Abstract: A curvilinear peristaltic pump for pumping liquids through a resilient tube. The pump includes a curved concave platen against which a resilient tube is placed. A multi-lobed cam is positioned adjacent to the platen and tube. A plurality of pump fingers, each carrying a pinch finger, are mounted between tube and cam in a manner permitting radially outward movement of the pump fingers toward the platen. As the cam rotates, the fingers are pressed against the tube sequentially so as to pump liquid through the tube. A strain gauge beam is secured to the pump just beyond each end of the pump finger set. A sensing member secured to the free end of the beam is pre-loaded against the tube next to each endmost pump finger. When an input occlusion occurs, the tubing will collapse causing the beam to deflect toward the tube, changing its pre-load state. This motion will cause a negative voltage change indicative of the input occlusion.

Abstract: A microfabricated, remotely actuated fluid pump includes a LIGA-fabricated movable member disposed within a cavity. The LIGA-fabricated movable member and the cavity cooperate to (a) define a sufficiently small clearance therebetween to achieve effective pumping action while (b) presenting a sufficiently low-friction fit to enable remote actuation. Such a pump can take the form of a piston pump, a vane pump, a centrifugal pump, a gear pump, etc. Other fluidic devices including flow sensors, piston valves, hydraulic motors, nozzles, and connectors can be fabricated using similar principles.

Abstract: A pump configured so that tools are not required to remove the pump head and disassemble the plunger. A single large hand operated knob or head nut facilitates tool-less pump head removal. The pump head is guided into position in a manifold and held in place by the hand knob. The manifold is designed to receive all the external fluidic connections made to the pump head. Fluid paths to the pump head have been replaced with miniature face seals which facilitate high pressure sealing between the pump head and manifold. Low pressure tubing seals reside in a seal wash chamber or housing and are not attached to the head, eliminating the need for tooling to disconnect them during pump head removal. A tool-less plunger mechanism includes a nutcap assembly having a plunger socket receiving a plunger assembly including a sapphire plunger fixed to a plunger holder ball accommodated by the socket. The plunger assembly is captured within the socket by a plurality of cams.

Abstract: A pump body 10 of a drainage pump 1A comprises a pump chamber 12, inlet 15, and outlet 17. A rotary vane 300 mounted in the pump body 10 is coupled to a motor mounted above the pump body 10, and comprises a shaft 310 and four large-radial blades 320. Formed below the large-radial blades 320 are small-radial blades 350 to make a liquid at the inlet rise. Lower edges of the large-radial blades 320 are connected together by a disk 350 having an opening at the center and interceptively dividing the surface of the liquid rising from the inlet. Thus the amount of the liquid in contact with the large-radial blades 320 above the disk 350 decreases, and the load to the rotary vane decreases. At the same time, bubbles, noise and vibrations caused by bubbles also decrease. By surrounding the outer circumference of the large-radial blades 320 with a ring member, return water W5 moving back from the outlet 17 when the pump stops is damped by the wall member 360 and returns smoothly to the inlet 15.

Abstract: A fan unit adapted to be detachably inserted and mounted into a cabinet for an electronic device accommodating a plurality of electronic circuit units, for forcibly air-cooling the interior of the cabinet. The fan unit includes a fan, a unit housing, and a connector. The fan has a frame member and a motor supported to the frame member. The motor has a rotating shaft on which an impeller is mounted. The impeller is rotated by the motor to generate an air flow. The unit housing is integrally formed by resin molding. The unit housing is of a substantially rectangular parallelepiped box-shape having a front plate, a rear plate, a lower plate, a first side plate, a second side plate, and an upper opening. The unit housing has a recessed fan mounting portion having an upper opening inside the lower plate, for engagingly accommodating the fan. The lower plate has at its portion corresponding to a bottom surface of the fan mounting portion a ventilation opening for allowing pass of the air flow generated by the fan.

Abstract: In a diaphragm pump flap valves accommodated in a pump head are provided which have a valve disk in which are situated valve flaps (14) circumscribed by partial ring-shaped recesses. These are respectively flexibly connected with the remaining valve disk (15) by means of a web (17). The valve disk is clamped between pump head elements in an area circumscribing each respective valve. In order to avoid material displacements and deformations resulting from the clamping from acting upon the web and the valve flap (14), it is provided that an opening (19) of the valve disk (15) is situated in a connecting area between valve flap (14), web (17) and outer clamping (18), facing away from the valve flap (14). Material displacements originating from the clamping area (18) can thereby no longer influence the valve flap (14) and the web (17), since a transmission of these material deformations is interrupted in the area of the opening (19).

Abstract: A swash plate tiltably supported on a drive shaft is controlled by adjusting the pressure in a crank chamber. When an electromagnetic valve is de-excited, the high-pressure refrigerant gas in a discharge chamber is supplied to the crank chamber so that the inclination angle of the swash plate is shifted to its minimum inclination from its maximum inclination. An open/close mechanism located in a suction passage gradually opens or closes the suction passage in accordance with the differential pressure between the pressure in the external refrigeration circuit located upstream the open/close mechanism and the pressure in a suction chamber. When the inclination angle of the swash plate is minimized, the open/close mechanism closes the suction passage. It is therefore possible to prevent frosting while also suppressing rapid changes in load torque.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pumping device for volatile liquid, comprising a closed pump housing having an intake connected to a supply reservoir and at least one discharge connected to a delivery means. The device further comprises a liquid pump with a liquid inlet drawing into the interior of the pump housing and a pressure outlet connected to the discharge, a gas pump with a gas inlet drawing into the pump housing at a high level and a gas outlet debauching outside the pump housing and wherein the liquid pump is a hydrodynamic pump such as a centrifugal pump.

Abstract: An integral fluid pump is disposed in the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine is directly driven by an engine piston and provides fluid flow to a fluid system. First and second check valves are connected to the cylinder head and control fluid flow between a reservoir, the fluid pump, the fluid system. The integral fluid pump is particularly suited for providing fluid flow to an engine lubricating system.

Abstract: An evaporative cooler pump is modularized to readily receive pump impellers and pump volutes of different shapes and dimensions in order to optimize the evaporative cooler water pump performance. The flow of water through the pump is streamlined to improve the efficiency of the pump.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for bleeding off and cooling hot air in an aircraft engine, including:at least one hot air take-off at the outlet of the compressors of the engine,a cold air take-off downstream of the fan of the engine,a precooling heat exchanger between said hot air and said cold air.According to the invention, said precooling heat exchanger (18) comprises at least one (12A) of said linking arms (12) between the engine body (2) and the fan shroud (9), the said linking arm or arms (12A) acting as the exchanger, exhibiting a hollow structure traversed longitudinally by at least some of the hot air bled off at the outlet of the low pressure and/or high pressure stages of the compressors (3) of the engine.

Abstract: A pump assembly (20) includes a rotor (40) and a stator (38) which are disposed within a housing (24) and partially define pumping chambers (56). Fluid is conducted through an inlet passage (104) to an inlet cavity (58) which is connected with the pumping chambers (56). Fluid is conducted from the pumping chambers (56) to an outlet (62) from the pump assembly (20). A tubular passage liner (112) is disposed in the inlet passage (104) and has a straight passage (138) through which fluid flow is conducted to the inlet cavity (58). The tubular passage liner (112) prevents erosion of the housing (24) during conduction through the inlet passage (104) of inlet fluid and fluid bypassed from the outlet (62) of the pump assembly (20). Projections (204 and 206) at one end of the tubular passage liner (112) are engageable with the stator (38) to limit movement of the tubular passage liner relative to the stator.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines which has a moving part supported in a housing bore and on its jacket face on one side, has an exit opening that is under high pressure, and whose bearing is improved by virtue of the fact that on the jacket face of the part or in the wall of the housing bore, at least one pressure compensation is provided. The compensation face is connected to a high pressure source, is disposed on a side of the jacket face of the part which side is remote from the exit opening, and is continuously covered by the wall of the housing bore. As a result, a compensation of the pressure action by means of the pressure field prevailing in the region of the exit opening occurs so that an improved, less damage-prone bearing is produced with a greater high pressure tightness of the moving part.

Abstract: A gas compressor includes a housing, a separating element in the housing, and a piston guided for movement along the separating element by a drive mechanism between two dead center positions. Gas is compressed in a three-stage compression cycle by the piston in three separate gas chambers arranged in series in the housing. Pressure increases in the gas are easily feasible from very low to very high pressures, for instance from 5 to 400 bar, based on a relatively small installation. The gas compressor includes only a few wear parts for low manufacturing and maintenance costs and for fail-safe operation.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump, in which there is provided in a distributor of the fuel injection pump, a longitudinal bore which connects a pump working space to a control point on the distributor and which is fashioned in the distributor from one end face of the distributor. For sealingly closing this longitudinal bore, there is provided a pin which is inserted into a transverse bore intersecting the longitudinal bore and which thus has a sealing fit influenced by the pressure in the longitudinal bore.

Abstract: A vacuum pump includes a plurality of rotors of different outer diameters accommodated in a housing so that a fluid transportation space is defined by the housing and the plural rotors. Rotary shafts are integrally formed with the respective rotors and a first motor, which is a high frequency motor, for driving the rotary shaft of the smaller diameter rotor as a driving shaft. A second motor, which is an AC servo motor or pulse motor, is provided for driving the other rotary shaft as a driven shaft. A rotation detecting device is provided adjacent each shaft for detecting rotating angles and/or rotating speeds of the first and second motors. Also provided is a fluid suction port and a fluid discharge port which are formed in the housing, and a control device for controlling rotation of the driven shaft based on data from the rotation detecting device so as to synchronize the rotation of the driven shaft driven by the second motor with that of the driving shaft driven by the first motor.

Abstract: A compressor includes a housing body and a drive shaft rotatably supported in the housing body. A swash plate is mounted on the swash shaft. Cylinder bores are defined in the housing body. Pistons are operably coupled to the swash plate and are disposed in the cylinder bores. The swash plate converts a rotation of the swash shaft to a reciprocating movement of the pistons along an inner surface of 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. Deformation of the inner surface of each cylinder bore is reduced by utilizing pressure of the gas compressed in the cylinder bore.

Abstract: In a reciprocating compressor in which a suction chamber (7) extends around a discharge chamber (6) parallel to suction, a discharge gas conducting passage (6c) is connected to the discharge chamber and is adjacent to a suction gas inlet passage (7a) in a predetermined direction orthogonal to the plane. The suction gas inlet passage communicates with each of the first and second opposite ends of the suction chamber so that gas is supplied into the suction chamber through each of the first and second opposite ends thereof. A plurality of compression elements are arranged along the suction chamber and connected to the discharge chamber and the suction chamber. Each of the compression elements have a piston (16) which reciprocates to introduce the gas from the suction chamber, to compress the gas, and then to discharge the gas into the discharge chamber.

Abstract: A hermetic type compressor which makes opening and closing of a exhaust valve installed inside a reentrant groove formed in a cylinder head smooth, and prevents leakage of refrigerant from the exhaust valve by fabricating a valve seat surface to be in the same height as that of a valve fixing surface.

Abstract: An exhaust nozzle includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart exhaust flaps, and a plurality of scissor linkages joined to respective ones thereof. Each linkage includes a frame pivotally joined to a respective one of the flaps. A carriage is slidably mounted to the frame. A pair of circumferentially oppositely extending side links are pivotally joined at one end to the carriage, and pivotally joined at opposite ends to corresponding side links to form an interconnected ring thereof. A pair of circumferentially oppositely extending equalizer links are pivotally joined at one end to the frame, and pivotally joined at opposite ends to corresponding ones of the side links to maintain coordinated angular position of the side links pivotable on the carriage, and in turn maintain circumferential spacing between adjacent ones of the flaps.