Abstract: A scroll type fluid machine comprising a pair of mutually engaged scroll members each including a side plate and a spiral lap uprightly disposed on an inside surface of the side plate; when the scroll members are relatively resolved in solar motion relationship, a fluid volume in sealed chambers defined by the pair of engaged scroll members being varied, so that a pressure of the fluid in the sealed chambers is thereby varied in order to discharge a gas therefrom, characterized by constituting so that stress may not concentrate at stress concentration portions of the scroll members, i.e.

Abstract: A parallel and outer axial rotating piston compressor has at least one helical main rotor and a corresponding auxiliary rotor meshing therewith. The main rotor includes a plurality of teeth, the flanks of which are configured as open screw surfaces defined by the screwing of a generating straight line, crossing the screw axis obliquely for each surface. The straight line forms a first inclination angle with a plane disposed perpendicular with the rotary axis of the main rotor. The screw surfaces define a throat screw line. A line tangent to the throat screw line forms a second angle of inclination of the plane. The first inclination angle is smaller than the second inclination angle. The slope of the generating straight line and the slope of the tangent line have opposite signs.

Abstract: The cam surface of a roller-type positive displacement pump providing an inlet port and two outlet ports has on circumferentially opposite sides of at least one of the outlet ports a profile such that the difference between the squares of the radii at the instantaneous points of contact therewith of the two rollers which serve to seal the port at said opposite sides is a constant. The portions of the cam surface at oposite sides of such an outlet port have radii relative to the axis of rotation of the rotor which decrease progressively in the direction of rotation of the rotor.

Abstract: A rotary gear pump having inner and outer gear rotors of the type having respective inner and outer surfaces whose cross sections are determined utilizing the trochoidal curve, the inner gear rotor having trochoidal dimensions which either eliminate or diminish to a negligible amount the edge portion of the teeth which cause excessive wear, noise or inefficiency. In one embodiment of the invention, the dimensions of the inner gear rotor are such that C/K.sub.0 .ltoreq.1 or f.sub.c /K.sub.1 .ltoreq.1.1, where C is the rotary path diameter, K.sub.0 =(A/B+1).times..vertline.B-2e.vertline., K.sub.1 =(n+1).times..vertline.1-2f.sub.e .vertline., A is the diameter of the base circle, B is the diameter of the rolling circle, e is the eccentricity, n=A/B, f.sub.e =e/B, and f.sub.c =C/B. In accordance with a second embodiment of the invention, a comparable result can be obtained provided that the number of teeth on the inner gear rotor is equal to an integer closest to the ratio d.sub.4 /2e, wherein d.sub.

Abstract: A screw rotor profile for both male and female rotors is generated from a single rack in which each individual rack segment includes four discrete circular arc segments and two discrete straight line segments. The leading and trailing flanks of the lobes of both the male and female rotors generated by the rack include involute portions disposed between tangent circular-arc-generated portions. A method for developing the rack is also disclosed.

Abstract: A screw rotor machine for compressing air or other working fluid comprises a housing including two intersecting bores axes which together define a working space. The pair of intermeshing rotors are rotatably mounted one in each bore. The rotors have helical lands and intervening grooves whereby rotation of the rotors in connecting engagement is effective to compress the working fluid (or to expand the fluid if the machine is used as an expander). A low pressure port and a high pressure port formed in the housing at opposite ends thereof permits inlet and outlet of the working fluid. The grooves of the rotors each have a primary flank and a secondary flank. The tips of the primary flanks of both the male and female rotors are formed by parabolic arcs which generate major portions of one of the flanks of the opposite rotors. A major portion of the secondary flank of the female rotor is also a parabolic arc.

Abstract: A parallel and outer axial rotating piston compressor comprises at least one driven helical main rotor and one auxiliary rotor meshing therewith. The main rotor includes tooth surfaces comprising layered circular helicoids defined by the helical generation of a circle whose plane is perpendicular to the rotor axis.

Abstract: A multiple-vane rotary compressor having a cylinder bore profile especially designed to reduce the fluctuation in the overall drive torque applied to the rotor shaft. The cylinder bore profile is configured and designed so that the individual drive torque applied to an individual vane during the compression and delivery strokes varies along a drive torque-vane angle curve which approximates an isosceles triangle having a lower side corresponding to a range of angle of 180.degree.. The cylinder bore profile includes, for a profile section extending through an angle of 180.degree., a first region (i) in which the amount of vane projection is held substantially constant at a maximum value (D), a second region (ii) in which the amount of vane projection decreases at a higher rate, and a third region (iii) in which the amount of vane projection decreases to zero at a lower rate, the imaginary transitional point (A.sub.3) between the second and third regions being located at an angular position of 90.degree..

Abstract: There is disclosed a scroll-type machine specifically suited for use as a gaseous fluid compressor. The machine incorporates an improved rotation controlling mechanism which is extremely simple in construction, several embodiments of which are disclosed. This mechanism does not eliminate relative rotation between the scrolls but limits it to a relatively small predetermined amount. Several novel techniques for contouring the profiles of the scroll wrap flanks to give good flank sealing with the aforesaid rotation controlling mechanism are also disclosed, as are two embodiments of an improved scroll drive mechanism and an improved thrust bearing arrangement. A novel method of machining a scroll is also disclosed.

Abstract: A male and female screw rotor mechanism for use in compressors or the like, in which a female rotor (F) is formed with an addendum (Af) on the outer side of a pitch circle of each tooth thereof and a male rotor (M) is formed with a dedendum (Dm) on the inner side of a pitch circle at each root thereof complementarily to the addendum (Af) of the female rotor: the male rotor (M) including in the following side tooth profile thereof an arc (d1-e1) having the center thereof at the intersection (m) of the pitch circle (Pm) of the male rotor and a line connecting the centers (Of, Om) of the female and male rotors; the female rotor (F) including in the leading side tooth profile thereof a curve (d2-c2) generated by the point (d1) on the male rotor having an outer diameter (Tm) of the dimension of about 1.37.times.CD; and the female rotor having the addendum (Af) formed at a rate of about 1.7% to 2.

Abstract: A screw rotor assembly having nonsymmetrical tooth profiles and used in a screw-type rotary compressor or expander. The tooth profile of the female rotor is formed such that a line (H.sub.2 -A.sub.2) is formed by a generated curve of a point A.sub.1 of the male rotor; a line (A.sub.2 -B.sub.2) is formed by a circular arc having a point O.sub.7 as the center of the arc and a radius R.sub.7 ; a curve (B.sub.2 -C'.sub.2) is formed by an envelope developed by a circular arc (B.sub.1 -C.sub.1) of the male rotor; a portion between points D'.sub.2 and E.sub.2 is formed by a circular arc having a point O.sub.1 as the center of the arc and a radius R.sub.1 ; a line (C'-D') is formed by a line smoothly connecting the curves (B.sub.2 -C'.sub.2) and (D'.sub.2 -E.sub.2); a curve (E.sub.2 -F.sub.2) is formed by a circular arc having a point O.sub.2 as the center of the arc and a radius R.sub.2 ; and a curve (F.sub.2 -G.sub.2) is formed by a circular arc having a point O.sub.8 as the center of the arc and a radius R.sub.8.

Abstract: A rotary vaned pump has solid vanes of fixed length sliding in a boss mounted for rotation about a longitudinal axis eccentrically displaced from the longitudinal axis of the pump chamber, so as to provide respective pump compartments in the pump chamber which vary cyclically in volume and are arranged to pressurize fluid entering the pump chamber through an inlet opening and discharging from the chamber through an outlet opening. Each leading vane edge that passes over the inlet opening is formed as a shearing knife edge that shear-cuts any cuttable solid material in the entering fluid that is engaged by the edge as it enters the pump chamber through the inlet. Such solid material is thereby cut into pieces which can be handled by the pump without jamming rotation of the rotor. The leading edge of the inlet opening is also formed as a knife edge that cooperates with the vane edge to shear the solid material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a positive displacement machine, such as a rotary pump, engine or compressor. This machine has a slotted rotor, sealing elements sliding in the slots and a tubular stator formed with a cylindrical inner surface, the contour line of which is particular. This contour line has a symmetry order s.sub.S and is composed of s.sub.S lobes belonging to a shortened hypertrochoid with a core, the symmetry order of this hypertrochoid being s.sub.H .noteq.s.sub.S, and s.sub.S sealing zones belonging to the contour line of the core of the hypertrochoid. Each lobe has a center point angle .theta..sub.H, each sealing zone a center point angle .theta..sub.c, .theta..sub.H and S.sub.H being related to .theta..sub.c and s.sub.S by the expressions:.theta..sub.H =(2.pi./s.sub.S -.theta..sub.cands.sub.H /s.sub.S =(.theta..sub.H +.theta..sub.c)/.theta..sub.H.

Abstract: A compressor of the present invention performs restraining action in refrigerative ability at high speed driving time utilizing suction loss that vane chamber pressure drops lower than supply source pressure of refrigerant, and comprises a rotor (14) having vanes provided slidably, a cylinder (11) receiving said rotor (14) and vanes (12), side plates fixed to both side faces of said cylinder (11) and closing tightly a space of vane chamber (18a), (18b) formed by said vanes (12), rotor (14) and cylinder (11) at its side faces, and at least more than two suction ports (15) and (17), whereby even in a compressor having many numbers of vane (12), such a compressor with ability control that having no loss in refrigerative ability at low speed, and refrigerative ability is restrained only at high speed driving can be realized.

Abstract: A fluid supply pump such as a roller cell pump which includes a multiplicity of individual pumping bodies or rollers held in the grooves of a driven rotor in contact with an eccentrically disposed roller path which, in a certain angular range around the narrowest and widest gap, it is, at each location, virtually identical with a concentric circular path which is drawn around the rotor center point, the path preferably formed by two ellipse halves, for the elliptic shape can be virtually exactly approximated around the apex points of the ellipse by means of its primary circles of curvature to thereby improve the dynamic sequence of operations, for example to increase the sealing effect of the radial gap and to adapt the expansion and compression phases to the opening and closing conditions of the intake and pressure grooves.

Abstract: A rotary compressor which includes a rotor into which vanes are slidably provided, the rotor and vanes being rotatably mounted in a non-circular cylinder having side plates fixed to both sides thereof. The rotor, cylinder, and side plates define sealing spaces at respective ends of which are provided suction bores and discharge bores. Between the blades and also bounded by the rotor, side plates and cylinder are blade chambers which rotate with the rotor and vanes across the suction bores and discharge bores so that the pressure in the blade chambers during a suction stroke of the compressor utilizes a suction loss which is lower than the pressure of a refrigerant supply source to carry out suppression of the refrigerating capacity during high speed rotation of the rotor.

Abstract: The elevating mechanism for a scraper is driven directly and without any supplementary inertia mechanism or speed reducing mechanism by a hydraulic motor of a type having concentrically mounted rotating and stationary members, and with substantial numbers of stator cavities and rotor vanes, each of which vanes works in each stator cavity once per revolution, thereby producing the number of power strokes per revolution equal to their multiplied product, thereby giving it the ability at low speeds and at high torque to distribute and withstand high shock loads as occurs when each flight of the elevating mechanism engages material.

Abstract: Helical screw rotors for a screw rotor machine having improved asymmetric screw profiles on both male and female rotors, wherein the male rotor lobe leading flank comprises solely first and second circular arcs with the first circular arc subscribed by a first radius which lies on a radial line through the male rotor center at an offset angle to the male rotor lobe center line in the direction of the trailing flank of the rotor lobe to create a male rotor tip point inherently including a male rotor lobe sealing strip.

Abstract: A low frictional loss, rotary vane gas compressor utilizing a housing having a generally elliptical cavity therein, and a rotor disposed in the cavity, with the axis of rotation of the rotor being offset from the central axis of the cavity. The housing has an inlet passage and a discharge passage, each in contact with the cavity, with the rotor having a plurality of radial slots in equally spaced relation about its periphery. A slidable vane is disposed in each of these slots, with the outer tip of each vane being in close proximity to an inner stator wall that defines the outer boundary of the cavity. The vanes serve to define a plurality of chambers in the cavity, which chambers undergo significant volume changes as they move about the cavity during rotation of the rotor, the vanes thus cooperating with the inner stator wall to compress gas entering the inlet passage, such that as it leaves through the discharge passage, it is at a higher pressure.

Abstract: An oil pump using internal gearing, wherein the difference in number of teeth between the internal and external gears is one, and wherein the inner rotor is directly connected to the crankshaft of the internal combustion engine or to the transmission shaft. The inner rotor is formed from a trochoidal curve and tracking circle which the outer rotor is formed from a trochoidal curve theoretically ideal for the inner rotor but modified by having circularly arched inwardly curved portions so as to decrease confinement of the inner rotor and smooth the operation thereof.

Abstract: A vane-type rotary machine for use as a compressor, pump or the like. The rotary machine has a cam ring with an inner peripheral contour expressed by an epitrochoid-like curve having at least one lobe, a cylindrical rotor having a plurality of vane grooves and contacting the inner peripheral surface of the cam ring, and vanes slidably received by the vane grooves and adapted to slide on the inner peripheral surface of the cam ring as the rotor rotates. The inner peripheral contour of the cam ring is corrected or modified in accordance with the amount of offset of the vanes in such a manner as to suppress the lateral reactional force applied to the vanes thereby to reduce the friction loss during sliding of the vanes in respective vane grooves, while making the sliding movement of the vanes approach a movement in accordance with a sine wave curve, thereby to diminish noise, thermal loss and mechanical damage which are attributable to irregularity of movement of the vanes.

Abstract: A positive displacement pump comprising two lobed impellors to contra-rotate within a casing which has two ports to act respectively as an inlet and an outlet, the casing having two impellor chambers, each chamber being peripherally defined by two arcs, at least one of the arcs of each chamber being centered at a point offset from the normal rotational axis of the associated impellor in a direction towards one port.

Abstract: The machine, in the embodiment shown, is an air (or gas) compressor having a housing with parallel, intersecting bores in which are rotatably journaled coacting, meshing helical rotors. The rotors, male and female, are of the asymmetrical type. Confronting concave and convex surfaces of portions of the grooves and lobes of the rotors, for having different arcuate conformations along principal lengths thereof, define a void of varying width therebetween. However, other, minor extents of the confronting surfaces are defined of a common arc and, therefore, nestably conform with each other (a) to reduce contact stress therebetween, (b) to improve rotor-to-rotor sealing, and (c) to accommodate therebetween a significant film of oil.

Abstract: A vane-type rotary machine suitable for use as a compressor, pump or the like, having a cylinder provided with an inner peripheral contour expressed by an epitrochoid-like curve having at least one lobe, a cylindrical rotor contacting the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder and having a plurality of vane grooves, and vanes slidably received by respective vane grooves. The inner peripheral contour of the cylinder constituted by the epitrochoid-like curve is divided at the circumferential mid point of each of the portions where the distance between the rotor and the cylinder is minimized, and the curve is contracted in the circumferential direction by a predetermined angle to form a discontinuity corresponding to the predetermined angle. Both end points of the discontinuity is connected by an arc of the same radius as the rotor.

Abstract: A sintered outer rotor for a rotary pump utilizing the trochoidal curve and a manufacturing method for the rotor, the rotor being formed to make a combinational gap between an inner rotor and the outer rotor as small and constant as possible in order that both the inner and outer rotors are rotatable. The rotor is formed with an eccentricity ratio less than a limit based upon an experimentally obtained function of the ratio of the diameter of the base circle to that of the rolling circle used to form the trochoidal curve, and with corrected circular arcs of the tooth portions such that .vertline..DELTA.b.vertline.+.vertline..DELTA.c.vertline.<0.3 mm and .DELTA.b>.DELTA.c, wherein .DELTA.b and .DELTA.c are respectively the corrections to the centers of the circular arcs and the radii of the circular arcs. The ratio of the base circle to that of the rolling circle is not an integer and therefore is not equal to the number of outer rotor teeth as in the conventional outer rotor.

Abstract: A portion of the endless camming surface of the pump housing, which performs one cycle of suction, compression, and discharge of fluid in cooperation with the vanes and the rotor, includes an increasing radius portion and first through fourth decreasing radius portions successively arranged in the advancing direction of the vanes. These camming surface portions have such cam profiles that with movement of each vane, the amount of protrusion of the vane gradually increases along the increasing radius portion, and gradually decreases along the decreasing radius portions, the receding speed of the vane gradually increasing along the first and third decreasing radius portions, and gradually decreasing along the second and fourth decreasing radius portions. The cam profiles may preferably vary along quadratic curves.

Abstract: A rotary hydraulic vane pump is disclosed of the type including a cam ring (19) defining an internal cam surface (21). The pump also includes a rotor (25) which defines a plurality of slots (27) which receive roller vanes (29). The internal cam surface includes a discharge arc surface portion (65) which is the cam fall portion of the cam surface. In one aspect of the invention, it is recognized that flow turbulence, pressure pulses and noise is caused by a slight net increase in the volume of a contracting fluid chamber (57) during cam fall, and that this increase is caused by radially inward movement of the roller vane during cam fall. In another aspect of the invention, the discharge port (59) is located such that fluid communication between the contracting fluid chamber and the discharge port does not occur until after the net increase in the volume of the contracting fluid chamber has ceased, and a net decrease in the volume of the chamber has begun.

Abstract: A sliding vane type rotary compressor, of which refrigerating capacity at the high speed operation of the compressor is suppressed by making use of suction loss involved when refrigerant pressure in the vane chamber becomes lower than the pressure of the refrigerant supply source in the suction stroke of the compressor. The compressor has a rotor, vanes slidably carried by the rotor, a cylinder accommodating the rotor and the vane, side plates fixed to both sides of the cylinder for closing both open ends of the vane chambers defined by the rotor, vanes and the cylinder, and suction and discharge ports serving as passages for communicating the vane chambers with the outside of the compressor. A spacer for adjustment of the refrigerating capacity is disposed in the suction port.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improvement in the configuration of the inner face of a housing of a through vane type rotary compressor for use in a car cooler or the like, in which both the top ends of a vane passing through the center of a rotor are always kept in sliding contact with the inner face of the housing.In the present invention, the configuration of the inner face of the housing is determined so that substantial face-to-face contact is produced between the rotor and the housing in a certain region with the point for contact with the rotor being as the center, and the configuration of the subsequent curved portion is defined by such a curve that the velocity of the sliding movement of the vane in the radial direction of the rotor is expressed by a gentle function where said velocity monotonously changes.

Abstract: A multi-purpose flow apparatus of the type which operates on the principle of volumetric displacement, has an internally helicoidal chamber rotatable about its center of gravity and having one of a constant or variable pitch and z.sub.k thread starts and an externally helicoidal spindle rotatable about an axis disposed at its center of gravity. The spindle has z.sub.o =z.sub.k +1 thread starts, the thread division thereof is z.sub.o /z.sub.k times the pitch of the chamber and the angular velocity of rotation of the spindle is z.sub.k /z.sub.o times that of the chamber.

Abstract: The endless camming peripheral surface of the pump housing, which performs one cycle of suction, compression and discharge of fluid in cooperation with the vanes and the rotor, comprises an increasing radius portion along which the amount of protrusion of each vane gradually increases with movement of the vane, and first and second decreasing radius portions along which the amount of protrusion gradually decreases with movement of the vane, the three portions being successively arranged in the order mentioned in the advancing direction of the vanes. Each of the three portions has such a cam profile that the velocity of radial movement of each vane varies at a rate gradually decreasing as the vane approaches the terminating end of the portion. Preferably, the above one-cycle performing portion further includes one or two constant radius portions located between the above three portions, along which the amount of protrusion of each vane is kept substantially constant with movement of the vane.

Abstract: A scroll member including a wrap having its thickness boundaries defined by an outer side wall surface and an inner side wall surface, wherein the inner side wall surface of the wrap includes a starting end portion formed to coincide with an arc of a circle having a predetermined radius.

Abstract: Screw rotor compressor comprising intermeshing male and female rotors. The leading flank of each male rotor groove comprises a portion intersecting with the pitch circle and following a circular arc having its center inside the pitch circle. In the point of intersection the tangent to the arc forms an angle of 0.25 rad to 0.75 rad with a radius of the rotor, and the radius of the arc forms an acute angle with a line connecting the center of the arc with the center of the rotor.

Abstract: A vane pump comprising a cylindrical rotor provided with a diametrically extending vane groove, a vane slidably arranged in the vane groove in radial directions, a cylinder in which the rotor is rotatably arranged, the cylinder having an inner peripheral cam surface with which said vane always comes into sliding contact at its opposed ends, the cam surface of the cylinder having a profile defined by cycloid curves and/or arc portions which have a radius substantially equal to that of the rotor.

Abstract: A prime mover which is constituted by a compressor casing having a combustion gas inlet, a compressor rotor rotatably mounted in the compressor casing and having at least one vane movable radially of the rotor and resiliently sealingly engaged with the inside surface of the wall of the compressor casing for forming a compression chamber therein, a prime mover casing adjacent the compressor casing and having an exhaust outlet therein and a spark plug mounted thereon, a prime mover rotor rotatably mounted in the prime mover casing and having at least one vane movable radially of the rotor and resiliently sealingly engaged with the inside surface of the wall of the prime mover casing for forming a combustion chamber therein, the rotors being connected for causing them to rotate together, and a passage opened and closed by the rotation of the rotors for passing compressed combustion gas from the compressor casing to the prime mover casing at predetermined intervals for being ignited by the spark plug.

Abstract: A rotary compressor having a blade slidably carried in a slot in a rotor within the compression cylinder. The opposite ends of the blade are in contact with the cylinder walls at all times, notwithstanding the nonsymmetrical configuration of the cylinder bore. The nonsymmetrical configuration arises from the addition of a cycloidal cam function to the bore equation in the first quadrant and the subtraction thereof from the bore equation in the third quadrant. The cylinder contour resulting from the provision of the cycloidal cam function provides increased operating efficiency in the rotary compressor and allows the length of the transfer slot thereof to be reduced or eliminated so as to reduce recompression volume of the compressor.

Abstract: A sliding vane type rotary compressor having a rotor, at least one vane slidably mounted on the rotor, a cylinder accomodating the rotor and the vane, and end plates fixed to both ends of the cylinder so as to close vane chambers defined by the vane, the rotor and the cylinder at both sides of the vane chamber. The improvement comprises that the compressor is constructed to meet the following condition:0.025<.theta..sub.s a/Vo<0.080where, a is a value given by the following equation of: ##EQU1## .theta. represents the angle (radian) formed around the center of rotation of the rotor between the end of the vane closer to the cylinder and the cylinder top where the distance between the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder and the outer peripheral surface of the rotor is smallest;.theta..sub.s represents the rotation angle .theta. (radian) at the instant of completion of the suction stroke;Vo represents the volume (cc) of the vane chamber when the rotation angle .theta. is .theta..sub.s ; anda(.theta.

Abstract: A rotary type internal combustion engine including a cylindrical rotor having a diametrical slot parallel with the longitudinal axis of the rotor and a vane movably mounted in the vane groove and constituted by two vane parts opposed to each other at the center of the vane in the radial direction thereof.

Abstract: A rotary compressor having a housing defining a chamber with a curved outer wall of substantially elliptical profile containing a rotor of cylindrical shape having a plurality of vanes profiled to fit the chamber and radially slidable in grooves in the rotor to define enclosed compartments between them. Each vane has a pair of axially extending stubshafts having rollers respectively mounted thereon. Roller tracks formed in the end walls of the chamber accommodate the rollers for guiding the vanes so that the outer edges of the vanes follow the outer wall of the chamber in closely spaced engagement. Inlet and outlet ports located in the curved outer wall of the chamber closely straddle a reference region.

Abstract: An improved rotary compressor of sliding vane type in which a rotor head portion is provided where the peripheral surface of the rotor approaches the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder so as to divide the interior of the cylinder into a discharge side and a suction side for fluid, while the cylinder is formed with a seal portion where a clearance between the rotor and cylinder at the rotor head portion is formed into a wedge-like configuration in a rotational direction by an arc having a radius of curvature smaller than a radius of the cylinder.

Abstract: A through-vane type rotary compressor having a cylinder chamber of novel shape wherein a segment of the peripheral edge of the cylinder chamber connecting two circularly arcuate segments together has a shape represented by the formula ##EQU1## and the slider has opposite ends each maintained in sliding contact with the peripheral edge at its arcuate end. The slider smoothly rotates along the peripheral edge of the cylinder chamber without impinging thereon while the acceleration of the sliding movement of the slider shows smooth changes.

Abstract: This invention relates to a positive displacement flow meter with helical toothed rotors, in which respective tooth profiles are continuously contacted with each other in order not to cause any blockage of fluid between the respective tooth profile curves. The flow meter has a pair of helical toothed rotors which are rotatable each other with no pulsation and the tooth-to-tooth surface contact pressure is maintained zero. Each of the two rotors has the same profile and the same size. Further, a plurality of curved projections can be mounted on a tooth profile of each rotor.

Abstract: A rotary machine particularly intended for use as a pump comprises a two-lobe lenticular rotor rotatably disposed within a pump chamber defined by an annular wall with an inner surface having at least in part a cardioidal configuration. A rectangular drive plate on a shaft is disposed within an elongated drive slot in the rotor while a circular guide disc fixed on an end wall of the pump casing extends into a second elongated guide slot in the rotor. The second guide slot is perpendicular to the first slot so that, during operation, the rotor effectively reciprocates and rotates relative to the guide disc. If desired, two such circular guide discs can be provided, one on each end wall of the pump casing, for reciprocation and rotation relative to two such second guide slots in opposite faces of the rotor.

Abstract: A rotary compressor for use in air conditioning or the like including a housing having a chamber with a cylindrical rotor journaled therein, the rotor having a set of vanes radially slidable to define enclosed compartments between them. The curved outer wall of chamber has a reference region separating the chamber into inlet and outlet sides having inlet and outlet ports in straddling relation. The rotor has its axis laterally offset from the chamber axis to produce sealing at the reference region. The curved wall of the chamber on the inlet side is of substantially elliptical profile with the major axis of the ellipse generally centered on the inlet side and with the inlet port extending to a point of cut-off short of the major axis. The curved wall on the outlet side is smoothly continuous and substantially circular in profile.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a positive displacement flow meter having a pair of rotors to be rotatably engaged with each other which are provided with tooth profile curves of a cycloid and of a trochoid.Since the tooth profile of one rotor is equal to that of the other rotor, transmission of energy between the two rotors is uniform, and wear of teeth of the two rotors being reduced.

Abstract: A volumetric type rotary machine has a pair of rotors each of which has a plurality of teeth comprising tooth crests and valleys alternately disposed at equal angular intervals around the rotor in profile in a cross-sectional plane thereof perpendicular to the rotational axis thereof, which rotors are adapted to rotate in mutually opposite directions in mutually intermeshed state. In each rotor as viewed in the profile in the cross-sectional plane, the tooth crests and valleys respectively have convex and concave arcuate parts over specific peripheral extents thereof centered on the vertices and nadirs thereof, respectively, and remainder parts of involute curve shape between the extremities of the arcuate parts.

Abstract: A positive displacement device utilizing at least two rotors which roll sealingly on one another at a common pitch surface speed. Outwardly extending lobes on one rotor sealing engage the cylindrical bore of the housing of the device, fluid traversing the device circumferentially in the annulus between such bore and the pitch surface of the rotor. Speed of rotation of the two rotors is controlled by a timing chain running between sprockets mounted on the rotor shafts.When the lobe passes the line of sealing contact, a cavity is provided in the meshing rotor, and the lobe makes sealing contact with the wall of this cavity during at least that interval when there is no sealing contact between the pitch surfaces, i.e., the interval when the mouth of the cavity is passing through dead center.

Abstract: An improved vane type pump capable of operating either as a high rate of flow or high pressure pump change of rotation only is disclosed. The construction, arrangement and dimensioning of the operative elements of the improved vane type pump provides an angle of intercommunication between inlet and outlet means during rotation and an automatic liquid seal to assure an uninterrupted flow of liquid being pumped through inlet means for discharge through outlet means.

Abstract: A system for precisely positioning a linearly movable output member incorporates an improved nonexpansion, bi-directional vane motor whose internal gas carrying chamber is configured to prevent radial vane reciprocation while the vanes of the motor are under pressure-generated side load. Position of the output member is electrically sensed and in response to the sensed position, pressurized gas flow to the vane motor is adjusted to precisely position the output member.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in a housing formation for a rotary piston machine of trochoidal construction with an outer envelope curve and a housing corresponding to said outer envelope curve, said piston being patterned after a turning point-free trochoid n:1, and working chambers between said housing and said piston separated by radial seals in said housing,The improvement comprising that the housing has the form of an outer parallel curve to the piston contour, whereby the equidistant distance of said parallel curve corresponds at least to the greatest deviation between said piston contour and the coordinated exact outer envelope curve.