Seal Element Between Working Member And Vane Patents (Class 418/136)
  • Patent number: 10662943
    Abstract: An external rotor pump has an outer rotor with a sliding surface which is arranged on the outer side thereof, and an opposing body in which the outer rotor is mounted rotatably by way of the sliding surface thereof on an inner guide surface of the opposing body and is in mechanical contact with the inner guide surface. An inner rotor which is mounted such that it can be rotated eccentrically with respect to the outer rotor is provided. The sliding surface or the inner guide surface has a surface structure which has a load-bearing region and a non-load-bearing region which is depressed in contrast with the former.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Markus Goettlinger, Ulrich Gutzer
  • Patent number: 8974206
    Abstract: A metering pump with a special-shaped cavity comprising a housing, a rotor and two cover plates. The housing is a cylinder with a special-shaped surface inner cavity formed by combining two circular arc surfaces with two non-circular arc surfaces and a planar surface, an inlet and an outlet. The rotor comprises a rotor body and two pairs of combined sliding plates. The housing is matched with the cover plates for constituting a sealed cavity. When the rotor rotates, the non-circular arc surface of the special-shaped surface inner cavity can enable the two pairs of the combined sliding plates to slide in a cross manner so as to suck in fluid from the inlet and press out the fluid from the outlet. When the rotor rotates one cycle, four standard volumes are formed in a cavity body and the equal quantity of the fluid flows by the cavity body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Zhejiang University
    Inventors: Yang Lu, Hua Lei
  • Publication number: 20140241928
    Abstract: A rotary-vane vacuum pump comprises a stator and a vaned rotor, the stator partly defining an outlet chamber and including an outlet passage opening to the outlet chamber. The rotor is rotatably sealed to the stator; it has a sealing area to block the outlet passage, and, an unsealing area alignable with the outlet passage by rotation of the rotor to periodically unblock the outlet passage. The disclosed pump offers reduced resistance to lubricant oil discharge from the outlet passage, which results in lower differential pressure between inlet and outlet chambers at the end of the pumping cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Mohammad Ali Moetakef, Steve Poe, Abdelkrim Zouani, Jonathan Denis Crowe
  • Patent number: 8647088
    Abstract: A rotary engine is described including: (1) a rotor located within a housing, the rotor configured with a plurality of rotor vane slots; (2) a vane separating an interior space between the rotor and the housing into at least a trailing chamber and a leading chamber, where the vane slidingly engages a rotor vane slot; (3) a first conduit within the rotor configured to communicate a first flow between the trailing chamber and the rotor vane slot; and (4) a lower trailing vane seal affixed to the vane, the lower trailing vane seal configured to valve the first conduit with rotation of the rotor. Optionally, a second conduit within the rotor is configured to communicate a second flow between the trailing chamber and the first conduit. Optionally, movement of the vane valves one or more additional fuel flow paths as a function of rotation of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Inventor: Merton W. Pekrul
  • Patent number: 8535030
    Abstract: A gerotor pump having an outer rotor defining an inner surface of the outer rotor, a thrust plate, a pressure plate, an inlet chamber for fluid intake through the thrust plate to be pressurized, and an outlet chamber for outputting pressurized fluid from the pressure plate. The gerotor pump includes an inner rotor assembly in rotating engagement with the outer rotor. The inner rotor assembly rotating about an axis, the inner rotor assembly comprises a rotor body, wherein the rotor body includes N (an integer greater than one) vane slots defining a first sealing surface, and the rotor body includes N inner openings around the axis, each of the inner opening adjoining a vane slot; and a plurality of vanes defining a second sealing surface, wherein the vane is disposed in the vane slot and in sealing engagement with the rotor body via the first and second sealing surfaces. The inner rotor assembly is in sealing engagement with the outer rotor by the vane engaging on the inner surface of the outer rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Inventor: Kelly Hee Yu Chua
  • Patent number: 8257069
    Abstract: An improved high torque rotary abutment motor is provided that is capable of producing ultra high pressures, while still remaining light weight and reliably efficient. The rotary abutment motor is provided with a body and rotor are sealed in the axial direction with two face spring seals compensating for tolerance and wearing gap. In such a configuration, increasing pressures create increasing force of sealing, thereby allowing operational pressures in excess of what is currently available today.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Inventor: Yan Satanovskiy
  • Patent number: 8011909
    Abstract: A vane pump assembly including a cam ring having an elliptical inner bore defining a hydraulic pumping chamber, the pumping chamber having an interior camming surface. The cam ring defines ports for admitting fluid into the pumping chamber. A rotor, within the cam ring, defines a plurality of radial vane slots. A vane assembly is supported in each vane slot to define vane buckets. Each vane assembly has an end dynamic vane seal for reducing leakage between the buckets. Front and rear side plates, separated by an annular spacer, enclose the pumping chamber. The pump assembly may also include floating front and rear rotor seals for reducing radially inward leakage. Each rotor seal is disposed within a groove formed in the rotor, wherein discharge pressure urges the rotor seals axially outward from the pumping chamber to create an effective seal against the respective side plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Inventor: Xingen Dong
  • Publication number: 20110200477
    Abstract: A gerotor pump having an outer rotor defining an inner surface of the outer rotor, a thrust plate, a pressure plate, an inlet chamber for fluid intake through the thrust plate to be pressurized, and an outlet chamber for outputting pressurized fluid from the pressure plate. The gerotor pump includes an inner rotor assembly in rotating engagement with the outer rotor. The inner rotor assembly rotating about an axis, the inner rotor assembly comprises a rotor body, wherein the rotor body includes N (an integer greater than one) vane slots defining a first sealing surface, and the rotor body includes N inner openings around the axis, each of the inner opening adjoining a vane slot; and a plurality of vanes defining a second sealing surface, wherein the vane is disposed in the vane slot and in sealing engagement with the rotor body via the first and second sealing surfaces. The inner rotor assembly is in sealing engagement with the outer rotor by the vane engaging on the inner surface of the outer rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventor: Kelly Hee Yu Chua
  • Patent number: 7723246
    Abstract: A laminate material web has two webs of nonwoven fabric that lie on the outside, and film strips of an elastic film disposed between them, in sections, whereby the nonwoven fabric webs are connected with one another in the regions between the film strips. The film strips are connected with the inner surfaces of the nonwoven fabric webs only at the two longitudinal edges, in each instance, both on the top and on the bottom, and the nonwoven fabric webs have weakenings running in the web direction, in the regions that cover the film strips. A method for the production of a laminate material web is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Nordenia Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Baldauf, Marcus Schönbeck, Christoph Willing
  • Publication number: 20100021331
    Abstract: The internal combustion engine in includes at least one compression chamber b*, formed by a housing 10/10? and therein compressor rotary pistons 1 rotating on a shaft with compressor sealing strips 11, on which optionally movable toggle sealing strips 4 are arranged. The compression chamber is in gas connection with at least one ignition chamber 7 and this ignition chamber is in gas connection with at least one expansion chamber c*. This chamber is formed by the housing 10/10? and by an expansion rotary piston 2 rotating in this chamber on a shaft. An at least one flywheel 3 rotating in the housing 10/10? on a shaft provided for the power transfer together with the compressor rotary piston 1 forms a compression chamber b* and together with the expansion rotary piston 2 forms an expansion chamber c*. The ignition chamber 7 is equipped with a device for igniting a compressed gas mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventor: Peter K.A. Hruschka
  • Publication number: 20100011806
    Abstract: The present invention provides a motor, comprising: a stator including a coil wiring portion to which power is supplied; a rotor, which includes conductive bars, flux barriers, and permanent magnets, and rotates through an interactive electromagnetic force between the conductive bars, flux barriers, and permanent magnets and the coil wiring portion of the stator; an integrated capacitor, which is electrically connected to the coil wiring portion and includes two capacitors connected to each other in parallel, an electrical switch serially connected to one of the two capacitors, and a casing on which the two capacitors and the electrical switch are securely mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyuk Nam, Kang-Wook Lee, Seung-Hyoung Ha, Geun-Hyoung Lee
  • Publication number: 20090110584
    Abstract: Rotary seals in a telescoping gear pump/motor a feature that allows the seal to shift radially relative to other components while maintaining the seal integrity and without compromising the function of the bearings or the bushings needed to bear the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventor: James A. O'Brien, II
  • Publication number: 20090087334
    Abstract: A sliding vane compression and expansion device for both cryogenic and normal refrigeration cycles, including the production of liquefied natural gas, is disclosed herein. The device can operate in extreme conditions of pressure and temperature, and incorporates replaceable wear elements as well as functional design elements into a sliding vane device to permit processing of a wide variety of gases (for example, but not limited to, methane, nitrogen, oxygen, argon, etc.), liquids and other media under very extreme conditions, including, but not limited to, super-heated steam, cryogenic liquids, bi-phase gas/liquids (wherein both gaseous and liquid media co-exist or are created in the same area), plasma media, semi-solids and powders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Inventor: Robert Whitesell
  • Publication number: 20080279709
    Abstract: A rotary vane device comprising a rotor and a vane positioned in a pumping chamber in a housing for rotation about respective eccentric axes, wherein the rotor has a rotor slot in which the vane is positioned, characterized by the vane being driven and the rotor following the vane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventor: Steven R. Knight
  • Publication number: 20070224066
    Abstract: A variable displacement vane pump has a pump body, a driving shaft rotatably supported by the pump body, a rotor rotatably driven by the driving shaft, a plurality of vanes radially extendably installed in respective slots arranged in a circumferential direction in the rotor, a cam ring rockably provided inside the pump body and forming a plurality of pump chambers at an inner circumference side of the cam ring in cooperation with the rotor and the vanes. At an outer circumference side of the cam ring inside the pump body, a seal member is provided and defines a first hydraulic pressure chamber located at a side where a pump discharge amount increases and a second hydraulic pressure chamber located at a side where the pump discharge amount decreases. Then, a control valve controls only a pressure of the second hydraulic pressure chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Inventors: Shigeaki Yamamuro, Hideo Konishi, Fusao Semba
  • Patent number: 6457450
    Abstract: A rotary-turbine internal combustion engine, having working members that make oscillatory movements about an axle fixed to a rotor using carriers that couple the working members and a guide on a body, makes it possible to provide good smoothness of rolling over the guide by carriers and a simpler shape of the guide. Simplicity of the shape makes it possible to obtain high quality of working surfaces, good smoothness of rolling over the guide profile and high frequencies of rotation of the rotor. A rotary-turbine internal combustion engine includes a rotor having longitudinal flaps swivel-mounted along the axis of rotation of the rotor in the area of the external diameter of the rotor, which flaps separate from one another the spaces disposed on both sides of each of the flaps. The rotor is positioned in a cylindrical body, on whose end face wall is arranged an annular guide that contacts carriers of the flaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignees: Otkrytoe Aktsionernoe Obschestvo “A. Lyulka-Saturn”
    Inventor: Jury Mikhaylovich Luzhkov
  • Patent number: 6273694
    Abstract: A rotary-piston machine (10) comprising a housing (5) having a cavity (9), a rotor (2) received in the housing (5), which rotor (2) having a rotor axis (A) and a peripheral surface (21), inlet and outlet passages (3, 4) in communication with said cavity (9), one or more vanes (1) radially slideable received in slots (11) in the rotor (2), each vane (1) extending radially from the internal surface (20) of the housing (5) to the rotor axis (A), and at least one working chamber (9a) being part of the cavity (9) and is defined by the internal surface (20) of the housing (5), the peripheral surface (21) of the rotor (2) and the side surface of at least one vane (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: Vading Motor AS
    Inventor: Kjell Vading
  • Patent number: 6106257
    Abstract: A hydraulic power transmission system including a stationary inner barrel connected between a hydraulic oil inlet pipe and a hydraulic oil return pipe and having a plurality of openings spaced around the periphery and a plurality of movable blocks moved in and out of the opening, and two outer barrels fixedly connected together with a gasket ring mounted there between and having a respective series of involute arched guide planes space on the inside and raised one behind another, wherein when a hydraulic oil is forced through the hydraulic oil inlet pipe into the inner barrel, it forces the arched movable blocks out of the opening of the inner barrel and flows through the involute arched guide planes of the outer barrel to push the vertical steps between each two arched guide planes, causing the outer barrels to rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Inventor: Jen-Hsin Chen
  • Patent number: 5141423
    Abstract: A compressor having a cylinder and a cylindrical rotational body housed within the cylinder. A spiral groove is formed in the outer peripheral surface of the rotational body, and a spiral blade is fitted in the groove so as to be freely retreated in and projected from the groove in the radial direction of the rotational body. The cylinder and the rotational body are rotated relative to each other by a drive mechanism. A fluid to be compressed is introduced into working chambers defined by the blade, the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder and the outer peripheral surface of the rotational body. The fluid is first guided into the first working chamber from a gas suction port, and then into the second and subsequent working chambers successively, whereby the fluid is compressed. An oil supply mechanism supplies pressurized oil to an oil supply hole formed in the rotational body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Eiichi Aikawa, Takayoshi Fujiwara, Hisanori Honma, Yoshinori Sone, Takuya Hirayama
  • Patent number: 4898524
    Abstract: An improved, fluid driven rotary motor of the vane type includes a housing having a rotor cover disposed between a pair of end plates, a rotor rotatably mounted in the housing and a drive shaft torsionally affixed to the rotor. In the improved rotary motor of the invention, the rotor is slidable on the drive shaft so that the axial position of the rotor is permitted to "float" with respect to the housing. The degree of axial displacement, or degree of "float", is limited by a compression spring means and an abutting ring which cooperate with a pair of bearings in the end plates so that contact between the rotor and housing is avoided. Furthermore, the compression spring means is operative to force the rotor to return to a predetermined normal operating position upon axial displacement of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1990
    Assignee: Snap-on Tools Corporation
    Inventor: James K. Butzen
  • Patent number: 4657491
    Abstract: A sealing for a rotary impeller blade partially extending outwardly from a rotor of an impeller pump includes two sealing strips of plastics, the ends of which abut against the opposing side faces of the blade in the region of a slot found in the rotor, and two respective supporting members of metal. Each supporting member secured to the assigned sealing strips reliably supports the sealing strip whereby the sealing strips resist to vibrations occurring at high speeds of the pump during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1987
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Rudiger Frank
  • Patent number: 4618319
    Abstract: In a vane-type compressor, the slotted rotor includes resilient slot sealing means in the form of leaf springs. Each spring extends between consecutive slots and has curved end portions projecting into the slots and sealingly engaging opposite sides of corresponding vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1986
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Franz Kochannek
  • Patent number: 4548559
    Abstract: A rotary piston displacing machine for use as a pump compressor or power engine, as well as a hydrostatic coupling. The machine has a disk-shaped rotor rotatable in a housing, several similar diametrically opposed rotary vanes which penetrate the annular groove of the working space, which vanes can be joined or formed together in a second rigid rotor, the impeller, the disk-shaped rotor having a rotational axis forming an acute angle with the axis of the impeller. The disk-shaped rotor is positioned obliquely on the working space and is provided with radial slots for receiving the vanes which reach down to the bottom of the working space to sealingly lock the adjacent working chambers formed in the working space. The displacement operation takes place by the rotation of the vanes and the changing cross-section of the groove of the working space. If the cross-section of the working space approaches zero on one point of its periphery, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1985
    Inventor: Wolfhart Willimczik
  • Patent number: 4529366
    Abstract: In a vane type compressor including a plurality of radial vanes extending from a compressor shaft through the slots in a rotary piston elastic flexible tubes are inserted in the slots and interconnected between the respective vanes and the rotary piston, which serve as sealing members on the vanes. Each flexible tube has an elongated bead engaged in a groove formed either in the vane or in the rotary piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Rembold, Manfred Ruoff
  • Patent number: 4432555
    Abstract: An arrangement for effecting a seal between components 10,12 that rotate together and between which relative radial movement is tolerated while maintaining the seal. A conical, or Belleville, sealing ring 25 is located between the components 10,12 and means 19,22 are provided for clamping the components 10,12 together. The sealing ring 25 is so shaped and dimensioned that, in use, centrifugal forces acting on the ring 25 impart a turning moment to the ring 25 to cause it to twist and effect a seal with each of the components 10,12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1984
    Assignee: Rolls Royce Limited
    Inventor: Kenneth R. Langley
  • Patent number: 4201526
    Abstract: An improved rotor blade arrangement pivotally mounted in a cylindrical recess in the rotor. The blade arrangement is pivotally mounted on a blade support and has a center of gravity offset from the pivot mounting. The arrangement includes a pair of arcuate sections joined at a blade tip, which tip seals against the stator. Each arcuate section has a free end opposite the blade tip including a linear seal contacting the recess surface. The resulting arrangement minimizes the friction loses of the blade arrangement and forms a sealed space between the recess surface and the blade profile to enhance the compression ratio for compressible fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1980
    Inventors: Shlomo Ostersetzer, Eugenius Brochstein
  • Patent number: 4097205
    Abstract: An orbital pump or the like comprises a housing having first and second end walls and intermediate, axially spaced first and second annular, inwardly projecting wall members. First and second axial drive shaft portions are installed through the housing first and second end walls respectively. A spool shaped engine rotor having radially outwardly projecting end flanges is installed in the housing with the first and second end flanges closely adjacent to axially outer surfaces of the first and second annular wall members. The rotor is eccentrically rotatably mounted to inner ends of the drive shaft portions. The two annular wall members and rotor ends divide the housing interior into an inlet plenum at the housing first end, a central chamber and an outlet plenum at the housing second end. A pair of intersecting rotor vanes, mounted diametrically through major portions of the rotor and in mutual orthogonal relationship, circumferentially divide the central chamber into four working chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1978
    Inventor: Edward L. Miles
  • Patent number: 3955540
    Abstract: A rotary internal combustion engine which includes a housing having a cylindrical inner peripheral wall surface, a hollow, cylindrical rotor rotatably shaft-mounted in the housing in eccentric relationship with respect to the housing, a cylindrical vane track positioned in the hollow cavity of the rotor and located in the center of the housing, and vanes slidably and radially disposed in the walls of the rotor and adapted to traverse the vane track and inner peripheral wall surface of the housing as the rotor rotates. The rotor and vanes cooperate with the housing to define a plurality of chambers which become successively smaller as they are charged with fuel and approach the firing area of the housing, and larger after combustion as they approach the exhaust and intake segments of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1976
    Inventor: James G. Blanchard