Pumping Member Position Controlled Port Patents (Class 417/490)
  • Publication number: 20040052664
    Abstract: A high-pressure fuel feed pump, wherein a pump housing is formed of an aluminum alloy, a cylinder is formed of iron base metal, the flange part of a flanged tube member is held in a contact part between the pump housing and the cylinder, the tube member is installed in the pump housing along the inner wall surface thereof. As a result, a seal surface is not corroded directly since cavitation occurs between the tip of the tube member and the pump housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Atsuji Saito, Hiroyuki Yamada, Toru Onose, Masami Abe, Hiroshi Odakura
  • Publication number: 20030228228
    Abstract: A pump priming apparatus including a housing through which fluid object material may be urged to flow, the housing including an intake portion and a pumping portion downstream from the intake portion. The apparatus further includes a piston assembly carried for reciprocation in the housing, the piston assembly and the housing being configured such that negative pressure is developed in the pumping portion of the housing as the piston assembly moves through the pumping portion of the housing toward the intake portion of the housing and such that the negative pressure is released upon the movement of the piston assembly into the intake portion of the housing, thereby causing the fluid object material in the intake portion of the housing to flow into the pumping portion of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Inventors: Claude R. Whisenant, Rodney W. Burnette
  • Patent number: 6651630
    Abstract: In order to provide a method for high volume and high pressure operation of a variable delivery type single cylinder plunger pump, the displacement of the piezoelectric element 20 is magnified by a hydraulic displacement magnifying mechanism comprising a large-diameter bellows 204, a small diameter bellows 202 and working fluid 208, and an engaging member 201 is displaced to control the time interval of opening and closing the intake valve 5. The large-diameter bellows 204 is used at all times in the state compressed in the direction of displacement transfer, thereby ensuring that the pressure of the working fluid 208 is maintained at a positive value to prevent vapor from being generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Hiraku, Kenichiro Tokuo, Yuzo Kadomukai, Kunihiko Takao, Hiroyuki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20030068243
    Abstract: A pump comprises a pump housing that defines an inlet and an outlet. Within the pump housing, there is a barrel that receives at least one reciprocating piston. A sleeve surrounds the annular outer surface of the piston and is movable. The temperature change within the pump is compensated for by comprising at least one of the sleeve and the barrel of a material with a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than the material comprising the piston. A clearance defined by an inner surface of the sleeve and the annular outer surface of the piston increases when the temperature is high and decreases when the temperature is low.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2001
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Inventor: Bryan E. Nelson
  • Publication number: 20030068244
    Abstract: A pump for a printing press includes a plunger accommodated within a main bore of a cylinder to be rotatable and reciprocatable and having a cutaway portion at its distal end, and a constant-speed motor for rotating and reciprocating the plunger. The plunger and the output shaft of the motor are radially offset relative to each other and inclined with respect to each other. The output shaft of the motor is coupled to the plunger via a transmission mechanism which includes an arm and a connection member. The arm is connected to, for example, the plunger, and the connection member is connected to, for example, the output shaft of the motor. The arm and the connection member are connected with each other at an eccentric position in such a manner that the arm and the connection member can displace relative to each other in the radial direction and can change the intersecting angle therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Applicant: Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuaki Shibuya
  • Patent number: 6517330
    Abstract: A reciprocating pump includes a chamber, a reciprocating member arranged to induct a fluid into the chamber and discharge the fluid from the chamber to a delivery side of the pump, and a piezoelectric element attached to the pump and arranged to detect pressure fluctuations on the delivery side of the pump so as to sense any abnormality in the inducting and discharging of fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Kioritz Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Hironaka, Tadashige Kondo, Kiyoshige Enomoto
  • Patent number: 6517331
    Abstract: A displacement pump includes a rotatable drive shaft; a low-pressure hydraulic fluid reservoir; at least one piston containing a piston cavity; and a drive plate connected with the drive shaft. The drive plate includes an inlet passage and a fill slot. The fill slot is fluidly connected with the low pressure hydraulic fluid reservoir via the inlet passage. The drive plate is rotatable about the drive shaft such that as the drive plate rotates, the piston cavity is intermittently fluidly connected with the fill slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis H. Gibson, Eric S. Keyster
  • Publication number: 20020159902
    Abstract: When considering the main types of commercial engines available on the market, whether two-stroke, four-stroke or rotary-type, it is found that, and this is commonplace, said engines are highly polluting. The main reason for this lies in the difficulty to manufacture worn gas filters which would not induce restriction However, that difficulty can be overcome by producing an engine which is itself capable of sustaining a high rate of restriction. The technical solutions disclosed by the invention present several embodiments enabling the engine to tolerate a higher level of restriction and consequently a more dense filtering. These various technical embodiments provide for a novel path for fresh gases through the engine. The invention provides a solution, which is not primarily concerned with fresh gas supply but rather with waste gas absorption, followed by their subsequent evacuation constituting the first stroke of said engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventor: Normand Beaudoin
  • Patent number: 6461117
    Abstract: A fluid pump is provided that produces an outflow of fluid that is not proportional to the speed of the input drive. Thus, the fluid pump can be tuned to provide a substantially constant outflow of fluid irrespective of the speed of the input drive. The fluid pump also provides fluid outflow when the rotational direction of the input drive is reversed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, L.L.C.
    Inventor: James A. Thomas
  • Publication number: 20020114717
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes cap members for capping ejection outlets of an ejection portions for ejecting liquid to a recording material; pump means including suction inlets in fluid communication within the cap members; discharging outlets for discharging the liquid; cylinder means including a plurality of cylinders having the suction inlets and the discharging outlets, respectively; a seal member for dividing inner space in the cylinder means into the cylinders; and a plurality of pistons reciprocable in the spaces in contact with the inner surfaces of the cylinders to produce pressure change in the inner spaces; wherein in each of the cylinders, the suction inlet is disposed more away from seal member than the discharging outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Noboru Shimoyama
  • Patent number: 6398513
    Abstract: A fluid dispense system having a computer control system that operatively controls a stepper motor driving a nutating pump. The stepper motor actuates the nutating pump piston through partial revolutions. The computer control system determines the number of stepper motor steps required to pump a desired amount of fluid by the nutating pump by rotating the piston through segments which are less than a full revolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignees: Fluid Management, Inc., MicroPump, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Amsler, Tim Hogan, Margaret M. Lowan, James Martin, William A. Miller, Susan G. McDermott, Jeffrey G. Barton, Charles F. Carr
  • Patent number: 6394772
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a pump which comprises a body having an outlet recess and an oil inlet and an outlet, and an eccentric run by a motor, the eccentric moving by means of an arm an extrusion piston equipped with a closing clip, the extrusion piston compressing by means of oil a suspended piston having inside it a spring bushing and a spring pin which surrounds the spring pressing towards an end flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Inventor: Bent Johan Larsen
  • Patent number: 6354820
    Abstract: For the purpose of providing a thin pump designed to decrease the number of parts, the pump is provided with a rectangular parallelepiped cylinder (3) and a piston located inside of the cylinder, wherein the piston (4) reciprocates and oscillates in the cylinder (3) to vary capacity of the pump chamber (12) and to make the intake port (5) and the outlet port (6) open alternately, so that fluid is sucked from the intake port (5) into the pump chamber (12), compressed and discharged from the outlet port (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Inventor: Jun Iijima
  • Patent number: 6336443
    Abstract: An injection pump for generating high fuel pressure in fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines, having a pump piston, which reciprocates in a cylinder having a control bore in order to aspirate fuel from a suction chamber into a high-pressure chamber and act upon the fuel with high pressure. The supply onset of the injection pump is defined by when an upper control edge, which is embodied on the pump piston and is oriented toward the high-pressure chamber passes the control bore, and the end of supply by the injection pump is defined by when a lower control edge, which is embodied on the pump piston and is remote from the high-pressure chamber, passes the control bore. The invention sets forth an injection pump in which the supply onset can be set freely for two different operating modes of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Jaroslaw Hlousek
  • Patent number: 6332761
    Abstract: The invention relates to a radial piston pump for high-pressure fuel delivery in fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines in a common rail injection system having a drive shaft that is supported in a pump housing. The drive shaft is eccentrically embodied or has a number of cam-like projections in the circumference direction, and a number of pistons are arranged radially in relation to the drive shaft. Each piston reciprocates a respective cylinder chamber and is moved in a reciprocating fashion in the cylinder chamber when the drive shaft rotates. A spring-preloaded check valve is assembled on the intake side and on the high pressure side, and a component that includes a through opening constitutes the respective cylinder chamber. A high-pressure delivery opening leads away from the cylinder chamber and in the sealing seat of the high pressure side check valve, opens out into a mounting opening of the component. The mounting opening contains the valve components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Guentert, Hansjoerg Frey
  • Patent number: 6299419
    Abstract: This invention provides a sealing mechanism for sealing the piston-cylinder unit of a reciprocating diaphragm pump to ensure that the piston-cylinder unit is permanently and reliably sealed while being simple to assemble. The invention further provides a piston-cylinder unit which has almost no play in the micrometer (&mgr;m) range, and which is sealed by hydrodynamically sealing a slot thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: Lang Apparatebau GmbH (Lang)
    Inventors: Herbert Hunklinger, Klaus Rutz
  • Patent number: 6171070
    Abstract: A high-pressure reciprocating pump is constructed such that a plurality of plungers connected to a driver are made to move back and forth and intake channels or discharge channels are opened and closed by valves in synchronism with movements of the plungers for transferring a fluid under high pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Hakusu Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazutoshi Mitake
  • Patent number: 6152708
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines, is proposed, with a distributor pump piston (6), which is supported in a housing bore (5) and on its jacket face, has a distributor groove (12), a filling groove (18), which is connected to a pressure relief chamber, and a pressure compensation surface (36). This filling groove constitutes a first leakage route (39) in the direction of the distributor groove (12) and constitutes a second leakage route (42) in the direction of an annular groove (20) in such a way that the pressure compensation surface, which is otherwise always closed by the inner wall of the bore (5), produces a high-pressure fuel supply by way of the first leakage route (39) in the direction of the pressure compensation surface (36) and this pressure compensation surface (36) is in turn relieved by way of the second leakage route (42) in the direction of the annular groove (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl-Friedrich Ruessler, Berhard Bonse, Wolfgang Braun, Dieter Junger, Joachim Kurz, Roland Gronenberg, Hubert Greif
  • Patent number: 6116870
    Abstract: A high pressure pump which has a working chamber, which on the one hand, is connected to a low pressure circuit via a solenoid valve and on the other hand, is connected to a high pressure reservoir via a check valve. The solenoid valve has a spring-loaded closing body, which cooperates with a valve seat and together with it, constitutes the check valve. When the magnet is without current, the check function of the closing body is switched off via a valve tappet of the solenoid valve so that even with an initial working stroke of the high pressure pump, the connection to the low pressure circuit is maintained. Only with a supply of current to the solenoid valve executed during the working stroke does the valve tappet allow the closing body to contact its valve seat, whereupon the high pressure delivery then begins. The high pressure pump is designated for use in fuel injection systems of diesel motor vehicle engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Kraemer
  • Patent number: 5951259
    Abstract: A reciprocating pump, including: a hollow tube having a first end; a hollow foot valve connected to the tube, the tube and foot valve defining a chamber, said foot valve having a first foot valve end and at least one inlet port formed at the first foot valve end; reciprocating member adapted to be movable in the chamber along a path defined by an axis; drive motor for moving the reciprocating means between a first retracted position and a second extended position; and a primer element connected to the reciprocating means, said primer element having a first dimension and a second dimension, said second dimension being equal to at least half of the first dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Company
    Inventors: Richard K. Gardner, Leo J. Schlachter
  • Patent number: 5779454
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a fuel pump comprising a housing including therein a high pressure fuel chamber, a fuel outlet valve communicating with the high pressure fuel chamber and being operable to prevent fuel inflow and to permit fuel outflow when the fuel pressure is above a predetermined level, a fuel inlet valve communicating with the high pressure chamber and being operable to prevent fuel outflow and to permit fuel inflow, and a bearing bore extending from the high pressure chamber, a rod slideably and sealingly supported in the bearing bore for movement relative to a retracted position, and structure located in the housing for displacing the rod from the retracted position and in the direction toward the high pressure fuel chamber through an initial stroke length without encountering substantial resistance and thereafter displacing the rod through a subsequent stroke length which is effective to highly pressurize the fuel in the high pressure fuel chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: FICHT GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gregory J. Binversie, Wolfgang Heimberg, Theodore J. Holterman, Christopher R. Irgens, Francis A. McGinnity, Philip D. McDowell, Richard T. Tunkieicz, Lee A. Woodward, Wolfram Hellmich
  • Patent number: 5775885
    Abstract: A hermetically sealed reciprocating refrigeration compressor has a suction gas arrangement including a suction gas plenum formed integral with a cylinder block for supplying suction gas directly to a cylinder so as to eliminate the need for external suction gas conduits. Apertures are formed about the circumference of the cylinder for receiving suction gas directly from the suction gas plenum. Pistons are provided with multiple suction gas entrances and a semi-toroidal suction valve to provide an efficient way of introducing suction gas into a compression chamber during a suction stroke of the compressor. A spherical discharge valve assembly is provided in a valve plate adjacent the compression chamber for improved flow characteristics and increased through flow area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Tecumseh Products Company
    Inventors: Nelik I. Dreiman, Russell A. Cowen
  • Patent number: 5741126
    Abstract: A valveless positive displacement pump with a closed end cylinder has fluid inlet and outlet ports adjacent to the closed end. A piston is reciprocally and rotatively driven in the cylinder. The piston is provided with crisscrossed helical slots formed thereon which communicate specifically with the inlet and outlet ports for pumping fluid through the positive displacement pump. The piston is rotated by a drive shaft connected to a motor and reciprocated by an cam actuator mechanism cooperating with the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1998
    Inventors: Stanley D. Stearns, Paul Werner
  • Patent number: 5711615
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an antifriction bearing with an external lubricant supply system, which includes a lubricant duct which extends through the outer ring or inner ring of the bearing, and which terminates in the direct vicinity of the rolling elements of the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Barmag AG
    Inventors: Albert Stitz, Wolfgang Hahmann, Franz Peter Salz
  • Patent number: 5662023
    Abstract: A lubricator pump having a replaceable cylinder piston assembly is disclosed for replacement or interchangeability with cylinders having different piston sizes. The interchangeability of the cylinder piston assembly allows for different lubricant output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: Premier Lubrication Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard L. Carson, Kenneth Farroni
  • Patent number: 5645406
    Abstract: A gear for motor vehicles provided with a positive-displacement pump for supplying a lubricating device and the control and activating devices of the gear. The positive-displacement pump is driven by the rotation of a drive motor and is provided with a suction throttle which adjusts the flow of lubricating oil such that a relatively constant flow is maintained over a varying range of rotational speeds of the drive motor. The invention provides the advantages that gear efficiency can be improved since high rotational speeds of the drive motor do not cause a excessive flow of lubricating oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichschafen AG
    Inventors: Gerald Rowe, Walter Kuhn, Christof Zippel, Michael Reichenmiller
  • Patent number: 5567134
    Abstract: A protruding portion is formed integrally on a lower portion of a cylinder so as to protrude from the cylinder. A seal member has a tubular shape with an end. A hole is disposed at the end. Around the hole, a lip portion made of resilient material is disposed. The seal member is mated to an outer peripheral wall of the protruding portion by press-fitting. The lip portion can thin a fuel-oil film covering an outer peripheral wall of a plunger. The amount of leakage of fuel or oil is reduced. Because the protruding portion can be formed compactly and of thick plate thickness by press-fitting the seal member into the protruding portion formed integrally with the cylinder, deformation during heat treatment of the cylinder can be reduced, and along with the, machining of a sliding hole becomes simple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1996
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 5562428
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump driven by an electric coil, the pump including a poppet valve slidable within a fuel passage in an armature structure and relative thereto in response to movement of the armature structure relative to the pump housing and through a stroke length between a first position permitting flow in a fuel passage from a low pressure fuel chamber to a high pressure fuel chamber, and a second position preventing fuel flow between the high and low pressure fuel chambers, and comprising a head portion located in the high pressure fuel chamber and including a valve surface which is spaced from the valve seat when the poppet valve is in the first position permitting fuel flow from the low pressure fuel chamber to the high pressure fuel chamber, and which is sealingly engaged with the valve seat when the poppet valve is in the second position preventing fuel flow between the high and low pressure fuel chambers, an adjustment member extending in a bore in the housing wall and being engageable with the pop
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: Outboard Marine Corporation
    Inventors: Francis V. Bailey, William R. Krueger
  • Patent number: 5556263
    Abstract: A volumetric pump and fluid control valve system for controlling the flow of fluid which comprises a housing containing an interior cavity, an elongated valve shaft is disposed inside the cavity, and an elongate drive shaft of smaller diameter than the valve shaft connected to one end of the valve shaft. The drive shaft passes through a passage formed in the housing to extend from the cavity to the exterior. A resilient sheet of material having an aperture is disposed in the housing on the exterior side of the passage and the drive shaft passes through the aperture to form a sphincter seal. The drive shaft can be used to move the valve shaft back and forth in a reciprocating motion producing positive and negative pressures causing fluid to flow or merely to stabilize the valve shaft in position. The valve shaft includes two flanges which are spaced apart from one another. The flanges extend at least partially around the circumference of the valve shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1996
    Assignee: Sarcos Group
    Inventors: Stephen C. Jacobsen, Clark C. Davis
  • Patent number: 5538407
    Abstract: Fluid proportions system for proportioning a fluid intermittently at various places. This fluid comes from a storage point and is added by an intermittently operating pump to a proportioner, which feeds a fixed volume of fluid to an outlet more or less independently of the pressure. For returning the reciprocating piston present in the proportioner, use is made of a further fluid which is connected to the proportioner by a further inlet line. A forced return movement of the piston is thereby achieved. Proportioning of fluid is realized by the proportioning fluid itself while return movement in the proportioner of the piston is realized by the control fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: Groeneveld Transport Efficiency B.V.
    Inventor: Willem Van Der Hulst
  • Patent number: 5527164
    Abstract: A fluid valve device for on-off control of fluid flow through a passage extending between two fluid ports (12, 15) and including a valve seat (17A) comprises a hollow valve member (21) which is movable into and out of sealing engagement with the valve seat and defines a valve chamber (20). The valve chamber (20) communicates with one of the fluid ports (15) through the valve seat (17A) and is associated with a valve member actuating device (A) which translates the pressure of the fluid received in the valve chamber (20) from an inlet (12/14) for the fluid flow into a force acting on the valve member to displace it relative to the valve seat (17A). The valve member actuating device in one embodiment includes a thrust surface (A) on the valve member (21) which is directed away from the valve seat and forms part of the wall of the valve chamber (20). A second thrust surface (C) on the valve member (21) is directed oppositely and defines a chamber (V) which is isolated from the valve chamber and the flow passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignee: Humanteknik AB
    Inventor: Stig Lundback
  • Patent number: 5522710
    Abstract: There is presented a manifold assembly for a linear pump, the assembly inding a tubular manifold for attachment to an outlet portion of the pump, the manifold having therein a central bore extending lengthwise therethrough and aligned with the pump outlet, and a widthwise water inlet extending through a wall of the manifold to the central bore. The assembly further includes a sleeve slidably disposed in the central bore and adapted to be fixed to a piston in the pump. The sleeve is moveable in the manifold central bore in accordance with movement of the piston in the pump, to effect closure and opening of the water inlet to provide water pressure adjacent the piston as the piston reaches the end of its working stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: George M. Duarte
  • Patent number: 5517973
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump includes a pump barrel (12) against (12) against which is located in sealing relationship a valve block (22). A plunger (15) is reciprocably mounted in a bore (14) in the barrel (12) and the valve block (22) contains a spill valve (26) which can spill fuel from the bore (14) during the inward movement of the plunger. An inlet port (21) is formed in the wall of the bore (14) and is uncovered by the plunger (15) during its outward movement. The inlet port communicates with a first annular space (13) defined between the pump barrel and a surrounding pump body (10). The spilled fuel flows through the spill valve into a second annular space (55) defined between the valve block and the body. The first and second annular spaces have a respective inlet and outlet and are substantially isolated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Lucas Industries Public Limited Company
    Inventors: James M. A. Askew, Gerald S. Thomas
  • Patent number: 5478213
    Abstract: A fuel injection pumping apparatus has a cam (9) actuated reciprocable plunger (13) housed in a bore (11) into which fuel flows from a fuel supply (7,14). An outlet (12) extends from a pumping chamber (13A) defined by the plunger and bore. A spill passage (19) communicates the pumping chamber with a spill valve (16) so that fuel from the pumping chamber which flows through the passage and spill valve (20) flows into a cylinder (21) containing a resiliently biased piston (17). The fuel which flows into the cylinder is returned to the pumping chamber during outward movement of the plunger and the fuel supply (14,7) ensures that the pumping chamber is completely filled with fuel. A safety valve (30,31) allows fuel to escape from the cylinder (21) in the event that the piston (17) sticks in the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1995
    Assignee: Lucas Industries Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Harris, Derek W. Tomsett
  • Patent number: 5407332
    Abstract: In a priming piston loading double acting pump for high viscosity materials, the shovel plate assembly is formed of a flexible, abrasion resistant disk or cup. The disk may be made from silicon rubber and the cup may be made from a glass filled Teflon polytetrafluoroethylene material. The clearance between the plate assembly and the intake cylinder is essentially zero to allow for a build-up of a vacuum as the plate assembly moves downwardly and out of the intake cylinder to greatly enhance the loading ability of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Assignee: Graco Inc.
    Inventors: John A. Yedinak, William A. Weikel, James M. Nelson, Eugene H. Styer
  • Patent number: 5403166
    Abstract: A drain flushing device for allowing a user to unclog a drain in either of two modes. The user is given the option to either use the device as a liquid column guide or as a pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Inventor: Ercolano Pingiotti
  • Patent number: 5358389
    Abstract: This invention relates to a vacuum pump. The pump includes a pump housing (10) having upper and lower cylindrical, partly liquid filled, compression chambers (11 and 12 respectively) which are separated from each other and in which an upper and a lower part (14, 15) of a piston (12) is movable. The piston has a passage (21) which is provided with a check valve and which provides communication between the upper and the lower chamber (11 and 12 respectively). The upper chamber communicates, via an opening (26) which is provided with a check valve, with a liquid filled de-aeration receptacle (27). The lower chamber (12), during a part of the movement of the piston, via an inlet (33), communicates with the space being evacuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1994
    Assignee: Electrolux Research & Innovation Aktiebolag
    Inventor: Anders Haegermarck
  • Patent number: 5350282
    Abstract: A pneumatic tin sucker having a sucking nozzle connected with a connecting tube connected with a lower inlet chamber of a control tube, and a compressed air tank deposited in an upper chamber of the control tube, a piston rod deposited to extend in the inlet chamber and the connecting tube, an upper piston in the inlet chamber connected with an upper end of the piston rod and a lower piston in the connecting tube connected with the lower end thereof, the upper and the lower piston being pushed up by compressed air coming from the tank through a stop valve opened by pressing a push button on the wall of the control tube so that open air together with molten tin can be sucked through the nozzle in a tin sucking chamber therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1994
    Inventor: Chi-Hung Ting
  • Patent number: 5322423
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines having a pump piston driven to reciprocate by a cam drive, guided axially in a cylinder bore of a cylinder bush in which with one face end the pump piston defines a pump work chamber. The control piston has on a jacket face an oblique control edge that cooperates with a control opening in the cylinder bore. This control opening is embodied in an oval shape for the sake of a slight prepumping effect at the injection onset and a rapid opening at the end of injection, and is disposed obliquely enough in the cylinder liner so that a longitudinal axis of the oval extends approximately parallel to the oblique control edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1994
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Heck, Josef Guentert
  • Patent number: 5316454
    Abstract: An inexpensive, efficient pump which can supply lubricating oil uses the revolving motion of an orbiting scroll 2. The pump is so constructed that a piston supported by a fixing member 1 is fitted in a cylinder chamber 102 formed in the inner surface of the end plate 21 of an orbiting scroll 2 which revolves while sliding on the fixing member, by which a pump chamber 104 is defined between them. The piston 101 is extended or retracted depending on the revolving motion of orbiting scroll 2, the volume of the pump chamber 104 is increased or decreased, and a fluid suction port 105 and a fluid discharge port 106 are connected to the pump chamber 104 at predetermined time intervals to supply the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Fujitani, Yukio Nagato, Kimiharu Takeda, Katsumi Hirooka, Tetsuzo Ukai, Toshiyuki Shikanai
  • Patent number: 5299919
    Abstract: A high pressure fuel injector system including a high pressure fuel pump useable with a pressure booster, a pressure stabilizer with a high speed tandem actuated distributor and a fuel having a fuel injector with high pressure fuel admisstion passages and low pressure fuel return passages with a needle valve hydraulically operated by high pressure fuel from the high pressure fuel admission passage by a distributor valve which selectively directs a hydraulic pressure fuel against one side or the other of a piston body forming part of the needle valve whereby the needle valve is urged to a position closing discharge orifices or position opening discharge orifices the distributor valve being controlled by an electronic actuator wherein the injector system is designed with unique floating valve pistons in the components, the components being useable separately or together in the integrated systems preferred for high pressure, high speed operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1994
    Inventors: Marius A. Paul, Ana Paul
  • Patent number: 5286178
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines, having a pump piston that is guided axially and rotationally movably in a cylinder bore of a cylinder liner and that with a face end defines a pump work chamber. The fuel injection pump pumps a quantity of fuel that is divided into a preinjection quantity and a main injection quantity. On a jacket face, this pump piston has known oblique grooves for the high-pressure pumping diversion process, and also a recess, which cooperates with an annular groove in the cylinder bore and with a control opening which discharges into a low-pressure chamber, and on its end face the piston has a cutout formed by two different, deep shoulders; the cutout is recessed within the annular groove continuously and cooperates with a first control opening that discharges into the low-pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1994
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Schaef
  • Patent number: 5244363
    Abstract: A low blow-by compressor has a piston with at least one first ring disposed at the top end thereof and at least one second ring disposed at the bottom end thereof. A port is formed in the cylinder such that the port is above the second rings when the piston is positioned at top dead center and the port is below the first rings when the piston is positioned at bottom dead center such that fluid which blows by the first rings tends to exit the cylinder through the port rather than to blow-by the second rings. Thus any fluid which blows by the first rings can either be exhausted or recycled through the compressor inlet. The compressor utilizes reed valves wherein a first valve plate is attached to the cylinder and a second valve plate is disposed in laminar juxtaposition to the first valve plate. A reed valve gasket assembly is disposed intermediate the first and second plates and an o-ring is disposed about the periphery of the valve reed gasket assembly to prevent fluid leakage therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Assignee: Prolong Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Olson
  • Patent number: 5201297
    Abstract: It is possible in a simple manner, especially in distributor injection pumps, to attain quiet combustion in the idling range of a Diesel engine, without modifying the basic construction of the fuel injection pump by shifting the injection pumping to the last portion of the stroke of the cam driving the pump piston of the fuel injection pump for idling, by means of an injection onset adjusting device, in combination with a determination of injection duration via the closing phase of an electrically controlled valve that relieves the pump work chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1993
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ewald Eblen, Anton Karle, Helmut Laufer, Max Straubel
  • Patent number: 5174734
    Abstract: A reciprocal plunger fuel injection pump has a plunger having an enlarged head at one end. A spring abutment is secured to the head, and has a flange for engagement by the plunger return spring and a surface engageable with the end of the plunger. A spring clip has an apertured base portion engaged beneath the head of the plunger and arms which extend at right angles to the base portion. Some of the arms are turned inwardly to define a hook portion which locate in a groove formed in the spring abutment thereby securing the abutment to the plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Assignee: Lucas Industries public limited company
    Inventors: Gerald S. Thomas, Brian L. Maxey, James M. A. Askew
  • Patent number: 5167495
    Abstract: A hydraulic pump comprises at least one reciprocating piston (2) sliding in a stationary cylinder (4), a non-return suction valve (12) arranged between a source of fluid under low pressure and a working chamber (10) defined in the cylinder (4), and a first non-return delivery valve (16) arranged between the working chamber (10) and an outlet chamber (14) for the fluid under high pressure. A conduit (24) connects the outlet chamber (14) and the working chamber (10), the piston (2) leaving this conduit (24) open at the end of the suction period and at the start of the delivery period and closing it during the rest of the cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1992
    Assignee: Bendix Europe Services Techniques
    Inventor: Pierre Lebret
  • Patent number: 5165875
    Abstract: The hydraulic pump comprises at least one reciprocating piston (2) sliding in a stationary cylinder (4). The piston (2) comprises, on the same side as the working chamber (10), a cylindrical skirt (22) which has the inside diameter of the cylinder (4) and in which is made at least one first port (18) putting the working chamber (10) in communication with the outer wall of the skirt (22). A second port (24) puts the duct (6) upstream of the valve (12) in communication with the outer wall of the piston (2). Finally, a slot (20) of a length at least equal to the distance separating the ports (18, 24) is made in the cylinder (4) so as to cause these ports (18, 24) to communicate over a specific zone of the reciprocating movement of the piston when the piston is sensibly at mid-stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1992
    Assignee: Bendix Europe Services Techniques
    Inventor: Pierre Lebret
  • Patent number: 5125807
    Abstract: A fuel injection device for diesel engines, having at least one pump plunger (4), which is sealingly guided in a plunger bushing (5) and forms, together with said plunger bushing (5), a high-pressure space (11) that is connected to a low-pressure space (13) by means of a control element during the downward motion of the fuel pump plunger, said high-pressure space (11) being placed in free flow communication with an injection valve (49) via an injection line 48. The use of a continuously open flow connection between the high-pressure space 11 and the injection valve 49 minimizes dead space thereby permitting development of high injection pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1992
    Assignee: Kloeckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kohler, Reda Rizk, Hans-Gottfried Michels
  • Patent number: 5102309
    Abstract: A high-pressure pump with a plunger reciprocating in a cylinder has a cylindrical guide surface on the plunger chamber side of the inlet/outlet port and a cylindrical guide surface on the drive side of an axial chord of 0.05 to 0.5 times the plunger diameter. This provides an advantage in that under high pump pressure the plunger emerges from the guide surface so that the plunger surface areas exposed to unilateral side forces are reduced. This prevents the plunger from canting and possibly seizing on the cylinder wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1992
    Assignee: Firma L'Orange GmbH
    Inventor: Gunther Spehr
  • Patent number: 5071324
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump includes a barrel mounted in a barrel mounting hole in a pump body. The barrel has a cylinder hole and a valve mounting hole which are coaxial with the barrel. The inner peripheral surface of the cylinder hole and the inner peripheral surface of said valve mounting hole are interconnected by an annular shoulder surface. A plunger is slidably received in the cylinder hole, and a delivery valve is mounted in the valve mounting hole. The delivery valve includes a valve seat, and a valve holder which is tightly threaded into the valve mounting hole, so that the valve seat is firmly held between the valve holder and the shoulder surface of the barrel. One end face of said valve seat is held in direct contact with the barrel shoulder surface under a high pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Assignee: Zexel Corporation
    Inventor: Masayori Ishimoto