Patent ID: 7658337
Filing Date: 2010-02-09
Classification: B64C,F02K,F05D,F15D,F42B,Y02T

Abstract:
1. A fluid vectoring nozzle comprises walls defining a fixed geometry cross section with a longitudinal axis that lies perpendicular to a plane of the cross section, the fixed geometry cross section defining a width and a height such that the width is greater than the height, and flow vectoring means suitable for selectively producing a fluid dynamic restriction that extends from at least one of the walls defining the width of the nozzle in a line along the wall and oblique to the longitudinal axis of the nozzle, thereby initiating a fluid dynamic throat in the nozzle in a plane oblique to the longitudinal axis of the nozzle, such that in operation the fluid dynamic throat directs fluid towards a plane perpendicular to the plane of the fluid dynamic throat by turning fluid flow passing through the throat about an axis parallel to the plane of the throat.