Abstract: A rotating pumping apparatus is provided which may be employed in an automotive brake system. The rotating pumping apparatus includes a sealing member and an oil seal which are disposed around a pump drive shaft, and lubricating grease disposed between the oil seal and the pump drive shaft. The sealing member is made up of a resinous ring and a rubber cup. The sealing member has formed therein a labyrinthine flow path which extends from the resinous ring to the rubber cup. The labyrinthine flow path is designed to permit fluid to flow therethrough and create the resistance to flow of the lubricating grease to avoid leakage of the grease outside the sealing member.

Abstract: An oil-reserving piston ring includes an upper wedge ring (100a,200a) and a lower wedge ring (100b,200b) jointed with each other. The upper wedge ring (100a,200a) and the lower wedge ring (100b,200b) are each arranged with an opening, the upper wedge ring (100a,200a) has a first working surface (101,201) contacting with the wall of a cylinder, the lower wedge ring (100b,200b) has a second working surface (102,202) contacting with the wall of the cylinder, and at least one of the first working surface (101,201) and the second working surface (102,202) is arranged with at least one oil-reserving groove (105,106,205,206). Also provided is a piston (600) with only one piston ring slot which is used for arranging the oil-reserving piston ring. The oil-reserving piston ring has a good lubricating property and seal, and is high in reliability.

Abstract: An oil scraper piston ring includes a ring body having two radial outer running webs on the ring body, which are arranged one behind the other in relation to the run direction of the piston and are spaced apart from one another by an external depression. Each running web respectively has two scraper lips and a wear protection coating is provided on each scraper lip.

Abstract: A handheld work apparatus has an internal combustion engine (9, 9?, 9?) and a starter device (8). The internal combustion engine has a piston (10, 10?) which has at least one piston ring (37, 38). In order to avoid a delay when starting the engine, at least one recess is provided in the cylinder bore (26) which bridges the at least one piston ring (37, 38) in at least one position of the piston (10, 10?) and which has a distance (n, o, p) to all function openings of the engine (9, 9?, 9?) configured in the cylinder bore (26). To reduce the compression in the combustion chamber (25), the piston (10?) has only one piston ring (37) or two piston rings (37, 38) are provided having respective piston ring gaps (39, 40) defining an angle (?) which is up to approximately 45°.

Abstract: A sealing device is provided which is capable of reducing its sliding resistance. In a sealing device 1 which is fitted into an annular groove formed in one of a housing with a shaft hole and a shaft inserted into said shaft hole and serves to seal an annular gap between these two members, and which includes a seal ring 2 made of a resin that is in sliding contact with the other of the two members, and an elastic ring 3 that is fitted between the seal ring 2 and the annular groove, the seal ring has a plurality of concave portions 22 formed on its sliding surface 20 which is in sliding contact with the other member.

Abstract: A piston ring reduces reciprocating friction between a piston and an inner wall surface of a cylinder, while maintaining reduction effect of the reciprocating friction. The piston ring is mounted in a ring groove of the piston, and slides against the inner wall surface of a cylinder liner or a cylinder. The piston ring includes: plural fine recessed portions formed in a barrel width region on an outer peripheral sliding surface of the piston ring; and a non-recessed portion area where no recessed portions are formed in the barrel width region. The non-recessed portion area is configured to have an area percentage within a range from 20-85% in the barrel width region where an area percentage of the barrel width region before the recessed portions are formed is defined to be 100%. The non-recessed portion area exists through an entire cross section in an axial direction of the barrel width.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine is disclosed. The engine may have an engine block at least partially defining a cylinder, a liner disposed within the cylinder, and at least a first gas exchange port passing through an annular surface of the liner. The engine may also have a cylinder head connected to the engine block and together with the liner forming a combustion chamber, and at least a second gas exchange port disposed within the cylinder head in fluid communication with the combustion chamber. The engine may additionally have a piston slidably disposed within the liner and having an annular groove formed within an outer surface, and a plurality of piston rings selectively connectable with the annular groove. Each of the plurality of piston rings may be generally L-shaped and have a different axial length. Each of the plurality of piston rings is selected to vary an opening and closing timing of the at least a first gas exchange port.

Abstract: An oil wiper ring, comprising a body with a radially external running surface, an inner circumferential surface and an upper and lower face, and which possesses at least two slide ribs, which may be provided with a wear-resistant layer, such ribs becoming conically thinner, in the radial direction of their end faces, and which are opposite a sliding mating surface, such that they proceed from the body, at a specifiable angle, in order to form an angled side face, so that the free end of each slide rib, commencing in the region at the oil chamber side, is shaped to slope towards an area at the combustion chamber side, such that the associated transitional areas, on the one hand, from the region of the circumferential slide rib towards the angled side faces, and on the other hand, from the angled side faces to the piston ring body, are rounded, i.e. have predetermined radii.

Abstract: A sealing device in which a good lubricating oil film is formed along the entire circumference of a sliding surface. The sealing device (1) is fitted in an annular groove formed in either of two elements that are a housing having a shaft hole and a shaft inserted through the shaft hole, and the sealing device (1) seals an annular gap between the two elements. The sealing device (1) has a seal ring (2) sliding against the other element by relative axial movements of the two elements. In the seal ring (2), on each of axially opposite ends of a sliding surface (20) sliding against the other element, there are formed grooves (22) extending from an end surface (21) of the seal ring (2) toward the axial center of a sliding surface (20).

Abstract: A sealing sleeve is disclosed for sealing between piston and cylinder wall in internal combustion engines. In at least one embodiment, it includes a height in the direction of piston movement that is at least three times as large as its width in the radial direction of the cylinder. Further, it includes a pressurized annular cut out.

Abstract: A developer cartridge includes a storing portion that stores developer and has an opening, a shutter member that opens and closes the opening, and a seal member that seals between the shutter member and the storing portion. The seal member is so provided that both end portions thereof face each other. One end portion of the seal member has at least one angled portion provided inside both side end edges of the seal member in width direction of the seal member, and the other end portion has an angled portion along the angled portion of said one end portion.

Abstract: A purge gas introduction system for an orbital tube welding setup is provided, configured to inject high purity inert purge gas to the interior volume of a tube or tubular component. An o-ring is interposed between an annular base and an annular ring, their junction forming an annular o-ring groove, each part forming one sidewall, with the o-ring fully recessed within the groove, protecting the o-ring during the insertion and removal of a tube. The annular base and an annular ring are configured to receive a tube terminus. The sidewalls of the o-ring groove are divergent one to the other, wherein as the annular ring is drawn towards the annular base, the o-ring is forced partially out of the groove, forming a substantially leak tight seal between the tube and the o-ring. A purge gas from an external source is transmitted to the annular base through a purge connector, then, in turn, introduced to the interior volume of the tube.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is a piston for cold chamber die-casting machines comprising a body and at least one sealing band mounted around said body, wherein said body and said band are provided with coupling means suitable for concurrently obtaining both an angular locking and an axial locking of the band to the piston body.

Abstract: A piston ring is positioned in a groove of a piston and has an outer peripheral face. The outer peripheral face is generally tapered to an edge and includes a projection. The projection extends radially outwardly from the outer peripheral face along an upper surface of the piston ring. The projection reduces the gap between the outer peripheral face and a wall of the surrounding cylinder. The gap is typically exposed to combustion gases and the projection reduces the exposed area. Ring collapse is the separation of the outer peripheral face from the wall of the cylinder because of downward pressure forces of the combustion gases. Accordingly, the projection reduces the occurrence of ring collapse.

Abstract: An oil ring for an internal combustion engine capable of securing an area of an oil-passing hole without deteriorating the strength of the oil ring. To achieve this the oil ring is provided with an oil-passing hole including: two arc portions disposed at both ends in circumferential direction, so as to be opposed to each other; two parallel straight portions disposed so that a widthwise direction distance therebetween is longer than a width of the arc portion; and inclined portions for connecting the arc portions and the parallel straight portions to each other.

Abstract: It is a main object of the present invention to provide an oil ring which is capable of reducing sliding friction even in a high speed revolution region of a piston, and capable of reducing the consumption of oil.

Abstract: In a corner portion (2) defined between an outer peripheral surface (4) and a lower-side surface (3) of a steel piston ring (1), a groove (5, 6) having either an approximately quadrangular shape with a length of one side of 0.05 to 0.4 mm or an approximately quarter circular shape having a radius of 0.05 to 0.4 mm is formed. A sharp edge (9) formed by the groove (5, 6) performs an oil scraping function and the groove (5, 6) works to reduce an oil pressure of a second land or a third land clearance between the cylinder bore and the piston.

Abstract: A rod or piston primary seal, which includes a primary seal (2) facing the space (1) to be sealed and a secondary seal (3) facing away from it, in which the primary seal (2) is fitted into the groove (4), of a holding element (5), open in the direction of the relatively movable machine part (11) which is bounded, on the side facing away from the space (1) to be sealed, by a first side surface (7) which extends essentially at right angles to the sealing axis (6), and includes a sealing edge ring (8) made of tough, hard plastic which has a sealing edge (9) lying adjacent to the machine part (11) and is pressed with its sealing edge (9) onto the machine part (11) by a profile ring (10) made of elastomeric material which is supported on the bottom surface (12) of groove (4) and lies adjacent to sealing edge ring (8) with its inner surface (13), the sealing edge ring (8) having a profile bounded essentially by a right angle between the sealing edge (9) and the bounding surface (14) facing the first side surface (7

Abstract: Two seal rings are provided comprising an upper ring and a lower ring, the rings having a common axis, a common outer cylindrical surface, a common inner cylindrical surface, and a couple of facing surfaces. The facing surfaces form an engaging length in a radial section of the rings having a radially outer end and a radially inner end, and the facing surfaces and the common cylindrical surface define a first wedge-shaped gap with a radially inward leading edge at the outer end. The inward leading edge is provided with a first angle in a range of 10 seconds to 1 degree and 30 seconds, and the outer end is spaced more from the common cylindrical surface than from the common cylindrical inner surface.

Abstract: A seal ring is provided, which is capable of maintaining a stable sealing performance for a long period, in which a cut portion is provided at one position in a circumferential direction of a seal ring, a convex portion is provided at a first cut end portion, a recess portion is provided at a second cut end portion, and the end portions of a third surface and a sixteenth surface extending in the circumferential direction among the convex portion and recess portion correspond to a portion of a second seal portion for sealing a side wall surface of an annular groove.

Abstract: An oil ring for an internal combustion engine, comprising a metallic annular body (10) to be mounted around a piston (P) reciprocating inside a cylinder (C) of the engine, said annular body (10) having opposite lateral faces (11), an internal face (12) onto which will be seated a resilient expander (M), and an external contact face (13) to be seated against the internal face of the cylinder (C) and having a height (h) that is substantially smaller than the height (H) of the internal face (12). Each lateral face (11) is defined by one or more lateral face portions (11a, 11b), which are designed to reduce the moment of inertia of the annular body (10), giving higher conformability to the latter. Preferentially, but not exclusively, the annular body (10) can be further provided with channels (15, 16), extended along at least part of the ring hight and which are radially spaced back in relation to the external contact face (13).

Abstract: A plurality of slits are formed on an interior circumference of a piston ring, such that a piston ring can be easily mounted to a piston, and a piston ring mounted with such a piston ring may be easily installed in a cylinder. Additionally, such a piston ring maintains contact to an interior wall of a cylinder during cylinder bore deformation.

Abstract: An oil scraper piston ring includes an inner circumferential surface; an outer circumferential surface adapted to contact and slide along an inner wall of an engine cylinder; a radial wall thickness defined by a radial distance between the inner and outer circumferential surfaces; and a plurality of circumferentially distributed recesses each extending radially from the inner circumferential surface toward the outer circumferential surface to reduce the radial wall thickness. Each recess has a first recess region open at the inner circumferential surface and extending radially toward the outer circumferential surface and a second recess region merging into the first recess region. The two recess regions have different shapes, and the area of the second recess region is larger than the area of the first recess region.

Abstract: The invention relates to a slot piston ring (1) for the pistons of internal combustion engines or compressors, having a peripheral recess (9) (a so-called scraper ring) that extends close to the slot (2) on the external periphery (3) of the piston facing away from the combustion chamber. The aim of the invention is to reduce oil consumption and the amount of leakage gas of such a piston. To this end, the recess is configured to extend from a zone (10) diametrically opposite the slot, starting with a maximum height (12) which gradually decreases to zero (13) in the direction of the slot or close to the slot.

Abstract: An engine piston compression ring designed to reduce the negative effects of ring end butting and reduce blowby. The compression ring has a gap forming an angle with a longitudinal axis of the ring or with a radius drawn from the axis. A relieved portion is provided along the upper or inner side of the ring adjacent one end, depending upon the direction of the gap angle. The relieved portion slopes along the upper or inner side toward the one end where the longitudinal thickness of the ring is smallest.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a piston ring is developed, wherein the method provides a countermeasure for wear of butt ends of the ion plating film coated piston ring and a countermeasure for breakage of the piston ring and the piston ring manufactured at a low cost. A thickness of the film (2) in the vicinity of butt ends (7) of a piston ring (1) is made greater than the thickness of the film (2) at other outer peripheral surface. Piston ring blanks (5) are rotated around their own axes toward an evaporation source (4) and a speed is lowered when the butt ends (7) face the evaporation source (4).

Abstract: An engine piston compression ring designed to reduce the negative effects of ring end butting and reduce blowby. The compression ring has a gap forming an angle with a longitudinal axis of the ring or with a radius drawn from the axis. A relieved portion is provided along the upper or inner side of the ring adjacent one end, depending upon the direction of the gap angle. The relieved portion slopes along the upper or inner side toward the one end where the longitudinal thickness of the ring is smallest.

Abstract: A non-sealing, lubricating piston ring for lubricating the cylinder wall of a piston housing in a combustion tool is disclosed. The lubricating piston ring is made from a lubricating material such as polytetrofluroethylene (PTFE). The shape of the PTFE ring is designed to optimize the lubricity of the piston housing, while allowing enough friction for the piston to operate properly within the piston housing during reciprocating cycling movement. The PTFE ring may have radial fins extending from an outer surface thereof that are angled to promote ring rotations, such that the ring moves easily along and efficiently lubricates the inner cylinder wall of the piston housing. The PTFE ring does not form a seal between the piston and the housing. Instead, the PTFE ring is positioned above or below a sealing ring, such as a steel piston ring which forms the seal between the piston and the piston housing.

Abstract: In a fuel injector having a plunger-and-barrel pumping assembly, a sealing member is mounted within an annulus of a plunger to prevent the dilution of pressurized fuel within the barrel of the tool. The sealing member includes a hollowed cavity which traps upward moving pressurized fuel and forces an extension or wiper of the sealing member upward and outward into sealing engagement with the inner surface or bore of the barrel.

Abstract: A seal assembly for a groove or seal gland in a relatively displaceable machine part for sealing an axial machine part extending therethrough comprises a pair of annular seal elements and a support element disposed between the annular elements and radially extending wall of said groove. The annular seal elements have an axial slot therein and a key portion extending therefrom, shaped to engage the axial slot. The seal elements are arranged in an inverted nesting relationship to provide superior sealing characteristics when biased toward the machine part by said support element.

Abstract: A method for decomposing an organic compound by using functional water followed by neutralization of the wastewater not to affect the environment.

Abstract: Two axially abutting individual rings (4, 5) arranged in a shared casing recess (3) at the passage (6) of a component (2) to be sealed, which each is formed of several ring segments (4′, 5′) pressed against the component (2) to be sealed by a common peripheral spring (8). The cover ring (4) facing the side (6) to be sealed is radially divided and relieved from pressure by inlet-side radial grooves (7). The actual sealing ring (5) is divided by essentially tangential sections. To reduce wear and heat transfer, the cover ring (4) exhibits a circumferential carrying shoulder (9) on the side facing the sealing ring (5), on which sits the sealing ring (5) with the circumferential peripheral surface (10) of a twist-out section (11). In addition, the pressure on the cover ring (4) is largely relieved by an inner peripheral groove (12) that is provided on the side of the carrying shoulder (9) and in contact with the delivery side (6).

Abstract: An oil scraper piston ring includes an inner circumferential surface; an outer circumferential surface adapted to contact and slide along an inner wall of an engine cylinder; a radial wall thickness defined by a radial distance between the inner and outer circumferential surfaces; and a plurality of circumferentially distributed recesses each extending radially from the inner circumferential surface toward the outer circumferential surface to reduce the radial wall thickness. Each recess has a first recess region open at the inner circumferential surface and extending radially toward the outer circumferential surface and a second recess region merging into the first recess region. The two recess regions have different shapes, and the area of the second recess region is larger than the area of the first recess region.

Abstract: A sealing ring, in particular for a piston rod with a circular cross-section, which has a height in the axial direction as well as a surface oriented towards a sliding surface, with the surface being executed to extend cylindrically over a part of the height in order to form a sealing surface and being executed to become wider along a further part. The sealing ring has a high sealing action in the axial direction so that a majority of the gas flows out between the piston rod and the sealing surface so that a gas storage arises.

Abstract: A lubricated hydrostatic seal comprising (a) surface regions having opposing surfaces; (b) a plurality of micropores in one or more of said surfaces having a pore geometry; and (c) a flow of fluid between said surfaces, wherein said flow of fluid past said micropores provides a lifting force between said surfaces. In a preferred embodiment, the opposing surfaces of the surface regions are nominally parallel. Nominally-parallel surfaces are simple to manufacture and are considerably less expensive than the various converging-surface configurations of the prior art. The nominally-parallel surface configuration can also be utilized in both liquid-lubricated and gas-lubricated hydrodynamic seal applications, and in hybrid-seal applications in which both hydrodynamic and hydrostatic lift are generated.

Abstract: A seal assembly 20 for a groove 12 or seal gland in a relatively displaceable machine part 10 for sealing an axial machine part 18 extending therethrough comprises a pair of annular seal elements 30 and a support element 50 disposed between the annular elements 30 and a radially extending wall 14 of said groove 12. The annular seal elements 30 have an axial slot 32 therein and a key portion 36 extending therefrom, shaped to engage the axial slot 32. The seal elements 30 are arranged in an inverted nesting relationship to provide superior sealing characteristics when biased toward the machine part 18 by said support element 50.

Abstract: A piston sealing ring assembly (70) for sealing the piston/cylinder interface of a double-acting gas compressor including a first and second cut piston sealing ring (54,72) each bounded by first and second planar surfaces (6,8), the first piston sealing ring (54) having an overlapped cut with generally circumferentially extending inner and outer overlapping portions (56,58) which contact each other to form a continuous seal extending from the first surface (6) to the second surface (8) of the first piston sealing ring (52) and separating an inner ring gap (62) from an outer ring gap (64). The periphery of the outer ring gap (64) of the first piston sealing ring (54) at the first surface (6) is sealed by the second surface (8) of the second piston sealing ring (72). The second piston sealing ring (72) is similarly disposed in relation to the first piston sealing ring (54) so its outer ring gap (64) is sealed at the second surface (8) by the first surface (6) of the first piston sealing ring (54).

Abstract: A nitrated piston ring for the piston of an internal combustion engine. The piston ring has a circumferential indentation in its flank surface facing away from the combustion pressure. This indentation has a depth of a few Am and receives lubrication to prevent plating of aluminum from the aluminum piston on the flank surface of the piston ring.

Abstract: A seal arrangement is disclosed that provides a seal between a bore and a rod movable in the bore with a gap formed between the bore and the rod. The seal arrangement includes a floating elastomeric sealing ring which is accommodated in a circumferential groove around the rod. The sealing ring sealingly engages the wall of the bore. An annular resilient biasing device is also accommodated in the groove. The biasing device acts between one wall of the groove and the sealing ring to urge the sealing ring against an opposing wall of the groove. In addition, the biasing device is configured to allow passage of fluid past the biasing device between a region of the groove disposed radially inwardly of the sealing ring and the gap between the rod and the bore on the side of the sealing ring opposite the opposing wall. The biasing device has, at least at some circumferential positions therearound, a cross-sectional profile that reduces in radial width towards one wall of the groove.