With Coolant Air Impelling Means Or Finned Cylinder Surface Patents (Class 418/101)
  • Patent number: 11885328
    Abstract: A scroll device has a fixed scroll, and orbiting scroll, and at least an integrated cooling loop configured to receive coolant to cool the fixed scroll and the orbiting scroll. A flexible conduit is provided that curves radially around an orbital axis of the orbiting scroll to transfer coolant along integrated cooling loop. The integrated cooling loop separates coolant used to cool the fixed scroll and the orbiting scroll from the involutes of the scroll device providing clean operation of the scroll device. The integrated cooling loop may be defined by the flexible conduit, one or more cooling chambers, and/or one or more cooling passageways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Air Squared, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan D. Nicholas, Joshua R. Mesward, John P. D. Wilson
  • Patent number: 11821428
    Abstract: Provided is a motor-integrated fluid machine that has improved performance and reliability by efficiently cooling a fluid machine body and a motor without increasing an installation space. The present invention is characterized by being provided with: a fluid machine unit that compresses or expands a fluid; a motor unit that has a drive shaft connected to the fluid machine unit; and a cooling fan that cools the motor unit and the fluid machine unit by sucking cooling air from the motor unit side and that is connected to the drive shaft at the side opposed to that connected to the fluid machine unit, wherein between the motor unit and the cooling fan, the minimum sectional area of a cooling air passage from the outside in the radial direction toward the drive shaft is larger than that of a cooling air passage from the motor unit side toward the cooling fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shumpei Yamazaki, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Fuminori Kato
  • Patent number: 11713710
    Abstract: A topological rotary engine includes a first transmission mechanism, a second transmission mechanism, a valve mechanism, a rotor, and a cylinder. The rotor is arranged in an inner chamber of the cylinder. A cross section of the rotor is a curved-side topological polygon having n sides. A cross section of the inner chamber of cylinder is a curved-side topological polygon having n+1 sides, and n is an even number greater than or equal to 4. An outer topological curved surface of the rotor is meshed with an inner topological curved surface of the cylinder. The rotor reversely revolves around an axis of the cylinder with an eccentricity as a radius while rotating, and divides the cylinder into n+1 independent chambers. The cylinder is provided with n+1 fuel injection nozzles and n+1 spark plugs, which cooperate with the rotor and the valve mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Jinping Qu
  • Patent number: 11713763
    Abstract: A screw compressor includes a hollow casing inside which a reservoir for air and oil is realized and on which, in an upper position, a suction group for air from outside the reservoir having at least an air intake valve and at least an air filter; on one lateral end a flow block provided with an oil/air separation device and an oil filter and at least a valve for extracting compressed air are disposed. The casing is provided with an opening on the opposite side with respect to that on which the flow block is provided. The compressor includes a casing closure flange to which a screw compression unit is fixed that when the flange is placed to close the opening causes the insertion into the reservoir of the unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: TM.I.C. S.R.L. TERMOMECCANICA INDUSTRIAL COMPRESSORS
    Inventors: Enrica Argentini, Paolo Tanzini
  • Patent number: 11469643
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a rotor, a stator, a rotary shaft, an end bracket, an orbiting scroll, a fixed scroll, a suction type cooling fan, and a discharge brush. The discharge brush is fixed to the end bracket facing the cooling fan by a fixing member attached in a radial direction relative to the rotary shaft, and one end of which is in contact with the rotary shaft, in a space secured by the clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuminori Kato, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto
  • Patent number: 10895155
    Abstract: A package type compressor includes a housing, a compressor, a motor, an inverter, and a cooling fan. The housing has an air inlet. The compressor is disposed inside the housing where it compresses the air. The compressor is disposed in a compressor body inside the housing. The motor is disposed above the compressor inside the housing, and drives the compressor. The inverter is disposed in the region of the air inlet of the housing, and controls a rotation speed of the motor. The cooling fan is disposed inside of the compressor body. The cooling fan generates a flow path of cooling air within the package type compressor. The inverter is disposed in such a way that as the flow path of cooling air enters the air inlet of the housing, the flow path of cooling air passes directly over the inverter thereby cooling the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shumpei Yamazaki, Takuya Kunitomo
  • Patent number: 10816001
    Abstract: A compressor system (01) with a system housing (02), in which are arranged heat generating system components (06) comprising at least one compressor stage (201) for compressing a gaseous medium, an air water cooler (12), a blower (15) which generates a cooling air flow (16), and air conducting elements. A cooling air channel (07) is configured which has an inlet opening (08) in the upper section of the system housing (02) and an outlet opening (09) in the lower section of the system housing (02), wherein upper air conducting elements (13) are positioned in order to conduct the cooling air flow (16) after flowing through the air water cooler (12) to the inlet opening (08), and lower air conducting elements (17) are positioned in order to conduct the cooling air flow (16) from the outlet opening (09) to the system components (06).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: GARDNER DENVER DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Georg Klaus, Ulrich Thomes, Marc Schiel
  • Patent number: 10598185
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a spiral pump, including a support body; at least one or more substantially rigid rotary parts that are rotatable relative to said support body, wherein said one or more rotary parts comprise at least one integrated spiral fluid channel that has an inlet for receiving fluid arranged at or near the outer radial wall of said one or more rotary parts and an outlet for discharging fluid at an increased pressure at or near its rotary axis; wherein a fluid passage, configured for passing fluid at the increased pressure from inside the one or more rigid rotary parts to outside the one or more rigid rotary parts, is arranged at or near the rotary axis; and drive means for rotatably driving the one or more rotary parts. The invention further relates to a manufacturing method for such a spiral pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: AQYSTA HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Frederik Leonardus Henny, Lennart Thore Budelmann, Pratap Thapa
  • Patent number: 9366256
    Abstract: An oil-lubricated automotive volumetric vacuum pump includes a circumferential pump room wall surrounding a pump room. A rotor comprises a rotor body with an oil receiving cavity and a guiding slot. The rotor body is adjacent to the pump room wall. The rotor rotates inside the pump room. A vane with a vane body and a vane end portion shifts in the guiding slot. The rotor body, the vane, and the circumferential pump room wall define at least two pump chambers. An oil discharge channel with a flow opening in a plane is arranged at the vane end portion of the vane and/or at the guiding slot. The flow opening opens so that oil can flow from a pump chamber through the oil discharge channel to the oil receiving cavity only in a retracted position of the vane end portion during a final compression phase of the respective pump chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: PIERBURG PUMP TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventor: Alessandro Testa
  • Publication number: 20150139845
    Abstract: A housing for a rotary vane pump includes a suction flange and a discharge flange having a multi-angular cross-section with at least two sides extending parallel to each other, cooling ribs provided on an outer surface of the housing, with the number of cooling ribs in the region with a high internal pressure being greater than a number of cooling ribs in the region with a low internal pressure, inlet and outlet, with the inlet cross-section being greater than the outlet cross-section, and connection elements provided on the housing and each having two installation surfaces connected by a connection surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Christopher Kobus, Kevin Schneider
  • Patent number: 9028230
    Abstract: A three stage vacuum pump has three stages of fixed scrolls and orbiting scrolls that operate simultaneously. A motor drives the second orbiting scroll within the third fixed scroll upon three equally spaced idlers. One idler then transmits rotation and torque into the second stage. The second orbiting scroll has involutes upon both surfaces to engage the second fixed scroll inwardly and the first fixed scroll outwardly. The first fixed scroll has fins upon its back that extend into the atmosphere to transfer heat to air cool the pump. This pump also has a fan accelerating heat transfer. The pump operates the scrolls directly from a motor or from a motor and magnetic coupling so that the atmosphere does not infiltrate the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Air Squared, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert W. Shaffer
  • Patent number: 8979515
    Abstract: A scroll-type fluid machine reduces intrusion of abrasion powders, generated by sliding of a conductor causing an orbiting scroll side and a fixed scroll side to be conducted, into a compression chamber, and improves reliability of a compressor. The scroll-type machine includes a casing, a fixed scroll having a flange surface attached to the casing, and a wrap portion provided at an end plate, an orbiting scroll having a wrap portion provided at the end plate, and provided in an opposed relationship with the fixed scroll, a drive shaft connected through a crank portion to the orbiting scroll, an orbiting bearing, a face seal portion arranged between the orbiting scroll and the fixed scroll, a cooling fan, and an orbiting scroll side conductive brush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiminori Iwano, Yoshio Kobayashi, Natsuki Kawabata, Toshikazu Harashima, Shumpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8920538
    Abstract: A method and a device for compressing a gas-phase medium, particularly hydrogen or natural gas, in a single-stage or multistage process using at least one piston compressor, wherein the medium may have a water content up to total saturation with water. The medium to be compressed is heated before the compression at least to such point that the water is unable to condense out during the compression process, and the compressed medium undergoes a water separation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Linde Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Robert Adler, Sascha Dorner, Georg Siebert, Martin Stehrlein
  • Patent number: 8573956
    Abstract: A dry pump includes: a plurality of cylinders; a pump chamber formed in each of the cylinders; a division wall separating pump chambers adjacent to each other; a plurality of rotors contained inside pump chambers; a rotating shaft that serves as an axis of rotation of the rotor; and a cooling medium path which is formed inside the division wall and through which a cooling medium passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Ulvac, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshio Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8562317
    Abstract: The rotating shaft is connected to the generator; the high-pressure steam s is introduced to the expansion chamber b through the guide passage; when the energy of the high-pressure steam s during expansion process revolves the revolving scroll, the generator regenerates electric power. The connecting housing is provided with the inlet opening and the outlet opening; the ventilation blades are fitted to the rotating shaft. When the ventilation blades rotate, the outside air is introduced (inside of the housing) from and through the inlet opening; the air passes by the air opening and the backside of the revolving scroll, and is discharged through the outlet opening. Thus, by the approach that the air passage is formed inside of the connecting housing and the scroll housing, the high-pressure steam s is prevented from being directed toward the backside of the revolving scroll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Anest Iwata Corporation
    Inventors: Tamotsu Fujioka, Atsushi Unami
  • Patent number: 8523544
    Abstract: A three stage vacuum pump has three stages of fixed scrolls and orbiting scrolls that operate simultaneously. A motor drives the second orbiting scroll within the third fixed scroll upon three equally spaced idlers. One idler then transmits rotation and torque into the second stage. The second orbiting scroll to has involutes upon both surfaces to engage the second fixed scroll inwardly and the first fixed scroll outwardly. The first fixed scroll has fins upon its back that extend into the atmosphere to transfer heat to air cool the invention. This pump also has a fan accelerating heat transfer. The pump operates the scrolls directly from a motor or from a motor and magnetic coupling so that the atmosphere does not infiltrate the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Air Squared, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert W. Shaffer
  • Patent number: 8177534
    Abstract: An axial air cooling system for scroll-type positive fluid displacement apparatus provides needed cooling. The system includes an axial fan and centrifugal pump and internal cooling air channels inside parts integrating main housing, base housing and motor housing with their corresponding shell parts by cooling fins. The cooling air channel also includes passages inside the orbiting scroll, shaft central hole and gaps inside stator slots and winding. Heat pipes are installed inside the fixed and orbiting scrolls to conduct heat from inside of the apparatus to the peripheral condenser portion of the heat pipes to be cooled by the cooling air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Advanced Scroll Technologies (HangZhou), Inc.
    Inventor: Shimao Ni
  • Patent number: 7713038
    Abstract: A scroll fluid machine comprises a driving shaft in a housing. An orbiting scroll is eccentrically revolved around an eccentric axial portion of the driving shaft via a bearing. Air is introduced from outside through an intake port of a circumferential wall of the housing and directed toward the bearing by a guide to cool the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Anest Iwata Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Ishikawa, Naohiro Minekawa
  • Publication number: 20100111740
    Abstract: An axial air cooling system for scroll-type positive fluid displacement apparatus provides needed cooling. The system includes an axial fan and centrifugal pump and internal cooling air channels inside parts integrating main housing, base housing and motor housing with their corresponding shell parts by cooling fins. The cooling air channel also includes passages inside the orbiting scroll, shaft central hole and gaps inside stator slots and winding. Heat pipes are installed inside the fixed and orbiting scrolls to conduct heat from inside of the apparatus to the peripheral condenser portion of the heat pipes to be cooled by the cooling air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Scroll Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Shimao NI
  • Patent number: 7707987
    Abstract: A hydrogen G-cycle rotary vane internal combustion engine has a sodium vapor chamber transferring excess combustion heat into combustion chambers. An active water cooling system captures heat from the engine housing stator, rotor, and sliding vanes and transfers it back into the combustion cycle by premixing it with hydrogen to reduce peak combustion temperature and with an early an late stage combustion chamber injection to help transfer heat from the sodium vapor chamber, to control chamber temperature, and to increase chamber vapor pressure. A combustion chamber sealing system includes axial seals between the rotor and the stator, vane face seals, and toggling split vane seals between the outer perimeters of the sliding vanes and the stator. Sliding vanes reciprocate laterally in and out of the rotor assisted by a vane belting system. A thermal barrier coating minimizes heat transfer and thermal deformation. Solid lubricants provide high temperature lubrication and durability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Prime Mover International, LLC
    Inventor: Barry R. Guthrie
  • Patent number: 7690901
    Abstract: A screw compressor rotor housing is surrounded by a cooling housing that forms an annular cooling chamber. The cooling chamber is interrupted at one point by a separating wall that connects the rotor housing to the cooling housing. Coolant is fed at an inlet opening and is directed at the bottom side of the separating wall by an entrance channel, is redirected, and flows around the rotor housing until it reaches the top side of the separating wall. The coolant is redirected and is withdrawn through an exit channel that runs upward to the outlet opening. A bleed opening in the wall of the entrance channel and a vent opening in the wall of the exit channel allow for a residual amount of air to remain in the cooling chamber when it is filled with coolant, and for a residual fluid to remain when it is emptied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: GHH Rand Schraubenkompressoren GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Achtelik, Dieter Hüttermann, Michael Besseling, Norbert Henning
  • Publication number: 20090110583
    Abstract: This invention involves a rotary blower with super-charged injection cooling having multiple interconnected and synchronized parallel multi-lobe rotors with the same number of lobes for propelling flow from a suction port to a discharge port of an inner casing without using internal compression. The embodiments incorporate manifolds near the blower discharge port acting as super-charging inlet port injecting air at the elevated pressure over the blower discharge pressure to cool the impellers and internal casing. The cooling air supply could be piped from an external compressed air source or could be generated by one or more fans mounted on the rotors own shafts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Paul Xiubao Huang, Sean William Yonkers
  • Patent number: 7497673
    Abstract: In a scroll fluid machine, a driving shaft has an eccentric axial portion around which an orbiting scroll revolves while the orbiting scroll engages with a fixed scroll. A cooling path extends through the driving shaft to a gap between the outer circumferential surface of the eccentric axial portion and the inner circumferential surface of an axial hole of the orbiting scroll. A cooling gas is introduced into the cooling path to cool bearings around the driving shaft. A forced convection generating portion is provided on the driving shaft for sucking the cooling gas into the gap and discharging the gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Anest Iwata Corporation
    Inventor: Ryusuke Muto
  • Publication number: 20080302516
    Abstract: A compressor cooling system for an air compressor includes an air compressor including an external surface; an enclosure for enclosing the air compressor inside the enclosure; an air passage formed on the inside of the enclosure between the enclosure and the external surface of the air compressor; multiple holes in the enclosure; and a negative pressure source coupled to the air passage for drawing air through the multiple holes and into the enclosure for cooling the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: SEQUAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Steven M. Harrington
  • Patent number: 7458369
    Abstract: A supercharger can have a lubrication system that includes a speed increasing mechanism, accommodated in a second housing, for increasing the rotation speed of a drive shaft and transmitting the increased rotation speed to a rotary shaft. An oil sump can be configured to for hold lubricant oil for lubricating the speed increasing mechanism. A pump mechanism can be driven by the rotation of the drive shaft to supply the lubricant oil held in the oil sump to the speed increasing mechanism, in which the pump mechanism is constituted with a screw pump made up of a screw provided on the drive shaft. A pump chamber can rotatably support the drive shaft and accommodate the screw. An oil introduction hole and an oil introduction tube can connect the oil sump and the interior of the pump chamber, and a gap can be formed between the screw and the pump chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Yamaha Marine Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigeyuki Ozawa
  • Patent number: 7419371
    Abstract: In a scroll fluid machine, a driving shaft extends axially to allow an orbiting scroll to revolve with respect to a fixed scroll thereby compressing a gas introduced from the outer circumference of the fixed scroll in a compressing chamber formed between the orbiting and fixed scrolls. From one end of the driving shaft, external air is introduced in a cooling hole extending axially of the driving shaft to cool the driving shaft. A cooling fan is rotatably secured at one end of the driving shaft to rotate by the driving shaft to cool the fixed scroll. The cooling fan comprises a base plate having a main fin on one side surface facing the side of the fixed scroll and a plurality of auxiliary fins on the other side surface to prevent cooling-finished air from invading into the cooling hole of the driving shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Anest Iwata Corporation
    Inventors: Naohiro Minekawa, Masatomo Tanuma, Yuki Takada, Minako Toda
  • Patent number: 7393191
    Abstract: In the case where a radial fan is provided on the upper end side of a rotor to provide an air circulating flow containing refrigerant gas so as not to hinder the flow of lubricating oil in a motor chamber, by which a motor is cooled, in order to reduce the cost of the radial fan, the radial fan is constructed by combining a plurality of blades (fan blades) (242) formed radially in the range of approximately 180° opposed to an upper balancer (270) so as to have a height smaller than the height of the upper balancer (270), and a fan cap (260) including a fan cover portion (262) covering the top faces of the blades (242) and an engagement portion (263) fixed to the upper end side of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Fujitsu General Limited
    Inventors: Naoya Morozumi, Junya Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7387503
    Abstract: In a scroll fluid machine, a fixed scroll has a fixed wrap, and an orbiting scroll has an orbiting wrap which engages with the fixed wrap to form a compressing chamber between the orbiting and fixed wraps. The orbiting scroll is rotatably mounted around an eccentric axial portion of a driving shaft and revolved by the driving shaft. A gas introduced from the outer circumference of the fixed scroll is compressed in the compressing chamber as it flows towards the center. Parts near the center is heated by a compressed gas. On the other surface of the fixed scroll to the surface having the fixed wrap, a plurality of cooling fins are provided. Air is introduced between the cooling fins to cool the machine. Between the cooling fins, a heat-releasing projection is provided to improve cooling efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Anest Iwata Corporation
    Inventors: Minako Toda, Masatomo Tanuma, Yuki Takada, Naohiro Minekawa
  • Patent number: 7353796
    Abstract: The rotary machine can be used as a rotary internal combustion engine and as a pneumatic or hydraulic pump. The rotary machine comprises a housing in the form of two intersecting cylinder parts of different diameters having parallel axes. A rotor is received in the housing coaxially with the smaller-diameter cylinder and comprises at least two segmental rotor parts provided with annular rotor covers. At least two pairs of annular elements are provided engaging with the segmental rotor parts. Pivotal elements are interposed between the annular elements of each pair. A driving member is accommodated movably in the openings of the pivotal elements. The axis of rotation of the driving member is coincident with the axis of the larger-diameter inner cylindrical surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Inventors: Andrey Y. Sharudenko, Olga M. Sharudenko
  • Patent number: 7329108
    Abstract: A scroll fluid machine comprises a housing having a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll revolved by a driving shaft which is driven by a motor behind the housing. A blowing fan is provided between the orbiting scroll and the motor. Rotation of the fan causes decompression in the housing to allow primary external air to be sucked from the outside into the housing through a primary sucking hole. Secondary external air is introduced from a secondary sucking hole and mixed with the primary external air of the scroll fluid machine to cool the parts of the scroll fluid machine in the housing and/or the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Anest Iwata Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Tsuchiya, Hidetoshi Ishikawa, Youhei Midorikawa
  • Patent number: 7309219
    Abstract: The present invention provides a scroll type fluid machine which enables both of a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll to be cooled by means of a cooling fan, and which enables an overall size of the machine to be compact. Cooling fans 38A and 38B are connected to a rotary shaft 18 between an electric motor 15 and orbiting scrolls 26A and 26B. Outer cases 3A and 3B are provided with flow inlet openings 42A and 42B, flow outlet openings 43A and 43B, scroll ducts 44A and 44B and cooling device ducts 46A and 46B. Compression portions 6A and 6B are operated by rotatably driving the rotary shaft 18 using the electric motor 15. In this instance, the cooling fans 38A and 38B are rotated with the rotary shaft. Therefore, with a simple structure having no electric fans, the fixed scrolls 7A and 7B, the orbiting scrolls 26A and 26B and the cooling device 47 can be efficiently cooled, and a compressor having a compact size and a high cooling performance can be formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: HItachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Komai, Hideaki Ikeda, Kazutaka Suefuji, Koji Fukui, Susumu Sakamoto, Masanori Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 7241121
    Abstract: A scroll fluid machine has a fixed scroll in a housing and an orbiting scroll rotatably mounted to a driving shaft. A fixed wrap of the fixed scroll is engaged with an orbiting wrap of the orbiting scroll. The orbiting scroll is revolved at a certain eccentricity by the driving shaft, so that a gas sucked through the circumference of the housing is compressed as it moves toward the center, and discharged through the center. A gas-guiding bore is formed near the center of the orbiting scroll, and a heat-releasing rod is inserted in the bore. One end of the heat-releasing rod is projected from the fixed scroll to release heat to atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Anest Iwata Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Matsushima
  • Patent number: 7179068
    Abstract: A cooling space in an inverter case is disposed at a position opposed to a stationary scroll of a scroll compressor. A refrigerant having low temperature is allowed to flow in and out between the cooling space and the stationary scroll through a seal, thereby cooling an inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Makino, Nobuaki Ogawa, Yukihiro Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 7144233
    Abstract: A scroll fluid machine comprises a housing, a driving shaft, a fixed scroll fixed to the housing, and an orbiting scroll. A gas introduced from the outer circumference of the housing is compressed towards the center of the housing with revolution of the orbiting scroll by the driving shaft. The compressed gas is discharged through a discharge hole extending from the center outward in a radial direction. A silencer fits in the discharge hole to prevent noise caused by discharge of the gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Inventor: Youhei Midorikawa
  • Patent number: 7121817
    Abstract: A scroll fluid machine comprises an orbiting scroll and front and rear stationary scrolls. The orbiting scroll is driven by a driving shaft via an eccentric portion and has front and rear orbiting scroll wraps. The front and rear stationary scroll have front and rear orbiting scroll wraps respectively. The orbiting scroll is revolved by the driving shaft with respect to the stationary scrolls while the front and rear orbiting scroll wraps are engaged with the front and rear stationary scroll wraps to create front compressing and rear expanding sections. Fluid expanded and cooled in the expanding section is used for cooling parts of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Anest Iwata Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Yanagisawa, Tamotsu Fujioka
  • Patent number: 7121816
    Abstract: A scroll fluid machine has a fixed scroll in a housing and an orbiting scroll rotatably mounted to a driving shaft. A fixed wrap of the fixed scroll is engaged with an orbiting wrap of the orbiting scroll. The orbiting scroll is revolved at a certain eccentricity by the driving shaft, so that a gas sucked through the circumference of the housing is compressed as it moves toward the center, and discharged through the center. A gas-guiding bore is formed near the center of the orbiting scroll, and a heat-releasing rod is inserted in the bore. One end of the heat-releasing rod is projected from the fixed scroll to release heat to atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Anest Iwata Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Matsushima
  • Patent number: 7074024
    Abstract: A scroll-type fluid machine such as a scroll compressor or a scroll vacuum pump generates compression heat during compressing operation. A scroll body comprises a stationary scroll and an orbiting scroll that is revolved with respect to the stationary scroll eccentrically. The stationary scroll has a stationary wrap and the orbiting scroll has an orbiting wrap engaged with the stationary wrap to form a compression chamber therebetween. In the scroll-type fluid machine, a cooler is provided to cool high-temperature compressed air discharged from a discharge bore at the center of the stationary scroll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Anest Iwata Corporation
    Inventors: Tohru Satoh, Tamotsu Fujioka
  • Patent number: 7014435
    Abstract: A scroll fluid machine comprises a stationary scroll and an orbiting scroll fitted on an eccentric portion of a driving shaft. The stationary scroll has a stationary end plate from which inner and outer stationary wraps project, and the orbiting scroll has an orbiting end plate from which inner and outer orbiting wraps project. Between the stationary and orbiting end plates, inner and outer annular partition walls are provided. Inside the inner partition wall, the inner stationary wrap is engaged with the inner orbiting wrap to form an expanding region, and between the inner and outer partition walls, the outer stationary wrap is engaged with the outer orbiting wrap to form a compressing region. A bore is formed through the orbiting end plate so that fluid expanded and cooled in the expanding region flows from the expanding region to rear surface of the orbiting end plate to cool the orbiting end plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Anest Iwata Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Yanagisawa, Tamotsu Fujioka
  • Patent number: 7004735
    Abstract: A scroll-type fluid machine such as a scroll compressor or a scroll vacuum pump generates compression heat during compressing operation. A scroll body comprises a stationary scroll and an orbiting scroll that is revolved with respect to the stationary scroll eccentrically. The stationary scroll has a stationary wrap and the orbiting scroll has an orbiting wrap engaged with the stationary wrap to form a compression chamber therebetween. In the scroll-type fluid machine, a cooler is provided to cool high-temperature compressed air discharged from a discharge bore at the center of the stationary scroll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Anest Iwata Corporation
    Inventors: Tohru Satoh, Tamotsu Fujioka
  • Patent number: 6953330
    Abstract: A scroll vacuum pump has an orbiting scroll and fixed scrolls. The orbiting scroll is rotatably mounted to an eccentric portion of a driving shaft and revolved by the driving shaft, so that a gas is sucked into a compression chamber between the orbiting scroll and fixed scrolls through a sucking bore. External air is introduced through a ventilating hole axially formed in the driving shaft and into the compression chamber via a check valve that opens by centrifugal force when the driving shaft rotates, thereby cooling the eccentric portion and bearings to increase durability thereof. When the driving shaft stops, the check valve closes, so that a toxic gas in the compression chamber is not leaked to the outside to prevent environment pollution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: Anest Iwata Corporation
    Inventor: Ryusuke Muto
  • Patent number: 6905320
    Abstract: A scroll-type fluid machine such as a scroll compressor or a scroll vacuum pump generates compression heat during compressing operation. A scroll body comprises a stationary scroll and an orbiting scroll that is revolved with respect to the stationary scroll eccentrically. The stationary scroll has a stationary wrap and the orbiting scroll has an orbiting wrap engaged with the stationary wrap to form a compression chamber therebetween. In the scroll-type fluid machine, a cooler is provided to cool high-temperature compressed air discharged from a discharge bore at the center of the stationary scroll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Anest Iwata Corporation
    Inventors: Tohru Satoh, Tamotsu Fujioka
  • Patent number: 6817844
    Abstract: A rotary blower with forced external air cooling having multiple interconnected and synchronized parallel multi-lobe rotors with the same number of straight lobes for propelling flow from a suction port to a discharge port of an inner casing without internal compression. The blower also has an outer cover with cooling air inlet and outlet openings and added centrifugal cooling fans mounted on the rotor shafts adjacent to the cooling air inlet openings for circulating cooling air through the space between the outer cover and the inner casing. The blower further utilizes wearable strip seal devices applied on the rotors for preventing internal leakage and accidental mechanical contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Hi-Bar Blowers, Inc.
    Inventor: Qi Wang
  • Publication number: 20040179967
    Abstract: In the case where a radial fan is provided on the upper end side of a rotor to produce an air circulating flow containing refrigerant gas so as not to hinder the flow of lubricating oil in a motor chamber, by which a motor is cooled, in order to reduce the cost of the radial fan, the radial fan is constructed by combining a plurality of blades (fan blades) 242 formed radially in the range of approximately 180° opposed to an upper balancer 270 so as to have a height smaller than the height of the upper balancer 270, and a fan cap 260 including a fan cover portion 262 covering the top faces of the blades 242 and an engagement portion 263 fixed to the upper end side of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Naoya Morozumi, Junya Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20040067147
    Abstract: In a region where heat deformation of a movable scroll spiral wall and/or a fixed scroll spiral wall for a scroll type compressor is relatively large, a relieving part is formed for relieving the heat deformation of the movable scroll spiral wall and/or the fixed scroll spiral wall in at least a part of at least one of an outer circumferential wall of the movable scroll spiral wall and an inner circumferential wall of the fixed scroll spiral wall, which corresponds to the outer circumferential wall of the movable scroll spiral wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2003
    Publication date: April 8, 2004
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Nakane, Kazuho Sato, Tsutomu Nasuda, Hisao Hamasaki
  • Patent number: 6663366
    Abstract: A compressor is composed of a pair of rotors engaging with each other and a driving mechanism having plural gears for driving the pair of rotors. The pair of rotors is disposed in a rotor chamber and the driving mechanism in a gear chamber, both chambers being separated by a separating wall. Fluid such as air is introduced into the rotor chamber from an inlet port and compressed therein, and the compressed air is delivered through an outlet port formed at a position close to the driving mechanism. A cooling water passage is formed at a bottom portion of the gear housing to cool lubricant encapsulated in a gear chamber. Additional cooling water passages may be made to further cool the components of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okada, Sota Shibasaki, Kazuhiro Ojika, Mamoru Shimoda
  • Patent number: 6589026
    Abstract: A fluid machinery comprises a helical mechanism provided with a cylinder, a roller eccentrically disposed inside the cylinder and formed with a helical groove and a blade member fitted in the helical groove, an electric motor unit connected to the helical mechanism through a rotational shaft, the roller, which eccentrically rotates, having an engagement portion engaged with a crank portion of the rotational shaft, and a pair of bearings disposed to both axial end portions of the cylinder so as to support the rotational shaft. The engagement portion of the roller and the bearings are formed with through holes for ventilation, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Toshiba Carrier Corporation
    Inventor: Takayoshi Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 6579080
    Abstract: A displacement machine for compressible media has two spiral feed chambers (11a, 11b) which are arranged opposite each other in a fixed housing (7a, 7b). Spiral displacement bodies (2-4) engage in these feed chambers. Said displacement bodies essentially consist of a disk (2) and spiral strips (3a, 3b) which are attached to each side of the disk. The strips are held in an eccentric manner in relation to the housing, so that during operation each point on the displacement body executes a circular or elliptical movement, depending on the configuration of the guiding device (49), said movement being limited by the cylinder walls of the feed chamber. One feed chamber (11a) is configured for compressing the working substance and the other feed chamber (11b) for expanding said working substance. The feed chambers and the strips (3a, 3b) which engage in said chambers consist of successive circular arc segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: CRT Common Rail Technologies AG
    Inventor: Fritz Spinnler
  • Publication number: 20030053922
    Abstract: A scroll-type fluid machine such as a scroll compressor or a scroll vacuum pump generates compression heat during compressing operation. A scroll body comprises a stationary scroll and an orbiting scroll that is revolved with respect to the stationary scroll eccentrically. The stationary scroll has a stationary wrap and the orbiting scroll has an orbiting wrap engaged with the stationary wrap to form a compression chamber therebetween. In the scroll-type fluid machine, a cooler is provided to cool high-temperature compressed air discharged from a discharge bore at the center of the stationary scroll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Applicant: Anest Iwata Corporation
    Inventors: Tohru Satoh, Tamotsu Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20030017070
    Abstract: A compressor has a compression unit, a drive motor, a motor housing and an outer cylinder. The compression unit compresses fluid. The drive motor drives the compression unit. The motor housing surrounds the drive motor. The outer cylinder is mounted on an outer circumferential side of the motor housing for defining a cooling jacket between the outer cylinder and the motor housing for cooling the drive motor by a refrigerant flowing in the cooling jacket. The outer cylinder is directly or indirectly fixed to the motor housing by fastening a plurality of bolts or by press-fitting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Inventors: Takahiro Moroi, Yoshiyuki Nakane, Ryuta Kawaguchi, Tsutomu Nasuda
  • Patent number: 6503070
    Abstract: A trochoidal design rotary piston engine design has a rotary piston housing with a double curve inner contour and triangular type rotary pistons. Sliding bearings distribute lubricating oil from a pressure cycle into a high pressure circuit and a low pressure bypass circuit branches to the side parts and axial cooling channels of the rotary piston housing to supply the cooling oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Brandenburgische Forschungs-und Entwicklungsgesellschaft Cottbus mbH
    Inventor: Dankwart Eiermann