Abstract: An electric pump includes an outer rotor rotatably disposed radially inward of a stator, the outer rotor including a plurality of permanent magnets in an outer circumferential surface thereof, a plurality of plate holding grooves being formed in an inner circumferential surface of the outer rotor; an inner rotor provided radially inward of the outer rotor, a plurality of slots being radially formed in an outer circumferential surface of the inner rotor; and a plurality of connecting plates each including a head portion and a radially-inner end portion, the head portion being formed in a substantially circular shape in cross section and fitted swingably into the plate holding groove, the radially-inner end portion being slidably fitted into the slot. Each of the plate holding grooves is located within a projection plane of the permanent magnet with respect to a circumferential direction of the outer rotor.

Abstract: An electric pump includes a housing 2 configured of a housing body 3 and a cover 4, a stator 6 having a plurality of coils 15, a rotor 7 configured of an inner side outer rotor 16 and an outer side rotor body 17, a pump part 8 disposed on the inner circumferential side of the rotor 7 of an electric motor 5, side plates 11 and 12 disposed on both side surfaces of the rotor 7, an inner rotor 9, and a plurality of connecting plates 10 interposed between the outer rotor 16 and the inner rotor 9. The side plate 12 of the side plates 11 and 12 is pressed to the rotor 7 by a compression coil spring 28.

Abstract: An inner rotor (a drive side) includes a plurality of slots. An outer rotor (a driven side) includes a plurality of pendulum retaining grooves. Each of pendulums includes a head section swingably fitted into a corresponding one of the pendulum retaining grooves and a body section slidably fitted into the corresponding one of the slots. A torque transmission surface of the body section includes a straight line section and a curved section. At a reference angle position at which a perpendicular line orthogonal to an eccentric direction becomes parallel to the corresponding one of the slots, the straight line section makes a surface contact on a torque-transmission-side side surface to start a torque transmission. Until a torque transmission end point, the curved section contacts on opening edge of the corresponding one of the slots. A curved section profile is set to make mutually equal angular velocities between the two rotors.

Abstract: Disclosed is an oil pump device for supplying oil from an oil pan located below a casing of an internal combustion engine or transmission of a vehicle. The oil pump device includes a pump unit placed in the casing and having a pump rotation shaft arranged in parallel to a rotation axis of the internal combustion engine, an electric motor having a motor body mounted to an outer lateral side surface of the casing, a mechanical drive shaft rotatable by an output of the internal combustion engine, a mechanical drive connection mechanism connecting the mechanical drive shaft to one end of the pump rotation shaft, and a reduction gear mechanism placed in the casing and connecting the other end of the pump rotation shaft to a motor rotation shaft of the electric motor.

Abstract: An electric pump includes an outer rotor rotatably disposed radially inward of a stator, the outer rotor including a plurality of permanent magnets in an outer circumferential surface thereof, a plurality of plate holding grooves being formed in an inner circumferential surface of the outer rotor; an inner rotor provided radially inward of the outer rotor, a plurality of slots being radially formed in an outer circumferential surface of the inner rotor; and a plurality of connecting plates each including a head portion and a radially-inner end portion, the head portion being formed in a substantially circular shape in cross section and fitted swingably into the plate holding groove, the radially-inner end portion being slidably fitted into the slot. Each of the plate holding grooves is located within a projection plane of the permanent magnet with respect to a circumferential direction of the outer rotor.

Abstract: An oil pump includes: an annular stator (2) having coils (22); a cylindrical outer rotor (3) having a plurality of permanent magnets (24); an inner rotor (4) positioned eccentrically to an inner peripheral side of the outer rotor (3); six linkage plates (5) which link between the outer rotor (3) and the inner rotor (4); and a drive shaft (6) on which the inner rotor (4) is attached. A pump action is obtained by rotating the outer rotor (3) and the inner rotor (action is obtained by rotating the outer rotor (3) and the inner rotor (4). Each of linkage plates (5) has a symmetrical cross sectional shape. A torque transmission is possible in the same way even if the outer rotor (3) is at a drive side and even if the inner rotor (4) is at the drive side.

Abstract: A canister is provided with a plurality of adsorbent chambers filled with adsorbent, and the adsorbent chambers are connected together so as to form a U-turn-shaped passage. The canister has a communication chamber through which both end portions of adjacent two adsorbent chambers communicate with each other; a middle chamber formed at the end portion of one of the adjacent two adsorbent chambers, which is positioned at a downstream side of the communication chamber, and connected to the communication chamber through a communication hole; a baffle plate set in the middle chamber with the baffle plate facing to the communication hole so that an incoming air flow from the communication hole strikes against the baffle plate and diffuses in the middle chamber; and a tubular portion protruding in the communication chamber from an opening edge of the communication hole along a longitudinal direction of the one adsorbent chamber.

Abstract: A canister is provided with a plurality of adsorbent chambers filled with adsorbent, and the adsorbent chambers are connected together so as to form a U-turn-shaped passage. The canister has a communication chamber through which both end portions of adjacent two adsorbent chambers communicate with each other; a middle chamber formed at the end portion of one of the adjacent two adsorbent chambers, which is positioned at a downstream side of the communication chamber, and connected to the communication chamber through a communication hole; a baffle plate set in the middle chamber with the baffle plate facing to the communication hole so that an incoming air flow from the communication hole strikes against the baffle plate and diffuses in the middle chamber; and a tubular portion protruding in the communication chamber from an opening edge of the communication hole along a longitudinal direction of the one adsorbent chamber.

Abstract: An evaporated fuel treatment device including a cylindrical casing body, a granular adsorbent filled in the casing body, an air permeable member stacked on the granular adsorbent, a retainer member stacked on the air permeable member, and a tJooth-shaped positioning retention mechanism disposed between an inner circumferential surface of the casing body and an outer circumferential surface of the retainer member. The tooth-shaped positioning retention mechanism allows the retainer member to hold the air permeable member in a compressively deformed state, enables positioning and retention of the retainer member in an optional position relative to the casing body in a pushing direction of the retainer member, and inhibits displacement of the retainer member in a removal direction of the retainer member.