Abstract: Described herein is a device comprising: a chamber wall comprising outer and inner surfaces, wherein the inner surface encloses a lobed chamber with a plurality of lobes and the inner surface comprises segments of arcuate surfaces, each of the segments of arcuate surfaces being tangent with its immediate neighboring segments, and wherein the chamber wall further comprises channels connecting the outer surface and the inner surface of the chamber wall and/or channels through an end surface of the chamber wall; a lobed piston configured to translate along a circular path relative to the chamber wall, the outer surface of the piston and the inner surface of the chamber wall engaged during translation; and holes fluidly connected to the lobed chamber and configured to allow fluid discharge from the lobed chamber through the holes and to prevent fluid flow into the lobed chamber through the holes.

Abstract: Described herein is a device comprising: a chamber wall comprising outer and inner surfaces, wherein the inner surface encloses a lobed chamber with a plurality of lobes and the inner surface comprises segments of arcuate surfaces, each of the segments of arcuate surfaces being tangent with its immediate neighboring segments, and wherein the chamber wall further comprises channels connecting the outer surface and the inner surface of the chamber wall and/or channels through an end surface of the chamber wall; a lobed piston configured to translate along a circular path relative to the chamber wall, the outer surface of the piston and the inner surface of the chamber wall engaged during translation and forming a fluid-tight seal between some portions of the outer surface of the piston and the inner surface of the chamber wall such that enclosed spaces are formed between the piston and the chamber wall.

Abstract: A method for producing modular down hole, hydraulic motor components involving the formation of replaceable stator slugs to be collectively housed within a stator housing to form a stator assembly, including, in some embodiments, replaceable lobe components for the stator slugs for altering the interference with a selected rotor for such motor.

Abstract: In an internal-gear type fluid device, guide teeth are formed by inner teeth at an outer rotor, and vane portions extending in the width direction are formed at tooth tip portions of the guide teeth. Further, guide teeth are formed by outer teeth at the inner rotor, and vane portions extending in the width direction are formed at tooth tip portions of the guide teeth. Since the vane portions are thus formed at the outer rotor and the inner rotor, the confinement timing when oil confinement is completed can be synchronized with the release timing when oil release is started, by adjusting, for example, the thickness of the vane portions without changing the profile of the guide teeth.

Abstract: A rotary expansible chamber device includes intersecting, two-piece vanes that provide expansion/compression chambers as the vanes rotate about a central axis of a rotor housing. The rotor housing has an inner contour defined by a conchoid of rhodonea having a shape coefficient of at least 3. The vanes are captured by a primary and secondary output shaft, with engagement arms of the primary output shaft being juxtaposed between the intersecting vanes. A vane spring helps maintain each vane at a constant length and in sealing engagement with the inner contour of the rotor housing.

Abstract: An oil pump includes a shaft bearing bore, a drive shaft supported by the shaft bearing bore, an annular space between an inner peripheral surface of the shaft bearing bore and an outer peripheral surface of the drive shaft, a communication passage portion formed on the side of a pumping chamber inside the shaft bearing bore, and a communication groove formed opposite to the communication passage portion inside the shaft bearing bore. The communication passage portion is communicated between a discharge port and the annular space, and the communication groove is communicated with the annular space. Oil is stored in the annular space from the discharge port via the communication passage portion, and the oil flows into sliding clearance spaces of first and second journal portions via the annular space and the communication passage portion and the communication groove.

Abstract: Improved gerotor pumps comprising laterally constrained floating rings, thereby providing an orthogonal degree-of-freedom and allowing gerotor sets positioned therein to establish their own preferred mesh orientation, and additionally wherein the outer rotor of the gerotor set is forcibly positioned against the inner rotor of the gerotor set at the gerotor set's in-mesh position whereat there is little relative motion between the inner and outer rotors, thereby resulting in a substantially friction- and wear-free meshing action of the gerotor set.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, a gerotor apparatus includes an outer gerotor having an outer gerotor chamber, an inner gerotor, at least a portion of which is disposed within the outer gerotor chamber, and a synchronizing apparatus operable to control the rotation of the inner gerotor relative to the outer gerotor. The inner gerotor includes one or more entrance passages operable to communicate a lubricant into the outer gerotor chamber.

Abstract: The rotary piston power system includes a housing having a drum and a cover rotatably mounted on the drum. The drum has high pressure and low pressure ports defined in its peripheral wall and a central separator wall having arcuate end faces and a pair of semicylindrical recesses defined in opposing sidewalls. A pair of pistons are rotatably mounted on axles on opposite sides of the separator wall and fit closely between the separator wall and the peripheral wall. Each piston has a plurality of radially disposed cylindrical recesses defining slots in the piston's peripheral wall. The cover has a plurality of radially disposed vanes extending into the drum defining a number of cylinders or chambers double the number of recesses defined in a single piston. An input/output shaft extends from the opposite side of the cover for coupling to a prime mover or to a load.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, a gerotor apparatus includes an outer gerotor having an outer gerotor chamber, an inner gerotor, at least a portion of which is disposed within the outer gerotor chamber, and a synchronizing apparatus operable to control the rotation of the inner gerotor relative to the outer gerotor. The inner gerotor includes one or more entrance passages operable to communicate a lubricant into the outer gerotor chamber.

Abstract: A sickleless gear wheel pump includes an internally geared hollow wheel including a plurality of tooth tips. A pinion includes a plurality of tooth tips and meshes with the hollow wheel. The hollow wheel and pinion are rotatably disposed in a housing. The housing has a suction connection and a pressure connection. The hollow wheel has openings for a medium to be pumped therethrough. Each tooth tip of the plurality of tooth tips of the hollow wheel has a profile groove in which there is present a sealing element that is radially moveable during rotation of the hollow wheel and pinion and which is in sliding seal-off engagement with a respective tooth tip of the plurality of tooth tips of the pinion. Each sealing element is metallic.

Abstract: An internal geared wheel pump that does not have a crescent shaped piece. The pump has an internal geared wheel that meshes with a pinion. The pinion and geared wheel are mounted in a rotatable manner in a housing that has a suction connection and a pressure connection. The geared wheel has passages that produce each time a conductive connection between the base of the tooth and the envelope surface of the geared wheel. Conductive connections are produced between the bearing flanks of the teeth of the geared wheel or the teeth of the pinion and the radial boreholes of the geared wheel.

Abstract: A rotor for an internal gear pump adapted to improve the lubrication of the internal gear parts. A radial groove is added to the inner face of an internal rotor. The groove extends radially between the center of the rotor and an outer diameter of the rotor. The groove provides a communication channel between the outer circumference of the rotor and the parts located within the rotor's inner diameter, namely the idler gear and idler pin. The disclosed grooved rotor improves the flow of fluid to the interface between the idler gear and the idler pin of a typical internal gear pump. Should the lubricating properties of the fluid be reduced and/or the operating pressures of the pump increased, the improved rotor design will provide lubrication of the internal rotary parts, thereby decreasing the friction among the parts and extending the overall productive life of the pump.

Abstract: A crescentless internal gear pump includes a housing with an intake connection and a pressure connection. An internally toothed internal gear has an outside surface and is disposed for rotation within the housing. Each tooth includes a head and a base, the internal gear having radial openings that form a conducting connection between a tooth base and the outside surface. A pinion, which is rotatably disposed within the housing and meshing with the internal gear, has teeth with each tooth including a head. The teeth of one of the internal gear and pinion, includes a profile groove with a base provided in the heads into which a sealing element is disposed and which slides on an opposing tooth head. The sealing element has a sealing surface and includes a channel that produces a conducting connection between the profile groove base and the sealing surface. The sealing element is slightly movable in the profile groove in the radial direction to form a controlled gap.

Abstract: A non-crescent seal gear pump includes a housing with a pump chamber, a rotatable ring gear in the pump chamber having an outer periphery and internal toothing and an eccentric pinion with external toothing and rotatable in mesh with the rotatable ring gear at one circumferential side of the ring gear and the pinion and the ring gear. The tooth tips of the ring gear have grooves in which are inserted radially movable sealing elements that are movable radially slightly. The sealing elements in the ring gear and the teeth of the pinion are so placed as to slide past each other at the other circumferential side of the ring gear. A distribution groove is worked into either the wall of the profile groove and/or into the sealing element at the wall and the distribution groove extends axially along the sealing element. Radial legs may project outwardly from the axially extending distribution groove.

Abstract: A filling member-less internal-gear pump in which the annular gear (4) is received in a running ring (3) forming an annular gap (31), and rotates therewith. The annular gap (31) is subdivided into peripheral portions which can be sealed off relative to each other and which are delimited from each other by sealing elements (44). The sealing elements are received in receiving spaces (45) in which they are displaceable in the peripheral direction and can seal off the receiving spaces relative to each other (FIG. 5).

Abstract: A rotary displacement pump having a rotatable gear rotor is disclosed, the gear rotor having an outer ring gear with a plurality of internal teeth engaging the external teeth on a pinion gear which is, in turn, attached to a rotatable shaft. The ring gear has an outer diameter that is approximately equal to the diameter of the root circle of the internal gear teeth such that the plurality of teeth are circumferentially spaced apart to form generally radial passageways. The ring gear has one or more annular portions connecting the plurality of internal gear teeth. Each of the internal gear teeth has a forward portion and a rear portion, measured in the direction of rotation of the ring gear, with a tooth profile having a convex forward portion with a radius R1 and a convex rear portion having a radius R2 such that R1>R2.

Abstract: A sickleless internal gear pump with an internally toothed ring gear and a pinion meshing with the ring gear, the two fitted rotatably in a common casing. The ring gear includes radial conduits for the medium to be pumped and elements which are radially movably fitted in grooves in the tooth heads of the ring gear or pinion. The sealing elements slide on the opposing tooth head of the pinion or ring gear and include control spaces on which pressure is applied from the rear. For pressure application in the control spaces there is machined at least one control slot in the area of the pressure buildup zone, on at least one side of the part of the casing which laterally bounds the ring gear and pinion.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a sickleless internal gear pump with an internal ring gear and a pinion meshing with the ring gear. The ring gear has radial apertures for the medium being pumped, and sealing elements radially movably disposed in an appropriate profile groove, and inserted in respective tooth heads of the ring gear, or in the tooth heads of the pinion. The sealing elements are able to slide on the opposite tooth heads of the pinion, or of the ring gear. The head shape of the sealing element and the shape of the tooth space bottom of the ring gear, or of the pinion, are configured such that the sealing element establishes a seal between the pressure space and the suction space in the area of dead center.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sickleless internal gear pump with an internally toothed ring gear and a pinion meshing with the ring gear. The pinion and ring gear are rotatably mounted in a housing having a suction port and a pressure port. The ring gear includes radial ports for the medium to be pumped. The tooth heads of the ring gear or the tooth heads of the pinion have a profile groove into which a plurality of sealing elements are respectively inserted. The sealing elements are able to slide on the radially opposite tooth of the pinion or ring gear. The invention is characterized by a profile groove, viewed in axially perpendicular section, which has no ports. The individual sealing elements are provided with a channel establishing a fluid connection between the interior of the profile groove and the sealing face of the sealing element. The channel, viewed in the direction of rotation of the pinion, is enveloped by the material of the sealing element.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a sickleless internal gear pump including an internal ring gear and a pinion meshing with the ring gear. The internal ring gear and pinion having a common width and a plurality of teeth extending across the width. Each tooth has a tooth head with an involute profile. Each ring gear tooth includes a tooth head having a slot therein. The ring gear has a plurality of radial ports. A housing rotatably carries the internal ring gear and the pinion, and includes a suction port, a pressure port and an axial expanse corresponding to the teeth width. A plurality of sealing elements are respectively disposed in the ring gear tooth head slots. The sealing elements are radially movably disposed in the slots, and each sealing element defines an end face of the tooth head. The end face has an exterior profile corresponding to the involute profile. Each sealing element comprises a stop surface and a fixed stop.

Abstract: The rotary piston (6) with rotation axis C performs a relative rotation in an annular cylinder (1) with rotation axis O which is displaced with respect to said piston axis (C) by an eccentricity e. The cylinder (1) comprises three chambers (2) having cylindrical surfaces (3) which engage the piston (6). The piston (6) has two semi-cylindrical surfaces connected by connecting surfaces (8). Each connecting surface (8) has a shape generated by replacing one of the three rollers with a machine tool (5') and displacing the piston with the other two rollers (5). The surface of said piston (6) is continually supported on three rollers (5) of said cylinder (1). The relative position, i.e. the relative movement of said piston (6) and said cylinder (1), is rigidly determined by the support of the piston on rollers (5) and by the eccentricity (e) between the piston and the cylinder axes. The machine can be used as a combustion engine, a volumetric pump, or as a hydraulic motor.

Abstract: The radial cross sections of the three engagement parts of the external rr of an internal axis single-rotation machine are defined by outer and inner circular arcs. The shape of the internal rotor, having two engagement parts, is kinematically precisely adapted to the external rotor. In order that the internal rotor can be easily manufactured with high shape accuracy, that the machine be given a good volumetric efficiency, and that a good seal be obtained between the rotors, even in the case of high rotational speeds, the center of the circle containing the arcs of the inner faces of the engagement parts of the external rotor has a spacing from the rotational axis of the external rotor of at least approximately 9 times the amount of the eccentricity between the two rotors, and the radius of the external rotor inner faces is about to 7 to 7.5 times this eccentricity.

Abstract: An internal gear pump is disclosed having at least two essentially identical internal gears and a pinion meshing with the internal gears, all being rotatably disposed in a housing, the axial dimension of which is substantially equal to the width of the gear and pinion teeth. The housing includes a suction connection and a pressure connection. The internal gears have radial through-bores for the medium to be pumped. A support is provided at the contacting surfaces of the internal gears near the pressure connection.

Abstract: For improving the gap sealing between the circumferential surfaces of rot of a rotary piston machine and circular cylindrical inner surfaces (9) of the surrounding casing, rib-like protuberances (11) are displaced from the casing inner surfaces by cold working. On running in the rotary piston machine the external cross-sectional area of the protuberances (11) is removed by wear, so that between the protruberance (11) and the inner surface (9) a minimum sealing gap is obtained without corresponding manufacturing costs being involved in the formation thereof.

Abstract: A crescent-less internal gear pump. The internally geared wheel has a plurality of radial openings from its peripheral surface into the tooth gaps at the tooth base. The axial width of the pinion and/or the internally geared wheel is at least as great as the diameter of the rolling circle of the pinion. The filling of the inside of the pump through radial openings makes it possible to make the internally geared wheel as axially wide as the suction connection or as that part of the housing which receives the active gear parts participating in the formation of the delivery stream. It is possible to develop the axial width of the toothing considerably larger than the diameter of the rolling circle of the pinion. Complete filling of the tooth gaps with pressure fluid is assured without the occurrence of flow velocities at which the formation of noise or other disadvantages is to be expected. The pump can also be provided with two internally geared wheels arranged alongside each other.

Abstract: A rotor device includes a casing, an outer rotor positioned in the casing and rotatable about a first rotational axis, and an inner rotor positioned in the casing and rotatable about a second rotational axis. An outer sealing portion of the inner rotor defines a locus along an inner wall surface of an operating chamber of the outer rotor as a result of the rotation of the inner rotor. An inner sealing portion of the outer rotor defines a locus along an outer circumferential surface of the inner rotor in response to the rotation of the outer rotor. The inner wall surface of the operating chamber engages the outer circumferential surface of the inner rotor through a gear engagement. A driving input shaft portion is connected to the outer rotor and a first gear having teeth on its inner circumferential surface is connected to the outer rotor.

Abstract: A rotor unit comprises an inner rotor and an outer rotor having different number of teeth, with the inner and the outer rotor being mounted on eccentric shafts to be driven for rotation at different speeds. The volume efficiency is improved by producing a clearance between the external surface of the outer rotor and the inner surface of the housing so that the clearance changes from the axial center to either end so that the magnitude of the clearance is reduced during a high speed rotation when a centrifugal force is effective. Projections are formed on the opposite ends of the outer rotor to reduce the volume of a waste space which is defined between the inner and the outer rotor.

Abstract: An internal axis rotary piston machine containing in a housing (2), an outer rotor (26), with which an inner rotor (8) having n engagement parts (9) is in meshing engagement, there being n+1 recesses between engagement parts (34) of the outer rotor (26). The inner rotor (8) and outer rotor (26) rotate uniformly at a speed ratio of (n+1):n. There is contact of the tooth-flank type between inside faces of the outer rotor (26) and outside faces of the inner rotor (8) such that working spaces (66) are formed and move past inlet and outlet orifices (63, 64) of the housing (2). The rotary piston machine is designed in such a way that cost-effective production can be achieved while assuring a simple construction. To achieve this, it is proposed that the housing (2) should have, on the drive side, a bottom (4) formed in one piece and should be made pot-shaped. The bottom (4) has an outer face for a bearing (30) of the outer rotor (26), especially on a ring (28) extending axially into the end of the outer rotor (6).

Abstract: The external rotor of a single-rotation machine has engagement spaces, whose boundary faces in the inward direction form a widening, which is adjacent in an outer region radial thereto to parallel surfaces or surfaces forming a widening in the outward direction. The side walls axially bounding these engagement spaces have a radially outer part, which is cast in one piece with the peripheral parts of the external rotor and an inner part radial thereto, which subsequently reduces to a circular opening the opening surrounded by the radially outer parts, so that the radial seal between side walls and a stationary sealing member surrounded by said opening is located radially within the peripheral parts of the external rotor and a sealing gap in the radial plane between the peripheral parts and the sealing member is avoided.

Abstract: In a rotary piston engine which can be produced by simple manufacturing techniques and which has an outer and an inner rotor which rotate in a housing about different axes of rotation, wherein strip-like projections on inwardly extending engagement members generate the contour of the piston of the inner rotor, whereby a well-defined contact seal can be realized in use, the projections have two sealing corners adjacent to but spaced from one another in the direction of rotation of the outer rotor.

Abstract: An internal axis single-rotation machine, wherein an external rotor and an internal rotor are mounted for intermeshing rotation about their own centers of gravity at different angular velocities within a casing and wherein two pairs of radially external sealing corner areas on the internal rotor kinematically describe internal lateral faces which define recesses in the external rotor and wherein internal sealing corner areas on the external rotor kinematically describe external peripheral faces on the internal rotor, the rotors being arranged in cooperating rotative relationship such that a meshing gear-like contact is maintained between the internal lateral faces of the external rotor and the lateral faces of the internal rotor.

Abstract: A rotary piston machine has inner and outer rotors rotating at unequal speeds around eccentric axes, and the rotors are provided with angularly spaced profiled teeth and gaps which cooperate during rotation to define working chambers of varying volume which move between an inlet and an outlet for a fluid medium to be pumped. The outer rotor has openings therein to provide communication between the working chambers and the inlet and outlet during rotation of the rotors, and these openings are spaced axially of the outer rotor to define a solid band of material between the openings. The solid band of material is provided with a circumferential groove in which a reinforcing belt is mounted having greater strength than the material of the outer rotor. The belt can be glass, carbon or aramide fiber would as threads and impregnated with a hardened plastic such as an epoxy resin.

Abstract: The engagement parts of the external rotor of a single-rotation machine are interconnected in circumferential direction of the rotor by a ring-like web. This allows high rotational speeds around the single axis of rotation of the external rotor without any increase in the size of dead spaces of the machine.

Abstract: For an improved sealing at the sealing gaps of a single-rotation machine having internal axes and accompanied by minimum frictionally losses, the width of the sealing gaps is made to differ in such a way that the narrower sealing gaps occur on the radially outer circumferential surfaces of the internal rotor facing the engagement parts of the external rotor. The comparatively wider sealing gaps occur on the transition surfaces between radially inner circumferential surfaces and radially outer circumferential surfaces of the internal rotor.

Abstract: The engagement parts of the external rotor of a single rotation are provided with at least one cooling air duct. The inflow takes place by an inflow duct provided in the casing side plate and which is surrounded by the antifriction bearing mounting the external rotor, while the outflow takes place radially through openings provided in the circumferential wall of the casing.

Abstract: The engagement parts of the external rotor of a machine having plural fixed internal axes are reinforced by locking screws, which extend radially outwards to the side parts of the external rotor at an acute angle parallel to the longitudinal axis of said engagement parts. The thus prevented bulging of the engagement parts due to centrifugal forces permits high rotational speeds in the case of narrow sealing gaps between the external and internal rotors and with respect to the machine casing.

Abstract: A rotary gas expansion and compression device having a pair of rotors provided respectively with external and internal flutes differing in number by one, the form of which provides a continuous vertical contact. The rotors are meshed so that they form closed chambers which during rotation continuously vary in volume providing expansion and compression chambers.

Abstract: A fluid operable rotary piston device having a housing with gas inlet and tlet means and a hollow cylinder rotatable therein having gas inlet and gas outlet ports which communicate with the gas inlet and outlet means during rotation of the cylinder. A rotary piston is rotatable on an eccentric axis inside the cylinder and the cylinder and piston have interengageable means forming contact free working chambers. Axial sealing strips are mounted on one of the piston and cylinder and form contact free sealing gaps between adjacent working chambers. The cylinder rotates in the housing in contact free relation therewith and a transmission connects the piston and cylinder for rotation at respective speeds.