Plural Rigidly Related Blade Sets Patents (Class 415/198.1)
  • Patent number: 11795824
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for an engine component having a working airflow separated into a cooling airflow and a combustion airflow, the engine component comprising a plurality of circumferentially spaced airfoils rotatable about a centerline defining an axial direction, each airfoil comprising an outer wall bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip along a span-wise direction to define a span length; wherein each of the airfoils have an unguided turning angle to stagger angle ratio defined with respect to a percentage of the span length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Thomas William Vandeputte
  • Patent number: 11649825
    Abstract: A multistage centrifugal pump for conveying a fluid includes a pump housing, two first stage impellers, a last stage impeller and a shaft. The two first stage impellers and the last stage impeller convey the fluid from a housing inlet to a housing outlet. The shaft rotates each impeller about an axial direction, each impeller comprising a suction side to receive the fluid and a discharge side to discharge the fluid. The last stage impeller is a double suction impeller, having a first suction side and a second suction side, and the last stage impeller is arranged between the two first stage impellers with respect to the axial direction. Each impeller of the two first stage impellers is arranged with the suction side of a respective first stage impeller facing one of the first and second suction sides of the last stage impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SULZER MANAGEMENT AG
    Inventor: Bruno Maroccia
  • Patent number: 11566632
    Abstract: A cooling fan and an electronic device are provided. The cooling fan comprises a plurality of blades disposed in a circumferential direction of a rotating shaft. The plurality of blades includes a first blade and a second blade. A windward surface of the first blade includes a first alignment part and a first offset part. The first alignment part is aligned with a windward surface of the second blade, and the first offset part and the windward surface of the second blade are arranged in a staggered manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zizhou Jia, Hongmei Ge
  • Patent number: 11542952
    Abstract: A centrifugal blower includes a centrifugal fan and a separation cylinder. The centrifugal fan has a separation plate. The separation cylinder is disposed inward of the blades in the radial direction of the centrifugal fan. The separation plate has an inner end surface extending from the one side to the other side in the axial direction at a position of an inner end in the radial direction. The separation cylinder has a separation cylinder end surface extending from the one side to the other side in the axial direction at a position of an end on the other side in the axial direction. A height of one of the separation cylinder end surface and the inner end surface in the axial direction is larger than a height of the other of the separation cylinder end surface and the inner end surface in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya Suzuki, Sho Kosaka, Shuzo Oda, Shinichiro Hirai
  • Patent number: 10760586
    Abstract: A liquid pump for use with a fluid circulation system for a body of water includes a strainer assembly; a centrifugal pump assembly having at least first and second outlet ports respectively oriented in vertical and horizontal directions; a motor; and, at least one cap configured and dimensioned to engage and close an outlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Asia Connection LLC
    Inventors: Mitch Saccoccio, Jonathan Bonelli, Reza Afshar
  • Patent number: 10570928
    Abstract: A centrifugal blower assembly comprises a scroll wall and a pair of opposing sidewalls. The scroll wall is positioned between the pair of opposing sidewalls such that the scroll wall and opposing sidewalls together define a blower chamber and a blower outlet. A baffle element is positioned within the blower chamber and adjacent the blower outlet such that the baffle element is configured to facilitate uniform distribution of airflow downstream of the blower assembly. An air stream splitter is coupled to the scroll wall. The air stream splitter includes a spline member extending a varying distance from the scroll wall. The air stream splitter is positioned within the blower chamber to facilitate uniform airflow distribution within the blower assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.
    Inventor: Rachele Barbara Cocks
  • Patent number: 10563661
    Abstract: A vertically shafted air moving device for circulating air includes a housing that defines an internal space. A shell is coupled to and extends from a top of the housing. The shell is meshed. The shell is configured to allow air to enter and exit the shell. A power module and a motor are coupled to the housing and are positioned in the internal space. The motor is operationally coupled to the power module. A shaft is coupled to and extends from the motor into the shell. Each of a plurality of blades is coupled to and extends from the shaft to proximate to an interior face of the shell. The motor is positioned to compel rotation of the shaft coincident with the blades. The blades are configured to circulate air in proximity to the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Inventor: Louis Rogers
  • Patent number: 10385877
    Abstract: A fluid machine includes a rotatable hub; a plurality of blades spaced apart from one another along a circumferential direction with respect to a rotation center of the hub; and a shroud extending along a circumferential direction with respect to the rotation center of the hub and covering the plurality of blades. The shroud includes: a flow passage, the flow passage formed to be recessed with respect to an inner surface of the shroud facing the blades; and a plurality of resonators provided in the flow passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: HANWHA POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Kil Young Kim
  • Patent number: 10330110
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pump impeller which has improved anti clogging characteristics, in particular through the use of an impeller vane having a specially profiled leading edge which, during operation of the impeller, forces rags or the like down along the leading edge, which increases in thickness along the length thereof, until the rags become re-entrained in the fluid and thus exit the impeller avoiding the clogging thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Sulzer Management AG
    Inventors: Jean-Noel Bajeet, Ian Cullen
  • Patent number: 10323853
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a ventilation assembly including a scroll assembly that can include a blower assembly including a motor coupled to a blower wheel. Some embodiments include a discharge grid capable of being coupled to the scroll using a coupling pin or snap tabs. In some embodiments, the discharge grid includes a plurality of vertical and horizontal fins, and an outlet restriction. In some embodiments, at least one of the plurality of horizontal fins extends from the outlet restriction to couple with at least one vertical fin to form an aperture. In other embodiments, at least a portion of at least one of the plurality of vertical and horizontal fins includes a flared surface. Some embodiments include a scroll assembly that includes a scroll crescent. In some embodiments, a scroll including a discharge grid and scroll crescent can at least partially guide a fluid within the ventilation assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Broan-NuTone LLC
    Inventors: Mirko Zakula, Robert G. Penlesky, Daniel L. Karst
  • Patent number: 10301972
    Abstract: A turbine comprising an intermediate casing axially inserted between an upstream high pressure turbine casing and a downstream low pressure turbine casing and comprising an outer annular shroud from which an annular flange radially extends, characterized in that the downstream end of the high pressure turbine casing and the upstream end of the low pressure turbine casing are attached on the radial annular flange of the intermediate casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Stéphane Pierre Guillaume Blanchard, Hélène Myriam Condat
  • Patent number: 10202981
    Abstract: A modular fan blade includes a first fan blade and a second fan blade. The first fan blade includes a hub and plural first vanes, and the hub has an external periphery, and the first vane is combined with the external periphery, and a flange is formed at the external periphery and a retaining space is formed on a surface of the flange; and the second fan blade includes a fan frame and plural second vanes, and the fan frame is installed at the flange of the hub, sheathed on the hub, and installed in the retaining space, so as to achieve the effects of increasing the wind output of the fan effectively and replacing the blades conveniently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: COOLER MASTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fu-Lung Lin, Tsung-Wei Lin, Chun-Hsien Chen
  • Patent number: 10047762
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an impeller and a mold for manufacting the impeller. The impeller includes a plurality of blades, and there is an overlapped area between two adjacent blades. The mold includes a first part, a second part and a plurality of slide groups. The first part and the second part move in a mold opening direction. At least a portion of each slide group is located in the overlapped area, and each slide group has a first slide block and a second slide block, and a movement direction of the first slide block and the second slide block is perpendicular to the mold opening direction. By using that the movement direction of the slide group is perpendicular to the mold opening direction, the impeller with blades that have the overlapped area may be manufactured. The blades of the impeller may have a special shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SUNON ELECTRONICS (FOSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng Chieh Liang, Chih Chiang Lin
  • Patent number: 9683442
    Abstract: A turbocharger (5) comprising a housing (10) including a compressor shroud (14) and a turbine shroud (12). A compressor wheel (18) is disposed in the compressor shroud (14) and includes a plurality of compressor blades (45, 46). Each compressor blade (45, 46) includes a leading edge (50, 51) and a compressor shroud contour edge (54, 55), wherein each compressor shroud contour edge (54, 55) is in close confronting relation to the compressor shroud (14). A turbine wheel (16) is disposed in the turbine shroud (12) and includes a plurality of turbine blades (26). Each turbine blade (26) includes a leading edge (30) and a turbine shroud contour edge (34), wherein each turbine shroud contour edge (34) is in close confronting relation to the turbine shroud (12). At least one of the compressor shroud (14) and turbine shroud (12) includes a plurality of grooves (70, 72) extending cross-wise with respect to the corresponding compressor or turbine shroud contour edges (34, 54, 55).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Stephanie Dextraze, David G. Grabowska
  • Patent number: 9574562
    Abstract: A pump for pumping a multiphase fluid includes a housing and a rotor with an outer surface. A plurality of inducer vanes are attached to the rotor hub, each having a leading edge and a trailing edge where the leading edge of one inducer vane overlaps the trailing edge of an adjacent inducer vane by a first overlap angle. A plurality of impeller vanes are also attached to the hub. The impeller vanes each have a leading edge and a trailing edge where the leading edge of one impeller vane overlaps the trailing edge of an adjacent impeller vane by a second overlap angle larger than the first overlap angle. The pump includes a rotor flow channel extending between the hub outer surface and the housing inner surface. The rotor flow channel has an inlet area and an outlet area, whereby the outlet area is smaller than the inlet area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jeremy Daniel Van Dam, Vittorio Michelassi, Ismail Hakki Sezal, Xuele Qi, Rene du Cauze de Nazelle, Vishal Gahlot, Scott Richard Erler
  • Patent number: 9404506
    Abstract: An impeller of a rotary machine, in which the direction of flow changes from an axial direction to a radial direction as it goes from the inside in the radial direction of a fluid flow passage to the outside in the radial direction thereof, includes a hub surface constituting at least a portion of the fluid flow passage. The impeller also includes a blade surface constituting at least a portion of the fluid flow passage, and a bulge that bulges toward the inside of the fluid flow passage at a corner where a pressure surface, which configures the blade surface, comes in contact with the hub surface in the vicinity of an inlet of the fluid flow passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Jo Masutani
  • Patent number: 9212557
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine has a plurality of compressor rotors, as well as a plurality of turbine rotors. A tie shaft of the engine is constrained to rotate with the compressor and turbine rotors during normal operating conditions. Further, an upstream hub is in threaded engagement with the tie shaft. The threads of the upstream hub are handed in a first manner when viewed from an upstream location. A downstream abutment member is positioned downstream of the turbine rotors and is also in threaded engagement with the tie shaft. Threads of the downstream abutment member are handed in the first manner when viewed from a downstream location. Accordingly, the compressor and turbine sections of the engine are reliably held together, and the tie shaft is substantially prevented from unwinding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel Benjamin, Roger Gates, Brian C. Lund
  • Patent number: 9194398
    Abstract: There is provided a centrifugal fan including an upper casing which has an air suction opening, a lower casing, and an impeller which is disposed between the upper casing and the lower casing. The impeller includes an upper shroud which is provided on an upper casing side, and a plurality of blades which are arranged along a circumference direction below the upper shroud, and is rotatable around a rotary shaft. The upper casing and the lower casing configure an open-type casing. A surface of the upper shroud facing the upper casing includes a first portion which becomes closer to the lower casing as separating further from the rotary shaft. A surface of the upper casing facing the upper shroud includes a second portion which faces the first portion of the upper shroud and becomes closer to the lower casing as separating further from the rotary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiya Fujimoto, Takako Fukuda, Yuzuru Suzuki, Masaki Ogushi
  • Patent number: 9169846
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a rotor assembly with a shaft and a plurality of impellers, bearings located at ends of the shaft and configured to support the rotor assembly, a sealing mechanism disposed between the rotor assembly and the bearings, and a gas bearing disposed between the plurality of impellers for supporting the shaft and receiving a working gas from an impeller downstream from a location of the gas bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Nuovo Pignone S.P.A.
    Inventors: Gabriele Mariotti, Massimo Camatti, Bugra Han Ertas, Sergio Palomba
  • Patent number: 9170017
    Abstract: An air-intake assembly adapted for use with a fire container assembly includes a first plate and a plurality of vanes. The plurality of vanes is engaged to the first plate. Each of the vanes includes a first longitudinal side engaged to the first plate and an oppositely disposed second longitudinal side. The plurality of vanes defines a plurality of pathways. A chamber is cooperatively defined by the first plate and the plurality of vanes. The chamber extends through the first plate. The plurality of pathways swirl air about a longitudinal axis of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: The Outdoor Greatroom Company LLLP
    Inventors: Daniel C. Shimek, Kent R. Shimek, Anthony L. Shimek
  • Patent number: 9017020
    Abstract: In order to increase the flexibility of the positioning of a stacked computer system within a data center, a removable fan unit is positioned within the stacked computer system. The removable fan unit includes a housing and a fan housing rotatably attached to the housing. The fan housing supports a fan that is electrically connected to a connector on a side of the housing of the removable fan unit. The connector of the removable fan unit may be electrically connected to a computer system-side connector. The fan housing may be rotated into at least two different orientations relative to the housing of the removable fan unit, such that the removable fan unit moves air through the stacked computer system in at least two corresponding directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Glenn Patrick Charest
  • Patent number: 8998577
    Abstract: The present application thus provides a gas turbine engine. The gas turbine engine may include a turbine and a diffuser positioned downstream of the turbine. The turbine may include a number of last stage buckets, a number of last stage nozzles, and a gauging ratio of the last stage nozzles of about 0.95 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ross James Gustafson, Gunnar Leif Siden
  • Patent number: 8967960
    Abstract: Method and rotor for a compressor. The rotor includes a solid first stub having a first end configured to engage with a corresponding bearing and a second end having a flange configured to be attached by bolts to a corresponding flange of a first impeller of the compressor; a tie rod configured to pass through the first impeller of the compressor; a nut being configured to engage a threaded region of the first end of the tie rod; and a solid second stub having a first end configured to receive the threaded portion of the second end of the tie rod and a second end configured to engage with a corresponding bearing. The tie rod does not contact the solid first stub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Nuovo Pignone, S.p.A.
    Inventor: Denis Guillaume Jean Guénard
  • Patent number: 8932011
    Abstract: A shaft assembly for a gas turbine engine that includes a shaft with a threaded shaft segment, an annular rotor disposed on the shaft, and annular stack nut. The stack nut includes a base nut segment and a clamping nut segment. The base nut segment includes a threaded nut bore that is mated with the threaded shaft segment. The clamping nut segment axially extends from the base nut segment to a load bearing surface. The clamping nut segment includes a radial thickness that decreases as the clamping nut segment extends from the load bearing surface towards the base nut segment. The load bearing surface exerts a force against the rotor securing the rotor to the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Eric C. Mundell, Todd M. LaPierre, Marc J. Muldoon, Stephen J. Lyle
  • Patent number: 8932003
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vacuum self-priming pump in which a main pumping chamber and a sub-pumping chamber divided from each other by a diaphragm are provided within a case, main impellers and a sub-impeller rotated by a motor are respectively installed within the main pump chamber and the sub-pumping chamber such that a space is formed between a pair of left and right main impellers, and connection pipes are respectively formed between suction pipes of the main pumping chamber and the sub-pumping chamber and between discharge pipes of the main pumping chamber and the sub-pumping chamber, so as to more rapidly suck fluid every pumping operation and to effectively pump the fluid without clogging even if the pumped fluid contains various sludge or solid matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Inventor: Chan Won Kim
  • Patent number: 8888446
    Abstract: A turbomachine rotor includes: a rotor body having an outer surface; and a patterned abrasive or abradable coating formed over the outer surface of the rotor body, the patterned abrasive or abradable coating for directing a flow of a working fluid across the turbomachine rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Sulficker Ali, Vasanth Muralidharan
  • Patent number: 8882457
    Abstract: A multistage radial turbocompressor has at least first, second, and third intake parts each forming a respective intake spaced along an axis and first, second, and third output parts each forming a respective output axially juxtaposed with the respective intakes. Respective first, second, and third fans having axially directed vanes are rotatable in the housing formed by the parts between the intakes and outputs. A shaft centered on the axis carries the first, second, and third fans. One of the fans is back-to-back with another of the fans with the vanes of the one fan facing axially oppositely away from the vanes of the other of the fans. Radial bearings support the shaft in the housing, and an axial bearing between the one fan and the other fan supports the shaft in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Atlas Copco Energas GmbH
    Inventor: Werner Bosen
  • Patent number: 8834099
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine comprises a fan and a turbine section having a first turbine rotor. The first turbine rotor drives a compressor rotor. A gear reduction effects a reduction in the speed of the fan relative to an input speed from a fan drive turbine rotor. The compressor rotor has a number of compressor blades in at least one of a plurality of rows of the compressor rotor. The blades operate at least some of the time at a rotational speed. The number of compressor blades in at least one row and the rotational speed are such that the following formula holds true for at least one row of the compressor rotor: (the number of blades×the rotational speed)/(60 seconds/minute)?5500 Hz; and the rotational speed being in revolutions per minute. A compressor module and a method of designing a gas turbine engine are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: United Technoloiies Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Topol, Bruce L. Morin
  • Patent number: 8714913
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine has a fan and a turbine having a fan drive turbine rotor. The fan drive turbine rotor drives a compressor rotor. A gear reduction effects a reduction in the speed of the fan relative to an input speed from the fan drive turbine rotor that drives the compressor rotor. The compressor rotor has a number of compressor blades in at least one of a plurality of rows of the compressor rotor. The blades operate at least some of the time at a rotational speed. The number of compressor blades in at least one row and the rotational speed are such that the following formula holds true for at least one row of the compressor rotor turbine: (number of blades×rotational speed)/60 s?5500 Hz, and the rotational speed is in revolutions per minute. A method of designing a gas turbine engine and a compressor module are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Topol, Bruce L. Morin
  • Patent number: 8632301
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine has a fan, a compressor section having a low pressure portion and a high pressure portion, a combustor section, and a turbine having a low pressure portion. The low pressure turbine portion drives the low pressure compressor portion and the fan. A gear reduction effects a reduction in the speed of the fan relative to a speed of the low pressure turbine and the low pressure compressor portion. At least one of the low pressure turbine portion and low pressure compressor portion has a number of blades in each of a plurality of rows. The blades operate at least some of the time at a rotational speed. The number of blades and the rotational speed are such that the following formula holds true for at least one of the blade rows of the at least one of the low pressure turbine portion and/or the low pressure compressor sections: (number of blades×rotational speed)/60?5500. The rotational speed is an approach speed in revolutions per minute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Topol, Burce L. Morin
  • Publication number: 20130315707
    Abstract: A divisible housing of a fluid machine for a transmission to be received in the divisible housing is provided. The transmission provided for receiving in the divisible housing includes a large wheel and at least two pinion shafts which are in engagement with the large wheel. The divisible housing includes a first housing element and a second housing element which is connected to the first housing element via a parting joint. The at least two pinion shafts may be received in the parting joint. The parting joint includes a parting joint step, the at least two pinion shafts being receivable in the parting joint on both sides of the parting joint step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Axel Spanel, Jan Weule
  • Patent number: 8590305
    Abstract: The flow path of exhaust gas to the turbine wheel (70) of a twin volute turbocharger is influenced by the shape and size of the nozzle formed by the shape (22) of the divider wall (21) and the shape of the flow passage determined by the walls (85, 86) of the turbine housing. By moving the walls (85, 86) toward, or away from the divider wall, the flow of exhaust gas through the nozzle, to the turbine wheel (70) can be modulated, which thus modulates the turbocharger boost pressure. The invention also applies to single volute turbines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Anschel, Rajmohan Chandramohanan
  • Patent number: 8535001
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor wheel constructed of sheet metal for a centrifugal pump, particularly a multi-stage centrifugal pump, with means for fastening to the drive shaft of an electric motor, wherein the rotor wheel has a central coaxial opening in which a sleeve is fastened coaxially, wherein the sleeve projects out of the rotor wheel on at least one side of the rotor wheel, and wherein the sleeve has, in its inner wall, projecting, axially parallel ridges for fastening into axially parallel notches or grooves of the motor drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Wilo AG
    Inventor: Laurent Costaouec
  • Patent number: 8517668
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine is utilized in combination with a gear reduction to reduce the speed of a fan relative to a low pressure turbine speed. The gas turbine engine is designed such that a blade count in the low pressure turbine multiplied by the speed of the low pressure turbine will result in operational noise that is above a sensitive range for human hearing. A method and turbine module are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignees: United Technologies Corporation, MTU Aero Engines GmbH
    Inventors: Bruce L. Morin, Detlef Korte
  • Publication number: 20130115047
    Abstract: A centrifugal pumping system having a stack of impellers and diffusers for pressurizing fluid. The impellers are rotated by a motor for pressurizing and lifting fluid from within a wellbore. Undulating profiles are provided on leading edges of the impellers for inducing turbulence in the fluid being pumped. Increasing turbulence better homogenizes the fluid, so that choked flow is avoided when different density components are present in the fluid. Reducing the possibility of choked flow increases pump efficiency and lift capacity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Baker Hughes Incorporated
  • Publication number: 20130101449
    Abstract: A centrifugal blower apparatus includes a scroll-shaped housing with first and second air inlets which open to a blower chamber that is in fluid communication with an air outlet. The blower includes a motor to drive an impeller, wherein the motor is secured to a frame that is coupled with the housing in a manner to substantially enhance aerodynamic performance of the blower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventors: Roger Dickinson, Robert A. Hoyt
  • Publication number: 20130089416
    Abstract: A vane structure of a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of vanes extending radially between outer and inner shrouds. At least the outer shroud is formed substantially from a single-piece annular skin of sheet metal. A plurality of reinforcing plates are placed against and are affixed to an outer surface of the skin of the outer shroud in respective joining locations where a radial outer end of each of the respective vanes joins the skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Richard BOUCHARD, Douglas MacCAUL, Daniel TROTTIER
  • Publication number: 20130011247
    Abstract: A centrifugal fan with a multistage impeller includes a hub and a multistage impeller having at least two stages of blade assemblies. The hub has a top section and a circumferential section extending from the top section. At least one extension section outward extends from the circumferential section. The multistage impeller is connected with one end of the extension section. The multistage impeller includes a first-stage blade assembly and a second-stage blade assembly. The second-stage blade assembly has a diameter larger than that of the first-stage blade assembly. The centrifugal fan can be installed in an application environment with limited space without being interfered with by peripheral parts. Also, the centrifugal fan is able to provide an optimal flow and wind pressure at the same rotational speed to lower the load on the motor and reduce the noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventor: Jin-Hsun Liu
  • Patent number: 8308421
    Abstract: A method of operating an axial turbine, having a stage including stationary blades and moving blades, each stationary blade having a radial height of an outlet thereof higher than the radial height of an inlet thereof, each moving blade being located downstream of a corresponding one of the stationary blades along a flow direction of a working fluid, the moving blades being constructed such that a moving blade front-end peripheral velocity Mach number exceeds 1.0, the method including restraining a radial velocity component of a working fluid flowing through an outer peripheral portion of the stationary blade from the stationary blade inlet to the stationary blade outlet, whereby the working fluid having passed through the stationary blade flows substantially parallel to the central axis of the turbine from the stationary blade outlet to the moving blade inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeki Senoo, Tetsuaki Kimura
  • Publication number: 20120251308
    Abstract: A multi-stage centrifugal pump assembly includes at least two impellers (2, 6) and two impeller groups (4, 8) which are consecutive in a flow direction and each with at least one impeller (2, 6). A backflow channel (24) connects an exit side of the first impeller group (4) to an entry side thereof is located in a first impeller group (4) of the two impeller groups (4, 8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: GRUNDFOS MANAGEMENT A/S
    Inventors: Steen MIKKELSEN, Aage BRUHN, Bo Møller JENSEN
  • Publication number: 20120251307
    Abstract: A rotor (10) of a rotary machine (T1) according to the invention includes a plurality of rotor members (20, 30, and 40) which are joined to each other in the axial direction in which the axis (P) extends, and among the plurality of rotor members (20, 30 and 40), the first rotor member (30) in hydraulic fluid injection portions (3a and 3b) of a passageway (3) is formed of Ni-based alloy so that the inside thereof is hollow throughout the entire length in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventors: Shin NISHIMOTO, Yoshinori Tanaka, Takashi Nakano, Kenji Kawasaki, Ryuichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8267643
    Abstract: A pump includes a cutting impeller (38) and a pre-chopper (50) driven by a shaft portion (46) that projects axially from the cutting impeller (38), with the pre-chopper (50) being surrounded by an intake port (22) of the pump, the intake port having, at least on a part of its length, in the vicinity of the pre-chopper, a non-circular internal cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Brinkmann Pumpen K.H. Brinkmann GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Peter Wagner, Dirk Wenderott
  • Patent number: 8267644
    Abstract: In a multistage centrifugal compressor, a plurality of impellers is attached to the same rotary shaft. Vaned Diffusers and vaneless diffusers are used, as diffusers, for respective compressor stages configuring the compressor. The vaned diffusers are continuously used from the first compressor stage to the middle compressor stage, and the vaneless diffusers are used for the last compressor stage and the previous stage. While high efficiency is maintained at the compressor stages having the vaned diffusers, an operating flow range is secured at the compressor stages having the vaneless diffusers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Nishida, Hiromi Kobayashi, Masanori Tanaka, Tetsuya Kuwano, Toshio Itou, Takanori Shibata, Manabu Yagi
  • Patent number: 8246292
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine is utilized in combination with a gear reduction to reduce the speed of a fan relative to a low pressure turbine speed. The gas turbine engine is designed such that a blade count in the low pressure turbine multiplied by the speed of the low pressure turbine will result in operational noise that is above a sensitive range for human hearing. A method and turbine module are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignees: United Technologies Corporation, MTU Aero Engines GmbH
    Inventors: Bruce L. Morin, Detlef Korte
  • Patent number: 8231342
    Abstract: A multi-impeller arrangement and to a pump having the impeller arrangement. The impeller arrangement or impeller cluster includes at least two impellers, each impeller having an annular back plate and an annular front plate. The impellers are releasably secured together in an axially in-line series having the front plate of a first impeller at one end and the back plate of a second impeller at the other end. The second impeller includes an axial projection which extends from its back plate, through and beyond its front plate to the first impeller. The first impeller is engaged with the projection of the second impeller such that all impellers are rotatable as an assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Davey Products Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Christopher George Lacey, Mark Andrew Lance
  • Patent number: 8221066
    Abstract: An air diffuser system for an impeller for a centrifugal pump has least one channel (36) with first opening (40) through the backside (14) and a second opening (42) through the front side (38) of the impeller (12). Tubes (44) are associated with each channel (36) and extend from the backside (14) of the impeller (12). Tube ends (48) are oriented in the direction of rotation (46) of the impeller (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Weir Minerals Australia, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kevin Edward Burgess
  • Publication number: 20120134792
    Abstract: A waterproof and dustproof fan motor structure includes a base, an annular enclosure, and a stator assembly. The base has a vertically forward extended bearing cup; the annular enclosure internally defines a closed annular space and is externally fitted around the bearing cup; and the stator assembly is disposed in the closed annular space of the enclosure. The waterproof and dustproof fan motor structure can be assembled to a frame and a rotor assembly to complete a fan. With the stator assembly disposed in the closed annular space of the enclosure, the fan motor is protected against damage caused by moisture and dust, and the stator assembly can be easily removed from the closed annular space for necessary maintenance and repair to thereby reduce the bad yield and the manufacturing cost of fan and fan motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bill Wu
  • Publication number: 20120126644
    Abstract: A fan device includes a housing, a fan wheel assembly, a stator and an enclosure unit. The fan wheel assembly is located within the housing and includes a rotor and a plurality of blades. The stator is connected to a circuit board, and the enclosure unit encloses the stator and the circuit board therein, and is located within the housing. The enclosure unit has at least an extension portion located corresponding to the blades. Heat produced by the stator and the circuit board is transferred to the extension portion and then carried away therefrom by airflow that is sucked into the housing by the blades and blown to the extension portion, so as to cool the extension portion and produce a heat dissipation effect to the stator and the enclosure unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventor: Bill Wu
  • Patent number: 8172523
    Abstract: A multistage pump assembly includes a manifold having an inlet port configured to be coupled to a supply pipe and an outlet port configured to be coupled to a discharge pipe. The inlet and outlet ports define an end suction, radial outlet port configuration. The pump assembly also includes a cartridge having a sleeve and plurality of pumping stages that define a pump stack received within the sleeve. An outer chamber is defined between the pump stack and the sleeve. Each of the pumping stages includes an impeller mounted along a pump shaft that rotates about a rotation axis. The cartridge is aligned horizontally such that the rotation axis is substantially horizontal. An end plate is positioned between the manifold and the cartridge and includes at least one cartridge engagement surface supporting the cartridge. The end plate is removably coupled to the manifold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Grudfos Pumps Corporation
    Inventors: Greg Towsley, Ryan Haack, Joshua Talley, Svend Amdisen
  • Publication number: 20120093631
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-stage turbocharger arrangement (1), having a high-pressure turbocharger (20) which has a turbine housing (26A), a bearing housing (27A), a compressor housing (28A); and having a low-pressure turbocharger (21) which has a turbine housing (26B), a bearing housing (27B), a compressor housing (28B); wherein the turbine housings (26A, 26B) are combined to form at least one turbine housing unit (26), and/or wherein the bearing housings (27A, 27B) are combined to form at least one bearing housing unit (27), and/or wherein the compressor housings (28A, 28B) are combined to form at least one compressor housing unit (28).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: BORGWARNER INC.
    Inventors: Volker Joergl, Timm Kiener, Wolfgang Wenzel, Thomas Kritzinger