Coaxial Reciprocating Pumping Members Patents (Class 417/487)
  • Publication number: 20140373726
    Abstract: System for supplying a pressurized liquid for machines for preparing beverages comprising a first cylinder (2a) and plunger (2b) assembly (2), said plunger (2b) defining inside its cylinder (2a) a chamber (5) for housing said liquid, said plunger (2b) being able to accumulate, in an active position, potential energy from the compression force applied to a fluid, said potential energy being susceptible of being transmitted as a pressure to the liquid inside said chamber (5), and it is characterised in that it comprises a second cylinder (3a) and plunger (3b) assembly (3), said second plunger (3b) defining inside its cylinder (3a) a chamber (4) for housing said fluid, said first (2) and second (3) assemblies of plunger (2b, 3b) and cylinder (2a, 3a) being associated so that the plunger (2b) of the first assembly (2) is susceptible of accumulating, in its active position, potential energy from the compression force applied to the fluid housed inside the second assembly (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Xavier Samso Besora, Angel Marquez Zamora
  • Patent number: 8408235
    Abstract: A head for an air pump includes a housing, a nozzle, an urging mechanism, and an end cap. The housing includes a first compartment defined therein and including a first end defining an opening port and a second end enclosed by an end wall. The housing further includes a hole extending therethrough and into the first compartment. The nozzle device is disposed within the first compartment. The urging mechanism includes a cam, an axle and a pivoting member. The cam is disposed in the first compartment and abuts against the nozzle device. The axle is inserted into the housing through the holes and engages with the cam. The pivoting member is connected to the cam by engaging with a terminal end of the axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Inventor: Scott Wu
  • Patent number: 8353689
    Abstract: A vibratory cavitation pump is provided that includes a working cylinder having an fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, a rod extending into the cylinder, a piston fixed to the rod, a plate fixed to the rod and spaced from the piston, an activator slidably mounted to the rod between the piston and the plate and an oscillating pumping mechanism operably connected to the rod to move the rod with respect to the working cylinder. The sliding activator creates cavitation in the fluid being pumped to increase the ease of pumping the fluid, such as high viscosity fluids. The pump can also include an external cylinder disposed around the working cylinder to impart rotational motion to the incoming fluid, thereby enhancing the cavitation created in the fluid by the pump, rendering the fluid easy to displace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Inventors: Grigori Lishanski, Oleg Lishanski
  • Patent number: 8202250
    Abstract: A delivery device includes a durable housing portion and a separable disposable portion that selectively engage and disengage from each other. The disposable housing portion secures to the patient-user and may be disposed of after it has been in use for a prescribed period. Components that normally come into contact with a patient-user or with an infusion medium, including a pump device, are supported by the disposable housing portion for disposal after the prescribed use, while the durable housing portion supports other components such as electronics for controlling delivery of the infusion medium from the reservoir and a drive device and drive linkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventor: William H. Stutz, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20110255993
    Abstract: The current application discloses various embodiments where a pre-compressive force is applied to a defined zone of the fluid end of a pump so as to extend the operational life of the fluid end by reducing stress and fatigue level at the defined zone of the fluid end. In one embodiment, the defined zone comprises one or more recesses near the piston bore of the fluid end. In another embodiment, the defined zone comprises one or more recesses near the inlet bore of the fluid end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventors: Brian Ochoa, Philippe Gambier, Aude Faugere, Christopher Shen, Joe Hubenschmidt, Tze Wei Chua, Walter Taylor
  • Publication number: 20110070112
    Abstract: A piston pump assembly includes a first pump having a first cylinder member inserted in a piston hole of a pump housing, and a first piston inserted in the first cylinder member, and a second pump having a second cylinder member inserted in the piston hole, and an annular second piston slidably fitted in an annular groove formed in the outer periphery of the first piston, and also axially slidably inserted in the second cylinder member. The first cylinder member axially presses the second cylinder member, thereby preventing the second cylinder member from being dropped out of the piston hole. The second cylinder member has an annular seal surface in contact with a shoulder surface formed on the inner periphery of the piston hole. Strain-absorbing protrusions are formed on the end of the second cylinder member in abutment with the first cylinder member. The protrusions are compressed when they are pressed by the first cylinder member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sumimoto, Tomoo Harada
  • Publication number: 20110052435
    Abstract: A plate pump assembly for pumping various fluids including heavy crude. The plate pump assembly includes first and second chambers each having lower and upper valves. Primary upper and lower eccentric cams within the plate pump assembly are connected to an upper plate and a lower plate. A secondary eccentric cam is connected to a piston that separates the first and second chambers. A drive shaft of the assembly rotates the primary upper and lower eccentric cams to actuate the upper and lower plates alternately concealing and revealing the lower and upper valves for the first and second chambers. The drive shaft further rotates the secondary eccentric cam to actuate the piston alternately decreasing and increasing an area of the first and second chambers to receive fluids through the lower valves and compress the area within the first and second chambers to push the fluids through the upper valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventor: Michael Brent Ford
  • Publication number: 20110020143
    Abstract: A method of controlling a fluid pump. The pump has a plurality of oscillating pistons that travel along a central axis of a piston sleeve. A plurality of pistons is of similar mass within a piston sleeve are provided, and adjacent pistons are positioned to be 180 degrees apart in phase oscillations. An electric coil is provided for each piston, and the position of adjacent pistons is determined. The current to one of the electric coils for a piston is adjusted to maintain the 180 degree difference in phase between oscillations of adjacent pistons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Nicholas P. Van Brunt, John A. Kivisto, Theodore W. Jagger
  • Publication number: 20110020156
    Abstract: A gaseous fluid pump having at least one cylinder having a wall defining an inner volume and containing a central axis. First and second pistons that both move along the central axis, wherein the first piston and second piston have similar mass. The first and second pistons are propelled by magnetic forces in an oscillating motion with a 180 degree phase difference between the first and second pistons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Nicholas P. Van Brunt, John A. Kivisto, Theodore W. Jagger
  • Publication number: 20100316517
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a swash plate which fulfils the basic properties required for a swash plate, which are stable boundary lubricating state by lubricating oil, without forming a metal spray coating layer comprising a copper type or aluminum type material on the surface of the substrate 3a forming the swash plate 3 of the swash plate type compressor as an intermediate layer. The substrate 3a of the swash plate 3 comprises a disk-shaped steel sheet formed by pressing a rolled steel sheet into a disk shape, and both surfaces of the disk-shaped steel sheet is ground. Thus, resin coating layers 10 containing fluororesin, which has superior seizure resistance, can be strongly fixed to the substrate without the need to form a metal spray coating layer on the surface of the substrate. This improves the durability of the swash plate type compressor using carbon dioxide gas as a refrigerant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventors: Naonari Tanigawa, Yoshio Oki
  • Publication number: 20100278668
    Abstract: A fluid pump assembly includes a double acting fluid cylinder and a pump. The fluid cylinder includes a housing, a piston reciprocally disposed within the housing, and a piston rod carrying the piston and extending from the housing. The piston rod has an end. A pump includes a pump body, a pressure loaded seal and a wiper seal. The pump body has a pump chamber and a rod port. The piston rod extends through the rod port and the end is positioned within the pump chamber. The pressure loaded seal is positioned within the rod port around the piston rod and has a pressure loaded end face toward the pump chamber. The wiper seal is positioned within the rod port around the piston rod on a side of the pressure loaded seal opposite from the pump chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventor: John F. Trout
  • Publication number: 20090317274
    Abstract: Axial piston hydraulic pump, comprising at least one piston (2), coupled by suitable transmission means (103, 113) to drive means (3) and slidable with a reciprocating motion inside a cylinder (101), the said cylinder (101) communicating with a fluid intake passage (151) and a fluid delivery passage (161, 301), one-way means (121, 501) of controlling the flow of the fluid being provided in both passages; the said delivery passage (301) communicates, downstream of the said one-way flow control means (501), with a constricted flow discharge member (401, 411, 431, 441).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Inventor: Gian Carlo Fronzoni
  • Patent number: 7377406
    Abstract: A portable grease gun with a dual pressure output capability which can be selectively changed by the user with little effort. The larger diameter plunger is slidable within a plunger retainer. The larger diameter plunger has a bore through them in which a smaller diameter plunger is slidable. The smaller diameter plunger moves when an actuating lever is operated to compress grease in the grease gun. The larger diameter plunger may be adjusted to remain static during operation of the actuating lever or it may be adjusted to move during all or part of the compression stroke of the actuating lever. A high pressure can be generated by movement of the smaller diameter plunger alone, or a high flow volume can be generated by movement of the smaller and larger diameter plungers in unison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Weems Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Don R. Linkletter, R. Mark Weems
  • Patent number: 7353746
    Abstract: A hand pump for inflating rafts or similar inflatables has a first piston with a relatively low pumping volume which is capable of pumping relatively small volumes of air into a raft as the raft becomes full and is approaching its maximum pressure, and a second piston with a larger pumping volume that can pump larger volumes of air into a raft when it is empty or only partially filled. Both pistons are operated with a single plunger. When the plunger is rotated in a first direction to a first position a locking mechanism allows it to operate only the first piston, and when the plunger is rotated in a second direction to a second position the locking mechanism allows it to operate only the second piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: K-Pump
    Inventor: James D. Kutella
  • Patent number: 7337927
    Abstract: A portable grease gun with a dual pressure output capability which can be selectively changed by the user with little effort. A larger diameter plunger is longitudinally coupled to an extension. The larger diameter plunger and its extension are variable in length by manual rotation of the extension relative to the larger diameter plunger. The larger diameter plunger is slidable within a plunger retainer over a limited range and is not free to rotate within the plunger retainer. The larger diameter plunger and the plunger extension have aligned bores through them in which a smaller diameter plunger is slidable. The smaller diameter plunger moves when an actuating lever is operated to compress grease in the grease gun. The larger diameter plunger may be adjusted to remain static during operation of the actuating lever or it may be adjusted to move during all or part of the compression stroke of the actuating lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Weems Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Don R. Linkletter, R. Mark Weems
  • Patent number: 7156626
    Abstract: A double side action type reciprocating compressor is provided. The double side action type reciprocating compressor includes suction valve assemblies and discharge valve assemblies loaded in a suction passage and a discharge passage to thus control suction of fluid and respectively combined with each other so that movement direction of fluid flowing inside the suction valve assemblies and the discharge valve assemblies is vertical to the movement direction of the reciprocating motor. Accordingly, it is possible to remove the suction passage and the suction valve directly formed or loaded in the piston. Therefore, it is possible to easily process the pistons. Because the diameter and the length of the pistons can be reduced, it is possible to miniaturize the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jung-Sik Park, Eon-Pyo Hong
  • Patent number: 6929064
    Abstract: There is disclosed an improved pump (5, 5?) particularly suitable for use in a method of “artificial lift” in an oil/gas well. Known pumps used in artificial lift methods suffer from a number of problems/disadvantages—e.g. low efficiency (hydraulic efficiency). The disclosed embodiments of the invention provide a pump (5, 5?) which provides a positive displacement of a predetermined volume of well production fluid for each operative cycle of the pump-in contra-distinction known to pumps which provide axial flow of well production fluid. The inventive pump (5, 5?) provides a chamber (10, 10?) having a volume (V, V?), an inlet (15) to the chamber (10, 10?), an outlet (20) from the chamber (10, 10?), and means for varying the volume (V, V?) of the chamber (10, 10?). The means for varying the volume (V, V?) of the chamber (10, 10?) is controlled by relative rotation of first and second bodies (30, 35, 30?, 35?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Inventor: Hector Fillipus Alexander Von Drentham Susman
  • Patent number: 6705845
    Abstract: A device for the metered delivery of a viscous liquid has a pump body with a drill hole accommodating two pistons which connects a first chamber serving as an intake chamber and a second chamber serving as a discharge chamber. Two swivel arms driven by two cam discs are foreseen as the drive mechanism for the back and forth movement of the two pistons. For the metered delivery of an adhesive which contains flakes of silver the drill hole is designed such that it serves for guiding the pistons as well as for sealing the pump path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Esec Trading SA
    Inventors: Matthias Krieger, Christof Koster
  • Publication number: 20030072658
    Abstract: A double side action type reciprocating compressor is provided. The double side action type reciprocating compressor includes suction valve assemblies and discharge valve assemblies loaded in a suction passage and a discharge passage to thus control suction of fluid and respectively combined with each other so that movement direction of fluid flowing inside the suction valve assemblies and the discharge valve assemblies is vertical to the movement direction of the reciprocating motor. Accordingly, it is possible to remove the suction passage and the suction valve directly formed or loaded in the piston. Therefore, it is possible to easily process the pistons. Because the diameter and the length of the pistons can be reduced, it is possible to miniaturize the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2002
    Publication date: April 17, 2003
    Inventors: Jung-Sik Park, Eon-Pyo Hong
  • Patent number: 6358024
    Abstract: A high pressure fuel supply pump comprising a housing (102) and a pump body (108) fixed within the housing along a body axis and including a plurality of radially oriented plunger bores (20), each bore having a plunger (22) disposed therein. An actuating assembly (116) is disposed around the plunger bores for producing reciprocal motion. A central cavity (120) extends along the axis and intersects the pumping bores to form a pumping chamber (18) in cooperation therewith. An inlet check valve (132) and a discharged check valve (124) are in communication with the pumping chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Stanadyne Automotive Corp.
    Inventor: Ilija Djordjevic
  • Patent number: 6257849
    Abstract: A manual air pump includes an outer cylinder having a chamber therein, a head provided to a second end of the outer cylinder and including an outlet passage communicated with the chamber for supplying air to an object to be inflated, and an inner cylinder reciprocatingly mounted in the outer cylinder and including a longitudinal hole. An outer piston is attached to an end of the inner cylinder to move therewith. The outer piston includes a passage that is intercommunicated between the longitudinal hole of the inner cylinder and the outlet passage of the head. A piston rod is reciprocatingly mounted in longitudinal hole of the inner cylinder. An inner piston is attached to a second end of the piston rod to move therewith. A handle is secured to a first end of the piston rod to move therewith. A switch member is rotatably mounted to the first end of the outer cylinder and around the first end of the inner cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Inventor: Scott Wu
  • Patent number: 6135733
    Abstract: A manual air pump includes a cylinder having a first chamber and a head provided to the second end of the cylinder. The head includes an outlet passage communicated with the first chamber for supplying air to an object to be inflated. A first piston rod has a first end with a first piston slidably received in the first chamber. The first piston separates the first chamber into a first chamber section adjacent to the head and a second chamber section distal to the head. The first piston rod defines a second chamber therein. A second piston rod has a first end with a second piston slidably received in the second chamber. The second piston separates the second chamber into a third chamber section adjacent to the first piston and a fourth chamber section distal to the first piston. A handle is secured to the second end of the second piston rod to move therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Inventor: Scott Wu
  • Patent number: 6132189
    Abstract: A pump includes a first cylinder with a first valve member connected to a first end of the first cylinder and a first handle disengagably connected to a second end of the first cylinder. A first piston is movably received in the first cylinder and a second cylinder fixedly connected between the first handle and the first piston. A second piston is movably received in the second cylinder and a rod is connected to the second piston. The rod extends through the first handle and connected to second handle which is disengagably connected to the first handle. The movement of the first piston is used to pump tires and the movement of the second piston is used to pump a cylinder of air suspension device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: A-Pro Cycles, Inc.
    Inventor: Adrian Roger Ward
  • Patent number: 6030194
    Abstract: A gerotor motor (11) of the type having a spool valve (45) disposed opposite a main drive shaft (35). The motor also includes a set of brake discs (104) in engagement with an extension (45e) of the spool valve (45), and a set of brake discs (106) in engagement with internal splines (108) defined by an end cap (41). A piston (109) operable to engage the brake discs (104,106) is disposed in a chamber defined by the valve housing section (19), disposed adjacent the end cap (41). A valve drive shaft (57) having splines (53) engaging the main drive shaft (35) at its rotating end (33), also has splines (55) engaging the spool valve (45) to transmit the pure rotation of the drive shaft (35) to the spool valve (45). The result is a very compact valve drive and brake arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventors: Scott E. Yakimow, Sohan L. Uppal
  • Patent number: 5934889
    Abstract: A pump for performing suction and discharge of a liquid, including: a cylinder supported at at least a first support point and a second support point; a piston slidably disposed in the cylinder and forming a pump chamber having a volume changeable by sliding movement of the piston; a drive shaft, the piston and the drive shaft moving in association with each other; a cam in contact with the drive shaft so that rotation of the cam drives the drive shaft to move, the piston sliding within the cylinder in association with movement of the drive shaft to perform suction and discharge of a liquid; and a cam rotational shaft rotatably supporting the cam and disposed at the first support point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Motohito Muraki
  • Patent number: 5779457
    Abstract: A hand pump includes a cylindrical member having a cap secured on top and a cover securing the cap to the cylindrical member. A large piston is slidably engaged in the cylindrical member and a barrel secured to the large piston. A small piston is slidably engaged in the barrel for pumping air into the cylindrical member and the cover. The small piston may pump a low air pressure when the barrel is not secured to the cylindrical member and may pump a high air pressure when the barrel is secured to the cylindrical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Inventors: Louis Chuang, Scott Wu
  • Patent number: 5769616
    Abstract: The submerged pump according to the present invention comprises one or more modular pumping groups, each consisting of a balanced, coaxial and opposing piston couple 7 on spool wheels 10 and with a spring 12 return.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Inventors: Enzo Mencarelli, Giovanni Cefis
  • Patent number: 5746584
    Abstract: In an inner cam type injection pump, the side surface of the protruding portion of each of the plungers facing the compression space is formed in a projecting shape in the area where the plunger changes from the base end side into the front end. Specific forms of the projection include a structure constituted with slanted surfaces over a plurality of stages with different inclinations relative to the axis of the plunger, an arc form and a structure provided with a overhanging portion formed on the side surface of the protruding portion, which does not overhang the base end, projecting out from the side surface. This will prevent collision at the shoulder portion of the plunger and, consequently, prevent the deformation at the shoulder portion and ensures that plungers will not have sliding failures or become seized. Even when plungers collide, the sliding of the plungers will not be affected, ensuring that plungers do not have sliding failures or become seized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Zexel Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Nakamura, Kenichi Kubo, Jun Matsubara, Kazuaki Narikiyo, Hajime Machida, Noriyuki Abe, Tsunayoshi Motoyoshi, Atsushi Ueda
  • Patent number: 5613839
    Abstract: A variable rate pump including a distributor member rotatable within a sleeve. The distributor member is provided with a bore within which a pumping plunger is reciprocable under the influence of a first cam lobe and a second cam lobe. A valve is provided for selecting whether fuel is supplied due to the motion of the plunger under the influence of the first cam lobe or the second cam lobe. An arrangement is also provided in which the distributor member carries first and second plungers each reciprocable under the influence of respective cam lobes. A valve is provided for selecting whether the fuel is supplied by the first plunger or by the second plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: Lucas Industries Public Limited Company
    Inventor: Paul Buckley
  • Patent number: 5542827
    Abstract: A multiple piston hand priming pump includes a plurality of nested pistons engaged within a hollow cylindrical housing. One end of the housing has an inlet/outlet fitting leading to a pumping chamber defined within the housing and the other end of the housing is closed. Through a center bore in the closed end of the housing, a plunger activating rod extends into communication with the centermost piston of the nested plurality of pistons. The nested pistons each engage within the next circumferential piston in a manner forming a lost motion connection therewith at the end of an axial bore in the next piston to cause sequential actuation after the pumping stroke of the inner piston is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: Navistar International Transportation Corp.
    Inventors: Bruce B. Dombek, Theodore F. Boone
  • Patent number: 5443370
    Abstract: An air pump comprises a head; an air guiding tube fastened at one end thereof with the head and at another end thereof with a two-way air admitting piston; a first cylinder fitted over the two-way air admitting piston such that the first cylinder can be caused to move back and forth; a first one-way valve disposed in the anterior end of the first cylinder; a second piston disposed in another end of the first cylinder; a first one-way valve permitting air to enter only the first cylinder; a second cylinder fitted movably over the second piston; and a second one-way valve disposed in the second cylinder to permit air to enter only the second cylinder which is fastened with the first cylinder without being able to move in relation to the first cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Inventor: Ro-Pin Wang
  • Patent number: 5366904
    Abstract: A measured amount of a first fluid is metered into a measured amount of a second fluid by a method where a fluid is confined within a first chamber and a plunger of predetermined volume is mechanically moved into the chamber to displace a first measured amount of fluid after which a second plunger is mechanically moved into a defined volume of the chamber to displace a second volume of fluid therefrom different from the first volume whereupon the first and second volumes can be mixed in predetermined proportions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1994
    Assignee: DRD Diluter Corporation
    Inventors: Humayun Qureshi, Stanley M. Liffmann, John D. Czaban
  • Patent number: 5013198
    Abstract: An air-hydraulic pump incorporates a primary pumping mechanism for supplying a first level of fluid pressure to a work-performing tool at a first flow rate in response to a supply of pressurized air. An auxiliary pumping mechanism is provided for delivering a second level of hydraulic fluid pressure less than the first level at a flow rate greater than the first flow rate. The auxiliary pumping mechanism provides sufficient pressure to overcome a load on the system up to a predetermined level, after which the auxiliary pumping mechanism ceases operation due to such load and the primary pumping mechanism delivers fluid pressure to the system sufficient to overcome the load. The auxiliary pumping mechanism speeds up operation of the work-performing tool for providing time-saving operation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1991
    Inventor: Richard A. Schultz
  • Patent number: 4568250
    Abstract: An electromagnetic pump comprising a housing having a fluid receiving chamber in communication with an inlet, a pair of serially-connected fluid pumping chambers, one in communication with the fluid receiving chamber and the other in communication with an outlet, an electromagnet carried by the housing located external to the fluid chambers thereof, and a barrier in the form of a thin diaphragm of fluid impermeable material which heremetically isolates the electromagnet from the fluid chambers. An armature in the housing is movable within a body of magnetically permeable material, has a pole portion located for magnetic attraction by the electromagnet, and has first and second plunger portions in respective ones of the pumping chambers for forcing fluid out of the chambers and through the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1986
    Assignee: Greatbatch Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore J. Falk, Lawrence E. Morris
  • Patent number: 4501246
    Abstract: A fuel injection pump is proposed in which the fuel metering during the intake stroke of the pump pistons of the fuel injection pump is effected via a pressure conduit, the cross section of which is controlled first by an electrically controlled switching valve and second by means of the control of a fuel supply opening of the pressure conduit by means of a control groove, which communicates with the pump work chamber and, as part of a distributor shaft, is guided in synchronism with rpm. By means of the oblique disposition of the control groove and the possibility of an electrically controlled longitudinal displacement of the distributor shaft, the angular position at which injection takes place can be embodied in an arbitrary manner in combination with a switching valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Jean Leblanc
  • Patent number: 4486154
    Abstract: There is proposed herein that a push rod of a fuel injection pump embodied as a radial piston pump which push rod further has a groove in its base be arranged to positively secure a roller in a relatively fixed position. The push rod is slidably guided in a hollow cylindrical wall in a sleeve. An apertured hub which forms an end wall of the sleeve has a slit, into which a prong which offstands axially from a fastening ring secured to said hub is arranged to protrude into said push rod. A helical spring supported by the sleeve presses a piston of the pump against the inside of the base of the push rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1984
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerard Duplat, Jean Leblanc
  • Patent number: 4435133
    Abstract: A free piston engine pump which utilizes plural hydraulic piston areas or hydraulic pressures, with suitable valving to properly "phase" these areas or pressures during the engine stroke, to generate plural hydraulic work rates in order to smooth out the energy or work rate of the free piston engine and minimize the inertia-storage of energy required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1984
    Assignee: Pneumo Corporation
    Inventor: John W. Meulendyk
  • Patent number: 4386889
    Abstract: A positive displacement pump comprising an enclosure having parallel walls and a plurality of concentric annular rings reciprocally mounted between said walls is disclosed. By reciprocating the rings in a predetermined sequence, fluid is caused to flow through a series of radially propagating chambers defined by the rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1983
    Inventor: James B. Tichy
  • Patent number: 3948589
    Abstract: The primer valve disclosed herein includes a housing having an inlet communicating with a fuel source, an outlet communicating with an engine intake manifold, and a flow passageway extending therethrough from the inlet to the outlet. A port surrounded by a valve seat separates the flow passageway into upstream and downstream portions. Flow of the fuel through the flow passageway is controlled by a diaphragm which is movable relative to the valve seat between port opening and port closing positions and is urged toward the port closing position by a spring. Fuel pressure in the upstream portion of the flow passageway acts on the port closing side of the diaphragm and forces the diaphragm toward the port opening position to permit the fuel to be admitted into the engine intake manifold. As a vacuum condition develops in the intake manifold after the engine is started, and consequently in the port, the spring urges the diaphragm to the port closing position to thereby shut off the flow of the fuel to the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1976
    Assignee: Outboard Marine Corporation
    Inventor: Chester G. DuBois