Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Curved flexible impeller
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Application No.: US16342896Application Date: 2017-10-05
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Publication No.: US11053937B2Publication Date: 2021-07-06
- Inventor: Koji Tsukamoto
- Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JPJP2016-218154 20161108
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/036254 WO 20171005
- International Announcement: WO2018/088077 WO 20180517
- Main IPC: F04C5/00
- IPC: F04C5/00 ; F01C5/02

Abstract:
An impeller is attached to a rotary shaft provided in an inner space of a housing and includes a tube fixed to the rotary shaft and a plurality of blades protruding toward an outer diameter direction from the tube. A tip of each blade is in slidable contact with an inner peripheral surface of the housing. Each blade has a shape curved toward a rotation-direction rear side of the rotary shaft in a free state and includes an extension surface on a rotation-direction front side of the rotary shaft and a compression surface on the rotation-direction rear side of the rotary shaft. A curvature radius of a root on the compression surface in the blade is formed larger than a curvature radius of a root on the extension surface in the blade.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190242379A1 IMPELLER Public/Granted day:2019-08-08
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