Armature Within Pumping Member Patents (Class 417/353)
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Patent number: 8167582Abstract: A fan assembly. The fan assembly includes a rotation shaft, a rotor coupled to the rotation shaft, a stator disposed inside the rotor, and a fan including a hub having a receiving space therein, and a plurality of blades disposed at a circumference of the hub, and coupled to the rotation shaft such that the rotor is spaced from an inner surface of the hub respectively in axial and radial directions, thereby preventing a transfer of vibration of a permanent magnet to the outside, and thus reducing the generation of noise due to the vibration.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2008Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Myung-Keun Yoo, Hyoun-Jeong Shin
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Patent number: 8157539Abstract: By inserting a protruding portion (8b), which is installed to a center position of a rear end surface (8x) of a fixed body (8), into a hole (4a), which is provided to a center position of an end surface (4x) on a side of a fixed body (8) of a fixed shaft (4) that is connected to a fixed body (3), the fixed bodies (3) and (8) and the fixed shaft (4) are connected. As a result, a sleeve (5) can be removed only by dismantling the fixed body (3).Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2006Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuya Hidaka, Toshiyuki Osada, Takeshi Okubo, Yohei Kakiuchi
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Publication number: 20110229350Abstract: A blower for use with a hand dryer and the like has a motor; an impeller driven by the motor; a diffuser for directing air from the impeller; and a housing accommodating the motor, the impeller and the diffuser. The motor has a rotor and a stator. The rotor has a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft, a ring magnet fixed to the rotor core, and a protective sleeve surrounding the ring magnet.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Inventor: Wan Mei He
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Patent number: 8013484Abstract: A cooling apparatus is for dissipating heat from an electronic device. The cooling apparatus includes a casing, an impeller, and a motor. The casing is for absorbing the heat and allowing coolant to flow therein. The impeller is received in the casing. The motor is received in the casing, and is for providing a force to drive the impeller to rotate to force the coolant to flow. The coolant flows between the casing and the motor to take the heat away.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2008Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chih-Hao Yang, Che-Cheng Hu
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Patent number: 8007253Abstract: A pump for moving a liquid including a rotor rotatable within a housing and slidable relative to the housing between a first axial rotor position during normal pump operation and a second axial rotor position during a pump inoperative condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2008Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.Inventor: Kevin Allan Dooley
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Publication number: 20110171048Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a pump assembly and a method for assembly the pump assembly. The pump assembly includes a stator assembly, a lower pump housing, an upper pump housing, a rotor assembly, and an isolation cup. The method includes coupling the stator assembly to the lower pump housing, overmolding an overmold material over the stator assembly and the lower pump housing, positioning the isolation cup over the overmold, and positioning the rotor assembly inside the isolation cup. The method further includes placing the upper pump housing over the rotor assembly and coupling the upper pump housing to the lower pump housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Inventors: Lee Snider, Moe K. Barani, Troy Anderson, Ronald Flanary
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Publication number: 20110150674Abstract: The present invention refers to an operating machine, in particular a motor-driven pump with an axial motor arrangement, comprising a rotor assembly (18) and a stator assembly (7). The rotor assembly (18) includes an impeller (4) and a permanent-magnet rotor (5) firmly associated to the impeller (4). The stator assembly (7) includes a single multipolar stator (8, 9, 10) interacting with the rotor (5) to impart a rotary motion to the impeller (4) along an axis (A) perpendicular to the rotor (5). The rotor assembly (18) is rotatably supported by a flange (6) adapted to separate the rotor assembly (18) from the stator assembly (7). Guide means (16, 17) are provided between the rotor assembly (18) and the flange (6) to guide the rotary motion of the impeller (4) about the axis (A).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2009Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: MATE S.A.S. DI FURLAN MASSIMO & C.Inventor: Massimo Furlan
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Publication number: 20110116943Abstract: A fan assembly includes a stator and a rotor. The stator is located in a fan frame and includes a base, at least one magnetizing winding provided on the base at a first relative position relative to a center of the base, and at least one magnetic conductive element provided on the base at a second relative position relative to the center of the base. The rotor is fixedly mounted in a fan hub, and has at least one positive pole and at least one negative pole, which are alternately arranged to constitute a magnetic induction face. The fan hub is rotatably connected to the fan frame via a shaft with the magnetic induction face facing toward the magnetizing winding and the magnetic conductive element on the base. With the above arrangements, the fan can have a largely reduced axial height for use in a limited space.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2009Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS CO., LTD.Inventor: Sam Tang
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Publication number: 20110110800Abstract: A three-phase motor includes a bearing structure, a rotor structure and a stator structure. The bearing structure has a bushing. The rotor structure has a shaft disposed in the bushing. The stator structure is disposed corresponding to the rotor structure and includes a first coil assembly and a second coil assembly overlapped on the first coil assembly. A fan with the motor is also disclosed. The present invention can increase the ratio of the effective coils of the stator structure, and further promote the operation efficiency of the three-phase motor and the fan with the three-phase motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Inventors: Chin-Chun LAI, Kun-Fu Chuang, Shin-Ming Huang
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Patent number: 7909586Abstract: A fan includes a frame, a stator and a rotor. The stator is disposed in the frame, and the rotor is disposed in the frame and coupled with the stator. The rotor includes a connecting element, an impeller and a shaft. The connecting element has a flange. The impeller is disposed on a periphery of the connecting element. The flange is embedded with the impeller. One end of the shaft is connected to the connecting element and the impeller is rotated when the shaft rotates.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2006Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Po-Hao Yu, Wen-Shi Huang
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Publication number: 20110058963Abstract: An inner rotor type motor includes a base having a pivotal portion. A stator is mounted to the base and includes a body and a coil unit engaged with the body and surrounding a hole of the body. A rotor includes a rotatable member, a shaft, and a permanent magnet. The rotatable member includes an engaging portion and a sidewall provided along a periphery of the engaging portion extending into the hole of the stator. The shaft includes an end coupled to the engaging portion. The other end of the shaft is coupled to the pivotal portion. The permanent magnet is mounted to an outer periphery of the rotatable member and aligned with the coil unit. The axial length of the shaft without permanent magnet mounted thereto can be reduced, allowing reduction of axial heights of the motor and a heat dissipating fan utilizing the motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2009Publication date: March 10, 2011Inventor: Alex Horng
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Publication number: 20110002796Abstract: A DC motor includes a rotor, a cup-shaped stator, and a drive control unit. The cup-shaped stator includes a cylindrical winding portion surrounding the rotor. The cylindrical winding portion includes an inner periphery formed by at least one conductive wire and facing an outer periphery of a permanent magnet of the rotor with an air gap formed between the cylindrical winding portion and the rotor. A drive control unit is electrically connected to the cylindrical winding portion and a power source. The DC motor can be mounted in a compartment of a housing, and an impeller can be coupled to the shaft, forming a DC fan. The DC motor and the DC fan possess high control sensitivity and high control precision while having simplified structures to allow easy assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventor: Alex Horng
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Publication number: 20100119386Abstract: A control system for a fan includes a control housing that is external to a fan housing for the fan. At least one fan control module is within the control housing and communicates remotely with terminals within the fan housing via at least one wire. The at least one fan control module includes a detection module. The detection module detects induced voltages in at least one of a plurality of stator coils within the fan housing via the at least one wire without receiving signals from a sensor in the fan housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2009Publication date: May 13, 2010Inventors: Ravishanker Krishnamoorthy, Foo Leng Leong, Edy Susanto, Yayue Zhang, Cheng Yong Teoh
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Patent number: 7618241Abstract: A fuel pump has a housing defining a cavity. A rotor of an electric motor is carried in the cavity for rotation about a drive axis. An annular pump impeller is supported in the cavity separate from the rotor and is driven by the rotor for rotation about the drive axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2005Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: TI Group Automotive Systems, L.L.C.Inventor: Peter P. Kuperus
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Publication number: 20090246042Abstract: A fan motor may include a rotor part having a drive magnet, and a stator part having a drive coil and rotatably holding the rotor part. The rotor part may include a rotor yoke to which the drive magnet is fixed on an inner peripheral side of the rotor yoke, an impeller which is provided with a plurality of blades and which is disposed on an outer peripheral side of the rotor yoke, and a hub for fixing the impeller. The impeller is provided with a held part which is sandwiched between and held by the rotor yoke and the hub in an axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventor: Keishi Otsubo
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Publication number: 20090226334Abstract: An oil sealing structure of a motor includes a cover and at least one sealing element. The motor has a shaft, a fluid bearing and a bushing. The fluid bearing mounts to the shaft and is accommodated in the bushing. The cover is disposed around the shaft and is connected with an opening of the bushing. The sealing element is disposed around the shaft and between the fluid bearing and the cover. A fan and a motor including the above-mentioned oil sealing structure are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2008Publication date: September 10, 2009Inventors: Yue-Fei Li, Ying-Xi Hu, Dung-Chang Yeh, Yung-Ping Lin
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Publication number: 20090196770Abstract: The present invention provides fan with an inrunner motor. The fan includes a fan frame, a rotor and a stator. The fan frame includes a base. The rotor includes a hub, a bushing and a magnetic member, wherein the magnetic member sleeves on the bushing. The stator is disposed on the base and coupled with the rotor, and the stator includes a shaft through the bushing, wherein an end of the shaft is fixed on the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2008Publication date: August 6, 2009Inventors: Po-Hao YU, Chia-Chen Lee, Kun-Fu Chuang, Shun-Chen Chang
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Publication number: 20090180901Abstract: A fan includes an impeller and an inner rotor motor. The inner rotor motor connects to the impeller and drives it to rotate. The inner rotor motor includes a bushing, a shaft, a magnetic conducting shell, a magnetic element and a stator. The shaft passes through the bushing and is coupled to the impeller. The magnetic conducting shell is coupled to the shaft and telescoped to the bushing. The magnetic element is disposed around outside of the magnetic conducting shell. The stator is disposed around outside of the magnetic element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2008Publication date: July 16, 2009Applicant: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INCInventors: Chin-Hong LEE, Po-Hao YU, Yi-Ching CHIU, Shir-Harn YEH, Kun-Fu CHUANG
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Publication number: 20090142203Abstract: A cooling fan (1) for a motor vehicle has a fan wheel (4) and a brushless fan motor (2) which is used to drive the fan wheel (4). The fan motor (2) has an internal rotor (3). The fan wheel (4) is directly connected to the internal rotor (3) in order to reduce the size of the type of cooling fan (1) whilst retaining the power output.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2006Publication date: June 4, 2009Inventors: Pietro De Filippis, Harald Redelberger
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Publication number: 20080219864Abstract: A pump assembly constructed to allow unloaded starting of the pump. The assembly includes a pump body, a permanent magnet rotor, a rotor shaft, a pump cover, a shaft sleeve and an impeller. The impeller includes a holding chamber for holding the shaft sleeve which is arranged proximate a center of the impeller. A stopping rib extends inwardly from an internal wall of the holding chamber of the impeller. The shaft sleeve includes a tubular body with a starting rib extending laterally from the body. During operation of the pump, the starting rib interferes with the stopping rib. A number of shock absorbing pads are disposed between the starting rib and the stopping rib and maintained thereat by a notch and ridge association that extends along each rib and pad. The pump includes a space that allows rotation of the starting rib relative to the stopping rib which provides unloaded starting of the pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2006Publication date: September 11, 2008Inventors: Mingxue Li, Huashan Shi
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Publication number: 20080175729Abstract: An axial flow fan includes a housing, a plurality of rotor vanes that rotate inside the housing, and a plurality of sheet-like stationary vanes that are disposed below the rotor vanes and fixed to the housing. The axial flow fan includes a motor that is connected to the rotor vanes and rotates the rotor vanes about a central axis. Each stationary vane has a projecting portion projecting axially upward from a sidewall of a base portion. The projecting portion of each stationary vane has an inner side surface on the central axis side. When a stator part is attached to the housing, the outer side surface of a circuit board radially meets the inner side surfaces. The circuit board axially meets the axially upper end surface of the sidewall of the base portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2008Publication date: July 24, 2008Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihisa KATO, Suguru YAMADA
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Publication number: 20080175708Abstract: The present invention relates to an air supply system for a vehicle, which includes a curved diffuser passageway and a volute formed on upper portion of the diffuser passageway to sufficiently secure a length of the diffuser passageway, thereby enhancing a pressure conversion efficiency and reducing a size of the entire system, and which further includes a guide for guiding an air flow toward an input of an impeller, thereby minimizing a loss occurring when air passing through a motor housing flows to the inlet of the impeller, and reducing a weight of an outlet duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2008Publication date: July 24, 2008Inventors: Kyungseok Cho, Woojune Kim, Changhoon Oh
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Publication number: 20080138216Abstract: A fan motor device includes a fan base, an impeller set and a motor set. The fan base extends a central barrel with ball bearings fitting with the barrel. The impeller set further includes an impeller, a shaft, a spring, a motor case and a magnet. The motor set further includes an insulation frame, a silicone sheet set, a coil and a circuit board. The barrel has an annular deep groove between the inner circumferential side and the outer circumferential side thereof for a stop ring being attached to an inner wall surface of the groove to reinforce the outer circumferential side so as to prevent the barrel from bending deformation and the motor set from displacing eccentrically or loosening off.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2006Publication date: June 12, 2008Inventor: JIN-JING YE
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Publication number: 20080112810Abstract: A fan includes an impeller portion generating an air flow and a motor that rotates the impeller portion about a center axis. The impeller portion is attached to a yoke of a rotor portion of the motor and is rotated with the yoke. A circular portion of the impeller is attached to a bottom opening of the yoke having a cylindrical shape whose top is covered by insert molding. Therefore, the impeller and the yoke may be securely fixed to each other. In addition, an outer side surface of the yoke is exposed to outside air such that the space arranged inward from the plurality of blades may be enlarged.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2007Publication date: May 15, 2008Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki NAGAMATSU, Shoki YAMAZAKI, Shigeyuki MORIYA
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Patent number: 7371056Abstract: A fluid pump includes a case including a pump chamber, a reserve tank for storing spare liquid and located in the case but outside the pump chamber and formed so that a space independent of the pump chamber is defined by the reserve tank, a fluid path forming member arranged inside the reserve tank and including a discharge path communicating between a discharge port and the pump chamber, and a communication hole which is formed in a side of the fluid path forming member so as to assume such a position that the communication hole faces an inside of the reserve tank so that the hole communicates between the discharge path and the inside of the reserve tank, the communication hole being sized so that air in the pump chamber is allowed to flow through the hole into the reserve tank.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2005Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kenichi Ito, Katsuya Seko, Kentaro Tomioka, Tomonao Takamatsu, Fumihide Nagashima, Takahiro Kojima
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Patent number: 7367787Abstract: A pumping unit is provided with a pump that is partially disposed in a stator of an electric motor. The rotor is at an opposite end from the pump and is connected to the pump shaft to drive it for fluid flow. The pump shaft can be positioned in a central bore of the rotor and connected thereto via a meshing gear.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2004Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: Voith Turbo GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Franz Arbogast
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Patent number: 7319587Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a housing having a heat generating component, a heat radiating portion which radiates heat generated by the heat generating component, a pump unit having an impeller and a heat receiving portion thermally connected to the heat generating component, wherein the pump unit supplies liquid to the heat radiating portion by rotating the impeller, and a circulation path which circulates the liquid between the heat receiving portion and the heat radiating portion and transfers the heat generated by the heat generating component to the heat radiating portion through the liquid. The pump unit is arranged such that the center of the impeller is deviated from the center of the heat generating component.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2004Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Kentaro Tomioka
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Patent number: 7215546Abstract: The present invention provides a cooling pump, an electronic apparatus, and a cooling system in which positioning between a heat generating unit and a cooling pump can be achieved easily.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2005Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yukihiko Hata, Kentaro Tomioka
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Patent number: 7211915Abstract: A motor assembly comprises a plurality of redundant bearings, a plurality of coaxial support elements, with at least one of the support elements rotatable about an axis of rotation, and an armature rotatably guided by the plurality of support elements to rotate about the axis of rotation. The bearings provide redundancy to continue armature rotation in the event one bearing fails.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2003Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Clint Edward Conrady, Ronald Paul Dean
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Patent number: 7209355Abstract: A cooling device for cooling a heat-generating component includes a circulating passage arranged to have coolant circulate therein, a centrifugal pump including a first case made of metallic material, a second case made of resin material, and an impeller accommodated in the pump chamber, and a radiator provided at the circulating passage and being operable to release heat from the coolant. The first case has a surface arranged to contact the heat-generating component. The second case forms a pump chamber between the first case and the second case. The pump chamber stores the coolant therein. The impeller includes open-type vanes arranged to pressurize the coolant as to have the coolant flow through the circulating passage. The cooling device has a high cooling efficiency as well as a high operating efficiency of the motor while having a simple construction and a small overall size and a small thickness.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2004Date of Patent: April 24, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinya Koga, Toshihiko Matsuda, Kyo Niwatsukino, Toshisuke Sakai, Toshiyuki Kubota, Masashi Hirose, Shigeru Narakino, Yoshimitsu Aizono, Kazuyuki Kasahara
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Patent number: 7132772Abstract: The cooling air introducing port 24 is open to a lower portion of an axial direction end portion of the motor housing member 11, 12, the water-proof cover 25 for covering the cooling air introducing port 24 is attached to the outside of the axial direction end portion of the housing member 11, 12, and the air introducing passage 26 having a labyrinth structure is composed of the bent portion 25d provided in a lower end portion of the water-proof cover 25, the first wall face 21d provided in the annular portion 21b of the shroud and the second wall face 21e.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2005Date of Patent: November 7, 2006Assignees: DENSO Corporation, Asmo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Shinichi Oda, Kenji Kumaki, Toshihiro Tanino, Shinya Suzuki
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Patent number: 7070398Abstract: A blood pump has an impeller rotatably disposed and magnetically suspended within a cavity of a stator by a plurality of magnetic bearings including an axial bearing to support the impeller axially in the cavity. The axial bearing includes adjacent impeller magnets and adjacent stator magnets with axially aligned polarities and reverse polarities with respect to adjacent magnets. A motor includes impeller magnets on the impeller and coils and poles associated with the stator. Radial permanent magnet and electromagnetic bearings are also included. The magnetic bearings and the motor have stator magnets or coils and poles disposed radially across the fluid passage from corresponding impeller magnets to define an annular gap positioned radially between the impeller and the stator, and positioned radially between all of the plurality of magnetic bearings, creating a straight through blood path without secondary flow paths.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2004Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Assignee: Medforte Research FoundationInventors: Don B. Olsen, Paul E. Allaire, Houston G. Wood, Ronald Kipp, Wei Jiang, Zongli Lin, Guoxin Li
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Patent number: 6999840Abstract: A vacuum pump (10) includes a control device (20) for processing operational data and operational instructions. Further, the vacuum pump (10) includes a touch screen (40) serving as display for displaying the operational data callable from the control device (20) and as input for inputting operational instructions into the control device (20). The touch screen (40) includes a display panel (42) and a key panel (44) as display and the input, respectively, and is connected with the control device (20) via a data line (36). By combining the display and the input in a single device, namely the touch screen, the trouble for display and data input is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2002Date of Patent: February 14, 2006Assignee: Leybold Vakuum GmbHInventors: Jürgen Brezina, Hermann Boy, Christian Beyer
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Patent number: 6866488Abstract: A molecular drag vacuum pump for pumping a gas from an inlet to an outlet includes a high-speed spinning disk disposed within a housing. Gas flows through passageways in the housing adjacent the disk, where it comes into contact with surfaces of the spinning disk. Conformable wipers direct the gas to successive stages adjacent the disk. The pump can be powered by an integrated motor, comprising permanent magnets in the disk and cooperating coils in the housing. The pump can include various features, such as ridges on the wipers, seal rings, and regenerative pumping pockets, to reduce leakage and prevent backflow. The housing can have a modular configuration to allow two or more pump modules to be connected and operate in series. Successive modules may be independently or commonly powered, and may counter-rotate.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2002Date of Patent: March 15, 2005Assignee: Sarcos LCInventors: Marc Olivier, Stephen C. Jacobsen, David Knutti
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Patent number: 6846168Abstract: A pump includes an impeller, a stator, and a plurality of magnets forming bearing poles coupled to a selected one of the stator or the impeller. The pump further includes a plurality of shorted coils coupled to the other of the stator and the impeller. The plurality of bearing poles and shorted coils co-operate to form an electrodynamic bearing during rotation of the impeller. The electrodynamic bearing supports the impeller either axially or radially during operation of the pump. Hydrodynamic bearing surfaces are provided for generating a hydrodynamic bearing between the impeller and stator. The plurality of magnets may comprise a plurality of distinct magnetic elements or a single element comprising a plurality of distinct magnetic domains. The plurality of distinct magnetic elements or domains may be arranged to form a Halbach array.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2003Date of Patent: January 25, 2005Inventors: William D. Davis, David M. Lancisi
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Patent number: 6830440Abstract: An external rotor brushless DC motor for use in a fan, or other similar application, the motor including a stator assembly base having a base plate, a number of stator windings affixed to the stator base, and circuitry associated with the motor, wherein the base plate is disposed between the circuitry and the stator windings.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Minebea Co. Ltd.Inventor: Henry J. Riddoch
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Patent number: 6808371Abstract: An ultra-thin pump of the present invention includes a ring-shaped impeller including many vanes arranged along its outer region and a rotor magnet at its inner region, a motor stator provided in a space encircled by an inner peripheral surface of the rotor magnet of the impeller, and a pump casing that includes a suction port, a discharge port and a cylinder disposed between the motor stator and the rotor magnet and houses the impeller. The impeller is rotatably supported by the cylinder. A cooling system of the present invention includes a cooling device for cooling a heat-producing device by heat exchange using coolant, a radiator for removing heat from the coolant, and the ultra-thin pump for circulating the coolant. The ultra-thin pump is simple in structure, operates efficiently and can be manufactured at low cost, and the cooling system is thin in structure and performs efficient cooling.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2002Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyo Niwatsukino, Yoichi Shukuri, Yoshimitsu Aizono, Shigeru Narakino
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Publication number: 20040037720Abstract: A fan with increased air flow having a casing in which an air passage hole is formed. A motor is connected to this casing and is held in the center of the air passage hole by a motor base positioned within the air passage hole. Multiple blades are rotated by the motor and covey air from the air passage hole intake port side to the exhaust port side. The annular outer wall of the fan is inclined with respect to the center axis towards the air passage hole exhaust port. By this means, a fan is capable of attaining a greater airflow volume than conventional fans, while having the same outward shape as a conventional fan.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2003Publication date: February 26, 2004Applicant: Minebea Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shuichi Otsuka, Jinko Ikeda
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Publication number: 20030231968Abstract: A fan includes a blade assembly rotatably supported in a frame. The blade assembly includes a cylinder having an outer surface to which blades are mounted and an inner surface to which magnets are mounted. The blade assembly has an axle concentric with the cylinder. The frame includes a casing made of silicone steel that is fixed inside the frame and supports a bearing device. The bearing device defines a central bore rotatably receiving the axle of the blade assembly therein with the cylinder of the blade assembly fit over and spaced from the casing. Windings of conductive wires are encased and fixed in the casing and surround the bearing device for being electrically powered to generate a magnetic field that interacts with the magnetic means of the blade assembly to rotate the blade assembly. The casing includes opposite upper and lower disks with tabs extending between the upper and lower disks.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2002Publication date: December 18, 2003Inventor: Hsin Yuan Hsieh
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Patent number: 6644938Abstract: The present invention provides a turbo molecular pump capable of suppressing temperature rise in an electronic circuit section within a range, without losing airtight property thereof with a simple construction. In a base section of a turbo molecular pump, a bottom portion thereof is sealed by a bottom cover. A semiconductor device is disposed at the inner portion of the bottom cover. A cooling member is provided, which is used for releasing heat of the semiconductor device in an airtight state outside the bottom cover.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2002Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.Inventor: Hideki Omori
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Patent number: 6641378Abstract: A pump includes an impeller, a stator, and a plurality of permanent magnets forming bearing poles coupled to a selected one of the stator or the impeller. The pump further includes a plurality of shorted coils coupled to the other of the stator and the impeller. The plurality of bearing poles and shorted coils co-operate to form an electrodynamic bearing during rotation of the impeller. The electrodynamic bearing supports the impeller either axially or radially during operation of the pump. Currents induced into each coil by a single bearing pole or by a plurality of bearing poles substantially simultaneously produce an electrodynamically generated magnetic field that repels the inducing bearing pole(s) when the impeller is rotating.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2001Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Inventors: William D. Davis, David M. Lancisi
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Publication number: 20030180162Abstract: The vacuum pump (10) comprises a stator (14) in which a rotor (12) with radial magnetic bearings (16,19) and with an axial magnetic bearing (40) is mounted in a contactless manner. The axial magnetic bearing (40) produces an axial magnetic field by means of a magnet coil (40) with a yoke iron (44) on the stator (14). An axially magnetized permanent magnet (50) is provided on the rotor (12), located approximately axially opposite the yoke iron (44). A permanently axially magnetized compensating magnet (54) is provided on the stator (14) and arranged axially opposite the permanent magnet of the rotor (50) and polarized in the opposite direction, whereby the permanent magnet (50) of the rotor and the compensating magnet (54) repel each other. In a centre position, the rotor is bias-free by compensating the forces of attraction between the permanent magnet of the rotor and the yoke iron. As a result, the centre position of the rotor can be adjusted with relatively small magnet coil flows.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2003Publication date: September 25, 2003Inventors: Christian Beyer, Heinrich Englander, Josef Hodapp
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Publication number: 20030175131Abstract: A heater 29 is mounted on the outer peripheral surface of a base 6 to heat the base 6. A heat shutoff wall 24b is provided on a motor housing 24 to prevent the radiation heat of the base 6 heated by the heater 29 from transferring to a pump inside substrate 25. A gap portion 27 is formed by providing a gap between the motor housing 24 and the base 6 to prevent the heat of the base 6 heated by the heater 29 from transferring to the motor housing 24. Also, a water cooled tube 28 is installed under the motor housing fixing portion 24c and cooling water is circulated in the tube to efficiently cool the pump inside substrate 25. By constructing a vacuum pump in this manner, the accumulation of solid product of process gas in the vacuum pump is restrained, and thus the pump inside substrate can be cooled efficiently.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2003Publication date: September 18, 2003Inventor: Takaharu Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20030175132Abstract: A heater 29 is mounted on the outer peripheral surface of a base 6 to heat the base 6. By heating the base 6, the interior of a gas discharge path for process gas is kept at a high temperature, and hence the precipitation of solid product in the pump is restrained. Also, a pump inside substrate 25 in which various types of information on a vacuum pump are stored is arranged on the inside of a back cover 26. A water cooled tube 30 is installed on the back cover 26 on which the pump inside substrate 25 is arranged, whereby the back cover 26 is cooled forcedly. Further, a heat insulating material 27 with low heat conductivity is arranged in a connecting portion 27a and a contacting portion 27b between the back cover 26 and the base 6. By constructing the vacuum pump in this manner, the pump inside substrate 25 can be cooled efficiently while the gas discharge path for process gas in the vacuum pump is kept at a higher temperature than before.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2003Publication date: September 18, 2003Inventor: Takaharu Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20030175115Abstract: A vacuum pump has a cylindrical base member including a groove spacing between the inner and outer peripheries thereof. Accordingly, when the rotor is broken and part of the rotor collides with the inner peripheral portion of the base member during the operation of the vacuum pump, a thicker part of the base member arranged more inside than the groove spacing in the pump case becomes plastically depressed toward the groove spacing by the impact to absorb the rotational collision energy of the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2003Publication date: September 18, 2003Inventors: Satoshi Okudera, Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi
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Patent number: 6585498Abstract: A motor-pump unit including an electric motor and a pump. The pump is concentrically surrounded by the rotor/stator of the motor. The rotor of the electric motor is U-shaped, viewed in an axial section. The cross-piece of the “U”, in the region of the common axis, is provided with an interior toothing. The shaft of the pump includes a pinion that meshes with the interior toothing of the cross-piece of the “U”.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2002Date of Patent: July 1, 2003Assignee: Voith Turbo GmbH & Co KGInventors: Franz Arbogast, Gerd Hundt, Thomas Neubert
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Patent number: 6575713Abstract: There is provided a vacuum pump which suppresses the propagation of vibrations to an external container without the use of a damper. The vacuum pump has an outer cylindrical portion, a rotor portion and a stator portion accommodated within the outer cylindrical portion to define a transferring portion for a gas sucked from an inlet port, a magnetic bearing for supporting the rotor portion with respect to the stator portion, a motor for rotating the rotor portion with respect to the stator portion, and a base for supporting the outer cylindrical portion and the stator portion. A vibration absorbing member is interposed between the stator portion and the base, which has a natural frequency F=(f1+f3)/2±(f1−f3)/4, provided that f1, f2 and f3 respectively denote a natural frequency of nutation in conical mode, a natural frequency in parallel mode and a natural frequency of procession in the conical mode, when the rotor portion is rotated at a rated speed.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2000Date of Patent: June 10, 2003Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.Inventors: Yoshinobu Ohtachi, Hirotaka Namiki, Akira Yamauchi
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Publication number: 20020166520Abstract: The invention relates to a pump for fluid media, more particularly to a cooling water pump for internal combustion engines with an electric motor configured as a disk armature for actuating the pump, said electric motor being directly connected to an impeller (6) of the pump. A simple structure and high operational reliability are achieved in that a driving flange (18) projects radially outward on the outer circumference of the pump's impeller, magnets (19) or windings (20) being molded therein for the contactless drive of the impeller (6).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2002Publication date: November 14, 2002Inventors: Markus Heim, Herbert Gosweiner
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Publication number: 20020159899Abstract: The present invention provides a vacuum pump having a small possibility of causing a damage of a rotor, excellent in working efficiency of the balancing of the rotor, and capable of keeping the balance during a long period of time. A ring shape groove is formed at a lower portion side internal surface of a rotor along the circumferential direction of the rotor. A weight for catching the balance of the rotor is fitted in and attached to the ring shape groove. Accordingly, there is no change of the section and no notch in the circumferential direction of the outer circumference of the rotor so that the stress concentration or the like is not caused and the maximum stress of the rotor is reduced, whereby the damage of the rotor is not easily caused.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2002Publication date: October 31, 2002Inventor: Yoshihiro Yamashita
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Patent number: 6454547Abstract: A delivery unit which is provided for feeding motor-vehicle fuel has an electric motor (1) with vanes (1) arranged on the lateral surface of a rotor (4). During rotation of the rotor (4), the vanes (11) feed the fuel in a pump channel (19) between the rotor (4) and a stator (3). The delivery unit is thus constructed in a particularly compact manner and is cost-effective to produce.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2000Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AGInventors: Helmut Kohlhaas, Dieter Wilhelm