Abstract: Disclosed is a backup heat-dissipating system having a serial fan which can be assembled easily, fastly and conveniently, and can effectively eliminate the interference between fans and prevent the air leakage resulting from the failed fan unit. The backup heat-dissipating system includes a main frame, a first rotor device disposed in the main frame and including a first control device, and a second rotor device disposed in the main frame to be coupled with the first rotor device in series along an axial direction of the main frame and including a second control device. When the first rotor device fails, the first control device will output a signal to the second control device for driving the second rotor device to rotate at a relatively higher speed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for a pump and a pump control system. The apparatus includes pistons integrally formed in a diaphragm and coupled to the diaphragm by convolutes. The convolutes have a bottom surface angled with respect to a top surface of the pistons. The apparatus also includes an outlet port positioned tangentially with respect to the perimeter of an outlet chamber. The apparatus further includes a non-mechanical pressure sensor coupled to a pump control system. For the method of the invention, the microcontroller provides a pulse-width modulation control signal to an output power stage in order to selectively control the power provided to the pump. The control signal is based on the pressure within the pump, the current being provided to the pump, and the voltage level of the battery.

Abstract: A system tot the pulsation-free delivery of liquids, which system may be used for high-purity, liquid chemicals in the semiconductor industry.

Abstract: Y-block or right-angular fluid section plunger pump housings have cylinder, suction, discharge and/or access bores which are transversely elongated within transition areas for interface with other bores to provide internal access, stress relief and a reduction in housing weight. A two-piece suction valve spring retainer assembly further reduces stress near the bore interfaces and allows use of a top stem guided suction valve that may be installed without threads in the suction bore. Tapered cartridge packing assemblies facilitate use of a one-piece plunger and also allow packing in such housings to be changed without removing the plunger.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a variable displacement hydraulic pump having a swashplate pivotally attached to the pump. The method and apparatus includes determining a desired swashplate angle as a function of a power limit of the pump, determining an actual swashplate angle, determining a value of discharge pressure of the pump, moving a servo valve spool to a desired position as a function of the desired swashplate angle, the actual swashplate angle and the discharge pressure, and responsively moving the swashplate to the desired swashplate angle position.

Abstract: An electric thruster has at least a portion of a surface of at least one of the component elements of its housing surface treated to increase the thermal transmission at the surface. The surface treatment is selected to increase the thermal absorption and thence the absorption of heat at the interiorly facing surfaces of the treated component, and/or to increase the thermal emissivity and thence radiation heat loss at the exteriorly facing surfaces of the treated component, and/or to increase the effective surface area through which heat is absorbed or emitted. The surface-treated housing components are assembled together with a cathode assembly, an ionization chamber, a propellant gas source, and a magnetic structure to form an electric thruster.

Abstract: A centrifugal compressor assembly, especially one having two or more stages, comprises a first compressor casing having. A fluid inlet and a fluid outlet and a first impeller rotatable within the first compressor casing. The assembly further comprises a second compressor casing having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet and a second impeller rotatable within the second compressor casing. Drive for the compressors is provided by an electric motor, preferably a permanent magnet motor, disposed between the first and second compressor casings and comprising a stator and a rotor rotatable within the stator. A drive shaft is provided, wherein the first impeller, second impeller and the rotor are mounted on the drive shaft and rotatable therewith.

Abstract: The sputter ion pump includes a vacuum chamber that includes an inner wall having a cylindrical section which is rugged in cross section. The rugged cylindrical section has outer recesses each of which is provided with a permanent magnets, each magnet having a same shape and a same characteristic so that a magnetic pole is directed to a same direction. The rugged cylindrical section has also inner recesses each of which is provided with a cylindrical anode electrode member spaced from the vacuum chamber wall. The rugged cylindrical section of the vacuum chamber wall is formed as a cathode electrode. A cylindrical shield member having a peripheral portion provided with evacuating bores is provided coaxially to the permanent magnets and anode electrodes. The permanent magnets and anode electrode members are arranged with equal spacing in an axis symmetrical configuration.

Abstract: An airlift piston mechanism is disclosed to include a casing having a piston chamber, an air inlet, a check valve in the air inlet, and an air outlet, a link, a piton reciprocated by the link in the piston chamber, the piston having an air accumulation chamber in communication with the piston chamber, annular grooves around the periphery, and an air passage in communication between the air accumulation chamber and the annular grooves, and seal rings mounted in the annular grooves, the seal rings each having radial through holes for discharging of air from the air accumulation chamber for enabling the seal rings to be lifted subject to the variation of air pressure in the air accumulation chamber to reduce friction resistance between the casing and the piston.

Abstract: A serial fan which only occupies a small space, has a simplified assembling structure, and can effectively eliminate the interference between fans. The serial fan include a main frame, a plurality of rotor vanes connected in series within the main frame along an axial direction of the serial fan, a first support disposed inside and connected with the main frame for supporting one of the plurality of rotor vanes, and a second support detachably connected with the first support for supporting another one of the plurality of rotor vanes.

Abstract: A power transmission mechanism has a first rotating member rotating around an axis, a second rotating member rotating around the axis and an elastic member located between the first rotating member and the second rotating member. The first rotating member has a first rotating member surface, and the second rotating member has a second rotating member surface. The elastic member has at least a protrusion contacting at least the first rotating member surface. The protrusion extends in a circumferential direction of the first rotating member. The protrusion has gradually tapering shape toward the first rotating member surface. The elastic member is deformed by compression as the elastic member engages the first rotating member surface and the second rotating member surface by rotation of the first rotating member, thereby causing relative rotation of the first rotating member and the second rotating member.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the metered, pulsed pumping of fluid media under high pressure, in which a pressure surge resulting from the stored, kinetic energy of an electromagnetically driven armature element of a reciprocating pump is transmitted via a blocking element to a working fluid, which is enclosed in a pressure space connected to a spraying device, resulting in a predetermined quantity of the working fluid being conveyed out of an spraying unit, the stored, kinetic energy of the armature element being abruptly transmitted first of all to an operating fluid, which is enclosed in a pressure-accumulating space arranged upstream of the pressure space, inducing a pressure surge which is transmitted in the operating fluid in an expanding manner to the blocking element and from the blocking element to the working fluid.

Abstract: A pump assembly that has a control circuit and a pressure switch which control the operation of a pump motor. The motor drives a positive displacement pump that is coupled to a fluid system. The control circuit includes a pulse width modulator circuit. The control circuit is activated when a pressure switch senses that a line pressure of the fluid system is below a threshold value. The control circuit can either operate in a continuous mode to provide a constant signal to the motor, or a pulse regulating mode to provide a series of pulses to the motor. The pulses begin with a minimum width and gradually increase until a predetermined current limit has been attained, or the motor reaches a full speed with the control circuit in a continuous on state. The speed of the motor will then correspond to the flow demanded by the fluid system. The energy provided by the pulses is varied as a function of changes in peak current drawn by the motor. The peak current is sensed and used to determine the pulse width.

Abstract: A light-weight electric motor driven fluid pump assembly having a molded thermoplastic housing of two parts which form a fluid impervious rotor chamber, a stationary shaft journalled in the housing parts within the chamber and carrying a magnetic rotor and a fluid impeller driven thereby. The housing parts also define inlet and discharge ports in communication with the rotor chamber adjacent the impeller blades. One portion of the housing of one housing part defines a cylindrical thin walled tubular configuration with a cylindrical exterior surface for mounting a stator thereabout. The housing parts are welded together at mating surfaces with the result that neither static nor dynamic seals are required in the assembly.

Abstract: A combined cycle power plant generally comprises a gas turbine power facility, a heat recovery steam generator, a steam turbine power facility, and an existing boiler. The power generation plant further comprises a system for introducing steam, which is generated in the heat recovery steam generator and the existing boiler, to the steam turbine of the steam turbine power facility through steam lines, which extend from the existing boiler and heat recovery steam generator and are then joined together, and a system for causing a line, which is arranged on a downstream side of a condenser provided in the steam turbine power facility, to branch off into feedwater lines, and supplying condensed water condensed by the condenser into the heat recovery steam generator and the existing boiler.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for cleaning a medical device tube, for example a catheter tube. The distal end portion of the tube has a distal opening and at least one side opening adjacent to the distal opening. The distal end of the tube is disposed in a closed chamber with the distal opening generally opposite from a first orifice defined in the chamber. A liquid is introduced into the chamber and is drawn into the distal opening in the tube, for example by a suction force. A different fluid medium, such as air, is drawn through the first orifice and into the distal opening in the tube. A turbulent flow path is established with the fluid medium wherein the medium is drawn through the first orifice, into the distal opening in the tube, out the side opening in the tube, and back into the distal opening in the tube. This turbulent flow path enhances the cleaning action of the liquid introduced into the chamber for cleaning the distal end portion of the tube within the chamber.

Abstract: A thermolysis reaction actuating pump system including a first set of walls defining a channel having a cross-sectional area less than one millimeter squared, and wherein a liquid is received in the channel. A second set of walls defining a reaction chamber and a thermolytic body carried in the reaction chamber. The first set and second set of walls are constructed and arranged to allow the flow of gas from the reaction chamber into the channel. A heater is positioned to provide heat to the thermolytic body and disassociate the thermolytic body to produce gas to pump the liquid through the channel.

Abstract: Disclosed are a gas compressor and an air conditioning system in which an anomalous temperature rise in an electro-magnetic clutch is detected at an early stage to stop the operation of the gas compressor. A temperature sensor is mounted at a position in the vicinity of a portion of the electro-magnetic clutch which is subject to anomalous heat generation. When there is a rise in the temperature as detected by the temperature sensor, a driving circuit of the electro-magnetic clutch is interrupted before trouble is caused by an abnormally high temperature.

Abstract: An assembly method in which a brazing metal is initially filled into radial wells pierced in an annular injection piece having first injection orifices for discharging a primary fuel, and in a cylindrical endpiece surrounding the annular injection piece and having secondary injection orifices for discharging a secondary fuel; thereafter the annular injection piece is fitted inside the cylindrical endpiece and these pieces are together fitted on a first tube for feeding primary fuel and a second tube for feeding secondary fuel and surrounding the first tube, and also to an outer wall of the injector; finally, the end portion of the injector as assembled in this way is placed in an enclosure where it is heated so as to melt the brazing metal to unite the parts.

Abstract: An electronic control systems and process for infusion devices and pump configurations can provide highly efficient use of electrical power. The system may include a capacitor which is controlled to partially, but not fully discharge, to provide a power pulse to a pump coil. In this manner, the capacitor remains partially charged and need not be re-charged from a fully discharged state. In addition, the power applied to the coil in a given discharge pulse signal may be controlled to correspond to the power needs of the pump, by controlling the degree to which the capacitor is discharged to produce the pulse signal. A power cut-off switch may be provided to control the discharge of the capacitor such that the capacitor is stopped from discharging prior to the actual end of the armature stroke. The time at which the capacitor discharge is stopped may be selected such that energy remaining in the coil after the capacitor stops discharging is sufficient to continue the pump stroke to the actual end of the stroke.