Abstract: In one example, a centrifugal fan includes a bearing, a shaft rotatably supported by the bearing, fan blades operatively connected to and rotatable with the shaft to take in air axially and to exhaust air radially, and a groove in the shaft extending axially along an outer surface of the shaft through the bearing.

Abstract: There is provided a blower realizing characteristics in which the pressure is reduced as the flow rate is increased in pressure-flow rate characteristics in a case where an impeller rotates at a fixed rotation speed, while having a simple structure. An impeller includes a main plate formed in a disc shape and a plurality of main blades formed to stand on the main plate, the impeller is extended to a position facing the inside of a discharge flow path formed so as to circle on an outer peripheral side, and auxiliary blades are formed to stand on an extended portion extended inside the discharge flow path.

Abstract: A blower including a housing at least partially defining a chamber, a motor including a drive shaft defining a rotational axis, an impeller driven by the motor to generate an air flow in the chamber, and a coupler operably connected between the drive shaft and the impeller. The chamber may have an axial height which increases from a position proximate a back plate to a position spaced from the back plate. The chamber may have a non-circular cross-section proximate a chamber outlet, and a tube assembly in fluid communication with the chamber may have a tube inlet with a non-circular cross-section. The impeller may define two separate airflow paths each having an inlet and an outlet.

Abstract: According to a first aspect, the present invention relates to a propeller pump comprising a pump housing and a pump core that is arranged in the pump housing and has a propeller, which together delimit a channel, and which are connected by means of a guide vane. The propeller pump is characterized in that a cross-sectional area (A2) of the channel (27) at the rear edge (30) of the guide vane (13) has a measure that is greater than, and that is less than a factor of 1.1 times, a cross-sectional area (A1) at the rear edge (29) of the blades (21) of the propeller, and that the specific rotational speed of the propeller pump is greater than 200 and less than 300. According to a second aspect, the present invention relates to a pump station comprising such a propeller pump.

Abstract: A multiple stage variable speed blower for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) ventilation of patients includes two impellers in the gas flow path that cooperatively pressurize gas to desired pressure and flow characteristics. Thus, the multiple stage blower can provide faster pressure response and desired flow characteristics over a narrower range of motor speeds, resulting in greater reliability and less acoustic noise.

Abstract: A pump is disclosed, with a casing comprising a substantially circular body having at least two radial inlets, at least one peripheral outlet and a transversal aperture. The casing further comprises a substantially circular impeller mounted within the body for rotation about the aperture. The impeller has a substantially uninterrupted sinusoidal profile. A pumping system and a method of pumping are also disclosed, which use the pump configuration.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pump for pumping contaminated liquid including solid matter, comprising an impeller (1), which is rotatable in a pump chamber of said pump, the impeller (1) being movable in the axial direction in relation to a seal housing cover (3) between a first position adjacent to an impeller seat (2) and a second position spaced apart from said impeller seat (2), said pump also comprising a cavity (17) defined by the seal housing cover (3) and the impeller (1), and at least one opening gap (20) connecting said cavity and said pump chamber. Furthermore, said opening gap (20) has a first flow area when the impeller (1) is in the first position, and a second flow area bigger than said first flow area when the impeller (1) is' spaced apart from said first position.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a number of power cylinders furnishing exhaust gases to at least two turbochargers having a common air inlet housing which is divided into a separate compressor housing for each of the turbochargers.

Abstract: A molecular spiral-type vacuum pumping stage comprises a rotor disk having smooth surfaces cooperating with a stator. The stator is provided with a plurality of spiral channels at least on the surface facing the rotor disk, wherein the gas to be pumped flows in centripetal direction. The cross-section area (?) of the channels is reduced from the center towards the outer periphery of the stator. Due to this arrangement, it is possible to avoid the reduction of the internal gas flow velocity along the pumping stage and the related risk of internal compression or re-expansions, this limiting the power losses. The present invention also refers to a vacuum pump comprising at least one pumping stage as described above.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a bulk materials pump and its use. The pump comprises a housing having a flow path for bulk materials located between an inlet and an outlet of said housing, wherein said flow path in said housing is further defined by a space between two rotatable drive disks spaced from each other and wherein a materials scraper is present between said drive disks at the outlet to avoid materials being transported between said drive disks back to the inlet. The rotation axis of both disks are tilted with respect to each other resulting in that the distance between said drive disks at the inlet is greater than the distance between said disks at the outlet. The surfaces of the two drive disks facing the flow path are conical shaped such that at the outlet the two facing surfaces are parallel relative to each other and at the inlet the two surfaces are positioned under an angle relative to each other.

Abstract: An impeller for use in a centrifugal pump, the impeller including a shroud having opposed faces, an outer peripheral edge portion and a rotation axis, a plurality of pumping vanes on one of the faces of the shroud and extending away from the rotation axis, each pumping vane having an outer peripheral edge portion, and a plurality of auxiliary vanes on the other face of the shroud, the auxiliary vanes of each having an outer edge portion wherein the dimension Da from the rotation axis to the outer peripheral edge portion of the shroud is greater than the dimension Db from the rotation axis to the outer edge portion of the auxiliary vanes.

Abstract: A centrifugal pump having a split impeller which is directly mounted to an existing drive shaft and which is enclosed within a housing which is mounted in surrounding, spaced and non-contacting relationship with respect to the impeller and drive shaft so as to form annular fluid inlet openings between the housing and drive shaft through which fluids are directed by the impeller to an outlet from the housing.

Abstract: A fabricated split pump casing is disclosed in which the suction chamber and discharge chamber are both on the same side of the casing section. The volute is fabricated from a plurality of sections with the minor section of the volute being located within the suction chamber thereby providing maximum suction chamber area.

Abstract: A pump for handling liquids laden with abrasive particles having impellers arranged in a counter-opposed manner on the pump shaft to rotate jointly with the latter. At the points of impeller mounting, the shaft has tapered surfaces whose apices face each other and the mating surfaces of the impellers are also tapered. At least one of the tapered surfaces of the shaft is formed by a bushing disposed with provision for moving axially along said shaft for pressing the impellers against the corresponding tapered surfaces of the shaft. This mode of mounting the impellers extends considerably the service life of the pump.