Abstract: A method of operating an oil well comprises applying through a variable frequency drive AC electrical energy from a power grid to an AC electric motor to operate a drive mechanism of an oil well pump. The motor speed is regulated in a manner to optimize oil production and maximize the operational life of the drive mechanism, decreasing motor speed by transferring the electrical energy to the power grid and increasing motor speed by transferring the electrical energy from the power grid to the motor. The drive mechanism has a predetermined stroke cycle and, over the course of each stroke cycle, the motor is operated at different regulated speeds initiated when the drive mechanism is at a predetermined position in each stroke cycle.

Abstract: A pump includes a cap that is fit into an opening of a pump body. The pump body has an external thread formed on an outer circumference close to a top face thereof for engagement with and coupling to a rotatable fixing ring having an internal thread so as to retain a cap from top side thereof. The threading engagement along the circumference fixes the cap and the pump body together. The cap has an underside from which a projecting ring extends downward. The projecting ring has a thread. A piston cylinder has an end forming a thread engageable with the thread of the projecting ring to complete the assembling of the piston cylinder.

Abstract: A system and method for flooded start control of a compressor for a refrigeration system is provided. A temperature sensor generates temperature data corresponding to at least one of a compressor temperature and an ambient temperature. A control module receives the temperature data, determines an off-time period since the compressor was last on, determines an amount of liquid present in the compressor based on the temperature data and the off-time period, compares the amount of liquid with a predetermined threshold, and, when the amount of liquid is greater than the predetermined threshold, operates the compressor according to at least one cycle including a first time period during which the compressor is on and a second time period during which the compressor is off.

Abstract: A fan module, disposed inside a case of an electronic device, includes a case body, a blade assembly, a stopping plate and an adjusting element. The case body, including a first case unit, a sidewall and a second case unit, forms an accommodating space. The first case unit or/and the second case unit has an air inlet. The sidewall has an air outlet and an adjusting opening. The blade assembly is disposed inside the accommodating space. The stopping plate, disposed on the sidewall, is for opening or closing the adjusting opening. The adjusting element is movably disposed on the stopping plate and for pressing against the stopping plate. When the adjusting element moves from a first position toward a second position, the adjusting element pushes against and makes the stopping plate to be offset toward the blade assembly, and produces a gap between the stopping plate and the sidewall.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a fluid pump having a pump motor, a pump drive shaft and a vane pump assembly. The pump assembly includes a pump housing having fluid inlet and outlet ports. The pump assembly also includes a distal bearing member having first and second sides and a second side, a plurality of inlet orifices, and a cavity formed in the second side. A first cam ring, having an elliptical interior opening, is disposed within the pump housing adjacent the distal bearing member. A rotor is disposed within the opening in the first cam ring. This rotor has first and second sides, a cavity in the first side, and a plurality of radial slots for sliding vanes. The vane pump assembly also includes a second cam ring, having an elliptical shape, disposed in the cavities formed in the distal bearing member second side and the rotor first side.

Abstract: A method for removing a buildup of solid impurities on a barrel using a cyclonic debris evacuation assembly, the method comprising: capturing solid impurities between a cup component of said cyclonic debris evacuation assembly and the barrel in a groove positioned below the cup component; directing the solid impurities in the groove into at least one port; and flushing away the solid impurities.

Abstract: A liquid ring rotating casing compressor (LRRCC), including a shaft, an impeller having a core and a plurality of radially extending vanes rotatably coupled to the shaft, a tubular casing having an inner surface and an outer surface eccentrically rotatably disposed with the impeller and disc-shaped portions laterally coupled to the vanes and/or to the core. The casing defines with the impeller a compression zone, wherein edges of the vanes rotate in increasing proximity to an inner surface of the casing and an expansion zone and edges of the vanes rotate in increasing spaced-apart relationship along an inner surface of the casing. An inlet port communicates with the expansion zone, an outlet port communicates with the compression zone, and there is also provided a drive for rotating motion to the casing.

Abstract: Control method for a washing household appliance comprising a drainage pump unit with an impeller and a motor supplied with an alternating supply voltage of a determined frequency from among a plurality of possible preset frequencies. According to one implementation the method involves an adjustment stage in which the frequency of the motor supply voltage is regulated between the preset frequencies. The method also includes an application stage in which a stator voltage is applied to the motor, the frequency of the motor supply voltage being regulated between the preset frequencies in accordance with the stator voltage applied.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus which may be in the form of a pump or compressor and which can function to compress or accelerate a fluid such as air, gas, gaseous mixtures and/or liquid. In particular, the invention provides a mechanism in which fluid can be admitted and then discharged continuously from each of the radial compartments that make up the compressor chamber.

Abstract: A centrifugal blower apparatus includes a scroll-shaped housing with first and second air inlets which open to a blower chamber that is in fluid communication with an air outlet. The blower includes a motor to drive an impeller, wherein the motor is secured to a frame that is coupled with the housing in a manner to substantially enhance aerodynamic performance of the blower.

Abstract: A fan holder includes at least one frame, a first lateral plate, and a second lateral plate. The frame has a first side surface and a second side surface opposite to each other, and the first side surface and the second side surface respectively have a positioning member and a slot. Each frame can be selectively combined with each other through the first side surface and the second side surface. The first lateral plate has a positioning trough, and the second lateral plate has a stopper. The first lateral plate and the second lateral plate are detachably disposed on the first side surface and the second side surface respectively. The positioning member is interlocked with the positioning trough, and the stopper is inserted in the slot. The fan is disposed in the fan holder, and the fan holder is fixed to a case of an electronic device, so as to provide an air flow to cool the electronic device.

Abstract: A vacuum pump connected to a unit where a low pressure is desired to be maintained, is adapted to reduce a rise in its temperature, during extended operations of the pump. A suction channel has a first end connected to a suction port of the pump and a second end connected to the unit. An aperture provided on the suction channel extends to a pre-determined depth with the channel. The aperture is plugged by a fusible material, or a material capable of subliming. As the temperature of the pump rises, the suction channel transfers heat to the plugging layer of the aperture, and the layer melts or sublimes gradually, with the temperature rise. Once the layer has completely melted or sublimed, the apertures aspirate ambient air from the surroundings into the pump, which cools the interior components of the pump, and quickly reduces the pump's temperature.

Abstract: A reciprocating pump, actuated by an expandable material, can be used to pump well fluids from a wellbore toward the surface of the earth. The expandable material can include piezoelectric, electrostriction, magnetostrictive, or piezomagnetic material. By using the expandable material, the pump can be sufficiently small to fit in various types of tubing within a wellbore.

Abstract: A method of operating an oil well comprises applying through a regenerative variable frequency drive AC electrical energy from a power grid to an AC electric motor to operate a drive mechanism of an oil well pump. The motor speed is regulated in a manner to optimize fluid production and maximize the operational life of the drive mechanism, decreasing motor speed by transferring the electrical energy to the power grid and increasing motor speed by transferring the electrical energy from the power grid to the motor. The drive mechanism has a predetermined stroke cycle and, over the course of each stroke cycle, the motor is operated at different regulated speeds initiated when the drive mechanism is at a predetermined position.

Abstract: A fluid pump kit is provided. The kit includes a magnetic driven member for coupling with and rotating a propeller, and a magnetic driver for magnetically coupling to and driving the magnetic driven member by a magnetic attraction force establishable between the magnetic driver and the magnetic driven member. A motor of the kit operates the magnetic driver. First and second casings are provided for housing the magnetic driver and the magnetic driven member, respectively. The first and second casings with housed magnetic driver and magnetic driven member, respectively, are detachably securable to opposite sides of a non-magnetic spacer solely by the magnetic attraction force establishable between the magnetic driver and the magnetic driven member sufficient to support the second casing and the housed magnetic driven member in a particular position without the use of mechanical aids.

Abstract: A motor arranged to rotate an impeller includes a rotor magnet fixed to a shaft, and a stator arranged opposite to the rotor magnet. The motor is arranged on an axially lower side of an impeller cup. The stator is fixed to an inner circumferential surface of a stator support portion. An opening-side end portion of the impeller cup is arranged opposite to an upper surface of the stator support portion. The upper surface of the stator support portion includes an expanded portion defined in a portion thereof which is opposed to the opening-side end portion of the impeller cup. The expanded portion is preferably located a greater distance from the opening-side end portion of the impeller cup than a distance between the opening-side end portion and a remaining portion of the upper surface of the stator support portion.

Abstract: A compressed gas supply unit has scroll compressors. Gas discharged from the scroll compressors travels through a main supply passage and is reserved in a reservoir tank, after which the gas is supplied to a gas recipient from a supply passage. The scroll compressors include inverter devices that allow for independent modulation of the speeds of respective drive motors. The controller includes a speed range setting unit that sets an upper speed limit and a lower speed limit of the scroll compressors, a speed sum calculating unit that calculates a sum of speeds of the scroll compressors based on a load of the compressed gas supply unit, and a speed setting unit that allocates the calculated sum of speeds among the scroll compressors to set speeds for scroll compressors respectively.

Abstract: A fan motor apparatus of a vacuum cleaner having a diffuser unit is provided. The fan motor apparatus of a vacuum cleaner includes a fan motor unit into and from which an air stream is introduced and discharged in the same direction, and a diffuser unit having an air suction area to discharge an air stream to the fan motor unit through a fluid passage surface, the fluid passage surface through which an air stream is drawn in and discharged out of the diffuser. An air discharge area of the diffuser unit may receive the air stream discharged from the fan motor unit, and distribute and discharge the air stream through a perimeter of the air suction area of the fluid passage surface.

Abstract: The suction arrangement of the present invention is for a hermetic compressor of the type which includes a hermetic shell; a cylinder block defining, in a single piece, a shell portion and a compression cylinder having an end opened to the exterior of the hermetic shell and closed by a valve plate; a head affixed to the cylinder block onto the valve plate so as to define, with the latter, at least one suction chamber receiving refrigerant gas from a gas inlet pipe external to the hermetic shell. The suction arrangement of the present invention comprises a gas inlet duct defined through the shell portion and through the valve plate and having an outer end hermetically coupled to the gas inlet pipe and an inner end opened to the suction chamber.

Abstract: In aspects, the present disclosure provides an apparatus for handling axial thrust in rotating equipment. The apparatus may include a thrust bearing and a runner having a contact surface engaging the thrust bearing. The runner may include passages extending between the contact surface and an opposing surface of the runner. The apparatus may further include a lock ring assembly that has channels in communication with the passages of the runner. In certain embodiments, one or more cavities may be formed on the contact surface of the runner. The cavities may be in communication with the internal passages of the runner. In aspects, the present disclosure provides a method for handling axial thrust in a pump assembly. The pump assembly may include a thrust bearing assembly that may include a runner having a contact surface engaging a thrust bearing pad. The method may include flowing a lubricating fluid to the contact surface using at least one internal passage formed in runner.