A motorized ventilation device for a motor vehicle, comprising an impeller (1) free to rotate about an axis (X) and formed by a cup (2), on which blades (3) are disposed, a bell cap (6) of an electric motor partly housed inside the cup (2), a centrifugal device (8) disposed between the cup (2) and the bell cap (6) and configured to guide and to accelerate an air flow (F2). The cup (2) comprises at least one opening (20, 27) for the passage of the air flow (F2) and the bell cap (6) comprises at least one orifice (65, 66, 67) for the passage of the air flow

There is provided an air purification device for a vehicle having a radiator core that is provided in an interior portion of an engine bay in a front portion of a vehicle, and through which air that has been introduced from a vehicle front side passes into the interior portion of the engine bay in the direction of the vehicle rear side, and a radiator fan that is disposed on the vehicle rear side of the radiator core, and has plate-shaped fan portions that are rotated by rotation drive force supplied from a motor assembly so as to introduce air from outside the engine bay into the interior portion of the engine bay, and that also has an ozone decomposition catalyst coated onto the fan portions.

An aircraft propulsion system comprising a reciprocating liquid cooled engine housed within the fuselage driving twin fuselage mounted ducted-fans is disclosed. The propulsion system may be liquid cooled with a liquid cooled exhaust and at least one turbocharger. The ducted-fans may run fan blade tip speeds of up to 97% Mach driven by a near constant RPM engine through a continuously variable transmission. The propulsion system may be low noise and may meet environmental standards typical in the automotive industry.

An electric motor including a rotor rotatably mounted about a rotational axis extending in the axial direction, and a stator including stator teeth widened in a T shape at the tooth-base side to form pole tabs and extending in the circumferential direction. The pole tabs may form a bearing shoulder. A respective stator slot for receiving coils of a stator winding is formed between adjacent stator teeth and a slot opening formed between mutually facing pole tabs. A reinforcing element may be inserted into a slot opening. The reinforcing element are held on mutually facing pole tabs of adjacent stator teeth by the bearing shoulders. The reinforcing element includes a contour that engages a bearing region to reduce a contact area with the bearing shoulders.

An air blowing fan device includes an electric motor including a rotation shaft, and an air blowing fan including an attachment portion, a boss portion, and an outer circumferential side air blowing blades. The attachment portion is attached to the rotation shaft. The boss portion includes a tubular portion that is positioned radially outward of the attachment portion and of which the outer diameter dimension is larger than the outer diameter dimension of the electric motor, and a linkage portion. The electric motor is disposed in the tubular portion, the outer circumferential side air blowing blade extends radially outward from an outer circumferential surface of the tubular portion, the linkage portion includes a ventilation hole, and an area occupied by the electric motor and an area occupied by the outer circumferential side air blowing blade partially overlap each other in the direction in which the rotation shaft extends.

An aircraft engine assembly having a turbo-compounded internal combustion engine having an engine shaft. A coolant cooler is fluidly connected to a coolant circuitry of the internal combustion engine and to the environment. A plenum is connected with the environment via the coolant cooler and via an air outlet. A fan is disposed adjacent the air outlet and is operable to drive an airflow from the environment into the plenum via the coolant cooler. The fan is spaced apart from the internal combustion engine in a direction perpendicular to the engine shaft. A method of defining a cooling air circulation is also discussed.

An air guiding unit has a shroud having a vent hole, an air guiding duct, and a valve housed in the air guiding duct. A radiator, an engine cooling heat exchanger, and a blower are fixed to the shroud. The shroud guides an air flowing into an engine room from an engine room opening and passing through the radiator and the engine cooling heat exchanger. The air guiding duct has a first opening, which is connected to the vent hole of the shroud, and a second opening, which is open in the engine room toward a rear space defined on a rear side of the engine. The air guiding duct therein has a duct interior channel through which the air flows between the first opening and the second opening. The valve is configured to increase and decrease an opening degree of the duct interior channel.

A method is provided for a condition related to the activity of a protease through the administration of a -defensin, analog, or derivative is described. Suitable proteases include metalloproteases and cysteine proteases such as Cathepsin-C. The -defensin, analog, or derivative can be effectively administered parenterally, topically, or orally.

Methods and systems are provided for rapidly cooling an engine system of a vehicle at vehicle-off events. In one example, a method may include cooling the engine system via selecting whether to rotate a cooling fan in a first direction or a second direction based on an indication of whether temperature of the engine system decays at a faster rate under conditions where the cooling fan is rotated in the first direction as compared to the second direction, or vice versa. In this way, diagnostics that rely on static, low-noise conditions may be conducted for vehicle-off conditions that are not sufficiently long to allow for sufficient engine system cooling in a timeframe of the vehicle-off condition.

A fan arrangement for a cooling module in a vehicle. The vehicle (6) has a radiator fan (10) providing an air flow through a flow passage (5) and the cooling module in an intended flow direction. The cooling module includes a radiator (3) and at least one further cooler (1, 2) arranged in an upstream position of the radiator (3) with respect to the intended flow direction through the flow passage (5). The fan arrangement includes at least one additional electrically driven fan (4). The additional electrically driven fan (4) is arranged in the flow passage (5) in a position downstream of the radiator (3) and upstream of the radiator fan (10) with respect to the intended flow direction through the flow passage (5). The electrically driven fan (4) is configured to provide an air flow through a restricted portion (18) of the flow passage (5) and the cooling module during certain occasions when the operating conditions include the radiator fan not being in operation.