Patents Examined by Richard E. Gluck
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Patent number: 5655897Abstract: A peristaltic pump cassette (1) is designed to cooperate in use with a motor unit (2) through a drive spindle (30) comprising a casing (40) with a tube bearing surface (12), a deformable tube (11), rotating rollers (14) driven by friction by the drive spindle (30). The deformable tube (11) is applied onto the support surface (12) and is deformed by rotating rollers (14), in order to produce driving of a liquid contained therein.Before first use, the radial position of rollers (14) is such that the tube (11) is not closed. During first use, they are moved radially by inserting the drive spindle (30), thus closing the tube (11). After use, rollers (14) remain in the radial position that keeps the tube (11) closed.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1996Date of Patent: August 12, 1997Assignee: Debiotech S.A.Inventors: Frederic Neftel, Bernard Bouvier
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Patent number: 5655893Abstract: A bellows pump exhibiting stable and highly efficient performance. The bellows pump is composed of a first work chamber for admitting fluid, a second work chamber for storing work fluid, a bellows for parting a chamber space into the first and the second work chambers; a plunger being movable in a reciprocative manner to and form the second work chamber; a work fluid chamber which is opened; and a drive member for the plunger.The plunger is provided with a flow channel with a second communication port communicating only at the initial and completing stage of an inflow process of the fluid. A first communication port locates in the vicinity of a top of the first work chamber. The second communication port locates above the first communication port.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1995Date of Patent: August 12, 1997Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroshi Kubo
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Patent number: 5653583Abstract: The invention provides an oil hydraulic pump wherein a suction connector can be attached readily to a body using a single bolt. Annular stepped portions direction reversely to each other are formed on a suction port of the body and a flange portion and an insertion projection of the suction connector, respectively, such that, when the insertion projection is inserted into the suction port, the annular stepped portions cooperate to form an annular seal groove. The annular seal groove has a pair of side faces opposing to each other in a direction perpendicular, and extending in parallel, to an axial line of the seal groove and serving as interference acting faces. The resilient force by the interference of the seal fitted in the seal groove acts only upon the interface acting faces.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1996Date of Patent: August 5, 1997Assignee: Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuji Hayashi, Masaharu Minowa
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Patent number: 5649813Abstract: Insulation is provided in the form of wall insulation, piston or diaphragm insulation and/or piston rod and/or diaphragm washer insulation to increase the temperature in the working air chamber of an air motor of the piston or diaphragm type to reduce the formation of ice on exhaust.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 1996Date of Patent: July 22, 1997Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand CompanyInventors: Stephen D. Able, Douglas D. Purdy, Nicholas Kozumplik, Jr.
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Patent number: 5649811Abstract: A combination motor and pump assembly comprising a housing, a shaft rotaty mounted in the housing, and an impeller fixed to the shaft in the housing, said impeller comprising alternately magnetically polarized portions. The assembly further comprises stator means fixed in the housing adjacent the impeller, the stator means comprising an array of pole pieces and windings associated therewith for receiving electrical alternating current. Fluid inlet means and outlet means are provided in the housing in communication with the impeller. The impeller reacts to current received by the stator means as a motor rotor and rotates in response to excitation of the pole pieces by the current. The rotation of the rotor serves to move fluid in the housing from the inlet to the outlet means.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 1996Date of Patent: July 22, 1997Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: William P. Krol, Jr., James S. Uhlman, Jr., Chahee P. Cho, Ralph A. Bedingfield
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Patent number: 5647733Abstract: A new and improved diaphragm metering pump is provided with a modular removable drive assembly. The removable drive assembly provides rotation to an eccentric shaft within the pump and is disposed outside rotary bearings for the eccentric shaft and outside sealing elements containing hydraulic fluid in the pump housing. In a preferred embodiment, a readily accessible mechanically activated hydraulic refill valve cartridge is provided to hydraulically balance the diaphragm. In a preferred embodiment, a push to prime air bleeder valve is provided permitting automatic priming of the hydraulic system without requiring disconnection of any valves. The pump is designed to interchangeably receive a number of diaphragm assemblies including an improved leak detection diaphragm and a double-sided leak detection diaphragm. In a preferred embodiment, a diagnostics window is provided permitting visual inspection of the operating condition of various valves connected to the hydraulic system.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1995Date of Patent: July 15, 1997Assignee: Pulsafeeder Inc.Inventors: Craig L. Augustyn, Richard Giannetti, Travis L. James, Stephen B. Muscarella, Philip T. Pascoe, Francis J. Snyder, Erik C. VanBork
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Patent number: 5647395Abstract: A discharge valve assembly for use in a fluid displacement apparatus has a suction chamber and a discharge chamber on one side of a valve plate, a compression chamber on the other side of the valve plate and a passage formed in the valve plate extending between the compression chamber and the discharge chamber. The discharge valve assembly comprises a valve limiting device secured to the valve plate for limiting the bending movement of a valve member. The valve member is bent away from the valve plate when all external pressure influences are removed. Noise and vibration caused by the striking of the valve member against the valve seat and the retainer member are thereby decreased.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1996Date of Patent: July 15, 1997Assignee: Sanden CorporationInventors: Kenji Hashimoto, Atsushi Mabe
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Patent number: 5645405Abstract: A reciprocating type compressor such as a swash plate type compressor includes single headed pistons movably arranged in the cylinder bores formed in the cylinder block. The cylinder block has an extension wall laterally extending therefrom to form a first muffling chamber and the cylinder head has an extension wall laterally extending therefrom to form a second muffling chamber. A valve plate or a gasket has an extension seal portion integrally formed therewith and arranged between the extension walls of the cylinder block and the cylinder head to seal the end rims around the end openings of the first and second muffling chambers together.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 1996Date of Patent: July 8, 1997Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki SeisakushoInventors: Masaki Ota, Hisakazu Kobayashi, Soukichi Hibino, Masaya Nakamura, Yuichi Kato
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Patent number: 5642990Abstract: A downhole pump is reciprocated subsurface for the purpose of lifting fluid from an underground borehole to the surface or other suitable storage location. As the fluid being pumped may contain gas, the efficiency of the pump may decrease to the point where no fluid is pumped due to the compression and expansion of gas within the downhole pump. This condition is commonly described as gas lock, and, when encountered, can prevent the pump from displacing any fluid, resulting in no efficiency and no work performed. Installed as an integral part of the downhole pump assembly, the device described herein effectively, mechanically, and positively prevents the gas locked condition, and, additionally, efficiently handles suspended solids due to its design incorporating no moving parts nor small fluid passages.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1995Date of Patent: July 1, 1997Inventor: Charles G. Short
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Patent number: 5642988Abstract: A radial piston pump (1), preferably for pressure medium supply of an anti-lock system of vehicle brakes, with a rotating pump shaft (3), an end section of which has a pivot (5) extending eccentrically to a longitudinal center axis of the pump shaft (3), there being arranged on the pivot (5) a rolling bearing on whose outer ring (9) are supported by their plane end faces (13) pump plungers (12) in star arrangement in a pump housing (2) and extending radially to the pump shaft (3), characterized in that the rolling bearing is designed as a needle bearing (6) with the needle elements rolling directly against the shaft pivot (5), the outer ring (9) being produced as a deep-drawn sheet metal ring with chiplessly formed edges (10,11) on both sides, in which needle-shaped rolling elements (7) are guided via a cage (8) and in which the outer ring (9) is made with a core hardness of at least 300 HV1.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 1995Date of Patent: July 1, 1997Assignee: INA Walzlager Schaeffler KGInventor: Helmut Zorn
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Patent number: 5641280Abstract: A rotary screw compressor for oil-free air, wherein at least one of the shaft journals (11) of the rotors (10) has a seal arrangement between the rotor (10d) and an oil-lubricated bearing (12). The seal arrangement includes at least three frictionless seals (13, 14, 15) separated by annular chambers (16,17). The outermost annular chamber (17) is connected to a source of pressurized air through a supply channel (19) for supplying blocking air to the seal, and another (16) of the annular chambers communicates with a withdrawal channel (18).Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1995Date of Patent: June 24, 1997Assignee: Svenska Rotor Maskiner ABInventor: Karlis Timuska
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Patent number: 5641272Abstract: In float actuated pump having a rod and lever actuation from the float, an improved connect between the rod and lever is disclosed enabling valve opening substantially free of constraint by the rod and attached fittings. Such arrangement also enabling exhaust valve opening in a two-step momentum inducing method. Specifically, a valve actuating lever biased by a counter weight at one lever end, connects to the operating rod at the improved joint at the other lever end. The end of the rod is provided with an arcuate slot made of magnetic attractive material. The lever connects at a lever pin to the arcuate slot. The curvature of the slot prevents towards and away movement of the rod; the length of the slot gives free up and down rod movement at the lever pin within the elongate slot. At the top of the travel of the arcuate slot, a magnet is included in the pump head.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1995Date of Patent: June 24, 1997Assignee: Clean Environment EngineersInventor: Matthew Harrold
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Patent number: 5639225Abstract: In a scroll type compressor, when the operation of the compressor is stopped, compression chambers, for compressing a fluid, and a suction chamber are communicated with each other through bypass holes, and a spool valve to open and close the holes, so that the pressure in the compression chambers are lowered and the occurrence of a shock caused by a sharp increase in the load is prevented at the next start. Since the discharge pressure to drive the spool valve is introduced from a position upstream of the discharge valve, pressure is quickly lowered when the compressor stops, so that the spool valve can be quickly opened. Therefore, even when the compressor is frequently started and stopped, the occurrence of a shock can be positively prevented when the compressor starts.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 1996Date of Patent: June 17, 1997Assignees: Nippondenso Co., Ltd., Nippon Soken, Inc.Inventors: Mikio Matsuda, Mitsuo Inagaki, Takeshi Sakai
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Patent number: 5639220Abstract: A pump unit includes a suction pump and a driving mechanism for driving the suction pump. The suction pump has a pump body provided with a suction port and a discharge port which are axially spaced, and a first piston and a second piston slidably fitted in the pump body to form a suction chamber therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 1995Date of Patent: June 17, 1997Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kiyoharu Hayakawa
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Patent number: 5639228Abstract: An electrically driven air pump having a pump mechanism in a first section of a housing and an electric motor in a second section of the housing in driving engagement with the pump mechanism. First and second end covers are sealingly secured on the housing. The electric motor is supported by elastomer rings in the housing. The pump mechanism has a rotor wheel driven by the motor and a stator wheel adjacent to the rotor wheel. A first lock joint is formed between the first cover and both the stator wheel and the housing and a second lock joint is formed between the second cover and the housing. The covers, stator wheel and housing are made of plastic material and the lock joints are formed by air-tight, friction-fit between the engaged parts which are deformed elastically or plastically.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1995Date of Patent: June 17, 1997Assignee: Pierburg GmbHInventors: Gunter Van De Venne, Rainer Peters, Klaus Muckelmann
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Patent number: 5639219Abstract: An airless paint sprayer includes an inlet check valve assembly having a dual spring configuration which allows for increased travel distance of the inlet check valve thereby increasing the fluid flow through the valve without diminishing response time of the valve or the priming operations of the system. A dampener also contributes to lessening the cavitation and loss of pressure in the paint sprayer and comprises a generally T-shaped fitting in which one leg of the T-shaped fitting is capped and includes a trapped volume of air to dampen acceleration/deceleration forces and acceleration spikes being transmitted from the pump to the fluid being pumped through the fitting.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 1995Date of Patent: June 17, 1997Assignee: Campbell Hausfeld/Scott Fetzer Co.Inventor: Roger Conatser
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Patent number: 5634779Abstract: A hydraulic fluid-driven, multicylinder, modular, reciprocating piston pumping machine of non pulsating flow and independently variable forward and return stroke speeds comprises several pumping modules (A, B . . . E) each having one primary cylinder (A1, B1 . . . E1) and one secondary cylinder (A2, B2 . . . E2) coaxially joined by an angularly and radially oscillating bushing (100) through which slides a piston rod (A3, B3 . . . E3) with an angularly oscillating piston (A4, B4 . . . E4; A5, B5 . . . E5) at each of its ends. Each primary cylinder (A1, B1 . . . E1) has the end opposed to the bushing closed by valve monifolds (A11, B11 . . . E11) interconnected through a pressurized hydraulic fluid distritubor conduit (5) through which pressurized hydraulic fluid is supplied to the primary cylinder of each module by at least one hydraulic pump (1, 2). A hydraulic fluid chamber (A18, B18 . . .Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 1996Date of Patent: June 3, 1997Assignee: FDP Engineering SAInventor: Jan L. Eysymontt
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Patent number: 5632604Abstract: The present invention utilizes a combined dual piston and cylinder arrangement surrounded by a sleeve all mounted within a container which is in turn placed within a drill collar. The pressure of the drilling mud within the drill string drives the pressure pump of the present invention by forcing the piston up and down. Stops on the piston rod maneuver a sleeve which opens and closes inlets and outlets so that the desired flow can be obtained to drive the cylinder, piston and rod arrangement up and down. When the pistons are driven downward, drilling mud is forced through a conduit into a drill bit and out a jet nozzle at a high pressure so as to facilitate the fracturing and removal of the formation being drilled.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1994Date of Patent: May 27, 1997Assignee: MilmacInventor: Sathyanarayanan Poothodiyil
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Patent number: 5630699Abstract: A mechanical seal is disposed in surrounding relationship to a pump shaft within an enlarged-bore seal chamber defined by the pump housing to create a sealed relationship therebetween. The mechanical seal includes a gland ring stationarily fixed to the pump housing for closing off an outer end of the enlarged-bore seal chamber. An annular erosion protector is disposed within the enlarged-bore chamber in close and generally overlapping relationship to the inner axial face of the gland ring. This annular protector has radially projecting protrusions which project axially inwardly along the outer portion of the enlarged-bore chamber, and also preferably has an annular part which projects radially inwardly so as to effectively cover substantially the entire inner face of the gland ring. The erosion protector is effective in significantly eliminating direct erosion-contact of pump fluid against both the gland ring and the surrounding wall of the seal chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1995Date of Patent: May 20, 1997Assignee: Durametallic CorporationInventors: Michael P. Kirby, Sarath Rujakaruna, Jorge Mellado
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Patent number: 5626466Abstract: A piston pump which is contemplated for furnishing fuel at high pressure, especially gasoline with low self-lubricating properties. To avoid drive-side wear, a rotatably drive eccentric element is provided as the actuating device for the pump piston of the piston pump, the driving motion of the eccentric element being transmitted to the pump piston via a flexible transmission element.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 1996Date of Patent: May 6, 1997Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Manfred Ruoff, Helmut Rembold, Ernst Linder