Patents Examined by Richard E. Gluck
  • Patent number: 5727441
    Abstract: An improved valve plate structure for use in axial plunger pumps is disclosed. It comprises: (a) a valve plate, which comprises a suction port, a displacement port, and a pressure build-up zone therebetween; (b) a valve cover, which is in close contact with the valve plate, comprises a suction port at a location corresponding to the suction port of the valve plate and a displacement port at a location corresponding to the displacement port of the valve plate; (c) a flow-diverted channel formed in the pressure build up zone of the valve plate; (d) a through hole provided in the bottom of the flow-diverted channel penetrating through the bottom part of the valve plate; (e) a guided channel formed in the valve cover at an interface between the cover and the valve plate abutting the through hole of the flow-diverted channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chiun Lern Fu, Jiun-Jeng Chen, Chaur-Chyn Luoh, Chen-Der Tsai
  • Patent number: 5727931
    Abstract: A piston pump, particularly adapted for use in a system for supplying and dispensing electrically conductive coating material, includes a pump housing having an outer wall, opposed first and second ends and a hollow interior separated into a first cavity and a second cavity by a centrally disposed divider plate. A connector rod extends through a bore formed in the divider plate, and mounts first and second piston heads on opposite ends thereof which move in tandem in a first direction in response to the introduction of coating material into the second cavity, and in a second direction when pressurized air is introduced into the first cavity to discharge the coating material from the second cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Edward Lash, Ronald D. Konieczynski
  • Patent number: 5722818
    Abstract: A hermetically sealed type compressor having a valve seat plate equipped with a plurality of suction holes to effectively suck a refrigerant into a cylinder and capable of preventing the breakage of the valve seat plate coming from the opening and closing operations of a suction reed valve. A partition 50 between adjacent suction holes in the valve seat plate 15 is made to have a constant dimension, thus maintaining a given strength of the partition section and preventing the breakage of the partition 50 coming from the opening and closing movements of the suction reed valve. In addition, in the valve seat plate 15, a cavity 22 or a groove 37 is formed to define a low-pressure space 36 communicating with the plurality of suction holes 24, 25, thereby reducing the suction resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michio Ohta, Hirokazu Kawakami, Shuji Kawashima
  • Patent number: 5722815
    Abstract: A gerotor pump is described for use with non-compressible fluids such as automotive coolant or hydraulic oil. The pump includes three separate pump outlet ports, a bypass return passage, find an integral four position spool valve. Increasing back pressure from a downstream load is sensed be the spool valve which moves accordingly to restrict the fluid supplied. In the first position a full flow fluid is supplied to the load from all three ports. In the second position one port is vented to the bypass and the flow from the other two ports is directed to the load. In the third position two ports vent to bypass, and one ports drives the load. In the fourth position all ports vent to bypass. In each case flow vented to bypass is not first compressed, permitting a smaller motor to be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Stackpole Limited
    Inventor: Eric R. Cozens
  • Patent number: 5720598
    Abstract: A method and a system for the early detection of defects in at least one multiplex pump, which includes a plurality of cylinders or chambers, by determination and analysis of pump harmonics based upon pressure fluctuations in a line in fluid communication with the multiplex pump and multiplex pump frequency. The presence of a defect, the type defect, and specific pump unit having the defect, is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1998
    Assignee: Dowell, a division of Schlumberger Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Yan Kuhn de Chizzelle
  • Patent number: 5720215
    Abstract: A piston (40) for use in a compressor housing (10) having a cylindrical inner surface (12) with an anti rotation wing (42) of improved design. The outer surface of the piston anti rotation wing (42) includes a pair of spaced, semi cylindrical pads (48), each with a radius substantially equal to the compressor housing inner surface (12). Each pad (48) is located on the anti rotation wing (42) such that, when the winG (42) is centered, the inner edge of each pad (48) is radially spaced slightly from the housing inner surface (12), and each pad is eccentric relative to the center of the compressor housing surface (12). When the anti rotation wing (42) turns in either direction, one pad (48) or the other contacts the housing inner surface (12) concentrically, making continuous supporting contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1998
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: David Jared Asplund, David Michael Ebbing
  • Patent number: 5718567
    Abstract: In a micro diaphragm pump which has a pump body consisting of two parts, one part including two valve chambers with a pump chamber disposed therebetween and in communication with the valve chambers by passages, a diaphragm extends across and closes the chambers and forms, in the areas of the valve chambers, valve membranes for inlet and outlet valves which are integrally formed, both on one side of the diaphragm, both pump body parts being sealingly connected to the diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignees: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Burkert GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Richard Rapp, Helmut Kalb, Walter Stark, Dieter Seidel, Hans Biedermann
  • Patent number: 5718571
    Abstract: A valve assembly for a pumping apparatus includes a cylinder sleeve having a head end with inlet and outlet ports surrounded by a recess. An elastomer seal element is received in the recess and includes a peripheral portion that encircles the ports and a bridge portion that extends across the space between the ports. Integral flapper valves extend into the spaces between the peripheral portion and the bridge portion. A valve head with inlet and exhaust chambers has a flat surface that seats against the seal element. The cross-section of the peripheral and bridge portions are compressible, such as that of an O-ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Thomas Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Roy J. Rozek
  • Patent number: 5716196
    Abstract: Pumping method by direct energy exchange during which a drive fluid is sent intermittently in the form of one or more jets into a primary fluid.Pumping device comprising a hollow part (2) and a distributing part, each provided with orifices (Oi) and (Ei). A rotationally movable part (6) is interposed between the hollow part and the distributing part, and fitted with a blocking means in order to generate Jets of drive fluid intermittently toward a fluid to be transported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: Institut Francais du Petrole
    Inventor: Yvon Castel
  • Patent number: 5713729
    Abstract: A pump having a three-way valve has a motor for generating a turning effect by an electric power applied thereto. The pump pressurizes a fluid by using an impeller. The three-way valve is installed to the inlet side of the pump. A magnetic plate and ball swing between the first inlet and second inlet by means of load switches as many as a predetermined angle. The pump and three-way valve are integrally formed to require no separate piping between the three-way valve and pump. Thus, the manufacturing processing of the boiler is reduced while enhancing productivity. An installation space is shrunken to decrease the external dimensions of a product such as boilers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Woong-Sub Hong
  • Patent number: 5711657
    Abstract: A centrifugal pump, particularly for fountains and aquariums, for which an electric motor and a pump are disposed coaxially to one another, the electric motor being constructed as a single-phase synchronous motor with a permanent magnet rotor and connected with an open impeller of the pump with impeller blades, which are bent back from a hub towards the outside spirally with respect to a specified direction of rotation, is improved in the direction of a simple and inexpensive production as well as a compact and robust construction without a significant loss in overall efficiency owing to the fact that the impeller blades are constructed flexibly in such a manner that, if the synchronous motor starts counter to the specified direction of rotation, they are propped open by at least 2% in the radial length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Oase-Pumpen Wuebker Soehne GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventor: Dieter Hoffmeier
  • Patent number: 5709535
    Abstract: A reciprocating compressor includes a cylinder block having a plurality of compression chambers formed therein and a cylinder head secured to the cylinder block and having a high-pressure chamber formed therein. A first member is arranged between the cylinder block and the cylinder head and has a plurality of discharge ports formed therethrough for communicating the plurality of compression chambers to the high-pressure chamber. The reciprocating compressor comprises a second member having a plurality of discharge valves formed therewith for opening and closing the plurality of discharge valves, and a third member having a plurality of stoppers formed therewith for each setting a proper limit to resilient deformation of a corresponding one of the plurality of stoppers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Assignee: Zexel Corporation
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Enomoto, Hisao Ichikawa, Kiyoshi Yoshii, Katsuhiko Arai
  • Patent number: 5707213
    Abstract: A method of cooling rotor elements of a molecular vacuum pump having stator and rotor elements, a suction flange defining a gas inlet, and a gas outlet spaced from the suction flange, the method including providing additional gas inlet between the suction flange and the gas outlet and admitting through the additional gas inlet a cooling gas having a thermal conductivity larger than that of the compressible gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: Balzers-Pfeiffer GmbH
    Inventor: Armin Conrad
  • Patent number: 5707219
    Abstract: A diaphragm pump is provided having a plurality of piston inlets connecting a hydraulic fluid source with the piston chamber and a plurality of check valves each having a ball and valve seat disposed within the inlets. The valve seat includes a conical section sloped such that the tangential contact point between the ball and valve seat is located at a position outward from the inner edge of the valve seat. The distance the ball is permitted to move between the open and closed positions is such that the check valve closes substantially in conjunction with the piston beginning its power stroke and the ball is not able to generate a high closure velocity. A diaphragm plunger includes a spherical surface portion designed to impact a diaphragm stop at a position away from the edges of the stop and plunger. An isolation reservoir is connected to a piston reciprocating chamber such that hydraulic fluid completely fills the piston reciprocating chamber and further flows into the isolation reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: Wanner Engineering
    Inventor: Frederick Allan Powers
  • Patent number: 5704769
    Abstract: A compressor includes a housing body and a drive shaft rotatably supported in the housing body. A drive plate is mounted on the drive shaft. Cylinder bores are defined in the housing body. Pistons are operably coupled to the drive plate and are disposed in the cylinder bores. The drive plate converts rotation of the drive shaft to reciprocating movement of the pistons in the cylinder bores. Each piston compresses gas supplied from a suction chamber to the associated cylinder bore and discharges the compressed gas to a discharge chamber. Force to minimize displacement of the drive shaft in the axial direction thereof adjusts in accordance with at least one of pressure in the discharge chamber and a rotation speed of the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Hiromi Michiyuki, Hayato Ikeda, Hisato Kawamura, Masanobu Yokoi
  • Patent number: 5702239
    Abstract: An air pump with dual air intakes includes a pump body having an enclosed end with a securing point at its inner side for retaining a diaphragm, and an open end connecting to a cover. The cover has a securing point at its inner side for retaining a diaphragm. The cover and the enclosed end are provided with multiple air inlets. The diaphragms may cover the air inlets. The cover has a central hole through which a piston rod passes. A piston is connected to an inner end of the piston rod and is provided with an annular groove with through holes communicating with the piston rod. The annular groove is fitted with an annular gasket. A pump head is connected to a projected end of the piston rod. The pump head is connected to an air outlet and a check valve communicating with the piston rod. When the piston displaces, air is drawn in via the ends of the pump body through the annular gasket and the annular groove into the piston rod via the through holes and is then discharged via the check valve and the air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Inventor: Hsi-Kung Yang
  • Patent number: 5703336
    Abstract: An improved exhaustion noise suppressing apparatus for a hermetic compressor directed to minimizing vibration of a refrigerator cycle pipe mechanism caused by a pressure difference of an exhausting gas pressure of the exhausting gas which is discharged from the system to the outside of the compressor by providing a damping member for offsetting a pressure wave form of the refrigerant gas to one side of the interior of the exhaustion noise suppressing unit wherein the compressed refrigerant gas discharged from the cylinder and the exhausting chamber is introduced into the loop pipe through the head cover and the exhaustion noise suppressing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyoung Sig Tark, Sung Oun Park
  • Patent number: 5697763
    Abstract: A rotary compressor having a drive motor and a single pressure vessel, wherein the pressure vessel acts both as a gas oil separator and as a compressed gas storage tank. The compressor employs a control for valves in order to close off the supply of oil and gas from entering the compressor prior to cessation of the compressor's rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Cash Engineering Research Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Anthony J. Kitchener
  • Patent number: 5697770
    Abstract: A pumping device including a common pumping diaphragm with two stop valves each of which are equipped with a valve closing member that alternately assumes an open position and a closed position during the pumping operation. The pumping device according to the invention is provided for a fuel evaporation inhibiting system of an internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Schulz
  • Patent number: 5695325
    Abstract: An unloader system is provided for a gas compressor including a cylinder, a piston reciprocably mounted in the cylinder, a crankshaft connected to the piston and suction and discharge valve assemblies, selectively communicating the cylinder with suction and discharge lines. The compressor crankshaft is driven by a prime mover. The unloader system includes an unloader valve assembly, which can comprise one of the suction or discharge valve assemblies, and an unloader actuation system including a controller and a stepper motor. The unloader valve assembly includes a valve seat with a plurality of seat passages arrayed in a seat passage circle. The unloader actuation system rotates an unloader valve assembly guard and valve members mounted thereon in increments corresponding to the radial spacing of the valve members and the seat passages, with each incremental rotation corresponding to a single crankshaft revolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1997
    Inventor: Lauren D. Sperry