Patents Examined by Theodore Olds
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Patent number: 4575321Abstract: The invention relates to a hydrostatic steering control device of the type having two motor ports connectable to a servomotor and a metering unit for metering the flow of fluid to or from the servomotor in accordance with the rotational movement of a steering wheel for operating the control device. The invention is directed to a way of balancing the distributing valve of the control device by subjecting opposite sides thereof to high and intermediate pressure zones and providing a throttle gap between the high and intermediate pressure zones and a second oppositely acting throttle gap between the intermediate pressure zone and a third zone of lower pressure.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 1985Date of Patent: March 11, 1986Assignee: Danfoss A/SInventors: Hans C. Petersen, Erik Kyster, Svend E. Thomsen
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Patent number: 4571159Abstract: A motor driven fuel pump assembly has an integral accumulator. The fuel pump is a two-stage pump with the secondary stage being a positive displacement unit such as a roller vane pump. The fluid output of the secondary pump is connected with a space surrounding the drive motor for the pump. The space is defined partially by a resilient membrane which is operable to expand with pressure increases and thereby absorb and damp the pressure and flow fluctuations from the secondary stage pump. The membrane member effectively provides a moving wall of an accumulator which serves to provide the damping effect on the flow and pressure variations within the system.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 1985Date of Patent: February 18, 1986Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventor: John M. Beardmore
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Patent number: 4565503Abstract: A cooling device for a hermetic motor-compressor unit having an outer housing with a lubricant sump in the bottom thereof, a rotatable crankshaft vertically disposed in the housing, and a motor having a stator circumferentially disposed about the rotating crankshaft and a rotor connected to the crankshaft for rotation therewith. The cooling device comprises a pick-up tube connected to the rotating crankshaft and having one end thereof extending into the lubricant sump. The pick-up tube has an axial bore disposed therein and a radial passage means disposed therein in communication with the axial bore so that, upon rotation of the crankshaft, oil is pumped upwardly through the axial bore and a portion thereof thrown radially outwardly through the radial passage means and directly against the inner surfaces of the lower end turns of the stator without having first contacted any other parts of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1985Date of Patent: January 21, 1986Assignee: Tecumseh Products CompanyInventor: Kennard L. Wise
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Patent number: 4563133Abstract: A plunger is held in a position where it opens a fuel passage through abutment of a stopper upon an end of a cylinder. The stopper is made of a non-magnetic material and mounted on the plunger which is made of a magnetic material.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 1984Date of Patent: January 7, 1986Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Seishi Yasuhara
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Patent number: 4561828Abstract: A pump for forwarding liquids is described which has at least one pump chamber with inlet and outlet valves and also a plunger which periodically varies the volume of the pump chamber. To avoid the problems of dry running with very rapidly running pumps, and in order to overcome the resulting danger of destruction, the pump is arranged so that the closing force of at least one inlet valve of each pump chamber is controlled in dependence on the movement of the displacement member.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1983Date of Patent: December 31, 1985Assignee: Speck-Kolbenpumpen-Fabrik Otto Speck KGInventors: Horst Wolff, Franz Hani
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Patent number: 4561832Abstract: A scroll-type fluid displacement apparatus with a lubricating mechanism to lubricate between an end plate and an opposed spiral wrap is disclosed. The apparatus has a pair of scrolls, each of which comprises a circular end plate and a spiral wrap extending from one side of the end plate. A groove, in which a seal element is loosely fitted, is formed on the axial end surface of each spiral wrap. One spiral wrap has a second groove at its axial end surface and extends close to the outer terminal end of spiral wrap. The sectional shape of the second groove is different from the sectional shape of the first groove to prevent the movement of the seal element in the first groove. Gas containing lubricating oil is supplied to the outer terminal portion of spiral wrap through the first groove and second grooves.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1984Date of Patent: December 31, 1985Assignee: Sanden CorporationInventor: Shigemi Shimizu
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Patent number: 4560330Abstract: Disclosed is a scroll-type fluid machine which has an orbiting scroll member and a stationary scroll member each having an end plate and a spiral wrap protruding upright therefrom. The scroll members are assembled together such that their wraps mesh with each other to form therebetween closed chambers of volumes which are progressively decreased as the chambers are moved toward the centers of the scroll members as a result of an orbital movement of the orbiting scroll member with respect to the stationary scroll member. The machine is suitable for use as a refrigerant compressor in a refrigeration system. A fluid check valve is disposed in the refrigerant gas suction passage connected to the suction side of the machine, so as to prevent any reversing of the orbiting scroll member. A passage is formed to provide a communication between a suction chamber defined by the scroll members and another closed chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 1984Date of Patent: December 24, 1985Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akira Murayama, Hiroaki Kuno, Naoshi Uchikawa, Takahiro Tamura, Takao Mizuno, Sumihisa Kotani
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Patent number: 4557670Abstract: A compressor bypass passage has an inlet portion and an outlet portion which is connected to the suction passage. The inlet portion of the bypass passage has an opening which is able to be open to the compression chamber when the compression chamber is in a decreasing volume stroke, thereby to spill the refrigerant from the compression chamber into the suction passage. A control pressure chamber is formed in the housing. A valve member is arranged in the inlet portion of the bypass passage. The valve member is actuated in response to a variety of pressures of the refrigerant in the control pressure chamber for adjusting the area of the opening of the inlet portion of the bypass passage. A pressure supply passage for supplying a refrigerant, which pressure is higher than the pressure in the suction passage, is connected to the control pressure chamber. A spill passage for spilling a part of the refrigerant interconnects the control pressure chamber to the suction passage.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1983Date of Patent: December 10, 1985Assignees: Nippon Soken, Inc., Nippondenso Co. Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuo Inagaki, Seitoku Ito, Kenji Takeda, Yoshiki Kurokawa
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Patent number: 4557676Abstract: The invention relates to a hydrostatic steering control device of the type having two motor ports connectable to a servomotor and a metering unit for metering the flow of fluid to or from the servomotor in accordance with the rotational movement of a steering wheel for operating the control device. The invention is directed to a way of balancing the distributing valve of the control device by subjecting opposite sides thereof to high and intermediate pressure zones and providing a throttle gap between the high and intermediate pressure zones an a second oppositely acting throttle gap between the intermediate pressure zone and a third zone of lower pressure.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 1983Date of Patent: December 10, 1985Assignee: Danfoss A/SInventors: Hans C. Petersen, Erik Kyster, Svend E. Thomsen
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Patent number: 4552518Abstract: A scroll compressor enclosed in a hermetic shell, wherein part of the volume enclosed by the shell is at suction pressure and part is at discharge pressure. The compressor includes both a stationary and a driven scroll plate, with intermeshed involute wrap elements attached to the plates for defining pockets in which fluid is compressed as a drive shaft connected to the driven plate causes it to orbit relative to the stationary scroll plate. A passage disposed within the driven plate and adjacent its axial center conveys compressed fluid through the plate and into a cavity formed in the end of the drive shaft. Oil entrained in the compressed fluid is thrown radially outward within the cavity, due to centrifugal force, and is thereby separated from the compressed fluid. The oil then flows through an adjacent bearing, and is thrown radially outward, creating a spray that impinges on a seal which abuts the back surface of the driven scroll plate.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1984Date of Patent: November 12, 1985Assignee: American Standard Inc.Inventor: Robert E. Utter
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Patent number: 4549860Abstract: The main application of this pump is for human heart coronary bypass, cardiac and transplant surgery. A non-occlusion blood pump of peristaltic type and blood pump tube element with pulsating pressure pump delivery, giving similar momentum to blood flow as a natural heart beat, needed to penetrate the capilaries, tiny blood vessels of human body. Most important improvement in this pump is in an especially conceived blood pump tube element which reduces hemolysis of blood by first being partially squeezed during pumping and thus not requiring any occlusion adjustments, second by its elements so structured to minimize internal flow friction and turbulance, both of these minimize the hemolysis of blood, as proved by tests. The devices comprised basically of two but not necessarily, blood pump tube elements.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1984Date of Patent: October 29, 1985Inventor: Sam S. Yakich
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Patent number: 4548558Abstract: A rotary compressor housing is outwardly formed with reinforcing grids in the form of square, diaper or honeycomb. The reinforcing grids allow the intermediate wall portions between the bolted wall portions to thermally expand as much as the bolted wall portions, resulting in that the inner periphery of the center housing always keep its circularity when the inner temperature rises due to an unavoidable compression of air.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 1983Date of Patent: October 22, 1985Assignee: Nippon Piston Ring Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Sakamaki, Susumu Sugishita, Yukio Horikoshi
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Patent number: 4545747Abstract: A scroll-type compressor has an orbital scroll member and a stationary scroll member each having a disc-shaped end plate and a spiral wrap protruding upright from the end plate. The scroll members are assembled together with their wraps meshing with each other to define compression chambers therebetween. The orbital scroll member executes an orbital movement without rotating around its own axis. A discharge port and a suction port are formed in a central portion and a peripheral portion of the end plate of the stationary scroll member, respectively. As the orbital scroll member makes the orbital movement, the compression chambers are moved towards the center while decreasing their volumes thereby to progressively compress a gas drawn through the suction port and to discharge the compressed gas through the discharge port.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1983Date of Patent: October 8, 1985Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Tamura, Hiroaki Kuno, Naoshi Uchikawa, Akira Murayama, Takao Mizuno
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Patent number: 4540353Abstract: The invention pertains to a two-stage vacuum pump for servicing refrigeration systems wherein a pair of electrically driven rotors support movable vanes engaging the cylindrical circumference of pumping chambers in which the rotors are mounted. The improvements pertain to the sealing of the rotor shaft, the introduction of metered oil into the pump, and the keying of a rotor to its driveshaft wherein improved assembly and operational characteristics are achieved.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 1984Date of Patent: September 10, 1985Assignee: Robinair DivisionInventor: Gary P. Murray
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Patent number: 4538968Abstract: A communication aperture is formed in a wall of a pump chamber for allowing a part of pressurized fuel in the pump chamber to flow into a motor chamber, to thereby cool a motor armature, brushes, a commutator and so on. The aperture is formed inclined with respect to the direction of fuel flowing in the pump chamber. A dynamic pressure component as well as a static pressure component is applied to the inclined aperture with a result that a sufficient amount of fuel flows into the motor chamber even when a discharge pressure of a pump is decreased.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1983Date of Patent: September 3, 1985Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yukio Kusakawa
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Patent number: 4538966Abstract: An oil pump assembly comprises a pump body assembly composed of a pair of front and rear pump bodies, the rear pump body housing in a pump housing space a pair of pumps each including a pump cartridge having a rotor supported on a common drive shaft rotatably supported on the front pump body, and a cam ring accommodating the rotor. A single side plate is axially slidably interposed between the pump cartridges. A pressure plate is disposed between one of the pump cartridges remote from the front pump body and a pump discharge pressure chamber defined at the bottom of the pump housing space and communicating with a main passage through which one of the pumps communicates with a discharge port. The other pump is selectively connected by a directional control valve to the main passage. The pump and valve parts can easily be assembled into the pump bodies, and hence the oil pump assembly can be mass-produced efficiently, less costly, and is small in size and lightweight.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 1983Date of Patent: September 3, 1985Assignee: Jidosha Kiki Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masaya Nikaido
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Patent number: 4534714Abstract: A fluid operating device including a cylinder assembly with a cylinder bore and a pair of pistons slidably disposed therein. A plurality of electromagnets are mounted on each piston in opposed relation and extend the pistons by magnetic repulsion when energized. Inlet and outlet valves are provided in the cylinder and include permanent magnet valve members which open and close the valves upon energization and de-energization of the electromagnets.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1984Date of Patent: August 13, 1985Inventor: Raymond H. Smith
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Patent number: 4533303Abstract: A geroter hydrostatic steering control is disclosed in which the directional valve is spring biased to a neutral position. The rotor, the commutating valve, the rotor casing and the directional valve are all axially aligned adjacent to each other thus reducing the overall axial length of the device.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 1983Date of Patent: August 6, 1985Assignee: Danfoss A/SInventors: Hans C. Petersen, Erik Kyster, Svend E. Thomsen
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Patent number: 4533302Abstract: A rotary fluid pressure device is disclosed of the type including a roller gerotor (17) having a ring member (23) and a plurality of rollers (25) serving as internal teeth. At each end of each roller (25) is a side clearance space (85) and a small amount of lubrication fluid flows from each pressurized volume chamber through the side clearance spaces (85) into an adjacent lubricant recess (81). All of the lubricant recesses (81) are in communication with the fluid-collecting groove (79) and lubrication fluid flows from the groove (79) to the motor lubrication flow path. The lubrication flow path includes flow through a rearward bearing set (35); a forward bearing set (33); a pair of fluid passages (36); the forward splines (37, 39); and the rearward splines (43, 45). The invention results in improved lubrication generally, and of the forward splines in particular.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1984Date of Patent: August 6, 1985Assignee: Eaton CorporationInventor: Benjamin D. Begley
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Patent number: 4531894Abstract: A sealed type motor compressor includes a motor section, a compressor section, a sealed enclosure for resiliently supporting therein the motor section and the compressor section, a suction pipe extending through the sealed enclosure, a suction muffler mounted on the compressor section, an insert pipe received at its one end in an inlet port with a slight clearance therebetween, and a closely coiled spring in the form of a cylinder for interposing between the suction pipe and the insert pipe. A communication pipe is adapted to extend through an aperture formed in the muffler and to be forcedly fitted into a suction port formed in a cylinder head, thereby serving to connect the muffler to the cylinder head.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 1984Date of Patent: July 30, 1985Assignee: Matsushita Reika Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Kawai, Hidetoshi Nishihara, Seishi Nakaoka, Koushi Hamada