US Applications Published on 31-Dec-2009

A turbocharger system for an internal combustion engine includes a turbocharger with a utility pedestal extending between the turbocharger and a mounting surface associated with the engine. The utility pedestal includes a mounting pad for attaching...

A turbocharger system for an internal combustion engine includes a turbocharger with a utility pedestal extending between the turbocharger and hard point associated with the cylinder block. The utility pedestal includes a mounting pad for attaching...

Water, air, other fluid flows downwardly through a tube which extends from the surface of an underground mine to a number of conduits arranged in loops which extend into bore holes at or near the bottom of the shaft. The fluid in the conduits remains...

Slush gas, i.e. a gas or a mixture of gases cooled so that it is partially solid and partially liquid is employed as a drive fluid in a cryogenic engine. A cryogenic engine has a working chamber (50) connected to an energy source comprising a body of...

A steam jet air ejector and a method for improving the performance of a steam jet air ejector in a nuclear reactor, the boundary layer separation reduction assembly for the steam jet air ejector includes a discharge diffuser including a plurality of...

Fuel control arrangements provide and control fuel flow to injectors through fuel control valves. The injectors are connected to respective fuel control valves which in turn are connected to a first fuel flow path. The injectors are also connected to...

The present invention addresses fuel supply in gas turbine engines. A splitter valve 47 is provided at a remote, benign temperature location. Injector control valves 51 are individually controlled through a fluid pressure actuation system, typically...

A method for assembling a premixing injector is provided. The method includes providing a centerbody including a center axis and a radially outer surface, and providing an inlet flow conditioner. The inlet flow conditioner includes a radially outer...

An exhaust nozzle includes a conical duct terminating in an annular outlet. A row of vortex generating duplex tabs are mounted in the outlet. The tabs have compound radial and circumferential aft inclination inside the outlet for generating...

A high-bypass gas turbine engine includes a variable area fan nozzle with an acoustic system having an acoustic impedance.

A gas turbine combustor is provided, which comprises: a combustion chamber having an axial direction and a radial direction; air passages for feeding an air stream into the combustion chamber which are oriented such that the flowing direction for...

This invention discloses systems and methods for control of a gas turbine or a gas turbine generator, where the gas turbine is connected to a dryer vessel in which gas turbine exhaust gases are used to heat treat a material in the dryer vessel. The...

A hydrogen gas generator for jet engines includes a device that utilizes photons and a catalyst to disassociate hydrogen gas from water. The generated hydrogen gas is directed to the combustion chamber of a jet engine and combined with air therein...

In one aspect, the present disclosure is directed an apparatus configured to diffuse a flow of bleed air. The apparatus having an inlet collar configured to receive the flow of bleed air in a direction substantially along a longitudinal axis of the...

Air bleed device for cooling components in a turbine engine, including an annular conduit (18) having a substantially rectangular cross-section formed in a housing (12) and having a radially internal wall (22) swept by an airflow (24), and which...

The present invention relates to a cooling apparatus for an electronic device. In the present invention, a coolant passing through a condenser 10 is introduced into and s filled in a compensator 15. The coolant passing through the compensator 15 is...

A method of cleaning an air conditioner utilizing carbon dioxide as a working refrigerant includes three steps. In a charging step, a refrigeration cycle is charged with carbon dioxide. In a venting step, a charging target with which the...

Method for defrosting an evaporator in a refrigeration circuit (2) for circulating a refrigerant in a predetermined flow direction, the refrigeration circuit (2) comprising in flow direction a compressor unit (4), a heat-rejecting heat exchanger (6),...

A refrigerant system is provided with an expansion device that may be a thermostatic expansion device or an electronic expansion device. A bypass line selectively allows a portion of refrigerant to bypass the expansion device and to flow through a...

A dual compressor beverage cooler having a central beverage storage area and at least one external beverage dispensing unit. A first compressor maintains the central beverage storage area at typical refrigeration temperatures and a second compressor...

A domestic appliance has a water conduit, in which a replaceable water filter and a valve are arranged, and a monitoring unit for calculating a value which is representative of the degree of wear of the water filter, which monitoring unit in each...

A refrigerator including a water tank having an inlet connection and an outlet connection in fluid communication with a water dispenser wherein the water tank includes a mixing area and a laminar flow area connected in series with the mixing area.

A universal fluid flow transitional connector, for use in connection with refrigeration units disposed within refrigerated cargo trailers, has a corner configuration that is adapted to be mounted within the upper front corner region of the...

A diaper bag having a major compartment with pockets on the walls or bottom thereof for one or more of the following accessories needed either by the mother or baby for travel: wipes, diapers, spare clothes, Mom's ipod, cell phone, keys and/or...

A refrigerant exchange arrangement is claimed with a first oil-trapping chamber (10) and a second oil-trapping chamber (11). A refrigerant exchange arrangement of simple construction is to be realised. For this purpose, the second oil-trapping...

A method is disclosed for increasing liquid production involving retrofitting an existing air separation plant with a nitrogen liquefier. The nitrogen liquefier liquefies a nitrogen-rich vapor stream withdrawn from the higher pressure column to...

It is an object of present invention to select the most suitable composition and molding condition for obtaining a glass having a desired refractive index by press molding without any annealing treatment, for a short period of time so as to produce...

Disclosed are systems and methods for separating a sheet of glass by directing a microwave beam and a laser beam at a sheet of glass to propagate a crack across the sheet. A laser beam spot formed on the glass sheet by the laser at least partially...

A preform for forming a hollow-core, slotted photonic band-gap (PBG) optical fiber for use in an environmental sensor, and methods of forming such a fiber using the preform are disclosed. The preform comprises a slotted cladding tube that surrounds a...

A novel spinner, for fiberizing hollow, irregularly-shaped insulating fibers is the subject matter of the present invention. The spinner is unique in a sense that its hole/slot pattern can be done by some standard drilling/milling techniques, which...

A control panel of a laundry machine is disclosed. A control panel of a laundry machine includes a first operation part for selecting one of plural washing courses, a display part displaying the washing course selected by using the first operation...

An anti-theft device comprising an electrically conducting flexible cable which is connected, at one end, to elements for detachable engagement with an item to be retained and is provided with elements for detecting the engagement of said detachable...

The invention discloses a lock device. The lock device is used for detachably mounting a cover on a base. A recess is formed on the cover. A first hole is formed on the bottom of the recess, and a first retainer is extended out of the bottom of the...

An electric steering lock device is provided that includes a column pipe, a steering shaft pivotably passed through the interior of the column pipe, and electric lock means that has an electric motor and that can switch in response to operation of...

Method for controlling the locking of an electronic lock (5), including the following steps: a user (4) is identified vis-à-vis the electronic lock, the electronic lock (5) displays a question, the user...

A sealing device is provided that includes a bolt having a shaft, a tapered end and a circumferential groove; a lock body having an open end leading into a bore; an overmold substantially surrounding the lock body and including an aperture aligned...

A spiral pipe forming system and method which include automatic diameter or dimension sensing and correction.

A coiler furnace having a heat-insulated enclosure delimiting a furnace interior, a strip coiling device includes a coiler drum having a slotted receiving opening for the hot-rolled strip in the furnace interior. A controlled rotational drive for a...

The invention relates to a method and a finishing train for hot-rolling starting material. Starting material is finished in several successive roll stands (110 n) in the finishing train, the material cooling off because of heat loss. The material has...

Apparatus and methods for fabricating materials by die-forming that may be implemented to form a joggle in a bendable workpiece by securing the workpiece to each of at least two respective adjacent working areas, and then by displacing at least one...

The invention involves an anti-vibration die holder for a press, such as a metal-fabricating press. The anti-vibration die holder preferably includes at least one resilient surface adapted to contact a die when the die is mounted operatively on the...

The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for measuring flow rate in pipes. The standard method of installing flow meters inside pipes to measure flow rates are costly and result in loss of energy and reduction of flow. The present...

[Object] To ensure a wear measurement over an entire section of a trolley wire and to facilitate the wear measurement, and also to perform the measurement during daytime, without being affected by structures existing around the trolley wire. [Means...

The invention provides a device for measuring the dynamic coefficient of friction of a surface. The device includes a track having an arcuate portion which is shaped to mimic an arc of travel of a pendulum; a shoe mounted so as to be movable along...

Method of making a structure, a structure and a gas analyzer comprising cavities and volumes in which a multilayer structure is made by laminating single layers on top of each other to form the multilayer structure and combining them all together, in...

Systems and methods for performing chromatography separations or analyses are disclosed. The methods are based upon an equilibrium gradient focusing mode in contrast to conventional transient migration-based modes. By matching the migration speed of...

A particulate monitor includes a housing, an air-moving device coupled to the housing, and an air passageway disposed at least partially within the housing. The air-moving device is operable to create an airflow through the air passageway. The...

A device for measuring permeability to a gas sample through a thin film, or a wall (2), arranged at membrane between a first and a second chamber (3 and 4) of a measurement cell (1) comprises, upstream from each inlet to the measurement cell (1), a...

A conduit is connected to the interstice between an outer and inner wall of a storage tank or the liner thereof and may be used to monitor the integrity of the interstice. The conduit comprises a coupling in fluid communication with the interstice, a...

Methods and apparatus for measuring viscosity and/or surface tension of a liquid are described in which droplets are formed at a needle or pipette containing a sample of the test liquid and a size-related characteristic of the droplets such as...