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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2006
Atsushi Suzuki, Aichi, JP;
Tetsuo Tominaga, Hyogo, JP;
Tsuyoshi Eguchi, Hyogo, JP;
Kazuyuki Kamiya, Aichi, JP;
Asuka Soya, Aichi, JP;
Atsushi Suzuki, Aichi, JP;
Tetsuo Tominaga, Hyogo, JP;
Tsuyoshi Eguchi, Hyogo, JP;
Kazuyuki Kamiya, Aichi, JP;
Asuka Soya, Aichi, JP;
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A shroud includes a body portionB, a mountpositioned at a center of the body portionB and supporting rotary vane wheel driver, and multiple support beamsradially extending from the mountand joining the mountand the body portionB, where each of the support beamsbecomes thicker from an upstream side of a flow direction of air toward a downstream side thereof, and an edge portionti of each of the support beamson the downstream side of the flow direction of the air discharged by the rotary vane wheelis oriented in a direction parallel to a rotation axis of the rotary vane wheel, and the edge portion on the upstream side is oriented in a direction opposite to a rotation direction of the rotary vane wheel