Patents Examined by Aaron R Eastman
  • Patent number: 11835065
    Abstract: A fan frame turbulence structure includes a frame body having a wind incoming side and a wind outgoing side respectively on two sides of the frame body. The frame body defines an airflow passage which passes through the frame body from the wind incoming side to the wind outgoing side. The wind incoming side has an inlet in communication with the airflow passage. The inlet has a breaking section between the wind incoming side and the passage inner wall. The breaking section includes densely distributed breaking units. The breaking units define therebetween gaps in communication with the airflow passage. The breaking units serve to break and fracture airflow sucked in from the wind incoming side, whereby part of the airflow passes through the gaps between the breaking units and is broken and fractured into multiple gap turbulences to flow into the air passage so as to lower the wideband noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS (CHINA) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hua Lai, Ze-Hua Tan
  • Patent number: 11835066
    Abstract: An assembling structure of a ceiling fan has a motor shaft and a driving assembly mounted on the motor shaft. The motor shaft is mounted through the driving assembly. The driving assembly has an upper cover, a lower cover, a chamber, a circuit board, and a positioning mechanism. The lower cover has a covering board and a mounting cylinder mounted in a center of the covering board, and is mounted on the motor shaft via the mounting cylinder. The chamber is formed between the upper cover and the lower cover. The circuit board is mounted in the chamber. The upper cover, the lower cover, and the circuit board are sequentially arranged from top to bottom. The positioning mechanism is mounted in the chamber and limits a mounting position of the circuit board. The present invention solves the noise issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Foshan Carro Electrical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian-Sheng Zhang, Zhi-Qiang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11828271
    Abstract: A composite nacelle cover (1;22) equipped with main machinery components (9a;9b;10) for a wind turbine has a composite wall (3,4,5,6,7) constituting a first load-carrying structure for at least one component of a first part (9a;9b) of the main machinery components. The length of the conventional load-carrying frame can be reduced and a lot of weight of the overall nacelle structure be eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Jupiter Bach A/S
    Inventor: Ulrik Raimund
  • Patent number: 11815101
    Abstract: A ceiling fan or similar air-moving device can include a motor for rotating one or more blades to drive a volume of air about a space. The blade can include a body having an outer surface with a flat top surface and a flat bottom surface, and a side edge. A performance feature can be included in the body to improve efficiency. Due to manufacturing distortions, an offset can exist between the performance feature and other parts of the body. A transition portion can be formed at the offsets to remedy inefficiencies resultant of these distortions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Bobby Neal Norwood, Charles William Botkin
  • Patent number: 11802572
    Abstract: A ducted axial fan. The fan includes a rotor rotatable around an axis X and having a plurality of blades, and a duct suitable for defining a circular section channel developing in an axial direction around the rotor. The duct includes an annular seat circumferentially extending around the rotor, and the blade tips are at least partially received in the annular seat of the duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: R.E.M. Holding S.R.L.
    Inventor: Roberto Eduardo Mosiewicz
  • Patent number: 11802569
    Abstract: First and second towers may discharge air. An airflow guide or converter may change a direction of the air discharged from the first tower and the second tower by moving a gate inside and outside of at least one of the first or second towers so as to block discharged air flowing forward and selectively facilitate an upward air flow. The airflow converter may include a guide motor to provide a driving force, the gate, which may reciprocate between the inside and the outside of the first and/or second towers; and a board guider connected to the gate to transmit a driving force of the guide motor to the gate as a linear motion force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaehyeon Kim, Hoojin Kim, Siyoung Oh, Yongmin Kim, Kidong Kim, Seokho Choi, Hyungho Park, Chiyoung Choi
  • Patent number: 11802525
    Abstract: An unducted single fan engine includes a housing having one or more fan blades coupled to the housing and configured to rotate circumferentially. The engine has one or more outlet guide vanes coupled to the housing. Each of the one or more guide vanes has a leading edge portion having a variable leading edge. The engine has one or more actuation devices coupled to each of the one or more outlet guide vanes. The one or more actuation devices are configured to control the variable leading edge of the respective outlet guide vane. The variable leading edge is controllable to vary the pitch, camber, lean angle, or sweep of the respective outlet guide vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Vinod Chaudhari, Bhaskar Nanda Mondal, Kishanjit Pal, Sushilkumar Shevakari, Ian F. Prentice, Thomas Moniz, Trevor H. Wood, Kishore Ramakrishnan
  • Patent number: 11795917
    Abstract: A main rotor shaft of a wind turbine configured to reducing contact pressure at a hub joint connection includes a flanged portion and a rod portion. The flanged portion includes an outer circumferential edge, an outer radial area, and an inner radial area. The outer radial area includes holes placed around the outer radial area for attachment to a wind turbine hub. The outer circumferential edge includes a groove placed atop the outer circumferential edge. The rod portion is formed with the inner radial area and configured for connection to a gearbox of a wind turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L.
    Inventors: Hemant Bhimrao Pawar, Bradley Graham Moore, Vinay Bawane, Christopher Michael Bean
  • Patent number: 11795825
    Abstract: The invention relates to an inter-blade platform of a turbomachine fan, comprising: —a base comprising a first surface configured to delimit a flow path in the fan and a second surface on the opposite side from the first surface, —two flanks extending radially next to the second surface, each of the flanks having a sacrificial free end configured to bear against a fan disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Teddy Fixy, Jérémy Guivarc'h, Gilles Pierre-Marie Notarianni, Thomas Alain De Gaillard
  • Patent number: 11788549
    Abstract: Turbofan blade blocking apparatus are disclosed. An example turbofan engine includes a containment casing, a fan, at least one of a trench filler or an abradable layer at least partially aligned with the fan in an axial direction defined by the turbofan engine, at least one of the trench filler or the abradable layer fixed to an inner radial surface of the containment casing, and a metal blocker coupled to the containment casing forward of the fan, an aft end of the metal blocker interfacing with at least one of the trench filler or the abradable layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Kray, Brandon W. Miller, Egbert Geertsema
  • Patent number: 11781336
    Abstract: A novel impulse damper for reducing extreme vibrational events, in particular, in tall, narrow structures such as wind turbines. The impulse damper, according to the invention, operates on the impact-damping principle and is particularly suitable for damping the second natural frequency of the installation, preferably of the tower of a wind turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ESM ENERGIE—UND SCHWINGUNGSTECHNIK MITSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Mathias Dörsam
  • Patent number: 11772778
    Abstract: The invention describes a system for controlling the cyclic setting of blades (1) of a turbine engine propeller, the blades (1) being arranged in a plane normal to the axis of rotation (r) of the propeller, the system comprising: —a plate assembly (40) that can be tilted relative to the normal plane (P), —an articulation system (50) articulating the plate assembly (40) relative to the blades (1) such that tilting the plate assembly (40) modifies the setting of the blades (1), —a force sensor (5) designed to measure a force applied in the normal plane (P) by an air flow at the inlet of the propeller blades (1), —a cylinder (60) suitable for tilting the plate assembly (40) in response to a force measured by the force sensor (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Tewfik Boudebiza, Julien Michel Patrick Christian Austruy, Gilles Alain Marie Charier, Cedrik Djelassi
  • Patent number: 11773863
    Abstract: To provide a simple embodiment of a rotor for a fluid pump which is nevertheless very flexible in handling and compressible, in accordance with the invention a conveying blade is provided having at least two struts and a membrane spanned between them in the expanded state, wherein the struts each have at least one joint, in particular more than one joint, which enables an angling in a first direction in a first movement plane and bounds an overelongation beyond an elongation angle of in particular 180° in the opposite second direction. In particular when a plurality of joints are provided at the struts, they, and with them the conveying blades, are particularly flexible for simple compressibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH
    Inventor: Sami Er
  • Patent number: 11767852
    Abstract: A blower may include a lower case having a suction port and a fan and an upper case having at least one main discharge port and at least one auxiliary discharge port. The auxiliary discharge port may be positioned in front of and below the main discharge port to discharge air introduced through the suction port upward. A door may open and/or close the auxiliary discharge port, and a door motor may power the door. The upper case may be formed as two towers defining a blowing space therebetween, and the at least one auxiliary discharge port may include a plurality of auxiliary discharge ports formed in inner walls of the two towers to face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaehyeon Kim, Yongmin Kim, Kidong Kim, Seokho Choi, Hyungho Park, Hoojin Kim, Chiyoung Choi
  • Patent number: 11767859
    Abstract: There is provided a fan assembly comprising a fan body, a motor-driven impeller contained within the fan body and arranged to generate an air flow, a nozzle comprising a nozzle body having an air inlet arranged to receive the air flow from the fan body and one or more air outlets arranged to emit the airflow from the fan assembly. The fan assembly further comprises a nozzle retaining mechanism for releasably retaining the nozzle on the fan body, and a rotation mechanism for rotating the nozzle body relative to the fan body. The nozzle rotation mechanism comprises a rotation motor arranged to drive a drive member and a driven member that is arranged to be driven by the drive member to rotate around a rotation axis, wherein the nozzle body comprises the driven member and the fan body comprises the rotation motor and the drive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Steven Eduard Peet, Neil Andrew Stewart, Robert James Fryer, Adam Daniel Jouques, Victoria Anne Dorothy Gibson-Robinson, Harriet Rebecca White, Stephen Andrew Baker, Thomas Greer Duvall, Jack David Collins
  • Patent number: 11753941
    Abstract: A separable fluid turbine rotor turbine is described herein. The fluid turbine includes blades and support arms to adjoin the blades to a hub. The blades, support arms, or blades and supports can be assembled from a plurality of segments which are adjoined via one or more connectors. The connectors can be internal or external to the blade or support arm segments. Additional connectors can be used to adjoin the blades and support arms, the blades and the hub, and the support arms and the hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: XFlow Energy Company
    Inventors: Ian D. Brownstein, Benjamin W. Strom
  • Patent number: 11754045
    Abstract: A blade pitch controller for a wind turbine includes a nominal control system and a tower feedback loop. The tower feedback loop includes a filtering system. The filtering system is arranged to control wind turbine blade pitch so as to provide additional effective stiffness to the wind turbine in response to motion of the wind turbine which is above a filter frequency of the filtering system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: EQUINOR ENERGY AS
    Inventors: Bjørn Skaare, Emil Smilden
  • Patent number: 11754051
    Abstract: The invention relates to a floating windmill installation (1, 1?, 1?), wherein the floating windmill installation (1, 1?, 1?) comprises: —a windmill (10, 10?) comprising a tower (14), —a floating installation (20, 20?) comprising an aperture (22) penetrating the floating installation (1, 1?, 1?) for accommodating the tower (14), and—means for raising and lowering the tower (14) up and down through the aperture (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: BLUE-WIND AS
    Inventors: Kåre Olav Krogenes, Lars Helge Helvig, Antonie Oosterkamp, Henning Heiberg-Andersen, Lars Henning Helvig
  • Patent number: 11754050
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a damper module adapted to be secured to a wind turbine tower section, the damper module comprising at least one liquid damper secured to a frame structure, wherein each liquid damper comprises a container comprising an interior volume containing an amount of liquid, wherein the amount of liquid in the interior volume of the container sets a natural frequency of the liquid damper, and wherein the frame structure comprises an interface arrangement configured for, in cooperation with a damper module suspension arrangement in a tower section, securing the damper module to said tower section, and a liquid damper fastening arrangement configured for securing said at least one liquid damper to the frame structure. The present invention further relates to a liquid damper and a tower section having at least one damper module secured thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventors: Søren Bøgelund Madsen, Tue Hald
  • Patent number: 11746799
    Abstract: A casing, which receives a fan, has a suction port forming portion that forms a suction port. A separation tube has a tube upper end portion, which forms an air inlet, through which the air flows into an inside of the separation tube. The tube upper end portion is located on one side of the suction port forming portion in an axial direction such that the tube upper end portion overlaps with a portion of the suction port in the axial direction. A rib is formed at a periphery of the suction port. The periphery of the suction port has: an overlapping region, which overlaps with the tube upper end portion in the axial direction; and a non-overlapping region, which does not overlap with the tube upper end portion in the axial direction. The rib occupies more area in the non-overlapping region than in the overlapping region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Syo Kosaka, Yuuya Suzuki