Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps – Resilient or movably mounted blade portion or axially... – Yieldingly or pivotedly mounted or flexible blade
Reexamination Certificate
2000-01-04
2002-06-04
Lopez, F. Daniel (Department: 3745)
Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps
Resilient or movably mounted blade portion or axially...
Yieldingly or pivotedly mounted or flexible blade
Reexamination Certificate
active
06398490
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND
A turbine is an element which moves based on fluid flow. Conventional turbines use a rotational element, which is rotated by the flow. For example, a gas turbine in an electrical power plant is caused to rotate based on expanded exhaust gas from a combustion chamber. Aircraft jet engines are another form of turbine which rotate to move gas and cause thrust from the moving gases.
Conventional turbines use a set of vanes arranged around the periphery of one or more rotatable disk. Using the example of a turbine arranged as a generator, fluid movement through the vanes rotates the disk and converts at least some of the energy in the fluid flow into rotational energy of the disk.
On the scale of a typical turbine, that is the macro scale, conventional rotating turbines work well. However, when a turbine is miniaturized below a certain minimal size, it becomes difficult to form rotating bearings.
SUMMARY
The present application teaches a system which uses an oscillating moving turbine. The oscillating turbine is displaceable from its reference position, and also can be restrained by a restraining mechanism. The restraining mechanism can be a flexural structural element.
The turbine can be connected to a motive element, e.g., a driven element such as an electrical power generation element, or to a fluid flow generating element, such as an engine.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1486040 (1924-03-01), Schieferstein
patent: 2404678 (1946-06-01), Wuensch
patent: 6131385 (2000-10-01), Lewis, Jr. et al.
California Institute of Technology
Fish & Richardson P.C.
Kershteyn Igor
Lopez F. Daniel
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