Patents by Inventor William Gallivan

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

  • Patent number: 5577888
    Abstract: A high efficiency fan and stator arrangement for generating an airflow through a heat exchanger is disclosed herein. The fan is rotated about its rotational axis by an electric motor, and includes eight blades extending radially from a hub to a circular band. Each fan blade has a stagger angle and chord lengths which vary along the span of the blades. Each fan blade also includes a trailing edge having a flat surface extending along the edge. The flat surfaces of each fan blade are coincident with a plane perpendicular to the rotational axis. The fan produces an airflow when rotated about the rotational axis, wherein a component of the airflow occurs at a first angle to the rotational axis. The fan support has a central bearing support and twenty elongated airfoils extending radially outward from the bearing support. Each airfoil has substantially the same length as the fan blades and includes a curved airflow guiding surface having a leading edge and a trailing edge downstream from the leading edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Siemens Electric Limited
    Inventors: Hugo Capdevila, Eric Bartlett, John Pharoah, William Gallivan