Fluid flow control device for an aerofoil

• US 20110260008A1
• Filed: 04/22/2011
• Published: 10/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aerodynamic Research Innovation Holdings Limited
• Original Assignee: Aerodynamic Research Innovation Holdings Limited
• Inventors: Smith, John Jaycott
• Application Number:
  US13/066,736
• Publication Number:
  US 20110260008A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 244/199.4
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 23/069 using one or more wing tip airfoil devices, e.g. winglets, splines, wing tip fences or raked wingtips
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 5/145 Means for influencing boundary layers or secondary circulations for compressors F04D29/68
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 1/0608 characterised by their aerodynamic shape
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 1/065 characterised by their construction elements F03D13/10 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2240/30 Characteristics of rotor blades, i.e. of any element transforming dynamic fluid energy to or from rotational energy and being attached to a rotor
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2260/60 Fluid transfer
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2240/30 Characteristics of rotor blades, i.e. of any element transforming dynamic fluid energy to or from rotational energy and being attached to a rotor
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2260/60 Fluid transfer
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2270/17 to control boundary layer
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/72 Wind turbines with rotation axis in wind direction
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 50/10 Drag reduction
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 50/60 Efficient propulsion technologies, e.g. for aircraft

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