Including Additional Means For Motivating Fluid Flow To Or From Motor (e.g., Auxiliary Pump, Pump Fluid Induced Flow Path, Etc.) Patents (Class 417/368)
  • Patent number: 5825108
    Abstract: The motor comprises a rotor (30) fixed for rotation with a shaft (36) of a member to be driven and a crown-like stator (10) obtained by blanking a lamination stack (12) provided with coil supporting teeth (11). Within the stator crown (10) there are obtained by blanking the lamination stack (12) a plurality of receptacles (13, 15, 17) for seating electric and electronic components associated with the stator. The components comprise a transformer (24), an inductance coil (25), and a plurality of MOSs (23). The stator crown (10) is co-molded with a covering of electrically insulating plastic material to cover the receptacles (13, 15, 17) and the teeth (11) and form a tank (22) for receiving a printed circuit (21). The permanent magnet rotor is fitted with stacks of small pieces (19) obtained by blanking lamination portions within the stator crown (10). The stacks of small pieces face the magnets (31) so as to close the respective magnetic circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Bitron S.p.A.
    Inventor: Pietro De Filippis
  • Patent number: 5772411
    Abstract: The flow, use, interaction and separation of lubricant and gas flowing through the suction pressure portion of a low-side refrigeration scroll compressor is managed by the use of a drive motor mounting sleeve and a multi-ported frame. The mounting sleeve and frame provide for the direction of oil to surfaces within the low side of the compressor shell which require lubrication as well as the conduct of suction gas to the scroll compression mechanism in a manner which cools the compressor drive motor yet which maintains the respective flows of oil and suction gas sufficiently separate to ensure that excessive amounts of oil are not conducted out of the compressor in the gas which is compressed thereby. Lubrication is enhanced by the use of a vent passage which opens into a relatively lower pressure region within the suction pressure portion of the compressor shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: American Standard Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel R. Crum, Bill P. Simmons, Arlo F. Teegarden, Jerry A. Rood, Peter A. Kotlarek
  • Patent number: 5741124
    Abstract: In order to protect a user from receiving an electric shock, an electric motor driven high pressure water pump system having an electric motor, a pump associated with the electric motor via of a direct drive shaft, and a fan housing wherein the electric motor driven high pressure pump includes a first insulator surrounding the direct drive shaft and electrically isolating the drive shaft and pump housing, from the electric motor and at least one insulator ring, dividing the electric motor stator from the pump housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1998
    Assignee: Officine Meccaniche FAIP S.r.l.
    Inventors: Roberto Mazzucato, Carlo A. Cuneo, Gus Alexander
  • Patent number: 5714819
    Abstract: A fan end bracket for a motorized fan assembly has a plurality of curvilinear tapered air passages. Each air passage includes a flow port, such that air being moved by a rotating fan assembly is directed through the air passages and the flow ports. A skeletal motor assembly is affixed to one side of the end bracket such that the motor shaft is disposed through a shaft aperture in the end bracket. A rotating fan member is affixed to the motor shaft adjacent to the other side of the end bracket. A shroud member is provided to shroud the rotating fan member so as to cause the flow of air to be directed through the air passages. A baffle plate is interposed between the rotating fan member and the end bracket. The baffle plate includes a plurality of curvilinear scallops which correspond to the air passages in the end bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: Ametek, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L. Gilliland, Robert A. Ciccarelli, James P. Shawcross
  • Patent number: 5678988
    Abstract: A gas premix burner in which gas and air are mixed in a suction region of an impeller to form a combustion mixture. The impeller is associated with a blower housing and an electronic control circuit board, all of which are arranged upstream in a blower chamber having at least one time separating wall. The arrangement prevents the gas and the combustion mixture from reaching the motor landings or the primed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Assignee: Papst-Motoren GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Amrhein, Fritz Schmider
  • Patent number: 5533875
    Abstract: The flow, use, interaction and separation of lubricant and gas flowing through the suction pressure portion of a low-side refrigeration scroll compressor is managed by the use of a drive motor mounting sleeve (46) and a multi-ported frame (40). The mounting sleeve and frame provide for the direction of oil to surfaces within the low side of the compressor shell which require lubrication as well as the conduct of suction gas to the scroll compression mechanism in a manner which cools the compressor drive motor yet which maintains the respective flows of oil and suction gas sufficiently separate to ensure that excessive amounts of oil are not conducted out of the compressor in the gas which is compressed thereby. Lubrication is enhanced by the use of a vent passage (68) which opens into a relatively lower pressure region within the suction pressure portion of the compressor shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: American Standard Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel R. Crum, Bill P. Simmons, Arlo F. Teegarden, Jerry A. Rood, Peter A. Kotlarek
  • Patent number: 5499908
    Abstract: An energy efficient hermetic compressor for compressing hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants. The compressor includes a motor compressor unit with a rotating oil pickup tube to which an oil paddle is attached. The oil paddle rotates in a base lubricant of polyol ester mixed with a siloxane ester foaming agent. The combination of the foaming additive with the oil paddle creates a foam layer that floats in the oil sump to reduce the sound level of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1996
    Assignee: Tecumseh Products Company
    Inventor: Raymond J. Schmitz, III
  • Patent number: 5494413
    Abstract: A fluid pump powered by an integral canned motor includes a housing having a cylindrical passage extending therethrough. A sealed annular stator is mounted around the housing. An impeller assembly is rotatably mounted in the passage in the housing. The impeller assembly includes an axial flow impeller and a sealed rotor mounted around the periphery of the impeller. Bearings, including thrust bearings, are mounted between the periphery of the impeller assembly and the housing. A radial flow auxiliary impeller may be mounted on the impeller assembly to create a radial flow of water from the cylindrical passage in the housing to a peripheral fluid circulation channel between the impeller assembly and the housing. The auxiliary flow impeller pressurizes the peripheral fluid circulation channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1996
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Clifford H. Campen, Luciano Veronesi, James A. Drake, Leonard S. Jenkins, Joseph M. Kujawski
  • Patent number: 5464332
    Abstract: A hermetically sealed compressor has a fan for cooling the motor of the compressor. The compressor utilizes the refrigerant vapor inside the hermetic shell to cool the motor. The fan is attached to the end of the motor rotor and crankshaft to circulate the suction gas of the compressor around and through the motor rotor and motor stator to absorb heat and then directs the suction gas against the hermetic shell in a spiralling motion for transferring heat to the shell which in turn transfers heat to the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Assignee: Copeland Corporation
    Inventors: Norman G. Beck, Frank S. Wallis, Gary A. Holthaus
  • Patent number: 5445504
    Abstract: A sealed compressor for use in an air conditioner or a refrigerator. The sealed compressor has an electrically driving portion which includes a rotor having a dust reservoir for collecting and storing dust or the like, which reservoir is formed in the central part of the rotor. Further, the dust reservoir is connected to a through hole, in which lubricating oil flows, of a driving shaft through a horizontal hole. Thus, dust contained in lubricating oil are moved outward by centrifugal force. Further, when dust enter the dust reservoir, such dusts are stored therein. Furthermore, the stored dust cannot get out of the dust reservoir. As the result, dust contained in the lubricating oil can be prevented from getting into the sliding portion. Moreover, the sliding portion can be prevented from being damaged by dust contained in the lubricating oil. Consequently, a sealed compressor with high reliability can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Iwamura, Shigeru Muramatsu, Sadayuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 5375651
    Abstract: A draft inducer blower motor mounting and cooling construction comprising an electric motor including a housing having openings therein and a rotor mounted on a shaft, a fan blade fixed on the shaft and interposed between the motor and the draft inducer blower, and a heat shield interposed between the motor housing and the fan blade. The heat shield is fastened to the electric motor and to the housing of the inducer blower and has portions spaced from the blower housing. The heat shield further preferably includes a portion surrounding at least a part of the motor housing such that rotation of the fan blade draws cooling air through the electrical motor and about the housing of the electric motor and thereafter radially outwardly between the heat shield and the inducer blower housing to cool the electric motor and the shaft end bearing nearest the inducer housing. In another form, the portion surrounding the motor may be eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Magnetek Universal Electric
    Inventor: Robert A. Colwell
  • Patent number: 5338162
    Abstract: A high-pressure cleaner includes a pump for pumping cleaning liquid, the drive mechanism of which pump is driven by an air-cooled motor. The cleaner also includes an air cooler adapted to be cooled by the cleaning liquid on its way to the pump and an air-circulating arrangement for circulating air between the motor and the air cooler in an enclosure containing the motor and the air cooler. The part of the air cooler through which the cleaning liquid flows is in intimate thermal contact with or integral with a housing containing the drive mechanism of the pump. With this arrangement, the cooling capacity of the cleaning liquid flowing towards the pump is also used for cooling the mechanism used for moving the pump's pistons, e.g., a swash-plate mechanism or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1994
    Assignee: K.E.W. Industri A/S
    Inventor: Karsten Krarup
  • Patent number: 5322420
    Abstract: In a horizontal rotary compressor the gas passes from the discharge chamber and enters the eccentric shaft bore by passing through an annular space defined between the inlet of the eccentric shaft bore and the discharge end of the oil pickup tube. As a result, a jet pump is created delivering oil from the sump to the axial bore of eccentric shaft bore. Because the eccentric shaft is rotating, oil tends to collect on the walls of the bore and feeds radial lubrication passages which act as centrifugal pumps with the shaft rotating. The discharge flow passing through the eccentric shaft bore impinges upon the shell cover thereby diverting 180.degree. and passes through the annular space between the rotor and stator before being discharged from the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1994
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventor: Donald Yannascoli
  • Patent number: 5308229
    Abstract: Pump apparatus having a wear end and a pump end is provided with means for preventing liquid being pumped from entering the wear end. An internal pump is positioned between the wear end and the pump end of sealless pumps to direct small quantities of gas from the wear end to the pump end at a pressure which prevents liquid in the pump end to pass into the wear end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1994
    Assignee: PMC Liquiflo Equipment Company
    Inventors: Francis A. DuPuis, Ali M. Nasr
  • Patent number: 5288213
    Abstract: Pump apparatus having a wear end and a pump end is provided with means for preventing fluid being pumped from entering the wear end. An internal pump is positioned between the wear end and the pump end of sealless pumps to direct small quantities of fluid from the wear end to the pump end at a pressure which prevents fluid in the pump end to pass into the wear end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1994
    Assignee: PMC Liquiflo Equipment Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Ali M. Nasr
  • Patent number: 5252039
    Abstract: An enclosed motor-driven compressor includes a vertical crankshaft rotatably supported by two ball bearings and having an eccentric portion through which a motor element and a compressor element are operatively connected. The two ball bearings are disposed on opposite sides of the eccentric portion so that a reaction force of a piston which is exerted on the eccentric portion is supported evenly by the ball bearings. With the ball bearings thus arranged, the load on the crankshaft is lowered and the efficiency of the motor element is increased. A lubricating oil held at the bottom of a container is sucked through an internal groove of the crankshaft and then supplied from outlets to the respective ball bearings. The ball bearings thus lubricated have a prolonged service life. The compressor may have an oil sump disposed either above or below the ball bearing for improving lubricating condition of the ball bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1993
    Assignee: Matsushita Refrigeration Co.
    Inventors: Masao Mangyo, Hideki Kawai, Satoshi Wada, Masahiko Osaka
  • Patent number: 5249645
    Abstract: A pressure fluid actuated lubricator having a housing (46), a pressure fluid channel (43, 42, 21) leading from an inlet opening (2) to an outlet opening (7), a reservoir (44) for a lubricant and a discharge device (19) for the lubricant. The reservoir (44) is arranged to be movable by being acted on by the pressure fluid and transfers the pressure force to the lubricant and the discharge device (19). The reservoir is sealed against the penetration of pressure fluid and decreases in effective volume in proportion to the discharged amount of lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Inventor: Henry W. Wiklund
  • Patent number: 5232351
    Abstract: A compressor assembly including a crankshaft with an axial oil passageway therein. An oil pump booster is mounted on the crankshaft to increase the oil flow rate through the axial oil passage. The oil pump booster includes a counterweight and an enclosed channel extending in the radial direction communicating with the axial passageway of the crankshaft. During rotation of the compressor crankshaft, the radial oil channel is likewise rotated creating a centrifugal force or reduced pressure area to increase the oil flow through the axial passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignee: Tecumseh Products Company
    Inventors: Kenneth D. Robertson, Daniel J. Hadesh, Robert A. Lindstrom
  • Patent number: 5217353
    Abstract: The fan includes a bladed, centrifugal fan wheel and an electric motor with an external rotor which is foxed torsionally to the fan wheel. The motor includes a casing constituted by a stationary part with holes for taking in air from outside for ventilating the interior of the motor and a rotary part with holes which act as outlet ducts for the internal ventilation air. The cross-sections of the ducts decrease in the direction of the air-flow and open into the outside atmosphere in regions over which the air-flow induced by the fan wheel passes in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1993
    Assignee: Industrie Magneti Marelli SpA
    Inventor: Pietro De Filippis
  • Patent number: 5201638
    Abstract: To permit at least partial disassembly of a drive motor (2) from a coupled pump system (3) to provide high hydraulic pressure, and separate portability of the motor element and the pump element, a cart, with wheels (4), is provided with a horizontally transversely extending mounting plate (28) on which the motor (22) can seat, with its motor shaft (27) extending vertically. The pump unit (3), which can be formed of two or more high-pressure hydraulic pumps and include a cooling water circulating pump (14), has a vertically extending pump shaft (56). The motor shaft and the pump shaft extend through the mounting plate, and a transmission, preferably a belt transmission, is located below the mounting plate. The belt transmission may include a drive pulley which is hollow in the middle, and formed with an internal gear (33) which engages an external, axially curved gear (14') on the motor drive shaft, to form a separable coupling. The motor can be lifted off the cart, and transported separately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1993
    Assignee: Hydrostress AG
    Inventor: Hans Bieri
  • Patent number: 5176506
    Abstract: An improved lubrication system for a refrigeration compressor is disclosed which lubrication system incorporates filtering arrangement for filtering lubricant supplied to a two stage lubricant pump and unique venting arrangement for venting gaseous refrigerant entrained within the lubricant. The two stage pump incorporates a vent passage in the first stage portion thereof which aids in avoiding a possible interruption of lubricant flow due to gaseous refrigerant within the first stage. A second radially extending restricted vent passage is provided in the drive shaft intermediate the ends thereof which is also designed to vent gaseous refrigerant while resisting the flow of lubricant therethrough so as to avoid priming thereof which could enable the passage to begin pumping lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1993
    Assignee: Copeland Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen M. Siebel
  • Patent number: 5168960
    Abstract: A bearing cap for the gas compressor of a compressor unit in which oil is normally entrained with the refrigerant gas and recirculated therewith, the cap being adapted for mounting on the compressor block in substantial axial alignment with a crankshaft mounted therein, the cap body having a cavity therein formed by a wall providing both axial and lateral shoulders or bearings for containing the sump end portion of the crankshaft, a shelf on the body extending generally laterally outwardly therefrom and having a face oriented generally transverse to the axis of the cavity, pockets formed in the face and adapted to catch and retain sediment, and one or more ports extending from the face through the shelf and adapted to drain oil from the crankcase to the sump of a compressor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Assignee: Bristol Compressors
    Inventor: Michael A. DiFlora
  • Patent number: 5144815
    Abstract: A temperature control system and a thermal valve for said system composed of a housing having a gas inlet port connected to the refrigerant return line and a gas outlet port disposed in a compressor interior. A helical thermostat metal coil is fixed within and at one end of the housing, the other end of the coil being free to rotate with change in temperature. The thermostat metal for the coil is preferably chosen so that no movement thereof takes place until some predetermined temperature is reached, at which temperature rotation of the free coil end commences. The free coil end, either along or in conjunction with a baffle or the like, normally blocks the gas inlet port and prevents refrigerant gas from entering the housing and passing therethrough onto the compressor motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1992
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Henry Ty, Richard J. Lisauskas, Matthew L. Behler, Narendra R. Zaveri
  • Patent number: 5137434
    Abstract: An improved oilless air compressor which is driven by a high speed universal motor. A sprocket and belt driven pulley are arranged to reduce the compressor speed. A motor driven fan and baffles are provided to direct cooling air in predetermined sequences over the motor and compressor components to increase the operating life of the compressor components, to optimize the compressor efficiency and to reduce the temperature of the compressed air output. The compressor is provided with improved intake and exhaust valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1992
    Assignee: DeVilbiss Air Power Company
    Inventors: Roger D. Wheeler, Mark W. Wood
  • Patent number: 5088579
    Abstract: An oil pickup structure of a compressor is constituted by a lubricant supplying apparatus of the tube type placed somewhat slantly at the end of the crank shaft, in which the tube has the cross-section with the same size throughout its over all length, at least one means for separating the refrigerating gas from the tube and discharging therefrom, and a projecting member mounted at the middle portion of the tube with being spaced away from said gas separating/discharging means so as to reduce the noise by the lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki M. Kim, Gyu D. Kim
  • Patent number: 5074467
    Abstract: There is provided a high volume low pressure spray painting system, control therefor, and method of operation therefor. The high volume low pressure spray painting system includes an electrically powered blower motor with a cooling fan, an high volume low pressure blower fan driven by the blower motor, an air conduit connecting the outlet of the blower fan to a spray gun adapted to atomize liquid paint with the high volume low pressure air delivered by the blower fan, and a valve in the spray gun actuated by a trigger for controlling the high volume low pressure air delivered by the blower fan. The control for the spray painting system includes a second valve arranged downstream from the blower fan outlet biased to a normally closed position which checks the flow of high volume low pressure air delivered by the blower fan when the valve in the spray gun is closed and simultaneously with the closing of the second valve the speed of the blower motor is reduced to idle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1991
    Inventor: John D. Geberth
  • Patent number: 5064342
    Abstract: In an in-tank type motor-operated pump, a pair of electric-noise suppressors (20) are contained in a pair of holes (22e) formed in a bracket (22) which holds brushes (4) and a rotor shaft (5), thereby incorporating the electric-noise suppressors in a body of the pump with the shortest connection wirings and without substantial increase of overall volume of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1991
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shingo Iwai
  • Patent number: 5064356
    Abstract: A refrigeration motor compressor assembly has a housing including a lubricant sump in the bottom thereof into which the lower end of the drive shaft and associated rotor extend. A shield is provided which is supported on and positioned by the drive shaft in underlying spaced relationship to the lower end of the rotor and associated counterweight. As the rotor rotates, lubricant disposed between the shield and rotor therein is thrown outwardly across the end turns of the stator thus serving to cool same. The shield serves to restrict the return flow of oil to the area immediately below the rotor thus reducing the viscous drag on the motor yet still allowing sufficient circulation of oil to achieve the desired cooling of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1991
    Assignee: Copeland Corporation
    Inventor: James F. Horn
  • Patent number: 5058557
    Abstract: An apparatus for delivery of fuel from a storage tank to an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle includes a pot-shaped container secured in the storage tank and a pump for delivery fluid from the storage tank into the container. An electric motor drives the pump. A second pump driven by the same electric motor delivers fluid from the container to the internal combustion engine. The second pump is located with the electric motor in a common housing. A pumping chamber is formed at an outer side of the bottom of the container, and the first mentioned pump has a delivery member located in the pumping chamber and driven by this electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1991
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Kurt Frank, Hermann Nusser, Willi Strohl
  • Patent number: 5044896
    Abstract: A split tube centrifugal pump comprises a pump casing divided into a pump space and a motor space, an impeller driving a conveying fluid in the pump casing, a vertically disposed shaft in the casing, the shaft being hollow and including an axial channel therein, a rotor including a channel therein, and a partition separating the pump space from the motor space. The partition includes a first aperture through which the shaft passes and a second aperture. The conveying fluid circulates between the pump space and the motor space in a circuit comprising the first aperture in the partition, the channel in the rotor, and the channel in the shaft. In a particularly preferred embodiment of the invention, the split tube centrifugal pump further comprises a filter disposed upstream or downstream of the first aperture in the partition, and a slide ring sealing associated with the second aperture and through which the vertical shaft passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Assignee: Wilo-Werk GmbH & Co. Pumpen - und Apparatebau
    Inventor: Albert Genster
  • Patent number: 5039285
    Abstract: The present invention is an improved lubrication system for a connecting rod, wrist pin, and piston of a compressor. An oil pump pumps lubricating oil upwardly within an axial bore of the crankshaft, which includes a radial passageway in alignment with the connecting rod. The connecting rod includes ports which direct pulses of oil onto the inner surfaces of the piston. The ports are separated by barrier segments to allow local oil pressure to build between the sequential alignments of the passageway and a port. Thus, pulses of oil are accurately sprayed onto the piston inner surfaces without substantially diminishing the lubrication of the journal bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1991
    Assignee: Tecumseh Products Company
    Inventor: Robert A. Lindstrom
  • Patent number: 5038891
    Abstract: A refrigeration compressor is disclosed which incorporates an improved lubrication system to insure adequate lubrication to all bearings via a single elongated axial offset passage provided in the crankshaft. The lubrication system also incorporates a passage arrangement which serves to vent any refrigerant gases which may be encountered as well as to prevent priming of the vent passage which could result in transfer of lubricant into the motor compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1991
    Assignee: Copeland Corporation
    Inventor: Frank S. Wallis
  • Patent number: 5007808
    Abstract: A hermetic vertical shaft compressor for refrigeration or air conditioning uses a single-stage centrifugal pump formed in the rotor assembly to lubricate bearing surfaces. Oil is picked up from a sump at the base of the rotor, and is thrown into an annulus in the rotor. From here the oil proceeds up axial slots formed in the rotor laminations to an upper annulus, where it feeds lubrication channels in the upper bearing. The shaft has a reduced diameter thereby reducing material costs and reducing hystersis and eddy current losses, while achieving increased pumping capacity and pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1991
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Howard H. Fraser, Jr., Mark P. Weldon
  • Patent number: 4958988
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1990
    Assignee: Ormat Turbines, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mordechai Regev
  • Patent number: 4936112
    Abstract: A rotary vane gas compressor e.g. for use in refrigeration is driven by an electric motor which is cooled by a refrigerant liquid passed through a heat exchanger which is attached to the external surface of the stator of the motor. The refrigerant is then passed back into the compression chamber of the gas compressor via a port intermediate between the inlet and outlet ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1990
    Assignee: Rotocold Limited
    Inventor: Alan S. Miller
  • Patent number: 4932848
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pump unit comprising a liquid filled electric motor with a house and with a vertical driving shaft extending downwards, a pump comprising a pump house, and a pump portion which is connected with a driving shaft, and a chamber around said driving shaft, between the motor and the pump with a mechanical packing between motor and chamber. The pump unit is characterized by the fact that the motor house and the pump house are combined to a press shell which is closed to the ouside. The chamber has a pressure equalizing connection with a first place in the pump. The liquid filled motor house has a pressure equalizing connection with a second place in the said pump where the pressure is higher than at said first place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: Kvaerner-Eureka A/S
    Inventor: Jan S. Christensen
  • Patent number: 4921408
    Abstract: A silencing system is provided for an air-operated pump which also eliminates icing of the pump at higher cycle rates and humidities. The exhaust from the air motor powers an air flow inducer to induce a flow of relatively warm ambient air. The induced flow of ambient air is drawn across cold components of the air motor, and the mixed (ambient and exhaust air) exit stream routed away from the air motor. The relatively warm mixed air exhaust flow also allows noise reduction by conventional acoustical techniques without suffering performance degradation due to icing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1990
    Assignee: Graco Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Kvinge, Frederick A. Powers, Kenneth E. Lehrke
  • Patent number: 4907951
    Abstract: A pick-up tube for removing foreign particles from the lubricant supplied to hermetic motor-compressors of the type including an outer housing, a lubricant sump in the bottom of the housing, and a rotatable shaft vertically disposed in said housing is provided. The pick-up tube includes an annular groove disposed circumferentially around the pick-up tube, wherein foreign particles found in the lubricant are deposited in the groove as the particles move up the pick-up tube as a result of the centrifugal force created by the rotating of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1990
    Assignee: Tecumseh Products Company
    Inventor: Ronald R. Wisner
  • Patent number: 4869641
    Abstract: A compressor driven by a motor delivers air under pressure to a plurality of paint spray guns. An air circulation fan is incorporated with the motor to cool the apparatus during operation. The compressor shaft includes bearings on each end and the bearing on the lower end is physically separated from the lower end of the compressor to prevent oil contamination of the air being discharged. A pump is associated with the separated bearing which delivers oil to lubricate the bearing when the compressor is in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1989
    Assignee: AccuSpray, Inc.
    Inventor: John W. Hufgard
  • Patent number: 4865527
    Abstract: Improved lubrication of sealed compressors having a crankshaft provided with a longitudinal interior duct and a tubular member coupled to a lower end of the interior duct and having a substantially cylindrical upper section and a substantially conical lower section adapted to be submerged in oil. An upper end of the internal lubrication duct ends in a first substantially conical section and a second substantially cylindrical section of variable contour depending upon the profile of the upper end of the crankshaft. A spring may also be situated inside of the tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Inventors: Daniel A. Piera, Juan J. A. Gomez
  • Patent number: 4865522
    Abstract: A fuel feed device having a first pump assembled with an electric motor in a sheet-metal shell to form a self-contained unit. The drive shaft of the motor projects from the unit and is drivingly connected to an impeller of a second pump whose housing surrounds the impeller. The housing of the second pump surrounds part of the self-contained unit and a sleeve is pushed over the self-contained unit with clearance therebetween and is connected at its lower end to the second pump housing and forms a seal with the self-contained unit by a holding ring and an elastic membrane. The device is easily adapted to casings of the first pump of any form and shape and to requirements, such as changes in filter size, mounting in the fuel tank, and for different types of second pumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: Pierburg GmbH
    Inventor: Bernhard Radermacher
  • Patent number: 4850819
    Abstract: A pair of thrust washers support the lower end of a crankshaft for rotation in a bearing in a hermetic refrigerant motor compressor and also provide a combination of oil passages for supplying lubricating oil to a pump in a crankshaft and from the pump to the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: Copeland Corporation
    Inventors: James W. Bush, James F. Fogt
  • Patent number: 4836755
    Abstract: In a low capacity compressor, the shaft (20) of the drive motor carries a fan wheel (42) including a crank pin (46) formed integral therewith. The lower end of a connecting rod (62) is journalled on the crank pin (46). The portion of the fan wheel (42) opposing the crank pin (46) is formed with an arc shaped balancing rib (82) having an angular extension of 180.degree.. Precise balancing of the piston/fan wheel unit is obtained by cutting material from the initially oversized balancing rib (82) and/or cutting from the portion of the fan wheel (42) being opposed to the balancing rib (82) so that a balancing groove (102) is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1989
    Assignee: Durr Dental GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Klaus D. Nitsche, Johann P. Zsiga
  • Patent number: 4822254
    Abstract: A pumping arrangement includes an electric motor which has an output shaft having a shaft portion that projects out of the stator of the motor, a crankcase which surrounds the shaft portion and includes an outwardly projecting piston component that is stationary with respect to the motor stator, a cylinder component which is arranged around the piston component, an eccentric element which is mounted on the shaft portion for rotation therewith, an annular force-transmitting element which surrounds the eccentric element, and two connecting units which connect the cylinder component with the force-transmitting element at the opposite sides of the piston component and cause the cylinder component to perform a reciprocating and oscillating movement on the piston component as the force-transmitting element is moved eccentrically with respect to the longitudinal axis of the output shaft by the eccentric element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Assignee: TI Pneumotive, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter F. Prien, Meredith W. Meece, John H. Bolthouse, II
  • Patent number: 4812108
    Abstract: A 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 device provided 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 magnet pump being characterized in that the bearing device is formed at an intermediate portion thereof with lubricant supply channels, the partition wall having bores opposed to the rear plate of the impeller for guiding the liquid within the front casing into the rear casing therethrough, the rear casing having a supply bore for supplying a lubricant from outside into the rear casing therethrough, guide blades for guiding the liquid from the rear casing into the channels of the bearing device being provided on at
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Assignee: Seikow Chemical Engineering & Machinery Ltd.
    Inventor: Masayuki Kotera
  • Patent number: 4743176
    Abstract: A compressor assembly including an electric motor and a compressor crankcase. The compressor crankcase includes a suction inlet. A motor casing is secured to the crankcase. The suction inlet is connected by means of a first passage to the interior of the motor casing. A baffle located in the motor casing causes a portion of the inflowing refrigerant suction gas to be diverted to flow over and cool the rear windings of the motor. The remainder of the inflowing gas is caused to flow over and cool the front windings of the motor. After flowing over the windings, the two portions of the suction gas are recombined and the suction gas is then caused to flow out of the motor casing to the compressor cylinder suction inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1988
    Assignee: Tecumseh Products Company
    Inventor: Emanuel D. Fry
  • Patent number: 4741177
    Abstract: In coolant systems oil mixed with the coolant is often removed in a separate oil separator on the high-pressure side of the compressor. In order to obtain a compact design in a coolant system comprising a unit including an oil-injection rotary compressor, a pressure-gas cooled driven motor and an oil separator, the oil separator is applied directly to the drive motor connected to the rotary compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1988
    Assignee: Stal Refrigeration AB
    Inventor: Rune V. Glanvall
  • Patent number: 4652218
    Abstract: A canned motor pump is adapted for use at high temperatures and enables generated heat from the motor to be absorbed in a treating fluid or liquid upon circulation through the motor thereby conserving heat values in the treating fluid or liquid. The canned motor pump can circulate high temperature treating fluids, or liquids through the canned motor portion without damaging the coils of the motor because of a ceramic-like high temperature insulation used for the electrical field windings, which insulation is provided by mixing a silicone resin, synthetic fluoro-mica and a devitrified mica glass and impregnating the electrical winding coils with such material, whereafter the material is cured and then subjected to an elevated temperature above 300.degree. C. to form the ceramic-like insulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1987
    Assignee: Nikkiso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Tsutsui, Hiroshi Ohki
  • Patent number: 4621991
    Abstract: A by-pass vacuum motor assembly wherein the motor cooling fan is positioned in an opening at the bottom of the motor band and immediately above a flat plate portion of the fan housing bracket. The flat plate portion functions as a plate diffuser, redirecting air drawn through the commutator end bracket and across the motor internals into a radial exhaust between a bottom portion of the band and a top portion of the fan end bracket. The invention also includes a brush holder clip passing through a vertical opening in the commutator end bracket and engaging a collar on the brush mechanism. The brush mechanism passes through a horizontal opening in the commutator end bracket which intersects with the vertical opening. Armature grounding is achieved by a disk maintained in a recess in the commutator end bracket and urged by a spring against the bearing receiving the motor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1986
    Assignee: Ametek, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis E. Smith, Robert L. Hyatt, Leonard J. Kline, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4616980
    Abstract: A canned motor pump pressurized recirculation system which comprises a main unit and a recirculation line. The main unit includes a main pump, an auxiliary pump and motor means positioned between the main and the auxiliary pumps for driving the pumps. The recirculation line is positioned external of the main unit, and is connected thereto between the pumps. The recirculation line is adapted to pass fluid therethrough such that the fluid will be passed by the auxiliary pump through the motor means to the high pressure portion of the main pump. The auxiliary impeller is adapted for easy replacement by impellers of various sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1986
    Assignee: Crane Co.
    Inventor: Richard G. Carpenter