Abstract: The machine includes a fixed disk (2) comprising a spiral wall (3), a mobile disk (4) also comprising a spiral wall (5) cooperating with that of the fixed disk, and means (11, 16, 22, 23) for driving circular translation movement of the mobile disk, the mobile disk being positioned axially by a system including a shoe (25, 32, 36) rubbing between two lateral abutments (26, 27-34, 35-39, 40), one member of the pair of members (i.e.

Abstract: A scroll type machine including a fixed disk (5) comprising a spiral working wall (6) and a mobile disk (7) equally comprising a spiral working wall (8) cooperating with that of the fixed disk, means for driving circular translation movement of the mobile disk, a sealing bellows (15) joined at one end to a member (14) fixed with respect to the circular translation movement of the mobile disk (7) and at its other end to a fixed part (1C) of the machine, said bellows (15) separating the fluid circuit from the mechanical parts driving the mobile disk, characterized in that the fixed disk (5) is joined on the side opposite the mobile disk (7) to a fixed central shaft (10) including a discharge passage (11), said central shaft being surrounded by said bellows (15), the space (16) between said bellows and said fixed central shaft constituting a suction passage, in that a hollow main rotary shaft (19) surrounds said bellows (15) and is carried by at least one bearing (23, 24-32) in a fixed frame (1), one end of said

Abstract: A positive-displacement machine comprising a piston situated in a casing. The outline of the piston is hypertrochoidal, as is the outline of the hollow inside volume of the casing. The piston has n axes of symmetry, and the casing has n+1 axes of symmetry. The piston rotates inside the casing in orbital motion about the axis .DELTA.c of the casing. To obtain the rotation in orbital motion, firstly the piston is freely rotatably mounted on a crank pin that has its axis offset relative to the axis of a supporting shaft that is coaxial with the axis .DELTA.c of the casing, the shaft being rotated, and secondly the surface of the piston and the surface of the hollow inside volume of the casing are equipped with permanent magnets creating magnetic repulsion forces.

Abstract: A gas/liquid mixture passes through a duct in which a filter device is interposed, the filter device being disposed such that its outlet duct is essentially vertical. The outlet duct opens out into a collecting enclosure placed above the filter device. A side outlet duct from the enclosure is disposed below the level of the liquid collected in the enclosure, a top portion collecting the gas given off above the level. The top portion communicates with the inlet of a jet which reinjects the gas into the outlet flow so as to form a homogeneous gas/liquid stream. The invention may be used, in particular, in the lubrication circuit of a vacuum pump having vanes and oil seals.

Abstract: A pumping apparatus for pumping a gas having application to helium leak detectors has a vane and oil-seal type vacuum pump immersed in a closed tank (9) partially filled with oil (10). The apparatus also includes an oil pump (20) for renewing the oil seal located inside the tank. The oil pump is equipped with a noise-reducing mixing device enabling the oil for constituting the oil seal to be mixed with a noise-reducing gas. The noise-reducing gas is fed from the outside of the tank to the mixing device by means of a pipe (24) passing through the wall of the tank and opening via a Venturi tube to the suction duct of the immersed oil pump.