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  • Patent number: 8123496
    Abstract: A pump device which accurately detects a flow rate of a pump, performs real-time control of the flow rate, and thus can suppress a flow rate error caused by occurrence of pulsation. Control of a pump rotation speed by a pressure sensor has low responsiveness in a low pressure region, and a correlation between a pressure and a flow rate is incomplete in a high flow rate region. With this taken into consideration, a flow rate sensor is disposed at an outlet port of a second pump. A position detection sensor detects a point where a first pump is shifted from a suction mode to a discharge mode. Moreover, the flow rate sensor detects that there is no discharge from the pump, and that there is discharge from the pump alone. Accordingly, a controller sets a rotation speed of a motor to a speed double the previous speed (double the normal rotation speed).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Kimihiko Ishii, Kiyotoshi Mori, Masahito Ito, Hironori Kaji, Takefumi Yokokura