Patents by Inventor Franz Arbocast

Franz Arbocast has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6093006
    Abstract: A non-crescent seal gear pump includes a housing with a pump chamber, a rotatable ring gear in the pump chamber having an outer periphery and internal toothing and an eccentric pinion with external toothing and rotatable in mesh with the rotatable ring gear at one circumferential side of the ring gear and the pinion and the ring gear. The tooth tips of the ring gear have grooves in which are inserted radially movable sealing elements that are movable radially slightly. The sealing elements in the ring gear and the teeth of the pinion are so placed as to slide past each other at the other circumferential side of the ring gear. A distribution groove is worked into either the wall of the profile groove and/or into the sealing element at the wall and the distribution groove extends axially along the sealing element. Radial legs may project outwardly from the axially extending distribution groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: Voith Turbo GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Franz Arbocast, Peter Peiz