Abstract: A gear pump assembly includes a drive gear having a plurality of circumferentially spaced teeth, and a driven gear likewise having a plurality of circumferentially spaced teeth positioned for intermeshing engagement between the drive and driven gears via the teeth. A bleed mechanism directs carryover fluid from a discharge side of a bearing dam to an inlet side of the bearing dam in order to supply the carryover fluid to a carryover volume disposed between mating drive gear teeth and driven gear teeth. The bleed mechanism including a passage communicating with at least one of (i) a gear face of the drive gear, (ii) a gear face of the driven gear; or (iii) a bottom of a gear tooth profile adjacent a root region between adjacent gear teeth.

Abstract: A fluid machine includes a first rotor rotatable about a first axis. The first rotor has a first portion and a second portion. A second rotor is rotatable about a second axis. The second rotor includes a first portion and a second portion. At least one spacer is associated with the first rotor and the second rotor to limit intermeshing engagement between the first rotor and the second rotor.

Abstract: A screw compressor includes a casing, a screw rotor, a discharge passage, and at least one muffler space. The casing includes a cylindrically-shaped cylinder, a main body surrounding a vicinity of the cylinder, and a high-pressure fluid passage provided between the main body and the cylinder. The screw rotor includes a plurality of helical grooves. The screw rotor is inserted into the cylinder to define fluid chambers. A fluid is sucked into the fluid chambers to compress the fluid. The discharge passage is disposed in the casing. The discharge passage guides the fluid that has been discharged from the fluid chambers to the high-pressure fluid passage. The at least one muffler space is disposed in the casing. The at least one muffler space communicates with the discharge passage so as to reduce a pressure fluctuation of the fluid flowing from the discharge passage to the high-pressure fluid passage.

Abstract: The pump device includes: a pump body which transfers a transfer fluid; a drive unit which drives the pump body; an operating unit which sets an operation of the drive unit; and a joint mechanism which attaches the operating unit to the drive unit. The drive unit includes a casing. The operating unit includes a user-accessible operating surface. The joint mechanism is attached to a wall surface of the casing so as to be rotationally operable about a first axis perpendicular to the wall surface and supports the operating unit such that the operating surface crosses a second axis perpendicular to the first axis and follows along an outer surface of the casing.

Abstract: A thick matter pump includes a hydraulically-driven two-cylinder piston-pump configured to generate a thick matter delivery pressure. The thick matter pump also includes a hydraulic pump configured to apply hydraulic fluid to the two-cylinder piston-pump via a drive line. The hydraulic pump includes a pressure regulator that is adjustable to a target value of pressure of the hydraulic fluid for limiting the thick matter delivery pressure, and the thick matter delivery pressure is adjustably limited. The pressure of the hydraulic fluid is limited in the drive line, via an adjustable pressure-limiting valve, to an adjustable maximum pressure. The target pressure of the pressure regulator and the maximum pressure of the hydraulic fluid are adjustable through a joint adjusting element.

Abstract: A vehicle air-conditioner compressor may include a housing having a front housing section and a rear housing section; a shaft rotatably installed in the housing; a lug fixed at a preset position on the shaft; a swash plate coupled with the lug at one side thereof and rotating together with the lug, a piston connected to the swash plate by a shoe and moved reciprocatingly by the swash plate; a cylinder that accommodates the piston therein, and a pressure-sensing chamber coupled with a rod at the other side of the swash plate, that operates the rod using a pressure provided from a high-pressure chamber of the rear housing.

Abstract: An ejector includes a body including an inflow space into which a refrigerant flows, a passage formation member disposed inside the body and having a conical shape, and a nozzle passage having an annular cross section which functions as a nozzle and a diffuser passage having an annular cross section which functions as a pressure increase portion, the nozzle passage and the diffuser passage being disposed between an inner wall surface of the body and a conical lateral surface of the passage formation member. A drive mechanism that displaces the passage formation member in a direction along a center axis is coupled to an upstream actuating bar which extends from the passage formation member toward the inflow space and is slidably supported by the body. Center axes of the passage formation member, the upstream actuating bar and the inflow space are coaxial with each other.

Abstract: Provided is A displacement control valve which includes a valve housing, a valve element constituting a main valve that contacts and separates from a main valve seat, for opening and closing communication between discharge ports and control ports by driving force of a solenoid, a pressure-sensitive valve that opens and closes according to ambient pressure, and a pressure-sensitive valve member constituting the pressure-sensitive valve together with a pressure-sensitive element. The valve element and the pressure-sensitive valve member are formed with an intermediate communicating passage which allows communication between the control ports and the suction ports by opening and closing of the pressure-sensitive valve.

Abstract: A screw compressor is provided with: a compressor body in which a screw rotor is accommodated in a rotor casing; a motor in which a rotator and a stator are accommodated in a motor chamber, the motor for rotationally driving a rotor shaft through use of a motor shaft; axial liquid supplying parts, provided on an anti-rotor side of the motor shaft; a motor shaft cooling part which is a cavity extending in the axial direction inside the motor shaft, the motor shaft cooling part for cooling the motor shaft by circulating a cooling liquid through the inside of the cavity thereof; and a liquid outlet part positioned on a rotor side of the motor shaft or a motor side of the rotor shaft and fluidically connected to the motor shaft cooling part so as to extend radially inward from an outlet opening formed in an outer surface of the motor shaft or the rotor shaft.

Abstract: A motor vehicle vacuum pump includes a pumping chamber in which a pump rotor rotates to compress a gas, an outlet chamber into which the gas exits, a separation wall which includes a valve opening and a valve seat arranged on an outlet side of the separation wall around the valve opening. The separation wall separates the pumping chamber from the outlet chamber. An outlet valve is formed as a non-return valve in the separation wall. The outlet valve is formed by the valve opening in the separation wall and includes a valve body with a closing body. The outlet valve has the gas exit therethrough from the pumping chamber into the outlet chamber. A corresponding part of the closing body is supported on the valve seat when the closing body is in a closed position. The valve seat and/or the corresponding part of the closing body includes microgrooves.

Abstract: A compressor may include a shell assembly, first and second scrolls, and a valve assembly. The shell assembly may define a discharge chamber. The first scroll may be disposed within the discharge chamber and may include a first end plate and a first spiral wrap. The first end plate may include a discharge passage in communication with the discharge chamber. The second scroll may be disposed within the discharge chamber and may include a second end plate and a second spiral wrap. The first and second spiral wraps define fluid pockets therebetween. The second end plate may include a port selectively communicating with one of the fluid pockets. The valve assembly may be mounted to the second scroll and may include a valve member that is movable between open and closed positions to allow and restrict communication between the port and the discharge chamber.

Abstract: A gas supplying apparatus includes a compressor, a housing having an exhaust port, and an exhaust duct. The housing has a circumferential wall and a top wall. The circumferential wall has an access section. The exhaust port is provided on at least one of the circumferential wall and the top wall at a location higher than the access section. The exhaust duct includes a discharge port for discharging the air, exhausted from the exhaust port, to the outside. The discharge port is opened upward or opened downward in an area overlapping the top wall in an up-and-down direction.

Abstract: A magnetic levitated pump that does not cause pulsation of a pumped liquid and can suppress the generation of particles, which are liable to be produced by contact of a sliding part, is disclosed. The magnetic levitated pump for magnetically levitating an impeller housed in a pump casing includes a motor configured to rotate the impeller, and an electromagnet configured to magnetically support the impeller. The motor and the electromagnet are arranged so as to face each other across the impeller, and the motor is arranged on the opposite side of a suction port of the pump casing.

Abstract: A compressor may include first and second scrolls, and an axial biasing chamber. Spiral wraps of the scrolls mesh with each other and form compression pockets including a suction-pressure compression pocket, a discharge-pressure compression pocket, and intermediate-pressure compression pockets. The axial biasing chamber may be disposed axially between the second end plate and a component. Working fluid disposed within the axial biasing chamber may axially bias the second scroll toward the first scroll. The second end plate includes outer and inner ports. The outer port is disposed radially outward relative to the inner port. The outer port may be open to a first one of the intermediate-pressure compression pockets and in selective fluid communication with the axial biasing chamber. The inner port may be open to a second one of the intermediate-pressure compression pockets and in selective fluid communication with the axial biasing chamber.

Abstract: An airfoil includes an airfoil body having a first wall, a second wall, a third wall, a tip shelf, a pocket surface, and a tip surface. The tip shelf circumferentially extends between the first wall and the second wall. The pocket surface circumferentially extends between the second wall and the third wall. The first wall, the second wall, the third wall, and the pocket surface at least partially define a squealer pocket. The tip surface is spaced apart from the pocket surface and circumferentially extends between the second wall and the third wall.

Abstract: A fluid pump valve assembly includes: a valve body; a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet defined in the valve body; an inlet disk and an outlet disk movably disposed in the valve body; and a valve seat fixed within the valve body and including a disk member including at least one first aperture defined axially through the disk member, and at least one second aperture defined axially through the disk member, the inlet disk and the valve seat forming at least part of an inlet valve and the outlet disk and the valve seat forming at least part of an outlet valve. An inlet chamber is disposed upstream of the inlet valve, a pump chamber is disposed between and in fluid communication with the inlet valve and the outlet valve, and an outlet chamber is disposed downstream of the outlet valve. The inlet chamber surrounds the outlet chamber.

Abstract: A gas transportation device is provided and includes a plurality of flow guiding units. Each of the flow guiding units includes an inlet plate, a substrate, a resonance plate, an actuating plate, a piezoelectric component, an outlet plate and a valve, which are sequentially stacked. A convergence chamber is formed between the resonance plate and the inlet plate. The actuating plate has a suspension part, an outer frame and a plurality of interspaces. The piezoelectric component is attached on a surface of the suspension part. Gas is inhaled into the convergence chamber via an inlet aperture of the inlet plate, is transported into a first chamber via a central aperture of the resonance plate, is further transported into a second chamber via the interspaces, and is discharged out from an outlet aperture of the outlet plate. The gas is transported by the flow guiding units disposed in a specific arrangement.

Abstract: A screw pump with a housing; a housing cover; at least one idler screw held in a bore in the housing; and a bushing arranged on the housing cover with a receiving space bounded by a cylindrical flange, into which one end of the idler screw engages; wherein the bushing has an opening in its base, through which a fluid, supplied by a feed channel in the cover, can be supplied from the end opposite the idler screw under pressure to the end surface of the idler screw, wherein the bushing engages with radial play in a receptacle in the cover and comprises a radial flange, by which it is supported axially on the housing; and wherein at a least certain part of the ring-shaped flange of the bushing engages in the bore and is accommodated therein with play.

Abstract: A pump draws fluid from a reservoir and drives the fluid downstream to a spray tip where the fluid is applied to a surface. The pump includes a polymer pump body and a metallic piston configured to reciprocate relative to and within the polymer pump body. The metallic piston interfaces with an inner cylinder formed within the polymer pump body and pumps fluid through the polymer pump body to a spray nozzle downstream of the inner cylinder.

Abstract: A rotary pump for a fluid metering system is provided. The rotary pump reciprocates, and is reversed by a signal from a limit switch that is deflected by an actuator arm on a rotating sleeve of the pump system. The rotary pump includes a plunger and optional stopper formed from a two-shot molding process, and including seals overmolded onto the head of the plunger and the head of the optional stopper.