Casing Having Tangential Inlet Or Outlet (i.e., Centrifugal Type) Patents (Class 415/203)
  • Publication number: 20140356129
    Abstract: A fluidics module rotatable about a rotational center includes first and second chambers and a compression chamber. First and second fluid channels are provided between the first and second chambers and the compression chamber, respectively. The flow resistance of the second fluid channel is smaller, for a flow of liquid from the compression chamber to the second chamber, than a flow resistance of the first fluid channel for a flow of liquid from the compression chamber to the first chamber. Upon rotation at a high rotational frequency, liquid is initially introduced from the first chamber into the compression chamber via the first fluid channel, so that a compressible medium is compressed within the compression chamber. Subsequently, the rotational frequency is reduced, so that the compressible medium within the compression chamber will expand and so that, thereby, liquid is driven into the second chamber via the second fluid channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Nils PAUST, Steffen ZEHNLE, Felix VON STETTEN
  • Publication number: 20140341710
    Abstract: A refrigerant compressor (10) for use in a chiller-heater system that can provide chilled water at less than 10° C. and hot water at more than 80° C. without the need for additional heat input, the compressor (10) being configured to provide a compression ratio of at least 18:1 and a temperature lift across the compressor of at least 80K, and the refrigerant fluid being selected to give the desired temperature lift without the pressure at the compressor outlet exceeding 25 bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventor: Michael Creamer
  • Publication number: 20140341716
    Abstract: A cryogenic liquid turbine is provided, wherein, an impeller end of the rotor and a nozzle assembly are received into a cavity of a volute (1), and a main part of the volute (1) is put into a perlite cold box (3); an insulation pad (2) is used between the volute (1) and a machine housing (9) to insulate heat; an impeller outlet is connected to a diffuser pipe (20). A nozzle assembly is connected to the machine housing (9) by a nozzle compression flange (27); a nozzle compression plate adjusts a compactness of nozzle vanes (18) by a disc spring (25); a nozzle turntable (14) is axially and rotatably connected on a nozzle chassis (17), and adjusts the nozzle vane stagger angle by a adjusting mechanism passing through the volute (1); impeller shroud side seal is axially fixed on the nozzle compression flange (27), and a shaft seal (5) is axially fixed on a seal gas part (4); the seal gas part (4) and an oil seal (6) are axially fixed on the machine housing (9) by a bolt (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jinju Sun, Ke Wang, Peng Song
  • Patent number: 8888449
    Abstract: Various systems and apparatuses are provided for a flow delivery system for an engine. In one example, a system includes a first turbine providing an exhaust flow and a second turbine having an inlet and being fluidically coupled to the first turbine. The second turbine further includes a plurality of nozzle vanes positioned within the inlet of the turbine. A transition conduit is curved about an axis and coupled to the inlet and to the first turbine. The transition conduit is configured to impart an angular momentum component to at least a portion of the exhaust flow, and includes a slot that delivers at least a portion of the exhaust flow to the plurality of nozzle vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kendall Roger Swenson, Jonathan Nagurney
  • Publication number: 20140334923
    Abstract: A compressor housing defines an inlet bore having a first inlet collar disposed therein. The inlet collar is connected to the housing with a first plurality of radially extending posts. The first plurality of posts is removed to detach the inlet collar from the housing, and the inlet collar is removed from the housing. The same or another inlet collar is concentrically located within a liner. The liner can be located at a radial distance around at least a portion of the inlet collar. The inlet collar is connected to the liner by radially inserting a second plurality of posts through the liner and into the inlet collar. An assembly of the liner containing the inlet collar is inserted into the inlet bore of the housing such that the inlet collar forms the inducer bore of the compressor housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR INC.
    Inventors: Jarrod David Moss, Douglas L. Hampton, Trent A. Simpson
  • Publication number: 20140328671
    Abstract: A bladeless fan assembly is provided which includes a housing having an air inlet and an air outlet. A blower is located within the housing, and includes a motor for driving an air stream between the air inlet and air outlet of the housing. A directional scoop is affixed to the housing at the air outlet. The directional scoop including a first end, connected to the housing at the air inlet, and a second open end opposite the first end. The first end and second open end of the directional scoop define a longitudinal length “L” of the directional scoop having a longitudinal axis “X.” The directional scoop is arcuate is shape, being curved along the longitudinal axis between the first and the second open end, and about the longitudinal axis to define an open channel along the length of the directional scoop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventor: Carlos Ojeda
  • Patent number: 8876499
    Abstract: A fan module includes a housing and at least one impeller. The housing includes first and second air channels. The housing further includes an axial air inlet in communication with the first air channel and a radial air inlet in communication with the second air channel. The housing further includes at least one radial air outlet in communication with the first and second air channels. The at least one impeller draws external air into the housing via the axial air inlet or the radial air inlet and expels air out of the housing via the at last one radial air outlet. By such an arrangement, external air can be guided into the fan module via different directions, providing an enhanced cooling effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Horng, Wen-Kuan Chen
  • Publication number: 20140322002
    Abstract: A sleepfan has a housing having a lower base and a stem extending upward from the lower base. A cross-flow fan having an axil is disposed in the base between the spacing side walls. A plurality of air intake vents is defined in the pair of spacing side walls. An electric motor is disposed in the base and driving the cross-flow fan. An air orienting device has a body covering on and slidable with respect to the stem and a head in an angle with respect to the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventor: Peng Xu
  • Publication number: 20140314557
    Abstract: In a centrifugal fluid machine, the secondary flow loss inside an impeller is reduced and the occurrence, when the flow rate decreases, of a flow separation/stall on the shroud-side suction surface near the leading edge of each impeller blade is suppressed, thereby making it possible to maintain the operating range of the impeller. For this, at the trailing edge of each impeller blade, the trailing edge of each impeller blade is inclined so that the shroud side of the impeller blade is positioned more backward in the rotation direction than the hub side thereof as the impeller is seen from the suction direction upstream of the rotary shaft of the impeller. Also, out of two adjacent impeller blades, the shroud side of one impeller blade trailing the other impeller blade in the impeller rotation direction overlaps with the other impeller blade at around the leading edge of the one impeller blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Hiradate, Yasushi Shinkawa, Satoshi Joko, Toshio Ito
  • Publication number: 20140314544
    Abstract: Devices and methods for reducing noise of a blower reduce and/or substantially block the exchange of gas within the blower housing from an area of a generally high-velocity flow of gas to an area of a comparatively lower-velocity flow of gas, for example near the outlet of the blower housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventor: Russell Hughes Norris
  • Publication number: 20140308118
    Abstract: A centrifugal fan includes an impeller. The impeller includes a hub, a plurality of connecting structures, an annular structure and a plurality of blades. The hub includes a circumferential surface. The connecting structures are disposed on the circumferential surface of the hub at intervals. Any adjacent two of the connecting structures define a first minimum distance on the circumferential surface. At least two first minimum distances are not equal. The annular structure is connected to the connecting structures. The blades are disposed on the annular structure at intervals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventor: Hsin-Chen LIN
  • Patent number: 8858170
    Abstract: The invention relates to a centrifugal pump assembly with at least one impeller, with a suction union, which is situated on the entry side of the impeller, and with a pressure union, which is situated on the exit side of the impeller. A flow sensor and at least one guidance element are arranged in a conduit section, which is formed by the suction union and/or by the pressure union. The guidance element is suitable for influencing the flow prevailing in the conduit section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Grundfos Management A/S
    Inventor: Nicholas Pedersen
  • Publication number: 20140301827
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a 2-stage supercharging unit having a housing unit which integrates within it a high-pressure charger and a low-pressure charger. The rotor axes of the two chargers are vertical with respect to the housing unit, which can be screwed directly via the housing base to the side of an internal combustion engine. As a result, increased flexibility is made possible with regard to the connection of the supercharging unit to the cooler and to the internal combustion engine, whereby the structural volume of the supercharging assembly can be additionally reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: ABB TURBO SYSTEMS AG
    Inventors: Christoph MATHEY, Joel Schlienger, Olaf Baudisch, Patrick Aberle
  • Publication number: 20140294576
    Abstract: In a turbine for an exhaust gas turbocharger with a turbine casing having receiving chamber for accommodating a turbine wheel and at least one volute through which the exhaust gas is guided via a feed passage into the receiving chamber and wherein at least one guide element is provided in the turbine casing so as to project into the feed passage in a guide region for guiding the exhaust gas onto the turbine wheel, the guide element comprises a first length region in the axial direction of the turbine, in which the guide element is designed with respect to its aerodynamic properties differently from its aerodynamic design in a second length region adjoining the first length region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Peter Fledersbacher, Manfred GUTHOERLE, Torsten HIRTH, Andreas Mueller, Timo Schulz, Carsten VAN LIL
  • Publication number: 20140286800
    Abstract: An air blowing unit of an air conditioner includes a housing to guide suction and discharge of air, a centrifugal fan positioned inside the housing, and a motor to drive the centrifugal fan. The centrifugal fan includes a base coupled to a motor shaft coupled to the motor, a plurality of blades disposed spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the base to guide air introduced in an axial direction of the base to the circumferential direction, a leading edge provided to the blades and arranged close to the motor shaft, a trailing edge provided to the blades and facing in an outer circumferential direction of the base, and at least one first blade of the blades, the leading edge of the first blade being shorter than the leading edge of the other blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Joo JEON, Dae Gyu KANG, Seon Uk NA, Yong Ho SEO
  • Publication number: 20140271164
    Abstract: An air blower having an air suction port, vanes, for being propelled about a shaft by air vacuumed towards the air suction port, and blades fixed to the vanes, the blades for blowing air upon propelling thereof, together with the vanes, thereby allowing utilizing an external vacuum machine connected to the air suction port for blowing air, thereby the air blower is lightweight in relation to the air blown therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventor: YOSSEF MESHORER
  • Publication number: 20140271165
    Abstract: A turbocharger having a housing. The housing may have a scroll formed therein. The scroll may include a passageway leading between an exhaust inlet and a turbine wheel. A valve or valves may be disposed within the passageway. The valve may regulate airflow through the passageway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Savant Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Bret Park
  • Patent number: 8834111
    Abstract: A charging device may include a turbine housing and a bearing housing. The bearing housing may have a bearing arrangement for a shaft carrying a turbine wheel and a compressor wheel. A gasket may be arranged by metal-to-metal connection between a radially orientated flat surface of the turbine housing and a radially orientated flat surface of the bearing housing. The gasket may be resilient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Bosch Mahle Turbo Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Christian Holzschuh
  • Patent number: 8801405
    Abstract: A sealless-type centrifugal pump includes a casing that forms a pump chamber having a liquid inflow port and an outflow port, an impeller disposed in the pump chamber and rotatably supported by a pivot bearing, and a magnetic coupling device including a driven permanent magnet built into the impeller and a driving magnet that rotationally drives the driven permanent magnet through a partition. The impeller supported in the direction of the rotation axis with respect to the casing is driven by the magnetic coupling device, and pressure is applied to liquid introduced from the direction of the rotation axis through the inflow port to send the liquid through the outflow port in a radial direction. The magnetic coupling device is disposed on a line inclined from an impeller rotating surface to the inflow port side toward the center of the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Hoshi, Syogo Nakashima, Tatsuya Hidaka, Yasuharu Yamamoto, Takeshi Okubo
  • Patent number: 8770952
    Abstract: A sealless-type centrifugal pump includes a casing that forms a pump chamber having a liquid inflow port and an outflow port, an impeller disposed in the pump chamber and rotatably supported by a pivot bearing, and a magnetic coupling device including a driven permanent magnet built into the impeller and a driving magnet that rotationally drives the driven permanent magnet through a partition. The impeller supported in the direction of the rotation axis with respect to the casing is driven by the magnetic coupling device, and pressure is applied to liquid introduced from the direction of the rotation axis through the inflow port to send the liquid through the outflow port in a radial direction. The magnetic coupling device is disposed on a line inclined from an impeller rotating surface to the inflow port side toward the center of the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Hoshi, Syogo Nakashima, Tatsuya Hidaka, Yasuharu Yamamoto, Takeshi Okubo
  • Publication number: 20140186170
    Abstract: An engine feeds, at either the periphery or the center of one of the pumps, either compressed then heated air or products of combustion into centrifugal expanders in series. This invention is also a set of related inventions, comprising a group of flow guides to convert radial flow to axial flow and a group to convert axial flow to radial flow and the combination of those flow guides. The invention also includes the use of combinations of centrifugal pumps used to form a multistage compressor or a multistage expander with at least one pump processing a flow of gas traveling from the vicinity of the axle toward the periphery of the pump and with at least one other pump processing the same flow of gas traveling from the periphery of this other pump toward the axle of this other pump. The invention also includes the use of either the above centrifugal multistage expander or the above centrifugal multistage compressor, or both, in an external heat engine or in a heat pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventor: Ronald E. Graf
  • Patent number: 8756809
    Abstract: A lanced and/or slit seamed housing and method of manufacture having a peripheral rolled and lanced or punched seam between a wrapper and the housing panels. The method of manufacture utilizes similar or dissimilar sheet materials in a variety of material thicknesses and with or without coatings applied prior to formation whereby a housing is formed quickly and safely. The rolling and lancing method manufactures a blower housing with an assured and positive sealed seam between the panels and wrapper of the housing. The lances or slits maintain the integrity of the seam and prevent slippage between the wrapper and panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Custom Rollform Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Larry Slavik
  • Publication number: 20140170000
    Abstract: A side channel blower for an internal combustion engine includes a housing comprising an inlet, an outlet, a first housing part, and a second housing part. The inlet and the outlet are fluidically connected via an inlet region, via at least one feed channel which extends at least partially in an annular shape in at least one of the first housing part and the second housing part, and via an outlet region. An impeller is rotatably mounted in the housing and is driven via a drive unit. The impeller comprises conveying blades which interact with a feed channel arranged opposite thereto. At least one interruption region is arranged between the inlet region and the outlet region. The at least one interruption region is configured to interrupt the at least one feed channel in a circumferential direction. The at least one feed channel comprises a circumferential angle of <300°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: PIERBURG GmbH
    Inventor: Holger Paffrath
  • Publication number: 20140133082
    Abstract: The present invention provides a turbofan and a graphics card with the turbofan. The turbofan comprises: a turbofan assembly which admits air in an axial direction and dispenses air in a radial direction; an inlet fan assembly disposed at an inlet of the turbofan assembly and disposed coaxially with the turbofan assembly: and a driving means for driving the turbofan assembly and the inlet fan assembly to rotate. The turbofan provided by the invention gathers the ambient air to the inlet through the inlet fan assembly disposed at the inlet of the turbofan assembly, so as to change a negative pressure state at the inlet. Consequently, the cooling efficiency of the turbofan is improved effectively and the noise of the turbofan is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Pengwei Xu, Yuan Yuan, Songliang Ni
  • Patent number: 8721274
    Abstract: A blower having a divergence guide portion to reduce flow loss and discharge noise and an air conditioner having the same are provided. The blower includes a scroll casing, suction holes provided at opposite positions of the scroll casing, a discharge hole provided at a top position of the scroll casing, a centrifugal fan received in the scroll casing, and a divergence guide portion gently diverging air to the discharge hole after passing through the centrifugal fan to diffuse the air to both sides of the discharge hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae Oh Han
  • FAN
    Publication number: 20140119906
    Abstract: A fan includes a casing and a fan blade. The casing has at least one air inlet and an air outlet. The fan blade is disposed in the casing. An air flow compression area is defined in the casing. An auxiliary air inlet is disposed on the casing at the air flow compression area. Furthermore, another fan includes a casing and a fan blade. The casing has an upper casing, a lower casing and a side casing located between the upper casing and the lower casing. The upper casing or the lower casing has at least one air inlet, and the side casing has an air outlet. The fan blade is disposed in the casing. An internal space of the casing is defined as an air flow compression area. An auxiliary air inlet is disposed on the casing at the air flow compression area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicants: INVENTEC CORPORATION, INVENTEC (PUDONG) TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei-Yi Lin, Hsin-Yi Wang, Yi-Lun Cheng
  • Patent number: 8690549
    Abstract: The invention relates to a centrifugal pump assembly with an electric drive motor and with a control device having a frequency converter, for the control of the rotational speed of the drive motor, wherein the control device is designed in a manner such that in at least one control region, a field weakening is produced in the drive motor, by way of which the rotational speed of the drive motor is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Grundfos Management a/s
    Inventors: Jan Caroe Aarestrup, Keld Folsach Rasmussen
  • Publication number: 20140079532
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a hydraulic machine includes a runner including a plurality of blades arranged in a ring shape, a crown connected to the blades from an upper side and having a lower end surface at a position surrounded by the blades, and a band connected to the blades from a lower side, the runner being configured to convert energy of pressured water into rotational energy. The machine further includes a main shaft configured to transmit the rotational energy of the runner to a generator, and a draft pipe located downstream of the runner, and configured so that the water used to drive the runner flows into the draft pipe. The machine further includes a columnar member disposed on a rotation axis of the main shaft below the crown, and having a diameter smaller than a diameter of the lower end surface of the crown.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Sadao KUROSAWA, Toshifumi Kurokawa, Takashi Fujita
  • Patent number: 8672621
    Abstract: A casing assembly for a compressor where traditional inlet and discharge nozzles are replaced with a mounting surface created from weld filler or weld material applied to the outside surface of a casing. The weld material and a portion of the outside surface of the casing are cooperatively milled to create a generally planar or flat surface having a casing conduit centrally-disposed therein. A flange may then be coupled to the flat surface for the inlet or discharge of a process gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Dresser-Rand Company
    Inventor: Byron L. Mohr
  • Patent number: 8672650
    Abstract: A cooling fan includes a housing and a motor. The housing includes a support portion, a cover portion and a lateral wall portion. The lateral wall portion is disposed between the cover portion and the support portion, and the lateral wall portion, support portion and the cover portion define a compartment, with the lateral wall portion having at least one lateral air inlet and at least one lateral air outlet penetrating through the lateral wall portion and communicating with the compartment. The motor is mounted inside the compartment of the housing and contains a stator and a impeller, with the impeller rotatably mounting to the stator. The motor further contains a hub with a top and a plurality of blades, with the top facing the cover portion, with the top and the cover portion delimiting a lateral flow path in the compartment, and with each blade being contained in the lateral flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Horng, Ko-Chien Wang, Yeh-Feng Chen
  • Publication number: 20140072423
    Abstract: A centrifugal fan includes an impeller, a motor portion, and a housing. The housing includes an upper plate portion, a lower plate portion arranged to have the motor portion fixed thereto; and a side wall portion. A flow control member is arranged to extend in a line along a boundary between an inside surface of the side wall portion and one of a lower surface of the upper plate portion and an upper surface of the lower plate portion. The flow control member includes a flow control surface arranged to extend radially outward from the one of the lower surface of the upper plate portion and the upper surface of the lower plate portion to the inside surface of the side wall portion while becoming more distant from the one of the lower surface of the upper plate portion and the upper surface of the lower plate portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seung-sin Yoo, Tomohiro Hasegawa, Shunji Matsumoto, Kazuo Tanaka, Takuro Kawano, Yuji Katsurayama, Atsushi Mukai, Noriaki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20140072424
    Abstract: The invention relates to a centrifugal pump (1)that has a suction-side inlet (3) and at least one pressure-side outlet (4), wherein a rotatably mounted impeller (5) for pumping a pump medium from the inlet (3) to the outlet (4) and an impeller seat (10) are arranged in the pump housing (2). In order to achieve a high degree of sealing and a long service life, the impeller seat (10) is formed in a ring-shaped impeller protector (8) which is made from a corrosion-resistant material and is received in the pump housing (2), wherein an insertion region (7) of the impeller (5) is radially surrounded by the impeller protector (8). This impeller protector (8) protects the coating against damage to the impeller (5) in the impeller seat (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Herborner Pumpenfabrik J.H. Hoffmann GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sascha KORUPP, Lars RUNTE, Felix HEES
  • Patent number: 8668446
    Abstract: A supersonic compressor rotor. The supersonic compressor rotor includes a rotor disk that includes an upstream surface, a downstream surface, and a radially outer surface that extends generally axially between the upstream surface and the downstream surface. The radially outer surface includes an inlet surface, an outlet surface, and a transition surface that extends between the inlet surface and the outlet surface. A plurality of vanes are coupled to the radially outer surface. Adjacent vanes form a pair and are oriented such that a flow channel is defined between each pair of adjacent vanes. The flow channel extends between an inlet opening and an outlet opening. The inlet surface defines an inlet plane that extends between the inlet opening and the transition surface. The outlet surface defines an outlet plane that extends between the outlet opening and the transition surface that is not parallel to the inlet plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Douglas Carl Hofer, Zachary William Nagel, David Graham Holmes
  • Publication number: 20140064947
    Abstract: The invention concerns a rotor machine and an impeller, of which the rotor machine is intended to function as a liquid pump or as an agitator in a fluid such as a liquid or a colloid, whereby the rotor machine has a pump casing (1) with an impeller (2) mounted in bearings in a manner that allows rotation around an axis (X), and in which the rotor machine has three principal flow pathways, comprising: —an axial inlet opening (4) with a defined area of opening (Ain) —a radially oriented outlet opening (5) with a defined area of opening (Aut), and —a series of radially extending blades (3) that, distributed around the circumference of the impeller, form between them a number of flow channels (22:1-22:n).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB
    Inventors: Ola Eriksson, Daniel Marjavaara
  • Publication number: 20140053794
    Abstract: A centrifugal fan for use with an engine includes a hub defining a rotational axis, a plurality of blades arranged about the rotational axis, and a screen coupled to the hub and blades for co-rotation therewith. The hub, the blades, and the screen are integrally formed as a single piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: BRIGGS & STRATTON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Elliot J. Matel
  • Publication number: 20140050575
    Abstract: Disclosed is a centrifugal compressor having improved operation performance to improve durability. The centrifugal compressor includes an impeller connected to a rotary shaft and configured to radially eject a fluid suctioned in an axial direction upon rotation thereof; a shroud configured to cover front and rear sides of the impeller and having a suction port formed to face one surface of the impeller at a center of one side thereof; a volute chamber formed at an outer periphery of the shroud in a circumferential direction thereof and configured to guide the fluid ejected by the impeller to an ejection port; and a regulator installed at one side of the shroud and configured to selectively communicate a space formed at the other surface of the impeller with the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Korea Fluid Machinery Co., LTD.
    Inventor: ChunKyung KIM
  • Publication number: 20140044533
    Abstract: Systems and devices configured to shield portions of turbine conduits from contact with a working fluid flow and reduce the associated thermal gradients therein are disclosed. In one embodiment, a sleeve includes: a base portion defining a shield aperture, the base portion including an external surface configured to contact an internal surface of a turbine conduit; and a neck portion connected to the base portion and defining a neck aperture proximate a terminus of the turbine conduit, the neck aperture fluidly connected to the shield aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Mayur Abhay Keny, Josef Scott Cummins, Scott Jacob Huth, Thangaraj Subbareddyar
  • Publication number: 20140037434
    Abstract: A submersible pump housing with seal bleed ports is provided. In an implementation, a pump housing for electric submersible pumps (ESPs), such as a centrifugal ESP, has end seals that are located inside or further inboard toward the high thrust pressure generated by the pump, than the threaded ends of the pump housing. The inboard seals contain and seal off the pump pressure and spare the threaded regions that are more pressure-vulnerable from the pump's high pressure interior, thereby increasing the pressure rating of the entire housing. Leak ports or bleed ports are provided further outboard of the end seals to relieve fluid seeping from inside the submersible pump housing past each end seal. A plate may be added to direct small amounts of fluid escaping from the end seals away from the wellbore casing in which an ESP is situated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventor: David Milton Eslinger
  • Publication number: 20140037440
    Abstract: A centrifugal pump for a slurry combines design changes with respect to conventional configurations that produce quasi-laminar flow and materially extend the life of the casing. The cutwater clearance of the casing is increased to a range of 0.20 to 0.25 times the diameter of the impeller. The casing includes a redesigned removable annular liner with a diameter increased to at least 1.15 times the diameter of the impeller. The pump preferably also has an axially adjustable wear ring with a diameter increased such that it extends by at least 10% over the diameter of the area of interface between the wear ring and the impeller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: FLSMIDTH A/S
    Inventors: John Frater, Ricky McGahee
  • Patent number: 8641375
    Abstract: Disclosed is a ceiling recessed ventilating fan with illuminating device, including a body, a blower disposed horizontally within the body and an illuminating device disposed inside the body. The illuminating device is disposed around an air inlet of the blower. The illuminating device is disposed within the body, and does not protrude from the surface of the ceiling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignees: Panasonic Ecology Systems Guangdong Co. Ltd., Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Liang Tian, Kai Tan
  • Publication number: 20140030080
    Abstract: A turbine inlet housing has a main housing body extending about a central axis. An inlet duct delivers air into a cavity within the main housing body. Bolt hole bosses are formed on a downstream face of the inlet housing to receive bolts to secure an outlet housing to the inlet housing. A plurality of the bosses have a ramped surface which extends radially outwardly for a greater extent than a second plurality of bosses. The plurality of ramped bosses extend between the downstream face and the duct. The ramped bosses have a forward boss portion, and a ramped surface at an angle of between 50 and 54 degrees extending from an upstream end of the forward boss portion. A curved surface curves from an upstream end of the ramped surface to merge into the duct. A turbine stage and air cycle machine are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventors: Eric Chrabascz, Brent J. Merritt
  • Publication number: 20140030081
    Abstract: A rotational speed governor for an air motor comprises a housing, a valve, a shaft, a cross-bar, a plate and a pair of weights. The housing has an air inlet and an air outlet. The valve is disposed between the air inlet and the air outlet. The shaft extends along an axis within the housing. The cross-bar is connected to the shaft. The plate intersects the shaft between the valve and the crossbar. The weights are rotatably connected to the crossbar at pivot points. Each weight comprises an arcuately profiled edge extending beyond the crossbar to engage the plate. The arcuately profiled edges are shaped to increase a moment arm on the plate as the weights pivot away from the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: GRACO MINNESOTA INC
    Inventors: Geoffrey Alexander Bullock, John Russell Ingebrand
  • Publication number: 20140017075
    Abstract: A fan structure includes an upper cover, a fan frame body, a bearing cup, a bearing, a stator assembly, a hub and a shaft rod. The upper cover is mated with the fan frame body to together define a receiving space in which the bearing cup is disposed. The bearing cup has an open end and a closed end. The bearing is disposed in the bearing cup. The stator assembly is fitted around the bearing cup. The hub has multiple outward extending blades spaced from the upper cover by a first distance. The shaft rod has a connection end connected with the hub and a protruding end passing through the shaft hole and protruding from the bearing to abut against the closed end of the bearing cup and define a second distance. The first distance is smaller than the second distance to avoid deflection of the shaft rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chun-Ming Wu
  • Publication number: 20140003929
    Abstract: The free-flow pump comprises an impeller (11, 22, 33) with an impeller base that is constituted by a front side (14, 5 24) of a hub body (12, 23) projecting at the center of the impeller (11, 22, 33) and by a disk surface (18, 28) located deeper than the front side (14, 24) of the hub body (12, 23) and reaching to an outer circumference of the impeller with its maximum depth. The disk surface (18, 28) is provided with vanes (19, 29, 34) comprising open vane front sides (20, 30, 35) adjoining the hub body (12, 23) at their inner end and extending from there to the outer circumference of the impeller (11, 22, 33). To avoid material accretions in front of the impeller (11, 22, 33) it is suggested that at least within an inner third of its radius, the impeller base is not located deeper with respect to the inner end of the vane front sides (20, 30, 35) than at most one sixth of the height difference (H) between the inner end of the vane front sides (20, 30, 35) and the maximum depth of the disk surface (18, 28).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Jean-Nicolas Favre, Hagen Renger, Michel Grimm
  • Publication number: 20140003930
    Abstract: A compressor has a hub-side wall of a hub-side wall plate, a shroud-side wall that faces the hub-side wall and forms a diffuser path between the shroud-side wall and the hub-side wall, vanes that protrude from the hub-side wall plate into the diffuser path, and an actuator capable of changing the distance between the vanes and the shroud-side wall in accordance with a flow rate of air in the diffuser path. Adjacent ones of the adjacent vanes do not overlap with each other when viewed from a center axis of the compressor. When the actuator maximizes the distance between the vanes and the shroud-side wall, the distance between the vanes and the shroud-side wall is smaller than the distance between the hub-side wall and areas of the shroud-side wall that face the vanes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jumpei Shioda, Masakazu Tabata
  • Publication number: 20130327010
    Abstract: A wave disc engine apparatus is provided. A further aspect employs a constricted nozzle in a wave rotor channel. A further aspect provides a sharp bend between an inlet and an outlet in a fluid pathway of a wave rotor, with the bend being spaced away from a peripheral edge of the wave rotor. A radial wave rotor for generating electricity in an automotive vehicle is disclosed in yet another aspect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
    Inventors: Norbert Müller, Janusz Piechna, Guangwei Sun, Pablo-Francisco Parraga
  • Publication number: 20130320148
    Abstract: An impeller, a centrifugal pump, and an aircraft fuel system are provided. The impeller includes a central hub disposed along a rotational axis of the impeller and that defines an axial bore extending through at least a portion of the central hub along the rotational axis. The central hub further defines an opening to the axial bore at a leading end of the central hub. The impeller further includes an impeller section spaced from the leading end and that includes at least one impeller vane fixed to the central hub. The impeller further includes an inducer section that is disposed between the leading end of the central hub and the impeller section and that includes at least one inducer vane extending along an outer surface of the central hub. The central hub defines at least one radial aperture in the inducer section in fluid communication with the axial bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventor: Steven Alan Lewis
  • Publication number: 20130309077
    Abstract: A heat-dissipation fan including a base and an impeller disposed at the base, wherein the impeller includes a plurality of first blades, a plurality of second blades and a plurality of connection ribs. Each of the first blades and each of the second blades are arranged alternately. Each of the connection ribs comprises a first edge, a second edge and a third edge. The first edge is connected with the first blade, the second edge is connected with the second blade, the third edge is connected with the first edge and the second edge, and the third edge and the second blade are spaced apart to form a first vent. The first edge comprises a first length, the second edge comprises a second length, and the first length is larger than the second length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: ADDA CORP.
    Inventors: Yen-Min Su, Kao-Chuan Huang, Chi-Ping Lai, Jiun-Shian Guo
  • Publication number: 20130306568
    Abstract: A system and method of operating the same includes an absorption tank having a compressor communicating gas thereto, a suspended solid filtration tank having a primary inlet, a secondary inlet, a primary outlet and a secondary outlet and a pump comprising a pump inlet coupled to the secondary outlet and a pump outlet communicating fluid to the absorption tank. The absorption tank forms a solution from the fluid and gas. A turbine mechanically couples the pump with a common shaft extending to the pump. The turbine has a turbine inlet coupled to the absorption tank and a turbine outlet coupled to the secondary inlet. The turbine depressurizes the solution. The system may also use a centrifugal pump in place of a turbine and absorption tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Fluid Equipment Development Company, LLC
    Inventor: Eli Oklejas, JR.
  • Publication number: 20130306072
    Abstract: A blower includes a housing including an inlet and an outlet, a stationary component provided to the housing, an impeller positioned between the inlet of the housing and the stationary component, and a motor adapted to drive the impeller. The stationary component includes a tube portion structured to retain and align a pair of bearings that rotatably support a rotor to which the impeller is coupled. The tube portion includes a diameter in a side closest to the impeller that is sufficient size to accommodate adhesive to retain one of the bearings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Resmed Motor Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Bruce Moir, Roman Vinokur, Frederick Arlet May, Dmitri Anatolievich Doudkine, Barton John Kenyon, Christopher James Smith