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Fluid forcing device

US5611666A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 2, 1996
Grant dateMar 18, 1997
Priority date
Expiry dateApr 2, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB63H1/37
  • WIPO fieldTransport
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A fluid forcing device comprising many rotatable slender elements that converts mechanical energy into fluid energy by mechanically arranging and maintaining, at all times, the rotatable slender elements in a pre-determined wave form and by mechanically moving the wave form in a direction normal to the rotation of the elements.

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