Specific Material Patents (Class 418/179)
  • Patent number: 8096793
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a scroll member having a base and a generally spiral wrap that extends from the base to define a portion of a compression chamber. The scroll member is made of a cast iron material comprising a microstructure having graphite nodules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Scroll Technologies
    Inventor: Zili Sun
  • Patent number: 8092201
    Abstract: Provided is a vane pump. In the vane pump, a high-hardness main coating layer is provided on a distal end portion of each vane, and an intermediate coating layer having an intermediate hardness between a hardness of a base material of the vane and a hardness of the main coating layer is provided between the base material of the vane and the main coating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Showa Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Tsukahara, Tomohiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8075293
    Abstract: A rotary blower rotor includes a rotor body having a corrosion-resistant coating covering the rotor body. An abradable coating covers at least a portion of the corrosion-resistant coating for providing an essentially zero operating clearance for increasing a volumetric efficiency of the rotary blower. A rotary blower including a rotor with a corrosion-resistant coating is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventor: Daniel R. Ouwenga
  • Patent number: 8066497
    Abstract: In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a positive-displacement pump, in particular a vane cell pump, having a pump element, in particular a rotor, which is situated within a contour ring and rotatable between two side surfaces where a limited coating is located on at least one of the side surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: LuK Fahrzeug-Hydraulik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Waldemar Hebisch, Markus Meitinger, Karl Prinzhorn, Dirk Webert
  • Patent number: 8047825
    Abstract: A positive-displacement pump comprising a housing, a rotatable component disposed at least partially within the housing, and a film disposed at least partially between the housing and the rotatable component, where the film comprises a reinforcing material and a fluoropolymer material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Clark V. Cooper, Aaron T. Nardi
  • Patent number: 8033264
    Abstract: A lightweight rotary engine is provided that comprises a structurally efficient, lightweight rotor housing. Disposed in the wall of the rotor housing is a combustion zone thermal barrier insert. The thermal barrier insert is comprised of a material with low thermal conductivity. The use of the insert allows the rotor housing to be constructed from higher strength material such as steel or titanium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Rotary Power LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan Lauter
  • Patent number: 8033802
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stator casing for eccentric worm pumps comprising an elastic lining, the cylindrical stator casing having a surface on the inner side, along the longitudinal axis whereof grooves are incorporated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: NETZSCH-Mohnopumpen GmbH
    Inventors: Mikael Tekneyan, Helmuth Weber, Johann Kreidl, Hisham Kamal
  • Patent number: 8007261
    Abstract: The scroll machine has a first and a second scroll member each having intermeshed scroll wraps. A compensation member is attached to one of the scrolls. As the scroll machine warms to operating temperature, the compensation member exerts a force on the one scroll member causing it to deflect. The deflection of the scroll member compensates for the unequal growth of the scroll wrap which is caused by a temperature difference between the radially inner section and the radially outer section of the scroll wrap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Luc M. Caillat
  • Patent number: 7997883
    Abstract: A scroll compressor may incorporate controlled bending of a scroll member to compensate for axial deformations that can occur between the scroll members. The controlled bending may be through the use of fluid pressure in a sealed chamber that communicates with a surface of the scroll member opposite the intermeshing wraps. Fluid passageways can extend through the scroll member between the sealed chamber and the intermeshing wraps. The controlled bending can increase the uniformity of the contact between the scroll members and improve the efficiency of the compressing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Kirill Ignatiev
  • Patent number: 7997882
    Abstract: A vane pump with a reduced rotor diameter is provided. The reduced rotor diameter allows a reduction in the overall size of the pump which allows the pump to be used in circumstances wherein sufficient packaging volume does not exist for conventional vane pumps. Further, the reduced rotor diameter permits operation of the pump at a higher speed, in comparison to conventional vane pumps, for a given working fluid and pump rate. The rotor includes an integrally formed drive shaft and a cylindrical rotor head. Both fixed displacement and variable displacement embodiments are shown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Magna Powertrain Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Shulver, Stefan Olaru, Matthew Williamson
  • Patent number: 7963752
    Abstract: A scroll component including a spiral scroll wrap, a baseplate having a first major surface coupled to the scroll wrap and a second opposing major surface comprising a protruding pilot extending a distance from the baseplate, and a hub fastened to the baseplate adjacent to the protruding pilot. A method of forming a scroll compressor element is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Stover, Gary J. Diller, Marc J. Scancarello, Jean-Luc M. Caillat
  • Patent number: 7950914
    Abstract: A Moineau style stator includes a helical reinforcement component that provides an internal helical cavity. A resilient liner is deployed on an inner surface of the helical reinforcement component. The helical reinforcement component includes a solder or braze material and is typically metallurgically bonded to an inner wall of a stator tube. In exemplary embodiments, the helical reinforcement component includes a composite mixture of solder and aggregate. Exemplary embodiments of this invention address the heat build up and subsequent elastomer breakdown in the lobes of prior arts stators by providing a helical reinforcement component. Solder reinforced stators tend to be less expensive to fabricate than reinforced stators of the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Smith International, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael E. Hooper, James W. Estep, Wayne Quantz, Daniel Symonds, John Clyde Wade, Glennon Allmon Wheeler
  • Patent number: 7909591
    Abstract: An eccentric screw pump or an eccentric screw motor has a rotor formed from at least a tubular jacket with at least two layers. The outer layer of the jacket consists of a material that is abrasion-resistant and/or corrosion-resistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Wilhem Kachele GmbH
    Inventor: Bruno Kachele
  • Patent number: 7905715
    Abstract: a First gap (15) in a thrust direction between teeth bottoms of a fixed mirror plate (2b) and teeth tips of an orbiting lap (4a), and a second gap (16) in the thrust direction between teeth bottoms of an orbiting mirror plate 4b and teeth tips of a fixed lap (2a) are formed such as to gradually increase from an outer peripheral side to an inner peripheral side of a scroll compressor, the first gap (15) is made greater than the second gap (16). Contact surface pressures of the laps (2a) and (4a) are kept low with respect to pressure formation, contact pressure of the teeth tips of the fixed scroll part (2) and the teeth bottoms of the orbiting scroll part (4)are equally maintained. With this loads applied to the scroll parts (2) and (4)are equally received by a thrust surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Hiwata, Yoshiyuki Futagami, Teruyuki Akazawa, Noboru Iida, Kiyoshi Sawai, Hidenobu Shintaku, Takashi Morimoto
  • Patent number: 7887309
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pump, in particular an oil pump, for internal combustion engines, comprising a pump case, with the pump case comprising a pump lid and a pump flange, with at least one toothed wheelset being arranged between the pump lid and the pump flange and the pump lid and the pump flange being connected via at least one distance element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Bachmann, Rolf Schwarze
  • Patent number: 7878774
    Abstract: A Moineau style stator includes a helical cavity component having reinforced helical lobes. The lobes are reinforced with a three-dimensional network of physically bonded aggregate particles. The network of bonded aggregate provides a porous skeletal-like structural reinforcement. Pore volume between the bonded aggregate particles may optionally be partially or substantially filled with an elastomer. An elastomer liner is typically deployed on an inner surface of the helical lobes to promote a rotational interference fit with a rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Smith International, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Allen Speckert
  • Patent number: 7878776
    Abstract: The scroll machine has a first and a second scroll member each having intermeshed scroll wraps. A compensation member is attached to one of the scrolls. As the scroll machine warms to operating temperature, the compensation member exerts a force on the one scroll member causing it to deflect. The deflection of the scroll member compensates for the unequal growth of the scroll wrap which is caused by a temperature difference between the radially inner section and the radially outer section of the scroll wrap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Luc M. Caillat
  • Patent number: 7878783
    Abstract: A gear pump has two engaging gearwheels disposed between a suction chamber and a pressure chamber, with the gearwheels borne on bearing axles that are connected to the gearwheels. The gearwheels and the bearing axles are each manufactured of the same material as a homogenous workpiece. This provides for both simple construction of the gear pump and good pump operating properties. Preferably the gearwheels and bearing axles are made of a synthetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Kunz
  • Patent number: 7866967
    Abstract: A pump, in particular a vacuum pump for motor vehicles, wherein a rotor with at least one vane is mounted inside a pump housing, the rotor being rotatably driven by the combustion engine of the motor vehicle via a coupling device. An intermediate element is arranged between the rotor and the coupling device so as to captively retain the rotor and coupling device and protect them against wear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Luk Automobiltechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Christoph Heidemeyer
  • Patent number: 7857607
    Abstract: A rotary lobe pump comprises a pump body having a driving means and an outer casing, and an insert that can be replaced. The replaceable insert comprises a housing formed of a plastic material and having an inlet port, an outlet port and internal surfaces defining a pumping chamber. The replaceable insert also includes a pair of lobed rotors arranged for rotation within the pumping chamber. The housing includes apertures through which the lobed rotors may be rotationally driven, so that the lobed rotors mesh together for pumping a fluid from the inlet port to the outlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Bishop, Michael Young
  • Patent number: 7845918
    Abstract: Scrolls made from one or more near-net shaped powder metal processes either wholly or fabricated together from sections. Both “conventional” press and sinter methods and metal injection molding methods will be described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Marc J Scancarello
  • Patent number: 7811071
    Abstract: A scroll machine is provided with wear resistant features to provide the scroll machine with improved operation when processing CO2 refrigerant. In certain aspects, the scroll machine has an Oldham coupling comprising aluminum, where the aluminum has an anodized surface forming a passivation layer thereon. The scroll machine optionally further has a self-lubricating bearing capable of use in the CO2 scroll machine for at least 1,000 hours of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anne-France Fontaine, Kirk E. Cooper
  • Patent number: 7785088
    Abstract: A scroll fluid machine that is capable of preventing a power loss and enhancing the degree of hermeticity of compression chambers. A plurality of outer peripheral projections are formed on an outer peripheral surface of a wrap portion of each scroll. An outer peripheral coating layer is formed on an outer peripheral surface of a wrap portion of a fixed scroll, and an inner peripheral coating layer is formed on an inner peripheral surface of the wrap portion. Each of the coating layers comprises: contact portions that make contact with the mating wrap portion; and non-contact portions that do not make contact with the mating wrap portion. In this way, the degree of hermeticity of the compression chambers can be enhanced by the contact portions, and power loss can be prevented by the non-contact portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Taniguchi, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto
  • Patent number: 7762798
    Abstract: A compressor having a compression element including a cylinder having a compression space; a suction port and a discharge port; a compression member whose one surface crossing an axial direction of a rotary shaft is inclined continuously between a top dead center and a bottom dead center and which compresses a fluid sucked from the suction port to discharge the fluid from the discharge port; and a vane which is disposed between the suction port and the discharge port to abut on one surface of the compression member and which partitions the compression space in the cylinder into a low pressure chamber and a high pressure chamber. The hardness of the upper surface of the compression member may be higher than that of a discharge member as a receiving surface of the top dead center and lower than that of the vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Ogasawara, Takahiro Nishikawa, Takayuki Saito
  • Patent number: 7726286
    Abstract: A housing for a supercharger assembly is provided having an inner wall at least partially defining a rotor cavity. A layer is formed from a sacrificial polymeric material and is provided on at least a portion of the inner wall. The layer is operable to provide approximately zero running clearance and improve scuff resistance between the first and second rotors and the inner wall. The sacrificial polymeric material is applied to the inner wall by insert molding to form the layer. A method of forming the housing is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory P. Prior, II, Roxann M. Bittner
  • Patent number: 7713041
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pump, in particular an oil pump, for internal combustion engines, comprising a pump case, with the pump case comprising a pump lid and a pump flange, with at least one toothed wheelset being arranged between the pump lid and the pump flange and the pump lid and the pump flange being connected via at least one distance element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Bachmann, Rolf Schwarze
  • Patent number: 7708113
    Abstract: A rotatable sound attenuation device is provided comprising a central portion rotatable about a first axis, a radial portion extending outwardly from the central portion and a chamber having a closed first end and a second end opening radially outwardly of the radial portion and defining a second axis therein having a radial component thereto. A piston is disposed within the chamber and is moveable to a location along the second axis in response to a centrifugal force imparted on the piston by rotation of the central portion and the radial portion about the first axis. A biasing member operates to limit movement of the piston along the second axis. A quarter wave chamber is defined by the second, open end of the chamber and the piston and has a sound attenuating length defined by the location of the piston along the second axis of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory P. Prior
  • Patent number: 7699591
    Abstract: A scroll compressor in which a scroll fixed lap rising from a fixed plate of a fixed scroll and a scroll orbiting lap rising from an orbiting plate of an orbiting scroll are combined with each other to form compression chambers therebetween, the fixed scroll is made of iron-based material, the orbiting scroll is made of aluminum-based material, at least the plate back surface of the orbiting scroll is subjected to surface processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Futagami, Noboru Iida, Akira Hiwata, Hidenobu Shintaku
  • Patent number: 7686600
    Abstract: Abstract A shaft seal structure (17) is provided around an outer circumferential surface of the bearing member (16M, 16FM) located on the cylinder inside of each of the screw rotors (13M, 13FM). The shaft seal structure (17) forms a static pressure seal. A seal gas is introduced between the outer circumferential surfaces of the bearing members (16M, 16FM) and the inner circumferential surfaces (7) of the rotor cylinders of the screw rotors (13M, 13FM) through the bearing members (16M, 16FM).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Foundation for Advancement of International Science
    Inventor: Tadahiro Ohmi
  • Patent number: 7686602
    Abstract: A roller vane pump that uses slippers on its rollers to create multiple seals. The roller vane pump has a fixed cam ring that has a rotor within. The rotor has openings that receive rollers that rotate about the inside of the cam ring. Each roller has a slipper rotatably connected thereto. The use of the slipper allows multiple seals to be created between the slipper, the rollers, and the cam ring and additionally allows for the roller vane pump to rotate clockwise or counterclockwise without the changing of parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Sauer Danfoss Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin J. Landhuis
  • Patent number: 7661938
    Abstract: The invention concerns an element comprising an annular body (9) provided with two series of pins (10, 12) projecting from at least one side of the body (9), the pins (10) of a first series being engaged in grooves (7) of the fixed volute (3) and the pins (12) of a second series being engaged in grooves (8) of the mobile volute (4), to provide an orbital movement of the mobile volute (4) relative to the fixed volute (3), the contact surfaces of the pins (10, 12) of a common series with the walls of the grooves of the corresponding volute being parallel and the contact surfaces of the pins (10, 12) belonging to two series of pins being perpendicular. The annular body (9) is made of a first metal with a specific density and the pins are made of a second metal having a lower density than that of the first metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Danfoss Commercial Compressors
    Inventors: Pierre Ginies, Dominique Gross
  • Patent number: 7662027
    Abstract: A power driven abrading or polishing tool is provided that includes a motor having a rotor; a carrier part having a shaft and a key extending from the shaft; and an abrading or polishing head attached to the carrier part. The rotor includes an outer body of a first material and a core of a second material having a resistance to wear greater than the first material. The core includes an inner passage with a keyway which receives the key on the shaft of the carrier part such that a rotation of the rotor is transmitted to the carrier part and the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Hutchins Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Donald H. Hutchins
  • Patent number: 7641455
    Abstract: Impulsive sound of an Oldham ring is reduced and a driving noise of a scroll compressor is prevented from increasing. When a width of the key of the Oldham ring made of iron-based material is defined as t and a width of the orbiting-side key groove in the back surface of the surface plate of the orbiting scroll made of aluminum-based material and a width of the fixed-side key groove of the main bearing member made of aluminum-based material on the side of a thrust surface are defines as s, a gap d generated at s?t with respect to a key pitch L of the Oldham ring I set in a range of (6×10?5)?d/L?(3.5×10?4). With this, even if the key of the Oldham ring vibrates in the key groove, a collision force against the key groove is weakened, impulsive sound of the Oldham ring becomes small, and a driving noise of the scroll compressor is can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiro Fujiwara, Osamu Aiba
  • Patent number: 7632083
    Abstract: In pump rotors and used in an internal gear pump, which includes an inner pump rotor having outer gear teeth; an outer pump rotor having inner gear teeth that mesh with the outer gear teeth ; and a casing having a pumping-in port through which a fluid is pumped in, and a pumping-out port through which the fluid is pumped out, and pumps in and pumps out the fluid by changing the cell volume formed between gear tooth surfaces of the rotors and so as to carry the fluid when the rotors and mesh with each other and rotate, the rotors are formed from a sintered material of Fe—Cu—C and have a density of not less than 6.6 g/cm3 and not more than 7.1 g/cm3, and the outer circumferential surface of the outer pump rotor and the end surfaces perpendicular to rotation axes of the rotors and are non-grinded surface and have a ten point height of irregularities Rz of not less than 4 ?m and not more than 10 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials PMG Corp.
    Inventor: Katsuaki Hosono
  • Patent number: 7607906
    Abstract: A gear pump arrangement comprising a pair of intermeshing gears (16, 18) located between bearing blocks (24) and rotatable to pump fluid from an inlet (12) to an outlet (14), wherein at least one of the bearing blocks (24) comprises a body (28) formed with a recess (32) within which an insert (34) is located, the recess (32) and insert (34) being shaped so as to be of smaller dimensions at a bearing surface (30) of the bearing block (24) than at a point remote therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Goodrich Control Systems Limited
    Inventors: Martin Kenneth Yates, Glyn Edward Dixon
  • Patent number: 7594803
    Abstract: An orbit control device for a scroll compressor is disclosed including at least one pin disposed in an orbit scroll, a support plate having at least one support hole formed therein, and a guide plate having at least one guide hole formed therein. Contact of an outer surface of the pin with an inner surface of the guide hole militates against a deviation by the orbit scroll from a desired trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Gregory Theodore, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20090238709
    Abstract: A magnetic rotary vane pump is disclosed which includes a rotor disposed within a casing that comprises a cavity having an inlet and an outlet. The rotor includes at least one radial slot and at least one vane carried by the radial slot. The vane includes an inner edge directed towards a central axis of the rotor and an outer edge directed towards the casing. The inner edge of the vane is connected to a first magnet. The slot in the rotor includes an inner wall that abuttingly engages or faces the inner edge of the vane when the vane is fully received within the slot. The inner wall of the slot is connected to a second magnet. The two magnets are arranged so that like pole of the magnets face each other thereby biasing the vane out of the slot and against the inner wall of the casing as the rotor rotates. Accordingly, no spring or pin is required to bias the vane outward against the casing or into recesses or slots disposed in the casing wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: GAST MANUFACTURING, INC
    Inventors: Caleb Youker, Christopher J. Jaques
  • Patent number: 7572117
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials PMG Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuaki Hosono
  • Patent number: 7556484
    Abstract: A piston 4 has a generally cylindrical-shaped roller and a blade that is integrally formed with the roller. The piston 4 performs a swing motion while orbitally revolving within a cylinder chamber of a cylinder. A light-load side portion of an inner circumferential sliding surface of the roller is provided as a small-width portion which is smaller in width than a heavy-load side large-width portion. The small-width portion is formed over a range from a point A resulting from a 30° displacement to a point B resulting from a 180° displacement in a rotational direction of the drive shaft from a base point which is given by a joining point O of the roller with the blade. The piston 4 orbitally revolves within the horizontal plane, and the small-width portion of the roller serves as an oil sump in such a manner that upper side portion of the inner circumferential sliding surface is cut out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Doi, Hiroyuki Taniwa
  • Publication number: 20090155114
    Abstract: A compressor structure for a refrigeration system and a component for a refrigeration system. The compressor structure comprises a compression cylinder; a suction line leading gas to be compressed towards the cylinder; and a discharge line leading the compressed gas away from the cylinder; wherein at least one component of the suction line, the discharge line, or both comprises a thermal barrier layer on a surface of the at least one component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoe Chuan Kwan, Kok How Wan
  • Patent number: 7544419
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a component scavenged by exhaust gases, notably a component of an internal-combustion engine (12) and/or of at least an exhaust gas circulation circuit (14, 16, 18, 20) belonging to an engine set (10). According to the invention, the surfaces in contact with the exhaust gases of at least one component are provided with a protective coating comprising at least partly amorphous carbon of local structure close to diamond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Institut Francais du Petrole
    Inventor: John Lynch
  • Publication number: 20090136374
    Abstract: Provided is a vane pump. In the vane pump, a high-hardness main coating layer is provided on a distal end portion of each vane, and an intermediate coating layer having an intermediate hardness between a hardness of a base material of the vane and a hardness of the main coating layer is provided between the base material of the vane and the main coating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: SHOWA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Tsukahara, Tomohiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20090136375
    Abstract: A refrigerant compressor having a compression element comprising sliding components made of metallic materials, wherein a mixed layer is formed by solid-dissolving molybdenum disulfide in at least one of the sliding faces of the sliding components, and a single molybdenum disulfide layer is further formed on the surface of the mixed layer. With this configuration, initial break-in is done using the single layer, and sliding loss is reduced. Even if the single layer peels off, because the molybdenum disulfide of the mixed layer is cleaved at a low friction coefficient, solid lubrication action is attained, the friction coefficient of the sliding section is lowered, and sliding loss is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Iwata, Makoto Katayama, Ikutomo Umeoka, Yuuki Yoshimi, Hirotaka Kawabata, Yoshinori Ishida, Masato Ishiwata
  • Publication number: 20090136376
    Abstract: As an refrigerating machine oil (108) that is enclosed in a sealed vessel (106) along a motor element (111), and a compression element (112) driven by the motor element (111), oil that has as base oil a carboxylic ester compound whose kinematic viscosity is 6 mm2/s or less at 40 degrees, and 2 mm2/s or less at 100 degrees, and that has one ester group as a chief ingredient is used. Thereby, the extraction force of oligomer contained in an organic material can be suppressed to hold comparatively much oligomer in the oil, and the oligomer can be kept from precipitating, and depositing in a refrigeration system, thereby blocking a refrigerant passage, such as a muffler or piping is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventor: Yoichiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7527486
    Abstract: A surgical pneumatic motor is designed to be used with or without an MRI machine without affecting or influencing the magnetic characteristic of the MRI machine. The motor includes an improved vane motor with undercuts in the spindle to increase the power faces of the vanes and spindle itself, the holes in the cylinder are modified to increase the sealing area between the spindle. The inlet cylindrical holes and the cylinder holes and grooves are arranged to enhance the life . Wear of the edge of the vanes is decreased by the judicious location of the discharge holes. The bearings are cooled by bypassing a portion of cylinder air before re-entering the air. The noise is attenuated by a cris-cross plug in the hose the temperature of the handle is reduced by a serrated sleeve. Slipping discs in the seal serves to enhance seal life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: The Anspach Effort, Inc
    Inventor: Eddy H. Del Rio
  • Publication number: 20090110586
    Abstract: A hermetically encapsulated refrigerant compressor which comprises a hermetically sealed compressor housing (1), in the interior of which a piston-cylinder unit which compresses a refrigerant and a suction pipe (2) and a pressure pipe (3) are provided, with refrigerant flowing via the suction pipe (2) to the piston-cylinder unit and the refrigerant compressed by the piston-cylinder unit being conveyed out of the compressor housing (1) via the pressure pipe (3), with connection openings (5) for the suction pipe (2) and the pressure pipe (3) being provided on the compressor housing (1), with the connection of the suction pipe (2) and pressure pipe (3) to the connection openings (5) occurring in a hermetically tight manner by means of a connection apparatus (9) and with the connection apparatus (9) comprising a preferably sleeve-like body element (8) and at least one spacer element (7) which spaces the body element (8) from the suction pipe (2)/pressure pipe (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Walter Brabek, Manfred Jost
  • Publication number: 20090110585
    Abstract: The invention concerns a refrigerant compressor arrangement with a compressor unit (2) supported in a case by means of springs (12) and comprising at least one bolt (26) with a bolt head (25), a holder (23) being arranged between the compressor unit (2) and at least one spring (12), the holder (23) having in its front a recess, in which the bolt head (25) engages, and which is connected to the spring (12). It is endeavoured to reduce the noise generation during operation of the refrigerant compressor arrangement. For this purpose, the bolt head (25) is arranged in the recess (24) with lateral clearance (34).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: Danfoss Compressors GmbH
    Inventors: Svend Erik Outzen, Jens Erik Nissen, Carsten Petersen
  • Publication number: 20090104063
    Abstract: A rotor (1-3) moulded of plastic material, intended for rotary installation in a cavity of a pump body and for reception of one or more vanes forming the pumping members, characterized in that at least a part of the surfaces thereof, intended to undergo sliding displacements against other pump members, is covered by at least one metallic foil (4) caused to adhere to the subjacent surface of plastic material. The metallic foil can consist of a steel sheet or an aluminum alloy sheet, intended for reducing the resistances to the sliding as well as for mechanically reinforcing the rotor. The metallic foil can be fastened to the plastic material body (1) of the rotor by a co-moulding operation, or it can be mechanically fixed to the body (1) of the rotor moulded of plastic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: Vhit S.P.A.
    Inventors: Leonardo Cadeddu, Franco Fermini, Vittorio Polloni
  • Publication number: 20090098002
    Abstract: A method of hardfacing a metal body, including the steps of flame spraying a metallic material onto a surface of the metal body to produce a layer of the metallic material on the metal body and fusing the layer of metallic material to provide a hardfacing layer, is improved by roughening the surface of the metal body prior to the step of flame spraying to provide a mechanical bond between the metal body and the hardfacing layer. The roughening is carried out to achieve a surface roughness adjusted to the thickness of the hardcoating. The surface roughness is preferably 40%-90% of the thickness of the hardfacing layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: KUDU INDUSTRIES INC.
    Inventor: James COULAS
  • Patent number: 7513761
    Abstract: A double-screw compressor for supplying gas, such as air, to a gas consumer, is provided. The double-screw compressor includes two interacting rotors for compressing the gas and a toothed gearing. The toothed gearing includes a gearing housing with two opposite end walls made of a first material. Two gearwheels made of a second material which has a thermal expansion coefficient different from the thermal expansion coefficient of the first material are mounted in the end walls. In order to reduce the effect of the temperature on the backlash, both gearwheels are designed with one and the same pressure angle which is smaller than 15°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Opcon Autorotor AB
    Inventor: Mats Lindgren