Patents Examined by John J. Vrablik
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Patent number: 6692205Abstract: A compressor has a compression unit, a drive motor, a motor housing and an outer cylinder. The compression unit compresses fluid. The drive motor drives the compression unit. The motor housing surrounds the drive motor. The outer cylinder is mounted on an outer circumferential side of the motor housing for defining a cooling jacket between the outer cylinder and the motor housing for cooling the drive motor by a fluid flowing in the cooling jacket. The outer cylinder is indirectly fixed to the motor housing by press-fitting.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2002Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota JidoshokkiInventors: Takahiro Moroi, Yoshiyuki Nakane, Ryuta Kawaguchi, Tsutomu Nasuda
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Patent number: 6688865Abstract: A vane type fluid machine includes: a casing; a rotor rotating in the casing; and a plurality of vanes supported by the rotor to slide on an inner surface of the casing. A seal portion of each vane is formed to be elastically deformable so as to slide on the inner surface of the casing while bending backward of a rotational direction of the rotor. Therefore, an improved structure of the seal portion of each vane secures good sealing performance even if machining accuracy of the inner surface of the casing is alleviated.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Matsumoto, Yasunobu Kawakami, Kensuke Honma, Toshihiro Tsutsui
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Patent number: 6688866Abstract: A gerotor pump is provided that includes a pump housing having a pump cover and a pump end plate. The pump cover defines an open end, an axial bore, and a bottom end. The pump end plate engages the open end of the pump cover thereby enclosing the axial bore of the pump cover and creating an inner cylindrical chamber in the pump housing. A wear plate and a gerotor gear set assembly are operatively disposed within the inner cylindrical chamber such that the gerotor gear set assembly is operatively disposed between the wear plate and the pump end plate. A biasing member is disposed between the bottom end of the pump cover and the wear plate, and is adapted to operatively bias the wear plate against the gerotor gear set assembly and the pump end to create an axial zero tolerance condition between the pump elements.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: BorgWarner, Inc.Inventors: Chris Lambert, Mark Lemp
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Patent number: 6688864Abstract: A vacuum pump draws gas by operating a gas conveying body in a pump chamber through rotation of a rotary shaft. The vacuum pump has an oil housing member. The oil housing member defines an oil zone adjacent to the pump chamber. The rotary shaft has a projecting portion that projects from the pump chamber into the oil zone through the oil housing member. Stoppers are located on the rotary shaft to integrally rotate with the rotary shaft and prevent oil from entering the pump chamber. The stoppers are located along the axial direction of the rotary shaft.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota JidoshokkiInventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Masahiro Kawaguchi, Osamu Uchiyama
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Patent number: 6688863Abstract: A vacuum pump draws gas by operating a gas conveying body in a pump chamber through rotation of a rotary shaft. The vacuum pump has an oil housing member, a stopper and a circumferential wall surface. The oil housing member defines an oil zone adjacent to the pump chamber. The stopper has a circumferential surface. The stopper is located on the rotary shaft to rotate integrally with the rotary shaft and prevents oil from entering the pump chamber. The center of curvature of the circumferential wall surface coincides with that of the rotary shaft. The circumferential wall surface surrounds at least a part of the circumferential surface of the stopper that is above the rotary shaft. The circumferential wall surface is inclined such that the distance between the circumferential wall surface and the axis of the rotary shaft decreases toward the oil zone.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota JidoshokkiInventors: Nobuaki Hoshino, Masahiro Kawaguchi, Hiroyuki Ishigure, Shinya Yamamoto
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Patent number: 6682328Abstract: 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 is located on the rand 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.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2002Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignee: Anest Iwata CorporationInventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Atsushi Unami
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Patent number: 6682327Abstract: An improved method of aligning the bearing components within a scroll compressor includes the step of mounting the crankcase to be an interference fit within the center shell, and having a surface abutting a true upper surface of the shell. This ensures that the axis of the bearing in the crankcase is idealized and centered on the center axis of the center shell. At the same time, the lower bearing is mounted on the lower end cap, and is also cut to be concentric with a force fit outer surface of the end cap. This ensures the lower bearing is also centered on the inner periphery of the center shell. Once it is ensured the center shell is true, then it is also thus ensured the upper and lower bearings are aligned on a common axis. An improved lower bearing structure with a reverse taper is also disclosed. In some embodiments, the outer surface to be machined to be concentric with the inner surface is provided by a separate part which is welded to the lower end cap.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2002Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignee: Scroll TechnologiesInventors: Tracy L. Milliff, John R. Williams
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Patent number: 6679690Abstract: A scroll compressor including a guide frame (22) for fixing a fixed scroll member (12) and a compliant frame (24) for supporting an oscillating scroll member (14) in the axial direction of the scroll compressor in the guide frame (22), wherein the guide frame (22) has a plurality of cylindrical surfaces (33, 35), and the compliant frame (24) has a plurality of cylindrical surfaces (23, 25) which engage with the cylindrical surfaces (33, 35), and wherein in order to facilitate assembling of the guide frame (22) and the compliant frame (24), the first cylindrical surfaces (25, 35) are first engaged with each other when the compliant frame (24) is inserted into the guide frame (22), that is, the cylindrical surfaces are engaged in the order of increase in diameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2002Date of Patent: January 20, 2004Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeshi Fushiki, Kiyoharu Ikeda, Teruhiko Nishiki, Yoshihide Ogawa, Takashi Sebata, Fumiaki Sano
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Patent number: 6679692Abstract: A modular oil pump for use in combination with an internal combustion engine having a dry sump lubrication system. The device features a first gerotor pump having an intake port engageable in communication with at least one engine sump and having an discharge port engageable in sealed communication with a fluid reservoir for the dry sump system. A second gerotor pump, engageable in sealed communication with the fluid reservoir has a discharge port fluidly engageable with the engine lubrication system oil supply conduit. Both the first pump and second pump are assembled from separate housings, and cooperatively engaged inner and outer gears sized for rotation and in line mounting on the engine crankshaft inside a cavity in the housings. The volume pumping capacity of the first pump at a ratio to efficiently drain fluid and gas from the engine sumps and supply the reservoir with a constant supply of lubrication fluid.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2002Date of Patent: January 20, 2004Inventor: James J. Feuling
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Patent number: 6679691Abstract: A two-speed gerotor motor (10) including motor valve means (19,43) to communicate fluid to and from expanding (33E) and contracting (33c) fluid volume chambers. The motor includes a shift valve spool (61) to cause the motor to operate either in the normal, low-speed, high-torque (LSHT) mode (FIG. 3) or in a high-speed, low-torque (HSLT) mode (FIG. 4). When the motor operates in HSLT mode, certain of the volume chambers comprise recirculating volume chambers (33R). The motor (10) defines a supplemental fluid passage (89) through which fluid is communicated from a system charge pump (73) to each of the recirculating volume chambers (33R). A control valve (83) is operable, in a shift mode (S) to permit fluid communication from the charge pump (73) to the supplemental fluid passage (89), thus preventing cavitation during shifting of the motor (10), especially when shifting from the HSLT mode to the LSHT mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2002Date of Patent: January 20, 2004Assignee: Eaton CorporationInventors: Michael W. Barto, Mark D. Schuster, John B. Heckel, Marvin L. Bernstrom
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Patent number: 6676392Abstract: A small-sized, efficient compressor has a compressed air tank, a first housing provided with a shaft bore, a rotating shaft, an orbiter, a second housing, a rotation restrainer and a circular vane. The orbiter is provided at a lower portion thereof with a cam shaft hole to engage with the cam shaft portion of the rotating shaft without friction, and is adapted to form a ring-shaped operating portion above the orbiter to form a circular space. The second housing is attached to the first housing and forms a second circular space offset from the circular space. The circular vane is formed in the second housing to form a ring-shaped compression chamber within the operating portion of the orbiter. Air is compressed and discharged through a discharge hole of the circular vane to generate a large amount of highly compressed air.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2002Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: Dovicom Technol Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong-Il Hwang, Bin Hwang
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Patent number: 6676394Abstract: The invention relates to an internal-gear pump for pumping fuel in an internal combustion engine, having an internal-toothed annular gear and an external-toothed pinion that cooperates with the annular gear to generate a pumping action. To increase the pump capacity at starting rpm and to lengthen the service life of the internal-gear pump, the pinion is supported radially movably, eccentrically to the annular gear, on a bearing journal. Moreover, a device is provided in order to compensate for the radial play (R) between the pinion and the annular gear.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2002Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Stanislaw Bodzak
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Patent number: 6672853Abstract: The problem of aligning the drive shaft of a pressure clamped pump with the output shaft of a drive motor in a hydraulic apparatus is solved through the use of pressure clamped pump having a housing adapted for installation into a cavity and a drive shaft coincident with the center of the housing. The hydraulic apparatus may include piloting features configured to facilitate alignment of the pump drive shaft with the output shaft of a motor used to drive the pump. The pump may include elements for retaining the drive shaft within the pump, and may also include a larger and less restricted inlet than could be achieved in prior pressure clamped pumps. The pump may include pumping means in the form of a gear pump having a single primary gear driving a single secondary gear. The pumping means may alternatively be a gear pump having a single primary gear driving two or more secondary gears.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2002Date of Patent: January 6, 2004Inventor: Dennis G. Ewald
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Patent number: 6672856Abstract: A screw compressor includes a housing containing at least one rotor for generating a discharge flow in a discharge flow direction; a diffuser communicated with the housing and having a collecting portion for receiving the discharge flow, a diffuser throat and a diffuser portion, said diffuser extending from the housing in a diffuser direction; and at least one turning vane positioned in the collecting portion and adapted to guide flow from the discharge flow direction to the diffuser direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2002Date of Patent: January 6, 2004Assignee: Carrier CorporationInventors: H. Ezzat Khalifa, Michael K. Sahm
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Patent number: 6666661Abstract: In order to improve a refrigerant compressor comprising an overall casing, an electric motor disposed in the overall casing with a stator and a rotor which is mounted on a drive shaft, and also a screw compressor disposed in the overall casing, one compressor screw of which is mounted on the drive shaft, which is rotatably mounted in the overall casing by a first radial bearing between the rotor and the compressor screw and a second radial bearing disposed on a side of the compressor screw lying opposite the first radial bearing, in such a way that the risk of the stator being touched by the rotor no longer occurs, it is proposed that the drive shaft is mounted in the overall casing by a third radial bearing which is disposed on a side of the rotor lying opposite the first radial bearing, and that a drive portion of the drive shaft which extends between the first radial bearing and the third radial bearing is formed in such a way as to compensate for alignment errors between the three radial bearings.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2002Date of Patent: December 23, 2003Assignee: Bitzer Kuehlmaschinenbau GmbHInventor: Rolf Dieterich
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Patent number: 6666672Abstract: The invention concerns a screw pump (10) that is configured as a dual-shaft positive displacement motor and that comprises two positive displacement spindle rotors (1 and 2) rotating in opposite directions and having external toothing. In order to provide a quiet and simple drive mechanism for said rotors (1 and 2) while ensuring synchronization and increased rotational speed, contrate gear-like gearwheels (3 and 4) are mounted on both rotors (1 and 2) rotating in opposite directions or the rotor spindles in a corresponding plane, in which a larger contrate gear-like driving toothed wheel (5) engages in such a way that both spindle rotors (1 and 2) are driven in opposite directions at an increased rotational speed, wherein said contrate gear similarity also includes a crown gear with internal and external toothing working in connection with front toothed wheels or bevel gears and the possibility that only the driving toothed wheel (5) or only the driven gearwheels (3 and 4) are contrate gear-like.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2002Date of Patent: December 23, 2003Inventor: Ralf Steffens
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Patent number: 6666669Abstract: The invention concerns a scroll compressor with at least one fixed displacement element, at least one movable displacement element, which is guided in relation to the fixed displacement element with an orbiting movement, and a gear arrangement, which ensures a non-rotational movement of the movable displacement element and comprises an axial bearing, via which the movable displacement element is supported in an axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2002Date of Patent: December 23, 2003Assignee: Danfoss A/SInventor: Jürgen Süss
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Patent number: 6666667Abstract: The present invention is intended to remove foreign matter such as worn powder in a refrigerating cycle and enhance the reliability in a refrigerating cycle using, in particular, HFC refrigerant. In the invention, accordingly, a coil shaped connection piping is provided in at least front portion or rear portion of a throttling unit, a fine pipe is connected to a lower portion of the connection piping, and a collector for collecting foreign matter in the refrigerating cycle is coupled to this fine pipe. Foreign matter in the refrigerant is separated from the refrigerant by centrifugal force, and is collected in the collector. Moreover, the foreign matter collecting effect is enhanced by disposing a magnetic piece in the collector.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2003Date of Patent: December 23, 2003Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hirotsugu Fukuoka
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Patent number: 6663367Abstract: A Roots pump rotates a plurality of rotors by a pair of rotary shafts to draw gas. Each rotary shaft extends through a rear housing member of the Roots pump. An annular shaft seal is fitted around each rotary shaft and is received in a recess formed in the rear housing member. A helical groove is formed in a circumferential side of each rotary shaft. Each helical groove urges oil between the circumferential side of the associated shaft seal and the circumferential wall of the recess to move from a side corresponding to pump chambers toward a gear accommodating chamber when the associated rotary shaft rotates. This preferably prevents oil from leaking to the pump chambers.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2002Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota JidoshokkiInventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Masahiro Kawaguchi, Ryosuke Koshizaka
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Patent number: 6663370Abstract: A motor comprising a housing defining a chamber, a plate provided within said chamber, and means for condensing a gas within said housing in a manner which creates a sufficient negative pressure near said plate to assist in movement of said plate.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2001Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: Thermal Dynamics, Inc.Inventor: Edward L. Simonds