Submersible Type Patents (Class 417/423.3)
  • Patent number: 6832902
    Abstract: A ceiling fan suspended from a mounting rod and comprising a transverse support. A pair of hanging fans are distally mounted on the transverse support. A motor fixed to the mounting rod and spaced radially therefrom drives a gyro gear about an axis parallel to and spaced from the mounting rod. The gyro gear drives a central hub gear about an axis aligned with the mounting rod. The center gear is fixed to the rotatable hub coupled to the transverse support. The fan may be stopped at any point in its rotation and be pointed to direct air flow at a selection location. And the fan may be controlled by a remote control to allow a user to conveniently point the fan at any selected location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Minka Lighting, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Gajewski, Kurt A. Schulzman
  • Patent number: 6830439
    Abstract: A universal relief valve assembly (30) installed in an electric fuel pump (10) for returning fuel from an outlet portion (16) of the fuel pump back to the inlet side of the pump. A cartridge (32) is mounted in the pump and has an opening (34) extending therethrough for fuel to flow from the outlet portion of the pump back to the inlet portion of the pump. A relief valve (42) installed in the cartridge is movable from a closed position to an open position by the pressure to which the relief valve is subjected. A valve spring (52) installed in the cartridge biases the relief valve closed. The cartridge is sized to fit into a variety of fuel pumps having a range of outlet pressures, so to reduce the number of relief valve assemblies required to manufacture a line of fuel pumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Airtex Products
    Inventor: Bruce Stephens
  • Publication number: 20040247468
    Abstract: A fuel pump in which fuel can pass smoothly through through-holes of an impeller is taught.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventor: Masaki Ikeya
  • Publication number: 20040247467
    Abstract: To make a Wesco type fuel pump to supply pressure-increased fuel toward a fuel injection valve with no time delay at a time of restarting an engine with an excellent restarting property, an impeller (8) which is rotated by an electric motor (M) arranged within a motor chamber (9) is arranged within a pump chamber (7), a fuel inflow passage (6) which communicates with the outside and a discharge hole (5) which communicates with the motor chamber (9) are open to the pump chamber (7), and the discharge hole (5) is provided with a fuel holding function which inhibits air from flowing into the motor chamber (9) from the pump chamber (7) at a time when the engine stops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Toshihide Ito, Toshihiro Arai, Michiru Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20040241021
    Abstract: An electrical submersible pump runner having a core layer and a wear layer affixed to the core layer. One embodiment of the invention provides an electrical submersible pump that includes a motor section and a centrifugal pump section. A seal section and rotary gas separator may also be included. The pump is powered by an electric cable that connects the pump, located in a bore hole, to a power source on the surface. A thrust runner coated with a wear layer (e.g., polymer) is provided in the motor and/or seal section to reduce bearing temperature, provide longer bearing life, reduce costs, and facilitate overhaul. The runner may also function as a rotating up-thrust bearing when the runner is coated with a wear layer on one side that is formed with a bearing geometry. In this case, the up-thrust bearing may be eliminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Russell Charles Ide, Russell Douglas Ide
  • Patent number: 6823831
    Abstract: A flame arrestor for a fuel pump having housing extending intermediate an upstream end defining an inlet port and a downstream end defining an outlet port coupled in fluid communication with the outlet port along a fluid flow path. The fuel pump further has a motor operably coupled to a pumping element. The arrestor is provided as a body received within the housing intermediate the outlet port and the motor. The arrestor body, which is formed of an open-cell foam material having an average pore size and thickness selected as being both fluid permeable and adapted to prevent an ignition source from propagating therethrough, is disposed in the fluid flow path such that fuel from the pumping element tank may be pumped to the outlet port through the body with the ignition source being prevented from passing into the outlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Sen James Chu, David J. Sandy, Lori Ann DiLisi
  • Patent number: 6824366
    Abstract: A fuel pump in which a terminal plate can be liquid-tightly mounted to a body upper and prevented from being dislodged from the body upper without the need of other component parts is provided. The terminal plate is formed with a cut and raised portion for preventing dislodging. When the terminal plate is inserted into a terminal plate through-hole having a step portion, a projection and a press-fit portion, the cut and raised portion is closed by being pressed with the projection and allowed to reach the step portion without contacting the press-fit portion. Then, the cut and raised portion returns to its natural configuration. Thus, the terminal plate is prevented from being dislodged to fall into the fuel pump. Because the press-fit portion is not damaged when the terminal plate is inserted, the terminal plate can be placed in liquid-tight contact with the body upper block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenzo Nagasaka, Yoshihiro Takami
  • Publication number: 20040234375
    Abstract: A sump draining apparatus having a pressure transducer engaged in a receptacle that is in turn engaged in an open-ended collar of a housing. The receptacle and thus the pressure transducer is slideable in the axial direction into and out of the open-ended collar. The housing is generally cylindrical and contains a pump and motor, each of which has a generally cylindrical shape and is axially stacked in the housing. A cord having a vent and electrical leads for the pressure transducer is releasably engaged via a cord restraint at one end portion of the housing and the pressure transducer is releasably engaged in the receptacle in the open-ended collar at the other end of the housing. The receptacle and sensor may be removed, serviced, and/or replaced without the housing being opened and without the pump and motor being removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Applicant: John S. Hasslen III
    Inventors: John S. Hasslen, David M. Gartner, Ronald C. Case, Carl A. Swanson, Amber L. Overgard
  • Patent number: 6773241
    Abstract: The intermediate part is fixed between the unit case body, which integrally houses the fuel pump and the filter element, and the unit case supporting flange, which hangs the pump unit from the upper wall of the fuel tank. A height Ha of the intermediate part is set to correspond to a height difference between a height Ht of the fuel tank and the sum of a height Hb of the unit case body and a height Hc of the unit case supporting flange. The wall is arranged in the proximity of the lower end of the intermediate part to make a fuel channel formed below the wall small and avoid generation of air stagnation in the fuel channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Kyosan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Suzuki, Hironobu Oki
  • Publication number: 20040140726
    Abstract: A torque-generating apparatus comprises a first assembly (10, 25) including a generally cylindrical member of magnetically soft material and having a longitudinal axis and a second assembly (2) arranged coaxially within the first assembly and including an electromagnetic winding (4). The first assembly (10, 25) and the second assembly (2) are rotatable relative to each other about the axis. Relative rotation between the first (10, 25) and second (2) assemblies induces a magnetic field which generates rotational torque between the first and second assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Inventor: Gregson William Martin Spring
  • Patent number: 6761544
    Abstract: A component, such as a submersible motor, having a lubrication distribution system. The component includes an outer housing having a rotatable shaft disposed within the housing. The shaft is supported by one or more bearings and a lubricant is disposed within the housing. A conduit is provided for conducting a lubricant from the lubricant pump to desired locations, such as the one or more bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Patrick M. McCartney
  • Publication number: 20040131464
    Abstract: A rotary machine is provided, such as an electromechanical device, that includes a housing having a lubricating oil disposed within the housing. A shaft is rotatable about an axis relative to the housing. The shaft has a passage extending to an end portion of the shaft. A screw includes a body arranged coaxial to the shaft, and preferably affixed thereto. The screw includes helical blades extending outwardly from the body adjacent to a shroud. The shroud is arranged about the screw forming a gap between the blades and the shroud. Rotation of the shaft and screw pump the oil to the end portion of the shaft and into the passage from which the oil may be delivered to other machine components, such as the bearings. A flow straightener having radial fins may be arranged between the screw and the passage for controlling the flow of oil into the passage preventing a vortex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Philip Conrad Shaffer, Robert Grennan
  • Publication number: 20040120837
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high temperature pothead used to provide power to a submersible motor. More specifically, the present invention provides a high temperature pothead that does not require elastomeric sealing elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventor: Paul Ebner
  • Publication number: 20040115077
    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: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eiji Iwanari
  • Publication number: 20040109773
    Abstract: A fuel supply unit, includes:
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Applicant: HITACHI UNISIA AUTOMOTIVE, LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Mashimo, Hajime Hosoya, Hiroshi Okada, Masato Kumagai
  • Patent number: 6739844
    Abstract: A vehicle regenerative-type fuel pump which reduces the possible accumulation and effects of contamination relative to impellers with outer ring members. The outlet port on the pump cover member is enlarged and the C-shaped grove is positioned radially outwardly, which causes an increased outlet area and fluid flow around and through the impeller and through the outlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: DeQuan Yu, Paul Fisher
  • Publication number: 20040086403
    Abstract: A fuel pump is provided that is submersible within a fuel, for example, within a fuel tank of an automotive vehicle and is particularly suited for use with high alcohol content fuels that tend to contain ionic species. The fuel pump comprises an electric motor that includes a commutator and a negative brush electrode that is connected to a negative terminal of an external power supply. The electric motor is at least partially disposed within a metal shell that is in contact with the fuel. The metal shell is also connected to the negative terminal of the external power supply. During operation, a negative electrical potential is applied to the metal shell to preferentially react with ions within the fuel. In this manner, the metal shell serves as a sacrificial anode to reduce the concentration of ionic species in the fuel, thereby decreasing reactions with the brush electrode and extending the useful life of the fuel pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Inventor: Dave Dokas
  • Patent number: 6729848
    Abstract: A sump draining apparatus having an pressure transducer engaged in a receptacle that is in turn engaged in an open-ended collar of a housing. The receptacle and thus the pressure transducer is slideable in the axial direction into and out of the open-ended collar. The housing is generally cylindrical and contains a pump and motor, each of which has a generally cylindrical shape and is axially stacked in the housing. A cord having a vent and electrical leads for the pressure transducer is releasably engaged via a cord restraint at one end portion of the housing and the pressure transducer is releasably engaged in the receptacle in the open-ended collar at the other end of the housing. The receptacle and sensor may be removed, serviced, and/or replaced without the housing being opened and without the pump and motor being removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Inventor: John S. Hasslen, III
  • Patent number: 6729847
    Abstract: A bilge pump includes an outer housing having an interior wall separating a first cavity and a second cavity, an on/off electrical switch located within the first cavity, and a single-piece float located within the second cavity and having a float body and an actuator arm extending outwardly therefrom, wherein the float operably connects the electrical switch through an aperture in the interior wall, and wherein the float is configured such that the aperture remains above a water line within the second cavity during operation of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Attwood Corporation
    Inventor: Christopher A. Rossman
  • Publication number: 20040076524
    Abstract: A water supply system has its housing and pressure tank sized so that the pressure tank fits within the housing, thus avoiding the need for another separate opening in the ground for the pressure tank. With this arrangement, there is less work in installation of the system and in maintaining the system. A control box for the system can be in the housing near the top where it is accessible or it can be separate. Preferably, the pump will be driven by a variable speed pump or a stop cycle valve will be used. Preferably, the pressure tank has a capacity of less than 40 gallons and the housing has an enlarged portion and a reduced portion with the pressure tank being mounted within said enlarged portion of said housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Inventor: Dwight Eugene Hanson
  • Publication number: 20040076532
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a canned motor which can be manufactured more easily to lower a manufacturing cast, and a canned motor pump having such canned motor. The canned motor comprises a stator (12), a rotor (16) provided in the stator, and a main shaft (14) for supporting the rotor. The main shaft comprises a hollow pipe (50), and plug members (52, 54) fitted into both ends of the hollow pipe, and the plug members have respective through-holes (52a, 54a).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Miyazaki, Hiroshi Uchida, Kenichi Kajiwara, Kozo Matake, Kaname Kurita
  • Patent number: 6719525
    Abstract: A submerged motor vane wheel rotation direction control structure includes a blade pivoted to a locating block inside of the water guide chamber of a submerged motor, a vane wheel, the vane wheel having sloping teeth radially extended from the motor shaft of the submerged motor, which push the blade outwards toward to an open position for the passing of flow of water upon clockwise rotation of the vane wheel, and is forced into engagement with the blade to hold the blade in a close position upon counter-clockwise rotation of the vane wheel, causing the submerged motor to reverse the vane wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Inventor: Chi-Der Chen
  • Patent number: 6716000
    Abstract: A fuel delivery unit (2) for delivering fuel from a tank (1) in which a support (6) connects a flange (4) to a surge chamber (5) through a pivot bearing (12). The pivot bearing (12) makes it possible to introduce the delivery unit (2) in an elongated state into the fuel tank (1) through a particularly small opening. Within the fuel tank (1) the surge chamber (5) is locked in its designated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Siemens AG
    Inventors: John Appleton, Simon Browning
  • Patent number: 6715994
    Abstract: A bilge pump having a mounting member adapted to be mounted to a vessel and a base movably engageable with the mounting member and positionable in at least two positions relative to the mounting member. A housing is releasably coupled to the base and defines a cavity for receiving a motor. A locking ring is engageable with the motor and the housing to secure the motor in the cavity while allowing the motor to be movable with respect to the housing. The cavity in the housing communicates with an outlet portion defining a socket. An outlet nozzle having an outlet end is movably received in the socket so that the outlet end can be moved relative to the housing. These features can be employed individually or in combination to make the bilge pump highly adaptable, thereby facilitating installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Shurflo Pump Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Anil B. Patel, Brian A. Babson
  • Patent number: 6712590
    Abstract: A device for drawing fuel for a motor vehicle tank, the device comprising a drawing pump (100) and a fine filter (210) placed upstream from the pump (100), and wherein: the housing (200) of the filter possesses a degassing orifice (222) in the top portion thereof; the drawing pump (100) also possesses a degassing orifice (130); and the filter housing (200) is fitted with a duct (224) which extends the degassing orifice (222) of the housing (200), opens out into a cavity (220) common to the degassing orifice of the pump (100), and possesses a mouth (227) situated at a height that is equal to or lower than that of the degassing orifice (130) of the pump (100), said duct (224) being shaped so as to constitute a siphon suitable for conveying fuel around the mouth (227) to the inside of the filter housing (200) while the drawing pump (100) is being stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Marwal Systems
    Inventors: Frédérico Villela, Anne Stathopoulus
  • Patent number: 6709234
    Abstract: An impeller shaft assembly, coupler and molten metal pump are described, in which a coupling member is configured to be secured to a pump drive shaft and includes a socket part that is defined by a socket wall formed about and extending along an axis. The socket wall includes a plurality of coupling shaft engaging surfaces and a plurality of socket corner surfaces joining the shaft engaging surfaces. The socket corner surfaces are disposed radially outward from adjacent shaft engaging surfaces with respect to the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Pyrotek, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald E. Gilbert, Robert D. Dion, Mark A. Palmer, Kristopher M. Ratzlaff, Roger Kauffman, Charles Seale
  • Publication number: 20040052645
    Abstract: The method is provided for operating a pump unit with a centrifugal pump which is driven by an electric motor and which comprises a rotor (11) running in a split tube (10). The rotor space (17) is separated with respect to the stator (9) in a fluid-tight manner. On running the motor to its operational rotational speed the fluid located in the rotor space (17) due to the increasing rotational speed evaporates and is removed so that the motor finally functions as a dry-runner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventor: Jorgen Christensen
  • Publication number: 20040052654
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel pump (3) that is mounted in a fuel tank (1) of a motor vehicle. Said pump has a preliminary phase (6) and a principal phase (7), which are driven by an electromotor (5). The principal phase (7) lies directly in front of a flow pipe (17) to the internal combustion engine. The fuel that is transported by the principal phase (7) is taken in from a component (2, 21), into which the fuel of the preliminary phase (6) has been transported. As the principal phase (7) is located downstream of the electromotor (5), an impermissible heating of said electromotor is prevented. The fuel pump (3) also allows the starting times of the internal combustion engine to be extremely short.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Rolf Reinhardt, Thomas Werner
  • Patent number: 6702027
    Abstract: A gas dissipation chamber, installed between the tubing crossover and the production tubing string, for a through tubing conveyed ESP pumping system prevents gas discharged from the gas separator from entering the pump intake and subsequently gas locking the pumping system. The gas dissipation chamber secures to a lower end of production tubing. An electrical motor assembly is suspended on the lower end of the chamber. The gas separator and the pump are lowered through the tubing and land in the chamber in operative engagement with the motor assembly. Well fluid flows into the chamber to the separator, and gas separated by the separator vents out of the chamber into the casing. Liquid separated from the well fluid by the separator is pumped by the pump into the production tubing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: David L. Olson, Steven K. Tetzlaff
  • Patent number: 6698916
    Abstract: An underwater agitation pump comprises an impeller casing in which an impeller driven by a motor is rotatably accommodated, an agitated material suction guide cylinder of a hollow cylinder which has one-end opening portion thereof integrally communicably connected to a center suction opening portion of the impeller while passing through a center opening of the impeller casing and having the other-end opening portion thereof extended downwardly, the suction guide cylinder further forming an agitated material suction passage therewithin, and an agitator mounted on an outer peripheral portion of the other-end opening portion of the agitated material suction guide cylinder. Due to such a constitution, the agitated material suction passage formed in the inside of the agitated material suction guide cylinder can ensure a sufficiently wide agitated material inflow area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Toyo Denki Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshinobu Araoka
  • Publication number: 20040037713
    Abstract: The fuel feed system has a feed unit (22), which has having an electric motor (32) as a drive mechanism and a pumping part (34) driven by the electric motor; the pumping part (34) is disposed offset from the electric motor (32), in the direction of the pivot axis (33) of the electric motor. A filter (24) is disposed beside the feed unit (22) and fuel pumped by the pumping part (34) flows through it. The feed unit (22) and the filter (24) are disposed in separate chambers (10, 20) of a common housing (16), between which chambers there is an overflow opening (60) for the fuel pumped by the pumping part (34). The housing (16) is tightly closed by means of a cap (26). The electric motor (32) and the pumping part (34) are inserted as separate structural units into a chamber (10) of the housing (16) and are braced against one another by at least one resilient element (58) in the direction of the pivot axis (33) of the electric motor (32).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Peter Schelhas, Asta Reichl, Stephan Kleppner, Michael Kuehn, Mathias Rollwagen, Hans-Peter Braun, Hans-Joerg Fees, Dieter Schreckenberger, Thomas Wieland, Jochen Rose
  • Patent number: 6692225
    Abstract: A liquid pressing device includes mainly a power device consisting of a motor with a spindle, an upper cap on the motor and a lower cap under the motor, a shell for containing the power device, a helical device fitted around the spindle of the motor and having a conical body and a plurality of helical leaves around the conical body. The helical leaves spiral down to form a helical groove between every two helical leaves for water to pass through. The helical leaves have thickness gradually becoming thinner and thinner downward, and the helical grooves gradually become narrower and narrower downward to add pressure to water flowing up therein. Then the conical member functions to add second pressure to water passing through, sending it to a very high location. Then the liquid pressing device can function as a water pump or a propeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Inventor: Po Hung Lin
  • Patent number: 6688844
    Abstract: An impeller for a fuel pump includes an impeller body having a substantially disk shape. A plurality of radially outwardly extending vanes extend from the impeller body with a plurality of partitions interposed therebetween. The partitions and the vanes define a plurality of vane grooves each including an inlet portion, an exit portion and an arcuate shaped portion interconnecting the inlet portion and the exit portion. The inlet portion of each of the vane grooves has a straight section which is substantially perpendicular to and extends inward from an adjacent face. The vane grooves extend inward from the inlet portion such that the exit portions of two aligned vane grooves define a vane groove tip. The exit portion of each of the vane grooves includes a straight section such that the straight sections of two aligned exit portions define an included angle therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: DeQuan Yu
  • Publication number: 20040018104
    Abstract: An induction liquid pump includes a power unit and a circulation unit that are oppositely mountable to a tank with a plurality of fixation units. The liquid pump power unit includes a power induction unit to produce a variable magnetic field. The submersible liquid pump circulation unit includes an impeller unit to agitate or induce liquid flow in response to the variable magnetic field. A magnetic scrubber includes a power unit and a pad unit. The scrubber power unit produces a variable magnetic field in response to supplied power. When the scrubber power unit is held against a first surface of a tank, the scrubber pad unit is held oppositely against a second surface of the tank. The scrubber pad unit moves in response to the variable magnetic field to scrub the second surface of the tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2003
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Inventor: Charles E. Watkins
  • Patent number: 6682309
    Abstract: The present invention is a submersible pump system that includes a main housing, which is watertight and contains a submersible pump therein. There is a liquid suction inlet connected to the main housing and adapted for functional connection to a liquid source. This may be a direct pipe connection, or an open intake. There is also a one way check valve functionally connected to the main housing and located downstream from the liquid suction inlet, adapted to permit liquid to flow from the inlet to the main housing and to prevent liquid from oppositely flowing. The submersible pump has electrical power wiring and control wiring connected thereto and extending out of the main housing with a watertight seal. The pump has a submersible pump inlet to pump liquid from the main housing, and a pump outlet directly connected to a liquid flow outlet extending out through the main housing for liquid distribution therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Inventor: John A. Reid
  • Patent number: 6676382
    Abstract: Motor speed, motor amps, float position and elapsed run time are monitored to determine whether a sump pump is in a normal condition, a jammed condition, an inadequate pumping rate condition, a dry running condition or a stuck float condition. A processor is configured to increase the motor speed in response to an inadequate pumping rate condition, and to rapidly energize the motor clockwise and counterclockwise in response to a jammed condition or a stuck float condition. The processor provides signals to a display for displaying information about the condition that the pump is in. The pump is set up to receive power from either an AC power source or a battery power source. Availability of the AC power source is monitored and the pump is switched to operate from the battery power source when AC power is unavailable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Campbell Hausfeld/Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventors: Harold Leighton, Philip A. Mayleben, Scott R. Graham, Buford A. Cooper
  • Patent number: 6668806
    Abstract: A fuel pump assembly for a fuel delivery module is operable to pressurize fuel from a fuel tank to an internal combustion engine. The fuel pump assembly includes a fuel pump having an inlet and an outlet, an isolator having an inlet end and an outlet end, and a fuel filter having an inlet end and an outlet end. The outlet end of the fuel filter is attached to the inlet end of the isolator. The outlet end of the isolator is attached to the pump inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Lee Daniel Miller
  • Patent number: 6666664
    Abstract: A motor protection system that utilizes a motor protector in combination with a submersible motor. The motor protector allows for the free flow of an internal lubricating liquid therethrough to the connected submersible motor. The internal liquid prevents the migration of surrounding, environmental liquids to the interior of the motor while allowing the internal pressure of the motor to equalize with external pressure. Additionally, the design allows the use of a power cable connector that can be coupled to the submersible motor without being sealed with respect to the environmental fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Edwin Gross
  • Patent number: 6659713
    Abstract: Impeller 21 is rotatably disposed within a pump housing that includes pump cover 5 and pump body 18. Inlet port 19, body groove 31, partition 33 and blocking wall 37 are formed in the pump body 18. The body groove 31 defines a first pump channel 35, and the blocking wall 37 defines a enlarged channel portion 38. Outlet port 20, cover groove 32 and partition 34 are formed in the pump cover 5. The cover groove 32 defines a second pump channel 36. Distance {circle around (1)} between a terminal end of the first pump channel 35 and a terminal end of the outlet port 20, distance {circle around (2)} between a starting end of the enlarged channel portion 38 and a starting end of the second pump channel 36, length {circle around (3)} of the partition 34 and length {circle around (4)} of the partition 33 each are chosen to be optimum values such that the amount of fluid that is discharged through the outlet port 20 and the amount of fluid that flows in though the inlet port 19 increase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Aisin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Fujii, Seiji Murase
  • Publication number: 20030198562
    Abstract: A submersible pump assembly (100) for removing a production inhibiting fluid (102) from a well (110) and method for use of the same is disclosed. The submersible pump assembly (100) includes a composite coiled tubing (120) and a submersible pump (112) coupled to the tubing (120) that is disposed within a fluid accumulation zone (104) of the well (110). The tubing (120) defines a fluid communication path substantially from the fluid accumulation zone (104) to the surface. The submersible pump (112) includes a port (114) for intaking production inhibiting fluid (102). The tubing (120) includes a composite layer in which energy conductors are integrally positioned. The energy conductors provide power to the submersible pump (112) such that the production inhibiting fluid (102) may be pumped from the fluid accumulation zone (104) to the surface via the fluid communication path of the tubing (120).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Inventors: Matthew Eric Blauch, Steven Robert Grundmann
  • Publication number: 20030190243
    Abstract: An electrical cord entry system for a submersible pump. The cord entry system includes a receptacle assembly for providing unimpeded transmission of electrical power and/or electrical signals through a pump housing of the pump, and a connector assembly for interfacing with the receptacle assembly. The receptacle assembly includes a ground tab for engaging the pump housing to electrically ground the pump housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: Shane Belmont Eddy, Steven Zoltan Muzslay, Ronald L. Martin, Mark Anthony Augustyniak
  • Publication number: 20030156947
    Abstract: A motor protection system that utilizes a motor protector in combination with a submersible motor. The motor protector allows for the free flow of an internal lubricating liquid therethrough to the connected submersible motor. The internal liquid prevents the migration of surrounding, environmental liquids to the interior of the motor while allowing the internal pressure of the motor to equalize with external pressure. Additionally, the design allows the use of a power cable connector that can be coupled to the submersible motor without being sealed with respect to the environmental fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventor: Edwin Gross
  • Publication number: 20030152470
    Abstract: A pump station including a structure that includes at least one inlet chamber and at least one discharge chamber arranged on a different level. A separating wall is arranged within the structure between the two chambers, and at least one pump delivers a liquid from the inlet chamber through the separating wall into the discharge chamber. The discharge chamber includes a discharge opening having an upper edge which is below the liquid level that is present in a discharge downstream of the discharge chamber. The pump is provided with an upwardly extending liquid conveying device which ends in an open outlet that opens into the discharge chamber above the upper edge of the discharge opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: KSB Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Hoehn, Hans-Dieter Knoepfel, Gerhard Meyer, Wolfgang Roesler, Hartmut Rosenberger
  • Patent number: 6602059
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electrical submersible pump assembly having a submersible pump, a submersible electrical motor drivingly connected to the pump, and a seal assembly disposed between the submersible pump and the motor. The seal assembly is generally of tubular construction and provides fluid communication between the seal assembly cavity and the motor, such fluid communication being in a circuitous path effecting gravity segregation of contaminants including particulate solids in wellbore fluids. The seal assembly thereby controls and minimizes migration of the contaminants into the body of the seal section and on into the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Wood Group Esp, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Howell, Greg Wilson
  • Publication number: 20030143092
    Abstract: A water supply system has its housing and pressure tank sized so that the pressure tank fits within the housing, thus avoiding the need for another separate opening in the ground for the pressure tank. With this arrangement, there is less work in installation of the system and in maintaining the system. The control box for the system can be in the housing near the top where it is accessible or can be separate. Preferably, the pump will be driven by a variable speed pump or a stop cycle valve will be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Inventor: Dwight Eugene Hanson
  • Publication number: 20030138326
    Abstract: The present invention is a submersible pump system that includes a main housing, which is watertight and contains a submersible pump therein. There is a liquid suction inlet connected to the main housing and adapted for functional connection to a liquid source. This may be a direct pipe connection, or an open intake. There is also a one way check valve functionally connected to the main housing and located downstream from the liquid suction inlet, adapted to permit liquid to flow from the inlet to the main housing and to prevent liquid from oppositely flowing. The submersible pump has electrical power wiring and control wiring connected thereto and extending out of the main housing with a watertight seal. The pump has a submersible pump inlet to pump liquid from the main housing, and a pump outlet directly connected to a liquid flow outlet extending out through the main housing for liquid distribution therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Inventor: John A. Reid
  • Patent number: 6592342
    Abstract: A water supply system has its housing and pressure tank sized so that the pressure tank fits within the housing, thus avoiding the need for another separate opening in the ground for the pressure tank. With this arrangement, there is less work in installation of the system and in maintaining the system. The control box for the system can be in the housing near the top where it is accessible or can be separate. Preferably, the pump will be driven by a variable speed pump or a stop cycle valve will be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Inventor: Dwight Eugene Hanson
  • Publication number: 20030124005
    Abstract: A deep well submersible pump has a pump housing containing an electric motor. The motor is radially spaced from the pump housing interior surface defining an annular channel through the pump housing from an inlet opening to an outlet opening of the housing. The motor is mounted on a cowling that has an exterior surface. A plurality of deswirler blades extend between the pump housing interior surface and the cowling exterior surface. As the deswirler blades extend through the housing interior, a spacing between the cowling exterior surface and the housing interior surface expands radially. The cowling exterior surface and the pump housing interior surface define an annular liquid flow path that is first directed radially outward from the inlet opening and then curves around the cowling and is directed axially through the deswirler blades to the annular channel between the motor and the pump housing interior surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2001
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Applicant: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Peter K. Bostwick, Donald E. Morgan
  • Patent number: 6579078
    Abstract: A multi-stage centrifugal compressor with an integral high-speed motor for compressing air has a variable speed permanent magnet motor having electronically commutated stator coils surrounding a rotor carrying permanent magnets, wherein there is a gap between the coils and the rotor. The rotor has a magnetic steel rotor shaft rotatably supported at each end by pressurized oil lubricated hydrodynamic bearings. The stator coils have a plurality of stator wires extending longitudinally along the stator and continuing around the ends of the stator to define end turns. The compressor also has a plurality of compressor impellers mounted to turn with the rotor shaft and cooler for cooling the bearings, rotor and stator coils comprising a pump for introducing cooled oil into the bearings, said bearing configured so that oil exiting from the bearings splashes over the supported ends of the shaft and splashes over the end turns of the stator coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Elliott Turbomachinery Co., Inc.
    Inventors: M. Raymond Hill, Milovan R. Grbic
  • Patent number: 6579077
    Abstract: A deep well submersible pump has a pump housing containing an electric motor. The motor is radially spaced from the pump housing interior surface defining an annular channel through the pump housing from an inlet opening to an outlet opening of the housing. The motor is mounted on a cowling that has an exterior surface. A plurality of deswirler blades extend between the pump housing interior surface and the cowling exterior surface. As the deswirler blades extend through the housing interior, a spacing between the-cowling exterior surface and the housing interior surface expands radially. The cowling exterior surface and the pump housing interior surface define an annular liquid flow path that is first directed radially outward from the inlet opening and then curves around the cowling and is directed axially through the deswirler blades to the annular channel between the motor and the pump housing interior surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Company
    Inventors: Peter K. Bostwick, Donald E. Morgan