodynamic performance of a blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Peder Bay Enevoldsen
  • Patent number: 9841032
    Abstract: A blower wheel comprises a hub, a guide and blades extending radially between the hub and the guide, each blade comprising a root at its junction with the hub and a head at the junction with the guide, each blade having a leading edge and a trailing edge between which, at each flattened cross section, a chord is defined. For each blade, in the radial direction from the root to the head, the pitch angle between the chord and the rotation axis of the wheel varies and the variation in the pitch angle between the root and the head has a point of inflexion between a first level and a second level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES
    Inventors: Manuel Henner, Bruno Demory, Elias Tannoury
  • Patent number: 9772122
    Abstract: An isothermal turbo-compressor-condenser-expander (ITCCE) arrangement includes heat-transferring fan blades that are mounted on, or surround, individual conduits to promote air exchange and heat transfer. The open framework rotates in free air to promote heat exchange. An ITCCE bladed assembly includes a driven central hub assembly with a first fluid coupling. A first inner plenum is in fluid communication with the fluid coupling. A plurality of compressor conduits extend radially, and pass fluid from, the first inner plenum to an outer plenum that acts as an equalizing line. A return path is provided to a second inner plenum from the outer plenum. The conduits can be formed as metal extrusions, including internal ribs separating a plurality of ports formed therebetween along an entire length of the conduits. The conduits can define an airfoil shape and/or are axially twisted, generating axial airflow. The return path can include return multiport conduits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Appollo Wind Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Peter A. Swett, Randell B. Drane
  • Patent number: 9677537
    Abstract: A wind blade is provided that includes a primary blade body defining a leading edge and a trailing edge and further defining a pressure side and a suction side joining along the trailing edge. The wind blade also includes a secondary blade having an aerodynamic contour defining a first surface and a second surface and coupled with the primary blade body for the purpose of shielding noise. The secondary blade body is disposed proximate to at least a portion of the trailing edge on at least one of the pressure side and the suction side of the primary blade body and may also improve overall performance of the wind blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Lorenz Edwin Drack, Thierry Pascal Maeder, Gowri Jaganathan Sengundermudaliar, Karthickprabu Vijayakumar
  • Patent number: 9631518
    Abstract: An exhaust diffuser and method for manufacturing an exhaust diffuser is provided. An exhaust diffuser for a torque-generating turbine, in particular a torque-generating gas turbine is provided, the exhaust diffuser having an inner member, and the inner member having an outer surface. The outer member having an inner surface, and the inner member and the outer member forming an annular channel at least a first supporting strut connecting the inner member and the outer member, the supporting strut extending essentially radially from the inner surface to the outer surface, the supporting strut having a middle section, the middle section having a first airfoil and an outer section having a second airfoil, and the second airfoil having a higher angle of incidence than the first airfoil. Furthermore, it is described a method for manufacturing an exhaust diffuser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Li Shing Wong
  • Patent number: 9631624
    Abstract: An exhaust diffuser and method for manufacturing an exhaust diffuser is provided. An exhaust diffuser for a torque-generating turbine, in particular a torque-generating gas turbine is provided herein. The exhaust diffuser having an inner member, the inner member having an outer surface and an outer member having an inner surface, the inner member and the outer member forming an annular channel, at least a first supporting strut connecting the inner member and the outer member, the first supporting strut extending essentially radially from the inner surface to the outer surface, the first supporting strut having a middle section having a first airfoil and an outer section having a second airfoil, and the second airfoil differing from the first airfoil in shape to be able to handle a higher range of angle of attack. Furthermore, it is described a method for manufacturing an exhaust diffuser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Li Shing Wong
  • Patent number: 9567862
    Abstract: A vane for an axial-flow compressor has a pressure surface generating positive pressure and a suction surface generating negative pressure, and both are located on one side of the chord line. The pressure surface includes a bulging portion, having a maximum curvature of 1.5 or more between a chordal position of 70% and 95%, in a central section of the vane's span. This configuration increases the flow velocity around the bulging portion of the pressure surface to locally decrease the static pressure. By flow continuity the flow velocity on the suction surface that faces the pressure surface is decreased, and thus locally the static pressure on the suction surface is increased. Secondary flow from the pressure surface with positive pressure to the suction surface with negative pressure from the hub region, is suppressed due to the locally increased static pressure on the suction surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toyotaka Sonoda, Toshiyuki Arima, Giles Endicott, Markus Olhofer
  • Patent number: 9435210
    Abstract: A cooled turbine blade for a gas turbine engine including a pressure surface wall, a suction surface wall and a distal wall connecting the pressure surface wall and the suction surface wall, arranged so as to create in the region of the distal end of the blade at least one external cavity forming a bathtub-shaped cavity and at least one internal cavity separated by the distal wall, the blade having at least one opening for the introduction of a flow of cooling air into the external cavity, wherein, on the one hand, at least one part of the distal wall is inclined relative to the verticals of the pressure surface wall and, on the other hand, the opening is created in the vicinity of the distal wall so that the flow of cooling air is directed towards the distal end of the pressure surface wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Bacha, Emmanuel Berche, Tangi Brusq
  • Patent number: 9377029
    Abstract: A blade of a turbomachine or a flying machine includes a blade airfoil extending in a radial direction from a blade root to a blade tip. The blade airfoil has an inflow-side leading edge, an outflow-side trailing edge, a pressure side and a suction side. A surface of each of the pressure side and the suction side extends between the inflow-side leading edge and the outflow-side trailing edge. The blade tip has an end face with a camber line that extends from the inflow-side leading edge to the outflow-side trailing edge. At least one tip-side recess forms a depression from the end face into the blade airfoil, the depression extending continuously from the pressure side to the suction side and having a partial length of the camber line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Willy Heinz Hofmann, Josef Ballmann
  • Patent number: 9366222
    Abstract: A rotor blade element and a method for improving the efficiency of a wind turbine rotor blade are provided. The wind turbine rotor blade element is adapted for mounting on the wind turbine rotor blade. The wind turbine rotor blade has a trailing edge, a suction side and a pressure side. The blade element has a trailing edge, a first surface and a second surface. The first surface forms a pressure side surface portion. The second surface has a suction side surface portion and a contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Soeren E. Nielsen, Carsten Thrue
  • Patent number: 9353628
    Abstract: An airfoil for a turbine engine includes an airfoil having pressure and suction sides extending in a radial direction from a 0% span position at an inner flow path location to a 100% span position at an airfoil tip. The airfoil has a relationship between a leading edge dihedral and a span position. The leading edge dihedral is negative from the 0% span position to the 100% span position. A positive dihedral corresponds to suction side-leaning, and a negative dihedral corresponds to pressure side-leaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Edward J. Gallagher, Byron R. Monzon, Ling Liu, Linda S. Li, Darryl Whitlow, Barry M. Ford
  • Patent number: 9302769
    Abstract: A rotorcraft ducted rotor comprising a rotary assembly arranged in a passage to rotate about an axis of symmetry (AX1). The rotary assembly (15) has a plurality of blades (20), each fastened to a hub (16), each blade (20) complies with a twisting relationship defining an angle of twist lying in the range zero degrees inclusive to 5 degrees inclusive. Spanwise, each blade (20) comprises a first zone (21) followed by a second zone (22), which second zone presents rearward sweep, being provided with a second trailing edge (30?) situated downstream from a first trailing edge (30?) of the first zone (21). Each first zone (21) includes a root (24) connected to the hub (16) by a fastener device (40) having a rolling bearing (45) without clearance and a conical laminated abutment (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS
    Inventor: Bernard Certain
  • Patent number: 9249666
    Abstract: An airfoil and method of fabricating an airfoil including a first and a second side coupled at a leading and a trailing edge and extending there between. The airfoil includes a plurality of first chord sections having a first chord length and extending outward from one of the first side or second side at the leading edge and a plurality of second chord sections having a second chord length and extending outward from the one of the first side or the second side at the leading edge. The leading edge including spaced-apart wave-shaped projections defining a waveform. The configuration defining a three-dimensional crenulated airfoil configured to facilitate desensitization of an airfoil unsteady pressure response to at least one impinging upstream generated wake or vortex by decorrelating spatially and temporally and reducing in amplitude an unsteady pressure caused by interaction of the airfoil with the upstream generated wake or vortex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Trevor Howard Wood, Kishore Ramakrishnan, Umesh Paliath
  • Patent number: 9103325
    Abstract: In one aspect, a winglet for a rotor blade is disclosed. The winglet may generally include a winglet body extending at least partially between a winglet origin and a blade tip. The winglet body may define a sweep and a pre-bend. The sweep defined between the winglet origin and the blade tip may range from about 0.5% to about 4.0% of a span of the rotor blade. The pre-bend defined between the winglet origin and the blade tip may range from about 1.5% to about 4.5% of the span of the rotor blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Klaus Ulrich Koegler, Ariane Frere, Andreas Herrig
  • Patent number: 9085359
    Abstract: An aerofoil has a main portion of aerofoil cross section, an inner spanwise root end where the aerofoil is in use secured to a supporting structure, and at an outermost spanwise end outboard of the main portion, beyond a tip station, a tip region which includes a tip edge. The planform configuration of the tip edge lies on a first Bezier curve constructed from at least four control points, P1, P2, P3 and P4, each lying on the periphery of a polygon which bounds the tip region. Control point P1 is located on a leading edge of the aerofoil. Control point P2 is located on the second side of the polygon. Control point P3 is located on the third side of the polygon, and control point P4 is located at the outermost tip edge point at a trailing edge of the aerofoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Agustawestland Limited
    Inventor: Alan Brocklehurst
  • Patent number: 9061758
    Abstract: A noise reduced and performance improved rotor blade (1) for a helicopter. The blade has three aerodynamic sections (5, 6, 7) along the blade span between a leading edge (8) and a trailing edge (9). An inner rectangular or tapered section (5) next to a blade root for said blade's connection to a rotor hub rotating about a rotor axis of said helicopter. A middle section (6) is adjacent to the inner section (5) and opposed to the blade root. The middle section (6) is forward swept over a distance along the span of the blade (1). An outer section (7) lies between the middle section (6) and the blade tip (11). The outer section (7) is back swept along a further part of the span of the blade (1). The outer section (7) includes a parabolic shape towards the free end of the blade tip (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Schimke, Stefanie Link, Sascha Schneider
  • Patent number: 9051941
    Abstract: An axial-flow fan has a blade with a recessed part that is recessed toward a front edge formed in a rear edge of the blade. A rounded stress-relieving part is formed in a positive pressure surface side and a negative pressure surface side of a front-edge-side edge part of the recessed part as seen in a cross-sectional view of the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Azumi Kojima, Yuuta Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9039380
    Abstract: A winglet for a rotor blade is disclosed. The winglet may generally include a winglet body extending between a first end and a second end. The winglet body may define a sweep and may have a curvature defined by a curve fit including a first radius of curvature and a second radius of curvature. The sweep between the first end and the second end may range from about 580 millimeters to about 970 millimeters. Additionally, the first radius of curvature may range from about 1500 millimeters to about 2500 millimeters and the second radius of curvature may range from about 1200 millimeters to about 2000 millimeters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Klaus Ulrich Koegler, Stefan Herr, Ramesh Vedula
  • Publication number: 20150132141
    Abstract: A rotor blade of a wind turbine with a raked tip portion is provided. The tip portion is raked, i.e. curved, in a rotor blade plane comprising the tip base chord and a line which is parallel to the pitch axis of the rotor blade. Additionally, the orientation of the chords with reference to the chord at the tip base changes between the tip base and the tip. In other words, the trailing edge of the tip portion is twisted. Optionally, the tip portion is additionally swept out of the rotor blade plane, which is characterized by a cant angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jason Stege, Henrik Stiesdal, Alonso O. Zamora Rodriguez, Arni T. Steingrimsson, Kevin J. Standish
  • Patent number: 9011103
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor blade (10) of a wind power plant and a method for fabricating a rotor blade (10) of a wind power plant and a manufacturing mold (54, 50) for a belt (28-31). The invention is characterized by a belt pair (28, 29, 30, 31) in which two belts (28, 29, 30, 31) are connected together in a form-fit and/or force-fit and material fit connection, where the belts (28-31) have a complementary shape in a joining area (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Senvion SE
    Inventors: Mario Kontis, Jens Kulenkampff
  • Patent number: 9004861
    Abstract: An example blade assembly includes, among other things a blade tip having a pressure side and a suction side, and a plurality of grooves within the blade tip. At least one of the grooves has a contour that is different than both a contour of the pressure side and a contour of the suction side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Charles Nash, Andrew S. Aggarwala
  • Publication number: 20150078910
    Abstract: An arrangement to reduce noise of a wind turbine rotor blade is provided, including a wind turbine rotor blade and a noise reduction device. The noise reduction device includes a serrated extension for at least reducing noise generated from the wind turbine rotor blade, the noise reduction device attached to the trailing edge section. The serrated extension has a number of first and second teeth. The designs of the first and second teeth are differently compared to each other such that suction side noise and pressure side noise are both reduced by the teeth of the serrated extension. Advantageously, the first teeth and the second teeth are arranged in an alternating, periodic pattern and differ from each other by an angle of inclination with regard to a trailing edge streamline and or by its planform shape. Furthermore, a method to reduce noise of a wind turbine rotor blade is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Stefan Oerlemans
  • Publication number: 20150078896
    Abstract: A wind turbine rotor blade is provided, having a root end, a tip end, a leading edge section, a trailing edge section and a serrated extension, wherein the serrated extension is attached to the trailing edge section and has at least a first tooth. Furthermore, the wind turbine rotor blade has at least one patterning element for guiding a wind flow which is flowing from the leading edge section to the trailing edge section such that noise which is generated at the trailing edge section is reduced. The patterning element has the shape of a ridge. Advantageously, the ridge-shaped patterning element is located upstream, compared to the first tooth, and/or is located on a surface of the first tooth. Furthermore, a method is provided to reduce noise which is generated at a trailing edge section of a wind turbine rotor blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Stefan Oerlemans
  • Patent number: 8951008
    Abstract: The invention relates to a compressor blade of a compressor which, along a main axis, comprises a blade base, a platform area and an adjacent blade profile having a profile tip. The blade profile is configured by a convex wall at the suction end and a concave wall at the pressure end opposite the wall at the suction end. These surfaces extend, with respect to a flow medium, from a leading edge to a trailing edge, a profile center line extending in the center between the two. A front face is arranged on the profile tip at an angle to the main axis, a sealing lip at least partially extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge and the blade profile including the sealing lip having a blade profile height extending in the direction of the main axis. In order to allow for an inexpensive compressor blade having improved aerodynamic properties and a modified sealing lip while having the same sealing properties, the height of the sealing lip is less than 2 percent of the height of the blade profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Cornelius, Bernhard Küsters, Stephan Mais, Andreas Peters, Achim Schirrmacher, Lutz Stephan, Bernd van den Toorn
  • Patent number: 8951018
    Abstract: A variable pitch propeller comprises a plurality of blades pivotally connected to a hub. Each of the plurality of blades has a base having a leading end and a trailing end. The trailing edge has a notch therein forming a discontinuity in a profile of the trailing edge. The notch is sized and shaped so as to accommodate passage therethrough of a portion of the leading edge of an adjacent blade when the blade and the adjacent blade are pivoted. A blade for a variable pitch propeller is also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: BRP US Inc.
    Inventors: Dave Calamia, Gerald Ewens, John Charles Scott, John Valek, Richard McChesney, Mark C. Noble
  • Patent number: 8939708
    Abstract: A universal spherical reaction turbine for any flowing fluid at any depths or elevation that is capable of unidirectional rotation under reversible flow conditions. The turbine includes a rotatable shaft that is adapted to rotate about an axis of rotation; turbine blade support members that are fixedly attached to the rotatable shaft and a plurality of meridian turbine blades. The meridian turbine blades are fixedly attached to diametrically-opposite points that define a geometrical north-south meridian axis that is oriented at a skew angle to the axis of rotation of the rotatable shaft. The skew angle is greater than zero and less than 180 degrees, and, more preferably, between 25 and 35 degrees. The skewing ensures that those turbine blades that are attached to the diametrically-opposite points move on a helical trajectory with respect to the axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Northeastern University
    Inventor: Alexander M. Gorlov
  • Patent number: 8932024
    Abstract: An object is to provide a wind turbine blade having a serrated plate that can be formed irrespective of the overall structure of the blade, that is attached in the optimum shape, and that can effectively suppress noise occurring at a trailing edge thereof, and also to provide a wind power generator using such a wind turbine blade. Provided is a wind turbine blade (9) formed by bonding a back skin (19) and a front skin (21) and having a serrated plate (35) attached to a trailing edge (33) thereof, and the serrated plate (35) is formed so as to be attached by bonding the back skin (19) and the front skin (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Hayashi, Hiroshi Nishino
  • Publication number: 20140377077
    Abstract: A blade for a rotating machine, particularly for a gas turbine engine, has a leading edge and a trailing edge joined by pressure and suction surfaces. The trailing edge has a serrated form including a first periodic variation and a second periodic variation of higher frequency and lower amplitude than the first periodic variation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Mathieu Gruber, Philip Joseph, Mahdi Azarpeyvand
  • Patent number: 8915717
    Abstract: The impeller wheel is rotatably supported about a central axis and has a hub on which vanes are arranged. The vane has across its radial length at least similar profiled sections, viewed in cylindrical section through the vane. The radial outermost profiled section which is positioned on a cylindrical enveloping surface of the impeller wheel has a greater displacement relative to the neighboring profiled section than this neighboring profiled section to its neighboring profiled section. The impeller wheel can also be provided on the radial outer edge with at least one projecting flow element whose axial height has a maximum in the area of the leading edge and of the trailing edge of the vane. The impeller wheels, while having a simple constructive configuration, provide a great noise reduction in operation of the ventilator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Ziehl-Abegg AG
    Inventors: Michael Stephan, Ralf Neumeier, Volker Kress
  • Patent number: 8899938
    Abstract: A blade for a turbomachine, in particular for a rotor of a helicopter. A main section is designed to create a flow in the surrounding medium and extends from a hub section to a blade tip region. An end piece for influencing eddy formation in the blade tip region. To achieve a substantial noise reduction, the end piece is designed as a rounded flow body comprising at least one groove originating in the transition region between the body and the main section, substantially in the direction of the blade axis and curving towards the trailing edge of the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Inventor: Walter Enthammer
  • Fan
    Patent number: 8899930
    Abstract: A fan, for a ventilation assembly has blades extending from a cup-shaped central hub. The hub has an annular side wall and a bottom wall defining a receptacle for an electric motor. The hub has internal ribs for ventilation of the motor. Each rib has a longitudinal portion which extends along the side wall, a radial portion which extends along the bottom wall and an intermediate portion having an arcuate, transversely protruding profile. The longitudinal portion has a profile whose spacing from the side wall of the hub increases, from a minimum value remote from the bottom wall to a maximum value adjacent the bottom wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Gate S.R.L.
    Inventors: Piergiorgio Innocenti, Davide Parodi
  • Patent number: 8894374
    Abstract: A blade for a rotor of a wind turbine has a root region with a substantially circular or elliptical profile closest to the hub and an airfoil region with a lift generating profile furthest away from the hub. A transition region has a base part with an inner dimension that varies linearly in the radial direction of the blade in such a way that an induction factor of the first base part without flow altering devices at a rotor design point deviates from a target induction factor. The first longitudinal segment is provided with a number of first flow altering devices arranged so as to adjust the aerodynamic properties of the first longitudinal segment to substantially meet the target induction factor at the design point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: LM Glasfiber A/S
    Inventors: Peter Fuglsang, Stefano Bove, Lars Fuglsang
  • Patent number: 8894376
    Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure include a system having a turbomachine including a plurality of turbomachine blades coupled to a rotor, wherein each turbomachine blade has a blade base portion and a flared blade tip portion flared relative to the blade base portion. Additionally, a trailing edge of each turbomachine blade extends along a common plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Penny, Ross James Gustafson