Interrelated Or Common Lubricating Or Cooling Means For Pump And Motor Patents (Class 417/372)
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Publication number: 20110114411Abstract: Separate from the vehicle's engine, a self-contained internal combustion engine supplies hydraulic power to drive a product pump on a bobtail. The self-contained engine, which can itself run on propane, is provided as part of a preassembly which includes the hydraulic pump, the hydraulic fluid tank, a heat exchanger, and a solenoid controlled start-up valve. The preassembly is mounted as a unit to the side of the bobtail in front of the rear wheels, powering the product pump at the rear of the bobtail while the vehicle's engine is off.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: STAC, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey M. Merth, Shawn Auxier
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Publication number: 20110097216Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2009Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: DRESSER-RAND COMPANYInventor: Mark Joseph Kuzdzal
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Patent number: 7878772Abstract: An air-cooled electric motor is provided, which may be used in a compressor assembly, including a motor unit with a motor housing out of which a drive shaft extends, such that the drive shaft drives a ventilator, the ventilator includes at least two radially and/or axially separated ventilator sections to propel a first airstream as well as at least one other, second airstream that is separate from the first airstream, such that the airstreams are conducted separately on both the inflow side of the ventilator and the outflow side of the ventilator.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2006Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Kaeser Kompressoren GmbHInventors: Stefan Rexhaüser, Andreas Foerster
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Patent number: 7874815Abstract: The invention relates to a high-pressure cleaning appliance with a motor-pump unit, comprising a pump head on which is positioned a piston subassembly, which carries a drive motor with the interposition of a planetary gearing, and has a plurality of pistons which can be moved back and forth in the longitudinal direction of the motor-pump unit and each penetrate into a pumping chamber of the pump head, and also comprising a swash-plate unit which interacts with the pistons, the planetary gearing having a sun gear which is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the motor shaft of the drive motor and is coupled to a ring gear via planet gears rotatably mounted on a planet gear carrier, the planet gear carrier being connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the swash-plate unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2007Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Alfred Kaercher GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Georg Wesch, Wolfgang Mueller
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Publication number: 20110008186Abstract: An integrated high-pressure compression unit for a process fluid that includes at least a first compression device able to compress the process fluid from a essentially gaseous initial thermodynamic state to an intermediate thermodynamic state, a second compression device connected mechanically to the first compression device and able to compress the process fluid from the intermediate thermodynamic state to a final thermodynamic state, a motor device able to drive the first compression device and the second compression device, and a pressure casing or housing in which at least the said first and second compression devices are mechanically coupled to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Inventors: Sergio Palomba, Andrea Masi, Marco De Iaco, Massimo Camatti, Lorenzo Bergamini
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Publication number: 20100303644Abstract: A condensation sensor is provided within a power supply device that is provided integratedly with a vacuum pump main unit. When the condensation sensor detects condensation within the power supply device, a CPU closes a cooling water valve. This stops the flow of cooling water that flows through the interior of the power supply device, through a cooling water duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2010Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuhiko Moriyama, Yoshihiro Nagano, Junichiro Kozaki
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Publication number: 20100284833Abstract: A sealed type compressor includes a sealed vessel, compression and drive elements disposed in the sealed vessel, an oil pump and an oil supply groove. Upper and lower bearings sandwich the cylinder and piston of the compression element from respective axial sides. The drive element drives the compression element via a crank shaft. The lower bearing has an axially extending bearing portion to support the crankshaft. The oil pump draws up a lubricant into an oil channel extending in a shaft center direction of the crankshaft to provide lubrication to the compression and drive elements. The oil supply groove is provided at a sliding face of the bearing portion, and extends along the crankshaft to supply the lubricant to an outer surface of the crankshaft. The oil supply groove has a first open end side and a second closed end side at a lower end side of the crankshaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2008Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Takashi Uekawa
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Publication number: 20100232984Abstract: A compressor unit comprises a centrifugal compressor for compressing a gas, having a rotor with one or more compressor impellers, and an electric motor having a stator and a rotor, for driving the rotor of the compressor. The compressor and the electric motor are accommodated in a common gas-tight housing which is provided with a gas inlet and a gas outlet. The rotor of the compressor and the rotor of the electric motor are arranged on a common rotor shaft which is mounted in magnetic bearings. The rotor shaft comprises a single unit and is mounted in two radial magnetic bearings, each in the vicinity of one end of the common rotor shaft, and one axial magnetic bearing, which is arranged in the vicinity of one of the radial bearings.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2007Publication date: September 16, 2010Inventors: Maria Bade, Axel Möhle, Günter Zwarg
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Patent number: 7722337Abstract: The invention concerns a piston compressor cylinder arrangement (1), particularly for a hermetically enclosed refrigerant compressor, with a cylinder body (2) and a cylinder head arrangement (7), the cylinder body (2) having a first front side (6) in the area of the cylinder head arrangement (7) and a second front side (8) at the other end. It is endeavoured to manufacture such a cylinder arrangement in a cost-effective manner without having to fear for a deformation during mounting. For this purpose, a cup-shaped mounting sleeve (9) surrounds the cylinder body (2) over its full axial working length with a radial distance on all sides.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2005Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: Danfoss Compressors GmbHInventors: Marten Nommensen, Frank Holm Iversen, Heinz Otto Lassen, Beate Sönksen
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Publication number: 20100111725Abstract: A fluid flow machine includes a housing with a connecting piece for a working fluid on an intake side, and a pressure side. At least one impeller is mounted on a shaft, which is held in the housing by radial and axial bearings, and a cooling arrangement is provided for at least one bearing. A revolving part of the axial bearing is designed as a cooling fluid transportation device, wherein a suction connection leads to the intake side of the impeller.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2007Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicants: Daimler AG, Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Andreas Knoop
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Patent number: 7708534Abstract: A well pump assembly has a rotary pump with an electrical motor that contains a motor lubricant. A thrust chamber is mounted between the motor and the pump, the thrust chamber containing a thrust chamber lubricant. Seals prevent the entry of thrust chamber lubricant into the motor chamber. A pressure equalizing chamber is mounted to the motor for admitting well fluid. A first pressure barrier in the equalizing chamber equalizes the pressure of the thrust chamber lubricant with that of the well fluid. A second pressure barrier contained within the first pressure barrier equalizes the pressure of the motor lubricant with thrust chamber lubricant.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2007Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Larry J. Parmeter, Arturo Luis Poretti
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Patent number: 7704056Abstract: A two-stage vapor cycle compressor includes a first stage impeller, a second stage impeller situated adjacent to the first stage impeller, an electric motor running on a pair of foil bearings, a thrust disk including two foil bearings and being positioned between the second stage impeller and the electric motor, and a compressor housing enclosing the first and second stage impeller and the electric motor. A refrigerant vapor compressed by the first stage and second stage impeller flows through an internal passageway formed by the compressor housing and cools the foil bearings and the electric motor. The compressor may be a gravity insensitive, small, and lightweight machine that may be easily assembled at low manufacturing costs. The two-stage vapor cycle compressor may be suitable for, but not limited to, applications in vapor compression refrigeration systems, such as air-conditioning systems, for example, in the aircraft and aerospace industries.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2008Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Mike M. Masoudipour, Allen Hansen, Chris Speights, Phung K. Duong, Zeng Qian
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Patent number: 7699589Abstract: In a scroll-type fluid machine (4), a refrigerant in a discharge chamber (80) is adjusted at prescribed discharge pressure by using a discharge valve (84), discharged from a scroll unit (52), and supplied to a refrigeration circuit (2), and the machine has a circulation path (7) for introducing the refrigerant in the discharge chamber from the refrigeration circuit toward a drive casing (22) while maintaining the refrigerant pressure, and an inlet path (93) formed in a compression casing (24) and leads the refrigerant in the circulation path to the rear side of a movable scroll (54) to make the led refrigerant counteract the refrigerant discharge pressure acting on the front side of the movable scroll.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2005Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Sanden CorporationInventors: Kiyoshi Terauchi, Masataka Tsunoda, Kazuyuki Shimamura
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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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Publication number: 20100092316Abstract: The invention concerns a refrigerant compressor (1), particularly a semi-hermetic refrigerant compressor, with a housing (2), having in its bottom part (3) an oil sump (4), a compressor block (5) having at least one cylinder (6), in which a piston (7) is arranged, a crankshaft (11), which is supported in the compressor block (5) and in driving connection with the piston (7), and an oil pump arrangement (27), which is at least partly submerged in the oil sump. Also with varying speeds, good oil lubrication must be ensured. For this purpose, the crankshaft (11) has at its lower end a diameter extension (19), through which an oil channel (35) extends eccentrically to the crankshaft axis (36), said channel (35) connecting the oil pump arrangement (27) to a closed oil pressure chamber (21) between the crankshaft (11) and the compressor block (5), said chamber (21) being connected to the inside (37) of the housing (2) via a vent path (40, 41).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: Danfoss A/SInventors: Jürgen Süss, Christian Jepsen
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Patent number: 7635256Abstract: A fan housing for an electric machine includes a housing body for accommodation of the electric machine having a mounting flange for securement to a motor-driven element. The housing body defines a longitudinal axis and includes a cross-shaped or star-shaped configuration in vertical relationship to the longitudinal axis. Thus, when the electric machine is inserted in the fan housing, the corners of the mounting flange of the electric machine for attachment to the motor-driven element remain clear for easy access to screw fasteners.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2004Date of Patent: December 22, 2009Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Then, Michael Zisler
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Publication number: 20090246044Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: NABTESCO CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Niwa, Teruhiko Yoshioka
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Patent number: 7584624Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for preventing liquid refrigerant accumulation in an accumulator of an outdoor unit of an air conditioner. The method includes the steps of: determining a state of a compressor; if the compressor is in standby mode or off state, turning on a four-way valve; determining whether the state of the compressor in standby mode or off state continues longer than a predetermined amount of time; and if the state of the compressor continues longer than the predetermined amount of time, closing an expansion valve. Particularly, high-pressure refrigerant flows in the closed expansion valve while low-pressure refrigerant flows in a check valve through the four-way valve.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2004Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Il Nahm Hwang, Young Min Park, Yoon Been Lee, Dong Jun Yang, Seok Ho Yoon, Jong Han Park, Sung Oh Choi, Sung Chun Kim
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Patent number: 7559198Abstract: A cooling device for the hydraulic fluid of a site machine hydrostatic drive comprises a pump body and a rotor with vanes, keyed directly on a driving shaft which drives the pump, and driven in rotation in a way designed to send a flow of cooling air onto the pump body.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2006Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Messersi' S.P.A.Inventor: Fabio Messersi′
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Publication number: 20090148316Abstract: The invention relates to a pump device for feeding a delivery medium out of a deep borehole which leads from a floor level into the interior of the earth, which deep borehole is provided at least in sections with borehole piping, having a pump and having a motor which drives the pump. As a result of the motor being arranged outside the borehole piping and as a result of it being possible for the motor to be connected to the pump by means of torque transmitting means which extend laterally through the borehole piping, the motor can be protected from overheating, and in the event of a fault, can be pulled out of the deep borehole independently of the pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2007Publication date: June 11, 2009Inventors: Jorg Lengert, Roland Lutz, Norbert Weinberg
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Publication number: 20090148314Abstract: An electric motor-driven scroll compressor as a fluid machine includes a housing (10) containing a scroll unit (20) and an armature (38) for driving the scroll unit (20), and a refrigerant conduit located inside the housing (10) to guide a refrigerant toward the scroll unit (20). The refrigerant conduit includes a helical groove (64) as part thereof. The helical groove (64) is formed in the outer peripheral surface of a rotor (54) constituting the armature (38) and has opposite ends opening in the respective opposite end faces of the rotor (54).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2006Publication date: June 11, 2009Applicant: SANDEN CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka Koitabashi, Kou Tsukamoto, Tomokazu Naruta, Shigeyuki Koyama
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Patent number: 7544047Abstract: A compressor, which is cooled by cooling medium, includes a compression chamber, a first cooling chamber and a second cooling chamber. In the compression chamber, gas is compressed and then discharged therefrom. The first cooling chamber, in which the cooling medium flows, is provided so as to adjoin the compression chamber for cooling the gas in the compression chamber. The second cooling chamber adjoins the first cooling chamber. The second cooling chamber has a gas passage in which the discharged gas flows and a medium passage in which the cooling medium flows. The medium passage is arranged so as to restrain transmission of heat of the discharged gas in the gas passage to the cooling medium in the first cooling chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2004Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota JidoshokkiInventors: Yoshiyuki Nakane, Hidefumi Mori, Tatsuyuki Hoshino, Kazuho Yamada, Tsutomu Nasuda
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Publication number: 20090129949Abstract: An axial piston machine comprises a housing (1), which receives an eccentric disk (3) as well as a rotatably mounted cylinder drum (6) with cylinders (26, 28) and pistons (29), which are reciprocable in the cylinders (26, 28) and of which the ends projecting from the cylinders (26, 28) are supported via sliding surface (31) of a sliding disk (32) against the eccentric disk (3), and having a holding-down device (36), by means of which the sliding surface (31) is held in abutment with the sliding disk (32). A pressure prevailing in a pressure chamber (40) under the sliding blocks (31) by means of a connection throttle (43) partially compensates a pressure that is exerted by the holding-down device (36) on the sliding blocks (32).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2007Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: BRUENINGHAUS HYDROMATIK GMBHInventor: Rainer Stoelzer
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Publication number: 20090092504Abstract: A hermetic compressor includes a hermetic container, a compression element accommodated in the hermetic container, and a motor element driving the compression element. The hermetic container has an inner space therein arranged to store lubrication oil. The compression element includes a shaft unit rotating about a rotation axis. The shaft unit has an oil-feeding passage provided therein. The oil-feeding passage extends upward from a lower end of the shaft unit. The shaft unit has an oil-spattering hole provided therein. The oil-spattering hole extends substantially perpendicularly to the rotation axis. The oil-spattering hole has a first open end communicating with the oil-feeding passage and a second open end opening in the inner space of the hermetic container. The second open end has a cross-sectional area smaller than a cross-sectional area of the first open end.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2006Publication date: April 9, 2009Inventors: Hironari Akashi, Kosuke Tsuboi, Takahide Nagao
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Publication number: 20090035160Abstract: A hermetic compressor and a refrigeration cycle device having the same are provided. An oil separator is installed either outside or inside of a casing to separate oil from a discharged refrigerant and an oil pump driven by a driving force of a motor is used to recollect the oil separated in the oil separator, whereby the separation between oil and refrigerant can effectively be performed and also a fabricating cost can be reduced. Also, an introduction of the separated refrigerant back into the compressor can be prevented so as to improve a cooling capability of the refrigeration cycle device. In addition, the oil pump is driven by the driving force of the motor, resulting in a simple configuration of the compressor and a reduction of a fabricating cost of the compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2008Publication date: February 5, 2009Inventors: Byung-Kil YOO, Nam-Kyu Cho, Dong-Koo Shin, Yang-Hee Cho, Hyo-Keun Park, Cheol Hwan Kim
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Patent number: 7478997Abstract: A compressor which includes a piston (150) reciprocating in a cylinder bore (111) provided in a cylinder block. Length of the circumferential surface at the compression load side (160) is made to be longer than that at the anti-compression load side (170), so that area of sliding-contact surface at the compression load side is greater than that at the anti-compression load side. The above configuration is effective to prevent occurrence of wearing due to unsymmetrical contact of piston with cylinder bore. Thus, deterioration in the refrigeration capability and instability of the performance is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2005Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Yoshinori Ishida
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Publication number: 20090016902Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the field of air compressors and particularly to a shroud assembly for use with air compressors. An aspect of the present invention is directed to a shroud assembly having an outfit shroud, including a top outfit shroud coupled with a bottom outfit shroud; and, a pump shroud including a top pump shroud coupled with a bottom pump shroud; wherein the pump shroud at least partially encompasses a pump assembly of an air compressor and the outfit shroud at least partially encompasses the pump assembly, the pump shroud, a manifold assembly and a pressure switch assembly of an air compressor, the shroud assembly further configured for mounting to an air tank of an air compressor, the shroud assembly allowing for access to working parts of the air compressor and also allowing for a cooling air flow through the interior of the outfit shroud.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2008Publication date: January 15, 2009Inventors: Robert LEE, Gary D. White, John Bezold, James Vintzel, Mark A. Etter, Eric Bondhus
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Publication number: 20080310974Abstract: A hermetic compressor with a heat dissipating system, comprising: a casing within which is defined an oil sump; a cylinder block mounted inside the casing and defining a cylinder, for compression of a refrigerant fluid, having an end closed by a cylinder head in which is defined a discharge chamber, and at least one thermal energy transfer duct having a heat absorbing end mounted to the cylinder block in order to absorb the heat generated by compression of the refrigerant fluid inside the cylinder, and a heat releasing end provided away from the cylinder block in order to conduct and liberate the heat absorbed therefrom to another means.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2006Publication date: December 18, 2008Applicant: WHIRLPOOL S.A.Inventors: Fabricio Caldeira Possamai, Leonard L. Vasiliev
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Publication number: 20080302516Abstract: A compressor cooling system for an air compressor includes an air compressor including an external surface; an enclosure for enclosing the air compressor inside the enclosure; an air passage formed on the inside of the enclosure between the enclosure and the external surface of the air compressor; multiple holes in the enclosure; and a negative pressure source coupled to the air passage for drawing air through the multiple holes and into the enclosure for cooling the compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2008Publication date: December 11, 2008Applicant: SEQUAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Steven M. Harrington
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Patent number: 7448858Abstract: A pump aggregate A comprises a one-piece cast hollow body 1 including an exterior connection block 3 and an interior lateral wall 16 of a bearing shield. A pressure transmission path is formed by a channel K which is made by casting in the lateral wall 16 of the bearing shield and which extends from the connection block 3 into a pump element mounting surface 18, 18?, 18? of the lateral wall 16 of the bearing shield.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2006Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Assignee: Hawe Hydraulik GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Georg Neumair, Gerhard Lörner
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Publication number: 20080152516Abstract: A compressor housing comprising an upper shell and a lower shell assembled at a peripheral weld seam. At least one shell extends from the center of the housing beyond the weld seam outwards and upwards.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2005Publication date: June 26, 2008Applicant: BSH Bosch Und Siemens Hausgerate GBMHInventors: Peter Bauer, Jan-Grigor Schubert
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Publication number: 20080145243Abstract: A vacuum pump includes a pumping system (30) located in a pump housing (1) and a hood (1) at least partially surrounding the pump housing at least in the region of the pumping system to provide for at least partial dissipation of heat generated in the pumping system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2007Publication date: June 19, 2008Inventors: Gernot Bernhardt, Juergen Wagner
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Publication number: 20080145240Abstract: The present invention relates to a control system for protection against breakage of the lubricating-oil film in the bearings of hermetic compressors, as well as to a control method that has the objective of guaranteeing that a variable-capacity compressor should be maintained above a minimum rotation in order to prevent the oil film close to the respective bearing from breaking. One of the forms of achieving the objectives of the present invention is by means of a control system for protection against break of the lubricating-oil film in bearings of hermetic compressors, a microprocessor (10) actuating a set of switches (SW2M) selectively, so as to generate a rotation at the motor-compressor assembly (20, 21), the compressor (21) having a minimum rotation (RPMmin) of the compressor (21) so that the oil film will not be broken.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2006Publication date: June 19, 2008Inventors: Marcos Guilherme Schwarz, Roberto Andrich, Fabio Henrique Klein
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Publication number: 20080112822Abstract: A compressor which includes a piston (150) reciprocating in a cylinder bore (111) provided in a cylinder block. Length of the circumferential surface at the compression load side (160) is made to be longer than that at the anti-compression load side (170), so that area of sliding-contact surface at the compression load side is greater than that at the anti-compression load side. The above configuration is effective to prevent occurrence of wearing due to unsymmetrical contact of piston with cylinder bore. Thus, deterioration in the refrigeration capability and instability of the performance is prevented.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2005Publication date: May 15, 2008Inventor: Yoshinori Ishida
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Patent number: 7367784Abstract: Oil supply device (130) for a compressor in a refrigerating system including a cylindrical piece (131) fixed to a lower end of a crankshaft (110) for rotating together with the crankshaft, a propeller (132) fitted inside of the piece for making oil to rise by a relative movement with the piece (131), and rotation prevention means (141) fitted to a bottom end of the propeller (132) for prevention of rotation of the propeller, thereby supplying an adequate amount of refrigerant oil even if the compressor, operative at a low, as well as a high speed, is operated at the low speed.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2001Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Cheal-Ki No, Kee-Joo Kim, Jai-Seong Sim
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Publication number: 20070286744Abstract: A fan includes a plurality of blades 9 carried by a hub housing 10 mounted on a rotatable motor shaft 6. The shaft 6 includes a heat pipe 11 to transfer heat from the motor bearings 7 and 8 to a heat dissipative plate 15. The fan is particularly useful for cooling electrical and electronic equipment housed within a cabinet, such as, for example, in a telecommunications arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2006Publication date: December 13, 2007Inventors: Marc Scott Hodes, Alan Michael Lyons, Alan O'Loughlin
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Patent number: 7290991Abstract: An automotive engine oil pump assembly having first and second pump mechanisms contained within a common housing. A shaft rotatably supported in the housing drives the pump mechanisms in a conventional manner. The pump mechanisms are offset in phase to reduce flow pulsations through the housing and limit pump noise and vibration. The first pump mechanism communicates with a common inlet and first outlet of the housing. The second pump mechanism communicates with the common inlet and second outlet of the housing. A common reservoir connected to inlets of the first and second oil pump mechanisms provides a supplemental oil source to balance oil pressures at the pump inlets to prevent pump cavitation and further reduce pump noise and vibration.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2004Date of Patent: November 6, 2007Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: David R. Staley, Brian D. White
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Patent number: 7213683Abstract: The present invention provides a piston lubrication system for a reciprocating compressor with a linear motor. The piston lubrication system includes an oil sump defined within a hermetic shell, and a cylinder affixed within the hermetic shell. A radial gap is defined by a piston located within the cylinder. A pump supplies oil from the oil sump to the radial gap via the oil supply duct and oil return duct.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2002Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: Empresa Brasileira de Compressores S.A. EmbracoInventors: Dietmar Erich Bernhard Lilie, Ingwald Vollrath, Egidio Berwanger, Rinaldo Puff
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Patent number: 7210309Abstract: A variable displacement compressor for efficiently cooling and lubricating seals arranged on a rotary shaft. The seals are arranged at end portions of the rotary shaft that project from a housing of the compressor. A first lubrication chamber is defined by a first seal in the housing around the front end portion of the rotary shaft. A second lubrication chamber is defined by a second seal in the housing around the rear end portion of the rotary shaft. A shaft passage extends through the rotary shaft to connect the first and second lubrication chambers. Refrigerant gas including lubricating oil flows from a crank chamber to a suction chamber via the first lubrication chamber, the shaft passage, and the second lubrication chamber. This efficiently cools and lubricates the seals.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2004Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Tetsuhiko Fukanuma, Masahiro Kawaguchi, Yasuharu Odachi, Masao Iguchi, Yoichi Takashima, Kazuhito Miyagawa
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Patent number: 7207185Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circulation circuit. The vehicle air conditioning apparatus has a variable displacement type compressor, a first pressure monitoring point, a second pressure monitoring point and an oil separator in the refrigerant circulation circuit. Also, the vehicle air conditioning apparatus has a control valve in the compressor. The compressor compresses refrigerant gas. Displacement of the compressor is variable. The refrigerant gas includes oil. The second pressure monitoring point is located more downstream than the first pressure monitoring point. The control valve controls the displacement based on differential pressure between the first and second pressure monitoring points. The oil separator is located between the first and second pressure monitoring points in order to separate the oil from the compressed refrigerant gas, thereby the oil separator serves as means for manifesting the differential pressure.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2003Date of Patent: April 24, 2007Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Masaki Ota, Tomoji Tarutani, Hisato Kawamura, Yoshinori Inoue, Masahiro Kawaguchi
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Patent number: 7137265Abstract: An apparatus and a method for controlling oil of a multi-compressor installed in an air conditioner includes a microcomputer for sequentially stopping compressors installed in the air conditioner for a preset time and then sequentially operating the compressors when the preset time elapses; and oil pipes connected to the compressors and balancing oil in the compressors, so that damage of the compressors due to imbalance of refrigerating machine oil is prevented by uniformly dividing oil of a multi-compressor installed in the air conditioner.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2004Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Cheol Min Kim
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Patent number: 7137791Abstract: A reciprocating hermetic compressor includes a cylinder block internal to a shell and carrying a cylinder and a radial bearing hub; a crankshaft vertically mounted in the radial bearing hub and carrying, inferiorly, a rotor of an electric motor and, superiorly, a support annular face and an eccentric portion. The radial bearing hub incorporates an upper tubular extension, bearing a corresponding extension of the crankshaft and around which is mounted an axial rolling bearing for supporting the weight of the crankshaft-rotor assembly, as well as the axial stresses produced during compression of the refrigerant gas.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2002Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: Empresa Brasileira de Compressores S.A.Inventors: Adilson Luiz Manke, Dietmar E. Lilie
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Patent number: 7048518Abstract: The present invention comprises a pump (10, 110) having a casing (14, 114) with at least one first hermetically sealed chamber (19, 119) and at least one second chamber (17, 117) adjacent to said first chamber, defining a passageway (18, 118) for fluids and having an inlet (15, 115) and an outlet (16, 116) for the fluids. The stator (12, 112) is provided in this first chamber (19, 119). In addition, a rotor-turbine assembly (11, 111) is induced by the stator (12, 112) to drive a fluid from the inlet (15, 115) to the outlet (16, 116), the rotor and the turbine being integral and wholly located in the second chamber (17, 117). In a preferred embodiment, a fluid course between the opening of outlet (115) and fluid passage (118), in portion (119a) of first chamber (119), is provided with filtration zone (120) suitable for filtration of a fluid to be impelled by the pump.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2002Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: Eberle Equipamentos e Processos S.A.Inventors: Ricardo Augusto De Facci Oliveira, Fernando Augusto Becker
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Patent number: 6948915Abstract: A screw compressor includes a compressor main body, a male rotor having a screw-like male tooth shape and a female rotor having a screw-like female tooth shape meshing with the screw-like male tooth shape or the male rotor. The male and female motors are provided within the compressor main body. A motor casing is operably connected to the compressor main body, and a high speed electric motor provided within the motor casing. The motor includes a motor rotor, a motor stator and a motor shaft for driving at least one of the male and female rotors. A speed ratio of the motor shaft and the at least one of the male and female rotors driven by the motor shaft is in a range of 2:1 to 1:2.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2003Date of Patent: September 27, 2005Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventor: Hitoshi Nishimura
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Publication number: 20040208758Abstract: Oil supply device (130) for a compressor in a refrigerating system including a cylindrical piece (131) fixed to a lower end of a crankshaft (110) for rotating together with the crankshaft, a propeller (132) fitted inside of the piece for making oil to rise by a relative movement with the piece (131), and rotation prevention means (141) fitted to a bottom end of the propeller (132) for prevention of rotation of the propeller, thereby supplying an adequate amount of refrigerant oil even if the compressor, operative at a low, as well as a high speed, is operated at the low speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2004Publication date: October 21, 2004Inventors: Cheal-Ki No, Kee-Joo Kim, Jai-Seong Sim
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Publication number: 20040151604Abstract: A hermetic electric compressor is capable of efficiently pumping up a necessary amount of lubricating oil even at low-speed rotation and has a simple constitution to provide an excellent workablity in assembling. The hermetic electric compressor includes an oil pump. The oil pump includes (i) a slanting channel formed in the lower portion of a main shaft and slanting from the lower portion to the upper portion thereof outwardly, (ii) a throttle formed at the bottom end of the main shaft and having an inlet port of diameter smaller than the section of the slanting channel at the center thereof, and (iii) a lower communicating passage for providing a communication between the bottom end of a spiral groove and the slanting channel. This constitution is capable of effectively lift the head of the lubricating oil.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2003Publication date: August 5, 2004Inventors: Yoshinori Ishida, Toshihiko Ota, Terumasa Ide, Makoto Katayama, Takafumi Horiguchi, Takahide Nagao
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Publication number: 20040141858Abstract: Cooling fins 72, 74 and 76 extend about the fuel pump 24, perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the fuel pump and parallel to the anticipated direction of flow of the air stream generated by the movement of the vehicle. The cooling fins are formed on the pump bowl 36, hood 34, and mounting arm 49 to extract the heat of conduction transferred from the engine block 12 to the mounting arm 49 and heat of radiation and convection transferred from the engine block and its accessories to the pump bowl 36, hood 34 and mounting arm 49.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2003Publication date: July 22, 2004Inventor: Barry S. Grant
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Publication number: 20040086396Abstract: The invention relates to a water-injected screw compressor, comprising a compressor element (2) with a housing (7) which borders a compression chamber (8) in which two rotors (9, 10) are installed, which, by means of an axle ends (13, 14; 15, 16), are borne in the housing (7) by means of water-lubricated slide bearings (1), an electric motor (3) comprising a housing (18) which carries a stator (19) at the inside, which stator surrounds a rotor (21) with a rotor shaft (22). An axle end (13) of one of the rotors (9) is directly coupled to or forms one piece with the rotor shaft (22) of the motor (3), said rotor shaft being located in the prolongation of said axle end. The rotor shaft (22) of the motor (3) is borne in at least one water-lubricated slide bearing (23).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2003Publication date: May 6, 2004Inventors: Emiel Lodewijk Clement De Smedt, Jan Paul Herman Heremans
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Patent number: 6729858Abstract: A system for cooling a turbo compressor includes two compressing parts on opposite ends of a rotational shaft driven by a motor. Fluid from a fluid chamber within the casing of the device is supplied to a bearing chamber when the temperature of the bearing chamber increases. A supply passage is formed in a first support where the radial bearing for supporting a load in the axial direction is formed. The open-and-shut valve supplies fluid when the temperature of the bearing chamber increases.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2002Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Moon-Chang Choi, Kwang-Ha Suh, Young-Kwan Kim, Yoo-Chol Ji, Dae-Sung Wang, Hoi-Sun Kim
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Patent number: 6725843Abstract: In a fuel injection pump, fuel discharged from a feed pump assembly is supplied to each pressurizing chamber through a corresponding metering valve. A portion of the fuel is supplied to a receiving chamber, which receives a drive mechanism that drives plungers, through a space defined between a drive shaft and a bush, which supports the drive shaft. A fuel groove is formed in an inner wall of the bush, so that fuel supplied from the feed pump assembly to the receiving chamber through the fuel groove is also supplied to lubricate between an outer wall of the drive shaft and the inner wall of the bush.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2002Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Yasutaka Utsumi