Inner Member Has Five Or More Teeth Patents (Class 418/171)
  • Patent number: 7591637
    Abstract: Disclosed is a G-rotor pump in which a lid and a bottom of a pump housing are made of plastic. A spacer that supports the bottom is produced as a single piece with the lid, whereby the G-rotor pump can be embodied in a particularly inexpensive manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Muehlhausen, Rolf Reinhardt
  • Patent number: 7588429
    Abstract: An oil pump rotor assembly is disclosed. An inner rotor formed with n external teeth is based on cycloid curves which are generated by a first circumscribed-rolling circle and a first inscribed-rolling circle by rolling the first circumscribed-rolling circle and first inscribed-rolling circle along an inner base circle. An outer rotor formed with n+1 internal teeth (n+1 is the number of teeth) is based on cycloid curves which are generated by a second circumscribed-rolling circle and a second inscribed-rolling circle by rolling the second circumscribed-rolling circle and second inscribed-rolling circles along an outer base circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials PMG Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuaki Hosono
  • Patent number: 7572117
    Abstract: A crankshaft and an mounting hole have two main circular arc parts on the same circle; and two connecting parts for connecting the adjacent main circular arc parts, and have a cross-sectional shape in which the connecting parts facing each other are substantially parallel. The connecting parts of the mounting hole are formed in the shape of a large circular arc which projects inward. The torque of the crankshaft is transmitted to the mounting hole in a state where the connecting parts of the crankshaft and the connecting parts of the mounting hole which are formed in the shape of a large circular arc come into line contact with each other; therefore, the value of any local stress generated in the mounting hole can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials PMG Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuaki Hosono
  • Publication number: 20090185940
    Abstract: The present invention enables the manufacture of a trochoid pump having a crescent which has been considered theoretically impossible by employing an inner rotor of a trochoid pump. An inner rotor having a predetermined number N of teeth that is equal to or larger than 4 is formed in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: YAMADA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Fujiki, Masaru Amano, Keiichi Kai, Takatoshi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20090175751
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, an electric pump includes: a housing; an outer rotor; an inner rotor; a base member facing one side surface of the outer rotor and one side surface of the inner rotor; a side plate member, having a facing surface facing the other side surface of the outer rotor and the other side surface of the inner rotor and a non-facing surface opposed to the facing surface; a shaft; a suction port; a discharge port; a negative pressure applied region; a positive pressure applied region; and a relief valve, discharging the fluid from the positive pressure applied region to a non-facing surface side of the side plate member when a pressure applied at the positive pressure applied region exceeds a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Nakayoshi
  • Patent number: 7520738
    Abstract: A closed system rotary machine has an inner shaped element (1) and an outer shaped element (2) which define therebetween cavities or capsules having a variable volume (V1, V9). The contact points which define the capsules (C1, C9) are disposed along lines of action (CA1, CA2, CA3) which are concurrent at junction points BN and BM, where the cavities begin and end respectively. The contacts (C2) at points located on the tangent (T) common to both pitch circles (6, 7) are osculating elements with a shared centre of curvature which is situated at the rolling point (R) of the pitch circles (6, 7). The invention can be used to ensure that the capsules form and disappear very gradually and to facilitate the distribution of the capsules when they are forming and disappearing in order to increase the leak paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ecole Polytechnique
    Inventor: André Katz
  • Patent number: 7513760
    Abstract: An oil pump of a scroll compressor is provided. The oil pump includes a pump body to which a drive shaft is inserted; a gear unit inserted to a lower side of the pump body and rotating by the rotation of the drive shaft; and a pump cover coupled to a lower side of the pump body and including an inlet through which oil is introduced, an outlet through which the introduced oil is discharged to the drive shalt, and one or more noise reducing portions reducing noise generated during a pumping process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seung Yup Kim, Myung Kyun Kim, Byeong Chul Lee
  • Patent number: 7503757
    Abstract: An oil pump includes a housing including a rotor receiving portion at an inner side and an inner rotor accommodated in the rotor receiving portion formed at the housing. The inner rotor includes a plurality of outer teeth sequentially arranged at an outer peripheral side and integrally rotating about a first rotational center with a drive shaft. An outer rotor is also accommodated in the rotor receiving portion and includes a plurality of inner teeth sequentially arranged at an inner peripheral side, the outer rotor rotating about a second rotational center eccentric relative to the first rotational center by a predetermined amount in relation to rotations of the inner rotor in such a manner that the inner teeth and the outer teeth engage with each other. A restriction portion restricts an operating range of the outer rotor in a direction perpendicular to an eccentric direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisashi Ono, Koji Nunami
  • Patent number: 7494329
    Abstract: An oil pump for a compressor is provided. The oil pump includes a pump body coupled to a driving shaft, and a pumping member coupled to the pump body so as to define a pumping part and a pump cover is coupled to a lower side of the pump body therebetween. A lower suction unit provided at a lower side of the pump body draws fluid into the pump from a lower portion of a supply area, and an upper suction unit draws fluid into the pump from an upper portion of the oil supply area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Byoung Kil Yoo, Seung Yup Kim
  • Patent number: 7488163
    Abstract: A trochoid oil pump, which enables the endurance to be increased and the reduction of discharge pulsations and noise to be achieved, and in which those results can be realized with a very simple structure. An interdental space constituted by an inner rotor and an outer rotor having trochoid tooth profile or substantially trochoid tooth profile starts a compression stroke in the location of a partition section between an intake port and a discharge portion, and a linking gap L is composed by the interdental space and a preceding adjacent interdental space realized in a discharge stroke. The linking gap expands gradually from the start of compression stroke to the discharge stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Yamada Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Enzaka, Masahiro Kasahara, Yasunori Ono, Kenichi Fujiki, Keiichi Kai, Yoshiaki Senga, Atsushi Kaneko
  • Patent number: 7476093
    Abstract: A rotor pump assembly is disclosed which reduces noise emitted from an oil pump while preventing pumping performance and mechanical efficiency thereof from being decreased by properly forming the profiles of teeth of an inner rotor and an outer rotor which are engageable with each other. The tooth profile of an inner rotor and/or an outer rotor has curved lines obtained by dividing a cycloid curve into two segments to be separated from each other, and in which the separated segments are smoothly connected to each other using a straight line or a curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials PMG Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuaki Hosono
  • Patent number: 7472677
    Abstract: An energy transfer machine, for example, a positive displacement internal combustion device, has a fixed outer housing, an internal rotating carrier and one or more inner rotors with rotational axes which are offset from the inner rotor carrier rotational axis. Projections from the fixed outer housing and rotor mesh with each other to define variable volume chambers. In another energy transfer machine, in which the outer housing may be fixed or rotating, projections of the rotor are expandable within cylinders defined by projections of the outer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Concept Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: James Klassen, David W. Boehm
  • Patent number: 7445438
    Abstract: A lube pump is provided for supplying lubricant to various components of a power transmission unit of the type used in motor vehicles. The lube pump includes a pump assembly and a coupling mechanism for releaseably coupling the pump assembly to a driven shaft. The coupling is operable to release the pump assembly when the rotary speed of the shaft exceeds a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Magna Powertrain USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Ronk, Randolph C. Williams
  • Patent number: 7438542
    Abstract: A fluid pump assembly comprises a pump housing and a fluid pump disposed within the pump housing. The fluid pump has axially opposite first and second side faces and includes cooperating impeller and rotor members. The fluid pump assembly further comprises inlet and outlet ports disposed adjacent to the first side face, a pressure chamber formed within the pump housing adjacent to the second side face, and an end plate disposed within the pressure chamber and movable relative to the pump between a first position and a second position. The end plate has axially opposite inner and outer end surfaces oriented so that the inner end surface faces the fluid pump, while the outer end surface faces away from the pump. An area of the outer end surface of the end plate is greater than the area of the inner end surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC.
    Inventors: Ralph W. Baxter, Jr., Randy Sommer, Stephen Garlick
  • Patent number: 7427192
    Abstract: A toothing of a toothed wheel, consisting of tooth tips and tooth roots of teeth which are formed by second or higher order curves, wherein said curves point tangentially toward each other at their ends, and wherein at least the curves forming the tooth tips or at least the curves forming the tooth roots are not cycloids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Schwabische Huttenwerke GmbH
    Inventors: Christof Lamparski, Sven Peters
  • Patent number: 7427191
    Abstract: In an oil pump employing a cam ring, and inner and outer rotors in meshed-engagement, two housings are provided at opposite ends of the cam ring. A plurality of volume chambers are defined between inner and outer teeth of the rotors. Two axial holes are formed in the cam ring. A first one of the axial holes is positioned corresponding to a mesh portion having a minimum volume, whereas the second axial hole is positioned corresponding to a trap portion having a maximum volume. A suction port and a discharge port are formed at least in one of the housings and are open to the volume chambers between the mesh and trap portions. All are positioned at a line symmetry of an axis line between the mesh and trap portions. At least one of the two axial holes is formed as a slot extending along the axis lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Kurata, Mizuo Otaki
  • Patent number: 7410349
    Abstract: A pump assembly includes a pump housing, a stator ring supported within the pump housing, and a pump ring also rotatably supported within the pump housing. The pump ring interfaces with the stator ring to define a plurality of variable volume pressure chambers. A cover plate covers the stator ring and pumping ring within the pump housing. The cover plate is axially displaceable relative to the pump housing and defines a wall of each of the pressure chambers. Pressure within the pressure chambers induces linear movement of the cover plate away from the stator ring and the pump ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Magna Powertrain USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Aaron Ronk
  • Patent number: 7407373
    Abstract: An inner motor is structured to increase the discharge rate of an internal gear pump by making it possible to freely adjust the eccentricity e between the inner and outer rotors. Each tooth of the inner rotor includes a tooth bottom defined by hypocycloidal curves, an engaging portion to be brought into engagement with the outer rotor and defined by involute curves, and a tooth top defined by a predetermined curve such as a part of a circle or an oval or an epicycloidal curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Ogata, Naoki Inui, Shinya Arinaga
  • Patent number: 7399171
    Abstract: The curvature of a circular arc constituted by a side of a suction groove is made larger than that of a circular arc constituted by a side of a discharge groove. Thus, when the suction groove and the discharge groove are viewed in the axial direction of a drive shaft, the distance between the suction groove and the discharge groove in the radial direction of a rotary portion is short in a region intersecting with a line W perpendicular to a centerline, and increases in accordance with a decrease in distance from containment portions. It is therefore possible to ensure a sufficient distance between the discharge and suction grooves and enhance a total fluid pressure generated therebetween, and the contact surface pressure that is necessitated by a second side plate to obtain a press-back force when being in contact with an outer rotor and an inner rotor is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignees: Advics Co., Ltd., DENSO CORPORATION, Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamaguchi, Takashi Satou, Shigeki Torii, Toshiya Hayashi, Akihiro Yada, Hitoshi Mizutani, Takuya Fukitsuke, Kazunori Uchiyama, Naoki Hakamada
  • Patent number: 7390180
    Abstract: A hermetic compressor uses an oil pump that includes a trochoid gear. Therefore, regardless of the rotation speed of a driving motor of the compressor, a sufficient amount of oil can always be pumped. The oil pump unit may include a plurality of suction holes with openings at different heights. If the refrigerant and oil separate, at least one of the openings will admit oil into the oil pump unit, to ensure lubricating oil is supplied to the moving parts of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dong-Soo Lee, Chul-Su Jung, Jeong-Hwan Suh, Seung-Yup Kim
  • Patent number: 7374411
    Abstract: An oil pump is provided which includes a cam ring made of a material having a first line expansion coefficient, a pump element rotatably disposed in the cam ring and smaller in an axial length than the cam ring, a first housing member disposed on one of axially opposite sides of the cam ring and made of a material having a second line expansion coefficient larger than the first line expansion coefficient, and a second housing member disposed on the other of the axially opposite sides of the cam ring and made of a material having a third line expansion coefficient than the first line expansion coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhito Nakakuki, Toshimitsu Sakaki
  • Publication number: 20080107557
    Abstract: An oil pump includes a housing including a rotor receiving portion at an inner side and an inner rotor accommodated in the rotor receiving portion formed at the housing. The inner rotor includes a plurality of outer teeth sequentially arranged at an outer peripheral side and integrally rotating about a first rotational center with a drive shaft. An outer rotor is also accommodated in the rotor receiving portion and includes a plurality of inner teeth sequentially arranged at an inner peripheral side, the outer rotor rotating about a second rotational center eccentric relative to the first rotational center by a predetermined amount in relation to rotations of the inner rotor in such a manner that the inner teeth and the outer teeth engage with each other. A restriction portion restricts an operating range of the outer rotor in a direction perpendicular to an eccentric direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Applicant: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisashi Ono, Koji Nunami
  • Patent number: 7367782
    Abstract: In a pump plate (26) of a feed pump, an inlet port (26b) and an outlet port (26c) are formed around a shaft hole (26a) through which a driving shaft is inserted, and a rib (26f), which partitions each of the inlet port (26b) and the outlet port (26c) in the circumferential direction thereof and connects opposite sides (an inner peripheral side and an outer peripheral side) of each of the inlet port (26b) and the outlet port (26c), is provided. Namely, each of the inlet port (26b) and the outlet port (26c) is divided into two portions in the circumferential direction thereof, by the rib (26f). Therefore, when the feed pump is fastened to a side face of a pump housing by bolts, even if the thickness of the pump plate (26) is not increased, the deformation of the center of the pump plate (26) can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Hidenori Kajita
  • Patent number: 7347678
    Abstract: A seal ring for improving the performance of a gear pump, primarily for vehicle transmissions, comprises the milling of a circular ring on at least one lateral face of an inner gear and an outer gear in a gear pump and inserting a friction reducing ring within the milled circular ring. The addition of this ring, especially on remanufactured gear pumps, will reduce the amount of transmission fluid leaking between the gears and the gear pump housing and also reduce the friction between the gears and the gear housing, thus providing more fluid to the transmission and also increasing the pressure while decreasing the amount of heat of the transmission fluid being circulated through the gear pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Inventors: Donald D. Deems, Anthony S. Jungels
  • Publication number: 20080017437
    Abstract: An internal gear pump has a first port opening into pumping chambers and provided at one side with respect to a first axis interconnecting a confinement portion of the pumping chambers having a maximum volumetric capacity and a deeply-meshed-engagement portion of the pumping chambers having a minimum volumetric capacity, a second port opening into the pumping chambers and provided at the opposite side with respect to the first axis, a first pressure introduction passage intercommunicating the first port and a first-port side area of a clearance space defined on an outer periphery of an outer rotor, and a second pressure introduction passage intercommunicating the second port and a second-port side area of the clearance space. The clearance space of a direction of a second axis perpendicular to the first axis is dimensioned to be greater than the clearance space of a direction of the first axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventor: Masakazu Kurata
  • Patent number: 7290995
    Abstract: A tandem type trochoid pump is comprised of a drive shaft having a non-circular end portion, a spacer positioned between a first trochoid pump and a second trochoid pump in a housing body, a first fixing portion for fixing a first inner rotor of the first trochoid pump to the drive shaft in a rotational direction, and a second fixing portion for fixing a second inner rotor of the second trochoid pump to the drive shaft in the rotational direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Ohnishi, Yasushi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7278841
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Performance Pumps, LLC
    Inventor: Edward H. Phillips
  • Patent number: 7241122
    Abstract: A positive-displacement pump, in particular for use in machines or dispensing fluids, including two elements that are with respect to one another and which mesh with one another (20, 30), each of them being rotatably mounted in the pump with centered coupling without interference with a corresponding centering body (18, 11a). At least one of the two above-mentioned ratable elements has a plurality of undercut regions (26, 34, 35)) at the location of the centering walls. The undercut regions (26, 34, 35) comprise a wall portion which is spaced with respect to the facing wall of the respective centering body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: CPS Color Equipment S.p.A. Con Unica Socio
    Inventors: Giorgio Manfredini, Uber Bortoli
  • Patent number: 7220111
    Abstract: A fluid pump includes a housing having a lateral wall and an end wall, an insert located in the housing surrounded by the lateral wall and including a body having a central aperture and inlet and outlet fluid channels. A seal, located between the end wall and the insert, seals against fluid flow therebetween. A Gerotor pump mechanism located in the housing adjacent the inlet and outlet fluid channels includes a outer gear and an inner gear engaged with the outer gear for pumping fluid from the inlet fluid channel to the outlet fluid channel as the inner gear rotates relative to the outer gear. A cover, fitted in the housing and spaced axially from the end wall, is located adjacent the inner gear and outer gear and is secured to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Production Research, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen D. Johnson
  • Patent number: 7195467
    Abstract: A fluidic machine has a fixed body, an external orbital member rotatable around a first rotational axis and internal gear teeth including a first teeth number, a transmission member rotatable around a second rotational axis, an internal orbital member supported by the transmission member, having external gear teeth including a second teeth number different from the first teeth number and meshing with the internal gear teeth of the external orbital member, thus determining among the gear teeth of the two orbital members spaces whose volume is variable during rotation. One of the orbital members is mounted axially displaceable and is pushed by an elastic push member in the direction producing a more extended engagement with the other orbital member, and a piston, mounted displaceable within the non-axially displaceable orbital member and resting against the axially displaceable orbital member, is subjected, to the pressure of the high pressure connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: VHIT S.p.A.
    Inventor: Leonardo Cadeddu
  • Patent number: 7186101
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: The Texas A&M University System
    Inventors: Mark T. Holtzapple, George A. Rabroker
  • Patent number: 7165955
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a trochoid type oil pump in which erosion of the rotor surfaces caused by cavitation is minimized, vibration and noise are reduced, and the structure is greatly simplified. The trochoid type oil pump of the present invention comprises a rotor chamber which has an intake port and a discharge port, an outer rotor, an inner rotor, and shallow grooves which are formed on the side of the initial end portion of the discharge port on the circular circumference of the track of the positions of the bottom portions of the teeth created by the rotation of the outer rotor. In a state in which the sealed spaces formed by the outer rotor, the inner rotor and a partition part between the final end portion of the intake port and the initial end portion of the discharge port are reduced in volume from the maximum volume, the sealed spaces Sa are caused to communicate with the shallow grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Yamada Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Enzaka, Yasunori Ono, Masahiro Kasahara, Yoshiaki Senga, Ken Kaneko, Takahiro Sato
  • Patent number: 7153110
    Abstract: Rotational pump with variable volume flow, comprising a pump housing having a suction connection and a pressure connection, an outer rotor with inner toothing which is rotatably disposed inside the housing, and an inner rotor with outer toothing which is eccentrically disposed in the outer rotor, and which can be driven by a drive shaft which is disposed in the pump housing parallel to the axis of the outer rotor, wherein a rotatable adjusting ring is provided coaxially to the drive shaft to change the volume flow in the pump housing, and in which the outer rotor is eccentrically and rotatably disposed, characterized in that a slider, which can change the size of at least one of the connections, is disposed, as viewed in the turning direction, between the pressure connection and the suction connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Joma-Hydromechanic GmbH
    Inventor: Willi Schneider
  • Patent number: 7137793
    Abstract: A magnetically driven gear pump having a housing, a rotatable annular magnetic drive assembly magnetically coupled to but spaced from an annular driven magnet and rotor gear assembly with an annular canister disposed therebetween, and wherein when the annular magnetic drive assembly is rotated, the annular driven magnet and rotor gear assembly rotate on a first shaft portion of an offset stationary shaft and the rotor gear drives an idler gear that rotates on a second shaft portion of the offset stationary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: PeopleFlo Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Clark J. Shafer, William R. Blankemeier
  • Patent number: 7118359
    Abstract: An oil pump rotor assembly for an oil pump which enables reduction of noise while preventing pump performance and mechanical efficiency from being degraded. In this oil pump rotor assembly, the tooth tip profile of each of at least one of external teeth of an inner rotor and internal teeth of an outer rotor the inner rotor is formed such that a base cycloid curve is divided at a midpoint thereof to obtain two tooth curve segments, and the two tooth curve segments are separated by a predetermined distance along the circumference of a base circle or in the direction of a tangent of the base cycloid curve drawn at the midpoint thereof and are smoothly connected to each other using a curve or a straight line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuaki Hosono
  • Patent number: 7111606
    Abstract: A device to convert energy having exterior and interior rotors where the number of legs (?) of an interior rotor divided by the number of chambers (X) defined by the fins of the outer rotor is equal to the effective radius of the inner reference circle ri divided by the effective radius of the outer reference circle ro (i.e. ?/X=ri/ro). Where the surface of the fins of the outer rotor and the toe and heel portion of the interior rotor allow for a sealed chamber for a finite amount of rotation of the inner and outer rotors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Inventor: James B. Klassen
  • Patent number: 7074025
    Abstract: A fluid delivery device, such as a geared machine or a gear pump, with a housing having at least one supply chamber and a displacement unit arranged within the supply chamber. The displacement unit serves to supply a medium to at least one pressure chamber provided within the housing. A pressure plate is arranged between the pressure chamber and the housing, and the pressure plate is uncoupled from the housing by at least one spacer element that is arranged between the pressure plate and the housing to provide a fluid delivery device that operates more quietly than conventional fluid delivery devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: LuK Lamellen und Kupplungsbau Beteiligungs KG
    Inventor: Marco Grethel
  • Patent number: 7052257
    Abstract: The invention relates to an internal gear pump for delivering fuel in an internal combustion engine, with an internally toothed annular gear and an externally toothed pinion that cooperates with the annular gear to produce a pumping action. In order to increase both the delivery capacity at starting speed and the service life of the internal gear pump, the pinion is supported on a supporting stub in a radially mobile fashion, eccentric to the annular gear. In addition, a device is provided to compensate for the radial play between the pinion and the annular gear. The drive is transmitted by a spring-loaded Oldham coupling, which adjusts the axial play of the pump according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Stanislaw Bodzak
  • Patent number: 7052258
    Abstract: To reduce noise caused by pulsation generated when fluid is expelled, in a trochoidal pump comprising an inner rotor and outer rotor having trochoidal toothed shapes. [Means of Solution] The inner rotor 5 and outer rotor 6 having trochoidal toothed shapes are set in such a manner that when they are in a mutually intermeshing state, a tip clearance d0 is created between the respective tooth crests 5a of the inner rotor 5 and the outer rotor 6. In at least one position of this group of tip clearances d0, a large clearance d1 forming a large interval is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Yamada Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Amano, Kenichi Fujiki, Yasunori Ono
  • Patent number: 7048524
    Abstract: A positive-displacement pump, in particular for use in machines or dispensing fluids, including two elements that are with respect to one another and which mesh with one another (20, 30), each of them being rotatably mounted in the pump with centered coupling without interference with a corresponding centering body (18, 11a). At least one of the two above-mentioned ratable elements has a plurality of undercut regions (26, 34, 35) at the location of the centering walls. The undercut regions (26, 34, 35) comprise a wall portion which is spaced with respect to the facing wall of the respective centering body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: CPS Color Equipment SpA
    Inventors: Giorgio Manfredini, Uber Bortoli
  • Patent number: 7008200
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignees: The Texas A&M University System, StarRotor Corporation
    Inventors: Mark T. Holtzapple, George A. Rabroker, Thomas J. Beck, Mark Ehsani, Matthew M. Whiteacre, Michael Kyle Ross, Gary P. Noyes
  • Patent number: 6974315
    Abstract: An oil pump for a vehicle engine. The oil pump includes an oil pump housing and a gerotor. The oil pump housing includes a cavity that defines an inside diameter. The gerotor is positioned within the cavity, is rotatable relative to the housing, and defines a thickness and an outside diameter. The distance between the inside diameter and the outside diameter is non-uniform across the thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: Harley-Davidson Motor Company Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Jesse Dees
  • Patent number: 6905321
    Abstract: In a rotary pump for a braking apparatus, a discharge trench is formed on an axial direction end surface of a second side plate that forms a mechanical seal. As a result, rotors are pressed back toward a side of a first side plate by a discharge pressure of brake fluid channeled to the discharge trench. Accordingly, a force pressing the rotors toward the second side plate is reduced and frictional resistance is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignees: Advics Co., Ltd., Nippon Soken Inc.
    Inventors: Kazunori Uchiyama, Naoki Hakamada, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Takashi Satou
  • Patent number: 6896500
    Abstract: A bottom portion of an intake port is provided with a sloped bottom surface formed of a plane such that sloped bottom surface approaches the side surfaces of external teeth and internal teeth from an upstream side to a downstream side in rotational direction of two rotors. Fluid that flows in the intake port is regulated by the sloped bottom surface and smoothly guided into individual inter-teeth chambers that are expanding. Since the sloped bottom surface on the bottom portion of the intake port is formed of a plane without spiral or twisting, design and manufacturing of a gear pump is extremely easy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobukazu Ike, Satoru Kasuya, Masaaki Nishida, Masahiro Hayabuchi
  • Patent number: 6893239
    Abstract: The invention relates to an internal geared wheel pump without a filler piece, comprising a housing, an internal geared wheel (3) which rotates in the housing and an external geared pinion (2) which is rotationally mounted in the housing and which meshes with the geared wheel. The teeth of the pinion define a suction area and a pressure area in the gearing, by complete engagement with the tooth spaces of the geared wheel and by sealing contact with tooth crowns of the geared wheel in an engagement-free geared wheel area which lies approximately diametrically opposite the tooth space engagement. The toothing of the geared wheel and the pinion is an involute or cycloid toothing, the tooth crowns having a rounded peripheral surface (23, 34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Eckerle Industrie-Elektronik GmbH
    Inventor: Reinhard Pippes
  • Patent number: 6893238
    Abstract: A displacement-type ring gear machine includes a casing including a gear chamber comprising a supply port and a discharge port, an internal gear accommodated in the gear chamber and comprising an external toothing, and an external gear eccentric to the internal gear and comprising an internal toothing meshing with the external toothing so as to form expanding and contracting fluid cells which direct the working fluid from the supply port to the discharge port. The meshing toothings comprise a radial clearance and a tangential clearance which is smaller than the radial clearance. The tips or roots of at least one of the two toothings comprise a profile derived from a cycloid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Inventors: Siegfried A. Eisenmann, Hermann Härle
  • Patent number: 6887054
    Abstract: A rotary fluid pressure device has a first oil passage with relatively high pressure fluid therein surrounding the gear set; a plurality of second oil passageways connecting the first oil passageway to the expanding and contracting oil chambers; and fluid non-return valves in each of the second oil passageways to permit the flow of oil therethrough only in a direction from the oil chambers to the first oil passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Sauer-Danfoss ApS
    Inventors: Hans Christian Petersen, Jorgen Pedersen
  • Patent number: 6887056
    Abstract: An oil pump emits less noise by properly forming the profiles of teeth of an inner rotor and an outer rotor thereof which engage each other, whereby decreasing sliding resistance and rattle between the tooth surfaces of the rotors. The rotors of the oil pump are formed so the inner rotor having “n” teeth is formed such that the tooth tip profile and tooth space profile thereof are formed using cycloid curves which are formed by rolling a first circumscribed-rolling circle and a first inscribed-rolling circle along a base circle, respectively, and the outer rotor having “n+1” teeth is formed such that the tooth tip profile and tooth space profile thereof are formed using cycloid curves which are formed by rolling a second circumscribed-rolling circle and a second inscribed-rolling circle along a base circle, respectively, and in such a manner that the following equations are satisfied: øBo=øBi; øDo=øDi·(n+1)/n+t·(n+1)/(n+2); and øAo=øAi+t/(n+2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuaki Hosono
  • Patent number: 6886326
    Abstract: An engine includes a compressor, and combustor, and an expander. The compressor compresses ambient air. The combustor burns the compressed air, and produces exhaust gasses. The expander receives the exhaust gases from the combustor, and expands the exhaust gasses. The compressor may be a gerotor compressor or a piston compressor having variable-dead-volume control. The expander may be a gerotor expander or a piston expander having variable-dead-volume control. Moreover, the engine may include a regenerative brake. The regenerative brake may include one or more valves coupled to the compressor, an expander clutch, and a compressor clutch. Specifically, during braking, the expander clutch is disengaged and the compressor clutch is engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: The Texas A & M University System
    Inventors: Mark T. Holtzapple, G. Andrew Rabroker
  • Patent number: 6884048
    Abstract: A rotary fluid pressure device has a first oil passage with relatively high pressure fluid therein surrounding the gear set; a plurality of second oil passageways connecting the first oil passageway to the expanding and contracting oil chambers; and fluid non-return valves in each of the second oil passageways to permit the flow of oil therethrough only in a direction to the oil chambers from the first oil passageway to the oil chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: Sauer-Danfoss (Nordborg)
    Inventors: Hans Christian Petersen, Jorgen Pedersen