Dynamoelectric Machine (e.g., Generator, Etc.) Patents (Class D13/114)
  • Patent number: 11649799
    Abstract: An accelerated and/or redirected flow arrangement, optimally serving as a wildlife and/or debris excluder (WDE), is used in combination with a turbine-like device having an inlet end and an outlet end for fluid flowing therethrough, e.g., a hydro-turbine. The arrangement includes at least a forward part designed to be placed in front of a fluid inlet of a turbine-like device and configured to produce at least one of the following effects on the fluid: (a) imparting a re-direction of the fluid; and/or (b) accelerating the flow velocity of the fluid, as it flows through the forward part. Turbine-like devices having both a forward part and a rearward part of flow arrangement are disclosed, as well as a method of enhancing turbine performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Hydrokinetic Energy Corp.
    Inventor: Walter Schurtenberger
  • Patent number: D618170
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: C. E. Niehoff & Co.
    Inventor: Gerald Miller
  • Patent number: D618615
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: C.E. Niehoff & Co.
    Inventors: Nisvet Basic, Majid Naghshineh
  • Patent number: D646634
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Cummins Power Generation IP, Inc.
    Inventor: Shawn J. Kipka
  • Patent number: D646635
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: BHP, LLC
    Inventor: Anthony McIntosh
  • Patent number: D646636
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Wartsila Finland Oy
    Inventor: Arto Riimala
  • Patent number: D650332
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: C. E. Niehoff & Co.
    Inventors: Mahmood Pourkermani, Nisvet Basic, Majid Naghshineh
  • Patent number: D671492
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Watt and Sea Company
    Inventors: Yannick Bestaven, Matthieu Michou
  • Patent number: D680073
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: C. E. Niehoff & Co.
    Inventors: Stoyan Borissov Bekiarov, Majid Naghshineh
  • Patent number: D682784
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Christoph Tomczak
  • Patent number: D686571
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Tellurex Corporation
    Inventor: Richard Hoyle
  • Patent number: D680074
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: C.E. Niehoff & Co.
    Inventor: Gerald Miller
  • Patent number: D680493
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: C.E. Niehoff & Co.
    Inventors: Nisvet Basic, Ninos Canon, Issam Jabaji
  • Patent number: D696628
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Cummins Generator Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Andy Hutchinson, Krzysztof Wejrzanowski, Richard Gray, Michael Green, Martin Christopher Stewart
  • Patent number: D700575
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jan Andersson
  • Patent number: D705165
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: C.E. Niehoff & Co.
    Inventor: Ninos Canon
  • Patent number: D713339
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Cummins Generator Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Andy Hutchinson, Krysztof Wejrzanowski, Richard J. Gray, Michael Green, Martin Christopher Stewart
  • Patent number: D731971
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Kohler Co.
    Inventor: Travis J. Andren
  • Patent number: D745457
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: SAVE INGENIERIE SAS
    Inventors: Bernard Perriere, Jean-Dominique Zanus, Gilles Lambinet, Emmanuel Dufour
  • Patent number: D749511
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Champion Power Equipment, Inc.
    Inventors: Leigh Jenison, Scott J. Collins, Craig Fluegge, Dorrance Noonan, Mark Sarder
  • Patent number: D751986
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Kohler Co.
    Inventor: Travis J. Andren
  • Patent number: D755718
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: CHUAN LIANG INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jung-Chun Wu
  • Patent number: D769191
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Patrick Vohlgemuth, Richard Barbier, Pierre Matta, Serge Dagois
  • Patent number: D770977
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: CHUAN LIANG INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jung-Chun Wu
  • Patent number: D772814
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Alexandre Rivault, Francois-Xavier Daniau, Václav Hampl
  • Patent number: D784924
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Kohler Co.
    Inventor: Travis J. Andren
  • Patent number: D794563
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Pierre Matta, Bernard Berthaud, Ladislav Veselsky
  • Patent number: D813811
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: MOTEURS LEROY-SOMER
    Inventors: Arnaud Courtois, Thomas Verchere
  • Patent number: D821316
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventor: Yingchen Yang
  • Patent number: D821317
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventor: Yingchen Yang
  • Patent number: D821318
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventor: Yingchen Yang
  • Patent number: D821319
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventor: Yingchen Yang
  • Patent number: D867991
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: AQUAKIN GMBH
    Inventor: Leif Schoeller
  • Patent number: D883210
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Miki Pulley Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junpei Kajiyama, Satoshi Kinoshita, Takayuki Satomi, Masaharu Hirosawa
  • Patent number: D883211
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Miki Pulley Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junpei Kajiyama, Satoshi Kinoshita, Takayuki Satomi, Masaharu Hirosawa
  • Patent number: D900743
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya Tsukamoto, Takashi Yuzawa, Yoichi Otomo
  • Patent number: D904303
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventor: Ying Xu
  • Patent number: D906244
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventor: Ying Xu
  • Patent number: D920248
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: CT INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventor: David B. Robinson
  • Patent number: D923572
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventor: Yi Zhang
  • Patent number: D923573
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventor: Yi Zhang
  • Patent number: D929332
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Cummins Generator Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Ciochina, Mihai Cristian Ilinca, Silviu Ionut Nanau, Viorel Visan, Paul Camil Stirbu, Stefan Laurentiu Simion
  • Patent number: D937776
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Cummins Generator Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Kevan John Simon, Neil Brown, Peethamparam Anpalahan, Philip Bend, Robert Mitchell Rolston
  • Patent number: D947125
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Cummins Generator Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Ciochina, Mihai Cristian Ilinca, Silviu Ionut Nanau, Viorel Visan, Paul Camil Stirbu, Stefan Laurentiu Simion
  • Patent number: D964279
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: CT INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventor: David B. Robinson
  • Patent number: D984964
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Inventor: Tiankai Zhang
  • Patent number: D1022904
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusaku Okajima
  • Patent number: D1022905
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusaku Okajima
  • Patent number: D1022906
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusaku Okajima
  • Patent number: D1022907
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusaku Okajima