Including Means Utilizing Pump Fluid For Augmenting Cooling, Lubricating, Sealing, Or Cleaning Of Motor Patents (Class 417/366)
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Patent number: 5028218Abstract: An immersion pump assembly comprises a pump and a wet-rotor motor driving the pump and having a common hollow spindle for the motor and the pump. Liquid in the wet-rotor compartment of the motor can be introduced into the spindle and conveyed within the spindle into the pump casing in heat exchange relationship with the liquid conveyed by the pump, by way of the wall of the spindle. The liquid is returned from the spindle into the rotor compartment by a pumping action. The exit and return openings for the liquid in the rotor compartment are spaced from each other axially of the pump assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1989Date of Patent: July 2, 1991Assignee: Grundfos International A/SInventors: Niels D. Jensen, Poul E. Mikkelstrup
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Patent number: 5024578Abstract: A regenerative rotary pump in an automotive fuel pump assembly. The rotary pump has a disc-shaped impeller in a circular cavity of a housing, vanes around the circumference of the impeller separated by pockets, a donut-shaped pumping chamber in the housing enveloping the vanes and the pockets on the impeller, a two-stage stripper between a discharge at a high pressure end of the pumping chamber and an inlet at a low pressure end of the pumping chamber, and a vent chamber between a high pressure stage and a low pressure stage of the two-stage stripper. The vent chamber is connected to the fuel tank removed from the inlet. High pressure gasoline carried by the pockets between the vanes flashes to vapor in the vent chamber to minimize the vapor jet stream effect at the inlet end of the pumping chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 1989Date of Patent: June 18, 1991Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventor: Ghanshyamsinh D. Vansadia
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Patent number: 5015159Abstract: A fuel pump including a housing; a motor section provided in the housing which motor section includes an armature and a magnet opposed to the armature with a substantially annular space defined therebetween as a fuel passage, which armature includes a core formed by stacking a plurality of plates and a coil wound around the core; a pump section fixed to a lower end of the housing and connected to the motor section to be driven thereby; a fuel inlet formed in the pump section for sucking a fuel by driving the motor section; a fuel outlet formed at an upper end of the fuel pump for discharging the fuel fed from the fuel inlet through the fuel passage; and a first resin portion impregnated in the core and the coil for suppressing vibration of the armature. The fuel pump having the above construction preferably further includes a second resin portion coated on a surface of at least the first resin portion, which second resin portion has a resistance against the fuel and no influence upon the fuel.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1990Date of Patent: May 14, 1991Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koichi Mine, Hikaru Kikuta, Hitoshi Takeuchi, Kingo Kamiya
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Patent number: 5013222Abstract: An electric motor driven fuel pump for a motor vehicle includes a tubular metal housing, a pump in the housing at an inlet end thereof, an electric motor in the housing adjacent the pump, a plastic end cap in the housing near a discharge end thereof, and a plastic RFI module in the housing over the end cap. Brushes for the motor are disposed in brush passages in the end cap and connected to brass terminal studs press fitted into the open ends of the brush passages. The plastic RFI module completely shrouds the terminal studs on the end cap to minimize corrosion and contamination and has a pair of flat metal contact plates embedded therein. An edge of the tubular housing is crimped over the outside diameter of the RFI module and overlaps the metal contact plates so that the plates reinforce the RFI module against forces urging dislodgment of the RFI module and the end cap from the tubular housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 1990Date of Patent: May 7, 1991Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: James M. Sokol, Robert L. Lochmann, John G. Fischer
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Patent number: 5007806Abstract: An add-on electric fuel pump having numerous advantageous features including an improved manner of replacing the seal at the shaft on the electric motor side of the pump, a versatile mounting bracket, and a fuel reservoir member having a plurality of chambers which permit internal bypassing of the fuel, thus avoiding a return line to the fuel tank. The fuel reservoir member is formed with a set of fuel chambers which cooperate with the pump to permit internal turbulent bypassing of the fuel, thus improving cooling and avoiding vapor lock.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1989Date of Patent: April 16, 1991Assignee: Mallory, Inc.Inventors: Peter D. Bellis, Frederick Nesselrode
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Patent number: 5006048Abstract: The present disclosure is related to an improved electrically-operated gear rotor pump mainly adapted for automobile fuel injection system; a dc motor in driving connection with the pump is housed together with the pump in a unitary housing. The driving shaft of the dc motor is in coupling engagement with the gear rotor pump by means of a floating coupling device having H-shaped longitudinal cross section. The terminal end of the dc motor shaft is defined in a rectangular form so that it can be properly fitted in the correspondingly shaped groove at one end of the coupling device. The other end of the coupling device is provided with a pair of symmetric semi-circular arms which are in registry with the identically shaped grooves axially extended through the wall of the inner rotor of the gear rotor pump with a fixed shaft, which is secured to the inlet end portion of the pump by interference fit with the inner rotor rotatably mounted thereon, located therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1989Date of Patent: April 9, 1991Assignee: Mingyen Electronics Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Wen-Yuh Jow
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Patent number: 4998865Abstract: A motor-driven pump including a pump housing; a brushless motor mounted in the pump housing; pump means mounted in the pump housing and adapted to be driven by the brushless motor; and a circuit package mounted in a liquid passage defined in the pump housing, the circuit package enclosing a circuit board mounting thereon a control circuit for controlling rotation of the brushless motor and means for detecting a rotor position of the brushless motor, wherein the circuit board is fixed through an elastic member to an inner wall of the circuit package with a gap defined between the circuit board and the inner wall, and the circuit package is opposed to the brushless motor at a position where the circuit board is spaced a distance from the brushless motor in an axial direction of a rotating shaft of the brushless motor.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1989Date of Patent: March 12, 1991Assignees: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shingo Nakanishi, Susumu Yamamoto
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Patent number: 4995792Abstract: Decreased lubricity of lubricating oil (36) in a compressor utilized in a vapor compression refrigeration system as well as decreases in thermal efficiency of such a system during start-up are avoided in a compressor structure including a housing (10) containing a compressing mechanism (28), (40) therein, an outlet (34) for the compression mechanism, an inlet (30), (32) for gas to compressed to the compressing mechanism (28), and a sump (24) within the housing (10) for containing the lubricant (36). A conduit (54), (60), (62), (64), (66) is utilized to direct compressed gas from the outlet (34) into heat exchange relation with the lubricant (36) within the sump (24) to drive any refrigerant in solution in the lubricant out of solution so as to improve lubricity and maintain system efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 1989Date of Patent: February 26, 1991Assignee: Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Paul D. Brown, William J. Godecker, Charles B. Parme
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Patent number: 4995791Abstract: A refrigeration gas compressor unit having a casing, an electric motor driven compressor mounted in the casing, a housing containing and substantially isolating the inner cavities or passages of the motor from the casing cavity, refrigerant suction port in the casing, a primary-feed conduit connecting the suction port to the intake of the compressor, a secondary-feed conduit connecting the suction port to the primary-feed conduit and in part consisting of the passages between the housing, rotor and stator of the electric motor, a refrigerant flow control associated with the secondary-feed conduit for regulating the flow of refrigerant therethrough, and a refrigerant discharge port in the casing communicating with the compression chamber of the compressor.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1988Date of Patent: February 26, 1991Assignee: Bristol Compressors, Inc.Inventor: Joseph F. Loprete
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Patent number: 4981420Abstract: An immersion pump assembly comprises a wet-rotor motor of which the rotational speed and/or the torque can be varied by means of a frequency changer, and a pump unit. The frequency changer, the wet-rotor motor and the pump unit are arranged one above another within a tubular jacket. The motor comprises a split tube formed as a closed pot which is connected to the jacket and which separates the stator compartment from the pump unit in liquid-tight and pressure-tight fashion. The frequency changer is so installed in the stator compartment that its operating electronic system is disposed on the bottom of the split tube pot in the stator compartment.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1989Date of Patent: January 1, 1991Assignee: Grundfos International A/SInventors: Niels D. Jensen, Poul E. Mikkelstrup
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Patent number: 4978282Abstract: This invention discloses an electrical fuel pump for a small motorcycle engine including an intake socket for introducing the fuel into the pump, a gerotor pump for compressing the incoming fuel, a discharge socket for discharging the compressed fuel from the pump, a DC motor for driving the gerotor pump, a coupling for transmitting the rotation power of the motor to the gerotor pump, and a casing for receiving the intake socket, the discharge socket, the gerotor pump, the coupling and the DC motor therein. The gerotor pump has a pair of engaged rotors, including a toothed inner rotor and a toothed outer rotor disposed eccentrically relative to each other, with a plurality of outer and inner teeth being, respectively, formed on the outer periphery of the inner rotor and on the inner periphery of the outer rotor so that the outer rotor may be driven by the inner rotor through engagement of the inner and outer teeth.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1990Date of Patent: December 18, 1990Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Shih-Lien Fu, Wu-Tsung Dent
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Patent number: 4971530Abstract: An aggregate for feeding a fuel from a supply tank to an internal combustion engine, particularly a power vehicle comprises an electric drive motor, a feeding pump driven by the drive motor, a housing accommodating the drive motor and the feeding pump and having two openings, two covers each covering a respective one of the openings, and a spacer extending from one of the covers to another of the covers and connecting the covers with one another so as to form a one-piece integral structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1989Date of Patent: November 20, 1990Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Hermann Nusser
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Patent number: 4968223Abstract: Patent of Invention for "GAS AND OIL COOLING SYSTEM IN A HERMETIC COMPRESSOR" for small refrigeration machines of the type including an assembly wherein is defined a cylinder housing a piston driven from a crankshaft coupled to an electric motor and forming suction and compression chambers inside the cylinder, these elements being assembled inside a sealed shell acting as a lubricant oil sump and incorporating independent lubricant oil outlet and return tubes connected to a heat exchanger external to the shell. The system in question includes oil pumping means (20) assembled on the shaft (5) having its suction (24a) connected to the lubricant oil contained in the bottom of shell (1) and its discharge (24b) connected to the oil outlet tube (9a), the discharge (24b) of the oil pumping means (20) being maintained in fluid communication with the cylinder compression chamber (2) through a compressed refrigerant gas conduit (26a).Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 1989Date of Patent: November 6, 1990Assignee: Empresa Brasiliera de CompressoresInventor: Caio M. F. N. Da Costa
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Patent number: 4966532Abstract: The present invention relates to an all-dry submersible motor pump with a concordant seal system. In this submersible pump, there is a motor within a motor room, a vertical rotary shaft driven by the motor and connected to a pump. An air chamber is positioned between the motor room and the water pump. An airtight disc is provided between the motor room and the air chamber with a central hole for passing through the vertical rotary shaft. A concordant seal is arranged below the disc and around the central hole. The concordant seal comprises a fluid-seal and a pressure equalizer. The pressure equalizer employs a moist-isolating air envelope for equalizing the pressures on both sides of the disc, cooperates with the shaft fluid-seal to prevent the moist air from invading the motor room and thereby ensure a dry working condition for the windings of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 1989Date of Patent: October 30, 1990Inventor: Lu Fengsheng
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Patent number: 4958988Abstract: A motor driven pump for pumping a viscous solution of a solute in a solvent comprises an impeller for pumping the solution into an outlet chamber. A shaft is rigidly connected to the impeller and is rotatably mounted in hydrodynamic slide bearings for driving the impeller. A rotor is rigidly mounted on the shaft for rotation therewith in response to actuation of a stator that is operatively associated with the rotor for causing rotation of the shaft. A lubrication system is provided for delivering pressurized solvent to the bearings such that solvent leaking from the bearings flows into the outlet chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1987Date of Patent: September 25, 1990Assignee: Ormat Turbines, Ltd.Inventor: Mordechai Regev
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Patent number: 4884314Abstract: A portable rechargeable battery-operated slender tubular blower for removing relatively light debris from hard surfaces such as sidewalks, driveways, decks or workbench surfaces. The blower uses an axial flow blower fan arranged for noise minimization and energy efficient operation. Blower tube inlet and outlet portions are arranged for debris removal effectiveness by optimizing airflow volume and velocity parameters.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1987Date of Patent: December 5, 1989Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Jonathan L. Miner, Vernon R. Lacher, Gerald J. Rescigno, William B. Swim, Martin P. Gierke, David A. Hahn
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Patent number: 4871041Abstract: The fuel tank of a motorcycle or other similar vehicle contains an immersible fuel pump unit arranged to effectively pass fuel from the fuel tank regardless of reduced levels of fuel therein. Also, the fuel pump unit and other elements of the fuel supply system are organized to lower the center of gravity of the vehicle and to improve operation of the engine by more effectively exhausting air bubbles from the fuel flow stream and reducing the amount of heat capable of being transferred from the engine to the fuel supply pipe, thus to prevent expansion of any air bubbles that may migrate through the fuel supply pipe.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 1988Date of Patent: October 3, 1989Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Saito, Koichi Hikichi
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Patent number: 4871301Abstract: A centrifugal pump of the "sealless" type including a casing containing a pumping chamber, inlet and outlet, and an impeller mounted on a shaft supported by an independent bearing system. The impeller shaft is driven by a motor located outside of the casing through a set of magnets located on the opposite sides of the wall of the casing and magnetically interconnected together with the motor driving the magnets located on the outside of the casing and with magnets located on the inside of the casing being connected to and driving the pump impeller. The bearing system includes a lubricating system which in some cases will use the pumped fluid as a lubricant and coolant.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 1988Date of Patent: October 3, 1989Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand CompanyInventor: Frederic W. Buse
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Patent number: 4854831Abstract: A high side hermetic scroll compressor passes the discharge gas along the interior of the shell and is thereby cooled prior to being subjected to a centrifugal separation to remove the oil before being discharged from the compressor. The separated oil is returned to the sump via a fluid path isolated from the discharge gas.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1988Date of Patent: August 8, 1989Assignee: Carrier CorporationInventors: Shahrokh Etemad, Donald Yannascoli, Michael Hatzikazakis
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Patent number: 4854373Abstract: A crescent shaped exchanger tank is fitted over the top portion of an electric motor which drives a centrifugal pump. The inlet to the pump is connected to a drain on a bath tub and the discharge of the pump is connected to jet nozzles along the sides of the tub. The heat exchanger has an inlet connected to the high pressure side of the pump and a discharge connected to low pressure or suction side of the pump. The heat of the motor heats the water circulated in the tank to warm the water delivered through the jet nozzles to the tub.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1989Date of Patent: August 8, 1989Inventor: Gordon G. Williams
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Patent number: 4850816Abstract: A refrigeration gas compressor unit having a casing, and electric motor driven compressor mounted in the casing, a housing containing and substantially isolating the inner passages or cavities of the motor from the casing cavity, a refrigerant suction port in the casing, a stationary liquid-gas separator in the casing having a wall defining a generally circular chamber communicating substantially tangentially with the suction port, a primary outlet in a radially central portion of the separator and a secondary outlet in a peripheral portion thereof, a primary-feed conduit connecting the primary outlet to the intake of the compressor, a secondary-feed conduit connecting the secondary outlet to the intake of the compressor and includes the passages between the housing, rotor and stator of the electric motor, and a refrigerant discharge port in the casing communicating with the compression chamber of the compressor.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1988Date of Patent: July 25, 1989Assignee: Bristol Compressors, Inc.Inventor: Milton M. Kosfeld
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Patent number: 4850818Abstract: Disclosed is a corrosion-resistant magnet pump comprising a front casing, a rear casing provided behind the front casing with a partition wall interposed therebetween, a rotary shaft extending from the front casing into the rear casing and supported by a bearing provided at least in the partition wall, an impeller fixed to the rotary shaft within the front casing, a driven magnet drivingly connected to the rotary shaft within the rear casing and a drive magnet provided outside the rear casing and drivingly rotatable by a motor, the portions of the pump to be exposed to a liquid being made of a corrosion-resistant material, the impeller being fitted around the front end of the rotary shaft and fastened to the rotary shaft by an impeller nut screwed on the front end, the magnet pump being characterized in that the impeller comprises a ceramic insert in the center of the impeller and the remaining portion of corrosion-resistant synthetic resin around the insert, the insert having a rear end face projecting rearwType: GrantFiled: September 22, 1987Date of Patent: July 25, 1989Assignee: Seikow Chemical Engineering & Machinery, Ltd.Inventor: Masayuki Kotera
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Patent number: 4838769Abstract: A compressor assembly is disclosed including a compressor mechanism mounted within a hermetically sealed housing. The compressor mechanism includes a crankcase having a suction inlet opening providing direct communication into a suction cavity within the crankcase. The compressor mechanism is located in an upper chamber of the housing and a motor is located in a lower chamber, the entire interior of the housing being at discharge pressure. Suction gas is isolated from the motor so that heat from the motor does not increase the temperature of the suction gas. The discharge tube is positioned in the lower chamber so that discharge gas flows over the motor to cool it, thereby improving efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1988Date of Patent: June 13, 1989Assignee: Tecumseh Products CompanyInventor: Edwin L. Gannaway
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Patent number: 4834623Abstract: The pump comprises a casing in which is disposed a stator armature of an electric motor, a rotatable shaft to which is fixed a rotor winding and which is torsionally connected to an impeller rotor of the pump and a pair of covers which close the ends of the said casing and define between them a chamber within the casing for the fuel; a first end of the rotatable shaft is supported by a first seat formed within a cavity of a sleeve of a first cover projecting axially from the inner surface of the cover itself and the second end of this shaft is supported by a second seat formed in the second cover.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 1987Date of Patent: May 30, 1989Assignee: Weber S.r.l.Inventors: Innocenzo Triolo, Lanfranco Toschi, Marcello Lorenzoni
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Patent number: 4831828Abstract: In accordance with the invention, a hermetic refrigerant compressor pump which is used to compress helium is cooled by fins which are press fitted to the compressor's housing. The compressor is further cooled by a heat exchanger which cools oil in an oil sump located within the compressor housing. Preferably, a fan is located between the fins and the heat exchanger to help cool the pump.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1987Date of Patent: May 23, 1989Assignee: Helix Technology CorporationInventors: Lawrence A. Klusmier, Hans T. Clarke, Gary Gatto
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Patent number: 4822258Abstract: An in-tank type fuel pump in which an impeller within the pump chamber is rotated by a motor disposed within a fuel chamber within a main body to pump fuel. A through hole in communication with a fuel chamber of the motor portion is provided in a side wall of the pump chamber on the motor side close to the upstream end of the annular channel defining the fuel chamber of the motor portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1988Date of Patent: April 18, 1989Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Matsuda, Ryozo Suzuki, Shingo Iwai, Ryoji Ikeda
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Patent number: 4808896Abstract: A control device monitors the elapsed off time of an oil filled deep sea electric motor 4, and compares this with a calculated time for the oil temperature to drop to a predetermined value at a sensed water depth. When the two times are equal a low, heating current is supplied to the primary winding 11 to prevent the oil from becoming more viscous. The heating current is insufficient to rotate the motor armature, and its intensity is increased with depth corresponding to the decrease of the water temperature with depth.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 1988Date of Patent: February 28, 1989Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshio Katsuragi, Hatsuo Ohta
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Patent number: 4793766Abstract: A regenerative fuel pump, comprising: a disc-shaped pump rotor having a plurality of vanes along its periphery; a pump housing accommodating the pump rotor; a fluid inlet port provided in the pump housing along a longitudinal direction; an arcuate fuel passage extending in the pump housing from the inlet port along the periphery of the pump rotor; a fluid outlet port communicating with a terminal end of the arcuate fuel passage; and a slot extending from the inlet port a certain distance into the arcuate fuel passage along an inner circumferential region thereof; the slot extending longitudinally from the arcuate fuel passage to pump exterior through a substantially straight path and circumferentially through a tortuous path. Preferably, the slot is defined by a separate member which is fitted into a recess provided in the pump housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 1988Date of Patent: December 27, 1988Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hirotaka Kumata
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Patent number: 4789308Abstract: A self-contained electric fuel pump includes a pair of coaxially spaced inlet and outlet end caps joined by a case to form a pump housing. A d.c. motor includes an armature journaled for rotation within the housing and coupled to a pump mechanism for feeding fuel through the housing from the inlet to the outlet, fuel within the housing surrounding the armature being at substantially outlet pressure. A pressure sensor comprises a magnetic piston slideable against adjustable spring force within a bore in the outlet end cap as a function of fuel pressure within the pump housing. A Hall sensor is responsive to varying magnetic field as a function of piston position for applying electrical power to the pump armature as a function of pump outlet pressure.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1987Date of Patent: December 6, 1988Assignee: Walbro CorporationInventor: Charles H. Tuckey
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Patent number: 4778354Abstract: A motor type fuel pump includes an armature housing made of a substantially cylindrical plastic member whose upper end is closed, and a pump chamber housing accommodating a impeller rotated by the armature and defining a pump chamber. The armature housing is adapted to accommodate motor components including an armature, a commutator, a cylindrical stator device consisting of a permanent magnet and a yoke. The armature housing has a plurality of ribs formed at predetermined angular intervals on an inner surface of the armature housing and extending along the longitudinal direction of the armature housing. The plurality of ribs are fitted on the yoke of the stator device. Fuel is supplied through a plurality of arcuated grooves which are defined by the outer surface of the yoke, the inner wall surface of the armature housing, and the ribs.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1986Date of Patent: October 18, 1988Assignee: Jidosha Kiki Co., Ltd.Inventor: Michio Idei
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Patent number: 4773829Abstract: A centrifugal fan driven by an electronic-commutation d.c. motor is provided with a housing (1) which defines a volute (2), an impeller (4) which is coupled for rotation with the motor shaft (7) being mounted within the fan housing. The motor is placed within a protective casing (13) which also contains at least one printed-circuit board (23) for supporting the motor control circuit (26), the casing being adjacent to the external face (36) of a closure disk (9) of the fan housing (1).The fan motor casing (13) has an annular extension (14) corresponding to the fan housing (1) and the printed-circuit board (23) is housed within said extension and placed in substantially parallel relation to the fan-housing closure disk (9) in sufficiently close proximity to said disk to be subjected primarily by thermal conduction to the cooling action produced by the fan impeller (4).Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1987Date of Patent: September 27, 1988Assignee: Etudes Techniques Et Representations Industrielles E.T.R.I.Inventor: Claude Vettori
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Patent number: 4768931Abstract: In an in-tank type motor-driven pump actuated by feeding a power from the outside of a pump casing through an external conductor, an end of the external conductor is extended inside the pump through a through hole formed in an upper motor cover; the external conductor is held in the through hole by a supporting member, and the end of the conductor is directly or indirectly connected to a brush for the motor.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 1987Date of Patent: September 6, 1988Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shingo Iwai, Tetsuo Okashiro
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Patent number: 4767285Abstract: An electric blower comprising an electric motor and an impeller drivingly rotated thereby. A housing and an end bracket connected thereto cooperate with each other to define an internal space within which the electric motor is disposed. A tubular wall surrounding an output shaft of the motor extends from an end wall of the end bracket into a central opening in a shroud plate of the impeller. A bearing is disposed between the tubular wall and the output shaft for rotatably supporting the output shaft. A guide vane assembly introduces air discharged from the impeller, into the internal space. The guide vane assembly is connected to the end bracket at a location radially outwardly remote from the bearing. The guide vane assembly guides the air flow from the impeller, toward openings in a peripheral wall of the end bracket.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1987Date of Patent: August 30, 1988Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Fumio Jyoraku, Hisanori Toyosima
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Patent number: 4762472Abstract: The invention resides broadly in an air pump assembly including an electric motor operatively connected to an air pump having an outer casing provided with pump inlet and outlet means; an outlet chamber communicating with said pump outlet means and having a supply outlet through which pumped air may be fed to an air supply line and manifold means associated with said electric motor for ducting cooling air directly from the motor for discharge remote from the air flow path to said pump inlet means.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1987Date of Patent: August 9, 1988Inventor: Peter J. King
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Patent number: 4747757Abstract: A bottom inlet submersible mixing pump includes a twin volute centrifugal pump feeding a pair of vertical passageways which in turn feed an annular chamber extending around the motor stator for cooling. The annular chamber has partial dividing walls between the chamber inlets and the chamber outlets which feed discharge nozzles so as to insure a predetermined liquid level within the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 1986Date of Patent: May 31, 1988Inventor: Walter D. Haentjens
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Patent number: 4746277Abstract: In a rotary compressor for refrigeration and heat pump systems with an integrated drive motor on the high-pressure side, the operating medium will flow over the drive motor. During operating of the rotary compressor gas pulsations/pressure pulses will occur on both low-pressure and high-pressure sides. In order to suppress these pressure pulses on the high-pressure side one or more chambers with different volumes are provided, joined by channels between the discharge opening and the drive motor.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1987Date of Patent: May 24, 1988Assignee: Stal Refrigeration ABInventor: Rune V. Glanvall
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Patent number: 4741677Abstract: An electrical compressor for motor vehicle horns, free from water seepage and simple construction wise comprises, all in axial alignment relationship, an electric motor having a stator, a pair of brushes, and a shaft provided with a rotor winding and a commutator, an air compressor having a casing by said shaft, and a bowl-type shell wherein said electric motor and air compressor are mounted coaxially adjacent to the bowl bottom and bowl opening, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1985Date of Patent: May 3, 1988Assignee: Fiamm Componenti Accessori S.p.A.Inventor: Domenico Frigo
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Patent number: 4734018Abstract: A vacuum pump with a seal structure for a pump unit of the vacuum pump and a driving mechanism for rotating a rotor in the pump stages of the pump is disclosed. The seal structure is provided with a narrow gap sealing arrangement formed by a stationary member which is opposed to the portion of a shaft of the driving mechanism which is between the pump unit and an upper bearing supporting the same shaft, which narrow gap sealing arrangement comprises first, second and third seal portions; a mechanism for supplying a discharge gas to the first seal portion; and a mechanism for supplying a purge gas to the second and third seal portions. Owing to these parts, the feed rate of the purge gas can be minimized, and the entry of the oil mist, which occurs during the lubrication of the bearing, into the interior of the pump unit can be prevented. This enables the interior of the pump unit to be kept clean.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 1986Date of Patent: March 29, 1988Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Minoru Taniyama, Masahiro Mase, Takashi Nagaoka
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Patent number: 4734017Abstract: A hand-held blower includes a tubular housing having a cavity, an open end and peripheral air inlets spaced from the open end. A dividing wall in the housing cavity separates the cavity into a forward and a rear compartment, the forward compartment having a motor and a fan mounted on the motor, and the rear compartment having a rechargeable power supply electrically connected to the motor. Actuating means electrically connects and disconnects the rechargeable power supply and the motor and a charging jack electrically connected to the rechargeable power supply is provided for connecting the power supply to an external power source.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 1986Date of Patent: March 29, 1988Inventor: Mark R. Levin
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Patent number: 4734008Abstract: An open-vane regenerative impeller for a fuel pump. The impeller has a ring-like body portion from which a plurality of open-vane impeller vanes extend radially out and a plurality of fan blades extend radially in. The impeller is disposed in a closed cavity between two pump bodies with the vanes in an annular pumping chamber and the fan blades in a cylindrical vapor collection chamber radially inboard of the pumping chamber. The fan blades operate to blow vapor out of the vapor collection chamber through a vapor discharge slot in one of the pump bodies when rotation of the impeller commences thereby to enhance the initial vacuum at the inlet port to the pumping chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1986Date of Patent: March 29, 1988Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventor: Robert A. Roth
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Patent number: 4728266Abstract: A motor drive vacuum pump comprises a motor provided with a rotor, a stator and a housing holding the rotor and the stator therein, a vacuum pump which is attached on the side surface of the motor housing and is driven by the motor to forcibly feed air from an intake port to a discharge port to thereby generate vacuum, a discharging passage means comprising a discharging hole for introducing the air to be discharged through the discharge port of the vacuum pump into the motor interior and a through hole formed in a part of the housing to discharge the air introduced into the motor interior to the atmosphere, and a discharge valve provided in a part of the discharging passage means.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1987Date of Patent: March 1, 1988Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akio Matsumoto, Kimiaki Seki
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Patent number: 4726746Abstract: Disclosed is an electrically-operated fuel pump for pumping fuel such as gasoline, light oil and heavy oil, comprising a pump housing; a motor having a rotating shaft and encased centrally in the pump housing, the motor comprising a rotor formed by fixing a permanent magnet to the rotating shaft thereof and a stator arranged around the rotor, the stator having plural windings of coils adapted to be sequentially excited to rotate the rotor; a pump section encased in the pump housing below the motor and operatively connected to the rotating shaft of the motor; and an electric circuit package made of an oil-resistant and water-resistant material and incorporated in the pump housing above the motor, the electric circuit package oil-tightly incorporating a plurality of rotor position detecting devices for detecting an angular position of the rotor, wherein a portion of the electric circuit package facing to the rotor is made of a paramagnetic material.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1986Date of Patent: February 23, 1988Assignee: Asian Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shigetaka Takada, Masaaki Nomura, Satoshi Kondoh
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Patent number: 4714405Abstract: A centrifugal pump has a casing with an impeller cavity in which a shrouded impeller is mounted and with front and rear labyrinth seals associated one with each of the front and rear shrouds of the impeller and located near the inner ends of the shrouds. An additional seal is positioned inwardly of the rear labyrinth seal to substantially seal a space behind the innermost part of the rear shroud and a pump structure is mounted on the impeller to the rear of the rear shroud for pumping fluid from the substantially sealed space to the entrance of a volute surrounding the impeller.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 1986Date of Patent: December 22, 1987Assignee: Sundstrand CorporationInventors: John G. Schaefer, Jerome K. Aarestad, Terry L. Whitesel
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Patent number: 4694211Abstract: An system for the supply of fuel which acts as an electrolyte, including a metallic component part as a sacrificial anode for protection of metallic current leads against electrolytic corrosion. The component part is connected to the positive side of the operating circuit of the electric motor. In order to improve the protection of the current leads, the sacrificial anode is connected to a higher electric potential than the current lead for the positive side of the circuit.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1986Date of Patent: September 15, 1987Assignee: SWF Auto Electric GmbHInventors: Heiner Bayha, Hermann Kluge, Horst Rachner
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Patent number: 4692092Abstract: A fuel pump apparatus having two-stage pump sections and a vapor discharge port. A first impeller of a first stage pump section is attached to a vertically lower surface of a second impeller of a second stage pump section, the second impeller having a larger diameter than the first impeller. A vapor discharge port is formed in the second impeller at a radially inward portion thereof to open to a radially inwardly portion of a first pump passage. Fuel vapor is separated from liquid fuel at the first stage pump section and the liquid fuel is pressurized at the second stage pump section.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1986Date of Patent: September 8, 1987Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Matsuda, Masasi Miyamoto, Toshihiro Takei
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Patent number: 4684331Abstract: A slinger for a submersible electric pump protects a motor shaft bearing as well as a shaft seal. The slinger is provided with four, inclined, curved projections or vanes which are operable to propel sand or other potentially abrasive, grit-like contaminants away from an area adjacent the shaft seal. A pair of outlet slots disposed horizontally adjacent a lowermost portion of the slinger cooperates with the vanes to enable passage of the contaminants to an area external of the pump, such that the contaminants do not accumulate within the pump itself and the likelihood that the contaminants will enter the first pump stage is significantly reduced. Each of the vanes has a face inclined slightly relative to the frustoconical outer surface of the slinger, and each face terminates in a curved leading edge and a curved trailing edge. The vanes direct the contaminants toward the lowermost portion of the slinger where maximum outward thrust is developed.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1985Date of Patent: August 4, 1987Assignee: The Marley-Wylain CompanyInventors: Nyle D. LaGrange, Darryl M. Nielsen, Charles F. Wheeler
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Patent number: 4684329Abstract: A canned motor pump has a pump section and a canned motor section connected thereto. A portion of the liquid from the pump section is diverted past a front bearing of the pump shaft and then back into the pump intake. Another portion of diverted liquid flows between the stator and the rotor in the canned motor section, and then past a rear shaft bearing, and then is returned to the pump intake. The resistance to flow of the liquid past the front bearing is made substantially greater than that past the rear bearing, so that the total flow diverted from the pump section for purpose of lubricating the front and rear bearings is substantially less than if the two resistances were equal. The resistance to liquid flow of the rear bearing can be reduced by providing it with straight channels parallel to the axis of shaft rotation, or helical channels in the direction the liquid tends to flow.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1986Date of Patent: August 4, 1987Assignee: Nikkiso Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuaki Hashimoto
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Patent number: 4682936Abstract: A suction port 22a of an end cover 22 and a suction port 21a of a pump casing 21 are disposed to have a certain angular distance from each other, and the end cover 22 is covered by fuel filtration element 23 with a gap against the bottom of the end cover 22, thereby resistance to fire flame ignited by collector of a pump motor becomes large and dangerous spreading of fire flame is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1986Date of Patent: July 28, 1987Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryozo Suzuki, Jun Shiraga, Shingo Iwai, Tetuo Okashiro
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Patent number: 4679990Abstract: The electric blower comprises an impeller of the centrifugal type driven by a motor, a diffuser having a plurality of divergent passages into which air flow discharged from said impeller flows, an air guide having a return passage subsequently directing said air flow from said divergent passages into the interior of said motor, and a casing housing therein said impeller, said diffuser and said air guide. Each guide wall of said air guide defining said return passage includes an inner guide wall section, an outer guide wall section and a space interposed between each inner guide wall section and the corresponding outer guide wall section, an opening being formed at the inner terminal end of each space.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1985Date of Patent: July 14, 1987Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Izumi Yamaura, Masami Fukumoto, Masao Torigoe
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Patent number: 4662827Abstract: A wet motor gerotor fuel pump for pumping fuel from a fuel source to an internal combustion engine. The fuel pump includes a pump case having an inlet chamber, a motor chamber, and a pump chamber therebetween. An inlet housing provides appropriate fuel inlet to a gerotor pump in the pump chamber. An outlet housing receives the pressurized fuel and delivers the fuel to the internal combustion engine. An electric motor mounted in the motor chamber is adapted to pass the fuel therethrough such that the fuel is pumped substantially through the gerotor pump along a flow axis through the complete pump assembly to the internal combustion engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 1986Date of Patent: May 5, 1987Assignee: Facet Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Michael V. Wiernicki