A head gear apparatus (10) is provided that moves air to cool a caregiver's head. The head gear apparatus (10) includes a helmet (12) that has a shell (114) configured to rest upon a head of a user and a fan housing (120) movably coupled to shell (114), a fan (122) is positioned to lie within fan housing (120) and moves with fan housing (120) relative to shell (114), and a garment (14) selectively coupled to helmet (12). Garment (14) includes a face shield (20).

Head gear apparatus

A gas turbine engine including a gas exhaust duct assembly which comprises an annular shroud forming at least a section of an inner wall of a gas exhaust duct, a plurality of strut members radially projecting from the shroud, and a plurality of insert members. The strut members are disposed in a circumferentially, substantially equally spaced-apart relationship, and extend in a substantially axial direction. The insert members each define a circumferential section of an outer wall of the gas exhaust duct and are positioned in a space between adjacent strut members, and are secured to same. The gas exhaust duct is thereby defined between inner surfaces of the insert members and the outer surface of the shroud, and is circumferentially divided by the respective strut members, for directing exhaust gases rearwardly in an axial direction, meanwhile surrounding flow passages are defined by outer surfaces of the insert members and the strut members in combination, for directing surrounding air flows rearwardly in an axial, radial and inward direction.

Combined exhaust duct and mixer for a gas turbine engine

A blade for use in an axial fan includes a plurality of vanes which each have a winglet formed on their front face to increase the air flow of the fan at a given blade velocity.

Blade for axial fan

The invention concerns reduction of tip vortices in aircraft propellers, wherein a fence having anhedral or dihedral is attached to the blades of the propeller. Another form of the invention is applicable to counterrotating propeller systems, wherein a fence is attached to the blades of the forward propeller of the system, and no fences are attached to the aft propeller.

Noise reduction in aircraft propellers

An axial flow fan has each of its fan blades provided with an integrally formed centrifugal element which extends substantially parallel to an imaginary plane containing a central axis of the fan. Some of the air flow passing through the fan collides against the centrifugal elements, which deflect the air in the radial directions. A disk-like air barrier is thus formed around the fan blades, whereby a countercurrent flow and circulation flow are eliminated. The fan efficiency is also improved.

Axial flow fan with centrifugal elements

A motor-driven fan including a hub adapted to be driven by a motor, a plurality of fan blades provided on the hub to extend in radial directions, a shroud including a ring-shaped portion encircling the fan blades and stay members for supporting the ring-shaped portion, each of the fan blades being formed at a tip end thereof with a deflector which is bent in a direction of rotation of the fan by a width which increases from a leading edge to a trailing edge of the blade.

Masaharu Hayashi

Papers

Blade configuration for shrouded motor-driven fan

Luefterfluegel fuer einen mit einem ringmantel versehenen motorgetriebenen luefter