Patents Examined by Hakeem M Abdellaoui
  • Patent number: 10527051
    Abstract: A rotary machine includes an impeller. The impeller includes a discoid disk that rotates about an axis line, blades disposed circumferentially at intervals on a surface of the disk facing one side in a direction of the axial line and that form a flow path therebetween that extends radially outward from one side in the direction of the axial line, and a cover that covers the blades from a radially outer side. The rotary machine further includes a casing that covers the impeller from the radially outer side and forms a gap between the casing and an outer surface of the cover; a seal portion provided in the gap; and a lid member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jo Masutani, Kazuki Chiba
  • Patent number: 10519801
    Abstract: An annular air flow passage, particularly for a turbine engine, comprising two radially internal and external annular walls. A measuring element is elongated in a direction between the internal and external annular walls, and a first of the internal or external ends of the element is fixed rigidly to a first of the internal or external walls. The element includes at least one tubular cavity extending along the element and supplied with pressurized fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jérémy Giordan, Valentine Lucette Bader, André Pierre Jean Xavier Leroux, Stéphane Rousselin
  • Patent number: 10450879
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a circumferential row of vanes directly upstream of an asymmetric gas flow path. At a given spanwise position, a tangential and axial position of the outer guide vanes varies along the circumferential row of vanes. One or more of the vanes are leant such that the tangential and axial position of one or more vanes of the circumferential row of vanes varies in a spanwise direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Luca Di Mare, Fernando Barbarossa, Max E. Rife
  • Patent number: 10426085
    Abstract: A centrifugal fan rotor having a frame with a rotary axis and a plurality of blades on the frame at circumferentially spaced locations around the rotary axis. The plurality of blades each has a leading edge and a trailing edge radially outside of the leading edge. The plurality of blades each has circumferentially oppositely facing first and second surfaces each extending between respective leading and trailing edges. The plurality of blades each has a material bonded at the leading edge and over only a portion of the exposed surface area of one of the first and second surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Crary Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Damir Cavkusic, Ben Richard, Michael Leach, Mitchell Lee
  • Patent number: 10408082
    Abstract: An airfoil includes an airfoil body that has a retention pocket and an airfoil piece disposed in the retention pocket. The retention pocket secures the airfoil piece in place. The airfoil piece defines a portion of an airfoil profile of an airfoil section of the airfoil body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley
  • Patent number: 10364821
    Abstract: A cutting assembly and a grinder pump including the cutting assembly are disclosed. The cutting assembly includes a cutting plate that has a plurality of cutting ports with cutting edges that are distributed over a range of radial locations of the plate. The cutting edges of the cutting ports define a series of cutting regions of the cutting blades of a rotary cutter that operate in a shearing action with the cutter plate. The cutting action by the blades of the rotary cutter is distributed over nearly the entire lengths of the cutting edges of the cutting blades, thereby distributing the wear on the cutting blades evenly, and extending cutting assembly life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Liberty Pumps, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald M. Pohler
  • Patent number: 10267157
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotating blade for a turbomachine, in particular a compressor stage or a turbine stage of a gas turbine, particularly of an aircraft engine, having a blade element for deflecting the flow, with a pressure side and a suction side, these sides being joined by a leading edge and a trailing edge, wherein a stacking axis of the blade element, in the radial direction over a radius r from a root of a blade element at r=0 to a tip of a blade element at r=H, has a course x(r) in a first downstream direction perpendicular to the radial direction and parallel to a principal axis of the turbomachine and has a course y(r) in a second direction perpendicular to the radial direction and to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Kaspar Wolf, Klaus Wittig, Marcus Woehler, Martin Pernleitner, Wilfried Schuette
  • Patent number: 10260508
    Abstract: A fan structure with non-circular circumference includes a frame, a first hub, a second hub, a transmission belt member, a first assembling member and a second assembling member. A first and a second base are provided in and protruded from a bottom of the frame. The first and the second hub are respectively mounted on the first and the second base, and a stator unit is provided between the first hub and the first base. The transmission belt member is fitted around side walls of the first and second hubs, and has a plurality of blades spaced on an outer surface thereof. The first and the second assembling member are correspondingly assembled to the tops of the first and the second hub. With the above arrangements, the fan structure can operate with largely reduced vibration and noise and can be manufactured at reduced material and production costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bor-Haw Chang, Yu-Tzu Chen, Chung-Shu Wang