Abstract: A scroll-type compressor for a fuel cell 1 of the present invention comprises: a fixed scroll for compression 31; a movable scroll for compression 61; a movable plate 6, which has the movable scroll for compression 61 erected on the surface thereof and a shaft insertion portion 60 into which a drive shaft 5 is inserted; a bearing 7, which is provided inside the shaft insertion portion 60 and supports the drive shaft 5 with a lubricant; a fixed scroll for expansion 41; and a movable scroll for expansion 62; and comprises a seal member 8 that prevents the lubricant from leaking and an obstruction member 51 that is provided between the seal member 8 and the inflow port 43 to change the direction of passage of the gas that flows in through the inflow port 43.

Abstract: Provided are vacuum exhaust apparatuses having an oil-sealed rotary pump, and an oil supply section for supplying oil to an inlet path of the rotary pump, and vacuum exhaust methods using the vacuum exhaust apparatuses, which suppress degradation of lubricity and breakage of oil film in the pump at low cost.

Abstract: To offer the seal configuration which prevents the leakage of high pressure compressed fluid from the succeeding stage compression section to the preceding stage compression section of a multistage compression type fluid machine, a seal element 25 is located on the rand 9a between the discharge port 2e located at the end of the spiral lap groove of the preceding stage compression section and the suction port 2f located at the start of the spiral lap groove of the succeeding stage compression section to suck in the compressed fluid discharged from said discharge port and cooled through passing a cooler.

Abstract: A scroll fluid machine requiring no crank shaft to orbitably support an orbiting scroll member and capable of being reduced in overall size in the axial direction. In a casing, two fixed scroll members are provided on the axis of the casing, and an electric motor is provided between the fixed scroll members. Eccentric bearings each having an outer ring, an intermediate ring and an inner ring are provided between the electric motor and the fixed scroll members. The inner periphery of each intermediate ring is formed with an axis eccentric with respect to the axis of the casing. Orbiting scroll members are integrated with the inner rings through an orbiting shaft. The orbiting shaft is caused to orbit by rotating a rotating shaft with the electric motor, thereby causing the orbiting scroll members to orbit relative to the fixed scroll members.

Abstract: Device intended for two-phase compression of several fluids such as a gas soluble in an essentially liquid solvent.

Abstract: The invention is a device for processing a fluid F comprising at least one fraction A to be separated, the fraction to be separated being soluble in a solvent phase. The device includes at least one delivery for the fluid F to be processed; at least one delivery for the solvent phase; at least one two-phase compression device providing homogenization of the fluid F and the solvent phase which dissolves most of the fraction A in the solvent phase and produces a mixture of a solution F1 comprising of solvent phase S and the fraction A dissolved in the solvent phase, and of a fluid F1 which has been depleted of most of the fraction A; and a separation device coupled to an output of the at least one two-phase compression device which discharges respectively solution F1 comprising the solvent phase and the fraction A dissolved in the solvent phase and fluid F2.

Abstract: A scroll pump comprising a fixed scroll, an orbiting scroll orbiting with a radius which is the same as the eccentric distance of an eccentric shaft to the center of the fixed scroll and contacting the fixed scroll, an inlet port formed in the middle of the upper side of the fixed scroll to influx incompressible hydraulic fluid into the scroll pump, a pressure chamber formed at the outside of the orbiting scroll to raise the pressure of the incompressible hydraulic fluid, and an outlet port formed at the side of the fixed scroll to discharge the incompressible hydraulic fluid from the scroll pump.

Abstract: A multistage pump includes a shaft assembly and a housing and spacing plates. The shaft assembly completed by forming shafts and rotors integrally. The spacing plates defining a plurality of successive compression chambers, each chamber is delimited by two symmetrical spacing plates, there has a ring groove associated with the spacing plates, and having an elastic component placed. When the elastic component pressed by the housing, it became leakage and the clearance between the rotors and the spacing plates be easily controlled, by this way, the pump using parts are easy to manufacture, can be machined accurately and which enable highly accurate assembly to be achieved. As to the assembling method, which is characterized by mounting the high pressure end axial bearing seat and the high pressured end plate, then to control the clearance between the high pressure end plate of the bearing seat and the rotors. Furthermore, to install the spacing plates and the housing make the compression chamber formed.

Abstract: A method of improving the efficiency of a pair of first and second scroll refrigeration compressors, at least the second of which includes an intermediate port is characterized in that the delivery of the first scroll compressor is fed into the intermediate port of the second compressor at a pressure corresponding to the intermediate port in the compression process occurring in the second scroll compressor.

Abstract: A scroll is provided which can be operated as either a vacuum pump, a low pressure compressor or a high pressure compressor. The scroll includes a housing, a fixed scroll plate having a continuous fixed involute wrap and an orbiting scroll plate having a continuous orbiting involute wrap. The wraps are of constant width and pitch. The fixed and orbiting scroll plates are mounted in the housing with their involute wraps extending toward each other to define a series of chambers. The fixed involute wrap and orbiting involute wrap each have at least a first section of one height and a second section of a second different height. Additionally, the scroll includes a first port proximate a peripheral edge of the housing, a second port proximate the center of the housing, and at least one mid-port; the mid-port being located proximate the change in height between the first and second sections of the involute wraps.

Abstract: An oil-free two-stage vacuum pump includes first and second pump stages coupled in series. The first and second pump stages have discharge spaces capable of communicating with each other via a bypass passage. The bypass passage is provided with a pressure control valve which is closed when pressure in the bypass passage is lower than a predetermined pressure. This permits a reduction in scroll size. In addition, the pump is free from problems present in pumps with large scroll sizes such as drive shaft vibrations due to warping thereof at high speed rotation, noise and heat generation, and durability reduction due to causes such as non-uniform contact between stationary and revolving scrolls. Moreover, in a compression step in the first pump stage, withdrawn gas is under high pressure; the gas pressure in a sealed vessel is close to the atmospheric pressure in an initial stage of driving.

Abstract: A vacuum pump with circular translation cycle comprises a stationary body (10) with a stationary disc (13, 14) that includes, at least on one side thereof, a spiral-shaped projection (23, 24, 25), a movable disc (30) facing the stationary one (13, 14) and also including at least one spiral-shaped projection (33, 34, 35) interleaved with the projection (23, 24, 25) of the stationary disc (13, 14) and with the same angular range, a mechanism connecting the movable disc (30) to the body (10) so that it is supported thereby and controlling the circular translational motion of the movable disc (30) in relation to the body (10), and actuating unit (20) for driving the movable disc (30) by a pump shaft (50) that is centrally located in relation to the stationary body (10), the mechanism comprising at least one bearing (47) supported by the pump shaft (50) . The pump also includes a device for limiting undesirable travel in the circular translation of the disc, the device being a metallic bellows (60).

Abstract: Vacuum pumping apparatus includes a non-scroll type auxiliary pump and a scroll pump disposed in a single housing. The auxiliary pump and the scroll pump are connected in series and are driven by a common motor. Typically, the auxiliary pump has a relatively high pumping speed and the scroll pump has a relatively high compression ratio. The auxiliary pump may be a regenerative blower, a roots-type blower or a screw-type blower. When a co-rotating scroll pump is utilized, a regenerative blower may be formed at or near the outer periphery of a disk on which the non-orbiting scroll blade is mounted. In another configuration, first and second scroll pumps are disposed within a housing. The scroll blade sets of the first and second scroll pumps have different orbiting radii. Scroll pump leakage may be reduced by forming a closed-loop seal around the inlet region of the scroll pump and connecting the inlet region to an intermediate pressure.

Abstract: A fluid handling apparatus, particularly a vacuum pump, has as a first stage a high volumetric displacement rate scroll pump of multiple nested interacting pairs of fixed and movable spiral-shaped blades supported in a housing between an inlet and an outlet. Each adjacent blade pair closes one inter-blade pocket in each cycle of operation. For very low base pressure vacuum applications, the adjacent blades extend about two revolutions to produce plural pockets in series. A second scroll pump mounted in the housing has its inlet fed directly from the first scroll outlet. The second scroll has a single pair of co-acting fixed and movable blades with multiple revolutions. A central drive shaft rotating in main bearings has an eccentric portion coupled to a plate that carries the movable blades of both scroll pumps. Synchronization cranks constrain the plate to orbit, not rotate. A purge gas flows over the crank bearings to sweep away and/or dilute corrosive fluids.

Abstract: A positive displacement fluid handling apparatus has a first, high volumetric displacement rate scroll pump of nested interacting pairs of fixed and movable spiral-shaped blades supported in a housing between an inlet and an outlet. Each adjacent blade pair is of sufficient angular extent, preferably only about 360.degree., to close an inter-blade pocket. In a preferred form for a vacuum pump, a second scroll pump mounted in the housing has its fluid inlet in direct fluid communication with the first scroll outlet. The second scroll has a single pair of co-acting fixed and movable blades with multiple revolutions with a relatively short axial height. The low back leakage of this second pump allows the first pump to omit tip seals on the free spiral edges of the blades. The volumetric displacement rate of the first pump exceeds that of the second pump. An orbiting plate carries the movable blades of both scroll pumps.

Abstract: A rotor to rotor coupling providing a connecting rod having longitudinal grooves mating to longitudinal grooves in a rotor end. The mated grooves forming chambers for which pins are received therein. A rotor cap secures the captured pins within the chambers and further strengthens the coupling. An optional thrust bearing assembly is disclosed along with a preferred method of synchronizing the rotors and timing the stators.

Abstract: A scroll compressor has first, second and third scrolls. The second and third scrolls each have a spiral ridge on a flat plane and the first scroll has two spiral ridges on opposite sides of a flat plate. The second and third scrolls are arranged on both sides of the first scroll so that the spiral ridges of the opposed scrolls are meshed with each other. A lower-stage compression part is defined between the first and second scrolls and a higher-stage compression part is defined between the first and third scrolls. A suction port of the lower-stage compression part communicates with a suction passage of the compressor, a discharge port of the lower-stage compression part communicates with a suction port of the higher-stage compression part, and a discharge port of the higher-stage compression part communicates with a discharge passage of the compressor.

Abstract: An eccentric drive rotates inside a ring that is hinged to a plate and an astomeric curtain is wrapped around the ring and across an articulated plate. The curtain moves along a cylindrical wall inside the pump cavity to move fluid from an inlet to an outlet end of the chamber. Two or more chambers can be coupled in series or in parallel with one another.

Abstract: An eccentric screw pump comprises at least one stator, a rotor having a core and received for eccentric rotation in the stator, a first coupling device adapted to connect one end of the rotor to a drive system, a second coupling device provided at another end of the rotor, the coupling devices having external dimensions which are smaller than a diameter of the core of the rotor.

Abstract: This gerotor-type hydraulic motor operates at two speeds (low speed, high torque and high speed, low torque) at a given flow rate and pressure of driving hydraulic fluid. It includes first and second rotating power elements disposed along an axis. Between the first and second power elements are first and second commutators. Located between the two commutators is a valve piece which is an integral portion of the motor. The valve piece selectively directs fluid, either in parallel or in series, through the first and second commutators, respectively, to the first and second power elements. Preferably the valve piece includes a spool valve. Also preferably the valve piece includes inner and outer concentric galleries located on opposite sides of the spool valve.

Abstract: A rotary fluid machine comprising a housing, a drive disk, a drive shaft, inner and outer cylindrical assemblies, and a plurality of vanes. The drive disk is supported within the housing for rotation about a first axis, and the drive shaft is connected to the drive disk to rotate that disk about the first axis. The inner and outer cylindrical assemblies extend within the housing, and the housing, the drive disk, and the inner and outer cylindrical assemblies form a working chamber that extends around, eccentric to, that first axis. The vanes are connected to the drive disc and are located in the working chamber to compress or to drive a fluid therein.

Abstract: The screw machine comprises consecutively mounted screw mechanisms (6, 7 and 8, 9) incorporating coaxially arranged stators (10, 12 and 14, 16) and rotors (11, 13 and 15, 17) disposed therein whose axes are offset with respect to the central axis of the stators (10, 12 and 14, 16) by the amount of eccentricity "e" of the screw mechanisms (6, 7 and 8, 9). The screw mechanisms (6, 7 and 8, 9) are grouped into modules (4, and 5) and the modules proper are grouped into blocks (3). The axes of the rotors (11, 13, 15, 17) of the screw mechanisms (6, 7 and 8, 9) in the module (4 and 5) and the modules (4, and 5) proper in the block (3) are arranged symmetrically relative to the central axis.

Abstract: A downhole motor includes a bearing unit connected to a moving section incorporating successively arranged working members--a stator and a rotor interacting with each other along profile surfaces. The like pairs of the adjacent working members are rigidly connected to each other by means of solid threaded bushings. A mounting fixture includes two mounting elements each made as two bushings interconnected by a coupling, the bushings having their profile surfaces located on the same longitudinal axis. One of the bushings is rigidly connected to the coupling, while the other bushing is mounted with the possibility of moving with respect to the longitudinal axis. A method of assembling the downhole motor is effected with the use of a pre-adjusted mounting fixture and resides in interconnecting the like working members by thread bushings ensuring the arrangement of the profile surfaces of the working members analogously to the profile surface of the single monolithic rotor and stator.

Abstract: A multiple-turn scroll pump comprises a pumping unit on each lateral side of a base plate of an oscillatable scroll piston driven by an eccentric drive. Each pumping unit includes a spirally shaped groove in a scroll housing and a spirally shaped displacement blade forming part of the scroll piston. The groove in one of the pumping units extends from the peripheral part of the scroll housing through at least one turn of a spiral and terminates at the intermediate part of the housing. The groove in the other pumping unit also begins close to the peripheral part of the scroll housing but extends through a number of spiral turns greater than that of the groove in the first pumping unit. Passages are provided in the scroll piston to communicate grooves in both units in such a manner that the fluid drawn into the first pumping unit is compressed mainly in the second pumping unit and is discharged solely therefrom.

Abstract: A rotary vane pump includes a shaft of uniform diameter over at least the portion of its length passing through a cavity in a liner member which is eccentric to the shaft and a pair of end bearings defining opposite end faces of the cavity. Vanes extend from the shaft into contact with the eccentric cavity and define pumping pockets which expand and contract as the shaft rotates. The rotating shaft is mounted substantially tangent to the cavity in the liner and is journal mounted in such end bearings which seal opposite ends of the pumping pockets. The vanes are positioned axially of the shaft by means of a groove formed in one end face of the liner and corresponding tabs which project radially from each of the vanes. Alternatively, the groove may be formed by providing a separate wafer adjacent one end of the pump liner having an internal bore of a greater diameter than the internal diameter of the liner.

Abstract: The problem of axial deflection of scrolls having interfitting vanes in a scroll type apparatus acting as a compressor or a pump due to elevated pressure at the interface between the scrolls is avoided by creating a low pressure zone in a chamber at the interface.

Abstract: A helical down-hole machine comprises a plurality of sections, each such section having a helical rotor and a helical stator arranged with a preselected eccentricity to form cavities of variable volume for the passage of fluid therethrough and positioned axially in series. The identical elements of these sections, rotors or stators, are rigidly interconnected. The rigid connection of at least one of these identical elements of said sections is detachable by frictionally jointing a projection provided at the end of one such element and a recess provided at the end of the adjacent element to be secured against relative angular and axial displacements in the process of rotation.

Abstract: Disclosed is an eccentric screw pump for conveying liquids from bore holes, in particular oil well bores. The pump includes an eccentric screw, a stator associated with the screw and located at the lowest point of a riser, and an aboveground drive and bearing unit, the drive shaft of which is connected with a rod linkage by means of a rotating joint which transmits torque and axial force. The rotor is suspended from the rod linkage. For the installation of several conveying units in series and/or of reserve units, several separate stators vertically aligned with each other may be built into the riser and/or several rotors may be placed above each other in the linkage.

Abstract: A scroll type compressor is disclosed which includes a housing, a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll. The fixed scroll is fixedly disposed relative to the housing and has a circular end plate from which a first spiral wrap extends. The spiral wraps interfit at an angular and a radial offset to make a plurality of line contacts to define at least one pair of sealed off fluid pockets. The fluid pockets move toward the center of the spiral wraps with consequent reduction of their volume by the orbital motion of the orbiting scroll. The spiral wrap of each scroll has a transition portion between a lower inner portion of the spiral wrap and a higher out portion thereof. The circular end plate of each scroll is provided with a stepped portion between a deeper outer portion of the end plate and a shallower inner portion thereof.

Abstract: An efficient scroll type compressor is disclosed which has a large number of spiral turns, yet yields gradual, controlled compression. The compressor includes a housing, a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll. The fixed scroll is fixedly disposed relative to the housing and has a circular end plate from which a first spiral wrap extends. The orbiting scroll has a circular end plate from which a second spiral wrap extends. The spiral wraps interfit at an angular and a radial offset to make a plurality of line contacts to define at least one pair of sealed off fluid pockets. The fluid pockets move toward the center of the spiral wraps with consequent reduction of their volume by the orbital motion of the orbiting scroll. The spiral wrap of each scroll has a transition portion between a higher inner portion of the spiral, and a lower outer portion thereof. The circular end plate of each scroll is provided with a stepped portion between a deeper inner portion of the end plate and a shallower outer portion thereof.

Abstract: Peripherally-driven scroll apparatus. The orbiting scroll member is attached through radially-compliant linking means to eccentrics mounted on three equally spaced crankshafts to accommodate differential thermal expansion without the generation of any appreciable elastic forces to increase bearing loads. Means are provided to prevent axial deflections in the stationary scroll members while permitting their supports to be designed and constructed for strength rather than stiffness. The apparatus may be staged and employed as a compressor or expander.

Abstract: A positive fluid displacement apparatus employing scroll members having interfitting spiroidal wraps angularly and radially offset such that as one of the scroll members is orbited, moving fluid pockets of variable volume and different fluid pressures are formed. Axial load carrying of the scroll members is achieved pneumatically through the introduction of a fluid into a pressurizable fluid chamber within the housing and in axial force applying relationship with the orbiting scroll member. The pressurizable fluid chamber may constitute essentially all or only a part of the internal volume of the housing and it is isolated from the fluid pockets. This type of axial load carrying materially reduces the loads which must be carried through the crankshaft and decreases the size and complexity of the bearings. The apparatus is particularly well suited to compressors operating at high exhaust pressures.

Abstract: The rotation of a helix within a deformable tube which is located within and attached by the ends to a pump casing of circular cross section causes fluid to flow between the tube and pump casing when the tube contains at least one longitudinal rib continuously connected to the pump casing. Changes in the cross sectional area of the pump casing and changes in the configuration of the helix permits additional fluid to be drawn into the fluid stream or a portion of such fluid to be discharged from the space between the deformable tube and the pump casing at the transitions in cross sectional areas of the pump casing or changes in configuration of the helix.