Axially Moving Vane Or Abutment Patents (Class 418/228)
  • Patent number: 9995209
    Abstract: A rotary engine has a circular shaped rotor and stator. The rotor has an expansion chamber for combustion and the stator has thrust director gate that passes through a passageway through the stator face to alternatively ride along the face of the rotor or to ride within the expansion chamber of the rotor. Passageways through the stator and radially close to the thrust director gate allow for air, fuel, and an ignition source to pass through the stator allow for ignition and expansion of the fuel within the expansion chamber. The thrust director allows for thrust to be applied to the rotor to rotate the rotor. An exhaust manifold, also passing through stator, and also radially aligned with the expansion chamber allows exhaust gases from combustion to be released from the expansion chamber as the rotor rotates the expansion chamber adjacent to the exhaust manifold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventor: Gerald L. Larson
  • Patent number: 8985980
    Abstract: An apparatus for compressing or pumping fluid includes a housing having an interior chamber. The housing includes an end wall having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. A rotating cam is rotatably mounted within the interior chamber and includes a cam body having an end with a sloped annular channel formed therein. The apparatus also includes am end vane slidably mounted within a slot in the end wall so as to extend into the sloped annular channel for sliding therein as the rotating cam rotates. The end vane divides the sloped annular channel into an inlet chamber and an outlet chamber such that, as the rotating cam rotates, the inlet chamber expands and communicates with the fluid inlet for receiving the fluid, and the outlet chamber contracts and communicates with the fluid outlet for expelling the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Alberts Generator services inc.
    Inventors: Albert W. Patterson, Tyler J. E. Clark
  • Patent number: 8672659
    Abstract: A vane air motor is disclosed which is configured to prevent grease in a radial bearing from leaking into a rotor chamber. The vane air motor has a motor housing (20) having a rotor chamber, a rotor (22) with vanes (24) disposed in the rotor chamber, a first end wall (16) of the motor housing equipped with a radial bearing (50) rotatably supporting a support shaft portion (28) of the rotor, and a casing contiguously joined to the motor housing to form a compressed air supply chamber (44) together with the first end wall to supply compressed air into the rotor chamber through an air supply hole (46) formed in the first end wall. The first end wall has communication means (16-5, 16-6 and 16-7) for supplying compressed air from the compressed air supply chamber to the side of the first radial bearing closer to the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Nitto Kohki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Nakajoh
  • Patent number: 8636480
    Abstract: A compressor is provided that includes a hermetically sealed container; a stator fixedly installed within the hermetically sealed container; a first rotary member that rotates, within the stator, around a first rotary shaft that extends concentrically with a center of the stator by a rotating electromagnetic field of the stator, and including first and second covers fixed to upper and lower parts thereof, respectively; a second rotary member that compresses a refrigerant in a compression space formed between the first and second rotary members while rotating, within the first rotary member, around a second rotary shaft; a vane that transmits the rotational force to the second rotary member from the first rotary member, and partitions the compression space into suction and compression regions; and first and second bearings fixed inside of the hermetically sealed container that rotatably support the first and second rotary members in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kangwook Lee, Jin-Ung Shin, Yongchol Kwon, Geun-Hyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 8549896
    Abstract: A vane pump has an upper casing, a lower casing, a rotor and a motor. First to fourth points are defined on an outer peripheral end of a lower flat surface of the lower casing. The first point is farthest from an intersection between an axis of a shaft of the motor and the lower flat surface. A suction passage passing through the third point and a discharge passage passing through the second point are formed between the upper casing and the lower casing. The fourth point is defined in a range from the third point to the first point. The lower flat surface is provided to incline with respect to the axis of the shaft of the motor such that the fourth point is farthest from a motor case of the motor among points on the outer peripheral end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuyuki Kobayashi, Tomohiro Itoh, Shinji Sugihara
  • Patent number: 8123506
    Abstract: The invention relates to increasing the fluid capacity and the fluid discharge pressure of a rotary sliding vane fluid compressor without significantly increasing the fluid discharge temperature. According to the invention supplemental air under pressure is added to a compressor's rotating pocket to increase the fluid capacity and fluid pressure in the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: FLSmidth A/S
    Inventors: Louis S. Schwartz, David Waage
  • Publication number: 20110138885
    Abstract: A vane pump has an upper casing, a lower casing, a rotor and a motor. First to fourth points are defined on an outer peripheral end of a lower flat surface of the lower casing. The first point is farthest from an intersection between an axis of a shaft of the motor and the lower flat surface. A suction passage passing through the third point and a discharge passage passing through the second point are formed between the upper casing and the lower casing. The fourth point is defined in a range from the third point to the first point. The lower flat surface is provided to incline with respect to the axis of the shaft of the motor such that the fourth point is farthest from a motor case of the motor among points on the outer peripheral end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuyuki KOBAYASHI, Tomohiro Itoh, Shinji Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20090041604
    Abstract: Vane machine with cylinder stationary and rotating parts is intended for use as a driving or a working machine, utilising compressible or non-compressible media as the working fluid. The vane-machine basic embodiment comprises: cylinder stationary part (A), cylinder rotating parts (B), rotor (C), covers (D), and vanes with grooves (F). The cylinder stationary part has the shroud (1) in which rotates the rotor with the vanes. In the shroud there are radial rectangular openings (5 and 6), letting the media in and out, which openings may be of other shapes as well. The inner ring (8) of roller or sliding bearing, rotate driven by the vanes. The rotor is positioned eccentrically relative to the shroud axes. At the rotor there are firmly fitted lateral plates (14) that rotate jointly with the rotor. The vane-machine working chamber is delimited with the shroud, the inner rings, the vanes and the plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Nebojsa Boskovic, Branimir Matijasevic
  • Patent number: 7479001
    Abstract: The invention can be used as a high pressure rotor vane pump or hydro motor. Rotor vane machine comprises a rotor including working and supporting parts connected via force chambers of variable length so that they rotate synchronously with a possibility of little reciprocal axial movements and tilts required to provide sliding insulating contact of face surfaces of the working and supporting pans of the rotor with the surfaces of the working and supporting cover plates of the housing correspondingly. Between the supporting cover plate of the housing and supporting part of the rotor there are made supporting cavities hydraulically connected via the means of local pressures balancing to the force chambers of variable length and cavities of the working chamber in the annular groove of the working part of the rotor. The losses on friction and cavitation decrease and the reliability increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Inventors: Alexander A. Stroganov, Yury M. Volkov
  • Patent number: 7160079
    Abstract: A turbine fuel pump including a cylindrical casing, an electric motor accommodated in the casing, a pump housing mounted into the casing, and an impeller disposed within the pump housing and driven around an axis in a rotational direction by the electric motor. The impeller includes a plurality of vanes each formed into a generally rectangular plate including a tip end face that extends circumferentially to define an outer peripheral surface of the impeller, and front and rear faces respectively located on forward and rearward sides in the rotational direction of the impeller. The front face is curved such that a tip end portion thereof is positioned forwardly in the rotational direction of the impeller relative to a root portion thereof. A chamfer portion is disposed between the tip end face and a tip end portion of the front face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Iijima, Junichi Motojima
  • Patent number: 6893241
    Abstract: A compressor comprising a hermetic casing, a cylinder assembly disposed in the casing, a Z-plate disposed in the cylinder assembly for dividing an inner space of the cylinder assembly into a plurality of compression spaces, and sucking, compressing and discharging a fluid while being rotated by a driving unit, and vanes being contacted with both sides of the Z-plate to make a reciprocal movement, wherein the cylinder assembly includes a vane slot for inserting the vane, said vane slot having an opened portion opened towards an outer circumference of the cylinder assembly, thereby facilitating a processing of the vane slot, enhancing productivity of the cylinder assembly and reducing a production cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Kwang-Cik Yang
  • Patent number: 6547546
    Abstract: The present invention may be used in pumps and hydraulic engines and increases the functional capacities of rotary machines. This invention relates to a rotary machine comprising a body in which an adjustment member is mounted so as to be capable of displacement along the rotation axis. A plurality of systems, that define the axial and mutual disposition of sliders, are mounted so as to be capable of changing their position relative to the rotor and the body, and are cinematically connected to the adjustment member. The sliders are mounted so as to be capable of changing their position upon displacement of the adjustment member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Inventors: Alexandr Anatolievich Stroganov, Alexandr Nikolaevich Zimnikov
  • Patent number: 6135745
    Abstract: A vane actuation mechanism for an axial vane rotary device includes a cylindrical outer housing that defines an internal cylindrical chamber. A rotor assembly having a drive shaft is rotatably mounted within the internal cylindrical chamber. A cylindrical guide slot is held in proper rotational position within the internal cylindrical chamber. A plurality of modified vanes are disposed on the rotor core. The modified vane has a recess in the top of the vane. A shear block having a general "T" shape is disposed in the recess of the vane and is secured to the vane. Part of the shear block is disposed within the guide slot to act as a guide member. The guide slot can be formed from a single cylindrical member. The single cylindrical member is cut to form two cylindrical guide slot members. The edges of the cylindrical guide slot members form the guide slot. The guide slot urges the shear block as the vanes rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: T. W. Blasingame Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas W. Blasingame