| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 137808000 | Means to cause rotational flow of fluid (e.g., vortex generator) | 22 |
| 20130068332 | Aerated Swirling Vertical Shaft with Double Volute Chambers - An aerated swirling vertical shaft with double volute chambers comprises an upper volute chamber ( | 03-21-2013 |
| 20120216897 | TOOTHED GATE VALVE SEAT - In accordance with the present invention, there is provided is a fluid control valve configured to attenuate acoustic resonance generated by a fluid flow. The fluid control valve includes a valve body defining a fluid passageway. A pair of seat rings are coupled to the valve body, with each seat ring defining an opening disposed about the fluid passageway. Each seat ring includes a plurality of vortex generators disposed about the radial periphery thereof for generating streamwise vorticies which suppress acoustic resonance. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20090272446 | APPARATUS FOR TREATING A LIQUID - An apparatus for treating a liquid; such as water or a beverage, in order to improve the quality of the liquid, and in order to ensure that the minerals and nutrients which are naturally present in the liquid are assimilated in a living organism consuming the liquid to the maximum extent. At least two pipe segments are twisted about a common axis in such a manner that each of the pipe segments at least substantially abuts said common axis. Each pipe segment has an inlet opening and an outlet opening, and the pipe segments forms parallel flow paths between a common inlet and a common outlet. The liquid performs spiraling movements when flowing through the pipe segments, and thereby the minerals in the liquid are forced to be in a more absorbable form. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20120222764 | Inlet Swirl Control for Turbochargers - An inlet duct, an induction system, and a system are disclosed for directing an inlet flow into an inlet compressor for use in an internal combustion engine. An example inlet duct may include one or more relief features disposed on an inner surface of the inlet duct. The one or more relief features may be made integral with the inlet duct. The one or more relief features may be disposed to protrude into the inlet flow to cause the inlet flow to swirl before reaching the inlet compressor. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20080302432 | Apparatus & method for propelling a liquid in a spiral spray - An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus for propelling a fluid in a spiral stream. The apparatus includes a housing, and a cap member connected to the housing and discharges a stream of fluid in a spiral stream. A large gear member is coupled to the cap member for causing the cap member to rotate when the large gear member rotates. A gear assembly transfers rotation of an impeller to the large gear member when the impeller is contacted by fluid passing through an impeller opening in am impeller support. An embodiment of the present invention also provides a method for propelling a fluid in a spiral stream. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20090308472 | Swirl Inducer - A swirl inducer or mixer for location within a tube or duct. The swirl inducer may extend within the tube or duct and has an active surface over which a fluid flows to induce a swirling vortical flow within the fluid. The swirl inducer induces vortical flow in the tube or duct, which conforms with the path of least resistance and minimizes the amount of energy that is applied to the fluid to cause it to flow through the tube or duct and that causes the greatest, most rapid mixing of fluids passing through the tube or duct. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20080257436 | Piping - The present invention relates to piping ( | 10-23-2008 |
| 20090250129 | ENHANCEMENT OF VORTEX INDUCED FORCES AND MOTION THROUGH SURFACE ROUGHNESS CONTROL - Roughness is added to the surface of a bluff body in a relative motion with respect to a fluid. The amount, size, and distribution of roughness on the body surface is controlled passively or actively to modify the flow around the body and subsequently the Vortex Induced Forces and Motion (VIFM). The added roughness, when designed and implemented appropriately, affects in a predetermined way the boundary layer, the separation of the boundary layer, the level of turbulence, the wake, the drag and lift forces, and consequently the Vortex Induced Motion (VIM), and the fluid-structure interaction. The goal of surface roughness control is to increase Vortex Induced Forces and Motion. Enhancement is needed in such applications as harnessing of clean and renewable energy from ocean/river currents using the ocean energy converter VIVACE (Vortex Induced Vibration for Aquatic Clean Energy). | 10-08-2009 |
| 20100313982 | Fluid Flow Control Device - A fluid flow control device that controls a flow of fluid within the flow control device has a flow path to convey the fluid. A cross-sectional area of the flow path varies along the flow path. At least a portion of the length of the fluid flow control device includes an active surface capable of influencing the fluid flow through the flow path to cause vortical motion of the fluid within the fluid pathway. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110247712 | ENERGY CONVERSION APPARATUS - An apparatus includes a device including a pair of electrodes and a channel producing an electro-osmotic flow or electrophoretic flow of a liquid by applying a voltage between the pair of electrodes, and an impedance connected to the pair of electrodes, wherein a voltage resulting from thermal noise is applied to the pair of electrodes by giving a temperature difference between the channel and the impedance, and thermal energy corresponding to the temperature difference is converted into a flow of the liquid, the flow of the liquid being mechanical energy. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20090025810 | MICRO-VORTEX GENERATOR - The present invention relates to a MEMS-based micro-oscillator which can generate specific vortical pattern in a micro-channel. The micro-vortex generator is composed of a suspended bridge with a gold-plated, rectangular flat-plate as the primary structure. When an AC current passed through the gold leads under an external magnetic field, the plate will oscillate due to Lorenz force, thereby generating micro-vortices. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20120097281 | DRAINAGE SYSTEM AND A VORTEX BRAKE - A drainage system is provided that comprises a gully having a circumferential side wall, an outlet and a vortex brake with a vortex chamber having a chamber wall with a peripheral inlet opening and a central outlet opening, the vortex brake being arranged in the gully so that a flow path from the inside of the gully to the outlet leads through the vortex brake, and a drainpipe is connected to the outlet. The vortex brake is arranged in the gully so as to be non-demountable, and the vortex brake is provided with a flushing access having a hose connection. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120097280 | VORTEX GENERATOR WITH VORTEX CHAMBER - A vortex generator intended to create a controlled vortex in a fluid medium such as a gas or liquid. The upstream portion of the vortex generator includes an inlet section which directs the fluid into the vortex generator and creates a vortex therein by use of an internal rotational symmetric cavity with a curved geometry. Downstream from the inlet section is a vortex chamber having one of several shapes in which the vortex motion is established. The vortex generator may have one of two shapes, one being a trumpet shape or elongated, and the other being a more ovide or egg shape. Also included is a cavitation assembly at the outlet portion of the vortex generator which creates cavitation. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120018021 | VORTEX GENERATORS TO CONTROL BOUNDARY LAYER INTERACTIONS - Devices for generating streamwise vorticity in a boundary includes various forms of vortex generators. One form of a split-ramp vortex generator includes a first ramp element and a second ramp element with front ends and back ends, ramp surfaces extending between the front ends and the back ends, and vertical surfaces extending between the front ends and the back ends adjacent the ramp surfaces. A flow channel is between the first ramp element and the second ramp element. The back ends of the ramp elements have a height greater than a height of the front ends, and the front ends of the ramp elements have a width greater than a width of the back ends. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120160357 | VORTEX RING GENERATOR - Embodiments of the present concept are directed to a Vortex Ring Generator (VRG) that generates vortexes or rings of air that can be sent toward various targets to apply force to that target. In one example, a vortex ring generating system includes a first fuel source, a second fuel source, and a combustion chamber connected to each of the first and second fuel sources through respective fuel control valves. The system also includes a vortex cone connected to the combustion chamber, the cone structured to form vortex rings of air in response to fuel in the combustion chamber being ignited. A control unit controls at least some of the valves and an ignitor connected to the combustion chamber to control the generation of the vortex rings. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120073691 | Dynamic vortex dropshaft water feature - There is a dynamic vortex water feature having an upper vessel and a lower vessel for containing water. A vertical pipe extends from the bottom of the upper vessel and is attached at a lower end to a sump pump that is located interior to the lower vessel. A vortex generator is attached at an opening of the upper vessel and is in fluid communication with a transparent dropshaft. The dropshaft is approximate the length of and parallel to the vertical pipe. The sump pump pumps water from the lower vessel up the vertical pipe and into the upper vessel. Water flows from the vortex generator entering the dropshaft tangentially thereby creating a spirally of the water which leads to a variety of vortex induced bubble patterns that constantly change during the filling and emptying cycle of the vortex water feature. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120325354 | Apparatus and method for the creation of an impingement jet generating annular swirls as well as turbomachine with an apparatus of this type - The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for the creation of an impingement jet (P) generating annular swirls ( | 12-27-2012 |
| 20080264505 | Air cannon - An air cannon is provided with an air cannon body having a cylindrical body partitioning an air chamber and an end plate provided at the cylindrical body, and compression means that is provided at the air cannon body and reduces a volume of the air chamber. In the air cannon, an ejection port having an inner-side opening end and an outer-side opening end that is larger than the inner-side opening end is formed in the end plate. The air inside the air chamber is ejected as air vortexes from the ejection port by driving the compression means. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20130008541 | Water Treatment and Revitalization System and Method - A system and method are provided in at least one embodiment to filter water through a vortex leading into a disk-pack turbine having an expansion chamber and outlets into a discharge chamber that leads to at least one discharge port. In a further embodiment, the system includes an intake module, a vortex module, a disk-pack module, and a motor for driving the disk-pack turbine. The intake module brings water into the system and routes the water to the vortex module that speeds up the water into a vortex that flows into the disk-pack turbine that discharges into a discharge chamber that leads to at least one discharge port. The disk-pack turbine includes a plurality of disks that are spaced apart forming chambers between the disks that provide at least one passageway between the expansion chamber and the discharge chamber. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130008540 | INSERT FOR DISPENSING A COMPRESSED GAS PRODUCT, SYSTEM WITH SUCH AN INSERT, AND METHOD OF DISPENSING A COMPRESSED GAS PRODUCT - An insert, a system, and a method are provided for dispensing a compressed gas product. The insert includes a swirl chamber, inlet ports to the swirl chamber, and an outlet orifice. The insert has specifically configured parameters relating to the diameter of the swirl chamber, the diameter of the outlet orifice, the length of the outlet orifice, and the depth of the swirl chamber. The insert, system, and method can provide a dispensed compressed gas product with a remarkably constant flow rate and with a remarkably constant particle size. | 01-10-2013 |
| 137810000 | Vortex generator as control for system | 1 |
| 20100300568 | Vortex Flow Control Device - A vortex flow control device is manufactured by forming a template unit having end walls of which the wall has an outlet opening, and a partial outer wall. The partial outer wall has an opening. A plate is subsequently secured to the template unit to partially close the opening, to leave an inlet. The size of the plate is selected so as to result in an inlet | 12-02-2010 |
| 137812000 | By tangential input to axial output (e.g., vortex amplifier) | 1 |
| 20080245429 | Choke Valve Device - Summary An arrangement for a control valve ( | 10-09-2008 |
