Parallel Entrainments With Separate Combining Tubes Patents (Class 417/176)
  • Patent number: 10400796
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an ejector assembly and a vacuum pump, the ejector assembly including a typical cylindrical vacuum ejector and a support part. The support part includes a first support having a supply line extending outwards from a hole in which a first end of the ejector is mounted, and a second support having a discharge line extending outwards from a hole in which a second end of the ejector is mounted. Further, the first and second supports facing each other are configured such that the outer circumferential surfaces thereof are in contact with the inner circumferential surface of a pipe member so as to form a space between the first and second supports, the space communicating with through holes. In the vacuum pump using the ejector assembly, the pipe member is a housing, and the space is a vacuum chamber formed in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: VMECA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ho-Young Cho
  • Patent number: 10371174
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vacuum pump and, more specifically, to a vacuum pump that is designed to change the direction of an intake port formed on a side wall of a housing, according to necessity. The vacuum pump includes: a housing; an ejector part embedded in the housing; and a pressing means provided on the outside of the housing. Particularly, the housing includes two or more parts, including a main part that has the intake port, which are disposed in a line, wherein a stopping member is formed along a contact surface there between. This structure enables the main part to rotate, and thus the direction of the intake port can be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: VMECA CO., LTD
    Inventor: Ho-Young Cho
  • Patent number: 8985966
    Abstract: A jet pump apparatus for mixing a higher pressure gas and a lower pressure gas, includes an inlet section, an outlet section, a diffuser section and a mixing section. Inlet section includes a higher pressure inlet and a lower pressure inlet. Mixing section includes a plurality of separated mixing chambers. The diffuser section includes diffusers for receiving mixed gases from the mixing chambers. The outlet section receives mixed gases from the diffuser section and conveys those gases to an outlet. The inlet section includes a higher pressure inlet which receives higher pressure gas, and a lower pressure gas inlet which receives lower pressure gas. Each of the mixing chambers has a primary nozzle for introducing primarily higher pressure gas from to a respective mixing chamber, and a secondary inlet for introducing primarily lower pressure gas to each of the mixing chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Inventors: Bernard Francis Sampson, Robert John Harvey
  • Publication number: 20150033790
    Abstract: An ejector includes a body member having a depressurizing space that depressurizes a refrigerant which flows out of a swirling space that swirls the refrigerant, a suction passage that draws the refrigerant from an external, and a pressurizing space that mixes a refrigerant jetted from the depressurizing space with a refrigerant drawn from the suction passage and pressurizes the mixed refrigerant, and a conical passage formation member arranged in the depressurizing space and in the pressurizing space. A nozzle passage is formed of a refrigerant passage between an inner peripheral surface of the depressurizing space and an outer peripheral surface of the passage formation member, and a diffuser passage is formed of a refrigerant passage between an inner peripheral surface of a portion that defines the pressurizing space and an outer peripheral surface of the passage formation member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Etsuhisa Yamada, Haruyuki Nishijima, Tatsuhiro Suzuki, Yoshiaki Takano, Hideya Matsui, Yoshiyuki Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20140064988
    Abstract: A fluid mover includes a hollow body with a straight-through passage of substantially constant cross-section with an inlet end an outlet end for the entry and discharge respectively of a working fluid. A nozzle substantially circumscribes and opens into the passage intermediate the inlet and outlet ends. An inlet communicates with the nozzle for the introduction of a transport fluid, and a mixing chamber is formed within the passage downstream of the nozzle. The nozzle internal geometry and the bore profile upstream of the nozzle exit optimise the energy transfer between the transport fluid and working fluid. Working fluids are atomised to form a dispersed vapour/droplet flow with locally supersonic conditions within a pseudo-vena contracta, resulting in the creation of a supersonic condensation shock wave within the downstream mixing chamber by the condensation of the transport fluid. Methods of moving and processing fluids using the fluid mover are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: PURSUIT DYNAMICS PLC
    Inventor: PURSUIT DYNAMICS PLC
  • Publication number: 20130323089
    Abstract: An annular ejector of an annular jet pump is coaxially arranged at a front of a central ejector. The annular ejector includes an annular nozzle, an annular mixing chamber, and an annular mixing duct. The central ejector includes a central nozzle, a central mixing chamber, and a central mixing duct. The annular nozzle is connected with a primary fluid inlet. A primary fluid inlet is in direct connection with the central nozzle arranged at a bottom of the central pipe, and a secondary fluid inlet is connected with a sidewall of the annular mixing chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventor: Tiefu Han
  • Patent number: 8465264
    Abstract: A jet pump apparatus for mixing a higher pressure gas and a lower pressure gas, includes an inlet section, an outlet section, a diffuser section and a mixing section. Inlet section includes a higher pressure inlet and a lower pressure inlet. Mixing section includes a plurality of separated mixing chambers. The diffuser section includes diffusers for receiving mixed gases from the mixing chambers. The outlet section receives mixed gases from the diffuser section and conveys those gases to an outlet. The inlet section includes a higher pressure inlet which receives higher pressure gas, and a lower pressure gas inlet which receives lower pressure gas. Each of the mixing chambers has a primary nozzle for introducing primarily higher pressure gas from to a respective mixing chamber, and a secondary inlet for introducing primarily lower pressure gas to each of the mixing chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Honeywell Nomalair-Garrett (Holdings)
    Inventors: Bernard Francis Sampson, Robert John Harvey
  • Patent number: 8029244
    Abstract: A by-pass fluid flow amplifier which contains a primary nozzle and a primary profile for discharging compressed air into a conduit of the air amplifier and entraining ambient air in the process. A secondary nozzle and a secondary profile for discharging compressed air into the conduit of the air amplifier towards the rear that assists the primary nozzle such as to allow consistent fluid wall attachment of the compressed air and the entrained air caused by the primary nozzle and the primary profile. The secondary nozzle increases the total flow of the amplifier and prohibits the total flow from traveling towards the center of the conduit where flow reversal and turbulence are likely to occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Inventors: Elijah Dumas, Elisha Dumas, Howard Dumas
  • Patent number: 7195464
    Abstract: A hydraulic axial piston pump comprising a cylinder block closed at sides by a head and by a containment casing for piston actuating a plate, an electric motor coupled to the plate, reversible locking means for a bypass valve inserted in a seat of the body and kinematically connected to a microswitch connected to the electric motor, the reversible locking means comprising a retention element insertable transversely to the seat in a receptacle formed in the body without structure discontinuity, the bypass valve head being integrated in a shell external to the body and enclosing the microswitch and the kinematic system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Lavorwash S.p.A.
    Inventor: Giancarlo Lanfredi
  • Patent number: 7048514
    Abstract: The invention relates to pumping engineering, mainly to downhole jet production units. The inventive downhole jet unit comprises a packer, a pipe column and a jet pump. An active nozzle and a mixing chamber are axially arranged in the body of the jet pump, and a pass channel provided with a mounting face for a sealing assembly with an axial channel is embodied therein. Said unit is also provided with an irradiator and a receiver transformer of physical fields. Said receiver transformer is arranged on the side of entry of a liquid pumped from the well into the jet pump and mounted on a cable passing through the axial channel of the sealing assembly. The output of the jet pump is connected to the pipe column above the sealing assembly. The input of a channel for feeding the pumped out medium of the jet pump is connected to a space around the pipe column below the sealing assembly. The input of a channel supplying a working medium to the active nozzle is connected to a space around the pipe column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Inventor: Zinoviy D Khomynets
  • Publication number: 20040226586
    Abstract: A movement reversal device is used in a dishwasher. The dishwasher has a washing receptacle and a hydraulic assembly provided with at least two spraying devices impinging upon goods to be washed with a fluid transported via a circulating pump. The transported fluid flows through the movement reversal device that contains at least two outlets for feeding different spraying devices. The outlets are opened or closed by a positioning element such that one or several or all outlets are open or closed one after another and/or continuously. In order to better influence the course of the wash cycle and to obtain an optimal washing effect corresponding to the degree of dirtiness of the goods to be washed, the characteristics of the hydraulic assembly and the characteristics of the circulating pump are simultaneously or alternately changed by the movement reversal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2004
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Ertle, Claus Kother, Michael Rosenbauer
  • Patent number: 6276903
    Abstract: Each of a liquid gas ejector's mixing chambers has a cylindrical inlet section, a convergent intermediate section and a cylindrical outlet section. The ratio of the cross-sectional area of the inlet cylindrical section of the mixing chamber to the cross-sectional area of the outlet cylindrical section of the mixing chamber is from 0.5 to 50.0; the length of the inlet cylindrical section of the mixing chamber, the length of the intermediate convergent section of the mixing chamber and the length of the outlet cylindrical section of the mixing chamber represent respectively from 0.05 to 36 times, from 0.02 to 50 times and from 0.5 to 220 times the diameter of the outlet cylindrical section of the mixing chamber. A liquid-gas ejector having the introduced design and geometrical parameters pertaining to its mixing chambers exhibits an increase in efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Inventor: Serguei A. Popov
  • Patent number: 6171068
    Abstract: A hybrid vacuum pump comprising an ejector type compressed air-operated vacuum pump. Such pump comprises a housing having an inlet for compressed air, a second inlet connectable to the enclosure to be evacuated, and a discharge outlet. The incoming compressed air being divided into at least two parallel streams by a multiple-outlet chamber, each stream of compressed air passing through at least two nozzles arranged in series, intermediate chambers between successive nozzles of each parallel stream being provided separately for each stream. Pressure-operated valves being provided to automatically prevent flow of gas being evacuated to some of said nozzles as progress is made in producing the desired vacuum, and thus to increase air flow in the remaining nozzles for the achievement of a high vacuum. The pump being characterized by the use of a single body structure being used to support multiple nozzles having different forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Inventor: Dan Greenberg
  • Patent number: 5810563
    Abstract: An ejector pump for the transport of materials or mixtures of materials capable of flowing with the aid of a fluid driving medium is provided. The ejector pump includes at least one flow management profile which is placed in the flow channel of the ejector pump and which displaces the fluid that is flowing against the profile in a lateral direction component away from the original direction of flow. Therefore, the fluid in the middle of the flow channel makes its way closer to one of the flow channel walls thus limiting the areas of turbulence that occur during the mixing of material that is to be transported with the driving medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Inventor: Thilo Volkmann
  • Patent number: 5417550
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a stream in a body of water has at least one cylinder installed under water, and a water-jet pump housed in the cylinder. The pump draws water in through one end of the cylinder and produces a stream of water accelerated by a driving fluid supplied from an external source. The stream is discharged through another end of the cylinder to promote a flow in the body of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1995
    Assignees: Marine Gikens Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hironao Kasai, Katutoshi Yoshinaga
  • Patent number: 5383499
    Abstract: A system for removing a gas from a pressurized gas container. A sealable, impermeable rupture vessel encloses an interior on all sides and has a sealable door for allowing access to the interior for placement therein of the gas container. A puncture device is contained within the rupture vessel for puncturing the gas container and releasing the potentially hazardous and unknown gas from the gas container into the rupture vessel. A pump draws the gas from within the rupture vessel without permitting the gas to communicate with any moving parts in the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1995
    Assignee: Earth Resources Corporation
    Inventor: Charles C. Mattern
  • Patent number: 5262091
    Abstract: A steam injector system comprises a plurality of steam injectors each being provided with with a check valve adapted for water supply, a check valve adapted for steam supply, a check valve adapted for overflow and a check valve adapted for discharge and the respective water check valves, steam check valves, overflow check valves and discharge check valves are connected. In another aspect, a steam injector system comprises a plurality of first to last stage steam injectors arranged in series with each other, the last stage steam injector being provided with a relief valve disposed at a last stage overflow drain port, and a pressure pulsation absorbing device is disposed at least between the last stage overflow drain valve and the relief valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Narabayashi, Hiroshi Miyano, Osamu Ozaki, Wataru Mizumachi, Akira Tanabe, Akio Shioiri, Hiroshi Tonegawa, Takenori Ishiyama
  • Patent number: 5167046
    Abstract: An induction vacuum includes a cylindrical body having an inlet plate, an outlet plate, and a vacuum connector; a nozzle detachably mountable to the inlet plate, a mixing tube detachably mountable to the outlet plate and an exhaust bell detachably mountable to the mixing tube. An induction vacuum kit includes a body, a plurality of nozzles, a plurality of mixing tubes, and at least one exhaust bell. The nozzles and mixing tubes may include identifying indicia and the kit may include instructions recommending nozzle and mixing tube combinations for achieving different vacuum properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1992
    Inventor: Ronald C. Benson
  • Patent number: 4861232
    Abstract: A vacuum generating device for an ejector pump is provided. The vacuum generating device according to the present invention comprises an ejector pump mechanism having on one of the side surfaces thereof with an air intake port, air inlet port and exhaust port and attached with a fitting base including an air intake pipe, inlet pipe and exhaust pipe capable of connecting to the ports of the ejector pump mechanism, respectively. The device according to the present invention can be effectively used as one of the units of a vacuum generator assembly in a compact form in which the fitting bases of the units are arranged adjacent to one another with the inlet and exhaust pipes thereof held communicating with each other, respectively, whereby the number of pipes is minimized and the noise level from the assembly is reduced. The device or the assembly is applicable to a sucking device for attracting and sucking an article so as to transfer it to a required place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignee: Myotoku Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoji Ise, Akira Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 4842777
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multiple liquid injector composed of several identical elementary injection tubes 2, disposed in a rim around a central tube. Each tube 2 has an inlet conduit 3, itself comprising a converging truncated cone 6 and a cylinder 7, followed by an aeration zone 4 comprising an aeration chamber 8 fed tangentially by a conduit 9 perpendicular to the tubes 2, a jet centering funnel 10, followed by mixing cylinder 11, and lastly a diverging outlet conduit 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignees: E & M Lamort, Feldmuhle AG
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Lamort
  • Patent number: 4744730
    Abstract: A downhole pump of the jet type is placed below the fluid level in a wellbore and is used to produce fluid from the wellbore by employment of a power fluid source located above the surface of the ground. The power fluid flows downhole to the pump and through the jet pump assembly to cause a pumping action. The jet pump includes a suction chamber formed about a nozzle assembly. The nozzle assembly is spaced from a venturi throat. The venturi throat diverges in a direction away from the nozzle. The nozzle is located close to the bottom of the pump adjacent the formation fluid inlet at a position which precludes contamination thereof with debris which may otherwise fall downhole into the nozzle. The power fluid exits from the nozzle and enters the inlet of the venturi, causing produced fluid to be pulled into the throat entrance and mixed with the power fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1988
    Inventor: George K. Roeder
  • Patent number: 4541780
    Abstract: There is disclosed herein a spa water jet aerator which proportionately controls the flow of water and air with a single control movement of a valve mechanism. The air and water apertures in the valve body are so shaped and located such that the air flow is controlled so as to be a function of volume of water flow. The function can be varied by varying the shapes and placements of the air and water passageways in the valve body relative to the locations and shapes of the air and water passageways in the aerator body. A key feature is that the air passageway can never be open to any extent when the water passageway is not open sufficiently to create a lower pressure in the mixing chamber than is present in the air supply line since this can lead to malfunction in ganged operation. A separate clamping mechanism allows adjustment of the water flow control valve to be independent of clamping movement of the clamping mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1985
    Assignee: Jebadabe International, Inc.
    Inventor: Gerald W. Moreland
  • Patent number: 4468172
    Abstract: A jet pump plug for a multi-nozzle jet pump is disclosed wherein the nozzles are accessible through a relatively small opening in the pump structure. The plug comprises a plurality of sections, each including a closure plate and a lever coupled thereto. Each plug section is constructed so as to allow that section to be separately introduced into the opening to the vicinity of the nozzles from a location which may be remote from the pump. The closure plates are manipulated through their attached levers from a remote location to the end of sealing the nozzles with them. The first plug section introduced through the opening includes means for alignment relative to the jet pump structure so as to orient its closure plate with respect to the nozzles. The remaining plug section is supported by the first plug section upon being introduced into the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1983
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1984
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert C. Dixon, Ronald D. Poland, Bradley G. Stoll, Bob Y. Okashima
  • Patent number: 4437461
    Abstract: A valve respirator device for use both on human and on animal patients. The device comprises a housing having an inport, an outport and an exhaust port. The outport is connected to the patient's respiratory system, the inport is connected to a source of air and the exhaust port is open to the surrounding atmosphere. To that end, in alternating succession, first the inport and then the exhaust port is in fluid communication with the outport. A slotted, rotatable valve cylinder is utilized as a means for providing alternating fluid communication first between the inport and the outport and then between the outport and the exhaust port. The device further comprises a metering plate which is interposed in the path of fluid communication between the outport and the other two respective ports. In that regard, the metering plate includes several apertures which regulate the volume and other flow characteristics of air passing between these respective ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1984
    Inventor: Mitchell H. Greenberg
  • Patent number: 4280796
    Abstract: The system removes heat from a vessel containing the source of heat, utilizing heat energy from water circulating through the vessel. The circulating water passes through a subcooler and into a convergent-divergent nozzle of a flash jet pump. Cooled water is drawn into the flash jet pump by the high-velocity flow generated, mixes with the water flashed into steam and condenses it. The mixture flows to the inlet connection of the pressure vessel. A second flash jet pump is utilized to initially fill the vessel with coolant water. Steam in the vessel is condensed in a shock condenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1981
    Inventor: Arnold O. W. Reinsch
  • Patent number: 4278405
    Abstract: Energy amplifier apparatus includes a pair of vertically extending concentric cylinders, with air entrained in water flowing downwardly through the inner cylinder to a separator where the air is separated from the water. The falling water compresses the entrained air and a separator in the inner cylinder is used to separate the compressed air from the water, with the water flowing upwardly between the inner and outer cylinders and the compressed air flowing upwardly in a separate conduit from the upper portion of the inner cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1981
    Inventor: Lonnie L. Angle
  • Patent number: 4247262
    Abstract: An improved arrangement for feeding a cool liquid into a pressure vessel and mixing the fed liquid with hot liquid contained therein includes a flow-shielding ejector thermal sleeve disposed partially within an inlet nozzle and surrounding a supply line through which the main feed flow is conducted to a sparger outlet port in the vessel. The sleeve is spaced radially inwardly from the inner surface of the nozzle to define a generally annular flow-through space therebetween. Cool leakage liquid flow is confined within the sleeve and ejected by the main feed flow from an ejector chamber formed around the port by a downstream portion of the sleeve. The ejective action of the main flow exiting the port additionally draws an insulating flow of hot liquid from the vessel sequentially upstream through the flow-through space, into the interior of the upstream portion of the sleeve, and downstream with the confined cool leakage flow, thereby substantially reducing cracking of the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1981
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Norman J. Lipstein
  • Patent number: 4212594
    Abstract: An improved arrangement for feeding a cool liquid into a pressure vessel and mixing the fed liquid with hot vessel-contained liquid includes an ejector thermal sleeve within an inlet nozzle. An upstream portion of the sleeve sealed to the nozzle surrounds a supply line through which a main feed flow is conducted to a sparger outlet port in the vessel. Cool leakage liquid flow is confined within the sleeve and ejected from an ejector chamber formed around the port by a downstream portion of the sleeve. The leakage liquid is ejected by and with the main feed flow away from the nozzle whereby thermal cycling and cracking thereof are substantially reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1980
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Russell E. Sheer, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4149828
    Abstract: The invention provides a jet pump system for removing dust from aeriform substances. The dust-laden, aeriform substance is entrained by at least one water jet pump to cause precipitation of the dust and water as sludge out of the aeriform substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1979
    Assignee: Industrie Patente Anstalt
    Inventor: Ambrogio E. Affri
  • Patent number: 4043705
    Abstract: The invention provides a tool for closing off the jet nozzles of jet pumps located in an almost inaccessible location inside the shell of a boiling water reactor. The tool suspended on a cord is lowered down through a narrow gap extending down along the major part of the shell of the reactor, a distance of approximately 30 feet. The tool is lowered onto a stationary projection--namely, a lug or ear--which provides a gauge point for height and lateral position and an anchorage for torque in a horizontal plane. With these two controls for the tool of the invention, a closure for the jet nozzle may be applied to each of the jet nozzles to close them off against outflow of the water contained in the shell of the reactor thereby avoiding the bleak alternative of taking the reactor completely out of service, which includes removing the fuel bundles and draining the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1977
    Inventor: Vernon I. Schlosser
  • Patent number: RE32669
    Abstract: Energy amplifier apparatus includes a pair of vertically extending concentric cylinders, with air entrained in water flowing downwardly through .Iadd.a conduit within .Iaddend.the inner cylinder to a separator where the air is separated from the water. The falling water compresses the entrained air and a separator in the inner cylinder is used to separate the compressed air from the water, with the water flowing upwardly between the inner and outer cylinders and the compressed air flowing upwardly in a separate conduit from .[.the upper portion of.]. the inner cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1988
    Inventor: Lonnie L. Angle