Adjustable Working Member Patents (Class 418/109)
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Patent number: 8834140Abstract: A media delivery assembly in which a defined compensating pressure is established at the backs of included axially adjustable rotors and a control valve is provided for establishing the compensating pressure at a predetermined value between a pressure on the pressure side and a pressure on the suction side.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2010Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Cor Pumps + Compressors AGInventors: Felix Arnold, Dieter Amesoeder, Marian Kacmar, Oliver Laforsch
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Publication number: 20140134035Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward a system including a trochoidal rotary device. The trochoidal rotary device includes a housing comprising an inner surface, a rotor having at least one bearing recess, a shaft eccentrically mounted to the rotor, wherein the shaft and the rotor are integrated with one another, and at least one bearing disposed between the bearing recess of the rotor and the inner surface of the hollow housing, wherein at least one of the inner surface of the hollow housing, the bearing recess of the rotor, and the at least one bearing comprise a bearing interface comprises a surface treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Omar M. Kabir, Mark Andrew Patterson, Ronald Wayne Webb
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Patent number: 8360760Abstract: A rotary apparatus is described having: a vane; a rotor comprising a center, the rotor configured to carry the vane; and a housing, the rotor operatively mounted within the housing. The vane includes: a central vane axis extending longitudinally through the vane along a y-axis, the y-axis comprising a line from the center of the rotor to the housing, and a vane end intersecting the y-axis, the vane end proximate an inner surface of said housing. The vane end of the vane further includes a vane extension protruded radially outward from about the vane end along an x-axis about perpendicular to the y-axis, the vane extension comprising at least one aperture therethrough. During operation of the rotary apparatus, fuel flows through the aperture reducing pressure between a portion of the vane extension and the housing, which facilitates vane sealing to the housing and improves efficiency by reducing engine chatter.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2011Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Inventor: Merton W. Pekrul
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Patent number: 7845921Abstract: The invention is to reduce flutter and wear and improve the serviceability and wear life of tip seals for roots blower and screw type compressor superchargers where used for improved supercharger output and efficiency. As the seals travel over the outlet opening, the seals move outward in their slots, leading to flutter which may shorten their useful lives. As each seal reaches the center of the outlet opening, it is forced back into its groove by engaging a valley of the mating rotor with the likelihood of increased wear. The invention provides longitudinally spaced support bars extending laterally across the opening in the directions of rotation of the rotors. The support bars have inner surfaces machined with the associated rotor cavity bores and thus smoothly support the seals as they ride over the support surfaces. The support reduces the flexing of the seals and the resultant wear.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2008Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.Inventor: Gregory P. Prior
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Publication number: 20100124512Abstract: A method for restoring the registry of opposed shafts that carry meshing pump teeth inside a polymer pump that contains polymer without removing polymer from within the pump, the method using an asymmetric pattern of apertures in the shaft ends and a template having a pattern of holes that matches the pattern of apertures, and dowels that closely fit the holes and apertures.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2008Publication date: May 20, 2010Inventors: David T. Moldt, James H. Everitt
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Patent number: 7717689Abstract: To provide a rotor apparatus of a pump in which pressure release in the air gap between an oil seal and an inner rotor is conducted smoothly and good durability and sealing ability of the oil seal is maintained and which has a very simple structure and allows the increase in size to be avoided. The rotor apparatus of a pump includes a drive shaft in which a plurality of arcuate circumferential surface sections centering on an axial center and a plurality of flat surface sections are disposed alternately, and an inner rotor having a mounting hole into which the drive shaft is inserted. In the mounting hole, arcuate inner peripheral sections corresponding and equal in number to the arcuate circumferential surface sections and flat surface inner peripheral sections corresponding and equal in number to the flat surface sections are formed alternately.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2006Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Yamada Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chikashi Sato, Masahiro Kasahara
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Patent number: 7686599Abstract: A scroll compressor has a device which may be actuated to limit the orbit radius of the orbiting scroll. The device is moveable between an unactuated position at which it is spaced from a hub for the scroll compressor, and an actuated position at which it limits the orbit radius of the hub. The device may be actuated when reduced capacity is desired.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2007Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Scroll TechnologiesInventors: John S. Vondenstein, Edward A. Tomayko
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Patent number: 7572117Abstract: A crankshaft and an mounting hole have two main circular arc parts on the same circle; and two connecting parts for connecting the adjacent main circular arc parts, and have a cross-sectional shape in which the connecting parts facing each other are substantially parallel. The connecting parts of the mounting hole are formed in the shape of a large circular arc which projects inward. The torque of the crankshaft is transmitted to the mounting hole in a state where the connecting parts of the crankshaft and the connecting parts of the mounting hole which are formed in the shape of a large circular arc come into line contact with each other; therefore, the value of any local stress generated in the mounting hole can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2005Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials PMG CorporationInventor: Katsuaki Hosono
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Patent number: 7500837Abstract: A small size gear pump having a disc-shaped case, inside which a flat cylindrical motor rotor chamber, a bearing chamber and a flat cylindrical gear chamber are arranged eccentrically from the bearing chamber and the rotor chamber, which are piled sequentially along an axial direction and are communicating to each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2004Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignees: Fukui Prefecture, Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyInventors: Naoki Miyagi, Fujio Yamamoto, Yuichi Murai, Koji Miyazaki, Futoshi Matsui, Yuji Aoyagi
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Publication number: 20080240960Abstract: A pump assembly including a gerotor pump having an inlet and an outlet, and comprising an annulus and a lobed rotor, one, but not both, of the rotor or annulus being split axially into two parts, the pump further comprising indexing means for angularly shifting one part relative to the other part, the indexing means comprising a chamber having a first indexing port and a second indexing port, and a partition which divides the chamber into a first portion including the first indexing port and a second portion including the second indexing port, wherein the partition comprises a part which is pivotally mounted within the chamber for angular movement within the chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Inventors: Stephen Hodge, Andrew Best, Robin Child
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Patent number: 7390181Abstract: A rotary piston machine has a driving part which is driven by an electric motor and a driven part which are geared together and engage one another for the delivery of a medium, the driven part being put under load in the direction of the driving part and the driven part being disposed on a bearing bushing at an appropriate angle to the driven part.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2004Date of Patent: June 24, 2008Assignee: COR pumps + compressors AGInventor: Felix Arnold
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Publication number: 20080145259Abstract: An oil pump including a first housing having a rotation shaft insertion hole, a cam ring, a pump element, a rotation shaft rotatably extending through the rotation shaft insertion hole, a second housing disposed on the cam ring, wherein the cam ring is placed in a position relative to the rotation shaft insertion hole of the first housing by using a jig, and the cam ring includes a clamped portion that is clamped by a cam ring holding device, while the first housing and the second housing are fixed to each other after placing the cam ring in the position relative to the rotation shaft insertion hole by using the jig. Alternatively, the oil pump including a fixing means for fixing the cam ring to the pump body instead of the clamped portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2007Publication date: June 19, 2008Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhito NAKAKUKI, Kaname Kidokoro, Tetsuo Abe, Toshimitsu Sakaki, Mitsuo Sasaki, Masakazu Kurata
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Patent number: 7275920Abstract: A rotary piston machine, with a driving part and a driven part, which are geared together, is proposed, for which these parts 17 and 18 run on a common stationary main axle 8.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2004Date of Patent: October 2, 2007Assignee: Cor Pumps + Compressors AGInventor: Felix Arnold
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Patent number: 7144224Abstract: A variable capacity rotary compressor is designed to prevent eccentric bushes from slipping during a compression operation, and thereby prevent noise from being generated and increase durability. The variable capacity rotary compressor includes a housing to define first and second compression chambers having different capacities therein. First and second eccentric cams are mounted to a rotating shaft to be placed in the first and second compression chambers, respectively. First and second eccentric bushes are rotatably fitted over the first and second eccentric cams, respectively. First and second rollers are rotatably fitted over the first and second eccentric bushes, respectively. First and second vanes partition the first and second compression chambers, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2004Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gyu Woo Kim, Jun Young Lee, Dong Lyoul Shin, Seung Kap Lee, Cheol Woo Kim, Valery Krasnoslobodtsev
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Patent number: 7104764Abstract: A variable capacity rotary compressor is designed to prevent eccentric bushes from slipping during a compression operation, thus preventing noise from being generated and increasing durability. The compressor includes a housing to define two compression chambers having different capacities therein. A rotating shaft is rotated in the compression chambers. Two eccentric cams are mounted to the rotating shaft. Two eccentric bushes are rotatably fitted over the eccentric cams. Two rollers are rotatably fitted over the eccentric bushes. Two vanes are installed in the compression chambers to be reciprocated in a radial direction of the rotating shaft. A cylindrical connecting part integrally connects the eccentric bushes to each other, with a locking slot being provided around the connecting part.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2004Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: In Ju Lee, Jun Young Lee, Dong Lyoul Shin, Seung Kap Lee, Cheol Woo Kim, Valery Krasnoslobodtsev
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Patent number: 7052257Abstract: The invention relates to an internal gear pump for delivering fuel in an internal combustion engine, with an internally toothed annular gear and an externally toothed pinion that cooperates with the annular gear to produce a pumping action. In order to increase both the delivery capacity at starting speed and the service life of the internal gear pump, the pinion is supported on a supporting stub in a radially mobile fashion, eccentric to the annular gear. In addition, a device is provided to compensate for the radial play between the pinion and the annular gear. The drive is transmitted by a spring-loaded Oldham coupling, which adjusts the axial play of the pump according to the invention.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2002Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Stanislaw Bodzak
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Patent number: 7052258Abstract: To reduce noise caused by pulsation generated when fluid is expelled, in a trochoidal pump comprising an inner rotor and outer rotor having trochoidal toothed shapes. [Means of Solution] The inner rotor 5 and outer rotor 6 having trochoidal toothed shapes are set in such a manner that when they are in a mutually intermeshing state, a tip clearance d0 is created between the respective tooth crests 5a of the inner rotor 5 and the outer rotor 6. In at least one position of this group of tip clearances d0, a large clearance d1 forming a large interval is provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2003Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignee: Yamada Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaru Amano, Kenichi Fujiki, Yasunori Ono
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Patent number: 6676394Abstract: The invention relates to an internal-gear pump for pumping fuel in an internal combustion engine, having an internal-toothed annular gear and an external-toothed pinion that cooperates with the annular gear to generate a pumping action. To increase the pump capacity at starting rpm and to lengthen the service life of the internal-gear pump, the pinion is supported radially movably, eccentrically to the annular gear, on a bearing journal. Moreover, a device is provided in order to compensate for the radial play (R) between the pinion and the annular gear.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2002Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Stanislaw Bodzak
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Patent number: 6568930Abstract: An internal gear pump has a housing, a toothed ring provided with inner teeth, a bearing ring supporting the toothed ring in the housing rotatably about a rotary axis, a toothed gear provided with outer teeth and engaging with the toothed ring, the toothed gear being rotatable in the housing about a rotary axis, the toothed gear or the toothed ring being rotatably driven, the rotary axis of the toothed ring being offset relative to the rotary axis of the toothed gear, and an adjusting device associated with the bearing ring for moving the bearing ring in a radial direction relative to the rotary axis of the toothed ring in the housing for an adjustment and for blocking it in an adjusted position.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2001Date of Patent: May 27, 2003Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Matthias Schmidl, Bernhard Rettenbacher
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Patent number: 6481991Abstract: Two inner gears are overlapped with each other through a partition wall and are eccentrically arranged at an inner peripheral side of an outer gear, and eccentric directions of both the inner gears are shifted from each other by 180° to the opposite side. By this, loads in an outer diameter direction due to a rise in fuel pressure affect one outer gear from the two inner gears oppositely to each other by 180°, so that an eccentric load is not generated, and sliding resistance of the outer gear to a cylindrical casing becomes small. Further, the number of teeth of the outer gear is made odd, and the number of teeth of the inner gears is made even.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2001Date of Patent: November 19, 2002Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Masatoshi Takagi, Motoya Ito, Katsuhiko Kusagaya
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Publication number: 20010026767Abstract: Two inner gears are overlapped with each other through a partition wall and are eccentrically arranged at an inner peripheral side of an outer gear, and eccentric directions of both the inner gears are shifted from each other by 180° to the opposite side. By this, loads in an outer diameter direction due to a rise in fuel pressure affect one outer gear from the two inner gears oppositely to each other by 180°, so that an eccentric load is not generated, and sliding resistance of the outer gear to a cylindrical casing becomes small. Further, the number of teeth of the outer gear is made odd, and the number of teeth of the inner gears is made even.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2001Publication date: October 4, 2001Inventors: Masatoshi Takagi, Motoya Ito, Katsuhiko Kusagaya
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Patent number: 6142758Abstract: A rotary positive displacement engine includes one or more power rotors, which are acted upon by a pressurized charge of gas, such as steam, and an annular barrier rotor geared for synchronous rotation with the power rotors. The rotors rotate within intersecting cylindrical bores in the engine housing. The power rotors have cylindrical outer surfaces from which opposed vanes extend which are acted upon by the powering charge. The barrier rotor has an outer cylindrical surface, located in close proximity to the cylindrical surface of the power rotors, and ports for delivering the powering charge to the power rotors. The barrier rotor thus forms both a charge delivery mechanism and a barrier between the exhaust ports and the expanding gas powering the engine. Located within the barrier rotor is a stator which has ports in fluid communication with the ports in the barrier rotor when the respective ports are aligned.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1999Date of Patent: November 7, 2000Assignee: Henry Engine CompanyInventor: Michael Blake Taggett
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Patent number: 6139290Abstract: Methods of sealing a planetary rotor engine, and the resulting seals, are described which improve the engine's efficiency and solves each of three main problem areas. A first method and resulting dynamic seal for sealing the rotor face surfaces as they translate across one another to constantly reform the contact between each other includes the key step of moving the shaft centerlines of each of the rotors, thereby radially positioning the rotors along diametric axes at positions which compensate for varying thermodynamic conditions (e.g. thermal expansion or contraction of rotor materials). A second method and resulting dynamic seal for effectively minimizing leakage between the end space formed between the rotor end and the case includes the key step of introducing a surface depression of any shape on one, or both, of the rotor end and opposing casing, thereby eliminating the need for a frictional seal and, in essence, forming a pressure wave plug.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1998Date of Patent: October 31, 2000Inventor: Frederick Masterson
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Patent number: 6126423Abstract: Rotary fluid compressor comprises a stator housing and a crankshaft rotatable about an axis of rotation and having a crank pin offset relative to the axis of rotation. A rotor is disposed by a bearing assembly on the crank pin for orbiting motion about the axis of rotation in the stator housing. An annular spring is assembled between the bearing assembly and either the rotor or the crank pin with the spring radially compressed to an extent to provide a controlled spring preload that, in combination with a controlled spring rate, maintains radial sealing force between the rotor and the stator housing between preselected minimum and maximum design values.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 1998Date of Patent: October 3, 2000Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Mark Freeland
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Patent number: 6074189Abstract: A filling member-less internal-gear unit has a casing with a bearing ring which is accommodated movably in a bore in the casing transversely with respect to its axis but non-rotatably. An internally toothed annular gear is rotatably mounted in the bearing ring and meshes with a pinion rotatably mounted in the casing. The bearing ring is pivotable relative to the bore in the casing about a pivot axis parallel to its axis. The pivot axis is so disposed that the ring portion of the bearing ring, which is associated with the engagement-free annular gear region, is moved at least approximately radially towards the pinion axis by the hydraulic pressure forces acting on the annular gear in the pressure chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1997Date of Patent: June 13, 2000Inventor: Otto Eckerle
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Patent number: 6027322Abstract: A rotor adjusting apparatus for adjusting flank clearance between the lands of meshing first and second rotors in a positive displacement screw machine is disclosed which includes a base configured to mount proximate an end of the meshing first and second rotors in the screw machine. A locking mechanism is supported by the base and operatively configured for locking the first rotor shaft in a fixed position relative to the base. An adjusting bar is configured to attach to the second rotor shaft for rotational adjustment thereof in relation to the first rotor to establish clearance between the land flanks of the meshing first and second rotors. A measuring tool is adjustably mounted to the base permitting measurement of rotational adjustment of the adjusting bar. A second locking mechanism is supported by the base and operatively configured for locking the adjustment bar in a fixed position in relation to the base and, thereby, the second rotor in relation to the first rotor.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1997Date of Patent: February 22, 2000Assignee: Coltec Industries IncInventors: James T. Ferentinos, Richard W. Kirkland, Ronald N. Smith
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Patent number: 5611674Abstract: A scroll-type machine is disclosed which is particularly well suited for use as a compressor in refrigeration and air conditioning systems and incorporates a unique arrangement for modulating the capacity thereof. In one group of embodiments the capacity of the scroll-type machine is modulated by relative axial movement between the scroll members so as to form a leakage path across the wrap tips and opposed end plates. In another group of embodiments, modulation is achieved by reducing the orbital radius of one of the scroll members to thereby form a leakage path across the flank surfaces of the wraps. Both types of scroll separation may be accomplished in a time pulsed manner to thereby enable a full range of modulation with the duration of the loading and unloading periods being selected to maximize the efficiency of the overall system.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: March 18, 1997Assignee: Copeland CorporationInventors: Mark Bass, Roy J. Doepker, Jean-Luc M. Caillat, Wayne R. Warner
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Patent number: 5236318Abstract: An adjustable eccentric mechanism for an orbiting rotary compressor comprising an eccentric, disposed within an orbiting roller, pivotally engaging a crankshaft and locking means for locking the eccentric to the crankshaft in a manner permitting adjustment of the eccentricity of the roller. A method of setting the eccentricity of an orbiting roller by swinging the roller around within the cylinder chamber into contact or a specified clearance with the sidewall, then locking the roller eccentric into place.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 1991Date of Patent: August 17, 1993Assignee: Tecumseh Products CompanyInventor: Hubert Richardson, Jr.
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Patent number: 5226798Abstract: The invention proposes in gear ring pumps for reciprocating internal-combustion engines and/or automatic transmissions allowing the hollow gear to run in the hollow gear housing with a play which is large enough for the pronounced fluctuations of the radial position of the crankshaft or input shaft carrying the pinion of the gear ring pump to be taken up thereby and selecting a toothing for the pump such that the effective mounting of the hollow gear on the pinion is achieved. If a correspondingly largeplay is provided between the shaft and the pinion, the hollow gear is mounted with minimum play in the housing. The pinion is then mounted in the hollow gear.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1992Date of Patent: July 13, 1993Inventor: Siegfried A. Eisenmann
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Patent number: 5152683Abstract: A dual piston rotary pump (10) having a housing (12) equipped with two ports (13a, 13b) to accommodate fluid flow through the housing (12) and having two generally cylindrical chambers (14a, 14b) within which cylindrical pistons (16a, 16b) are disposed. The chambers (14a, 14b) intersect to form a passage (15) therebetween and to allow the pistons (16a, 16b) to engage in tangential contact. Each piston (16a, 16b) rotates within its chamber (14a, 14b) in a direction counter to the direction of the other piston while maintaining tangential contact with the other piston and at least one piston is in tangential contact with its chamber wall. The pump includes variable offset transmission means (52a, 50a, 48a, 54a) to change the offset of the center of the piston from the center of rotation of the piston during the course of each rotation to allow the pistons (16a, 16b) to remain in mutual tangential contact at all times.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 1991Date of Patent: October 6, 1992Inventor: Richard L. Signorelli
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Patent number: 4948352Abstract: A rotor unit comprises an inner rotor and an outer rotor having different number of teeth, with the inner and the outer rotor being mounted on eccentric shafts to be driven for rotation at different speeds. The volume efficiency is improved by producing a clearance between the external surface of the outer rotor and the inner surface of the housing so that the clearance changes from the axial center to either end so that the magnitude of the clearance is reduced during a high speed rotation when a centrifugal force is effective. Projections are formed on the opposite ends of the outer rotor to reduce the volume of a waste space which is defined between the inner and the outer rotor.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 1988Date of Patent: August 14, 1990Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koichiro Hirosawa, Makoto Shirai
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Patent number: 4927339Abstract: In a co-rotating scroll apparatus wherein one scroll is a drive scroll and the other scroll is an idler scroll, an axial pressure balancing mechanism and means for discharge pressure balancing is disclosed. The drive scroll wrap is provided with an end plate having a plurality of extension members extending thereform. The extension members extend through corresponding slots in an Oldham coupling ring to drive the idler scroll in relative orbital rotation. The extension members further extend through clearance slots in the end plate of the idler scroll to secure a compression plate and spring biasing the end plate of the idler scroll toward the drive scroll to provide improved axial compliance between the scrolls. Means for axial pressure balancing of the idler scroll shaft and the drive scroll drive shaft are disclosed. The apparatus also includes axial thrust bearings for preventing axial oscillations of the drive and idler scrolls.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1988Date of Patent: May 22, 1990Assignee: American Standard Inc.Inventors: Delmar R. Riffe, Peter A. Kotlarek, Robert E. Utter
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Patent number: 4608001Abstract: In a scroll type fluid machine wherein there are engaged stator scroll means and rotary scroll means in intermeshing relationship with each other, each having a spiral or scroll blade portion projecting in the axial direction from the lateral plate surface in such a manner that the rotary scroll means may move in solar revolving motion with respect to the stator scroll means mounted stationary on a cup-like member by the rotating motion of a main shaft, while restricting the rotating motion of the rotary scroll means by function of a rotation blocking mechanism, so that the fluid may operatively be sucked into and delivered out of the fluid machine with a differential pressure produced therein in continued variation, an improvement is accomplished in that an angular phase relationship between the rotary scroll means and the stator scroll means may be compensated properly by shifting in rotation the rotary scroll means in the direction of rotating motion thereof in accordance with the extent of initial wear geType: GrantFiled: March 18, 1985Date of Patent: August 26, 1986Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tamio Sugimoto, Yoshimitsu Fukazawa, Kunio Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 4552517Abstract: A scroll type fluid displacement apparatus, a method of assembling the apparatus, and an adjustment member for use in the assembly method are disclosed. The apparatus includes an end plate through which a hole extends, and a bore formed in an end plate of a fixed scroll. The adjustment tool is inserted through the hole and extends into the bore to adjust the offset of the scroll members.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1983Date of Patent: November 12, 1985Assignee: Sanden CorporationInventor: Shigemi Shimizu
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Patent number: 4082484Abstract: A positive fluid displacement scroll apparatus (compressor or expander) wherein the scroll members run with a small clearance between the wrap side flanks, thus essentially eliminating wearing of the wraps. When efficient radial sealing is attained, very little overall efficiency is sacrificed for the ability to construct low-cost scroll apparatus for a number of uses.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 1977Date of Patent: April 4, 1978Assignee: Arthur D. Little, Inc.Inventor: John E. McCullough