Rotary Expansible Chamber Pump Patents (Class 417/410.3)
  • Patent number: 7802970
    Abstract: A micropump including one or more microchannels for receiving a fluid and a plurality of electrodes arranged on a diaphragm and energized in a manner to provide an enhanced electrohydrodynamic flow of fluid through the one or more microchannels. The micropump may be used for pumping a working fluid for removing heat from a heat-generating electronic component or for delivery of a drug, medicine, or other treatment agent as or in a fluid to a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Vishal Singhal, Suresh V. Garimella
  • Patent number: 7798282
    Abstract: A hybrid electrical power assist system (EPAS) for an automotive vehicle that utilizes the advantages of a conventional EPAS system to provide power assist based upon several distinct sensor inputs, in a heavy duty vehicle that requires significantly more assistance forces than a conventional EPAS can provide. The hybrid system utilizes a hydraulic amplifier that is connected to receive the torque output from an EPAS motor actuator and responsively provide a fluid under differential pressure through a pair of high pressure lines to a steering piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: John C. Crossman
  • Patent number: 7798787
    Abstract: There is provided an internal intermediate pressure multistage compression type rotary compressor capable of reducing a height dimension while reducing the amount of oil to be discharged outside. An electric element and first and second rotary compression elements which are driven by a rotary shaft of the electric element disposed under the electric element are provided in a hermetic shell case. There is provided a refrigerant introduction pipe for introducing refrigerant in the hermetic shell case over the electric element into the second rotary compression element through an outside of the hermetic shell case. There is provided an oil path provided in the rotary shaft for discharging oil through an oil discharge port which is positioned at the upper end of the rotary shaft. The refrigerant introduction pipe is provided such that apart of an inlet of the refrigerant introduction pipe is positioned under the upper end of a stator of the electric element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenzo Matumoto, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kazuya Sato, Masaya Tadano, Satoshi Imai, Akira Sugawara, Takashi Sato
  • Publication number: 20100215525
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to promote oil separation in a sealed container, thereby decreasing the amount of oil discharged to the outside of a compressor. The compressor comprises discharge hole provided at position facing the end surface of a rotor and through which a compressed refrigerant from first and second rotary compression elements is discharged into the sealed container; and a refrigerant flow path which is extended from a space surrounded with a coil end of a stator projecting from the end surface of the rotor to a rotary compression mechanism side to a space of an air gap between the rotor and the stator, to guide the compressed refrigerant discharged through the discharge hole to an electromotive element opposite to the rotary compression mechanism side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Ogasawara, Takahiro Nishikawa, Yoshihisa Kogure, Kazuhiko Arai, Hiroyuki Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20100215524
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to promote oil separation in a sealed container, thereby decreasing the amount of oil discharged to the outside of a compressor. The compressor comprises discharge hole provided at positions facing the end surface of a rotor and through which a compressed refrigerant from first and second rotary compression elements is discharged into the sealed container; and a refrigerant flow path which is extended from a space surrounded with a coil end of a stator projecting from the end surface of the rotor to a rotary compression mechanism side to a space of an air gap between the rotor and the stator, to guide the compressed refrigerant discharged through the discharge hole to an electromotive element opposite to the rotary compression mechanism side, and the outlet of this refrigerant flow path opposite to the rotary compression mechanism side faces the inner wall surface of the sealed container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Ogasawara, Takahiro Nishikawa, Yoshihisa Kogure, Kazuhiko Arai, Hiroyuki Yoshida
  • Patent number: 7766628
    Abstract: A compressor is provided with a dimple and a lower end cap to receive a positioning fixture pin to position the lower end cap prior to a welding operation. The use of the dimple ensures the lower end cap is properly positioned when welding occurs. In the past, lower end caps have often been mis-aligned when welded to the center shell. Further, the dimple provides the dual function of positioning a magnet within the compressor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Scroll Technologies
    Inventors: Gene Fields, Vince Loy, Paul J. Cambron, Zili Sun
  • Patent number: 7762792
    Abstract: There is provided a rotary compressor capable of preventing deterioration of performance following plug fixing carried out to prevent falling-off of a spring member. The rotary compressor comprises a cylinder constituting a rotary compression element, a roller engaged with an eccentric portion formed in a rotary shaft of an electric element, and eccentrically rotated in the cylinder, a vane abutted on the roller to divide an inside of the cylinder into a low pressure chamber side and a high pressure chamber side, a spring member for always pressing the vane to the roller side, a housing portion of the spring member, formed in the cylinder, and opened to the vane side and a hermetically sealed container side, a plug positioned in the hermetically sealed container side of the spring member, and inserted into the housing portion to fit into a gap, and an O ring attached around the plug to seal a part between the plug and the housing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Tadano, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kenzo Matsumoto, Dai Matsuura, Kazuya Sato, Takayasu Saito, Toshiyuki Ebara, Satoshi Imai, Atsushi Oda, Takashi Sato, Hiroyuki Matsumori
  • Patent number: 7748968
    Abstract: In a two-cylinder rotary compressor, two compressing sections accommodated in a compressor body and an accumulator are connected to each other by two suction pipes each formed with an L-shaped bend part in the intermediate pipe part thereof. To reduce a pressure loss caused by the flow resistance of a refrigerant sucked from the accumulator into the compressor, the L-shaped bend parts of the two suction pipes are arranged on different imaginary planes including the center axis line of the compressor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Fujitsu General Limited
    Inventor: Naoya Morozumi
  • Publication number: 20100166577
    Abstract: A hermetic compressor is disposed with an annular motor stator, a motor rotor, a casing and plural spot joining portions. The motor rotor is disposed such that it may freely rotate in a space inside the motor stator. The casing includes a cylindrical portion. The cylindrical portion houses the motor stator and the motor rotor. The plural spot joining portions fix the motor stator to the cylindrical portion by spot joining in a state where a clearance is secured between the motor stator and the cylindrical portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahide Higuchi, Masanori Masuda, Toshiaki Yoshii, Kazuhiro Furusho, Satoshi Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20100147020
    Abstract: A rotary compressor, which contains a motor unit and compression mechanism in a sealed case, transmits the rotational power of the motor to the compression mechanism through a rotary shaft and crankshafts eccentrically provided in the rotary shaft, and compresses a refrigerant in the compression mechanism, wherein the rotary compressor is configured to have H/(?a•E)=K, and K?0.065, and the formula 0.35+0.07•K•H?L/?Db?0.45+0.07•K•H, assuming that the inside diameter of the cylinder forming the compression mechanism is ?Da [mm], the cylinder height is H [mm], the crankshaft eccentricity is E [mm], the crankshaft diameter is ?Db [mm], and the sliding lengths of the crankshaft and a roller fitted over the crank are set to L [mm].
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: TOSHIBA CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuya HIRAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20100129238
    Abstract: An inverter-integrated electric compressor capable of achieving improved ease of installation of a coil component constituting an inverter and increased strength and reduced cost of an insulating member, as well as a coil component for the inverter, are provided. In an inverter-integrated electric compressor, an inverter-accommodating section is disposed on the periphery of a housing, and an inverter is accommodated and installed in the inverter-accommodating section to convert DC power into three-phase AC power and supply the power to an electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Watanabe, Ichiro Yogo, Koji Nakano, Hiroyuki Kamitani
  • Publication number: 20100098563
    Abstract: A surface motor direct-drive sucker-rod screw pump device is driven by a vertical three-phase permanent magnet brush-less DC motor, and comprises a motor controller (6), a rectifying circuit, an inversion circuit, a CPU and a driving circuit. The motor controller (6) is used to adjust the voltage and frequency of the motor by the rectifying circuit, the inversion circuit, the CPU and the driving circuit. Thus, the speed of the motor can vary from zero to the maximum. The device is easy to operate and has a higher efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2006
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Inventors: Jun Liu, Songbo Gou, Yongjian Tang, Hingli Cong
  • Patent number: 7695254
    Abstract: A pump case of an electric pump is constructed by coupling a first pressed member formed with a cylindrical part for holding a first rolling ball bearing rotatably supporting a rotary shaft, and a second pressed member formed with a recess for receiving an inner rotor provided at a tip end of the rotary shaft to each other. Because the first pressed member and the second pressed member are formed by deep-drawing work, it is possible to achieve simplification of the structure and reduction of the cost, as compared with the pump case which has been produced from an aluminum die casting or the like, as in the related art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuo Asai
  • Publication number: 20100074774
    Abstract: A compressor includes a closed container, a compression element placed within the closed container, and a motor placed within the closed container to drive the compression element via a shaft. An integral structural part is formed by integrally assembling a compression element with a rotor via a shaft. The natural frequency of the integral structural part is larger than five times the maximum number of rotations of the compressor during its operation. A coil of a stator is provided in concentrated winding. A cylindrical-shaped rotor core of the rotor has a small-diameter portion and a large-diameter portion provided inside the rotor core. The shaft is fixed to the small-diameter portion of the rotor core. A bearing of the compression element is arranged to support the shaft and is inserted into the large-diameter portion of the rotor core, with the shaft being cantilevered by the bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kojima, Hiroki Kamiishida, Kouki Morimoto, Kazuo Ida
  • Publication number: 20100074773
    Abstract: A lubricating oil reservoir provided at the bottom of a housing is placed under the compression mechanism or electric motor in the vicinity of the mounting bracket provided on the lower outside of a middle case. The lubricating oil reservoir can be provided efficiently using dead space formed under the compression mechanism in the housing, and the rigidity of the mounting bracket can secure the strength of the lubricating oil reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: Toshiharu Watanabe, Yutaka Satou, Masaki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20100050998
    Abstract: A supercharger for boosting intake manifold pressure in an internal combustion engine and producing electrical energy comprises an input shaft (3), a electric machine (50) including a stator (51) and a rotor (53), a compressor (70) including an impeller (71), and a planetary transmission (30) located between the input shaft (3) and the rotor (53) of the electric machine (50) and the impeller (71) of the compressor (70), all such that the input shaft 3 can drive both the impeller (71) and the rotor (53), or the rotor (53) and input shaft (3) can drive the impeller (71). The planetary transmission (30) includes an outer ring (31) operatively coupled to the input shaft (3), a sun member (39) operatively coupled to the impeller (71), planetary clusters (38) located between the outer ring (31) and sun member (39), and a carrier (37) operatively coupled to the planet clusters (38) and the rotor (53). Each planetary cluster (38) comprises an inner roller (35) and an outer roller (33).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: THE TIMKEN COMPANY
    Inventors: Xiaolan Ai, Donald Remboski
  • Publication number: 20100028165
    Abstract: When an oil-flooded screw compressor is started up in a cold environment after a long halt, start-up torque increases due to the increased viscosity of the oil that has long stayed inside the working chambers of the compressor. This has necessitated drive means with a larger capacity than that required for normal operation. An oil-flooded screw compressor according to the invention comprises: a casing; a pair of rotors each having screw-thread-shaped groove and being housed in the casing; an electric motor for rotationally driving the pair of rotors; a control device for controlling the electric motor; an oil feeding mechanism for feeding oil into working chambers formed by being enclosed by the casing and the pair of rotors in which teeth thereof are meshed to each other; and an oil separating mechanism for separating the oil from compressed gas discharged from the working chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Hirotaka KAMEYA, Masaru Yamasaki, Toshiyuki Ajima, Masaharu Senoo, Hideharu Tanaka, Norinaga Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20100021320
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric compressor integrally including a compression mechanism and an electric motor, and an object thereof is to prevent the housing from being elongated in the axial direction and improve the sealability and the mountability of the compression mechanism. According to the present invention, a hermetic terminal (45) electrically connecting the electric motor (30) and a motor drive circuit (40) is attached within a swelled-space portion (50) swelled toward radial outside of a housing (11) so as to be continuous with a mounting bracket (17) of the housing (11). Accordingly, the distance between the compression mechanism and motor drive circuit can be shortened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: Toshiharu Watanabe, Yutaka Satou, Hirotada Shimaguchi, Masaki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20100021294
    Abstract: A fan structure is disclosed to include a fan holder holding a fan motor and a fan blade, a bottom cover frame, which has smoothly arched bottom wall, a horizontal mounting flange extending around the smoothly arched bottom wall and mounted in one frame sash of a light steel structure of a ceiling, a vertical connection flange connected to the top cover shell of the fan holder, a circular center opening corresponding to the fan blade, ventilation holes spaced around the circular center opening and a fence disposed above the circular center opening and surrounding the fan blade defining with the top cover shell of the fan holder a space for causing a gate effect during rotation of the fan blade, and a grille mounted in the circular center opening of the bottom cover shell for output of currents of air caused by the fan blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2008
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventor: Tien-Bao YEH
  • Publication number: 20100021321
    Abstract: A compressor includes a compression mechanism, a motor coupled to the compression mechanism via a driving shaft, and a casing to accommodate the compression mechanism and the motor. The motor includes a stator, and a rotor disposed inside the stator and coupled to the driving shaft. The stator is spot-joined to the casing via a plurality of stator spot-joined portions at different positions along a circumferential direction about the driving shaft. Preferably, the stator spot-joined portions are disposed at different axial positions. Also, the stator spot-joined portions are preferably disposed at different circumferential positions from positions of compression mechanism-side spot-joined portions. When an accumulator is connected to the casing via a connection pipe, a straight line between any two of the plurality of stator spot-joined portions preferably crosses a vibration direction of a natural vibration mode of the accumulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Wakana Koike, Kouki Morimoto, Masanori Yanagisawa, Toshiaki Yoshii
  • Publication number: 20100011807
    Abstract: Provided is a capacity modulation compressor, comprising: a shell forming a sealed interior space; a compression mechanism, which is positioned inside the shell and modulates a capacity for compressing a working fluid; and an electromotive driving unit, which is positioned inside the shell, includes a stator and a rotor, and drives the compression mechanism; and a shaft for transferring a torque of the electromotive unit to the compression mechanism, the rotor including a rotor core, conductive bars, flux barriers, and permanent magnets, starting running by an induction torque produced due to the presence of the conductive bars, and operating at a synchronous speed by a reluctance torque produced due to the presence of the flux barriers and a magnetic torque produced to the permanent magnets, and the compressing capacity for the compression mechanism to compress the working fluid being set lower than a maximum compression capacity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyuk Nam, Kang-Wook Lee, Seung-Hyoung Ha, Geun-Hyoung Lee
  • Publication number: 20090324433
    Abstract: In a rotating-slide vacuum pump or compressor having a rotor (6) which can rotate in a housing (2) and is driven by a drive shaft, and having slides (8) which can be moved outwards in the circumferential direction herein in slots (7) in the rotor (6) and separate individual feed chambers of a working area (9), which is provided with an intake opening (1) and an outlet opening, from one another, and each assume a maximum outer position adjacent to the housing inner wall, driven by centrifugal force, the arrangement is designed such that a brushless disc-rotor synchronous motor (11, 12) is fitted in the axial direction to the rotor shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: BUSCH PRODUKTIONS GMBH
    Inventor: Uwe Friedrichsen
  • Publication number: 20090291003
    Abstract: An electrical submersible well pump assembly having a pump, a pump motor, and a seal section. The motor drives the pump via shafts rotatingly coupled with a coupling assembly. The coupling assembly maintains the shaft ends in coaxial alignment with an alignment device. The alignment device is profiled on opposite ends for mating engagement with the centering profiles on the shaft ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Donn J. Brown, Brown Lyle Wilson
  • Patent number: 7618242
    Abstract: A front head of a cylinder and a mounting plate are tightly fixed to each other. The mounting plate is welded to a casing. The mounting plate is made of steel containing 2.0% or less of carbon therein. Furthermore, a stator core of a compressor motor is welded to the casing. A hermetic sealed compressor is configured in a high-pressure domed type. A supercritical fluid is used as an operating fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahide Higuchi, Eiji Kumakura, Takashi Hirouchi
  • Patent number: 7607907
    Abstract: A roller vane pump for fluid includes a carrier which is rotatable in a housing about an axis of rotation, the carrier carrying a plurality of roller vanes which are each received in a respective slot which extends inwardly of a periphery of the carrier and permits the roller to move inwardly and outwardly in use, the housing surrounding the carrier, pumping chambers being formed between the rollers, the carrier and the housing, the rollers engaging with the housing and moving inwardly and outwardly of their respective slots as the carrier rotates, in response to the configuration of the housing so that the pumping chambers change in volume as the carrier rotates, to effect pumping of the fluid, from an inlet to an outlet of the pump, and wherein in each of the slots in which the rollers are received, there is provided a restrictor element which restricts movement of the roller inwardly of its respective slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: WOP Industrias E Comercio De Bombas Ltda.
    Inventors: Adrian Comillus Shorten, Christopher J. McCrindle, Brian Eric Knell, Stephen Gates
  • Patent number: 7600986
    Abstract: There is provided an internal intermediate pressure multistage compression type rotary compressor capable of reducing a height dimension while reducing the amount of oil to be discharged outside. An electric element and first and second rotary compression elements which are driven by a rotary shaft of the electric element disposed under the electric element are provided in a hermetic shell case. There is provided a refrigerant introduction pipe for introducing refrigerant in the hermetic shell case over the electric element into the second rotary compression element through an outside of the hermetic shell case. There is provided an oil path provided in the rotary shaft for discharging oil through an oil discharge port which is positioned at the upper end of the rotary shaft. The refrigerant introduction pipe is provided such that a part of an inlet of the refrigerant introduction pipe is positioned under the upper end of a stator of the electric element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenzo Matumoto, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kazuya Sato, Masaya Tadano, Satoshi Imai, Akira Sugawara, Takashi Sato
  • Publication number: 20090238709
    Abstract: A magnetic rotary vane pump is disclosed which includes a rotor disposed within a casing that comprises a cavity having an inlet and an outlet. The rotor includes at least one radial slot and at least one vane carried by the radial slot. The vane includes an inner edge directed towards a central axis of the rotor and an outer edge directed towards the casing. The inner edge of the vane is connected to a first magnet. The slot in the rotor includes an inner wall that abuttingly engages or faces the inner edge of the vane when the vane is fully received within the slot. The inner wall of the slot is connected to a second magnet. The two magnets are arranged so that like pole of the magnets face each other thereby biasing the vane out of the slot and against the inner wall of the casing as the rotor rotates. Accordingly, no spring or pin is required to bias the vane outward against the casing or into recesses or slots disposed in the casing wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: GAST MANUFACTURING, INC
    Inventors: Caleb Youker, Christopher J. Jaques
  • Patent number: 7591637
    Abstract: Disclosed is a G-rotor pump in which a lid and a bottom of a pump housing are made of plastic. A spacer that supports the bottom is produced as a single piece with the lid, whereby the G-rotor pump can be embodied in a particularly inexpensive manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Muehlhausen, Rolf Reinhardt
  • Publication number: 20090232679
    Abstract: A compressor includes a closed container and a compression element welded together at least three, preferably six, welding points. A suction tube for sucking refrigerant gas is attached to the closed container. A first direction and a second direction that are associated with a natural vibration mode of the suction tube do not coincide with a direction in which any two of the welding points are aligned. Accordingly, vibration of the suction tube can be reduced by arrangement of the welding points even if vibration of a motor is transmitted to the compression element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Yanagisawa, Kouki Morimoto, Takehiro Kanayama
  • Patent number: 7578660
    Abstract: A compression mechanism has a cylinder, a suction passage and a discharge passage. The suction passage of a cylinder is connected to a suction pipe. The discharge passage is open to an inner space of a sealed housing. A discharge gas is discharged through a discharge pipe. The cylinder is formed with a communicating passage extending from a suction passage to a suction pressure chamber to lead a suction gas in the suction passage into the suction pressure chamber and thereby allow a pressure of the suction gas in the suction passage to act on an outside surface of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Shimizu, Yoshitaka Shibamoto, Yoshinari Asano
  • Patent number: 7563081
    Abstract: A gas compressor includes a housing with suction and discharge ports, and a gas-compressing mechanism housed in the housing to compress a gas sucked through the suction port and discharge the compressed gas via the discharge port. The mechanism includes a cylinder defining a cylinder chamber with a circular or elliptical cross-sectional shape. The cylinder has a suction inlet and a discharge outlet. The suction inlet and the discharge outlet are opened in a peripheral wall of the cylinder chamber. A suction passage is formed along an outer periphery of the cylinder corresponding to a peripheral direction of the cylinder chamber. A discharge passage extends inside a thick portion of the cylinder along a center axis of the cylinder chamber. The suction inlet communicates with the suction port via the suction passage. The discharge outlet communicates with the discharge port via the discharge passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Calsonic Compressor Inc.
    Inventors: Seiichiro Yoda, Yongwei Shi
  • Patent number: 7563080
    Abstract: A rotary compressor includes a rotation mechanism, an annular piston and a blade. The rotation mechanism has a cylinder with an annular cylinder chamber. The annular piston is contained in the cylinder chamber eccentrically from the cylinder and sectioning the cylinder chamber into an outer compression chamber and an inner compression chamber. The blade is disposed in the cylinder chamber and sectioning each of the inner and outer compression chambers into a high-pressure side and a low-pressure side. The rotation mechanism compresses a fluid by relatively rotating the cylinder and the piston. The outer compression chamber serves as a low-stage side compression chamber for compressing a low-pressure fluid into an intermediate-pressure fluid. The inner compression chamber serves as a high-stage side compression chamber for compressing the intermediate-pressure fluid compressed in the low-stage side compression chamber into a high-pressure fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masanori Masuda
  • Publication number: 20090151928
    Abstract: A wellbore fluid production system that is disposable in a wellbore comprising a separator, a pump, a compressor, and a motor. The separator segregates the gas and liquid and delivers the gas to the compressor inlet and the liquid to the pump inlet. The pump pressurizes the liquid for delivery to the surface. The compressor pressurizes the gas for reinjection into the wellbore, injection into another subterranean formation, or for delivery to the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventor: Peter Francis Lawson
  • Publication number: 20090142208
    Abstract: The present invention comprehends a gerotor or gear pump driven by a permanent magnet motor which exhibits cogging torque, i.e., resistance to rotation when de-energized caused by interaction between permanent magnets in the rotor and teeth on the stator. Such interaction causes the rotor to come to rest in one of many defined rotational positions and resist rotation when electrical power to the motor has been terminated. The permanent magnet motor is coupled, preferably directly, to a gerotor pump having meshing rotors or a gear pump having meshing gears. When the motor is de-energized, the pump rotors or gears come to rest and their rotation is resisted by the cogging torque of the motor. The invention finds particular application in automotive transmissions and systems with parallel pumps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Robert E. Rhein, Todd A. Frerichs, Peter Bostwick
  • Patent number: 7540724
    Abstract: A compressor having a compression member whose upper surface crosses an axial direction of a rotary shaft and is inclined continuously between a top dead center and a bottom dead center and which is disposed in a cylinder to be rotated by a rotary shaft and which compresses a fluid sucked from a suction port to discharge the fluid via a discharge port; a vane disposed between the suction port and the discharge port abuts on the upper surface of the compression member and partitions a compression space in the cylinder into a low pressure chamber and a high pressure chamber; the upper surface of the compression member has a flat surface centering on an intermediate point between the top dead center and the bottom dead center and curved surfaces gradually approaching the top dead center and the bottom dead center continuously from the flat surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Ogasawara, Takahiro Nishikawa, Akihiro Suda, Masayuki Hara
  • Patent number: 7530647
    Abstract: A pump body includes a cylindrical first case for housing the plurality of rotary pumps, a second case located coaxially with the first case, and a disk spring located between the first case and the second case. In addition, a fixing means located at an entrance of the concave portion of a housing presses the second case in the insertion direction of the pump body and fixes the second case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamaguchi, Takeshi Fuchida, Shigeki Torii, Takashi Sato, Hidemi Ikai, Yukio Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Shinkai
  • Publication number: 20090110567
    Abstract: A compact lightweight air compressor is provided with a DC motor to provide versatile use in the field where no AC power source is available. The air compressor includes a intercooler storage vessel for cooling and storing the compressed air as well as a cooling fan arrangement that allows cooling of all the air compressor components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: WARN INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Bryan M. Averill, Steven M. Schile, Darren G. Fretz, Eric J. Webb
  • Patent number: 7520733
    Abstract: There is provided an internal intermediate pressure multistage compression type rotary compressor capable of reducing a height dimension while reducing the amount of oil to be discharged outside. An electric element and first and second rotary compression elements which are driven by a rotary shaft of the electric element disposed under the electric element are provided in a hermetic shell case. There is provided a refrigerant introduction pipe for introducing refrigerant in the hermetic shell case over the electric element into the second rotary compression element through an outside of the hermetic shell case. There is provided an oil path provided in the rotary shaft for discharging oil through an oil discharge port which is positioned at the upper end of the rotary shaft. The refrigerant introduction pipe is provided such that apart of an inlet of the refrigerant introduction pipe is positioned under the upper end of a stator of the electric element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenzo Matumoto, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kazuya Sato, Masaya Tadano, Satoshi Imai, Akira Sugawara, Takashi Sato
  • Patent number: 7520732
    Abstract: A pump, particularly a vane pump or roller cell pump, whereby the vane pump or roller cell pump is provided with a two-stroke contour ring, with a rotor, inside of which vanes or rollers are mounted in a manner that enables them to be radially displaced, with at least one side side plate, which seals the rotating group, with a casing and with a casing cover, whereby the rotor is driven by a shaft and the shaft is mounted inside the casing and, optionally, inside the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: LuK Fahrzeug-Hydraulik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ivo Agner, Matthias Wendt
  • Publication number: 20090010775
    Abstract: A DC brushless motor pump comprises a stator unit consisting of a plurality of silicon steel laminations and a coil, a rotor, an excitation circuit connected to the stator unit, a signal controller supplying power to the excitation circuit, and a magnetic induction module connected to the signal controller to control the pump running. Further, in the pump, a cylinder is provided between the stator unit and the rotor. An orientation component that protrudes in a radial direction is provided on an outer circumferential wall of the cylinder so that the magnetic induction module may be mounted onto the orientation component. Thus, the orientation component is used to fix the magnetic induction module for increasing the accuracy of detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventor: Hsia-Yuan HSU
  • Patent number: 7473082
    Abstract: Pumping system comprising: a progressive cavity pump comprising a helical rotor inside a helical cavity of an outer stator; motor for driving the rotor, with a motor shaft coaxial to the axis of the stator cavity; and an intermediate shaft coupled, at its ends, by respective couplings, to the rotor shaft and to the motor shaft. Two devices consisting of two of these connected parts are constructed as a male device terminated by an axial stub and a female device terminated by an axial housing receiving the stub, at least two radial screws, not aligned, one of which is a cone-point set screw, connected the stub to the female device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: PCM Pompes
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Marielle
  • Publication number: 20080317614
    Abstract: An electric compressor is disclosed in which gas in a motor housing of a rotating electric machine is drawn into a compression chamber and then discharged by the rotating electric machine. The rotating electric machine includes a stator, teeth, coils of different phases, and phase-to-phase insulation sheets provided between coils of different phases. An inlet port is provided in the motor housing. The inlet port draws gas from the outside of the motor housing. An inflow direction of the gas flowing through the inlet port intersects a coil end of one of the coils. A part of the phase-to-phase insulation sheet faces the inlet port and covers an intersection surface of the coil end that intersects the inflow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Tatsuya Horiba, Taizo Hirano
  • Publication number: 20080287872
    Abstract: A pump module is provided for use in a medical fluid dispensing system that includes a pump body made of a non-compliant material and first and second pump chambers formed in the body. Each of the chambers has a first, open end and an opposite, closed end. The pump module further includes first and second pistons in the first and second pump chambers, respectively. At least one fluid inlet and a fluid outlet are selectively in fluid communication with the first and second pump chambers. Each of the pistons extends through the open end of a respective one of the pump chambers, with each of the pistons being operably translatable within the pump chamber toward and away from the closed end of the chamber. The pistons are translatable independently of one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: SMITHS MEDICAL ASD, INC.
    Inventor: Charles R. Patzer
  • Patent number: 7448858
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Hawe Hydraulik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Georg Neumair, Gerhard Lörner
  • Patent number: 7435062
    Abstract: There is provided a rotary compressor capable of preventing deterioration of performance following plug fixing carried out to prevent falling-off of a spring member. The rotary compressor comprises a cylinder constituting a rotary compression element, a roller engaged with an eccentric portion formed in a rotary shaft of an electric element, and eccentrically rotated in the cylinder, a vane abutted on the roller to divide an inside of the cylinder into a low pressure chamber side and a high pressure chamber side, a spring member for always pressing the vane to the roller side, a housing portion of the spring member, formed in the cylinder, and opened to the vane side and a hermetically sealed container side, a plug positioned in the hermetically sealed container side of the spring member, and inserted into the housing portion to fit into a gap, and an O ring attached around the plug to seal a part between the plug and the housing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Tadano, Haruhisa Yamasaki, Kenzo Matsumoto, Dai Matsuura, Kazuya Sato, Takayasu Saito, Toshiyuki Ebara, Satoshi Imai, Atsushi Oda, Takashi Sato, Hiroyuki Matsumori
  • Patent number: 7431573
    Abstract: The apparatus for generating a mixture of reducing agent and air has a pumping agent feed pump having a pump housing and a mixing chamber into which reducing agent and air pumped by the feed pump can be introduced; the mixing chamber is embodied in a mixing chamber body which communicates directly with the pump housing of the feed pump and forms a cap of the pump housing. The feed pump has a drive shaft which protrudes into the pump housing, and the mixing chamber body is disposed at least approximately radially to the drive shaft The apparatus has a compact structural size and only a slight reducing agent-filled idle volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Sven Huber, Hanspeter Mayer
  • Publication number: 20080219875
    Abstract: A magnet drive rotary vane pump has a casing with a pump cavity. A rotor carrying a plurality of vanes is disposed within the pump cavity to be rotatable about an eccentric axis with respect to the pump cavity for drawing the fluid into the pump cavity and expelling it out of the pump cavity. The rotor is configured to have a rotor magnet which is magnetically coupled to a stator magnet mounted on the casing outwardly of the pump cavity for driving the rotor. The rotor magnet is configured to have its major portion disposed in an overlapping relation with the stator magnet. Thus, the rotor magnet can be mechanically isolated from the stator magnet disposed outside of the casing to establish a sealless coupling therebetween for realizing leakage free pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Nishikata, Tsuyoshi Kusakabe, Tsukasa Hojo, Ken Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7413419
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap
    Inventors: Emiel Lodewijk Clement De Smedt, Jan Paul Herman Heremans
  • Patent number: 7407372
    Abstract: A progressing cavity pump or a motor includes, in one embodiment, an outer tube 12, an inner tube 14, and a plurality of apertures 16. A pair of annular seal glands 18 seal the stator material to the outer tube. The stator material is injection molded into the inner tube and passes through the plurality of apertures and into an annular gap between the inner tube and the outer tube. In other embodiments, the outer housing for a progressing cavity pump or motor is provided with one or more grooves, with each groove having an outer surface radius less than the outer housing surface radius. A plurality of apertures are provided in fluid communication with the grooves. According to the method of the invention, the stator material is injected into the apertures and fills a space radially outward of the apertures to bond the stator materiaal to the outer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Robbins & Myers Energy Systems L.P.
    Inventors: Michael Guidry, Ed Vaclavik
  • Patent number: 7396217
    Abstract: A fuel pump for supplying fuel drawn from a fuel tank into an internal combustion engine comprises a rotor, a rotation shaft, bearing members and a drawing force generative means. The rotation shaft revolves integrally with the rotor. The bearing members support both axial ends of the rotation shaft. The stator is disposed on an outer circumference of the rotor and surrounds the rotor. The drawing force generative means generates drawing force for drawing fuel from the fuel tank by means of rotation force of the rotor. The rotor has a recess in a center of its axial end portion. Moreover, at least one of the bearing members is disposed in the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Eiji Iwanari