Plural Working Members Or Chambers Patents (Class 418/58)
  • Patent number: 11732714
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a balancer that rotates integrally with a rotary shaft. A bushing includes a cylindrical portion and an auxiliary weight portion. The auxiliary weight portion is arranged on the outer side of the cylindrical portion. The fitting hole is provided at a position where a moment about the eccentric shaft generated by a centrifugal force acting on the movable scroll due to rotation of the rotary shaft and a moment about the eccentric shaft generated by a centrifugal force acting on the auxiliary weight portion due to rotation of the rotary shaft are in the opposite directions. As viewed in the axial direction of the rotary shaft, the center of gravity of the bushing is located on the same side of a straight line including the center of the cylindrical portion and the center of the rotary shaft as the center of the eccentric shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kuma, Kazuo Murakami, Masashi Wakui
  • Patent number: 10731735
    Abstract: A device is described for transmitting mechanical power that allows variable output-speed to input-speed ratios. Gear sets such as epicyclic gear sets have components that rotate about a common axis selectively at the same rotational speed and at different relative rotational speeds as determined by at least one of fluid flow and fluid pressure. One or more inlet ports and fluid passageways introduce a working fluid into one or more volume spaces between the components. The internal pressure and flow of the working fluid through the device is controlled to provide substantially infinite variability of the output-speed to input-speed ratios for applications where, for example, an engine provides the mechanical power for propelling a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Mainstream Engineering Corporation
    Inventor: Jerald G. Wagner
  • Patent number: 10288066
    Abstract: A housing of an oil pump includes a suction port, a discharge port, and a partitioning section formed to partition the suction port and the discharge port. The discharge port has discharge groove portions each formed in a groove shape so as to introduce oil from the partitioning section, and an extension portion formed adjacent to the discharge groove portions and extending continuously from an end of the partitioning section. The extension portion has a taper surface extending from an end of an upper surface of the partitioning section to form a downward slope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: YAMADA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Watanabe, Shimpei Iizuka, Hiroaki Sato, Kenji Kawashima
  • Patent number: 9022757
    Abstract: A compressor is provided that includes an accumulator formed in an internal space of a shell to reduce a size of the compressor. An accumulator space may be formed using the shell of the compressor, thereby simplifying an assembly process. A stationary shaft having a refrigerant suction passage may be directly connected to the accumulator to prevent leakage of refrigerant. A discharge passage may be formed in a rotating body to enhance a cooling effect of a drive motor, and an oil separating member may be installed in the discharge passage to prevent oil from being excessively leaked out. A center of gravity of the accumulator may correspond to a center of gravity of the compressor to reduce vibration noise of the compressor caused by the accumulator. An area for installing a compressor including the accumulator may be minimized to enhance design flexibility of an outdoor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jinung Shin, Seseok Seol
  • Patent number: 8956135
    Abstract: A multi-rotor screw compressor includes a housing, a sun rotor, and first and second planet rotors. The first planet rotor intermeshes with the sun rotor to define a first compression pair. The second planet rotor intermeshes with the sun rotor to define a second compression pair. The first and second compression pairs are rotatably mounted in the housing. The housing includes a first port, a portion of which is in communication with the first compression pair, and a second port, a portion of which is in communication with the second compression pair. The portions of the first and second ports which communicate with the first and second compression pairs have a different geometry for offsetting pulsations in a working fluid flowing through the ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventor: Alexander Lifson
  • Patent number: 8936448
    Abstract: A rotary compressor includes a cylinder having an annular cylinder space, a piston eccentrically disposed relative to the cylinder, and a drive shaft (53) connected to the piston. The piston has a piston portion eccentrically rotatable relative to the cylinder, and a piston end plate closing the cylinder space. The cylinder has an end plate storage space storing the piston end plate in an eccentrically rotatable manner. The cylinder space forms a main cylinder chamber, and the end plate storage space forms a sub-cylinder chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Okamoto, Yoshitaka Shibamoto, Kazuhiro Furusho, Takazou Sotojima, Takayuki Kawano, Hiroshi Yoh
  • Patent number: 8905734
    Abstract: A compressor is provided having an accumulator that may form an accumulating chamber at an internal space of a shell, thereby reducing a size of the compressor, and simplifying an assembly process. A stationary shaft having a refrigerant suction passage may be directly connected to the accumulator to prevent leakage of refrigerant. Further, a center of gravity of the accumulator may correspond to a center of gravity of the compressor to reduce vibration noise of the compressor caused by the accumulator. Furthermore, an oil collecting plate may be installed at an upper end of an upper bearing to supply oil between a vein and vein slot, thereby preventing compression loss. Also, an installation area of the compressor including the accumulator may be minimized to enhance design flexibility of an outdoor device employing the compressor and minimize interference with other components, thereby facilitating installation of the outdoor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jinung Shin, Seseok Seol
  • Publication number: 20140096561
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sealed compressor is configured to suction a working fluid to a rotary compression mechanism section through a suction pipe extending into an accumulator. The sealed compressor has a relation of Aac/Acy?4, Vac/Vcy?20, and As/Acy?0.12 when an inner diameter cross-sectional area of the accumulator is denoted by Aac (mm2), an inner diameter cross-sectional area of a cylinder chamber is denoted by Acy (mm2), an liquid retaining capacity to an upper end of the suction pipe inside the accumulator is denoted by Vac (cc), a total displacement volume of the rotary compression mechanism section is denoted by Vcy (cc), and a total inner diameter cross-sectional area of an extension portion inside the accumulator of the suction pipe is denoted by As (mm2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: TOSHIBA CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya HIRAYAMA, Akira MORISHIMA, Hisataka KATO, Takeshi TOMINAGA, Taishi NAGAHATA
  • Patent number: 8303277
    Abstract: A blending pump assembly for accurately maintaining the proper ratio of two fluid components. Flow of a first fluid is utilized to drive a fluid motor, which in turn drives a pumping mechanism to inject a proportional amount of a second fluid into the flow of the first fluid. The fluid motor and pump are sized so that a predetermined ratio between the two fluids is maintained regardless of changes in pressure and flow rate of such first fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: International Dispensing Corporation
    Inventor: Mitchell A. Friedman
  • Patent number: 8056361
    Abstract: A multi-stage rotary-type fluid machine may be configured as what is called a two-stage rotary expander, in which a refrigerant expands in an expansion chamber having a first discharge side space (115b) of a first cylinder (105), a second suction side space (116a) of a second cylinder (106), and a communication hole (104a) for allowing communication between the two spaces (115b, 116a). The first cylinder (105) and the second cylinder (106) are partitioned by an intermediate plate (104). The communication hole (104a) is formed so as to penetrate through the intermediate plate (104). The opening shape and location of the communication hole (104a) are set so that direct blow-through of the refrigerant from a suction port (105b) to a discharge port (106b) cannot occur at any rotation angle of a shaft (103).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Matsui, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Atsuo Okaichi, Takeshi Ogata, Masanobu Wada, Yasufumi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20110262290
    Abstract: A multi-rotor screw compressor includes a housing, a sun rotor, and first and second planet rotors. The first planet rotor intermeshes with the sun rotor to define a first compression pair. The second planet rotor intermeshes with the sun rotor to define a second compression pair. The first and second compression pairs are rotatably mounted in the housing. The housing includes a first port, a portion of which is in communication with the first compression pair, and a second port, a portion of which is in communication with the second compression pair. The portions of the first and second ports which communicate with the first and second compression pairs have a different geometry for offsetting pulsations in a working fluid flowing through the ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Alexander Lifson
  • Patent number: 8043075
    Abstract: A pump is provided that includes a body made at least partially of an elastomeric material and an inlet port and an outlet port, with each port being coupled to the body. The pump further includes a flow passage formed in the body and extending between the inlet port and the outlet port, with at least a portion of the flow passage being normally closed and with the inlet port being fluidicly uncoupled with the outlet port when the pump is in a free-state condition. An actuating device is coupled to the body and is operable for sequentially deforming the body to create a cavity within the normally closed portion of the flow passage, the cavity being in fluid communication with the inlet port, thereby drawing a packet of fluid from the inlet port into the cavity and propagating the cavity and the packet of fluid contained therein toward the outlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Smiths Medical ASD, Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley Paul Mack, Joseph Amley, Steven LaCross, Danny Lincoln, Charles R. Patzer, Stephen L. Vick
  • Patent number: 7913663
    Abstract: A rotary piston machine 10 includes an enclosure 12 having a cavity 14 therein with arcuate side walls 16a,b,c defining a plurality of arcuate recesses 18a,b,c and a piston member 20 rotationally disposed in the cavity 14. The piston member 20 includes opposite ends 42 and 43 configured to rotationally engage the arcuate side walls 16a,b,c and the arcuate recesses 18a,b,c such that compression chambers 26a,b,c are ultimately formed via the piston member ends 42 and 43 cooperatively engaging two arcuate recesses 18a,b,c.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Inventor: Archibald L. Cobbs
  • Publication number: 20100326128
    Abstract: A fluid machine includes an inflow passageway arranged and configured to introduce fluid from outside into inner and outer fluid chambers of a first eccentric rotation mechanism, a communication passageway arranged and configured to introduce fluid discharged from the inner and outer fluid chambers of the first eccentric rotation mechanism into inner and outer fluid chambers of a second eccentric rotation mechanism, and an outflow passageway arranged and configured to allow fluid discharged from the inner and outer fluid chambers of the second eccentric rotation mechanism to flow to outside. Each of the first and second eccentric rotation mechanisms preferably includes a cylinder, a piston, and a blade. A drive shaft has a main shaft portion and first and second eccentric portions arranged to engage the first and second eccentric rotation mechanisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takazou Sotojima, Yoshitaka Shibamoto, Takashi Shimizu, Kazuhiro Furusho
  • Publication number: 20100251986
    Abstract: Heterocentric Distributive Oscillating Transmission mechanism, as a combination of interlaced planetary systems which interconnect a drive shaft (5) and a plurality of elements (1, 2, 3), where each element, being a carrier, bears a planetary shaft (11, 12, 13) on which two planets (11r & 11a, 12r & 12a, 13r & 13a) are fixed and cooperate simultaneously and continuously with a sun (6), fixed either on the mechanism frame (4r, 4a) or on a base (9) rotatable with respect to this frame, and a sun (7), fixed on the drive shaft, some of the used toothings being of variable transmission ratio and called “odonto-knodaces” and possibly also having stepwise deployment, achieving in any case unlimited progressiveness and precision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventor: Panagiotis Zaraphonitis
  • Patent number: 7789641
    Abstract: A sealing ring is provided between an end plate of an eccentric rotation body and a support plate so that a pressure of fluid at high pressure is allowed to work on the end plate, thereby allowing an axial-direction pressing force to work on the end plate. The sealing ring is arranged eccentrically away from a center of a cylinder as forming the eccentric rotation body to minimize separation of the axial-direction pressing force from a thrust load in a radial direction in the end plate thereby reducing turnover moment effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masanori Masuda
  • Patent number: 7722340
    Abstract: A blade moves backward/forward to enter four different states, namely a first state in which the tip thereof is in sliding contact with the internal peripheral surface of an external side cylinder part, a second state in which the tip is positioned in the cutaway portion of a ring-shaped piston to thereby place only an external side cylinder chamber at rest, a third state in which the tip is positioned in the cutaway portion of an internal side cylinder part to thereby place only the external side cylinder chamber and an intermediate cylinder chamber at rest, and a whole rest state in which the tip is positioned in a blade groove to thereby place all of the cylinder chambers at rest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Masuda, Yoshitaka Shibamoto, Kazuhiro Furusho, Takashi Shimizu, Takazo Sotojima
  • Patent number: 7674097
    Abstract: Two rotary mechanism parts (70, 80) are provided in a rotary expander (60). The first rotary mechanism part (70) is smaller in displacement volume than the second rotary mechanism part (80). A first low-pressure chamber (74) of the first rotary mechanism part (70) and a second high-pressure chamber (83) of the second rotary mechanism part (80) are fluidly connected together by a communicating passageway (64), thereby forming a single expansion chamber (66). High-pressure refrigerant introduced into the first rotary mechanism part (70) expands in the expansion chamber (66). An injection passageway (37) is fluidly connected to the communicating passageway (64). When an motor-operated valve (90) is placed in the open state, high-pressure refrigerant is introduced into the expansion chamber (66) also from the injection passageway (37). This makes it possible to inhibit the drop in power recovery efficiency, even in the condition that causes the actual expansion ratio to fall below the design expansion ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Okamoto, Michio Moriwaki, Eiji Kumakura, Tetsuya Okamoto, Katsumi Sakitani
  • Publication number: 20090282845
    Abstract: An expander of the invention includes: n-number of rotary type fluid mechanisms (where n is an integer equal to or greater than 2), a first suction port (41b) for sucking a working fluid into a suction-side space (55a) of a first fluid mechanism (41), a communication port (43a) connecting a discharge-side space (55b) of a k-th fluid mechanism (where k is an integer from 1 to n?1) and a (k+1)-th suction-side space (56a) to form a single space, and a discharge port (51a) for discharging the working fluid from the discharge-side space of an n-th fluid mechanism. The expander further includes a second suction port (72f) being capable of changing its connecting position to the suction-side space (55a) of the first fluid mechanism (41), for sucking the working fluid into the suction-side space (55a).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Masaru Matsui, Atsuo Okaichi, Tomoichiro Tamura, Takeshi Ogata, Keizo Matsui, Tetsuya Matsuyama
  • Publication number: 20090238705
    Abstract: A rotary compressor includes a fixed side and a movable side that is eccentrically movable relative to the fixed side. The movable side moves in response to operation of a drive mechanism, which rotates a drive shaft. The fixed side has a main bearing formed as a unitary part. A cylinder may serve as the movable side, which is coupled through an eccentric part to the drive shaft. The drive shaft is supported by the main bearing. With such an arrangement, a ring-shaped piston may serve as the fixed side, which is formed integrally with the main bearing in a front head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Shimizu, Yoshitaka Shibamoto, Kazuhiro Furusho, Takazou Sotojima, Masanori Masuda
  • Publication number: 20090185926
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a baffle member in a high pressure region of the housing where compressed fluid is stored. The baffle serves to carry and transfer pressure loads away from the central region to an outer periphery region where such loads can be transferred to the outer housing. Deflection, stress and wear on the scroll compressor bodies may be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: Bitzer Scroll Inc.
    Inventor: James W. Bush
  • Patent number: 7540728
    Abstract: In order to more effectively use the constructional volume of a volume screw machine of rotary type, a plurality of sets (80, 70; 60, 50) of female elements having an inner screw surface and of male elements having an outer screw surface is provided, wherein in each set a rotary motion of at least one element is created. If the motion of elements in different sets (80, 70; 60, 50) is synchronized, one can provide for a dynamically balanced machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Elthom Enterprises Limited
    Inventor: Alexander Gorban
  • Publication number: 20080310983
    Abstract: A positive displacement expander includes a volume change mechanism (90) for changing the volume of a first fluid chamber (72) of an expansion mechanism (60). The expansion mechanism (60) includes a first rotary mechanism (70) and a second rotary mechanism (80) each having a cylinder (71, 81) containing a rotor (75, 85). The first fluid chamber (72) of the first rotary mechanism (70) and a second fluid chamber (82) of the second rotary mechanism (80) are in fluid communication with each other to form an actuation chamber (66). Meanwhile, the first fluid chamber (72) of the first rotary mechanism (70) is smaller than the second fluid chamber (82) of the second rotary mechanism (80). The volume change mechanism (90) includes an auxiliary chamber (93) fluidly communicating with the first fluid chamber (72) and an auxiliary piston (92) for changing the volume of the auxiliary chamber (93). The auxiliary chamber (93) is in fluid communication with the first fluid chamber (72) of the first rotary mechanism (70).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2005
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Katsumi Sakitani, Michio Moriwaki, Masakazu Okamoto, Eiji Kumakura, Yume Inokuchi, Tetsuya Okamoto, Yoshinari Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20080292485
    Abstract: An object is to provide a high inner pressure type multistage compression rotary compressor capable of avoiding beforehand generation of vane fly of a second rotary compression element and realizing a stabilized operation, the rotary compressor includes a communication path which connects an intermediate pressure region to a region having a low pressure as a suction pressure of a first rotary compression element; and a valve device which opens or closes this communication path, the rotary compressor applies a high pressure as a back pressure of an upper vane, and this valve device opens the communication path in a case where a pressure difference between the intermediate pressure and the low pressure increases a predetermined upper limit value before the intermediate pressure reaches the high pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventors: Kenzo Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Matsumori, Takashi Sato, Takayasu Saito
  • Publication number: 20080286137
    Abstract: An object is to provide a high inner pressure type multistage compression rotary compressor capable of avoiding beforehand generation of vane fly of a second rotary compression element and realizing a stabilized operation, the rotary compressor includes a communication path which connects an intermediate pressure region to a region having a low pressure as a suction pressure of a first rotary compression element; and a valve device which opens or closes this communication path, the rotary compressor applies a high pressure as a back pressure of an upper vane, and this valve device opens the communication path in a case where a pressure difference between the intermediate pressure and the low pressure increases a predetermined upper limit value before the intermediate pressure reaches the high pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Kenzo Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Matsumori, Takashi Sato, Takayasu Saito
  • Patent number: 7445437
    Abstract: A scroll type fluid machine includes a housing, a first scroll unit arranged rotatably in the housing and a second scroll unit rotating with rotation of the first scroll unit and gyrating relative to the first scroll unit to vary volumes of compression spaces. The first scroll unit includes a first wrap group including two end plates with support shafts supported rotatably by the housing and scrolled wraps arranged uniformly. The second scroll unit includes a cylindrical outer peripheral ring portion held slidably between the end plates of the first scroll unit, a connection block portion located in a center portion and a second wrap group having plural scrolled wraps extending from the ring portion to the connection block portion to define insertion spaces into which the wraps of the first wrap group are inserted and, with the first wrap group, forming compression spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Scroll Giken LLC
    Inventor: Shinji Kawazoe
  • Patent number: 7435066
    Abstract: The present invention provides an oil pump in which eroding of the inside of the pump due to cavitation and erosion is prevented by minimizing the pressure change in a fluid when inter-tooth spaces formed by an inner rotor and an outer rotor transport the fluid from the intake port to the discharge port. The oil pump comprises: an inner rotor; an outer rotor; an intake port; a discharge port; a transfer side partition part formed between a terminal end of the intake port and a leading end of the discharge port; and a shallow groove which is formed in the transfer side partition part, and which communicates with the discharge port but does not communicate with the intake port. The shallow groove does not intersect with the cell on the transfer side partition part, and is positioned farther inward than the circular locus of the gear bottom parts of the inner rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Yamada Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Enzaka, Yasunori Ono, Sentaro Nishioka, Masahiro Kasahara, Atsushi Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20080247882
    Abstract: A split-pressure, dual-pump system for supplying hydraulic fluid to a multi-speed transmission is provided. The system includes a low-pressure work circuit operatively connected to a fixed displacement pump, and a high-pressure work circuit operatively connected to a variable displacement pump. The system also includes a regulator valve fluidly coupled to the variable displacement pump via a decrease circuit and an overage circuit for regulating the flow of fluid to the high-pressure work circuit. The invention consists of separating the high-pressure needs of the system into a separate work circuit from the low-pressure needs of the system, and optimizing pump design separately for each work circuit to maximize transmission efficiency and reduce parasitic losses. A method of supplying hydraulic fluid to a multi-speed transmission at variable flow and pressure is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Earl Earhart, Dane L. Rodgers
  • Publication number: 20080240958
    Abstract: A rotary fluid machine includes a first rotation mechanism and a second rotation mechanism. Each of them includes a cylinder having a cylinder chamber and an annular piston which is contained in the cylinder chamber and divides the cylinder chamber into an outer working chamber and an inner working chamber. The cylinder goes rotates around the piston. The first rotation mechanism and the second rotation mechanism are arranged to be adjacent to each other with a partition plate sandwiched therebetween. The cylinder of the first rotation mechanism and the cylinder of the second rotation mechanism are arranged such that one of the cylinders is provided at one side of a partition plate and the other is provided at the other side of the partition plate. Each of the first rotation mechanism and the second rotation mechanism is provided with a compliance mechanism for reducing a gap that occurs between the cylinders in the axial direction of the drive shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventor: Masanori Masuda
  • Patent number: 7419369
    Abstract: Disclosed is a displacement type expansion machine. In the displacement type expansion machine, a communicating passage (72) for allowing fluid communication between an expansion-process intermediate position and an outflow position in an expansion chamber (62) is provided thereby to allow the fluid at the outflow side to return to the expansion chamber (62). Such arrangement prevents the pressure of the expansion chamber (62) from being lowered to an excessive extent in predetermined operating conditions, thereby avoiding the drop in power recovery efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Sakitani, Michio Moriwaki, Masakazu Okamoto, Eiji Kumakura, Tetsuya Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20080193314
    Abstract: A rotary compressor including a housing having first and second compressing chambers separated from each other, first and second flanges coupled to the housing, to close the first and second compressing chambers, respectively, an intermediate plate to separate the first and second compressing chambers from each other, first and second rollers rotatably installed in the first and second compressing chambers, respectively, first and second vanes to reciprocate in a radial direction of the first and second compressing chambers to divide the first and second compressing chambers, respectively, and a vane control device to control the reciprocating movement of the first vane by use of a suction pressure and a discharge pressure, for a variation in compression capacity. A first gap, defined at an end of the first roller, is smaller than a second gap defined at an end of the second roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung Rae Cho, Phil Soo Chang, Hyeong Joon Seo, In Ju Lee, Ji Hoon Choi
  • Patent number: 7404705
    Abstract: A blending pump assembly for accurately maintaining the proper ratio of two fluid components. Flow of a first fluid is utilized to drive a fluid motor, which in turn drives a pumping mechanism to inject a proportional amount of a second fluid into the flow of the first fluid. The fluid motor and pump are sized so that a predetermined ratio between the two fluids is maintained regardless of changes in pressure and flow rate of such first fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: International Dispensing Corporation
    Inventor: Mitchell A. Friedman
  • Publication number: 20080056923
    Abstract: A rotary compressor including a cylinder to form a compression chamber, and including a vane slot including a vane guide part recessed outward from an inner surface of the compression chamber and an extended part having a width wider than the width of the vane guide part by a predetermined extension width in an outer end area of the vane guide part, a roller to eccentrically rotate in the compression chamber and to compress a medium, a vane reciprocatingly accommodated in the vane slot, and contacted to an outer surface of the roller to divide the compression chamber, and a filling member accommodated in a space of the extension width in the extended part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Moon-joo LEE, Jeong-bae Lee, Kyung-jun Han, Chun-mo Sung, Chang-joo Shin
  • Patent number: 7182586
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes: a frame fixedly installed in the casing to support a rotary shaft of the driving motor and having a second suction opening at its one side and a second discharge opening at its other side; a fixed scroll fixedly installed at the frame and having a first suction opening at its edgemost and a first discharge opening at its central portion; an orbiting scroll forming a first compression chamber by being engaged with the fixed scroll; a self-rotation preventing member interposed between the frame and the orbiting scroll for preventing a self-rotation of the orbiting scroll; and a vane making a linear movement in a radial direction of the frame according to an orbiting movement of the orbiting scroll, and forming between the frame and the orbiting scroll a second compression chamber including a spaces where the second suction and discharge opening exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Myung-Kyun Kim, Byeong-Chul Lee, Dong-Won Yoo
  • Patent number: 7131826
    Abstract: A blending pump assembly for accurately maintaining the proper ratio of two fluid components. Flow of a first fluid is utilized to drive a fluid motor, which in turn drives a pumping mechanism to inject a proportional amount of a second fluid into the flow of the first fluid. The fluid motor and pump are sized so that a predetermined ratio between the two fluids is maintained regardless of changes in pressure and flow rate of such first fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: International Dispensing Corporation
    Inventor: Mitchell A. Friedman
  • Patent number: 6447268
    Abstract: A positive displacement engine with integrated positive displacement rotary fluid compressor has a piston chamber, a piston disposed in the piston chamber, a rotary compressor housing, the rotary compressor housing have first and second interconnected rotary compressor chambers, and first and second rotary compressor elements disposed in the first and second rotary compressor chambers, respectively. The first and second rotary compressor elements each have an elongated arm portion pivotally connected to the piston, and have a generally circular base portion eccentrically pivotally connected to first and second crankshafs. The first and second crankshafts are interconnected to rotate synchronously in opposite directions such that the rotary compressor elements rotate, eccentrically about the crankshafts, within the rotary compressor chambers, synchronously in opposite directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Inventor: John Abramopaulos
  • Publication number: 20020106295
    Abstract: A horizontal scroll-type compressor is provided with an oil injection fitting that extends through the compressor shell and communicates lubricating oil to a lubrication passage in the crankshaft for providing lubricant to the compressor and other components. The oil injection fitting is supplied with lubricant from an externally disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2001
    Publication date: August 8, 2002
    Inventors: John P. Elson, Brian R. Butler
  • Patent number: 6428296
    Abstract: A horizontal scroll-type compressor is provided with an oil injection fitting that extends through the compressor shell and communicates lubricating oil to a lubrication passage in the crankshaft for providing lubricant to the compressor and other components. The oil injection fitting is supplied with lubricant from an externally disposed source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Copeland Corporation
    Inventors: John P. Elson, Brian R. Butler
  • Patent number: 6059550
    Abstract: A twin-cylinder impeller pump is disclosed. In the above pump, the twin-cylinder runner (3, 4) is provided with an elastic sealing means for removing any gap from the junction between the runner and the throat of a pump casing (10) with the runner being positioned at its upper or lower dead point. In a transmission gear mechanism of the above pump, the drive shaft does not directly engage with the driven shaft, but indirectly engages with the driven shaft through two idle gears (14, 17). In each of the idle gears (14, 17), both a circular concentric gear (14, 17) and an elliptical eccentric gear (15, 18) are commonly mounted to a shaft, thus forming a twin gear. The two elliptical eccentric gears (15, 18) engage with each other, while the two circular concentric gears (14, 17) engage with the drive and driven gears (13, 16) respectively, thus effectively reducing operational noises and vibrations during a pumping operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Inventor: Phil Chan Rha
  • Patent number: 5911567
    Abstract: A positive displacement pump apparatus includes a housing formed of a housing wall including a wall portion; a pump center line; a pump drive shaft extending through the wall portion coaxially with the pump center line and having a terminus within the housing adjacent the wall portion; a rotatable disc disposed in the housing adjacent the wall and secured to the terminus to be rotated by the drive shaft about the pump center line; and a vane mounted eccentrically on the disc for travel along a circular arc as the disc rotates. The vane has a vane axis about which the vane rotates relative to the disc; and two opposite, axially spaced first and second radial sides. The vane is mounted on the disc at the first radial side. The vane further has two opposite, radially spaced axial sides. The distance of the vane axis to either of the axial sides is greater than the distance from the pump center line to the vane axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1999
    Assignee: QVP Pty Ltd
    Inventor: William Wesley Martin
  • Patent number: 5895421
    Abstract: An artificial heart comprising a case with inlet and outlet openings for blood which can be implanted in human body instead of an incurable human heart and can provide the normal blood flows in both large (body) and small (lungs) blood circulations for a long period (years). It has a driving arrangement which has a driver armed with magnets and is placed outside the human body. The case is formed with cylindrical wall and two end plates and contains a movable grid consisting of twelve elongated wall elements which are disposed between said plates and which bear slidingly and sealingly on said plates, each wall element being articulately sealingly connected at its end points to at least one further wall element. The grid has nine axles; the central one is connected at least with one of the said plates, the remaining axles are free. The grid is armed with permanent magnets which cause the grid's rotation by their magnet coupling with the driving magnets of the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Inventor: Raoul S. Nakhmanson
  • Patent number: 5704774
    Abstract: A pump which is easy to manufacture and which has a high efficiency and low vibration includes a pair of identical circular-shaped impellers which are respectively eccentrially and rotatably connected to respective parallel shafts so as to rotate oppositely to one another while keeping a constant spacing therebetween, a pair of identical cylindrical impeller chambers in which the impellers are respectively positioned such that the impellers circumferentially slide along an inner peripheral surface of the impeller chambers, one impeller acting to discharge fluid from the impeller chamber in which it rotates and the other acting to intake fluid into the impeller chamber in which it rotates, and a connecting plate that couples the impellers together and causes them to be spaced a constant distance apart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Inventor: Phil Chan Rha
  • Patent number: 5385457
    Abstract: A positive displacement device is presented. The mechanism comprises a nutator capable of nutating within a nutating chamber defined by the interior surface of the body of the positive displacement device between an inlet into and an outlet out of the positive displacement device, an inverted pendulous, low friction, substantially non-sliding nutator, vertically elongated double pivoting fulcrum; a magnetic signal pickup mechanism comprising a pivoting cruciform shaped magnet element low inertia wire magnetically tracking a nutator and a means of sensing movement; a third magnetic element to dampen or amplify movement of the cruciform wire; a balance plate bearing on the basic elements of the positive displacement device by means of a resilient spring force; and static elements which provide magnetic attraction to the moving elements effecting a sealing influence between the static and moving elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1995
    Inventor: John E. Durand
  • Patent number: 5277564
    Abstract: A closed type scroll compressor has a drive shaft supported by a frame through bearings lubricated with a lubricating oil supplied from an oil reservoir via a lubricating oil passage bore formed in the drive shaft. The end of the drive shaft in which the upstream end of the lubricating oil passage bore opens is connected to the oil reservoir through a joint tube which is supported by supporting structures including a combination of a spherical slide bearing and slide bearing and capable of taking up any mounting error or displacement of the drive shaft in any direction. The compressor can be assembled easily without any risk of uneven or local contact of each sliding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Tamura, Kazuo Sakurai, Masashi Miyake, Mutsunori Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 5259739
    Abstract: A mechanism for providing motive power consisting of a plurality of rotary-type pistons fitted into chambers uniformly situated about the axis of the engine in a housing for improving the effective displacement and compression of such engines. Motive forces generated by the pressure exerted on the piston are transferred from the cylinders through operative pins projecting axially from each of the pistons. The operative pins engage tracks in a guide plates. Due to the shape of the operative pins and tracks in the guide plate, the resultant forces generated between the operative pins and the guide plate cause the housing to rotate relative to the guide plate, generating torque. Thrust layers are provided which have involutes to introduce fuel and other fluids into the piston chambers and to remove exhaust fluids from the chambers. Cover plates are also provided to prevent the introduction and removal of fluids from the chambers from interfering with the transfer of power to the guide plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1993
    Assignee: CG&G Enterprises
    Inventors: James A. Coates, James M. Gernert
  • Patent number: 5259740
    Abstract: A rotary compressor comprises a body forming an even number of parallel cylinders arranged equidistantly about an axis within a common plane oriented perpendicularly to the axis. An eccentric roller is rotatably mounted in each cylinder for sucking-in fluid through a respective inflow port and, once having compressed the fluid, discharging the fluid through a discharge port. A vane is disposed in each cylinder and is spring-biased against a respective roller to isolate the inflow port from the discharge port. A motor-driven drive shaft rotates about the axis and is coupled to the rollers by means of gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1993
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young Youn
  • Patent number: 5211031
    Abstract: A scroll type compressor having a pair of scroll type compression units which are encased in the same casing so as to make a common use of a lubricating oil reservoir provided in the casing, wherein the compression units have compression elements, drive shafts, driving motors and other components which are of the same constructions and specifications, and wherein each of the compression units are adapted to be driven selectively by commercial electrical power or through a frequency-variable inverter so as to operate at different speeds. Since both compression units can be made up from the same components such as the compression elements, loads in the production, service and administration, are greatly reduced contributing to a reduction in the labor and cost, while eliminating any mounting error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1993
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Murayama, Tadashi Fukuishi, Sigeaki Kuroda, Toshiaki Koyama, Tadao Ochiai, Toshio Hirai, Shintaro Sado, Yasushi Izunaga, Shouji Kikuchi, Fumio Yoshinaga
  • Patent number: 5114323
    Abstract: The present invention is a nutating positive displacement device including a nutator with an inverted pendulous, low friction, substantially non sliding vertically elongated double pivoting nutator fulcrum. The fulcrum is one member comprising a bottom base coupled to a central beam coupled to a top nutator support bearing surface. The bottom of the fulcrum comprises a pivoting base pivotally and substantially non slidably mating with a base receptacle defined by a body interior surface. The base is coupled to the fulcrum beam which in turn supports the fulcrum nutator support bearing surface. The nutator support bearing surface pivotally and substantially non slidably mates with a nutator restraint defined by the center bottom surface of the nutator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1992
    Inventor: John E. Durand
  • Patent number: 5112201
    Abstract: A scroll compressor apparatus comprising a closed scroll compressor, an oil reservoir vessel separate from the closed scroll compressor, a discharge pipe, and an oil supply pipe. The closed scroll compressor includes a closed container having a suction port through which a compression medium is suctioned, a scroll compression mechanism encased in the closed container, a motor encased in the closed container, a first oil supply passage extending through an end plate of a fixed scroll and through which a first opening facing a sliding contact portion with an orbiting scroll is communicated with an oil supply port, a second oil supply passage formed in an end plate of the orbiting scroll and through which the first opening is communicated with a second opening facing an end face of a driving shaft, and a third oil supply passage, formed in the driving shaft, through which the second opening is communicated with the third opening facing a bearing supporting the driving shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1992
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Tamura, Kazuo Sakurai
  • Patent number: 5069606
    Abstract: Two essentially identical oval shaped blades each attached rotatably by axles within a cylindrically shaped main chamber of a housing. Each blade has a cross-sectional profile approximating opposing larger radius 90 degree arcs connected by opposing smaller radius 90 degree arcs. Each blade is attached to a rotatable carriage assembly within the housing, and 180 degrees apart in the same orbital path about the rotational axis of the carriage assembly. The rotational axis of the carriage assembly, and the orbital path of the blades about the carriage assembly axis are eccentric relative to the center of the main chamber. A transmission and timing arrangement communicates and coordinates rotational movement between the carriage assembly and blades. The blades are positioned with the length of one blade perpendicular to the other blade length while rotating and orbiting about the axis of the rotating carriage assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1991
    Inventor: John R. Bachellerie