Recirculated Through Pump Patents (Class 417/370)
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Patent number: 10859098Abstract: The present invention provides a drive device including a drive motor. The drive motor includes an end cover, a motor housing, a stator, a rotor, a motor shaft, and a bearing. The drive motor further includes a casing and a first heat-dissipating fan used for dissipating heat for the motor housing. The casing is fixedly mounted on a side of the end cover to contain the motor housing into a chamber formed by the casing. The casing and the motor housing are spaced apart at certain intervals to form a gap between the casing and the motor housing for air flow to pass through. The first heat-dissipating fan is connected to the end of the motor shaft away from the end cover to rotate with the motor shaft. The casing is provided with an air inlet and an air outlet for air flow to pass through.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: Zhejiang Dongxin iTechnology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fengping Zhou, Xinjiang Zhou, Guoyao Wu, Xiaoke Zhou, Dong Chen
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Patent number: 10788051Abstract: The present invention provides an electric water pump including a drive motor. The drive motor includes a cylinder-shaped motor housing, a stator, a rotor, a motor shaft, and an end cover. The motor housing is fixedly mounted on a side of the end cover. The side of the end cover is also fixedly provided with a cylinder-shaped casing, wherein the motor housing is positioned in the casing. A central axis line of the motor housing coincides with a central axis line of the casing. Another side of the end cover is provided with a pump body having a chamber. An end of the motor shaft away from the end cover is fixedly provided with a heat-dissipating fan, an end of the casing close to the end cover is provided with a first air inlet, and a rear end away from the casing is provided with a first air outlet.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Zhejiang Dongxin iTechnology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Guoyao Wu, Xiaoke Zhou, Xinjiang Zhou, Fengping Zhou, Dong Chen
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Patent number: 10763723Abstract: A motor for a driving device includes: a rotor rotatable around a central axis, a stator facing the rotor, a busbar electrically connected to the stator, a busbar support to hold the busbar, a terminal bar including a first end electrically connected to the busbar, the terminal bar including a connection terminal at a second end and that is to be electrically connected to the driving device, and a seal to be attached to the driving device and located between the busbar and the connection terminal. The seal portion includes a through-hole into which the terminal bar is press-fitted.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignees: NIDEC CORPORATION, ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH, ZF AUTOMOTIVE UK LIMITEDInventors: Hiroshi Sambuichi, Nakaba Kataoka, Jochen Scherbart, Guy Healey
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Patent number: 10619628Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel pump (1) which comprises a pump housing (2), a delivery element (3) for delivering fuel, a heat-generating actuator (4) for actuating the delivery element (3), a first fuel path (5) which leads from an inlet (20) to a delivery space (7), and a second fuel path (6) which leads from the inlet (20) past the heat-generating actuator (4) to a first housing opening (21), wherein the first housing opening (21) is arranged above the inlet (20) in the vertical direction (V). The present invention also relates to a fuel pump arrangement which comprises a fuel pump (1) according to the invention and a fuel tank (10) in which the fuel pump (1) is at least partially and preferably entirely arranged. The present invention also relates to a method for operating a fuel pump (1).Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2015Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbhInventors: Andreas Plisch, Frank Nitsche, Joerg Heyse, Siamend Flo, Thorsten Allgeier, Walter Maeurer, Tim Reule
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Patent number: 10443438Abstract: A turbopump machine includes a housing, a shaft rotatably supported in the housing on a set of bearings, an axial pump coupled with the shaft, a circumferential discharge volute fluidly coupled with the axial pump, and a turbine coupled with the shaft. The turbine includes a blade row disposed in an axial turbine flowpath that has an axial turbine flowpath discharge that is fluidly coupled with the circumferential discharge volute. A cooling passage is disposed between the housing and the shaft about the set of bearings. The cooling passage has a cooling passage discharge that is fluidly coupled with the circumferential discharge volute. The cooling passage discharge is adjacent the axial turbine flowpath discharge. A seal isolates the cooling passage discharge from the axial turbine flowpath discharge.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: AEROJET ROCKETDYNE, INC.Inventors: Khin Phui, Thaddeus Chilcoat
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Patent number: 10260507Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a pump assembly including a pump chamber with an inlet and an outlet. The pump assembly also includes a first cup at least partially enclosing the pump chamber and including a protrusion with a central recess, and a shaft positioned within the central recess. The pump assembly further includes a substantially hemispherical rotor unit with at least one ferrous metal element molded in plastic, and an impeller coupled to the rotor unit. The rotor unit and the impeller are positioned inside the first cup and rotatable around the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2012Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Moog Inc.Inventor: Ronald Flanary
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Patent number: 9909593Abstract: A method of de-watering during intermittent dry running periods with a self-priming centrifugal pump is presented. Centrifugal pumps, as opposed to diaphragm pumps, are advantageous because they are less expensive and can provide greater capacity. The shaft seals are sensitive, however, to frictional heating when water flow is interrupted. In some situations, this fractional heating may desiccate self-priming. The inventive concept provides a continuous stream of pressurized water moving through the pump to cool the seal and sustain priming capability without substantially impairing the ability of the pump to resume wet operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2012Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Inventor: David Douglas Dieziger
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Patent number: 9777739Abstract: A rotation shaft supporting structure for an electric supercharger includes a rotation shaft that supports a compressor wheel, an electric motor including a motor rotator securely installed to the rotation shaft, and a stator for applying torque to the motor rotator. The supporting structure further includes a bearing provided on a bearing side end of the rotation shaft, which is adjacent to the compressor wheel, to support the rotation shaft, and a damper unit for absorbing shaft vibration of the rotation shaft. The compressor wheel is a wheel of a supercharging side, and the damper unit is provided at a shaft end on an opposite side to the bearing side.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2011Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Noriyuki Hayashi, Yukio Yamashita, Byeongil An
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Patent number: 9660506Abstract: An electric motor includes a housing, a rotor, a stator, a storage tank, and a communication passage. The stator has a stator core provided coaxially with the rotor to surround the rotor. The storage tank is provided at a lower portion of the housing to store lubricating oil and divided by the stator core into a first storage tank and a second storage tank. The communication passage is provided to communicate the first storage tank with the second storage tank. The communication passage, as seen in an axial direction, extends above an oil level of the lubricating oil stored in the first storage tank and the second storage tank such that an air flows between an upper portion of the first storage tank and an upper portion of the second storage tank.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Yoshiizumi, Junya Tachikawa, Manabu Sakurada
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Patent number: 9611852Abstract: The main sources of heat in a scroll pump are cooled efficiently by a single cooling fan so that noise and, in particular, fan-generated noise, can be kept low. The scroll pump includes a pump head assembly, a pump motor, a cooling fan that produces a cooling air flow in the pump, a cowling in which the pump head assembly, pump motor and cooling fan are housed and juxtaposed with one another in an axial direction of the pump, and a shroud disposed within the cowling and extending around the pump motor to define a tunnel with the motor and through which the air flow of the cooling fan is directed.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2013Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: Agilent Technology, Inc.Inventors: Ronald J. Forni, Scott Driscoll, George Galica
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Patent number: 9260186Abstract: A rotor system for a reactive drive rotary wing maintains the rigidity of the rotor and eliminates play between flight controls and the rotor by mounting swashplate actuators to a flange rigidly secured to the mast. Apparatus and methods perform thermal management of the rotor in order to avoid bearing failure or loss of bearing preload. Methods include modulating the temperature of oil pumped over one or more of the mast bearing, swashplate bearing, and spindle bearing. The temperature of air passively or actively drawn through rotor may also be modulated to maintain bearing temperature within a predetermined range. The rotor includes structures for reducing pressure losses and drag on components due to air flow through the rotor. A rotor facilitates thermal management by oil and air flow.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2011Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: GROEN BROTHERS AVIATION, INC.Inventor: Jacob Johannes van der Westhuizen
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Patent number: 9186954Abstract: A blower unit has a scroll casing having a first intake port and a second intake port; a first fan drawing air flowing from the first intake port; a second fan coaxially arranged with the first fan and drawing air flowing from the second intake port; a fan motor having a main body and a rotation shaft driven by the main body; and a blower cover arranged to face and cover one of the first intake port and the second intake port. The fan motor is fixed to the blower cover at a position facing the one of the first intake port and the second intake port.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2012Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Toshinori Ochiai
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Patent number: 8979507Abstract: An adjustable cooling mechanism is provided. The cooling mechanism may include: a hollow member surrounding, at least in part, a machine to be cooled; the hollow member having holes oriented at the machine; an outlet configured to outlet a compressed fluid from the machine; a conduit connecting the outlet to an interior of the hollow member; and a throttling mechanism configured to throttle a fluid moving through the holes.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2010Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: SPX CorporationInventors: Dwight Booth, Joseph Haynes
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Patent number: 8931304Abstract: An example compressor arrangement includes a first compressor portion configured to compress a fluid and a second compressor portion configured to compress the fluid more than the first compressor portion. The compressor arrangement also includes a motor disposed between the first compressor portion and the second compressor portion. The first compressor portion is configured to communicate the fluid to the second compressor portion along a primary flow path. The second compressor portion is configured to divert at least some of the fluid from the primary flow path, communicating the diverted fluid back to the first compressor portion along a secondary flow path.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2010Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Craig M. Beers, Christopher McAuliffe
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Publication number: 20140003974Abstract: A motor-driven compressor includes a compression unit having a compression chamber, a rotation shaft, an electric motor having a coil, a motor driving circuit, a housing, and a shaft support. The coil includes a first coil end, which is relatively close to the motor driving circuit, and a second coil end, which is relatively close to the compression unit. The housing includes a first area and a second area. A refrigerant passage communicates the first area with the second area. The shaft support includes a guide wall that guides the refrigerant to flow along the radial outer surface of the second coil end. The refrigerant guided by the guide wall is drawn into the compression chamber from the second area through a first suction passage. The first suction passage and the refrigerant passage are arranged at opposite sides of the rotation shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Inventors: Hiroshi FUKASAKU, Minoru Mera, Ken Suitou, Yumin Hishinuma, Takahiro Moroi
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Patent number: 8608458Abstract: A pump assembly includes a pump housing (2) with a fluid entry (6) and a fluid exit (8) for a fluid to be delivered. A stator housing (4) is connected to the pump housing (2). At least one cooling channel (12) is formed in a wall of the stator housing (4) and is connected to cooling channels (22, 24) in the pump housing (2), which are in connection with the fluid entry (6) and the fluid exit (8), so that the fluid flows through the at least one cooling channel on account of the pressure difference between the fluid entry (6) and the fluid exit (8).Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2010Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Grundfos Management a/sInventors: Jens Solvstrom Jensen, Kim Hulegaard Jensen, Steen Mikkelsen
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Patent number: 8496448Abstract: The present invention provides a pump assembly having an intake, an outtake, and a rotor rotatably mounted to a shaft. A propeller is fixedly mounted to the upstream portion of the rotor and is rotatable upon actuation of the rotor. A passageway is disposed on the rotor so as to provide a path for fluids to cool the shaft. The pump assembly includes chamber and a pipe. The chamber is disposed within the housing and is located downstream the intake and is in communication with the passageway. The pipe interconnects the chamber with the outtake. An impeller is fixedly mounted to the rotor opposite the propeller and draws air bubbles from the passageway into the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2010Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Tenghua Tom Shieh, Kyle Thomas Bernier
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Patent number: 8439655Abstract: Ventilating device (1) comprising a casing (6) intended to channel at least one air flow (3) created by a blower wheel (5), the said casing (6) delimites a main air channel (7) in which a main air flow (3a) circulates and a secondary air channel (8) intended to bring towards a motor (4) a secondary air flow (3b) in order to cool the motor (4), the said secondary air channel (8) comprising a inlet (11) arranged in a main channel wall (7c) and a outlet arranged in a plan containing a casing end by which the wheel (5) is introduced, the said secondary channel (8) further comprising a means intended to change at least twice the direction of the secondary air flow (3b) when the secondary air flow (3b) passes through the secondary air channel (8).Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2007Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Valeo Systemes Thermiques S.A.S.Inventor: Serge Pouysegur
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Patent number: 8308451Abstract: An example fan motor controller housing includes an inner fan housing, an outer fan housing including a base plate, plenums and air passages, stator vanes and a motor control housing. The inner fan housing, the outer fan housing, the stator vanes, and the motor control component housing are all made of a polymer. The fan motor controller housing also includes heat sinks attached to the plenums. The heat sinks are cooled by air flowing from air passages through the plenum. Motor controller components are attached to the heat sink and heat dissipates from the motor controller components to the heat sink.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2009Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventor: Debabrata Pal
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Patent number: 8267674Abstract: A motor housing includes a motor support portion defining a central axis and including a first end and a second end, a wall surrounding the motor support portion, a surface offset from the wall toward the second end in a direction parallel with the central axis, a cooling air passageway oriented generally parallel with the central axis and offset from the central axis, and an inlet, opening directly into the cooling air passageway, at least partially defined between the wall and the surface. The inlet is configured to permit entry of a tangential airflow into the cooling air passageway, and the inlet is configured to permit entry of a radial airflow into the cooling air passageway.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2010Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Alexander Czulak, Thomas R. Chapman
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Patent number: 8007253Abstract: A pump for moving a liquid including a rotor rotatable within a housing and slidable relative to the housing between a first axial rotor position during normal pump operation and a second axial rotor position during a pump inoperative condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2008Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.Inventor: Kevin Allan Dooley
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Patent number: 7946831Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 20, 2006Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Bitzer Kuehlmaschinenbau GmbHInventors: Dieter Roller, Gernot Balz, Thomas Varga
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Patent number: 7891958Abstract: A pump includes a pump part provided with an impeller having a plurality of blades for sucking and discharging a liquid; a pump case accommodating the pump part; a rotor installed to the impeller to rotate the impeller; a motor part accommodating a stator disposed around an outer periphery of the rotor to drive the rotor and a driving circuit for controlling the stator; a partition member for isolating the motor part from the pump part to protect the motor part therefrom. The pump further includes a reservoir space disposed in the impeller; an extra passage provided between the rotor and the partition member and connected to the reservoir space to introduce the liquid thereto from the blades; and one or more reflux passages, formed at the impeller, for flowing the liquid in the reservoir space back to the blades.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2007Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshisuke Sakai, Hidetoshi Ueda
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Patent number: 7819641Abstract: An air mover, such as a cooling fan, comprises a motor and an impeller which is driven by the motor to generate a flow of air through a flowpath. The motor comprises at least one inlet opening and at least one outlet opening, each of which is in fluid communication with the flowpath. In operation of the air mover, a pressure difference between the inlet and outlet openings causes a portion of the flow of air to flow into the inlet opening, through the motor and out the outlet opening to thereby cool the motor.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2007Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Xcelaero CorporationInventors: John Decker, Chellappa Balan, Ralph J. Carl, Jr., John Miller, Dennis M. Pfister
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Patent number: 7794214Abstract: A pump for pumping a liquid comprises a rotor, a stator having at least one electrical winding and at least one cooling path, and a working conduit extending from a pump inlet to a pump outlet, the working conduit being in liquid communication with the cooling path at least at a cooling path inlet to permit a portion of the pumped liquid to circulate through the cooling path when the pump is in use.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2006Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.Inventor: Kevin Allan Dooley
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Patent number: 7699587Abstract: A centrifugal blower comprising a cooling air path having an inlet communicating with a blower space and an outlet communicating with the inlet of the motor airflow path, the cooling air path having an upstream portion that extends axially in the direction from the opposite end of the motor toward the drive end of the motor, and the cooling air path having a downstream portion that extends axially in the direction from the drive end of the motor toward the opposite end of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2006Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Thomas Richard Chapman, Robert Hodgson White, Jr.
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Patent number: 7638741Abstract: A thermal conductor for a heat-generating liquid pump system of a pool containing liquid and including a pipe. The conductor is adapted for conducting heat from the pump system to liquid circulated by the pump system. The conductor includes a body in thermal communication with a heat generating portion of the pump system and in thermal communication with only an outside surface of the pipe and not in direct contact with the liquid.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2006Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.Inventors: Donald E. Morgan, Bret S. Clark, Earnest R. Watkins
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Patent number: 7575421Abstract: A compressed air unit is provided having a motor housing with a main motor housing having a cavity. A motor is arranged within the cavity and a compressor rotor is connected to the motor. A cooling duct is integral with and extends from the main housing body. The cooling duct is in fluid communication with the cavity. An inner housing includes a main inlet housing body providing a compressor inlet for providing fluid to the compressor rotor. An inlet duct is integral with and extends from the main inlet housing body and in fluid communication with the compressor inlet. A transfer tube is interconnected between the cooling and inlet ducts. A source of clean cooling air is provided by providing a reverse flow pickup from the inlet flow boundary layer at the compressor inlet.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2004Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Christopher McAuliffe, Craig Beers
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Patent number: 7387502Abstract: A pumping apparatus for pumping a liquid from a source to a target including a motor, a first pump driven by the motor, a second pump driven by the motor and a separator in fluid communication with the first and second pump for separating a liquid received from a source into a gaseous component and a liquid component. The separator further diverts the gaseous component to the first pump and the liquid component to the second pump, wherein the first pump pumps the gaseous component back to the source and the second pump pumps the liquid component to a target.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2005Date of Patent: June 17, 2008Assignee: Fluid Metering, Inc.Inventors: David Rawlings, Harry E. Pinkerton, III
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Patent number: 7347674Abstract: A fluid pump of the type in which a housing assembly has a first sub-housing having an electric motor therein which is in line with a second sub-housing having the impeller therein, with the motor having a rotor shaft which extends through a seal of the first sub-housing into the second sub-housing and with the impeller mounted on the rotor shaft so as to be rotatable by the motor, and the second sub-housing having inlet and outlet ports through which fluid, such as water, is able to be pumped through the second sub-housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2002Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: Davey Products Pty LtdInventors: Sean Roderick Terry, Mark Andrew Lance
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Publication number: 20070224062Abstract: In an oil pump structure of an automatic transmission using a torque converter, a hydraulic pressure chamber is defined by a pump housing and a pump cover, to rotatably accommodate therein inner and outer rotors. First and second inflow ports respectively communicating with an oil strainer and a control valve are formed in the outside surface of the pump cover separately from each other. First and second oil inflow passages communicating with the respective inflow ports, a merged-flow portion that downstream portions of the first and second oil inflow passages are merged with each other, a downstream-side oil distribution channel intercommunicating a downstream side of the merged-flow portion and the hydraulic pressure chamber, are formed in at least one of the pump housing and the pump cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2007Publication date: September 27, 2007Inventor: Tomohiro OOMURA
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Patent number: 7219500Abstract: A compressor fuel gas conditioner for a natural gas well having a compressor which utilizes natural gas from the well as a fuel. The conditioner includes a vortex tube having an inlet to receive compressed natural gas from the compressor, a warm gas outlet for gas which has been heated by circular motion in the vortex tube, and a cool gas outlet for cool gas exiting the vortex tube after passing through the tube wherein the warm gas is returned to an inlet side of the compressor. A salt dryer includes a dryer inlet to receive the cool gas exiting the cool gas outlet of the vortex tube and a dryer outlet to deliver gas from the salt dryer as fuel gas to the compressor.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2004Date of Patent: May 22, 2007Assignee: Process Equipment & Service Company, Inc.Inventor: James E. Rhodes
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Patent number: 7118355Abstract: An electric motor driven blower assembly provides for a complete air cooling duct running from the inside of the blower housing to the motor at the back of the housing. A vertical cooling tube on the scroll housing is mated to an open, moldable trough in the motor cover across a sealing projection on a vibration gasket. The seal of the vertical tube through the gasket provides a right angle turn in the cooling duct, providing a complete cooling duct while still allowing all parts to be easily molded.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2005Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Theodore Lipa, III, Kristain J Hagen
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Patent number: 7063519Abstract: This invention provides a small, high efficiency, oil free motor driven compressor/blower suitable for providing pressurized, contamination-free gas and or air to transportation, industrial and aerospace fuel cell systems or other contaminant-intolerant applications. The motor driven compressor/blower rotor assembly is supported by foil air bearings and rotates at high speed by using a high frequency drive. The impeller is a centrifugal type design. The MDC can be easily integrated into the air management system of a fuel cell.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2003Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Assignee: R & D Dynamics CorporationInventors: Giridhari L. Agrawal, Charles W. Buckley
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Patent number: 7033146Abstract: A magnetic drive sealless pump. The pump includes a casing having a fluid suction opening and fluid discharge opening. A shell is combined to the rear part of the casing, and the exterior of the shell is combined with a bracket having a motor for impelling and rotating a drive magnet. At the center of the shell is provided with a shaft enveloped with a bearing having a spiral fluid passage at the interior thereof. A capsule is provided between the bearing and the shell and at the interior of the capsule is provided with a driven magnet situated between the bearing and the drive magnet. The capsule is also extended into the casing and at the front of the capsule is provided with impeller. The impeller, capsule and bearing are integrated into one body for forming a rotating member having a thrust ring at the front and rear parts thereof, respectively, for preventing axial movements of the rotating member.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2003Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Assoma Inc.Inventor: Chi-Wei Shi
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Patent number: 6997686Abstract: A two-stage compressor for generating necessary pressure differential for air-conditioning applications with air-cooled, water-cooled and evaporative-cooled condensing systems using low-pressure refrigerant, such as R134a, is provided. A rotating assembly is mounted for rotation in a compressor housing and includes a shaft, a thrust bearing disk associated with the shaft to maintain an axial position of the rotating assembly, a motor rotor mounted on the shaft, and first and second impellers mounted for rotation with the shaft. First and second journal bearings are mounted in the compressor housing to support the shaft and maintain radial positioning of the rotating assembly. Volute housings including a spiral-shaped volute are associated with each of the impellers to collect and further discharge gas compressed by the impellers. Diffusers having air-foil shaped vanes are locate in the volute channels adjacent the discharge outlets of the impellers to aide in the discharge of gas from the impellers.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2003Date of Patent: February 14, 2006Assignee: R & D Dynamics CorporationInventors: Giridhari L. Agrawal, Niels A. Jorgensen
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Patent number: 6986648Abstract: A pump including an electric motor mounted in a motor casing, and a rotatable pumping member, the pumping member when rotated by the motor pumping a first fluid, there being a first fluid flow path for the first fluid from a high pressure side of the pumping member, into the motor casing to cool the motor, and to a low pressure side of the pumping member, the pump further including a heat exchanger located between a wall of the motor casing and a heat load, the heat exchanger including a second fluid flow path for a second fluid so that in use, heat is exchanged between the first and second fluids.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2003Date of Patent: January 17, 2006Assignee: Dana Automotive LimitedInventors: David John Williams, David Thomas Black
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Publication number: 20040234389Abstract: An electrically driven waterpump includes a rotor having impellers for feeding fluid. The rotor is housed in a housing. The rotor includes: a working section located in the fluid and contacting the fluid in a main passage of the fluid stirred by the impellers; and a non-working section located in the fluid and apart from the main passage of the fluid. Water repellency is applied to at least either one of an outer surface of the non-working section or a plane of the housing confronting the outer surface of the non-working section with the fluid interposed, so that shear stress of the fluid is reduced, and pump efficiency is improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2004Publication date: November 25, 2004Inventors: Makoto Hatano, Shinichi Fujii
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Publication number: 20040213688Abstract: An oil pump for an automatic transmission includes a pump body having a pump chamber, a pump cover disposed so as to oppose to the pump body, an inner rotor disposed in the pump chamber and driven by a driving force from a torque converter and an outer rotor meshed with the inner rotor. The pump body includes a pump suction port, a pump discharge port a first oil, passage for supplying oil from a oil pan to the pump suction port, a second oil passage for returning excess oil of a first regulator to the first oil passage and a third oil passage having an outlet port for retuning excess oil of a second regulator to the pump suction port.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2003Publication date: October 28, 2004Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoya Tanikawa, Takanao Suzuki, Shinichi Takita
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Patent number: 6604906Abstract: A centrifugal multiblade blower includes a first counter-flow prevention means that prevents part of air flowing through a scroll chamber from flowing through a first aperture defined between a multiblade fan and a suction-side case plate of a scroll casing back to a suction port, and a second counter-flow prevention means that prevents part of air flowing through the scroll chamber from flowing through a second aperture defined between the multiblade fan and a motor-side case plate of the scroll casing back to the upstream side of the scroll chamber. A length L1 of the scroll chamber measured in the motor-shaft axial direction is dimensioned to be longer than a length L2 of the multiblade fan measured in the motor-shaft axial direction. Additionally the scroll chamber is gradually enlarged toward a discharge port of the casing.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2001Date of Patent: August 12, 2003Assignee: Calsonic Kansei CorporationInventors: Yukio Ozeki, Masaharu Onda, Toshio Yajima
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Patent number: 6524083Abstract: A partition partitions off a motor chamber and a pump chamber, through which a cooling water flows, a substantially cylindrical-cup shaped rotor is arranged in the pump chamber, a circuit board is disposed in the motor chamber to be in parallel to an annular-shaped end surface of the rotor, a magnetism detecting element is mounted on that portion of the circuit board, which faces a magnet portion of the rotor, and exothermic electronic parts are mounted on the remaining portion of the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2001Date of Patent: February 25, 2003Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Junji Deai, Hirohisa Itou
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Patent number: 6506034Abstract: A fluid pump, in particular for the coolant and heating system of a motor vehicle, has a stator (21) of claw pole construction and a rotor (6), separated from the stator (21) by a pipe (11), which is immersed in the coolant and forms a vane wheel. The rotor (6) is disposed radially inside the stator (21).Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2001Date of Patent: January 14, 2003Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Gerd Lentz, Christoph Heier, Matthias Henschel, Wolfgang Krauth
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Patent number: 6447269Abstract: A water-cooled pump motor for delivering potable water in a demand system includes a centrifugal pump including a volute and an impeller in the volute, an electric motor driving the impeller having a hollow rotor shaft, a rotor on the shaft, bearings supporting the rotor shaft, a stator coaxially outward of the rotor, two water impervious liners, one located within the stator and the other coaxially outside the rotor, the liners being spaced to define a cylindrical passageway across the rotor and a cooling and lubricating water passageway for water to flow through the motor including flow from the impeller between the rotor shaft and the bearings, across the cylindrical passageway and through the hollow rotor shaft back into the volute.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2000Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: Sota CorporationInventors: Larry Rexroth, Carlos Medica
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Publication number: 20020106289Abstract: An engine blower with excellent engine cooling capacity and sufficient efficiency in restraining noises without deteriorating the blower performance is offered. A fan provided with vanes to create the wind for the blower and the wind for cooling the engine on both side of the rotating plate is rotated inside the blower case in order to cool the engine, the air in the engine case provided with an air inlet port is suctioned into the blower case from the inlet provided on the wall separating the engine case and the blower case by utilizing the negative pressure created by rotation of the fan, the cylinder inside the engine case is cooled by the air passing from the air inlet port to the blower case via the engine case, and the engine noise emitted to the outside from the air inlet port from the engine case is minimized by passing the air in the engine case to the blower case from the air inlet port.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2001Publication date: August 8, 2002Inventors: Kohya Tanaka, Tetsuji Shibata
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Patent number: 6350109Abstract: A rotary pump (PP) for taking in a liquid such as a hydrocarbon comprises a pump wheel (1) secured to a rotor (4) which is immersed in a portion of the liquid taken in by the pump. A motor (11) having a stator element (111) mounted in a case (5) and a rotor element (110) mounted on the rotor (4) serves to cause the rotor (4) to rotate about an axis (40). Radial magnetic bearings (7, 8) and axial magnetic bearings (9, 10) support and guide the rotor (4) inside an enclosure (6). A jacket (61) is provided to protect the stator element (111) of the motor (11) from the liquid. The pump is characterized in that the rotor (4) has at least one groove (45, 46) in an outer surface that is covered by the liquid, particularly to reduce the inertial effects due to the liquid.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2000Date of Patent: February 26, 2002Assignee: Societe de Mecanique MagnetiqueInventors: Maurice Brunet, Eric Helene
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Publication number: 20010033800Abstract: A partition partitions off a motor chamber and a pump chamber, through which a cooling water flows, a substantially cylindrical-cup shaped rotor is arranged in the pump chamber, a circuit board is disposed in the motor chamber to be in parallel to an annular-shaped end surface of the rotor, a magnetism detecting element is mounted on that portion of the circuit board, which faces a magnet portion of the rotor, and exothermic electronic parts are mounted on the remaining portion of the circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2001Publication date: October 25, 2001Applicant: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Junji Deai, Hirohisa Itou
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Patent number: 6283726Abstract: A radial blower, particularly for heating and air-conditioning systems for automobiles, has a spiral blower housing that is provided with an air intake (5) in a housing lateral wall and with an air outlet out of the spiral housing. A blower drive motor for a fan wheel is mounted to the housing with the fan wheel positioned in the spiral housing to face the air intake (5). The fan wheel has a fan ring with fan blades and a hub. The fan ring and the hub are connected to each other by a shell shaped vaulted or dished fan disk, which at least partly surrounds the drive motor. Fan disk openings (43) permit at least a portion of cooling air flowing through the drive motor to be discharged through the disk openings (43) into a blower air discharge chamber (23) in the spiral housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2000Date of Patent: September 4, 2001Assignee: TEMIC Automotive Electric Motors GmbHInventors: Walter Fackelmann, Heinrich Hillrichs
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Patent number: 6254361Abstract: A pump having a generally hollow housing, an annular rotor rotatively mounted inside the housing, an annular stator fixedly mounted inside the housing and peripherally surrounding the rotor and a closed impeller axially aligned with the annular rotor. The impeller includes a tubular fluid inlet member fixedly mounted within the annular rotor, such that the rotor rotatively drives the impeller.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 1999Date of Patent: July 3, 2001Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Eugene P. Sabini
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Patent number: 6241486Abstract: A screw pump, includes a pump case having a fluid inlet, a pumping chamber, and a fluid discharge with at least two intermeshed parallel screw members rotatably mounted therein and in fluid communication with the fluid inlet and the fluid discharge. One synchronous electric drive motor mounted to each screw member provides the driving power to the screws. Electronic controls are provided for sensing the rotary positions of the motors for synchronizing rotation of the screw members. The pump is also capable of pumping multi-phase fluids.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1998Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: Flowserve Management CompanyInventor: Donald P. Sloteman
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Patent number: 6200108Abstract: A pump which is designed to be mounted within a recirculating water system where a portion of the recirculating water is diverted (bypass water) and cause to flow through the motor chamber with this recirculating water to absorb heat that is produced during the operation of the motor. The heated bypass water is then added back to the recirculating water. The pump includes an electric motor which is mounted within a pump motor chamber of a motor housing and is completely enclosed therein. The pump motor chamber is filled with oil thereby submerging of the electric motor in oil. A water conducting tube is mounted within the pump motor chamber and surrounds the electric motor. The tube inlets water from the pressure side of the pump impeller, conducts this bypass water entirely through the tube and then discharges the bypass water into the inlet of the recirculating water to the pump impeller.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1999Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Aqua-Flo, IncorporatedInventors: Dirk A. Caudill, Reuel S. Orocio