Pump Fluid Communicates With Sealed Chamber Containing Armature Patents (Class 417/357)
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Patent number: 9407119Abstract: A water-guiding household device, in particular, a dishwasher, equipped with an improved drive shaft which is arranged in the wet running pump. A coating made of a chrome-nitrogen compound is applied to the drive shaft according to a PVD method.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2007Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Roland Ertle, Erika Ulrike Ertle, Marion Ertle, Lisa Marie Ertle, Marco Andreas Ertle, Bruno Reiter, Franz-Josef Wagner
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Patent number: 9318931Abstract: Provided is a water pump motor that implements a waterproof structure of a motor using a cover to seal a stator, and a water pump using the same. The water pump motor includes: a lower case on top of which a cylindrical protrusion is provided; a stator whose lower portion is supported on top of the protrusion and is sealed by the lower case; a stator case that is formed of an annular trench shape that seals the inner circumferential portion; a rotational shaft whose lower portion is rotatably supported by a groove; a rotor placed at the upper-inner circumferential portion of the stator case and at the center of which the rotational shaft is coupled to thus rotate according to an action with respect to the stator; and an upper case coupled with the lower case in an inverted cup shape.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2012Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Byoung Soo Kim
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Patent number: 9300189Abstract: A fluid-cooled electric machine includes a fluid circuit and an integrated pump element which executes a pumping action to conduct fluid through the fluid circuit as a result of a rotational movement of the electric machine. The electric machine includes a stator and a rotor arranged to demarcate with the stator a conical air gap which is flooded with fluid.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2011Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Rudolf Hautz, Klaus Neupert, Martin Obermayr, Martin Stark, Josef Watzinger, Josef Zwack
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Patent number: 9297274Abstract: A turbomachine includes an expander; a central region having a first end attached to the expander; a compressor attached to a second end of the central region; an electrical device provided inside the central region; and an electrical connection including a first part and a second part, the first part being configured to be removably attached directly to the second part. The first part is configured to be removably attached to an external surface of an external casing of the central region, and the second part is configured to be fixedly attached to a bundle.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2011Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Nuovo Pignone S.P.A.Inventor: Gabriele Mariotti
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Patent number: 9188128Abstract: An electric water pump, which can not only ensure more reliable waterproof and cooling performance, provides enhanced durability and operational reliability, and is able to reduce the number of parts and has a more compact structure, compared to the conventional technique.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2012Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORP., AMOTECH CO., LTD., MYUNG HWA IND. CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae Woong Lee, Yun Seok Kim, Hyeong Geun Song, Byung Soo Kim
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Patent number: 9188127Abstract: A drive unit of a magnet coupling pump, in which leakage of the magnetic flux to the outside and the effect of the external magnetic field are suppressed. The drive unit includes: a driving magnet (219) positioned at an outside of the driven magnet (19) of the magnetic coupling pump (100) with respect to a rotation axis (A) of the magnetic coupling pump (100) to face the driven magnet (19) with a gap; a cup tube portion (221) made of a ferromagnetic material and in a tubular shape centered on the rotation axis (A); a case main body (231) including a cup (220) in which the driving magnet is fixed inside of the cup tube portion; a motor (210) rotating the cup around the rotation axis, and a tube portion (232), which is tubular in shape. The cup is provided in the tube portion (232) with a gap.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hideo Hoshi, Shogo Nakashima, Tatsuya Hidaka, Yasuharu Yamamoto, Takeshi Okubo, Toshiyuki Osada, Masashi Tagawa
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Patent number: 9163635Abstract: An electric water pump includes a housing, a propelling mechanism disposed in the housing, and a driving mechanism for driving a driving shaft of the propelling mechanism. The driving shaft has a fluid passage in fluid communication with an impeller chamber and a cooling chamber in the housing. The propelling mechanism further includes a spiral rod disposed in the fluid passage and co-rotatable with the driving shaft, and an impeller disposed in the impeller chamber. During operation of the propelling mechanism, the impeller drives flow of a fluid, and the spiral rod co-rotates with the driving shaft to change the rate of the fluid flowing through the driving shaft.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: JI-EE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Arthur Chiu, Triven Lin, James Chien
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Patent number: 9118228Abstract: Flow control apparatus for an electrical machine and comprising an arrangement of shaped chambers and passages for conveying a liquid coolant. The rate of heat transfer from certain portions of the machine to the coolant is determined by the varying velocity of the liquid through the chambers, resulting in a generally uniform cooling of those portions of the machine.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2013Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Controlled Power Technologies, Ltd.Inventors: Stephen Knight, Mike Dowsett, Toby Heason
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Patent number: 9046087Abstract: A motor pump unit for a high-pressure cleaning apparatus has an electric motor and a pump. The electric motor has a motor housing that is surrounded by a cooling housing with an annular space having an annular space inlet and an annular space outlet formed therebetween. The pump has a suction inlet connected to the annular space outlet and a pressure outlet. The liquid to be transported by the pump can be supplied to the annular space inlet. In order to improve the motor pump unit such that the motor housing can have a small wall thickness and can still be cooled effectively over a large surface area, the motor housing is configured as a one-piece deep-drawn part which in a front shell area contacts stator laminations of the electric motor and in a rear shell area is arranged at a distance from rear coil heads of the stator and in the rear shell area has stiffness-enhancing depressions, wherein the front and the rear shell areas are surrounded by the annular space.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2011Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Alfred Kaercher GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Walter Schiffhauer, Lanfranco Pol
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Patent number: 8920136Abstract: A turbomachine includes a motor including a rotor assembly and a stator assembly. A sleeve fluidly separates the rotor assembly from the stator assembly. The sleeve has first and second ends axially spaced from one another. In one example, first and second seals are arranged at the first end and fluidly separate the rotor assembly from the stator assembly. The second seal is arranged downstream from the first seal relative to the rotor assembly. In another example, the sleeve includes wet and dry sides. A first seal is arranged at the first end on the wet side. A drain is provided in the housing and arranged in a region downstream from the first seal. The drain fluidly connects the region to an exterior of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Craig R. Legros, Aaron M. Finke
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Publication number: 20130142677Abstract: A system and method is provided for filtration and purification of a liquid. A purification system can be used for filtration and purification of water. A system can include a raw water treatment system, an ultra filtration system, a reverse osmosis purification system, and a solar power system. A purification system can include hardware and controls for decreasing energy use and system inefficiency by monitoring and controlling temperatures of individual components, of the system, or of the purified liquid. A purification system can include a wetted ground and ground monitoring system control or improve the effectiveness of a ground.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: GLOBAL SOLAR WATER AND POWER SYSTEMS, INC.Inventor: GLOBAL SOLAR WATER AND POWER SYSTEMS, INC.
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Publication number: 20130136628Abstract: An electric water pump, which can not only ensure more reliable waterproof and cooling performance, provides enhanced durability and operational reliability, and is able to reduce the number of parts and has a more compact structure, compared to the conventional technique.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2012Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Myung Hwa Ind. Co., Ltd., Amotech Co., Ltd., Kia Motors Corp.Inventors: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corp.
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Publication number: 20130064695Abstract: Provided is a fluid pump including: first and second housings that are mutually coupled; a support, shaft that is fixed to the second housing; an impeller that is accommodated in the first housing to thus pump fluid; a stator that is fixed to the second housing; a first rotor that is placed inside the second housing, rotatably supported on the support shaft, and is placed facing one side of the stator; and a second rotor that is fixed to the impeller, rotatably supported on the support shaft, and is placed facing the other side of the stator. The fluid pump employs an axial type brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor as a drive motor for driving an impeller, to thus realize a slim structure, and is formed to have the stator of the motor buried in the housing, to thus improve waterproof performance of the motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: AMOTECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Byoung Soo Kim
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Patent number: 7794214Abstract: A pump for pumping a liquid comprises a rotor, a stator having at least one electrical winding and at least one cooling path, and a working conduit extending from a pump inlet to a pump outlet, the working conduit being in liquid communication with the cooling path at least at a cooling path inlet to permit a portion of the pumped liquid to circulate through the cooling path when the pump is in use.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2006Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.Inventor: Kevin Allan Dooley
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Patent number: 7331773Abstract: A diaphragm is provided in a pump case so as to define a pump chamber communicated with an external member having an air chamber. A motor actuates the diaphragm to introduce air into the pump chamber and to supply the introduced air to the air chamber. An exhaust valve exhausts air in the pump chamber to lower a pressure in the air chamber. The exhaust valve is provided with a valve body and an actuator which is driven by the motor to actuate the valve body so as to open or close an exhaust port communicated with the pump chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2004Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignee: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ikuichiro Nawa
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Patent number: 7048518Abstract: The present invention comprises a pump (10, 110) having a casing (14, 114) with at least one first hermetically sealed chamber (19, 119) and at least one second chamber (17, 117) adjacent to said first chamber, defining a passageway (18, 118) for fluids and having an inlet (15, 115) and an outlet (16, 116) for the fluids. The stator (12, 112) is provided in this first chamber (19, 119). In addition, a rotor-turbine assembly (11, 111) is induced by the stator (12, 112) to drive a fluid from the inlet (15, 115) to the outlet (16, 116), the rotor and the turbine being integral and wholly located in the second chamber (17, 117). In a preferred embodiment, a fluid course between the opening of outlet (115) and fluid passage (118), in portion (119a) of first chamber (119), is provided with filtration zone (120) suitable for filtration of a fluid to be impelled by the pump.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2002Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: Eberle Equipamentos e Processos S.A.Inventors: Ricardo Augusto De Facci Oliveira, Fernando Augusto Becker
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Patent number: 6986647Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a pump assembly for circulating a supercritical fluid is disclosed. The pump assembly comprises an impeller for pumping fluid between a pump inlet and a pump outlet; a rotating pump shaft coupled to the impeller, wherein the pump shaft is supported by corrosion resistant bearings; a rotor of a DC motor potted in epoxy and encased in a non-magnetic material sleeve; and a stator sealed from the fluid via a polymer sleeve. The pump can be of centrifugal type. The bearings can be made of silicon nitride balls combined with bearing races made of Cronidur® and can operate without oil or grease lubrication. The polymer sleeve can be a PEEK™ sleeve which forms a casing for the stator. The non-magnetic material sleeve encasing the rotor of the DC motor is preferably made of stainless steel. A portion of the fluid passing through the pump assembly can be diverted over the bearings and/or the rotor and stator.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2003Date of Patent: January 17, 2006Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: William Dale Jones, Bryan J. Seegers, Hugh Gybbon Spilsbury
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Patent number: 6884043Abstract: A fluid pump includes a pump head having an inlet for receiving fluid at a first pressure and an outlet for outputting fluid at a second pressure greater than the first pressure. Pressurized fluid is directed through a first passage to the outlet without the pressurized fluid leaving the pump head prior to reaching the outlet. A second passage directs pressurized fluid to a fluid circulation path which is at least partially external to the pump head with the fluid circulation path terminating adjacent the outlet. Pressurized fluid passing through the first and second passages is directed to the outlet without being re-pressurized by the pump head. The first and second passages are in opposed relation to one another to provide balancing of thrust produced by the flow of pressurized fluid through the passages. An electric motor drives the pump head. The fluid circulation path may include portions of the electric motor.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2002Date of Patent: April 26, 2005Assignee: Standex International Corp.Inventors: Robert R. Kimberlin, Robert E. Harvey, III, William M. Larson, William C. Rawnsley, Jr.
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Patent number: 6835051Abstract: The invention relates to a pump for fluid media, more particularly to a cooling water pump for internal combustion engines with an electric motor configured as a disk armature for actuating the pump, said electric motor being directly connected to an impeller (6) of the pump. A simple structure and high operational reliability are achieved in that a driving flange (18) projects radially outward on the outer circumference of the pump's impeller, magnets (19) or windings (20) being molded therein for the contactless drive of the impeller (6).Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2002Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: TCG Unitech AktiengesellschaftInventors: Markus Heim, Herbert Gösweiner
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Patent number: 6814549Abstract: An apparatus for protecting a fluid pump motor includes an electric motor for driving a pump head to pressurize a fluid. A liner is positioned in the motor air gap to prevent pressurized fluid from contacting one or more magnetic field producing elements of the stator. The liner includes a thin wall to minimize the air gap distance. The liner wall is made thin enough that, under loading of the pressurized fluid, the liner wall deforms and bears against one or more of the field producing elements of the stator for structural support. The liner is preferably fabricated as a single metal part using a deep drawing process that results in a can having opposed open and closed ends with a substantially uniform cross-section between the open and closed ends of the can.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2002Date of Patent: November 9, 2004Assignee: Standex International Corp.Inventors: Robert R. Kimberlin, Robert E. Harvey, III
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Patent number: 6807821Abstract: A rotary compressor having a housing with a motor and an internal accumulator located on the low pressure side and an oil sump located on the high pressure side. A sealing means positioned within the housing defines a first low pressure chamber and a second high pressure chamber. The sealing means substantially maintains the pressure differential between the chambers by segregating high pressure fluid in the high pressure chamber from low pressure fluid in the low pressure chamber. The fluid entering the housing is separated into a gas portion and a liquid portion, the liquid portion being directed downward toward the motor to provide cooling for the motor while the gas portion is directed to a compressor portion through a channeling means internal to the compressor housing. The liquid portion collects above the sealing means.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2003Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Bristol Compressors, Inc.Inventor: John Kenneth Narney, II
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Patent number: 6769882Abstract: A motor/pump system which uses an enclosed rotor shell, and also interior hydrodynamic bearings which are lubricated by the liquid being pumped, is arranged to minimize localized heating at the bearings to vaporization levels under high load conditions. To this end output pressure from the pump, which varies with load, is communicated into the rotor interior, without bulk fluid transfer. The increased pressure raises the vaporization temperature, automatically adjusting it with increased load to maintain the hydrodynamic bearing effect.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2002Date of Patent: August 3, 2004Assignee: Advanced Thermal Sciences Corp.Inventor: Kenneth W. Cowans
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Patent number: 6746218Abstract: A compact electrohydraulic motor pump unit comprising a housing which forms a reservoir for a pressurized fluid and contains an electric motor, and which comprises a first housing sealing section, a second housing sealing section and a tubular housing mid-section therebetween. Disposed between the second housing sealing section and the electric motor is a support plate for a pump which can be driven by the electric motor via a motor shaft and by which pressurized fluid can be conveyed on a pressurized flow path to a delivery connection. In such a conventional type motor pump unit, a circumferential seal, which is intended to seal off the interior of the housing, is located both between the support plate and the housing mid-section and between the support plate and the second housing sealing section.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2002Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: Bosch Rexroth AGInventor: Roland Heller
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Patent number: 6733254Abstract: An air pumping/extracting duplex pump for use in an inflatable device for selectively pumping air into/out of an air chamber of an inflatable device is constructed to include two connected housing, and an actuating mechanism mounted in the housings and manually rotatable between a first position for drawing air into the inflatable device and a second position for drawing air out of the inflatable device.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2002Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Inventor: Stanley Yen
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Patent number: 6729858Abstract: A system for cooling a turbo compressor includes two compressing parts on opposite ends of a rotational shaft driven by a motor. Fluid from a fluid chamber within the casing of the device is supplied to a bearing chamber when the temperature of the bearing chamber increases. A supply passage is formed in a first support where the radial bearing for supporting a load in the axial direction is formed. The open-and-shut valve supplies fluid when the temperature of the bearing chamber increases.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2002Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Moon-Chang Choi, Kwang-Ha Suh, Young-Kwan Kim, Yoo-Chol Ji, Dae-Sung Wang, Hoi-Sun Kim
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Publication number: 20040076532Abstract: The present invention relates to a canned motor which can be manufactured more easily to lower a manufacturing cast, and a canned motor pump having such canned motor. The canned motor comprises a stator (12), a rotor (16) provided in the stator, and a main shaft (14) for supporting the rotor. The main shaft comprises a hollow pipe (50), and plug members (52, 54) fitted into both ends of the hollow pipe, and the plug members have respective through-holes (52a, 54a).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Inventors: Yoshiaki Miyazaki, Hiroshi Uchida, Kenichi Kajiwara, Kozo Matake, Kaname Kurita
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Publication number: 20040062664Abstract: The invention relates to a pump (10), having a pump head (12), which has a pump chamber (11), and having an electric motor (14), which drives the pump head (12) and has a stator (40) and a rotor (38), the rotor (38) being connected to the pump head (12) and being disposed in a rotor chamber (82) open toward the pump chamber (11).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2003Publication date: April 1, 2004Inventors: Thomas Weigold, Gerald Zierer, Johannes Pfetzer, Guenther Riehl, Matthias Henschel, Matthias Schmitz, Gerta Rocklage, Torsten Heidrich, Frank Melzer, Hansjuergen Linde, Uwe Neumann, Andreas Rehklau
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Patent number: 6652250Abstract: A screw compressor 1 comprises a screw compressor body 2 having a pair of female and male screw rotors 21 meshed with each other encased in a rotor casing 22, and a motor casing 4 having a motor 3 for driving a male rotor 21b of the screw rotor 21 encased therein. The screw compressor body 2 and the motor casing 4 are connected integrally. The male rotor 21b and the motor 3 are connected by a common rotor shaft 23. In the common rotor shaft 23, the counter motor 3 side is supported by a rolling bearing and a projecting end of the motor 3 is supported by a rolling bearing 7 on the motor side, and a portion between the motor 3 and the screw rotor 21 is supported by an intermediate rolling bearing 6.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2001Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventor: Shoji Yoshimura
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Patent number: 6637216Abstract: A rotary compressor having a housing with a motor and an internal accumulator located on the low pressure side and an oil sump located on the high pressure side. A sealing means positioned within the housing defines a first chamber and a second chamber. The sealing means substantially maintains the pressure differential between the chambers by segregating high pressure fluid in the second chamber from low pressure fluid in the first chamber. The fluid entering the housing is separated into a gas portion and a liquid portion, the liquid portion being directed downward toward the motor to provide cooling for the motor while the gas portion is directed to a compressor portion. The liquid portion collects about the motor above the sealing means. An orifice or aperture through the sealing means allows liquid collected above the sealing means to be reintroduced into the compressor suction inlet and metered into the refrigerant gas in a controlled fashion and resupply the sump with lubricant.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2003Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Bristol Compressors, Inc.Inventor: John Kenneth Narney, II
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Patent number: 6634870Abstract: A hermetic refrigerant compressor including a compressor mechanism and a motor including a stator surrounded by a rotor attached to a crankshaft drivingly linked to the compressor mechanism. A first gap is formed between the rotor and stator, and a second gap is formed between the stator and the compressor mechanism. During compressor operation discharge gas expelled from the gas compression chamber travels through a discharge passage and a discharge plenum, and then through the first and second gaps. The rotor spinning during compressor operation causing a spinning vortex of refrigerant gas to occur in the discharge plenum, the vortex having an outer flow path of warmer gas and an inner flow path of cooler gas. The outer flow path of warmer gas generally travels through the second gap and the inner flow path of cooler gas generally travels through the first gap for enhanced motor cooling.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2002Date of Patent: October 21, 2003Assignee: Tecumseh Products CompanyInventors: Nelik I. Dreiman, Rick L. Bunch
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Patent number: 6589029Abstract: A compact hydraulic supply unit has a housing forming a reservoir for a pressure fluid, and includes a housing bottom, a housing cover and a housing middle part therebetween in the form of a profiled tube. An electric motor has a laminated stator core held by the housing middle part, and drives a pump located at the housing bottom. The housing middle part has axially extending internal holding Webs for holding the laminated stator core. The size of the housing middle part is independent of the size of the electric motor, so that, with a low structural height, the housing can be so formed that it accepts a larger volume of pressure fluid.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2001Date of Patent: July 8, 2003Assignee: Bosch Rexroth AGInventor: Roland Heller
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Publication number: 20030124002Abstract: The present invention comprises a pump (10, 110) having a casing (14, 114) with at least one first hermetically sealed chamber (19, 119) and at least one second chamber (17, 117) adjacent to said first chamber, defining a passageway (18, 118) for fluids and having an inlet (15, 115) and an outlet (16, 116) for the fluids. The stator (12, 112) is provided in this first chamber (19, 119). In addition, a rotor-turbine assembly (11, 111) is induced by the stator (12, 112) to drive a fluid from the inlet (15, 115) to the outlet (16, 116), the rotor and the turbine being integral and wholly located in the second chamber (17, 117). In a preferred embodiment, a fluid course between the opening of outlet (115) and fluid passage (118), in portion (119a) of first chamber (119), is provided with filtration zone (120) suitable for filtration of a fluid to be impelled by the pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2002Publication date: July 3, 2003Inventors: Ricardo Augusto De Facci Oliveira, Fernando Augusto Becker
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Publication number: 20030077188Abstract: The invention relates to a compact electrohydraulic motor pump unit comprising a housing which forms a reservoir for a pressurized fluid and contains an electric motor, and which comprises a first housing sealing section, a second housing sealing section and a tubular housing mid-section therebetween. Disposed between the second housing sealing section and the electric motor is a support plate for a pump which can be driven by the electric motor via a motor shaft and by which pressurized fluid can be conveyed on a pressurized flow path to a delivery connection. In a conventional motor pump unit of this type, a circumferential seal, which is intended to seal off the interior of the housing, is located both between the support plate and the housing mid-section and between the support plate and the second housing sealing section.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2002Publication date: April 24, 2003Inventor: Roland Heller
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Publication number: 20030077183Abstract: An electrohydraulic actuator comprising: a hydraulic actuator comprising a piston secured to a member to be controlled and capable of moving in a cylinder under drive from a hydraulic fluid; a hydraulic pump feeding both faces of the piston with hydraulic fluid via channels integrated in the walls of the cylinder; an electric motor immersed in the hydraulic fluid, and controlled and powered electrically by an electronic control unit, driving the hydraulic pump in rotation; and a hydraulic accumulator for compensating variations in the volume of the hydraulic fluid; the hydraulic actuator, the hydraulic pump, the electric motor, and the hydraulic accumulator having a common axis of symmetry and being mounted in alignment in a common housing that is leaktight to the hydraulic fluid, thereby forming an axially symmetrical self-contained hydraulic assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2002Publication date: April 24, 2003Applicant: SNECMA MOTEURSInventors: Michel Franchet, Daniel Kettler, Pascal Lejeune
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Patent number: 6471493Abstract: The present invention relates to a turbo compressor which is capable of minimizing deformation of construction parts which may occur in welding or after welding and simplifying the manufacture and assembly by forming the outer diameter of a driving shaft so as to be stepped and joining the construction parts with bolts and pins.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2001Date of Patent: October 29, 2002Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Moon Chang Choi, Sang Wook Lee, Yoo Choi Ji, Kwang Ha Suh
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Patent number: 6467296Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle that includes a multi-stage compressor, an internal heat exchanger, an external heat exchanger, a heat exchanger switching circuit, a cooling expansion passage and a heating expansion passage. The compressor has at least two cylinder bores, one bore being smaller than the other. Refrigerant is compressed in two stages. Refrigerant is conducted from the large cylinder bore to the small cylinder bore via an intermediate chamber. The heat exchanger switching circuit connects the intake chamber of the compressor to one of the heat exchangers depending on whether heating or cooling is desired.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2001Date of Patent: October 22, 2002Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki SeisakushoInventors: Toshiro Fujii, Kazuo Murakami, Yoshiyuki Nakane, Tatsuya Koide
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Patent number: 6293769Abstract: An electric pump for a liquid has a rotor surrounded by a stator which is disposed in the flow path of the liquid, the rotor being disposed in a rotor compartment, which is sealed from the flow path of the liquid and is predominantly filled with a mixture of air and vaporized liquid. The rotor compartment is in communication with the ambient atmosphere through a vent orifice. A vent system in the form of a labyrinth seal and a liquid-tight, gas-permeable membrane is interposed between the vent orifice and the ambient atmosphere. The rotor bearings are lubricated in one embodiment by leakage liquid and its vaporized product within the rotor compartment. In another embodiment the rotor bearings are disposed in the liquid flow path outside seals between the rotor and the rotor compartment.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2000Date of Patent: September 25, 2001Assignee: Pierburg AGInventors: Bernhard Radermacher, Henning Garcke
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Publication number: 20010014289Abstract: A compressor includes a housing that has cylinder bores. A swash plate chamber communicates to the cylinder bores and a motor chamber partitioned from the swash plate chamber. A motor is disposed in the motor chamber actuates a drive mechanism in the swash plate chamber so as to move pistons in the cylinder bores. The refrigerant gas is supplied to an interior refrigerant passage of the compressor from an external refrigerant circuit. The swash plate chamber and the motor chamber are separated in the air tight manner. The motor chamber is connected to the interior refrigerant passage by a refrigerant path.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2001Publication date: August 16, 2001Inventors: Kazuo Murakami, Yoshiyuki Nakane, Susumu Tarao
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Patent number: 6175173Abstract: A centrifugal pump has a housing with intake and discharge fittings at axially opposite ends. The electronic motor is supported on ribs within the pump housing and the motor casing is closed by the electronic control circuit for the motor which seals the motor against the pump liquid. The coolant thus flows around the electric motor and its control circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 1999Date of Patent: January 16, 2001Assignee: Wilo GmbHInventors: Waldemar Stephan, Hansj{umlaut over (u)}rgen Kech, Albert Genster
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Patent number: 6140725Abstract: The wet-running submersible motor comprises a shaft and an electrical rotor arranged thereon, both being arranged in the rotor space of the motor. The shaft is formed hollow either on its longitudinal section on the pump side or over the whole length. On the pump side the shaft surrounds a sealing formation for sealing the rotor space of the motor with respect to the pump. Furthermore the hollow shaft is provided with radial flow passages in order to circulate fluid in the rotor space of the motor. Through the hollow shaft fluid is also led to the pump side, for which the shaft end on the pump side is provided with a fluid passable functional unit. The functional unit is formed so that it at least allows a fluid flow towards the pump side in order to bleed the rotor space and to reduce excess pressure in the rotor space which is subsequently filled with delivery fluid via the sealing formation, by way of fluid exit towards the pump side.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1998Date of Patent: October 31, 2000Assignee: Grundfos A/SInventors: Niels Due Jensen, Ole K. Sorensen
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Patent number: 6068455Abstract: A system for pressurizing and pumping a fluid that may undergo substantial variations in temperature utilizes a motor with an enclosed rotor disposed adjacent and in driving relation to a centrifugal pump, but thermally isolated even though the fluid being pumped serves to establish hydrodynamic effects at large journal bearings supporting the rotor and the pump. The rotor is in magnetic interchange relation with an associated stator through a magnetic housing which, together with a pump mount coupling the motor to the pump, is fully encloses, apart from pump inlet and outlet apertures. The pump mount includes a low diameter neck portion about the shaft teat has low axial heat conductivity, thus providing an isolation spacing that also is filled with insulation material to eliminate significant convective heat transfer.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 1997Date of Patent: May 30, 2000Assignee: B/E AerospaceInventor: Kenneth W. Cowans
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Patent number: 5997261Abstract: A brushless water pump motor includes a pump housing having an impeller chamber with an impeller disposed therein, and a motor assembly coupled at a first end thereof to the pump housing. The motor assembly includes a stator assembly having laminations and windings, the stator having an interior portion defining a rotor chamber in which a rotor assembly is disposed. There is a partition structure provided between the rotor assembly and the stator assembly for isolating the stator assembly from the rotor chamber, and the partition structure has a wall in communication with the rotor chamber. The pump/motor assembly further includes a hollow shaft in communication with the rotor chamber, such that the rotor assembly and impeller are mounted on the hollow shaft. A bearing structure is operatively associated with the hollow portion of the shaft for supporting the shaft for rotational movement.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1997Date of Patent: December 7, 1999Assignee: Siemens Canada LimitedInventors: Peter A. Kershaw, Marek Horski, Jerzy Muszynski
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Patent number: 5908286Abstract: An in-tank motor-pump unit includes a motor driven gear pump, a pressure transducer, and a control module as a single integrated package establishing fuel flow at a constant pressure by creating a pulse-modulated motor drive having a fixed "off" and a variable "on" period. A permanent magnet DC motor drives a rotary pump with the required torque operating over the specified speed range and without stalling out at low flow demand. An integrated circuit board includes an IC timing chip, operating in an astable mode, has an input connected to the transducer and an output connected to a MOSFET switch which connects the motor to a power supply. A series resistor connects an amplified voltage signal of the transducer to charge the capacitor and discharge resistor separately connects the capacitor to the input of the timing chip to generate a constant "off" period and a variable operative "on" period of the MOSFET.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 1995Date of Patent: June 1, 1999Assignee: UIS, Inc.Inventor: Robert T. Clemmons
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Patent number: 5713727Abstract: An in-line, multi-stage pump powered by integral canned electric motors. At least two pump units are connected in series in a pipeline. Each of said pump units includes a hollow housing having a hermetically sealed stator mounted therein. The stator is electrically connected to a source of electrical energy. An impeller assembly that includes a tubular suction shroud and impeller is rotatably mounted inside the housing. The impeller assembly includes a hermetically sealed rotor which is mounted around the suction shroud and positioned inside the stator in operative association therewith. Energizing the stator rotates the rotor, which in turn rotates the impeller to pump fluid from the intake end of the housing to the outlet end of the housing. The subsequent pump units add pressure and/or maintains the pressure of the pumped fluid.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 1995Date of Patent: February 3, 1998Assignee: Westinghouse Electric CorporationInventors: Luciano Veronesi, Allen L. Morris
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Patent number: 5591011Abstract: The oil sump and suction plenum of a hermetic compressor are in continuous fluid communication through an oil equalization port assembly. Additionally, communication is established between the oil sump and the suction plenum if pressure in the oil sump is greater than that in the suction plenum by more than a few pounds. Multiplexing is established through a port in the suction plenum.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 1995Date of Patent: January 7, 1997Assignee: Carrier CorporationInventors: Michael N. Mantooth, Kevin D. Williams, Bruce A. Fraser
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Patent number: 5567133Abstract: A canned motor for use in a pump has an outer frame casing fitted over a stator, a pair of side frame members welded to respective open ends of the outer frame casing, a can fitted in the stator and joined to the side frame members, and an outer cylinder disposed around the outer frame casing with an annular spaced defined therebetween, the outer cylinder being welded to the outer frame casing. The outer cylinder has a pair of flanges disposed respectively on axially spaced open ends thereof for attachment to components of a pump assembly and holding a fluid being handled within the outer cylinder. The outer cylinder has a hole defined in an outer circumferential wall thereof for passing leads for connection to a power supply.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1994Date of Patent: October 22, 1996Assignee: Ebara CorporationInventors: Makoto Kobaybashi, Masakazu Yamamoto, Yoshio Miyake, Koji Isemoto
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Patent number: 5435701Abstract: A pump (1) includes a pumphouse (2) having an inlet (3) for admitting a medium at a suction side of the pump and an outlet (4) for discharching the medium at a delivery side of the pump. A pumping device is rotatably arranged on an axle (6), the axle being driven by a driver including a rotor and a device for coupling energy to the rotor. A medium tight shell (11) is arranged around the rotor and the axle; and a first canal (18) extends from a first location at a level near or beyond an axial bearing to a second location (24) in the pump where a lower pressure is dominant than at the first location.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 1994Date of Patent: July 25, 1995Assignee: Stork Pompen B.V.Inventor: Nico G. Markerink
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Patent number: 5320501Abstract: An electric motor driven inline hydraulic apparatus comprising a housing having end members closing said housing, an electric motor stator mounted in said housing, an electric motor rotor, a shaft on which the rotor is mounted is journalled in the housing and a pump is integrally formed on one or both of the end members. The shaft extends through an opening in the end member and is connected to the rotating group of the pump. Hydraulic fluid is supplied to the interior of the electric motor housing and flows through passages in the housing to the intake of the pump integral with the end member. The end member associated with the pump is formed with an enlarged chamber adjacent the inlet of the pump which functions to reduce the flow velocity and separate the contained air from the hydraulic fluid thereby reducing the operating sound level of the pump.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 1991Date of Patent: June 14, 1994Assignee: Vickers, IncorporatedInventors: Otto P. Langosch, Albin J. Niemiec, Ronald B. Schweiger
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Patent number: 4850812Abstract: An integrated motor pump unit for use as a hydraulic fluid pressure source at a remote location incorporates a pump rotor affixed in the center of a motor rotor. The motor/pump rotor assembly spins on a fixed shaft in a combination providing both radial journal and axial thrust bearings. The stationary shaft assembly incorporates a piston drive mechanism which is angled, relative to the shaft axis, so that reciprocal movement of the pistons is developed as they rotate about the axis. The fixed rotor shaft is axially adjustable to control the end clearance between the pistons and cam surfaces, and contains fluid flow galleries to the journal and thrust bearings. A magnetically permeable sleeve is mounted between the motor stator and rotor to seal the hydraulic fluid within the rotor space, thereby maintaining the stator windings and associated electronic circuitry in a dry environment.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 1987Date of Patent: July 25, 1989Assignees: Versatron Corporation, F.P.I., Inc.Inventor: Allan A. Voight
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Patent number: 4730989Abstract: The invention relates to canned pumps which form a unit with a spherical electric motor (hereinafter referred to as "spherical pumps"). A rotating unit, made up of the rotor and the impeller is supported by a spherical bearing. This spherical bearing has a self-cleaning property, preventing accumulation of dirt particles within the lubricating film.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 1986Date of Patent: March 15, 1988Inventor: Karsten Laing