Abstract: An aquarium pump including a first unit comprising a magnet in an encasement disposed against the outside panel of an aquarium or other tank, and a second, submersible unit comprising a magnet in an encasement and a motor, an impeller, and buoyant material contained within a chamber disposed against the inside panel of an aquarium or other tank and opposing the first unit. The magnet included on the second, submersible unit includes a plurality of recesses into which are inserted synthetically coated ball bearings that are allowed rotate freely, with a portion of the ball bearings extending outside the magnet thus allowing the ball bearings to make contact with the aquarium or tank wall and allowing the second, submersible unit to be maneuvered into place without the necessity of violating the aquatic environment. The buoyant material allows the second, submersible unit to remain fixed in place solely utilizing magnetic attraction.

Abstract: A controlled-clearance sealing compressor device that provides precision rotor centering directly with respect to the stator housing, vane centering with respect to rotor (not the stator) and the dynamic balance design of the gliders required for practical single and dual vane devices. The devices uses roller bearings to control the radial position of the vane and control rods or pins are used to control axial positioning of the vane, its ‘centralization’ with respect to the rotor and the endplates. The positive displacement rotary vane compressors and vacuum pumps have friction reduction, efficiency enhancement and exceedingly long operating life as a result of the non-contact gas sealing of the process gas within the rotary vane compressors and vacuum pumps. In an embodiment the positive displacement compressing device is used in transportation vehicles.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic device having, in a housing, a rotor, which can rotate about a first axis, with pistons and chambers on both sides of the rotor, which can rotate about a second axis and are formed by a cylindrical wall and a piston. The cylindrical walls are rotatable about a second axis (m1 and m2) and the first axis, such that, during rotation of the rotor, the volumes of the rotor chambers on one side of the rotor and the rotor chambers on the other side of the rotor alternatively have a minimum value.

Abstract: A submersible pump apparatus comprising a housing containing all the components of the pump assembly for using the submersible pump apparatus in a body of water. A float or a plurality of floats are attached to the top side of the housing for providing a positive buoyancy to the submersible pump apparatus. The float is provided with a channel for slidably receiving a single weight or a plurality of weights. The weight is used to overcome the positive buoyancy of the float and achieve a negative buoyancy for submerging the submersible pump apparatus to the bottom of the body of water. A sled is attached to the bottom side of the housing and comprises the combination of both legs and feet for supporting the submersible pump apparatus at the bottom of a body of water. A finder float floating at the water surface level is attached using a rope to both the weight and the housing. By removing the weight or weights from the float, a positive buoyancy is restored to raise the submersible pump apparatus.

Abstract: A well pump assembly has a rotary pump with an electrical motor that contains a motor lubricant. A thrust chamber is mounted between the motor and the pump, the thrust chamber containing a thrust chamber lubricant. Seals prevent the entry of thrust chamber lubricant into the motor chamber. A pressure equalizing chamber is mounted to the motor for admitting well fluid. A first pressure barrier in the equalizing chamber equalizes the pressure of the thrust chamber lubricant with that of the well fluid. A second pressure barrier contained within the first pressure barrier equalizes the pressure of the motor lubricant with thrust chamber lubricant.

Abstract: A fuel pump assembly includes a pump bushing defining a dual-chambered pumping cavity, a fluid channel for shuttling fuel between the chambers, a plunger, and a plurality of fluid control valves. A first check valve is a pressure relief valve in fluid communication with an outlet of the pump bushing and with either an inlet of a second check valve or an inlet of the pump bushing. Another check valve or a control orifice may be used in parallel with the second check valve, with the third check valve or control orifice being positioned at least partially external to the fuel pump assembly. A vehicle includes a transmission, engine, a returnless high-pressure fuel pump assembly, and a low-pressure fuel line in fluid communication with an inlet side of an inlet control valve. The high-pressure fuel pump assembly inhibits a pressure pulsation from propagating through the low-pressure fuel line.

Abstract: A mini pump having a body includes a head, a handheld portion extending from the head and having a groove, a nozzle device having a cover element, a nozzle and an anti-sliding element. The anti-sliding element is disposed on the head and partially received in the groove. The cover element engages the anti-sliding element to the cylinder and prevents the nozzle from coming off the body. The handheld portion and the anti-sliding element are made of resins with different hardnesses. The material of the handheld portion of the body is tougher than that of the anti-sliding element of the nozzle device.

Abstract: A submersible water pump and a dewatering system comprising the submersible pump. The submersible water pump includes a housing and an outer tube. The housing includes a housing dividing wall and a cylinder head having a bore therethrough through which the outer tube fits. The housing is in slidable engagement with the outer tube and the housing dividing wall. The dewatering system with the submersible pump is used to pump water from vertical coal bed methane wells.

Abstract: A nutating pump is disclosed which has a modified piston and housing or casing that provides two distinct pump chambers or areas. Output from the first pump chamber is delivered during a first half of the dispense cycle or the piston movement cycle. A substantial portion of this output is held for delivery by the second chamber during a second part or half of the dispense cycle. Thus, the output generated by the pump is not altered or reduced, it is delivered over the entire piston movement cycle as opposed to prior art pumps which deliver all of the fluid during a first half or first portion of the piston movement cycle. In this way, superior pulse modification is achieved as fluid is delivered across the entire piston movement cycle as opposed to a first half or first portion of the piston movement cycle. In additional embodiments disclosed, two distinct chambers are also provided but each chamber generates its own output as the piston includes two machined or flat sections for active pumping.

Abstract: Smaller and lighter hydraulic pump/motors provide remarkably improved volumetric efficiency with pistons having body portions substantially as long as the axial length of the respective cylinders in which they reciprocate. A plurality of respective lubricating channels form a single, continuous lubricating passageway entirely within the cylinder block and not connected by either fluid “input” or fluid “output” passageways, being replenished solely by a minimal flow of fluid to and from the valve end of each cylinder and passing between each respective cylindrical wall of each cylinder and the axial cylindrical body of each respective piston. Several embodiments are disclosed in combination with various spring-biased hold-down assemblies. The preferred embodiment includes a fixed cylinder block, a roller bearing mounting between the wobbler and rotor of a split-swash plate, with piston shoes contacting the wobbler directly without any intermediary apparatus.

Abstract: A heart pump has a pump chamber and a pump element that strokes between a retracted and an extended position. A motor rotates a drive shaft in a single direction. A reversing mechanism coupled between the drive shaft of the motor and the pump element converts rotary motion of the drive shaft to reciprocal stroking movement of the pump element. A mechanical stroke length controller connected to the reversing mechanism varies the stroke length in response to changes in fluid pressure in the pump chamber.

Abstract: A swing type fan including a frame, a motor, at least one blade, at least one first magnetic element and at least one second magnetic element is provided. The motor is fixed to the frame and has a shaft passing through the frame. The blade is disposed between the shaft and the frame and has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side. The first side of the blade is connected to the frame. The first magnetic element is disposed on the blade and is located between the first side and the second side of the blade. The second magnetic element is connected to the shaft and is corresponding to the first magnetic element. The second side of the blade swings via a magnetic force between the first magnetic element and the second magnetic element as the shaft drives the second magnetic element to rotate.

Abstract: The subject invention provides a compressor assembly for an air conditioning system for a vehicle. The compressor assembly is of the variable displacement angle wobble plate type, and includes a housing that defines a suction cavity, a discharge cavity, and a crankcase. An electronic control valve controls the flow of a fluid between the discharge cavity and the crankcase for pressurizing the crankcase to de-stroke the compressor assembly. The control valve includes a pressure sensing member, which is responsive to a suction pressure to open fluid communication between the discharge cavity and the crankcase when the suction pressure is below a pre-determined set-point. The control valve also includes an actuator port in fluid communication with the discharge cavity for urging the member into the activated position to open fluid communication between the discharge cavity and the crankcase when the suction pressure is above the pre-determined set-point.

Abstract: A pump with variant strokes has a body, a piston assembly and a decelerating member. The body and the decelerating member are respectively mounted adjacent to the piston assembly. A holder is mounted in the piston assembly and has multiple openings. When the decelerating member is driven to rotate and engages one of the openings in the holder, the piston assembly can move back and forth. Adjusting the decelerating member to connect to different one of the openings of the holder to form different rotating diameters can adjust the strokes of the present invention to provide different pressure and flow capacity.

Abstract: A dual capacity compressor that prevents relative movement from taking place between certain components is provided. The dual capacity compressor includes a power generating part having a reversible motor and a crank shaft inserted in the motor, and a compression part having a cylinder, a piston and a connecting rod. A crank pin is provided in an upper part of the crank shaft, eccentric from an axis of the crank shaft, and an eccentric sleeve is rotatably fitted between the crank pin and an end of the connecting rod. A key member is held at least a part of the eccentric sleeve, and held at a particular portion of at the eccentric sleeve during operation so as to positively latch the eccentric sleeve with the crank pin in both directions rotation of the motor.

Abstract: A rotary compressor includes a rotation mechanism, an annular piston and a blade. The rotation mechanism has a cylinder with an annular cylinder chamber. The annular piston is contained in the cylinder chamber eccentrically from the cylinder and sectioning the cylinder chamber into an outer compression chamber and an inner compression chamber. The blade is disposed in the cylinder chamber and sectioning each of the inner and outer compression chambers into a high-pressure side and a low-pressure side. The rotation mechanism compresses a fluid by relatively rotating the cylinder and the piston. The outer compression chamber serves as a low-stage side compression chamber for compressing a low-pressure fluid into an intermediate-pressure fluid. The inner compression chamber serves as a high-stage side compression chamber for compressing the intermediate-pressure fluid compressed in the low-stage side compression chamber into a high-pressure fluid.

Abstract: A fluid pump comprising a plurality of piston cylinders (1, 2, 3, 4), wherein each individual cylinder has a piston rod (5, 6, 7, 8) with a piston (9, 10, 11, 12) arranged in the cylinder and a valve housing (13, 14, 15, 16) mounted at the end of the cylinder opposite the piston rod, and a drive arrangement for the piston rods, said drive arrangement comprising two main gearwheels (17, 18) which mesh and rotate in opposite directions. The present fluid pump is characterized in that the reciprocating motion of the piston rods (5, 6, 7, 8), which extend in pairs in opposite directions, is effected with the aid of two beams (19, 20) that are fixed to the end of the respective pair of piston rods opposite the pistons (9, 10, 11, 12), and which extend at right angles relative to the piston rods, and that the beams are connected to the main gearwheels (17 18) by shaft pins (21, 22, 22, 23) which move in pairs in guides (24) provided in the longitudinal direction of the respective beam.

Abstract: A rotary piston machine includes a first spheroidal element including pistons and/or cylinders and a second spheroidal element including pistons and/or cylinders, wherein the first element can move relative to the second element. The machine can be used as part of a pump, compressor, or engine.