Class Number |
Class Name |
Patents |
415/1 |
Method of operation |
838 |
415/10 |
With control means responsive to motion developed fluid eddy, electrical, or magnetic effect |
40 |
415/104 |
With shaft connected fluid force subjected thrust balancing surface |
175 |
415/108 |
Casing and spaced housing with space vented to working fluid |
112 |
415/109 |
With shaft connected fluid abutment member in sealing fluid filled chamber |
29 |
415/11 |
With pump recirculation passage control responsive to working fluid condition or characteristic |
55 |
415/110 |
With lubricating, sealing, packing or bearing means having internal working fluid connection (e.g., fluid or fluid biased seal, etc.) |
147 |
415/114 |
With changing state confined heat exchange mass |
105 |
415/115 |
With passage in blade, vane, shaft or rotary distributor communicating with working fluid |
1,639 |
415/116 |
With diversely oriented inlet or additional inlet for diverse fluid (e.g., heating, cooling or mixed working fluid, etc.) |
801 |
415/118 |
With inspection, signaling, indicating or measuring means |
375 |
415/119 |
With sound or vibratory wave absorbing or preventing means or arrangement |
1,005 |
415/12 |
With bimetallic blade, vane, or adjustment means therefor |
39 |
415/120 |
Centripetal pump |
30 |
415/121.1 |
With cutter or comminutor for debris in working fluid |
133 |
415/121.2 |
With separating means or guard for solid matter in working fluid (e.g., debris, etc.) |
364 |
415/121.3 |
Combined |
69 |
415/122.1 |
Including shaft transmission train, brake, clutch, or attendant actuated drive means |
147 |
415/125 |
Including means to cause cyclical movement of a part (e.g., blade, valve, etc.) |
42 |
415/126 |
Including casing part selectively movable relative to fixed support |
211 |
415/129 |
Runner or blade selectively adjustable relative to casing |
52 |
415/13 |
With control means responsive to non-cyclic condition sensing, centrifugal actuation or torque |
57 |
415/134 |
Including thermal expansion joint |
162 |
415/140 |
Resilient or movably mounted blade portion or axially movable runner or shaft |
35 |
415/142 |
Shaft bearing combined with or retained by arm or vane in surrounding working fluid space |
141 |
415/143 |
Plural runners having different type flow paths |
245 |
415/144 |
Working fluid bypass |
212 |
415/146 |
Including working fluid force responsive vane or flow control |
90 |
415/148 |
Selectively adjustable vane or working fluid control means |
180 |
415/168.1 |
Including means for handling working fluid leakage |
34 |
415/169.1 |
Including means for handling portion separated from working fluid |
215 |
415/170.1 |
Bearing, seal, or liner between runner portion and static part |
332 |
415/175 |
Including additional means causing or controlling fluid flow for heat exchanging, lubricating or sealing |
392 |
415/177 |
Including heat insulation or exchange means (e.g., fins, lagging, etc.) |
286 |
415/181 |
Means, disposition or arrangement for causing supersonic working fluid velocity |
98 |
415/182.1 |
Working fluid passage or distributing means associated with runner (e.g., casing, etc.) |
222 |
415/2.1 |
With means for controlling casing or flow guiding means in response to natural fluid current force or direction |
108 |
415/229 |
Bearing, seal, or liner between shaft or shaft sleeve and static part |
367 |
415/232 |
Miscellaneous |
55 |
415/5 |
Endless flexible runner (e.g., chain, etc.) |
78 |
415/51 |
With independently operated timer or programmer actuator for working fluid control |
13 |
415/52.1 |
With means for re-entry of working fluid to blade set (e.g., re-entry type device, passage, etc.) |
31 |
415/6 |
Cyclically dipping, liquid retaining, elevating and discharging receptacle or conduit |
17 |
415/60 |
Plural runners supported for relative motion or on separate shafts |
113 |
415/7 |
Float supported or buoyant runner |
191 |
415/70 |
Runner has planetary motion or rotates around oblique or constantly moving axis |
17 |
415/71 |
Runner has spirally arranged blade or fluid passage |
52 |
415/76 |
Fluid flow between plural sinuous runner surfaces |
18 |
415/77 |
Axial flow runner with blades extending radially inward and outward from common annulus |
28 |
415/8 |
Driven, fluid immersed runner with vane in unconfined fluid stream (e.g., trolling plate, etc.) |
31 |
415/80 |
Motor runner motivated by reaction type jet discharge nozzle from internal working fluid conduit |
83 |
415/83 |
Runner with annular blade rows or fluid channels spaced on common radial plane |
18 |
415/88 |
Pump having rotating inlet end or scoop immersed in liquid |
65 |
415/89 |
Centrifugal bowl pump |
48 |
415/9 |
Including destructible, fusible, or deformable non-reusable part |
299 |
415/90 |
Smooth runner surface for working fluid frictional contact (e.g., unbladed runner, etc.) |
429 |
415/900 |
Rotary blood pump |
158 |
415/901 |
Drilled well-type pump |
62 |
415/902 |
Rotary pump turbine publications |
4 |
415/903 |
Well bit drive turbine |
57 |
415/904 |
Tool drive turbine (e.g., dental drill, etc.) |
95 |
415/905 |
Natural fluid current motor |
61 |
415/909 |
Air stack or shaft having natural fluid current motor |
37 |
415/91 |
Annular runner with inwardly projecting blade |
24 |
415/910 |
Reversible between pump and motor use |
73 |
415/911 |
Pump having reversible runner rotation and separate outlets for opposing directions of rotation |
25 |
415/912 |
Interchangeable parts to vary pumping capacity or size of pump |
80 |
415/913 |
Inlet and outlet with concentric portions |
15 |
415/914 |
Device to control boundary layer |
422 |
415/915 |
Pump or portion thereof by casting or molding |
51 |
415/916 |
Perpetual motion devices |
19 |
415/92 |
Motor runner having working fluid trapping pocket |
35 |
415/93 |
Axially opposed working fluid paths to or from runner (e.g., end balance, etc.) |
17 |