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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2006
Applicant:
Dean Corren, Burlington, VT (US);
Inventor:
Dean Corren, Burlington, VT (US);
Assignee:
Verdant Power, Arlington, VA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 11/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This relates to a modified turbine blade tip design using a fairing shaped design that increases the tip area efficiency of a kinetic hydropower turbine rotor blade while having a non-fouling characteristic and a tip design with the ability to shed weeds, debris, or other submerged materials that might have fouling potential.