Abstract: A turbomachine has a shaft mounted in a shaft housing, and a rotor in a rotor housing at one end of the shaft, for compression, expansion, or transport of a working gas. The shaft is mounted by hydrostatic, gas-lubricated bearings that have a connector to a compressed gas line that is connected with a pressure region of the turbomachine. A portion of the gas that is passed from the pressure region is applied to the bearing. The shaft is mounted so that the bearing effect is at least extensively independent of the rotational speed of the shaft, thereby guaranteeing support of the shaft during startup of the turbomachine, and good rigidity and low sensitivity to pressure surge stresses. The pressure in the connector to the compressed gas line is at least 5 bar greater than the pressure in the region of the ventilation connector.

Abstract: A turbine (40) for a turbocharger (10) has a turbine housing (41) defining a generally annular chamber (43) surrounding a turbine wheel (44), the chamber receiving exhaust gas for driving the turbine wheel. The chamber has dividing walls (46) that divide the chamber into a plurality of angular sectors (43a,43b), each fed with exhaust gas separately from the other sector(s). (52,53) located radially inwardly of the sectors for guiding flow into the turbine wheel include at least dividing vanes (52) that form extensions of the dividing walls (46) so as to extend the sector-division of the exhaust gas flow path all the way to the trailing edges of the dividing vanes. An axially slidable piston (48) is disposed radially inwardly of the sectors, and radially overlaps with the dividing vanes (52). The vanes either are mounted on fixed structure and are received in slots (49) in the piston, or are mounted on the piston and received in slots in fixed structure.

Abstract: A blower device for a vehicle includes at least two blowers having fan shafts arranged in parallel with each other, a single motor for driving and rotating the blowers, and a shroud for holding the two blowers. The motor includes a motor portion and a motor shaft driven by and extending from the motor portion. The shroud has shroud ring portions each of which has a circular shape to cover an outer peripheral portion of the blower, and a shroud plate portion extending from the shroud ring portions to an outside. Furthermore, the fan shafts of the blowers are coupled to the motor shaft via a gear portion, and the motor portion is attached to the shroud plate portion to be offset from a center connection line connecting the centers of the shroud ring portions.

Abstract: The nozzles are in the form of blowing-in openings in the housing wall which bounds the flow channel. The blowing-in openings are fed directly by means of air which is extracted from the flow channel downstream from the diffusor. This air is at a higher pressure than the flow in the flow channel upstream of the diffusor. This results in a passive, dynamic stabilization system for a compressor stage in the high pressure-ratio range, which does not require any additional control or actuating elements.

Abstract: A flow-guiding member unit used for assembling a flow-guiding member comprising pluralities of vanes, an outer platform and an inner platform, the unit comprising an integral body member comprising one vane portion, an outer platform portion, and an inner platform portion, a first elastic member attached to a step of the outer platform portion, and a second elastic member attached to a step of the inner platform portion, the body member being formed by the thermal compression of sheet-molding compounds or fiber-reinforced resin pellets, and the first and second elastic members being made of a thermoplastic elastomer.

Abstract: An airfoil diffuser for a centrifugal compressor formed by a diffuser passage area and a plurality of diffuser blades located within the diffuser passage area. The diffuser passage area is defined between a hub plate and a shroud of the centrifugal compressor. Each of the diffuser blades has a twisted configuration in a stacking direction as taken between the hub plate and an outer portion of the shroud located opposite to the hub plate. As a result of the twisted configuration, the diffuser blade inlet blade angle decreases from the hub plate to the outer portion of the shroud and solidity measurements at leading edges of the diffuser plates vary between a lower solidity value measured at the hub plate of less than 1.0 and a high solidity value measured at the outer portion of the shroud of no less than 1.0.

Abstract: A reactor apparatus including a support element rotatable about an axis (1) and having a surface (2) generally centred on the axis. The surface (2) is adapted for outward flow of a thin film of a liquid phase reactant thereacross when supplied thereto as the surface (2) is rotated. The reactor apparatus is further provided with a plate or shroud (10) that covers or is coextensive with the surface (2) and defines a gap (14) between the surface and an underside of the plate or shroud (10) so as to allow a gaseous phase flow through the gap (14) and over the thin film of the liquid phase reactant. By constraining the gaseous phase flow over the liquid phase component, especially when the gaseous phase flow is countercurrent to the liquid phase flow, excellent mass transfer between the two phases can be achieved.

Abstract: A turbine blade tip shroud. The tip shroud may include a platform, a number of Z-notched positioned within the platform, a number of seal rails positioned on the platform, and a number of cavities positioned within the platform and adjacent to seal rails and the Z-notches.

Abstract: A pumping system has a variable-delivery vane pump. The pump has hydraulic pressure regulating dissipating devices for imparting to the oil, in a regulating chamber, a pressure lower than the delivery pressure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pumping system (60) comprising: a pumping mechanism (64); a motor (51) for driving the pumping mechanism; a drive control (50) for controlling the motor; and means (52) for monitoring at least one state within the system; wherein, to improve the performance of the system, the drive control causes the system to operate for transient periods in an overload condition which can result in said monitored state exceeding a predetermined operational limit, and when operating in said overload condition said drive control controls the power to the motor dependent on the level of said monitored state thereby avoiding said state from exceeding said operational limit.

Abstract: A bicycle pump having illuminating devices for enabling it to be used in the dark, which includes a pump portion, a nozzle and a pressure gauge mounted on the body portion, the pressure gauge having an inlet connected to a lower end of the pump body and an outlet connected to the nozzle, the improvement wherein the pressure gauge is provided with a first illuminating means, and the nozzle is provided with a second illuminating means therein. The nozzle has an upper end provided with an illuminating seat in which is fitted the second illuminating means. The illuminating seat has a cover engageable with one side of the nozzle and the rear end of the illuminating seat being provided with a switch for controlling power supplied from batteries to the second illuminating means.

Abstract: A first head of a liquid ring pump has an inlet, an outlet, a shaft receiving aperture extending there through, and an internal end. The internal end includes a boss with a side wall. The boss is received by a pump body. An interstage manifold is removeably coupled to the pump without being integral with or connected to the pump body. An o-ring can be located between a side wall of the boss and an internal side wall of the body.

Abstract: A compressor apparatus has a housing (22) having first (53) and second (58) ports along a flowpath. One or more working elements (26, 28) cooperate with the housing to define a compression path between suction and discharge locations along the flowpath. A check valve (70) has a valve element having a first condition permitting downstream flow along the flowpath and a second condition blocking a reverse flow. Sound suppressing means (120, 220, 320) at least partially surround the flowpath upstream of the valve element (70).

Abstract: An electric axial flow pump comprising: a stator 6 having a field coil 10, a rotor 3 including a cylindrical hollow shaft 4 having open ends surrounded by the stator and a plurality of magnets 5 fixed around the hollow shaft, and a flow generation section 2 fixed inside the hollow shaft for rotating integrally with the rotor when the field coil is excited, thereby generating flow of a fluid 15 inside the hollow shaft.

Abstract: The invention relates to a processing or working machine comprising a liquid as the operating liquid wherein the invention is characterized in that an ionic liquid constitutes said operating liquid. The invention also relates to the use of operating fluids in processing or working machines, wherein an ionic liquid constitutes the operating liquid and is used, in particular, as a lubricating fluid, barrier fluid, sealing fluid, or a pressure transmission fluid.

Abstract: The invention relates to a medical pump, especially for water jet surgery, in which a pump unit assembled as a single use article can be reversibly connected to a pump actuating device. In order to simplify one such arrangement, the pump actuating device is also used to open up the connection between the pump unit and the pump actuating device.

Abstract: There is provided a piezoelectric pump including a piezoelectric vibrator formed by stacking a piezoelectric body on at least one of the front and rear surfaces of a shim made of a conductive metal thin plate, and a housing that makes the peripheral edge of the piezoelectric vibrator liquid-tight to form a pump chamber. An alternating current is applied to between the shim of the piezoelectric vibrator, and the piezoelectric body to vibrate the piezoelectric vibrator, thereby generating a pumping action. A cylindrical bent part is formed at a peripheral edge of the shim of the piezoelectric vibrator, and a liquid-tight seal member is interposed between the cylindrical bent part and the housing. As a result, the piezoelectric pump with a highly-reliable fluid-tight structure around the piezoelectric vibrator is obtained.

Abstract: An arrangement for pumping fluids has an electronically commutated external-rotor motor (20). The latter has a stator (22) arranged on a stator carrier (34) and a rotor (26) joined to a first permanent magnet (67), which rotor is rotatably journaled, in a bearing tube (30), with respect to the stator (22). This bearing tube (30) is arranged, at least partly, radially inside the stator carrier. The first permanent magnet (67) is arranged in an annular interstice between the stator carrier (34) and the bearing tube (30). A fluid pump (84) has a pump wheel (90) arranged rotatably inside a pump housing (86), which wheel is joined to a second permanent magnet (92), a liquid-tight but magnetically transparent partition (82) being provided between the first permanent magnet and the second permanent magnet. This keeps fluid away from the motor wiring.

Abstract: A screw compressor is for use of a screw chiller, and comprises a pair of screw rotors and a casing housing the screw rotors, a capacity control valve for varying a ratio of volume, a motor for driving the screw rotors and an inverter for varying the rotational speed of the motor. The screw compressor is controlled using rotational speed control means by the inverter and mechanical capacity control means by the capacity control valve independently or combined together according to loads. The maximum efficient point in a capacity control performed solely by the inverter is set to a rotational speed side lower than the rated operation point. In a region where the rotational speed is higher than the maximum efficient point, the inverter solely takes control from a rated rotational speed to a high rotational speed side.

Abstract: The invention relates to a micropump for peristaltic pumping of a liquid medium and to a device which contains a peristaltic micropump and which is for metered administration of a liquid drug.

Abstract: A tube cassette unit including a flexible conveying tube, a discharge nozzle inserted into one end of the conveying tube and a relay pipe inserted into the other end, a discharge side holding part for coupling and holding the one end of the conveying tube to the discharge nozzle, and an introduction side holding part for coupling and holding the other end of the conveying tube to the relay pipe is used, where the discharge side holding part and the introduction side holding part are removably attached with the conveying tube of the tube cassette wound and extended on at least two rollers of a rotating body arranged with a plurality of rollers at equidistance in the circumferential form, and a closed space is formed in the conveying tube by the roller pressed against the conveying tube, and the closed space is moved to convey the liquid by the rotation of the rotating body.

Abstract: A medical pump includes a chassis having a fixed seat, and a main carriage having a carriage footing for receiving a fluid delivery device and restricting its movement. An actuator automatically moves the main carriage between open and closed positions to engage the fluid delivery device to the seat. The seat establishes the position of both the main carriage and fluid delivery device in the closed position. The actuator is connected to the main carriage by a rear carriage assembly having a manual release element for disengaging the actuator from rear carriage assembly and thereby from the main carriage. A processing unit detects jam conditions by processing carriage position data and electrical load data from the actuator.

Abstract: In a multi cylinder thick materials pump (1) for feeding concrete in particular, whose at least two feeding cylinders (3, 5) feed the thick material from a pre filling container (7) into a feed line, and a shift valve (9) for alternatively connecting the feeding cylinders, having a feed line associated with it, comprising at least two rotationally movable valve bodies, each comprising a straight transfer section (15L, 17L) between each one of the feeding cylinders and the feed line, connected downstream of the feeding cylinders to a collector tube (19), the shift valve (9) according to the invention comprising at least one, but preferably two rotationally movable rotating slides (15, 17; 15?, 17?; 15?, 17?), each oft them comprising a straight transfer section (15L, 17L) for connecting the feeding cylinder respectively associated with it to the feed line, and at least one section blocking the connection. Also a process for operating of this thick materials pump for continuous feeding is described.

Abstract: Conventionally, when a canned motor is used in the drive part of a rotary dry vacuum pump, there is found a problem that reaction produced gas flows into the interior of the canned motor to thereby break down the canned motor and thus the rotary dry vacuum pump.

Abstract: A back pressure chamber 12 provided on a back surface of an orbiting scroll 5 is divided into an inner region 12a and an outer region 12b by an annular seal 11. A diameter d of the annular seal 11 is set 0.5 times or more of a diameter D of an orbiting mirror plate 5a. With this, plus thrust force can be applied to the orbiting scroll 5 irrespective of magnitude of a discharge pressure Pd applied to the inner region 12a. Therefore, it is possible to push the orbiting scroll 5 against the fixed scroll 4 only by back pressure of discharge pressure. A set pressure Pm of the outer region 12b is reduced to a value close to a suction pressure Ps, a pressure adjusting mechanism 20 is swiftly opened after a scroll compressor is started. With this, lubricant oil is supplied from the outer region 12b to the suction space 9 without a time lag.

Abstract: A scroll compressor has a moving scroll and a stationary scroll in contact with each other. A seal ring for defining a back pressure space at a rear side of the stationary scroll is provided and its position is adjusted between a sealing position and a leakage position with respect to an end plate of the stationary scroll.

Abstract: A corrosion resistant hydraulic motor includes a housing, an output shaft extending through an opening in the housing, a sealing member contacting the output shaft and a water proof coating disposed on an exterior surface of the housing and on the sealing member. The sealing member is configured to cooperate with the output shaft to preclude corrosive material from passing through the opening into an internal compartment of the motor.

Abstract: A telescoping gear pump comprises a bolt, a Bellville washer, a wear plate, a seal housing, a seal spring, a spur gear including a wear lobe, a seal ring and a case drain path, a shaft, a ring gear including a wear lobe, seal ring, and a case drain path, seal, a bolt assembly including a Bellville washer and bolt, and a pressure plate. The assembly provides pressure to a fluid to maintain a seal within a telescoping pump/motor during operation. The wear lobe reduces wear while maintaining fluid pressure.

Abstract: A screw pump includes a housing and a pair of intermeshing screw rotors. An end face of the rotor adjacent to an inlet port of the housing is provided with an inlet opening. Each rotor has a first portion whose lead angle changes. The first portions and the housing cooperate to form an inlet space. During rotation of the rotors, communication between the inlet space and the inlet port is blocked by the first portions and the housing thereby to form a closed pump space adjacent to the inlet space. Volume of the pump space is set smaller than the maximum volume of the inlet space. A closure member is provided which covers at least a part of the inlet openings. The closure member closes the inlet space when the volume of the inlet space exceeds that of the pump space.

Abstract: A rotary lobe pump comprises a pump body having a driving means and an outer casing, and an insert that can be replaced. The replaceable insert comprises a housing formed of a plastic material and having an inlet port, an outlet port and internal surfaces defining a pumping chamber. The replaceable insert also includes a pair of lobed rotors arranged for rotation within the pumping chamber. The housing includes apertures through which the lobed rotors may be rotationally driven, so that the lobed rotors mesh together for pumping a fluid from the inlet port to the outlet port.

Abstract: Provided are a porous sintered compact suitable for a filter, a power feeder in a polymer electrolyte membrane type water electrolyzer, a current collector in a solid polymer fuel cell and in addition a liquid dispersion plate, especially an ink dispersion plate for an ink jet printer ink and the like. A titanium powder sintered compact made of a plate-like porous compact is obtained by sintering spherical powder made of titanium or a titanium alloy produced by means of a gas atomization method. A void ratio in the range of from 35 to 55% is realized by filling without applying a pressure and sintering without applying a pressure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to fullerene, nanotube, or nanofiber filled metals and polymers. This invention stems from a cross-disciplinary combination of electromagnetic and acoustic processing and property enhancement of materials through fullerene or nanofiber additives. Containerless processing (CP) in the form of electromagnetic field enduced and/or acoustic mixing leads to controlled dispersion of fullerenes, nanotubes, or nanofibers in various matrices. The invention provides methods of mixing that highly disperse and align the fullerenes, nanotubes, or nanofibers within the matrices of metals and polymers. The invention provides new compositions of matter and multifunctional materials based on processing, composition, and degree of in situ processing.

Abstract: A high performance main bearing cap has particular surfaces densified for improved fatigue crack resistance. The surfaces densified are the bolted face inside of a perimetral margin and outside of bolt head interface areas around the main bolt holes, the surfaces of the main bolt holes and the side bolt hole threads. Preferred methods of densification are single needle programmable pattern peening of the bolted face peened area, over-burnishing of the bolt holes, and forming the threads rather than cutting them for the side bolt threads.

Abstract: A powder molding product may be formed by a forming portion in a mold body filled with a raw powder. Upper and lower punches are fitted into the forming portion to form the powder molding product. Prior to filling with the raw powder, aqueous solution in which water soluble lubricant having at least 3 g of solubility for 100 g of water is dissolved in water to uniform phase is applied to a mold portion. The aqueous solution is evaporated, thus forming a crystallized layer on the molding portion. The crystallized layer is formed on the peripheral surface of the molding portion for lubrication enabling the reducing of a pressure required for ejecting the powder molding product from the molding portion as well as the improving of the density of the powder molding product.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method to produce an austenitic alloy by an austenitic stainless substrate alloy of low Al content being coated with an alloy of higher Al content at a temperature between 100° C. and 600° C., so that the resulting product has an Al content of 4.5-12% by weight.

Abstract: High strength metal alloys are described herein. At least one composition of a metal alloy includes chromium, nickel, copper, manganese, silicon, niobium, tungsten and iron. System, methods, and heaters that include the high strength metal alloys are described herein. At least one heater system may include a canister at least partially made from material containing at least one of the metal alloys. At least one system for heating a subterranean formation may include a tubular that is at least partially made from a material containing at least one of the metal alloys.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for producing a Fe—Co based target material for forming a soft magnetic thin-film. This method comprises the steps of: preparing a first raw-material powder having an Fe:Co weight ratio ranging from 8:2 to 7:3 and a second raw-material powder having an Fe—Co weight ratio ranging from 2:8 to 0:10; mixing the first raw-material powder and the second raw-material powder together to obtain a powder mixture having an Fe:Co weight ratio ranging from 8:2 to 2:8; and applying a pressure of not less than 100 MPa to the powder mixture at a temperature ranging from 1073 to 1473 K for consolidation. At least one additional element selected from the group consisting of Nb, Zr, Ta and Hf is added to either one or both of the first and second raw-material powders in a total amount of 3 to 15 atom % with respect to the total amount of the powder mixture. The Fe—Co based target material thus produced has a high density, while having a magnetic permeability lower than the conventional one.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a medical device or implant made at least in part of a high strength, low modulus metal alloy comprising Niobium, Tantalum, and at least one element selected from the group consisting of Zirconium, Tungsten and Molybdenum. The medical devices according to the present invention provide superior characteristics with regard to biocompatibility, radio-opacity and MRI compatibility.

Abstract: A metal film according to the present invention has a cubic crystal structure having a periodic pattern of crystal orientation in a plane. The crystal orientation is gradually rotated about a particular crystal-axis direction such that a {100} plane, a {110} plane, and a {111} plane appear.

Abstract: A nickel-molybdenum-chromium alloy, capable of withstanding both strong oxidizing and strong reducing acid solutions, contains 20.0 to 23.5 wt. % molybdenum and 13.0 to 16.5 wt. % chromium with the balance being nickel plus impurities and residuals of elements used for control of oxygen and sulfur.

Abstract: Metal aluminides are formed by an initial thermal deposition process which forms an intermediary material comprising elemental aluminum and another elemental metal, as well as an oxide of the other metal. The thermally formed intermediary material is subsequently heated to initiate an exothermic reaction which forms the metal aluminide material. The reaction may be initiated by localized or bulk heating of the intermediary material, and may involve reaction between the aluminum and elemental metal as well as a thermite reaction between the aluminum and the metal oxide. The resultant metal aluminide material may be substantially fully dense and may contain oxide strengthening precipitates such as aluminum oxide.

Abstract: A method and device related to a liquid product pressure and (optionally) temperature treatment method reduces the level of microorganisms in the liquid product to a preselected level. Utilizing the method, liquid product is diffused in a chamber with the speed of pressure variation of liquid product in one embodiment of about 109 Pa/sec. The preferred speed of the diffused drops is about 10 m/sec. The liquid product can optionally be heated before or during diffusion, and is preferably heated as a diffused liquid product by mixing it with superheated steam. The device includes a chamber and a diffuser in communication with the chamber.

Abstract: A preserving apparatus has a multiple surface electrode structure that can keep an object disposed in a preserving apparatus fresh by disrupting an electrochemical balance in a microorganism and controlling a flow of ions in the microorganism from multiple surfaces. The preserving apparatus has a multiple surface electrode structure that includes a multiple surface electrode unit having at least one anode and cathode facing each other and located in a housing member of a preserving unit that stores an object disposed in the preserving apparatus; and a power supply unit that forms an electric field between the anode and the cathode by supplying a voltage to the anode and the cathode; wherein the power supply unit sequentially or randomly supplies the voltage to the at least one anode and cathode.

Abstract: A chromatography and fluidic device with connections capable of automated component changing, diagnostic leak and current sensing. The chromatography-electrospray device contains a chromatography column, a pre-column, a spray emitter, or other fluidic component imbedded within one or more inserts. The inserts are robotically placed in receiving hardware, and a “plug and play” compression fitting connection mechanism makes the fluidic seals in an automated fashion. A plurality of sensors capable of detecting leaks is situated in the device near leak-prone regions. The electrospray emitter has a current sensing electrode in proximity of the electrospray region, capable of detecting the electrospray current. In conjunction with an electronics system, these sensors allow for system and component diagnostics. The diagnostic information may then be used for manual or automated system repair.

Abstract: A liquid state detecting sensor for detecting a state of a liquid including a liquid concentration detecting element, a holder member, and an enclosing member as defined herein, wherein the holder member has a configuration in which respective portions of a lower end surface facing the enclosed region are located higher than or at a same height as a lowest hole periphery at the rim of the element holding hole from which the detecting element protrudes, and at least one of circulation holes formed in the enclosing member is a bubble-discharging hole which has an upper end located higher than the lowest hole periphery and a lower end located lower than a surface peripheral edge of the lower end surface.

Abstract: Various medical conditions in a subject may be diagnosed by comparing the concentration of a diagnostic species such as ethane in breath samples from a subject from different stages of the breathing cycle. Using phase sensitive measurement of absorption of IR laser radiation, very small concentrations of the diagnostic species can be measured. Apparatus for collecting breath samples from different stages of the breathing cycle is also disclosed.

Abstract: A tool for manipulating a biological sample for vitrification and storage. The tool includes an elongated stem having opposed actuation end and operative end, and a sample loading portion mounted at the operative end of the elongated stem. The sample loading portion extends axially from the elongated stem. The tool also includes a sleeve capable of telescoping movement on said stem. The stem, including the loading portion can be retracted into and extended out from the sleeve for protection and exposure, respectively.

Abstract: An electronic candle includes a source of light which provides a spatially and temporally varying pattern of illumination which simulates a candle flame, a volatile release station which operates to release a volatile material such as an aromatic material from a cartridge, and a forced convection system which disperses the volatile material. The candle further includes a controller which coordinates the operation of the release of the volatile material and the light source so that the pattern of light produced by the source is coordinated with an attribute of the volatile material being released.

Abstract: The invention relates to an original experimental device for the study and the validation of processes in a reactive simulated moving bed, as well as the method that makes possible the exploitation of the results obtained from said device. This device consists of one or two columns and a number of storage tanks.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an injector nozzle defining a passage for a flow of reactants to be injected into a loop reactor suitable for olefin slurry polymerization, consisting essentially of a fluid conduit extending into a discharge orifice portion to be connected to an opening in the reactor wherein the passage of the discharge orifice portion has a non-circular cross-section and the passage of the fluid conduit has a circular cross-section. The invention also relates to the use of the injector nozzle for injecting reactants into a loop reactor suitable for olefin polymerization reaction, wherein said injector nozzle is connected on an inner three quarter circle on or above an elbow section of the reactor.