Including Means Utilizing Pump Fluid For Augmenting Cooling, Lubricating, Sealing, Or Cleaning Of Motor Patents (Class 417/366)
  • Publication number: 20120177511
    Abstract: Modular pump rotor assemblies having a rotatable driving element and a rotor that is removably connected to the driving element by at least one removable fastener are disclosed. The assemblies also have a rotor support bearing that is disposed between the rotatable driving element and the rotor. The assemblies may have a rotatable driving element that is of a type that is dynamically sealed to a pump housing, or a rotatable driving element that is of a type that is statically sealed to a pump housing, such as for use in a magnetically coupled pump or a canned-motor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: PEOPLEFLO MANUFACTURING, INC.
    Inventors: Jason M. Sexton, William R. Blankemeier, Radosav Trninich
  • Patent number: 8215927
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology for downsizing fluid pressure equipment including a fluid pressure pump and a radiator. The hydraulic pump unit 3 includes: a hydraulic pump 4; a motor 5 which drives the hydraulic pump 4; a cooling fan 7 which is connected to an output shaft 5a of the motor 5 and generates a flow of cooling air 6 to cool the motor 5; and a radiator 8 which receives heat from the hydraulic oil. The motor 5 and the radiator 8 are overlapped with the cooling fan 7, when viewed from the axial direction of the output shaft 5a of the motor 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Nabtesco Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Niwa, Teruhiko Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 8202067
    Abstract: Oil pump for hermetic refrigerating compressor comprising a tubular sleeve having an upper portion affixed to at least one of the parts of crankshaft and rotor, and a lower portion having a lower end immersed in the lubricant oil, said tubular sleeve being provided with an inner surface presenting, along at least part of its longitudinal extension, at least one helical groove upwardly extending from the lower end; and a pump body disposed inside the tubular sleeve and defining, with the adjacent helical groove of the tubular sleeve, a lubricant oil ascending channel, said pump body presenting a lower end portion mounted to one of the parts of shell, cylinder block and stator, so as to be freely displaced within the tubular sleeve, in radial directions orthogonal to the crankshaft and rotatively locked in relation to the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Whirlpool S.A.
    Inventors: Fabio Henrique Klein, Luiz Fabiano Jovita, Andrea Lopes
  • Patent number: 8172559
    Abstract: An electric compressor (201) includes: a compressor (203) configured to compress a refrigerant, the compressor (203) having a plurality of passage ports (207) delivering the refrigerant; an electric motor (205) configured to drive the compressor (203), the electric motor (205) having a plurality of stators (17) and an accommodation chamber (213) accommodating the plurality of stators (17); a partition wall (215) separating the compressor (203) and the an accommodation chamber (213) of the electric motor (205); and a plurality of refrigerant introducing/discharging passages (219) formed at the partition wall (215) wherein the respective refrigerant introducing/discharging passages (219) are located in a circumferential direction of the accommodation chamber (213), thereby the refrigerant being introduced into and discharged from stators (17) end in the electric motor (205) through the respective refrigerant introducing/discharging passages (219).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotada Shimaguchi, Masaki Watanabe, Jyunya Sugamuta
  • Publication number: 20120107151
    Abstract: A refrigerant compressor includes: an electric motor including a stator and rotor inside a sealed vessel; a compressing mechanism driven by a crank shaft in the rotor; a lower portion oil pool storing in the sealed vessel lubricating oil that lubricates the compressing mechanism; an upper counterweight on an upper end of the rotor. Refrigerant gas compressed by the compressing mechanism is discharged inside the sealed vessel, passes through a gas channel formed on the electric motor, moves from a lower space to an upper space with respect to the electric motor, and is discharged outside the sealed vessel. An oil return flow channel is formed on the upper end of the rotor toward a lower end from a vicinity of a leading end portion of the upper counterweight in a direction of rotation, and oil expressed in a vicinity of the rotor is directed to the oil return flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuhide Yokoyama, Toshihide Koda, Teruhiko Nishiki, Hideaki Maeyama, Taro Kato, Keisuke Shingu, Takuho Hirahara, Shin Sekiya
  • Patent number: 8167584
    Abstract: The invention relates to improvements in compressor units, and in particular to a modular compressor unit which has separate sections for the compressor, the controls and the air intake. The modular compressor unit comprises three separate adjoining sections, being an intake section, a compression section and a control section. The intake section comprises air intake means which provide an inlet for ambient air to be compressed and for cooling the compressor motor and comprise filters to filter air entering the intake means, noise attenuation means provided in the air intake means, and means for directing air to components in the compression section. The compression section comprises a compressor, a motor arranged to drive all compressor and all components within the unit required to cool compressed air, the motor and to remove heat from the compression section. The control section houses all the control means for operating the compressor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Gardner Denver Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Jacintha Louise Pyke, Anthony Edward Filler
  • Patent number: 8157542
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel conveying device for conveying fuel towards an internal combustion engine. The fuel conveying device comprises a housing and a head connected to the housing. Further, a fuel pump is provided, having an electronically commutated brushless motor. The control electronics for the electronically commutated brushless motor of the fuel pump are carried by or arranged within and/or on the head or housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: TI Automotive (Neuss) GmbH
    Inventor: Matthias Boutros
  • Patent number: 8152488
    Abstract: A blower for a vacuum cleaner has a diffuser with an increased efficiency by coupling the attack angle A of the diffuser vanes with the attack angle B of the return guide vanes where angle A is between 4° and 6° and angle B is between 6° and 20°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.
    Inventor: Chuan Hui Fang
  • Patent number: 8152458
    Abstract: A high temperature centrifugal pump includes non-linear fluid flow paths between the pump housing and seal housing to reduce fluid flow therebetween. In another aspect, the invention provides a drive shaft of variable diameter to compensate for different amounts of thermal expansion to maintain a more consistent gap profile between the drive shaft and thermal insulators or other components positioned around the drive shaft. In yet another aspect, a tube heat exchanger may be placed in fluid communication with the seal housing to re-circulate and cool the fluid therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: MP Pumps, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven E Buell, David M DeClerck
  • Patent number: 8128381
    Abstract: An electric motor comprising a stator of the type having polar expansions of the wound type, a rotor chamber defined by a sealed case, closed by a sealing ring, a permanent magnet rotor, housed inside the rotor chamber and a shaft connected to the rotor. The electric motor comprises a valve which allows outflow of fluid from said rotor chamber; the valve is formed by a through bore provided on the sealing ring and an opposing wall for closing the bore; the wall is provided in a wall of a sealing ring holding disc which is form coupled to the sealing ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Askoll Holding S.r.l.
    Inventor: Elio Marioni
  • Patent number: 8128379
    Abstract: A temperature management system for an air compressor includes a plurality of cooling fans coupled to an intercooler of the air compressor; an electrical relay comprising a coil and contacts operated by the coil; and a temperature switch coupled to the coil of the electrical relay. The contacts are located between the cooling fans and an electrical power supply. The temperature switch opens at a temperature above a predetermined temperature at a high pressure inlet of a high pressure stage of the air compressor, thereby closing the contacts of the electrical relay which applies power to the cooling fans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Wabtec Holding Corp.
    Inventor: Jeffrey J. Hritz
  • Patent number: 8105053
    Abstract: A turbocharger includes a housing, and a turbine shaft supported in a center hole in the housing through rolling bearings. A tank portion for storing lubrication oil is formed in the housing, and the lubricating oil is supplied from the tank portion to the rolling bearings through wick members extending from the tank portion respectively to the rolling bearings. The wick member includes a bundle of fibers made of a plastics material, and a distal end portion thereof is separated into a fibrous condition, and this distal end portion is held in contact with the bearing. The lubricating oil is supplied to the bearing by a capillary action of the wick member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ueno, Toshihiko Shiraki, Akio Oshima, Tomonori Nakashita, Masaaki Ohtsuki, Shigenori Bando, Masaki Abe, Ryuji Nakata, Takehisa Kida
  • Patent number: 8096783
    Abstract: An apparatus (1) includes a housing (2), an air feed duct (21) a volute (5), an impeller (4), and a motor (3) for driving the rotation of the impeller (4) so as to generate a centrifugal air flow in the volute (5). The housing (2) has a first part (18a) where wall is intended, after assembly, to extend around the motor (3), espousing the shape of this motor (3) in such a way as to lie at a substantially constant distance from this motor (3); and a second part (18b, 19) where wall is intended, after assembly, to extend around the volute (5), espousing the shape of this volute (5) so as to lie at a substantially constant distance from this volute (5). The housing (2) internally forms a salient axial lump (20) which, after assembly, sits close to the hub (10) of the impeller (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Air Liquide Medical Systems S.A.
    Inventor: Gilbert Grasmuck
  • Patent number: 8096782
    Abstract: A multistage sealed pump is provided for use in an X-ray tube cooling system which is substantially more efficient than pumps of known construction and which provides substantially higher pumping pressure at lower motor current than conventionally. Cooling liquid can be transferred from stage to stage by interconnecting tubing external of the housing or within the housing, through a hollow motor shaft, or through the motor casing. In another embodiment, the multiple impellers can be directly mounted on a shaft extending from a single end of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Inventor: James McCarthy
  • Patent number: 8079829
    Abstract: An in-line motor and pump assembly is supported at the bottom of a fuel storage tank by a pipe and an internal concentric conduit for housing electrical conductors extending therewithin to the motor. An impeller, coaxial with the rotor of the motor, draws the fuel into an annular passageway surrounding the stator of the motor. Further passageways convey the fuel to an annular passageway defined between the pipe and the conduit for discharge external of the storage tank. A low pressure environment attendant the inflow of the fuel is used to channel fuel for lubrication and cooling purposes to a lower journal bearing and thrust bearing supporting a common shaft for the impeller and the motor. A high pressure environment attendant outflow of fuel is used to channel fuel for lubrication and cooling purposes to a journal bearing supporting the upper end of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Vaporless Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Penrod C. Geisinger, Mark C Johnson, Jason L Addink, Scott D Klopfenstein, Gregory E Young
  • Publication number: 20110300006
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for cooling motors used to drive gas and air compressors. In particular, the cooling of hermetic and semi-hermetic motors is accomplished by a gas sweep using a gas source located in the low-pressure side of a gas compression circuit. The gas sweep is provided by the creation of a pressure reduction at the compressor inlet sufficient to draw uncompressed gas through a motor housing, across the motor, and out of the housing for return to the suction assembly. The pressure reduction is created by means provided in the suction assembly, such as a nozzle and gap assembly, or alternatively a venturi, located upstream of the compressor inlet. Additional motor cooling can be provided by circulating liquid or another cooling fluid through a cooling jacket in the motor housing portion adjacent the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Inventor: Paul De LARMINAT
  • Patent number: 8028524
    Abstract: A supercharger for an internal combustion engine having an internal reservoir adapted to receive a supply of lubricating oil. An oil slinger is mounted on the impeller shaft for rotation therewith that extends into the reservoir for collecting and slinging lubricating oil onto the supercharger bearings, shafts and the drive and impeller gears. A baffle assembly is carried by the interior of the supercharger housing for controlling the volume and flow of lubricating oil onto said gears and bearings and directing oil flow therefrom back into said reservoir to prevent excessive lubrication buildup on the gears and the deleterious effects that result therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Vortech Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: James K. Middlebrook, Michael W. Reagan, Matthew L. Shemenski
  • Patent number: 8021127
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for cooling motors used to drive gas and air compressors. In particular, the cooling of hermetic and semi-hermetic motors is accomplished by a gas sweep using a gas source located in the low-pressure side of a gas compression circuit. The gas sweep is provided by the creation of a pressure reduction at the compressor inlet sufficient to draw uncompressed gas through a motor housing, across the motor, and out of the housing for return to the suction assembly. The pressure reduction is created by structure in the suction assembly, such as a nozzle and gap assembly, or alternatively a venturi, located upstream of the compressor inlet. Additional motor cooling can be provided by circulating liquid or another cooling fluid through a cooling jacket in the motor housing portion adjacent the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventor: Paul De Larminat
  • Patent number: 8016572
    Abstract: In one aspect, a pump for moving air includes an inlet, an outlet, an outer housing adapted to couple to an inflatable device, and an inner housing located within the outer housing. An air conduit is defined between the inner housing and the outer housing. A motor is at least partly positioned within the inner housing, and a plurality of vanes are positioned within the air conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Inventor: Robert B. Chaffee
  • Publication number: 20110190986
    Abstract: A working fluid medium temperature control system comprises an actuator operable on a working fluid medium, a pump for the working fluid medium, a fluid passage structure for the working fluid medium, an electric motor drivingly connected to the pump, and a control unit for the electric motor, the control unit including an inverter and an inverter controller. The inverter and the electric motor are integrated in such a way that the inverter is in heat transfer communication with the electric motor. The fluid passage structure is in heat transfer communication with the inverter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventors: Takayuki Bitou, Koh Uchida, Katsuhiro Suda, Taisuke Ueda, Toru Inoue, Yoshikazu Takahashi, Hideyuki Kita, Yohei Koike, Nariaki Tazawa
  • Patent number: 7976291
    Abstract: A cooling fan includes an outer housing. A motor support is fixed to the outer housing and a motor is mounted to the motor support. A hub is coupled to the motor and, with the motor support, forms a motor enclosure that substantially surrounds the motor. Multiple blades extend radially from the hub and are arranged so as to generate a flow of air around the motor enclosure when the blades are rotated. The cooling fan also includes a motor cooler including a flow path through the motor enclosure, wherein the flow path has a first opening and a second opening, wherein the second opening is disposed within an area of lowered downstream pressure so as to develop a differential pressure between the first and second openings and generate a flow of air through the motor enclosure as the motor operates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Wade D. Vinson, John P. Franz, Troy Della Fiora, Jeffrey M. Giardina
  • Patent number: 7977832
    Abstract: A cooling system is provided for an electric motor having control circuitry and including a motor housing surrounding the motor. The motor drives at least one radial fan at one end thereof for directing airflow through the motor housing across the motor. A fan housing encloses the cooling fan and defines a diverter chamber radially outboard of the fan that is sized to divert a portion of the airflow away from the electric motor. A control box contains the control circuitry and includes a base having a heat sink for contacting the control circuitry. The base defines a plenum in communication with the diverter chamber and a channel in communication with the plenum and the heat sink to direct the diverted airflow across the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Jose L. Vadillo, Raymond D. Heilman, Donald E. Morgan
  • Publication number: 20110164996
    Abstract: A motor is fixed to a retaining member by bolts and well nuts. The well nuts are attached to the retaining member so that their flange portions are positioned between a motor fixing portion and the retaining member, and a clearance corresponding to thickness of the flanges of the well nuts is provided between the motor fixing portion and the retaining member. Heat-conductive elastic members are sandwiched between the motor fixing portion and the retaining member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventor: Shinya Imamura
  • Publication number: 20110135513
    Abstract: A sealed compressor includes a housing for receiving a compressor pump unit and an electric motor. The electric motor drives a driveshaft. The driveshaft extends to drive an element within the compressor pump unit to compress a fluid. The motor includes a rotor spaced from a portion of the housing by a gap. The driveshaft drives a counterweight, which has a radially outermost portion extending radially outwardly beyond a radially innermost portion of the stator. The radially outermost portion of the counterweight has an angled face to drive fluid into the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventors: Gene Fields, Joe T. Hill
  • Patent number: 7950907
    Abstract: A fluid fuel pump and its electrically driven brushless motor are located at opposite ends of a common housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Nagata, Shinji Sumiya
  • Patent number: 7946831
    Abstract: To improve a compressor for refrigerant, comprising an outer casing, a scroll compressor disposed in the outer casing, a drive unit, disposed in the outer casing, for the second compressor body, having an eccentric drive, a drive shaft running in lying arrangement or approximately horizontally in the outer casing and a drive motor, which includes a stator and a rotor seated on the drive shaft, as well as a lubricant supply, in such a manner that the minimum possible quantity of lubricant is required, it is proposed that a lubricant collection space is disposed in the outer casing, that the lubricant supply has a delivery wheel which delivers lubricant from a delivery sump into a feed space for the drive shaft, and that a lower pressure prevails in a lubricant delivery space accommodating the delivery sump than in the lubricant collection space, so that the lubricant which collects in the lubricant space, on account of the pressure difference, passes into the delivery sump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Bitzer Kuehlmaschinenbau GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Roller, Gernot Balz, Thomas Varga
  • Patent number: 7946118
    Abstract: An electrically controlled turbocharger has a motor mounted on a shaft in a motor housing between a turbine and compressor. Oil is sprayed onto the motor stator to cool the stator. An oil gallery is disposed above the stator to receive lubricating oil and contains apertures that perform as jets to allow oil to be sprayed directly on the motor stator. A coolant jacket is formed in the turbocharger housing between the turbine and the motor to allow liquid coolant to circulate therein and dissipate heat from the turbine end prior to reaching the motor components. Other embodiments provide for a stator component to be submerged in flowing cooling oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: EcoMotors International
    Inventors: Will Hippen, Franz Laimboeck, Tyler Garrard
  • Patent number: 7942646
    Abstract: A high speed centrifugal compressor for compressing fluids includes a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) having a hollow shaft, the being supported on its ends by ball bearing supports. A permanent magnet core is embedded inside the shaft. A stator with a winding is located radially outward of the shaft. The PMSM includes a rotor including at least one impeller secured to the shaft or integrated with the shaft as a single piece. The rotor is a high rigidity rotor providing a bending mode speed of at least 100,000 RPM which advantageously permits implementation of relatively low-cost ball bearing supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: University of Central Florida Foundation, Inc
    Inventors: Lei Zhou, Liping Zheng, Louis Chow, Jayanta S. Kapat, Thomas X. Wu, Krishna M. Kota, Xiaoyi Li, Dipjyoti Acharya
  • Publication number: 20110110801
    Abstract: A fluid pump for delivering cooled working fluid in an engine cooling system includes a housing unit defining front and rear chambers, an inlet disposed upstream of a central region of the front chamber, an outlet disposed downstream of a surrounding region of the front chamber, a canister member dividing the rear chamber into stator- and rotor-side spaces for receiving a stator and a rotor, respectively, a hollow shaft which is rotated with the rotor to turn an impeller in the central region and which defines a passage, and an auxiliary conduit communicated with the inlet and the rear chamber so as to divert part of the working fluid to flow through the internal duct and the passage, thereby diffusing heat generated within the housing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: JI-EE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chin-Chen CHIU, Schief CHEN, Jerry HUANG, Jo CHEN
  • Publication number: 20110097222
    Abstract: A supercharger includes a centrifugal compressor having an impeller, a rotational shaft coupled to the impeller, a motor having a stator and a rotor housed in a casing, and a journal air bearing supporting the rotational shaft. The journal air bearing includes a hollow cylindrical member having an inner space therein and a heat transfer member fitted in the inner space. The heat transfer member is made of a material which is less rigid and has a greater coefficient of thermal conductivity than the hollow cylindrical member. The impeller radiates heat transferred through the heat transfer member into ambient air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki KOMATSU, Tetsuya TAKEZAWA, Junji TAKADO, Toru KAMIYA
  • Publication number: 20110097216
    Abstract: A compression apparatus including a motor, a lubricant source, an umbilical, a compressor, a separation device, and a lubricant recycling assembly. The lubricant source provides a lubricant. The umbilical is fluidly connected to the lubricant source. The compressor is operatively connected to the motor, fluidly connected to the umbilical, and includes a compressor lubricant outlet and a compressor lubricant inlet that is fluidly connected to the umbilical. The separation device is fluidly connected to the compressor, and the lubricant source, and a well including a process fluid, wherein the separation device separates the process fluid into a liquid portion and a gaseous portion, and a portion of the lubricant mixes with the process fluid. The lubricant recycling assembly includes a dirty side fluidly connected to the compressor lubricant outlet, a clean side fluidly connected to the compressor lubricant inlet, a lubricant filter, and a lubricant pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: DRESSER-RAND COMPANY
    Inventor: Mark Joseph Kuzdzal
  • Patent number: 7903406
    Abstract: A centrifugal fan includes a cylindrical housing for housing an impeller, a motor for driving the impeller and a disk-like circuit board that are arranged coaxially in an accumulated manner. When the impeller rotates, air is taken in along the axial direction of the housing and goes out through an air outlet disposed in the circumference surface of the housing. A ring-like air inlet is disposed in a wall face on one side of the housing in the axial direction. An outer rim of the circuit board that is disposed inside the wall face is substantially within the inside edge of the air inlet, and a self-heating electronic component is mounted on the circuit board at the outer edge portion. A part of air taken in from the air inlet flows at a vicinity of the electronic component so that the electronic component is cooled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Takemoto
  • Publication number: 20110052428
    Abstract: This invention relates to a Brushless DC Electric Fuel Pump (BEFP) for an internal combustion engine having a cooling system which transfers all the heat generated by its components to the heat conducting body parts and carrying the heat away not only by the fuel but also air by the use of sealed fuel channels and external heat sinks. The Brushless DC Electric Fuel Pump has a main housing, a stator within the housing, an inlet cover which fuel is drawn into, an intermediate cover and a pump body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: SUPERPAR OTOMOTIV SANAYI VE TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI
    Inventor: Mehmet Feyyaz Tarancioglu
  • Publication number: 20110052418
    Abstract: A method and a system are provided for a deep well pump system having a high volume lift of hot or very hot fluids. In an embodiment, a high volume high temperature deep well pumping system uses an external source of cooling fluid to keep one or more vulnerable pumping apparatus components at an acceptable operating temperature. In an embodiment, the cooling fluid, after cooling the component(s), is released into the production fluid flow stream from the pump and both fluids are lifted back up to the surface. In an embodiment, a return tubing, line, or pipe can bring the cooling water back to the surface or other location with or without mixing it with the production fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventor: William Bruce Morrow
  • Patent number: 7896626
    Abstract: An electric pump uses an inner-rotor type, brushless DC motor. A casing of the electric pump is formed by a pump casing and a main casing. A sensor-stator assembly is disposed in a space between a side wall portion of the main casing and a can and is sealed with resin. A first elastic seal member is disposed, in a fluid-tight manner, between the can and the main casing. A second elastic seal member is disposed, in a fluid-tight manner, between the pump casing and the main casing. In this condition, the pump casing and the main casing are fixed together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Shibuya I, Satomi Uchiyama, Takanori Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7887307
    Abstract: A circulation pump is provided. The circulation pump has an electric motor with a stator, a rotor and a motor circuit. The electric motor is disposed in a housing which has a first chamber, in which the stator and the rotor are disposed, and a second chamber, which is separate from the first chamber and in which at least one carrier is positioned, on which at least part of the motor circuit is disposed. The first chamber and the second chamber are connected by at least one connection opening, by means of which at least one electrical element of the motor circuit, which is disposed on the at least one carrier, is in thermal contact with the stator in the first chamber. By providing a housing with separate chambers, the stator in the first chamber may be liquid cooled and the second chamber containing the carrier may be air-cooled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Karsten Laing
  • Patent number: 7854599
    Abstract: A circulating pump with an electric motor, which comprises a rotor and a stator, is proposed, the rotor being mounted on a spherical bearing which comprises a sliding body with a convex spherical surface and a bearing bushing with a concave spherical surface and which is fluid-lubricated, in which pump a flow system for passing lubricating fluid through a lubricating region between the sliding body and the bearing bushing is separate from a gap between the stator and the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Oliver Laing
  • Patent number: 7855882
    Abstract: The described embodiments relate to fan units. One exemplary fan unit includes a housing supporting a motor. The fan unit also includes an impeller coupled to the motor and configured to be rotated by the motor. The impeller comprises at least a first structure configured to move air past the housing and at least one second different structure configured to force air into the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: John P. Franz
  • Patent number: 7845917
    Abstract: An electric blower includes a motor having a stator on which field windings are wound, a rotor facing the stator, and a bracket covering the stator and the rotor. The electric blower further includes a fan mounted to a shaft coupled to the rotor, and an air guide having a diffuser provided to the outer circumference of the fan and formed of a plurality of stationary blades adjacent to each other. The electric blower still includes a fan case having openings at its outer circumference for discharging a part of the air having passed the diffuser to the outside, and protrusions having a brim for covering a part of the openings. The foregoing structure allows the air blower to cool the motor with airflow generated by the fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shiro Tateishi, Yasuo Nozaki, Akira Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7836694
    Abstract: A cooling air flow regulating device for controlling the flow of cooling air to an air bearing may comprise a housing with a piston and a spring disposed within. When the pressure of the cooling air is high, the piston is forced out of the path of the cooling air and into an open position. As the pressure of the cooling air decreases, the spring forces the piston back into the path of the cooling air, effectively blocking the flow of cooling air to the air bearing. The cooling air flow regulating device of the present invention may be useful for controlling the cooling of air bearings in turbochargers of turbocharged engine, where at low engine speed, cooling air is not required for air bearings. Methods for using the cooling air flow regulating device of the present invention are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Don Arnold
  • Patent number: 7819639
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling device for a compressor 100 which is provided with an intermediate heat exchanger 112 and an output heat exchanger 102 for cooling of compressed gas. The cooling device is enclosed by a jacket 200. The jacket has an air intake opening 202, connected to a radial fan 105 which provides an overpressure inside the jacket 200. The heat exchangers 102, 112 are mounted in air outlet openings 204, 206 in the jacket, with the result that the overpressure in the jacket 200 leads to cooling of the heat exchangers 102, 112. The jacket further comprises an additional outlet opening 208 for discharge of air used for cooling other elements of the compressor, such as cylinder walls, covers/tops and crankcases. The relationship between the different cooling processes can be influenced by the design of the openings 204, 206, 208 in the jacket 200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Sperre Mek. Verksted AS
    Inventor: Mareno Kennet Nakken
  • Patent number: 7811068
    Abstract: A compressor assembly for use in transporting natural gas is provided. The assembly includes a natural gas compressor comprising at least one stage of compression, a permanent magnet-type super-synchronous motor coupled to the natural gas compressor for powering said compressor, and a housing, the compressor positioned within the housing, and the compressor configured to facilitate increasing a pressure of natural gas being transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Konrad Roman Weeber, Christopher Anthony Kaminski, Yu Wang, James Michael Fogarty, Ralph James Carl, Jr., Charles Michael Stephens
  • Patent number: 7798787
    Abstract: There is provided an internal intermediate pressure multistage compression type rotary compressor capable of reducing a height dimension while reducing the amount of oil to be discharged outside. An electric element and first and second rotary compression elements which are driven by a rotary shaft of the electric element disposed under the electric element are provided in a hermetic shell case. There is provided a refrigerant introduction pipe for introducing refrigerant in the hermetic shell case over the electric element into the second rotary compression element through an outside of the hermetic shell case. There is provided an oil path provided in the rotary shaft for discharging oil through an oil discharge port which is positioned at the upper end of the rotary shaft. The refrigerant introduction pipe is provided such that apart of an inlet of the refrigerant introduction pipe is positioned under the upper end of a stator of the electric element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenzo Matumoto, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kazuya Sato, Masaya Tadano, Satoshi Imai, Akira Sugawara, Takashi Sato
  • Patent number: 7794214
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventor: Kevin Allan Dooley
  • Patent number: 7780405
    Abstract: A blower system, wherein a blower case and a motor holding housing are comprised as separate members, a spiral casing is provided with an enlarged part enlarged in an axial direction to an opposite side from the suction port from a centrifugal type blower fan. The motor holding housing is provided with a holder storing and holding the motor, an extension extending from the holder in a diametrical direction of the fan, a circumferential wall connected with the extension and forming an inner circumferential wall of the enlarged part in the spiral casing. A cooling air passage is provided between the holder and the circumferential wall to guide part of the air circulating inside the spiral casing to the motor. The cooling air passage has an inlet into which air flows from the spiral casing and an outlet at the circumferential wall, out of which air flows to the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori Araki
  • Publication number: 20100209265
    Abstract: Power and control logic configurations for gas well dewatering systems are provided. In one example, a reservoir is configured to contain hydraulic, lubricating fluid. An electric motor is configured to receive fluid from the reservoir for lubrication and a hydraulic pump powered by the electric motor is configured to receive fluid from the reservoir and pump the fluid into a hydraulic circuit. A positive displacement oscillating pump is powered by the hydraulic pump and configured to pump fluid from the reservoir to an outlet from the well. The electric motor and hydraulic pump receive the same fluid from the reservoir for lubrication and to create pressure in the hydraulic circuit, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael A. Dowling, Jason Kamphaus, Harryson Sukianto, Alain P. Dorel, John David Rowatt, Arthur I. Watson
  • Publication number: 20100209264
    Abstract: A fan includes sloping surfaces arranged at an inner peripheral surface of an air channel portion that are shaped such that an air passage is enlarged in a cross sectional area in a direction normal or substantially normal to a central axis. The inner peripheral surface of the air channel portion also includes a straight surface at which area the distance between the central axis and the inner peripheral surface of the air channel portion his substantially constant. Also, the straight surface of the air channel portion includes a plurality of slits each penetrating the air channel portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Takemoto, Yuichiro Yokoyama, Shinya Kaneoya
  • Publication number: 20100183461
    Abstract: An improved booster for use in piped fluid systems includes a motor, a fan wheel and a hermetically sealed tank assembly. Fluids enter the tank assembly through an inlet and are compressed within the tank assembly by a rotating fan wheel, before leaving the tank assembly through an outlet, which may be aligned in a plurality of angular configurations. The motor is powered by a versatile electrical connection which enters the tank assembly through a connector that maintains the hermetically sealed condition in the tank assembly, and can accommodate power of any voltage or frequency. The incremental pressure gain provided by the booster may be controlled by modifying the speed of the rotating fan wheel, and a sled assembly provides structural support and positional alignment for portions of the tank assembly when the booster system is opened for access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: ETTER Engineering Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas M. Etter, Jon G. Moore, Patrick M. Hale
  • Patent number: 7758320
    Abstract: A two-stage pump having an internal fluid pathway or cycle for providing cooling to various parts in the pump, such as, an electric motor in the pump, and also for lubricating at least one or a plurality of bearings in the pump. The pump utilized hydrodynamic bearings that are adapted or configured to provide various passageways, channels and the like for using the fluid that is being pumped by the pump as lubrication for at least one or a plurality of bearings in the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Tank, Inc.
    Inventors: Hoa Dao Pham, Joseph Howard McCarthy, Jay Timothy Clementz, Philip Stahl
  • Publication number: 20100172770
    Abstract: An object is to provide a highly reliable vehicle-air-conditioner electric compressor of an inverter-integrated type that minimizes vibration and deformation of a board and a bus bar caused by vibration of a vehicle so as to prevent devices from becoming detached, to prevent soldered sections and welded sections from rupturing, and to prevent short circuits from occurring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Ichise, Takayuki Watanabe, Takeshi Hirano, Akinori Yoshioka