With Filler Element (e.g., Crescent) Patents (Class 418/170)
  • Patent number: 11624365
    Abstract: A fluid delivery device has a primary pump and a main pump fluidically connected to the primary pump. The primary pump can be driven by a primary pump input shaft, the main pump can be driven by a main pump input shaft, and the primary pump input shaft and the main pump input shaft are mechanically coupled to a common drive shaft of the fluid delivery device. The primary pump is in the form of a non-compensated gear pump or a centrifugal pump and the main pump is in the form of a compensated internal gear pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: ECKERLE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Reinhard Pippes, Artur Bohr
  • Patent number: 11204031
    Abstract: A crescent internal gear pump includes a front cover, an end cover, a ring gear and a pinion gear disposed within a gear housing in an eccentric, intermeshing relationship. The housing is disposed intermediate the front cover and the end cover. A crescent is disposed radially intermediate the ring gear and the pinion gear. The crescent partially extends into a correspondingly shaped slot in the end cover. The gear housing, the ring gear, and the pinion gear can have substantially the same thickness. A shim can be disposed intermediate the end cover and the gear housing for establishing a desired clearance therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: CIRCOR PUMPS NORTH AMERICA, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Wilson Duncan, Colette Doll Greene, Philip Taylor Alexander
  • Patent number: 11067076
    Abstract: In a rotor in rotor configuration, a pump has inward projections on an outer rotor and outward projections on an inner rotor. The outer rotor is driven and the projections mesh to create variable volume chambers. The outer rotor may be driven in both directions. In each direction, the driving part (first inward projection) of the outer rotor contacts a sealing surface on one side of an outward projection of the inner rotor, while a gap is left between a sealing surface of the other side of the outward projection and a second inward projection. The gap may have uniform width along its length in the radial direction, while in a direction parallel to the rotor axis it may be discontinuous or have variable size to create flow paths for gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: GENESIS ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: James Klassen
  • Patent number: 10514032
    Abstract: A crescent internal gear pump includes a front cover, an end cover, a ring gear and a pinion gear disposed within a gear housing in an eccentric, intermeshing relationship. The housing is disposed intermediate the front cover and the end cover. A crescent is disposed radially intermediate the ring gear and the pinion gear. The crescent partially extends into a correspondingly shaped slot in the end cover. The gear housing, the ring gear, and the pinion gear can have substantially the same thickness. A shim can be disposed intermediate the end cover and the gear housing for establishing a desired clearance therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: CIRCOR PUMPS NORTH AMERICA, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Wilson Duncan, Colette Doll Greene, Philip Taylor Alexander
  • Patent number: 10072656
    Abstract: In a rotor in rotor configuration, a pump has inward projections on an outer rotor and outward projections on an inner rotor. The outer rotor is driven and the projections mesh to create variable volume chambers. The outer rotor may be driven in both directions. In each direction, the driving part (first inward projection) of the outer rotor contacts a sealing surface on one side of an outward projection of the inner rotor, while a gap is left between a sealing surface of the other side of the outward projection and a second inward projection. The gap may have uniform width along its length in the radial direction, while in a direction parallel to the rotor axis it may be discontinuous or have variable size to create flow paths for gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Genesis Advanced Technology Inc.
    Inventor: James Klassen
  • Patent number: 9856968
    Abstract: An automatic transmission device comprises a flat steel plate for placing in between an automatic transmission pump body and an automatic transmission bellhousing that supports both rotating pump gears and completely encloses said gears within pump housing, and eleven holes, the device configured so that seven holes are for pump mounting bolts, three holes are for fluid passage that directly mimic the size, shape, dimension and position of the holes in the pump body, and one center hole for pump gear operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Inventor: Thurman Tyus, II
  • Patent number: 9751512
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an internal gear pump as a hydraulic pump for a slip-controlled vehicle brake system. The disclosure proposes to configure the internal gear pump as a preassembled module with a cartridge as housing, which can be pressed into a receptacle of a hydraulic block of the vehicle brake system. The cartridge has two steps which are parallel to one another for attaching a press-in ram and for orienting the cartridge in an angularly correct manner by means of the press-in ram, and a sealing surface, with which the cartridge bears in a sealed manner in the receptacle of the hydraulic block when the cartridge is pressed into the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Speer, Rene Schepp, Edgar Kurz, Norbert Alaze
  • Patent number: 9470227
    Abstract: An internal gear pump for a slip-controlled hydraulic vehicle braking system has a pinion, an internal gear and a separating piece which is arranged between the pinion and the internal gear. The internal gear pump also has an inner part and an outer part, and separates a suction chamber from a pressure chamber. The separating piece is configured to protrude counter to a rotational direction of the internal gear pump beyond a sealing point of the inner part on the outer part such that the inner part and the outer part bear in front of the sealing point against at least one tooth tip of a tooth of the pinion and of the internal gear of the internal gear pump. As a result, tilting of the inner part and of the outer part away from the pinion and from the internal gear about the sealing point is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Massimiliano Ambrosi, Michael Eisenlauer, Rene Schepp, Edgar Kurz, Norbert Alaze
  • Patent number: 9303643
    Abstract: An internal gear pump includes a pinion and an annulus as a return pump in a hydraulic vehicle brake system. The internal gear pump further includes an axial disk and an intermediate piece. The intermediate piece is configured to be acted upon by an outlet pressure of the internal gear pump and press the axial disk against a side face of the pinion and of the annulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rene Schepp, Norbert Alaze, Edgar Kurz
  • Patent number: 9115717
    Abstract: An internal gear pump for a hydraulic vehicle brake system has axial discs which, by the exertion of pressure on the outer sides thereof, are pressed against gearwheels of the internal gear pump for lateral sealing, provided on the inner sides thereof with grooves through which the gearwheels convey brake fluid as they are driven in rotation, which brake fluid thereby passes, for lubrication, between the axial discs and the gearwheels of the internal gear pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Gaertner, Rene Schepp, Andreas Klein, Benjamin Scheibitz
  • Patent number: 9068569
    Abstract: An internal gear pump includes a separator arranged in a pump chamber of the internal gear pump. The separator divides the pump chamber into a delivery chamber and a suction chamber and is arranged so as to be radially moveable and capable of pivoting. The internal gear pump further includes a bearing ring in which a ring gear of the internal gear pump is rotatably supported such that it can pivot about a pin. A pressure prevailing in the pump chamber when the internal gear pump is in operation acts on the ring gear and the bearing ring with a torque, which acts inwardly from the pin in a circumferential direction to the suction chamber and presses tooth tips of teeth of the ring gear inwards against the separator and presses the separator inwards against tooth tips of teeth of the pinion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Speer, Norbert Alaze, Karl-Heinz Hach, Andreas Klein, Edgar Kurz
  • Patent number: 9039398
    Abstract: An internal gear pump includes a ring gear and a pinion configured to mesh with the ring gear. The ring gear and pinion delimit a pump chamber extending from a suction region to a pressure region. The internal gear pump also includes an axial disk arranged on front faces of the ring gear and the pinion and includes a lubricant feed from the suction region between the axial disk and the ring gear and pinion. The lubricant feed includes a lubricant channel which passes through the axial disk. A wedge gap is delimited between the axial disk and the ring gear and pinion. The wedge gap communicates with the suction region and, when the ring gear and the pinion are driven in rotation, a lubricating film forms between the axial disk and the ring gear and pinion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rene Schepp, Kornelius Loew
  • Patent number: 9028232
    Abstract: An internal gear pump for a slip-controlled hydraulic vehicle braking system includes a pinion, a ring gear, and a filler piece (sickle). The filler piece has an inner part extending in a curved manner in the peripheral direction and an outer part extending in a curved manner in the peripheral direction. The inner part and the outer part are interconnected in a hinged manner on the suction-sided ends. A leg spring is arranged between the inner and outer parts and is configured to separate the inner and outer parts and press against the tops of the teeth of the pinion and the tops of the teeth of the ring gear of the internal gear pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rene Schepp, Norbert Alaze
  • Patent number: 9004891
    Abstract: A pair of Northey rotors for a vacuum pump, in which each rotor comprises two opposing, substantially parallel faces, and a peripheral surface located between the opposing faces. In order to reduce damage caused by pumping a gas stream containing liquid or solid particulates, a plurality of grooves is located on the peripheral surface for accommodating the particulates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Edwards Limited
    Inventors: Neil Turner, Malcolm William Gray, Jack Raymond Tattersall
  • Publication number: 20140119973
    Abstract: An internal gear pump is a return feed pump for a hydraulic vehicle braking system. The internal gear pump includes a filling part formed by two flexible sheet metal parts connected by an axial sealing element that is vulcanized in place and, in side view, is U-shaped. The axial sealing element is configured to improve the efficiency of the internal gear pump and allows large production tolerances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rene Schepp, Norbert Alaze
  • Publication number: 20140086778
    Abstract: An internal gear pump includes a separator arranged in a pump chamber of the internal gear pump. The separator divides the pump chamber into a delivery chamber and a suction chamber and is arranged so as to be radially moveable and capable of pivoting. The internal gear pump further includes a bearing ring in which a ring gear of the internal gear pump is rotatably supported such that it can pivot about a pin. A pressure prevailing in the pump chamber when the internal gear pump is in operation acts on the ring gear and the bearing ring with a torque, which acts inwardly from the pin in a circumferential direction to the suction chamber and presses tooth tips of teeth of the ring gear inwards against the separator and presses the separator inwards against tooth tips of teeth of the pinion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Speer, Norbert Alaze, Karl-Heinz Hach, Andreas Klein, Edgar Kurz
  • Publication number: 20140030131
    Abstract: An internal gear pump for a slip-controlled hydraulic vehicle braking system includes a pinion, a ring gear, and a filler piece (sickle). The filler piece has an inner part extending in a curved manner in the peripheral direction and an outer part extending in a curved manner in the peripheral direction. The inner part and the outer part are interconnected in a hinged manner on the suction-sided ends. A leg spring is arranged between the inner and outer parts and is configured to separate the inner and outer parts and press against the tops of the teeth of the pinion and the tops of the teeth of the ring gear of the internal gear pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rene Schepp, Norbert Alaze
  • Patent number: 8608465
    Abstract: Positive-displacement auxiliary pumping systems for use in pump apparatus of different configurations are disclosed. The positive-displacement auxiliary pumping systems are included in positive-displacement rotary pumps having a casing defining a pumping cavity, an inlet port connected to the pumping cavity, a discharge port connected to the pumping cavity, and a positive-displacement auxiliary pumping port connected to the pumping cavity. Pumping elements move within the pumping cavity of the casing and define a collapsing pocket that maintains fluid communication with the positive-displacement auxiliary pumping port after the collapsing pocket is no longer in fluid communication with the discharge port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Peopleflo Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: Jason M. Sexton
  • Publication number: 20130330223
    Abstract: An internal gear pump includes a ring gear and a pinion configured to mesh with the ring gear. The ring gear and pinion delimit a pump chamber extending from a suction region to a pressure region. The internal gear pump also includes an axial disk arranged on front faces of the ring gear and the pinion and includes a lubricant feed from the suction region between the axial disk and the ring gear and pinion. The lubricant feed includes a lubricant channel which passes through the axial disk. A wedge gap is delimited between the axial disk and the ring gear and pinion. The wedge gap communicates with the suction region and, when the ring gear and the pinion are driven in rotation, a lubricating film forms between the axial disk and the ring gear and pinion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rene Schepp, Kornelius Loew
  • Patent number: 8579619
    Abstract: The invention relates to an internal gear pump for a braking system, in the pump housing of which an inner toothed hollow wheel and a gearwheel engaging in the toothing of the hollow wheel are mounted to rotate about parallel axes. The toothing thereof defines a tapering roughly crescent-shaped pump chamber, in which a filling piece is arranged supported along the length thereof. The circumferential surfaces of the filling piece closely correspond to the head diameter of the inner toothing of the hollow wheel or the gearwheel toothing and contact in a sealing manner with several tooth crowns covered thereby. A radial supporting force acts over a longitudinal range of the filling piece for improved sealing of a circumferential surface of the filling piece against the tooth crowns supporting the circumferential surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rene Schepp, Norbert Alaze
  • Patent number: 8579618
    Abstract: An internal gear pump (1) is proposed for conveying a fluid by a driven pump gear wheel (3) and a ring gear (4), as a gear pair residing in an enclosure, which are, for instance, meshing and hereby generating a sealed area. Hereby, viewed cross-sectionally, a sickle shaped part (5) is provided for sealing the free space, located nearly opposite to the sealed area, whereby a first end piece (12) and a second end piece (13) of the part (5) are assigned to a high pressure area. In accordance with the invention, the two end pieces (12, 13) of the part (5) are constructed differently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Muneer Abu Samra, Gernot Riegert, Florian Steinberger
  • Patent number: 8475150
    Abstract: The invention relates to an internal gear pump for a brake system, in the pump housing of which an internally toothed ring gear and a pinion meshing with the toothing of the ring gear are pivotally supported about parallel axes. As a result the toothing thereof limits an approximately crescent-shaped tapering annular space, in which a filler piece supported toward the intake side of the pump is arranged. The circumferential sides of the filler piece are bent in accordance with the addendum circle of the ring gear toothing or of the pinion toothing. The sides rest against several tooth tips in a sealing manner under a spring force. According to the invention, one of the two circumferential sides of the filler piece is formed by a radially resilient circumferential wall, which is nestled against the tooth tips of the pinion or the ring gear due to the deflection based on the inherent spring force thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Berthold Kaeferstein, Rene Schepp, Tilman Noack, Norbert Alaze
  • Patent number: 8215932
    Abstract: A telescoping gear pump comprises a bolt, a Bellville washer, a wear plate, a seal housing, a seal spring, a spur gear including a wear lobe, a seal ring and a case drain path, a shaft, a ring gear including a wear lobe, seal ring, and a case drain path, seal, a bolt assembly including a Bellville washer and bolt, and a pressure plate. The assembly provides pressure to a fluid to maintain a seal within a telescoping pump/motor during operation. The wear lobe reduces wear while maintaining fluid pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Limo-Reid, Inc.
    Inventor: James A. O'Brien, II
  • Patent number: 8016576
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle transmission with fluid pump having a recirculation circuit. The recirculation circuit is configured to direct fluid from an outlet of the pump to an inlet during pump cycling. A method of manufacturing a fluid pump for use in a vehicle transmission is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Bradley R. Heuver
  • Patent number: 8011345
    Abstract: An energy transfer machine, for example, a positive displacement internal combustion device, has a fixed or rotating outer housing, an internal rotating carrier and one or more inner rotors with rotational axes which are offset from the inner rotor carrier rotational axis. Circumferentially expandable projections from the outer housing and rotor mesh with each other to define variable volume chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Inventors: James B. Klassen, David W. Boehm
  • Patent number: 7967586
    Abstract: The present invention enables the manufacture of a trochoid pump having a crescent which has been considered theoretically impossible, by employing an inner rotor of a trochoid pump. An inner rotor having a predetermined number N of teeth that is equal to or larger than 4 is formed in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Yamada Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Fujiki, Takatoshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7967585
    Abstract: The present invention enables the manufacture of a trochoid pump having a crescent which has been considered theoretically impossible by employing an inner rotor of a trochoid pump. An inner rotor having a predetermined number N of teeth that is equal to or larger than 4 is formed in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Yamada Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Fujiki, Masaru Amano, Keiichi Kai, Takatoshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7954470
    Abstract: An energy transfer machine, for example, a positive displacement internal combustion device, has a fixed outer housing, an internal rotating carrier and one or more inner rotors with rotational axes which are offset from the inner rotor carrier rotational axis. Projections from the fixed outer housing and rotor mesh with each other to define variable volume chambers. In another energy transfer machine, in which the outer housing may be fixed or rotating, projections of the rotor are expandable within cylinders defined by projections of the outer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Concept Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: James Klassen, David W. Boehm
  • Publication number: 20100247363
    Abstract: The invention relates to an internal gear pump for a brake system, in the pump housing of which an internally toothed ring gear and a pinion meshing with the toothing of the ring gear are pivotally supported about parallel axes. As a result the toothing thereof limits an approximately crescent-shaped tapering annular space, in which a filler piece supported toward the intake side of the pump is arranged. The circumferential sides of the filler piece are bent in accordance with the addendum circle of the ring gear toothing or of the pinion toothing. The sides rest against several tooth tips in a sealing manner under a spring force. According to the invention, one of the two circumferential sides of the filler piece is formed by a radially resilient circumferential wall, which is nestled against the tooth tips of the pinion or the ring gear due to the deflection based on the inherent spring force thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventors: Berthold Kaeferstein, Rene Schepp, Tilman Noack, Norbert Alaze
  • Publication number: 20100233005
    Abstract: The invention relates to an internal gear pump for a braking system, in the pump housing of which an inner toothed hollow wheel and a gearwheel engaging in the toothing of the hollow wheel are mounted to rotate about parallel axes. The toothing thereof defines a tapering roughly crescent-shaped pump chamber, in which a filling piece is arranged supported along the length thereof. The circumferential surfaces of the filling piece closely correspond to the head diameter of the inner toothing of the hollow wheel or the gearwheel toothing and contact in a sealing manner with several tooth crowns covered thereby. A radial supporting force acts over a longitudinal range of the filling piece for improved sealing of a circumferential surface of the filling piece against the tooth crowns supporting the circumferential surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventors: Rene Schepp, Norbert Alaze
  • Patent number: 7766634
    Abstract: A novel crescent gear pump and pump rotor set for a crescent gear pump. The rotor set includes an outer rotor with teeth having a composite profile formed over the portion adjacent their root to conform to a circular arc and formed over the portion adjacent their tip to conform to a hypocycloid arc. The unique shape allows for increased volumetric capacity of the rotor set, when compared to trochoidal rotor sets of the same size. Further, operating noise is reduced, as are pulsations in the output of the pump when compared to the same pump with a trochoidal rotor set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Magna Powertrain Inc.
    Inventors: Vasilios B. Liavas, Michal Nemec
  • Patent number: 7757816
    Abstract: A transmission has a lubricant pump which is arranged in the interior of a transmission housing and which includes a rotor rotationally fixedly connected to a transmission shaft in a pump housing, with the pump housing being rotationally fixedly connected to the transmission housing and being sealed with respect to a cylindrical sealing surface of the transmission housing, and with the lubricant pump pumping into a pressure chamber which surrounds the transmission shaft and which is sealed with respect to the transmission shaft. To achieve a good seal and centration of the pump housing, the pump housing is sealed by means of a resilient ring with respect to the cylindrical sealing surface of the transmission housing, with the ring being received by an outer peripheral groove of the pump housing with radial clearance so that the pump housing can adjust itself in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Magna Powertrain AG & Co KG
    Inventors: Andreas Bar, August Kriebernegg, Günter Weber
  • Patent number: 7625192
    Abstract: To provide an internal gear pump capable of preventing small vibrations due to pressure differences at the outlet port side of a crescent disposed between the outer rotor and the inner rotor, so that fatigue failure does not occur in the crescent over a long time period, whereby the durability can be increased. The internal gear pump includes a rotor unit, in which an inner rotor is disposed within an outer rotor on the inner peripheral side and a crescent is disposed in the gap between the inner rotor and the outer rotor, the rotor unit being housed in a pump casing. Outer cells are formed by the crescent and the outer rotor. Inner cells are formed by the crescent and the inner rotor. Linking of the outer cells and the outlet port, and linking of the inner cells 6 and the outlet port, start substantially simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Yamada Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Saito, Takatoshi Watanabe, Masaru Amano
  • Patent number: 7527577
    Abstract: The present invention relates to automatic transmissions. In particular, the instant invention relates to an automatic transmission with improved resistance to deterioration with an increased effective life. The transmission of the instant invention comprises eight pinion gears assembled into one carrier utilizing a forward and a rear sun gear, a ring gear, a band drum and a one way roller clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Inventors: Scott R. Dalenberg, Theodore V. Kachel, John W. Creighton
  • Publication number: 20090104064
    Abstract: The present invention enables the manufacture of a trochoid pump having a crescent which has been considered theoretically impossible, by employing an inner rotor of a trochoid pump. An inner rotor having a predetermined number N of teeth that is equal to or larger than 4 is formed in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: YAMADA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Fujiki, Takatoshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7503307
    Abstract: An energy transfer machine, for example, a positive displacement internal combustion device, has a fixed or rotating outer housing, an internal rotating carrier and one or more inner rotors with rotational axes which are offset from the inner rotor carrier rotational axis. Circumferentially expandable projections from the outer housing and rotor mesh with each other to define variable volume chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Inventors: James B. Klassen, David W. Boehm
  • Patent number: 7472677
    Abstract: An energy transfer machine, for example, a positive displacement internal combustion device, has a fixed outer housing, an internal rotating carrier and one or more inner rotors with rotational axes which are offset from the inner rotor carrier rotational axis. Projections from the fixed outer housing and rotor mesh with each other to define variable volume chambers. In another energy transfer machine, in which the outer housing may be fixed or rotating, projections of the rotor are expandable within cylinders defined by projections of the outer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Concept Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: James Klassen, David W. Boehm
  • Publication number: 20080187450
    Abstract: A novel crescent gear pump and pump rotor set for a crescent gear pump. The rotor set includes an outer rotor with teeth having a composite profile formed over the portion adjacent their root to conform to a circular arc and formed over the portion adjacent their tip to conform to a hypocycloid arc. The unique shape allows for increased volumetric capacity of the rotor set, when compared to trochoidal rotor sets of the same size. Further, operating noise is reduced, as are pulsations in the output of the pump when compared to the same pump with a trochoidal rotor set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventors: Vasilios B. Liavas, Michal Nemec
  • Patent number: 7185625
    Abstract: The rotary piston power system includes a housing having a drum and a cover rotatably mounted on the drum. The drum has high pressure and low pressure ports defined in its peripheral wall and a central separator wall having arcuate end faces and a pair of semicylindrical recesses defined in opposing sidewalls. A pair of pistons are rotatably mounted on axles on opposite sides of the separator wall and fit closely between the separator wall and the peripheral wall. Each piston has a plurality of radially disposed cylindrical recesses defining slots in the piston's peripheral wall. The cover has a plurality of radially disposed vanes extending into the drum defining a number of cylinders or chambers double the number of recesses defined in a single piston. An input/output shaft extends from the opposite side of the cover for coupling to a prime mover or to a load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Inventors: Shilai Guan, Yanyan Zhang
  • Patent number: 7111606
    Abstract: A device to convert energy having exterior and interior rotors where the number of legs (?) of an interior rotor divided by the number of chambers (X) defined by the fins of the outer rotor is equal to the effective radius of the inner reference circle ri divided by the effective radius of the outer reference circle ro (i.e. ?/X=ri/ro). Where the surface of the fins of the outer rotor and the toe and heel portion of the interior rotor allow for a sealed chamber for a finite amount of rotation of the inner and outer rotors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Inventor: James B. Klassen
  • Patent number: 7014436
    Abstract: A pump comprises a driving rotor and a driven rotor that are positioned in a housing such that, as the driving rotor and the driven rotor rotate, the teeth of the driving rotor and the teeth of the driven rotor mesh to form a positive displacement seal. The teeth of the driving rotor and the driven rotor are configured such that seals between the inlet side and the discharge side of the pump are formed between only the leading surfaces of the teeth of the driving rotor and the trailing surfaces of the teeth of the driven rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: M&M Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: James B. Klassen
  • Patent number: 6907855
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine including a housing, an intake port defined in the housing, an exhaust port defined in the housing, and a generally cylindrical combustion chamber defined in the housing. The combustion chamber communicates with the intake port and the exhaust port and a combustion geroter is received by and rotatable within the combustion chamber. During operation, the combustion geroter receives a fuel mixture, compresses the fuel mixture, combusts the fuel mixture, and discharges the combusted fuel mixture to the exhaust port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Harley-Davidson Motor Company Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew James Mueller
  • Publication number: 20040258549
    Abstract: A fluid delivery device, such as a geared machine or a gear pump, with a housing having at least one supply chamber and a displacement unit arranged within the supply chamber. The displacement unit serves to supply a medium to at least one pressure chamber provided within the housing. A pressure plate is arranged between the pressure chamber and the housing, and the pressure plate is uncoupled from the housing by at least one spacer element that is arranged between the pressure plate and the housing to provide a fluid delivery device that operates more quietly than conventional fluid delivery devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Applicant: LuK Lamellen und Kupplungsbau Beteiligungs KG
    Inventor: Marco Grethel
  • Patent number: 6817843
    Abstract: A pressure-relieving valve is connected to relieve air pressure from an internal diameter of a transmission pump. On startup, pressurized oil is delivered to the torque converter. At engine idle speed, the centrifugal effects on the oil cause any air (which may have leaked into the torque converter during the shut-down time) to accumulate at the center of the converter. Air pressure output from a torque converter escapes between the housing and the transmission pump to which it is connected. The escaped air reaches the internal diameter of the pump and it is prevented from blowing across the face of the pump to the suction side of the pump by a ball and check valve arrangement which delivers the air to a non-fluid internal part of a transmission, thereby avoiding the leakage of this air to the suction side of the pump and the possible loss of pump prime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Maurice Leising, Charles Redinger
  • Patent number: 6764283
    Abstract: An internal gear pump for pumping fuel from a suction conduit (18) into a pressure conduit (19) has a pump housing (1) in which an internal ring gear (5) and an externally toothed pinion (3), the latter driven by a drive shaft (2), are supported. The pinion (3) is disposed eccentrically to the ring gear (5) and cooperates with the ring gear (5) to generate a pumping action. The pinion (3) and the ring gear (5) rest with their one face end on the pump housing (1) and with their other face end on a sealing plate (13). To lengthen the service life of the internal gear pump, the suction conduit (18) is disposed in the sealing plate (13). The sealing plate (13) is movable relative to the pump housing (1) such that the spacing between the suction conduit (18) and the pressure conduit (19) can be varied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Stanislaw Bodzak
  • Patent number: 6672850
    Abstract: A torque control crescent oil pump, having low parasitic loss and rapid pressure transient response, and a method for controlling oil flow within the pump, are provided. In one embodiment, the crescent oil pump comprises a housing, toothed annular gears cooperatively rotating about preferably offset first and second axes, and a crescent body. The crescent body is adapted to move from a first position to a second position. In the first position, the crescent body is adapted to form a seal between the annular gears. In the second position, the crescent body is positioned so that it does not form a seal between the annular gears. In another embodiment, an actuating device moves the crescent body from the first position to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Palazzolo, Perry E. Phelan
  • Patent number: 6652253
    Abstract: An internal/external gear pump includes a wear plate disposed between the gear members and at least one sidewall of the pump. The wear plate has a recess formed therein having a substantially constant depth and width. The recess extends into the full mesh point between the gear members of the pump to provide a flow path from the full mesh point to an inlet side or suction port of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Drew A. Crafton, Gregory W. Kempf
  • Publication number: 20020157636
    Abstract: A two-dimensional rotary displacement device comprises a housing, an outer rotor and at least one inner rotor. The axes of rotation of the outer rotor and the at least one inner rotor are parallel. A predefined geometrical relationship exists between the outer and inner rotors such that the scale of operative circumference (or diameter) from the inner rotor with respect to the outer rotor is preferably an integer value. In one embodiment, the device is used as a compressor that positively displaces a gas. In a modified embodiment, the device includes an exit port, which has a location that can be adjusted with respect to the housing and is adjustable so as to decrease the pressure differential between an exit chamber and the exit pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventor: James B. Klassen
  • Patent number: 6450792
    Abstract: The invention relates to a displacement machine, in particular a displacement pump used in an automobile and having two components movable slidably relative to one another. In order to keep the wear on the components low, even in the case of a poorly lubricating operating medium, there is provision for at least one component of the two components to be hardened at least on the surface and to consist of sintered material which contains predominantly ferrite and a constituent for improving the sliding properties. This design is particularly advantageous in automobile pumps operating with transmission oil or feeding fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Hydraulik-Ring GmbH
    Inventors: Egon Eisenbacher, Christoph Renner
  • Patent number: 6425747
    Abstract: A gearing, particularly for use in a gear pump which can be utilized in the power train of a motor vehicle, has a housing, a rotary internal gear in the housing, and a spur gear driven by a prime mover, mating with the internal gear and defining with the latter a crescent-shaped chamber for forcible conveying of a fluid, such as lubricant, from an inlet communicating with one end portion to an outlet communicating with the other end portion of the chamber. In order to avoid turbulent flow of fluid in the chamber, the latter is substantially filled by a composite insert. Such insert can comprise several crescent-shaped fillers with at least one seal between them, or two one-piece or composite fillers which are disposed end-to-end as seen in the circumferential direction of the internal gear and are separated from each other by an abutment which is secured to or of one piece with the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2002
    Assignee: LuK Lamellen und Kupplungsbau GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus-Dieter Buchmüller, Marco Grethel