Rotary Expansible Chamber Pump Patents (Class 417/410.3)
  • Publication number: 20020114706
    Abstract: A reversible pivoting vane rotary compressor includes a housing having a generally cylindrical chamber defined by an inner wall. A rotor is mounted eccentrically within the chamber to define about the rotor a generally crescent shaped compression chamber, which narrows from a main chamber region to a constricted chamber region, which rotor has a circumferential surface. A pair of reversible intake and exhaust ports are connected communicably with the constricted chamber region. Each port selectively and alternately introduces air into the constricted chamber region while the other port exhausts air from the constricted region. At least one adjoining pair of curved vanes are pivotably attached to the rotor and extend in generally opposite arcuate directions from the rotor into the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2002
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Inventor: Stuart Bassine
  • Patent number: 6398522
    Abstract: A pump has flexible vanes arranged in a helical path in the clearance between the stator and the rotor. In one form, the helically wound vanes are present on the rotor, the stator including at least one can surface to flex the vanes. In another form, the helically wound vanes are present on the stator, the rotor including at least one can surface to flex the vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Photosynthesis (Jersey) Limited
    Inventor: Stephen Skill
  • Publication number: 20020064465
    Abstract: A ribbon drive pumping apparatus and method for liquids is disclosed wherein the inherent centrifugal separation that occurs adjacent the pump inlet is used to remove contaminants. The pump has an extended tube having an intake at a first end and an outlet at a second end. A ribbon formed of helical coils is mounted in the tube for rotation and the frequency of the coils decreases from the first end to the second end of the tube. Liquid is collected at the first end, contaminants are centrifugally separated and sorbed or bled off, an axial component of velocity of the liquid is increased via the rotating ribbon, and the purified liquid is ejected from the second end to provide pumping of the liquid. A central opening helps decrease cavitation and can be useful for pumping live fish.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2002
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Inventor: Jonathan B. Rosefsky
  • Publication number: 20020051715
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a motor compressor that reduces noise by lessening a contact area between a stator and a shell, wherein a motor element is constituted of a stator having a stator core that contacts and is fixed to an internal wall of the closed vessel, and a rotator having a magnetic substance, which is attached to the rotating shaft and is rotatably supported in the inside of the stator construct. It is essential that H<Ho is satisfied wherein H is a dimension in a rotating shaft direction of an area in which the stator core contacts the closed vessel and Ho is a dimension in a rotating shaft direction of the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2001
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Inventors: Kenzo Matsumoto, Manabu Takenaka, Tsuyoshi Higuchi, Kazuaki Fujiwara, Keijiro Igarashi, Masaaki Takezawa, Kazuhiko Arai
  • Patent number: 6361293
    Abstract: A hermetic compressor includes a housing and a compressor subassembly resiliently supported within the housing. The compressor subassembly includes a motor drivingly coupled to a compressor mechanism by means of a shaft and a motor enclosure is connected to the compressor mechanism and encases the motor. A pair of grommets are disposed between the housing and the compressor subassembly whereby the compressor subassembly is resiliently suspended within the housing. The compressor mechanism discharges compressed gas into the housing through an aperture located in the motor enclosure and a quantity of oil is disposed in a lower portion of the housing. The aperture is submerged in the quantity of oil and the discharge gas exiting through the aperture is urged through the quantity of oil forming a sound damping foam. A main bearing is connected to the motor enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Tecumseh Products Company
    Inventors: Harold M. Harper, Edwin L. Gannaway
  • Patent number: 6358020
    Abstract: A cartridge-style pump [10] for a vehicle power steering system can be assembled, tested and shipped independently of an associated pump housing [37]. The pump [10] includes an upper plate [12], a cam plate [16] having a bore [20] formed therein for receipt of a rotor [18], and a lower plate [14]. A plurality of alignment pins [22] are pressed into the lower plate [14] with the cam plate [16] and the upper plate [12] placed onto the alignment pins [22] to locate the plates in their proper position. A plurality of retaining clips [32] are placed onto a respective alignment pin [22] to hold the pump [10] together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Visteon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Matthew Staton, Bernard Dale Baughn
  • Patent number: 6329731
    Abstract: The invention concerns a driving unit including a liquid cooled electric motor (1) and a planetary gear (3). One of the three main elements of the planetary gear, namely the element used as the reaction element, drives the positive displacement pump of the cooling circuit. Preferably, this element is the ring gear with an inner toothing (23) and said ring gear itself constitutes the pump rotor. The liquid circuit passes into a hollow shaft (11) of the motor rotor and through a radiator (31) incorporated in the common casing (5) containing the motor and the gear. Such a driving unit can be applied to driving a machine or a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: The Swatch Group Management Services AG
    Inventors: Viktor Arbanas, Ernst Zysset
  • Patent number: 6322334
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotary piston system mounted within an engine or a pump and characterized in that a piston moves inside a housing, thus reducing or enlarging closed spaces. The piston is an oloid element rotating about its axis. The internal space consists of two identical shells contiguously assembled along the equatorial planes thereof. The space defined by the shells inside the housing has an enveloping surface resulting from the biaxial rotation of the oloid element, the maximum diameter of which corresponds to its longitudinal profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Inventor: Thomas Klipstein
  • Publication number: 20010038797
    Abstract: An electric motor accommodated fixedly in position within its own casing or a housing of a compressor is provided with a non-conductive member between its stator and the casing or the housing, for preventing the stator and the casing or housing from making contact with each other. The non-conductive member is made of a material having a thermal expansion coefficient greater than that of the stator, such as resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2001
    Publication date: November 8, 2001
    Applicant: MATSUSHIA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., Ltd..
    Inventors: Masahiko Makino, Tatsuhisa Taguchi, Nobuaki Ogawa, Hisakazu Kataoka, Yoshinari Asano
  • Publication number: 20010036415
    Abstract: A compact, electronically operated, rotary positive displacement pumping device having a stator which functions as an electric motor stator and also as pump stator, a rotor or rotors which function as electric motor rotor or rotors and also as pump rotor or rotors, and a highly efficient and effective magnetic flux path which has low reluctance, said flux path being used in a magnetic drive arrangement to impart rotation to the rotor or rotors to create a pumping action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Inventor: Joseph M. Pijanowski
  • Publication number: 20010026764
    Abstract: A freon compressor comprises a compressor device and an electromotor device. The electromotor device is used for driving the compressor device and consists of a stator and a rotor rotating within the stator. The stator further consists of a stator core and stator windings wired on the stator core, and a three-phase sine alternating current waveform is applied to the stator windings. Therefore, the magnetic lines of force of the electromotor device are stabilized in space and time and noise is significantly reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Publication date: October 4, 2001
    Inventors: Takashi Ogawa, Hideaki Kato, Tetsuo Nomoto, Yuuichi Izawa
  • Publication number: 20010024617
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus, for cooling a vacuum pump, in which a cooler 44 is arranged on a rotor housing 12, a cooler 45 is arranged on a rear housing 14 and a drive unit 33, a cooler 46 is arranged on a controller 37, a cooler 47 is arranged on an inverter 38, and a cooler 48 is mounted on the peripheral surface of an electric motor M is disclosed. The coolers 46, 47, 48 are arranged midway in a main supply pipe 49. The coolers 44, 45, on the other hand, are arranged midway in a subsidiary supply pipe 50. The energization and deenergization of an electromagnetic three-way valve 51 arranged at the diverging point of the main supply pipe 49 and the subsidiary supply pipe 50 is controlled by the controller 37.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2001
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishigure, Yuji Hashimoto, Masahiro Ida
  • Patent number: 6283729
    Abstract: A closed compressor includes a compression mechanism contained in a closed vessel and a motor drive section for driving the compression mechanism. A compression mechanism holder is secured to the inner surface of the closed vessel to hold the compression mechanism within the closed vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Makino, Yoshifumi Abe, Norio Yoshida
  • Patent number: 6258293
    Abstract: A refrigerating apparatus comprising a refrigeration cycle comprising at least a compressor, a condenser, a dryer, an expansion mechanism and an evaporator, a refrigerant composed mainly of a fluorocarbon type refrigerant containing no chlorine and having a critical temperature of 40° C. or higher, and a refrigerating machine oil comprising as base oil an ester oil of one or more fatty acids which contains at least two ester linkages in the molecule and has a viscosity at 40° C. of 2 to 70 cSt and a viscosity at 100° C. of 1 to 9 cSt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Iizuka, Reishi Naka, Katsumi Fukuda, Makoto Tanaka, Yoshiharu Homma, Hiroaki Hata, Hirokatsu Kousokabe, Koji Nariyoshi, Hiroshi Iwata
  • Patent number: 6257846
    Abstract: A sealed compressor has a sealed casing in which a motor section and a compression section are both accommodated, and also has a pipe connector including at least one sleeve. The sleeve has a first end and a second end opposite to each other. The first end is inserted into a sleeve insertion hole defined in the compression section to allow a refrigerant to flow therethrough, while the second end is hermetically brazed to a copper pipe disposed outside the sealed casing. The sleeve is formed by deep-drawing a copper-plated steel plate into a generally cylindrical shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Muramatsu, Hiroshi Takano, Hiroyuki Fukuhara
  • Patent number: 6247906
    Abstract: A compact, electronically operated, rotary positive displacement pumping device having a stator which functions as an electric motor stator and also as pump stator, a rotor or rotors which function as electric motor rotor or rotors and also as pump rotor or rotors, and a highly efficient and effective magnetic flux path which has low reluctance, said flux path being used in a magnetic drive arrangement to impart rotation to the rotor or rotors to create a pumping action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Inventor: Joseph M. Pijanowski
  • Publication number: 20010002976
    Abstract: A pump has flexible vanes arranged in a helical path in the clearance between the stator and the rotor. In one form, the helically wound vanes are present on the rotor, the stator including at least one can surface to flex the vanes. In another form, the helically wound vanes are present on the stator, the rotor including at least one can surface to flex the vanes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Publication date: June 7, 2001
    Inventor: Stephen Skill
  • Patent number: 6203290
    Abstract: A closed-type electrically-driven compressor comprising a compressing mechanism portion and an electric motor portion driving the compressing mechanism portion within a closed container, which is formed to be substantially cylindrical, and a terminal fitted into a hole formed in a cover body of the closed container and welded to the cover body, and wherein a mount portion and vicinities of the terminal on the cover body of the closed container are formed into a convex-shaped portion which is protuberant from a peripheral flat portion of the cover body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumi Tamura, Koichi Sekiguchi, Atsushi Shimada, Toshiyuki Terai, Tetsuya Tadokoro
  • Patent number: 6176691
    Abstract: In an electric motor, a stator is formed with multiple slots axially on the inner circumference thereof. Provided inside of each slot are an outer slot insulation film and an inner insulation film each made of a material having a different dielectric constant from the other. The slot insulation films assure such an earth capacitance as not to adversely affect a refrigerant compressor while allowing the increase in efficiency of the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Tsubokawa
  • Patent number: 6171076
    Abstract: A hermetic compressor assembly having a housing and a pair of spaced apart main bearings, disposed within the housing, which subdivide the housing into first and second discharge chambers, and a suction chamber. The suction chamber is disposed between the pair of main bearings and first and second compressor mechanisms are disposed, respectively, in the discharge chambers. Each compressor mechanism has an outboard bearing, a cylinder block, which is disposed between the outboard and main bearings and defining a cylindrical cavity, a roller piston in the cylindrical cavity and a vane supported in the cylinder block and rotationally engaging the roller piston. At least one discharge opening is in fluid communication with the respective discharge chamber and a drive motor is disposed in the suction chamber. A drive shaft drivingly connects each roller piston to the motor. A suction port is disposed within at least one of the compressor mechanisms and extends through the respective main bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Tecumseh Products Company
    Inventor: Edwin L. Gannaway