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US 11,273,892 B2Granted
Propeller
AssigneeSharrow Engineering LLC
InventorGregory Charles Sharrow
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Abstract
A propeller having a means for creating fluid flow in a non-axial direction and redirecting it in an axial direction.
Claims8
A propeller for use with fluids, the propeller provided to propel an object or person or to move the fluid, the propeller comprising:
- a plurality of asymmetrical blades;
- a rotational axis;
- the plurality of blades extending outward from the rotational axis and disposed around the rotational axis;
- each blade of the plurality of blades forming a loop and having an intake portion, and exhaust portion and a tip portion extending radially outward from the rotational axis;
- the loop of each blade having an intake root and an exhaust root, and a gap between the intake root and the exhaust root;
- wherein the propeller has a configuration to generate non-axial lift and non-axial fluid flow and to redirect the non-axial fluid flow to axial fluid flow, wherein the configuration includes:
- throughout at least a portion of the tip portion of the blades of the plurality of blades before a 90 degree roll and toward the intake portion of the tip section, a distance (N) to a nose of a cross-section as measured perpendicularly from the rotational axis is greater than a distance (T) to a tail of the cross-section as measured perpendicularly from the rotational axis, wherein the cross-section is taken from a fore location view of the propeller along the rotational axis and perpendicularly to the rotational axis;
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- each blade of the plurality of blades further comprising 80% of the tip portion of the blades having a roll value of less than 90 degrees and N>T for the same 80% of the tip portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.