Wear Elements Or Antifriction Means In Vane Or Abutment Slot Patents (Class 418/235)
  • Patent number: 10550696
    Abstract: A compressor including a hinge recess formed at a rolling piston and a hinge protrusion formed at a vane to be inserted into the hinge recess. A diameter of the hinge protrusion is greater than an interval between both ends of an opening of the hinge recess. A bearing surface, which comes in contact with an inner circumferential surface of the hinge recess, of an outer circumferential surface of the hinge protrusion, has a circumferential surface below 90° at both sides, respectively, based on a central line in a lengthwise direction of the vane. This structure may facilitate cutting and grinding of the bearing surface so as to reduce machining costs, and also improve a machining degree and thus stabilize behaviors of the rolling piston and the vane so as to enhance compression efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Gukhyun Cho, Yunhi Lee, Byeongchul Lee
  • Patent number: 8951027
    Abstract: The invention concerns a vane cell machine having a stator and a rotor that is made of a first material, the rotor having guides comprising radially displaceable vanes that rest on an inside of the stator and border work chambers at each axial end of the rotor together with the rotor, the stator and individual stationary side walls, the vanes having, at least at some contact faces with the rotor and the stator, a second material that interacts unfrictionally with the first material. It is endeavoured to keep the wear small. For this purpose, in a radially inner area, the side wall comprises a surface of a third material interacting unfrictionally with the first material and, in a radially outer area a surface made of the first material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Hans Christian Petersen, Ove Thorboel Hansen, Lars Martensen, Palle Olsen, Erik Haugaard
  • Patent number: 8480386
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vane for a vane pump, in particular a vane vacuum pump, having a crucible-shaped housing and provided with a rotor mounted eccentrically and rotatably in the housing, wherein the vane is displaceably mounted perpendicular to the axis of rotation in the rotor and the free ends thereof are in contact with the interior circumferential surface of the housing, wherein the vane has a closed surface, at least in the sections protruding beyond the rotor, in the direction of the interior circumferential surface, and the surface is formed by an exterior wall, which is provided with a coating, wherein the coating is provided with perforations in the area located inside the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Joma-Polytec GmbH
    Inventor: Willi Schneider
  • Publication number: 20130129555
    Abstract: The rotary piston pump includes two counter-rotating rotary pistons and an oval pump housing. Every rotary piston has a rotary piston vane and is provided with a contact element. The contact points of the flanks of the two rotary pistons in which the two rotary pistons form a friction pairing are provided with a contact element each. The interior of the oval pump housing is likewise provided with an exchangeable contact element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventors: Hans Juergen Linde, Bernhard Murrenhoff, Robert Kurz, Reinhard Denk, Josef Strassl, Thomas Boehme, Hisham Kamal, Stefan Weigl, Roger Willis, Stefan Kern, Johann Kreidl, Gunter Herr, Franz Kneidl, Mikael Tekneyan, Erwin Weber, Marcel Verhoeven, Mathias Gradl
  • Publication number: 20130108499
    Abstract: The invention concerns a vane cell machine having a stator and a rotor that is made of a first material, the rotor having guides comprising radially displaceable vanes that rest on an inside of the stator and border work chambers at each axial end of the rotor together with the rotor, the stator and individual stationary side walls, the vanes having, at least at some contact faces with the rotor and the stator, a second material that interacts unfrictionally with the first material. It is endeavoured to keep the wear small. For this purpose, in a radially inner area, the side wall comprises a surface of a third material interacting unfrictionally with the first material and, in a radially outer area a surface made of the first material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Hans Christian Petersen, Ove Thorboel Hansen, Lars Martensen, Palle Olsen, Erik Haugaard
  • 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: 6920853
    Abstract: A variable valve timing control device includes a rotation member for opening or closing a valve, a rotation transmission member engaged with the rotation member to be relatively rotatable, a vane provided on either one of the rotation member or the rotation transmission member, a hydraulic chamber formed between the rotation member and the rotation transmission member and including an advance angle chamber and a retarded angle chamber, the advance angle chamber and the retarded angle chamber being formed by dividing the hydraulic chamber by the vane, a first hydraulic passage for supplying and discharging a fluid to the advance angle chamber, and a second hydraulic passage for supplying and discharging the fluid to the retarded angle chamber. The vane includes a surface hardness determined to be higher than a surface hardness of a sliding surface of the rotation member or the rotation transmission member for sliding the vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeru Nakajima, Taiyu Iwata, Ichiro Hiratsuka, Takayuki Kurumi, Kazumi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 6749411
    Abstract: A rotary vane device for hydraulic transmission of mechanical energy with industrial scale measures of power and rotational velocity. The device offers high measures of both volumetric efficiency and rotational velocity and hence substantial measures of functional excellence in terms of power density and functional efficiency. Additionally the device functions without the use of reciprocating primary components and for this reason potentially offers substantial measures of excellence in terms of enhanced operational reliability and relatively low measures of radiated mechanical noise and vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Inventor: Charles Matthew Lee
  • Patent number: 6503071
    Abstract: A single vane gas displacement apparatus comprises a stator housing with a right cylindrical bore enclosing an eccentrically mounted rotor which also has a radial slot in which is movably radially positioned a single vane. The vane is tethered to antifriction vane guide assemblies concentric with the housing bore. Then vane has a preselected center of gravity located proximate to the housing bore axis. An option is to have a port in said vane for ducting high-pressure gas to the inlet side to react against the rotor slot to reduce vane contact therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Inventor: Thomas C. Edwards
  • Patent number: 6120271
    Abstract: A vane slot assembly and installation method for a rotary vane pumping machine including a rotor with a rotor axis of rotation. The rotor has a vane slot with two opposing, azimuthally separated, slot side walls. The rotor has a primary slot gear rack disposed radially along a first slot side wall. A radially reciprocating vane is movably disposed between the slot side walls. The vane has side walls facing the slot side walls, and has a primary vane gear rack disposed radially along a first vane side wall facing the first slot side wall. A plurality of vane slot rollers are movably disposed between the first slot side wall and the first vane side wall. The rollers have axes of rotation substantially parallel to the rotor axis and include an aligned roller having a primary roller gear. The primary roller gear engages the primary vane gear rack and the primary slot gear rack. As a result, friction-reducing roller bearings between the vane and the rotor slot are properly aligned radially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Mallen Research Corporation
    Inventor: Brian D. Mallen
  • Patent number: 6065874
    Abstract: Prior art linear bearings generally have a roller element which, in such a reciprocating motion application, tend to creep or slide along the surfaces upon which they roll. This is due to unequal frictional forces between the rolling surfaces. The linear bearing of the present invention substantially prevents straying and/or sliding of roller elements, and therefore provides bearing functionality at high speeds and great loads with longer longevity and reliability. The linear bearing can be used in many engineering applications, such as in a rotary engine, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Inventor: Benjamin Tour
  • Patent number: 6036462
    Abstract: A rotary vane machine having a rotary-linear vane guidance structure, including a translation ring disposed at each axial end of the machine, the translation ring rotating around a fixed hub, with the fixed hub being eccentric to a rotor shaft axis, with the rotor spinning around the rotor shaft axis which is a fixed rotational axis relative to a stator cavity. A plurality of vanes are disposed in a corresponding plurality of vane slots in the rotor, each of the vanes having a tip portion and a base portion, with the base portion having a protruding tab extending from each axial end therefrom. A plurality of linear channels are formed in each translation ring, wherein the protruding tabs extending from the base portion of each of the plurality of vanes communicate with a respective linear channel in the translation ring, whereby the rotor rotation causes rotation of the vanes and a corresponding rotation of the translation ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Mallen Research Ltd. Partnership
    Inventor: Brian D. Mallen
  • Patent number: 5568796
    Abstract: A rotary device employs an outer housing having an interior surface with a central axis associated therewith, an outer hub assembly, disposed inside said outer housing, having a central axis associated therewith located at a distance from the central axis of the outer housing, an inner hub, disposed inside the outer hub assembly, having a central axis associated therewith and being substantially coaxial with the outer housing, and a plurality of blades, hingedly connected at one end to the inner hub and radiating through the outer hub assembly to contact the interior surface of the outer housing at the other end of the blades, whereby a plurality of relatively airtight compartments are formed between the interior surface of the outer housing, the outer hub assembly, and pairs of blades, with the volume of said compartments varying as a function of the rotative position of the inner hub and outer hub assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignee: Spread Spectrum
    Inventor: William R. Palmer
  • Patent number: 5558509
    Abstract: A sliding-blade water jet propulsion apparatus has an oval-shaped chamber and a water channel extending generally tangential to the chamber with a cylindrical rotor rotatably mounted eccentrically in the chamber. The rotor has at least two rectangular blades slidably mounted in slots extending through the cylindrical rotor in mutually perpendicular relation and each blade is independently movable relative to the other in a radial direction. Each blade has a guide element extending from opposed sides and through the opposed end walls of the rotor which are slidably received in guide grooves in the chamber end walls. The guide elements traveling in the guide grooves cause the blades to extend and retract radially with their outer ends following the inner periphery of the chamber side wall and a portion of the water channel with a constant clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1996
    Inventors: Olga Jirnov, Alexei Jirnov
  • Patent number: 5540199
    Abstract: A radial vane rotary engine comprises an outer housing having a inner cam surface, and an inner housing disposed within the outer housing and having a outer cam surface. There is a substantially constant radial distance between the inner and outer cam surfaces. A rotatable rotor is disposed between the inner and outer housings. The rotor is generally cylindrical having an outer surface, an inner surface, a plurality of axial slots opening between the outer and inner surfaces, and an output shaft extending axially from an end portion of the rotor. A plurality of vanes extend radially through the slots between the inner and outer cam surfaces, providing a plurality of outer chambers between the adjacent vanes, the inner cam surface and the outer surface of the rotor. Similarly, a plurality of inner chambers are provided between the adjacent vanes, the inner cam surface and the inner surface of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Inventor: Jay P. Penn
  • Patent number: 5427068
    Abstract: A rotary device employs an outer housing having an interior surface with a central axis associated therewith, an outer hub assembly, disposed inside said outer housing, having a central axis associated therewith located at a distance from the central axis of the outer housing, an inner hub, disposed inside the outer hub assembly, having a central axis associated therewith and being substantially coaxial with the outer housing, and a plurality of blades, hingedly connected at one end to the inner hub and radiating through the outer hub assembly, whereby a plurality of relatively airtight compartments are formed between the interior surface of the outer housing, the outer hub assembly, and pairs of blades, with the volume of said compartments varying as a function of the rotative position of the inner hub and outer hub assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1995
    Assignee: Spread Spectrum
    Inventor: William R. Palmer
  • Patent number: 5375986
    Abstract: An oil pump for a closed type compressor of the present invention is mounted in the inside bottom of a closed housing. In the oil pump, a rotor is driven to revolve by an eccentric shaft formed at the lower end of a rotary shaft for driving a compressing mechanism while the rotor is formed with a projection which is inserted into a slot of a cylinder chamber in order to inhibit the rotation of the rotor. In this arrangement, the root of the projection is cut away so that the projection is prevented from interfering with angled portions of an opening of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetuzou Ukai, Kimiharu Takeda, Masumi Sekita
  • Patent number: 5332375
    Abstract: A rotary piston machine that includes a casing with a drive shaft that connects to an annular body having arc-shaped segments having swivelling fulcrums that hold slidable vanes which define chambers of varying size within said casing together with inner and outer rings that are each integral with a vane, and movable relative to each other within a ring stack (30), the axis of the ring stack being parallel to the drive shaft axis but offset so that said vanes assume varying angular positions as they revolve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1994
    Inventor: Jurgen Kuechler
  • Patent number: 5039288
    Abstract: A rotary engine is disclosed which comprises a rotor housing, a rotor fitted in the rotor housing so as to define a plurality of operating chambers in cooperation with the inner wall surface of the rotor housing and produce a planetary rotation of itself inside the rotor housing, apex seal members severally accommodated inside seal grooves formed at the apexes of the rotor along the axis of rotation of said rotor, and pressure means disposed between the respective apex seal members and the rotor so as to press the apex seal members against the inner wall surface of the rotor housing by virtue of the pressure of a gas emanating from the operating chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1991
    Assignee: Bando Kiko Co., Limited
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Bando
  • Patent number: 4859163
    Abstract: The rotary machine, for example an air pump, has two rotors and vanes carried by the rotors within a housing, to pump fluid between an inlet and an outlet on opposite sides of the housing. The vanes are guided by tracks, so that the vanes are withdrawn flush with the rotor surfaces at a contact line between the rotors. In one embodiment, ends of the vanes are carried in carriers by means of bearing blocks. The carriers rotate at an average speed equal to that of the rotors, to reduce the movement of the ends of the vanes. The mechanism can be employed in a single rotor machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1989
    Assignee: Steven Schuller Performance Inc.
    Inventor: Steven C. Schuller
  • Patent number: 4822262
    Abstract: A rotary engine in which rollers are inserted between the side wall of a seal groove and an apex seal such that the side wall of the seal groove and the apex seal are brought into rolling contact, the rollers are enhoused within a recessed groove formed in the side wall of the seal groove or in the side surface of the apex seal, and both ends of the recessed groove are enhoused in the corner seals assembled at both ends of the rotor so that the recessed groove is sealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Assignee: Bando Kiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Bando
  • Patent number: 4396365
    Abstract: A rotary vane type compressor having a rotor (8) mounted with a number of vanes (10) each accommodated in a vane groove (11) of a liner (12) made of anti-abrasive material and a boss (13) for fixing the liners (12) and the liners are fixed in position with respect to the boss by integrally casting the liners and the boss by placing them in the predetermined position using light weight alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1983
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 4360327
    Abstract: An epoch-making new type compressor is characterized by its sealed cylinder, the upper part gyro-cam (in S shape) of which starts slider in the cylinder (it is provided with the same shaft and in the same "S" shape with the upper gyro-cam) for forth and back coordination and engage the synchronous three angle-cross operation whereby the slider goes forth and back along the socket in the cylinder. The air goes into the compressing chamber through the inlet with the free valve beside the slider and goes out through the outlet with the reverse valve beside the other slider (in the front position of the first slider) by means of excluding by the slider attached to the wing shaft in cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1982
    Inventor: Liang-Chih Wang
  • Patent number: 4329129
    Abstract: An improved rotor is disclosed, for use with movable vanes in pumps, compressors and the like. The rotor is equipped with slots in which the vanes are located. Each slot has a leading surface and a trailing surface. Two embodiments of this invention are taught. In one embodiment, a groove is cut into the trailing surface of each slot, so that a specially designed rod-like bearing may be interposed between the rotor and the vane to reduce friction between the trailing face of the vane and the trailing surface of the rotor. In the other embodiment, an additional groove is cut in the leading face of the vane so that a similar bearing may be interposed between the leading face of the vane and the leading surface of the slot. As a result of these designs, friction between the vane and the rotor is much reduced, and a substantially longer work-life results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1982
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Yutaka Ishizuka, Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 4087217
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vane support assembly for interconnecting and supporting the diametrically opposed vanes in rotary type positive displacement apparatus. Alternate embodiments translatably couple the support rods with the vanes or rigidly couple the support rods with the opposed vanes and translatably couple intermediate portions thereof. Alternate forms of bearing assemblies are disclosed in conjunction with the assembly as well as various positioning of the associated springs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1978
    Inventor: Albert Raymond Thomas
  • Patent number: 4079083
    Abstract: An orbital type engine having a number of vanes supported for reciprocatory movement in the housing of the engine and supported in slots in the peripheral wall of the engine and the opposed end walls. The bearing areas between the vane and the respective slots in the housing comprising three independent areas arranged in a triangular formation one located in the slot in the peripheral wall of the engine and the other two in the slots in the respective end walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1978
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventor: Tony Ralph Sarich
  • Patent number: 4004556
    Abstract: Rotary internal combustion engine of axial sliding vane type has sinusoidal shaped side walls with compensation of the mass forces allowing nearly friction-free and high speed operation with sufficient compression ratio. High power output is believed to make the invention comparable to the well-known Wankel engine.The various designs of the rotary machines can also be used as fluid pumps or fluid-operated motors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1973
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1977
    Inventor: Rolf Alfons Pfeiffer
  • Patent number: RE49937
    Abstract: A compressor including a hinge recess formed at a rolling piston and a hinge protrusion formed at a vane to be inserted into the hinge recess. A diameter of the hinge protrusion is greater than an interval between both ends of an opening of the hinge recess. A bearing surface, which comes in contact with an inner circumferential surface of the hinge recess, of an outer circumferential surface of the hinge protrusion, has a circumferential surface below 90° at both sides, respectively, based on a central line in a lengthwise direction of the vane. This structure may facilitate cutting and grinding of the bearing surface so as to produce machining costs, and also improve a machining degree and thus stabilize behaviors of the rolling piston and the vane so as to enhance compression efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Gukhyun Cho, Yunhi Lee, Byeongchul Lee