Abstract: The invention relates to a stator casing for eccentric worm pumps comprising an elastic lining, the cylindrical stator casing having a surface on the inner side, along the longitudinal axis whereof grooves are incorporated.

Abstract: An oil pump has: a base part having a working chamber; and a rotor provided rotatably in the working chamber. The base part is configured by a plurality of split bodies. At least one of the plurality of split bodies is made of aluminum alloy, and on which an opposed sliding surface made of a ceramic film is formed. The ceramic film of the opposed sliding surface has a hardness of approximately Hv 500 to 1100 and a surface roughness of approximately 2 to 8 micrometers, and contains ?-alumina and zirconia.

Abstract: A vacuum pump, comprising a pair of screw rotors having a first screw rotor with a plurality of spiral land parts and a second screw rotor with a plurality of spiral groove parts and rotating about two axes substantially parallel with each other while engagement with each other, a casing storing the pair of screw rotors, and a pair of bearings installed on a pair of shafts (4) supporting the pair of screw rotors. The vacuum pump is characterized in that a pair of shaft seals (5) in non-contact with the pair of shafts (4) are installed between the pair of screw rotors and the pair of bearings, and each of the pair of shaft seals (5) is of a static pressure type and leads seal gas through a shaft seal portion.

Abstract: A gear pump for the dosed conveyance of pigmented lacquers or paints and which is adapted for use with a painting robot. The gear pump comprises two toothed wheels meshing with one another and which are mounted within a pump housing in such a manner that they can be rotated by a driven drive shaft and a fixed bearing shaft. For this, the drive shaft is mounted by a bearing section at multiple points in a pump housing and a coupling section of the drive shaft projects out of the pump drive to connect to a drive. In order, on the one hand, to avoid wear due to high pressure forces and, on the other hand, to absorb a pronounced load from the outside, a supporting bearing for the radial and axial support of the drive shaft is formed on the drive shaft's coupling section projecting outside of the pump housing.

Abstract: A vane-type fluid displacement unit having a housing, a drive shaft extending through the housing, a rotor secured to the drive shaft and disposed within the housing, the rotor having at least one non-smooth top or bottom surface, and at least one vane secured to the rotor.

Abstract: A Moineau stator includes a tube (10) having lobes (3) arranged in a configuration which is adapted to interact with a rotor and formed through a hydroforming process.

Abstract: A positive-displacement pump comprising a housing, a rotatable component disposed at least partially within the housing, and a film disposed at least partially between the housing and the rotatable component, where the film comprises a reinforcing material and a fluoropolymer material.

Abstract: A progressing cavity pump or a motor includes, in one embodiment, an outer tube 12, an inner tube 14, and a plurality of apertures 16. A pair of annular seal glands 18 seal the stator material to the outer tube. The stator material is injection molded into the inner tube and passes through the plurality of apertures and into an annular gap between the inner tube and the outer tube. In other embodiments, the outer housing for a progressing cavity pump or motor is provided with one or more grooves, with each groove having an outer surface radius less than the outer housing surface radius. A plurality of apertures are provided in fluid communication with the grooves. According to the method of the invention, the stator material is injected into the apertures and fills a space radially outward of the apertures to bond the stator materiaal to the outer housing.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stator for an eccentric screw pump or an eccentric worm motor, including an outer tube that is provided with a lining of rubber or a rubber-like material and has a hollow space or cavity, in the shape of a double or multiple spiral, for accommodating a rigid rotor that is also in the form of a spiral, whereby the stator has one spiral more than does the motor. So that the stator also remains functional under conditions where the fixed connection between the lining and the outer tube could be destroyed, e.g. due to chemical influences or high temperatures, the invention proposes disposing two inner tubes that have apertures in the lining.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stator for an eccentric screw pump or an eccentric worm motor having a stator, including an outer tube that is provided with a lining of rubber or a rubber-like material and has a hollow space, in the shape of a double or multiple spiral, for accommodating a rigid rotor that is also in the form of a spiral, whereby the spiral of the stator has one spiral more than does the motor. To provide a stator that also remains functional under conditions where the fixed connection between the lining and the outer tube would be destroyed, e.g. due to chemical influences or high temperatures, the invention proposes that an inner tube provided with apertures is disposed in the lining, and that spacing strips are disposed between outer tube and inner tube.

Abstract: A roots compressor has a housing, a rotary shaft, a rotor and a layer. The housing defines a pump chamber, a suction port and a discharge port. The suction port and the discharge port adjoin to the pump chamber. The rotary shaft is rotatably supported by the housing. The rotor is connected to the rotary shaft and contained in the pump chamber. Fluid introduced into the pump chamber through the suction port is discharged to the outside of the pump chamber through the discharge port by rotation of the rotor which is driven through the rotary shaft. The layer is formed on an inner peripheral surface of the housing, which defines the pump chamber. The layer is thinner from a side adjacent to the suction port toward a side adjacent to the discharge port in circumferential direction of the housing.

Abstract: A progressing cavity pump including a rotor and a stator having an inlet and an outlet. The rotor is rotationally disposed inside of the stator such that rotation of the rotor causes fluid in the pump to be pumped from the inlet toward the outlet in a downstream direction. The stator has an inner surface having a first portion made of a first material and a second portion made of a second material, the second portion being located in the downstream direction relative to the first portion.

Abstract: The pump is provided with a housing 31, a rotor 40, and a separating member 50. Rotor 40 and separating member 50 are rotated within housing 40. Separating member 50 separates the cavity of housing 31 into a divided space 77a, a divided space 7b and a divided space 77c. A curved face 42 having a larger radius of curvature than rotor 40 is formed in a limited circumferential angular region at an outer peripheral surface of rotor 40. A space 43 is maintained between the curved face 42 and housing 31 even when the curved face 42 is closest to the inner face of housing 31. The space 43 forms a passage between an inlet port and an outlet port. When rotor 40 is rotated, there is a smaller degree of change in the resistance in the passage 43, and rotor 40 rotates smoothly.

Abstract: Electrochemical machining is used to generate the helical lobe profiles of the stator of a progressive cavity pump or motor. A thin, elastomeric liner, of uniform thickness is bonded either to the interior of the stator, or to the exterior of the rotor. Where the elastomeric liner is to be bonded to the interior of the stator, bonding is improved by electrically etching the interior of the stator during the electrochemical machining process to produce a roughened surface.

Abstract: An abradable coating is formed on portions of the flank wall of the wraps of a scroll compressor. The radially outer portions of the flank wall are left uncoated, and can bear a force between the scroll wraps. In this manner, the load is not transferred through a coated portion, but rather through the uncoated portion. As the scroll wraps move relative to each other at run-in, the abradable coating wears away leaving a tight fit between the flank walls at the radially inner locations.

Abstract: A screw machine (10) has a rotor housing (12) defining overlapping bores (12-1, 12-2). Female rotor (14) is located in bore (12-1) and male rotor (16) is located in bore (12-2). A wear resistant coating is deposited on the tips (14-1, 16-1) of the rotors. A conformable coating is deposited on the valleys (14-2, 16-2) of the rotors. A conformable coating is depsoited on the surface of the bores coacting with the rotors.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stator for an eccentric screw pump or an eccentric worm motor, including an outer tube that is provided with a lining of rubber or a rubber-like material and has a hollow space or cavity, in the shape of a double or multiple spiral, for accommodating a rigid rotor that is also in the form of a spiral, whereby the stator has one spiral more than does the motor. So that the stator also remains functional under conditions where the fixed connection between the lining and the outer tube could be destroyed, e.g. due to chemical influences or high temperatures, the invention proposes disposing two inner tubes that have apertures in the lining.

Abstract: A vane pump includes a cylindrical rotor rotatable inside of an oval-shaped rotor chamber of cam ring disposed between a pressed plate and a pressure plate. The rotor has opposite sides and a peripheral outer surface in which radial vane slots are formed and guide slideable vanes. The rotor is coated on its surfaces with a film of abradable coating material which reduces the operating clearance between the rotor and the thrust and pressure plates and cam ring so as to increase the volumetric efficiency of the pump.

Abstract: A variable capacity rotary compressor to prevent an eccentric bush and a locking pin from being deformed or worn out due to a variance in a pressure of a compression chamber as a rotating shaft rotates. The compressor includes upper and lower compression chambers having different interior capacities thereof, and a rotating shaft. Upper and lower eccentric cams are provided on the rotating shaft to be eccentric from the rotating shaft in a common direction. Upper and lower eccentric bushes are fitted over the upper and lower eccentric cams, respectively, with a slot provided at a position between the upper and lower eccentric bushes. The locking pin operates to change a position of the upper or lower eccentric bush to a maximum eccentric position. Further, surfaces of parts around first and second ends of the slot are heat-treated, thus increasing a hardness thereof.

Abstract: A fluid machinery such as helical compressor includes a sliding mechanism comprising one side member composed, in combination, of a metallic base member having a sliding surface and a lubrication film formed on the sliding surface in a close contact thereto, and a counterpart side member containing fluorocarbon resin in an amount of at least 50 wt. %. The lubrication film includes a solid lubricant having a self-lubrication property and a binder of resin material.

Abstract: A screw machine (10) has a rotor housing (12) defining overlapping bores (12-1, 12-2). Female rotor (14) is located in bore (12-1) and male rotor (16) is located in bore (12-2). A wear resistant coating is deposited on the tips (14-1, 16-1) of the rotors. A conformable coating is deposited on the valleys (14-2, 16-2) of the rotors. A conformable coating is deposited on the surface of the bores coacting with the rotors.

Abstract: A screw machine (10) has a rotor housing (12) defining overlapping bores (12-1, 12-2). Female rotor (14) is located in bore (12-1) and male rotor (16) is located in bore (12-2). A wear resistant coating is deposited on the tips (14-1, 16-1) of the rotors. A conformable coating is deposited on the valleys (14-2, 16-2) of the rotors. A conformable coating is depsoited on the surface of the bores coacting with the rotors.

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.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hermetic or open compressor for hydrocarbon refrigerant having high reliability. According to the present invention, in the compressor using hydrocarbon as refrigerant, synthetic oil such as polyalkylene glycol oil, ester oil or ether oil is used as freezer oil. Sliding member of the compressor includes both a portion made of aluminum material and a portion made of iron material. Therefore, it is possible to realize a compressor having excellent wear resistance and high reliability.

Abstract: A variable valve timing control device includes a rotation member for opening or closing a valve, a rotation transmission member engaged with the rotation member to be relatively rotatable, a vane provided on either one of the rotation member or the rotation transmission member, a hydraulic chamber formed between the rotation member and the rotation transmission member and including an advance angle chamber and a retarded angle chamber, the advance angle chamber and the retarded angle chamber being formed by dividing the hydraulic chamber by the vane, a first hydraulic passage for supplying and discharging a fluid to the advance angle chamber, and a second hydraulic passage for supplying and discharging the fluid to the retarded angle chamber. The vane includes a surface hardness determined to be higher than a surface hardness of a sliding surface of the rotation member or the rotation transmission member for sliding the vane.

Abstract: The compressor has two rotors (14, 16), which are rotatably mounted in a housing (10) by means of a shaft each, the rotors (14, 16) rotating without contact with the housing. The rotors (14, 16) consist of a powder-metallurgical Al—Si alloy, and the housing (10) consists essentially of aluminum.

Abstract: A screw machine (10) has a rotor housing (12) defining overlapping bores (12-1, 12-2). Female rotor (14) is located in bore (12-1) and male rotor (16) is located in bore (12-2). A wear resistant coating is deposited on the tips (14-1, 16-1) of the rotors. A conformable coating is deposited on the valleys (14-2, 16-2) of the rotors. A conformable coating is depsoited on the surface of the bores coacting with the rotors.

Abstract: A colorant dispenser having a modular design includes a colorant pump with abrasion resistant coating and needle bearings for a long pump life. The pump also includes a stepper motor for accuracy in pumping the colorant. The pump is mounted in the dispenser cabinet with colorant canister modules suspended in the cabinet. Valve modules dispensing colorant from the canister are packed in groups of four for easy installation. Nozzles from the valves are made of stainless steel with no joints to prevent separate colorants from leaking and mixing. The suspended canisters and the small stepper motors for each pump provide a cabinet with an open architecture conducive to easy repair and replacement of modular parts. A locking mechanism allows for easy transition of the pull-down shelf from resting flush against the cabinet, to being adjacent to the cabinet.

Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided with a generally spiral wrap having an abradable or conformable coating on radially inner portions of its tip. The coating is not applied to radially outer portions. During operation of the scroll compressor, the coating will eliminate tip gap leakage adjacent radially inner, higher discharge pressure portions of the compression process. The outer, non-coated portions will bear the axial load, and ensure the coating will not wear away to an undue amount.

Abstract: A screw compressor of which a female rotor is driven by a motor, and of which a male rotor is driven by the female rotor. The male or female rotor is composed of a member which is made of cast iron and is subjected to surface hardening treatment or heat treatment including quenching. The surface hardening treatment may include sulphonitriding or nitiriding treatment. In the case of subjecting the cast iron to the heat treatment, austemper treatment is applied.

Abstract: A progressive cavity pump or motor, particularly suitable for hydrocarbon recovery operations, includes a rotor 20 and a stator 10. Fluid pressure in cavities between the stator and the rotor create torque which rotates the bit. An interior surface of the stator is rigidly secured to the outer housing of the pump stator and defines an interior profile. A substantially uniform thickness elastomeric layer 62 is supported on the outer housing. The pump rotor has an exterior profile which corresponds with the interior profile of the elastomeric layer.

Abstract: A progressive cavity pump or motor, particularly suitable for hydrocarbon recovery operations, includes a rotor 20 and a stator 10. Fluid pressure in cavities between the stator and the rotor create torque which rotates the bit. An interior surface of the stator is rigidly secured to the outer housing of the pump stator and defines an interior profile. A substantially uniform thickness elastomeric layer 62 is supported on the outer housing. The pump rotor has an exterior profile which corresponds with the interior profile of the elastomeric layer.

Abstract: A pump (1) with one or more pistons (3; 103; 203; 303; 403), which can be rotated, especially for conveying essentially liquid media, the piston (3; 103; 203; 303; 403), having at least regionally a surface layer (17; 117; 217; 317; 417) of a polymer, especially of an elastomer, is constructed so that at least one recess (19; 119; 219; 319; 419), into which a supporting body (20; 120; 220; 320; 420) can be introduced for expanding the polymer layer (17; 117; 217; 317; 417), is assigned to the polymer layer.

Abstract: A rotary blower with forced external air cooling having multiple interconnected and synchronized parallel multi-lobe rotors with the same number of straight lobes for propelling flow from a suction port to a discharge port of an inner casing without internal compression. The blower also has an outer cover with cooling air inlet and outlet openings and added centrifugal cooling fans mounted on the rotor shafts adjacent to the cooling air inlet openings for circulating cooling air through the space between the outer cover and the inner casing. The blower further utilizes wearable strip seal devices applied on the rotors for preventing internal leakage and accidental mechanical contact.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine that has a torque wheel mounted for rotation within the central cavity defined by the housing and driving a crankshaft. The torque wheel has a plurality of arms in a spaced arrangement about the center of the torque wheel, thereby defining a plurality of corresponding volumes between the respective arms. A plurality of substantially identical combustion gates are positioned within these corresponding volumes, each combustion gate being mounted for rotation within a respective volume about a pivot pin. Rotation of the combustion gates about the respective pivot pins and resultant inward and outward movement of the combustion gates relative to the center of the torque wheel achieves a four-stroke combustion cycle.

Abstract: A scroll type compressor has a housing, a fixed metal scroll member and a movable metal scroll member. The fixed and the movable scroll members each have a base plate and scroll wall extending therefrom. The fixed scroll member is fixed to the housing. The movable scroll member engages the fixed scroll member to trace an orbital motion when driven by a crank mechanism. The scroll members define compression chambers. Resin tip seals are respectively provided on distal ends of the scroll walls and slidably engage the metallic surfaces of the facing base plates. The tip seals seal the compression chambers. A resin coating layer is formed on a region of at least one of the end surfaces of the base plates that is not contacted by a tip seal.

Abstract: A gas rotary screw compressor (1), in particular, for cooling gas suitable for low-power systems, the compressor having a casing (1a) having an intake conduit (6) and a delivery conduit (7); and the casing (1a) having, internally, a three-dimensional region shaped to follow the outer profile of the helical teeth (11b) of a male rotor (11) and the helical teeth (12b) of a female rotor (12), so as to define a first intake chamber (45) to minimize the load losses of the gas stream and so fill the casing (1a) with a maximum quantity of gas.

Abstract: A gerotor pump for pressurizing gasoline fuel is capable of developing pressures up to 2.0 MPa with good mechanical and volumetric efficiency and satisfying the durability requirements for an automotive fuel pump. The pump has been designed with optimized clearances and by including features that promote the formation of lubricating films of pressurized fuel. Features of the improved pump include the use of a shadow port in the side plate opposite the outlet port to promote balancing of high fuel pressures on the opposite sides of the rotors. Inner and outer rotors have predetermined side clearances with the clearances of the outer rotor being greater than those of the inner rotor in order to promote fuel pressure balance on the sides of the outer rotor. Support of the inner rotor and a drive shaft on a single bushing with bearing sleeves maintains concentricity. Additional features are disclosed.

Abstract: A vane pump includes a cylindrical rotor rotatable inside of an oval-shaped rotor chamber of cam ring disposed between a pressed plate and a pressure plate. The rotor has opposite sides and a peripheral outer surface in which radial vane slots are formed and guide slideable vanes. The rotor is coated on its surfaces with a film of abradable coating material which reduces the operating clearance between the rotor and the thrust and pressure plates and cam ring so as to increase the volumetric efficiency of the pump.

Abstract: A compressor has a housing assembly and at least one rotor held by the housing assembly for rotation about a rotor axis. The rotor has a first face and a first housing element has a second face in facing spaced-apart relation to the first face of the rotor. The housing has a coating on the second face and a plurality of inserts protruding from the second face into the coating.

Abstract: A bearing arrangement for a gear pump comprises first and second separate bearing blocks each having a respective block housing. The first and second bearing blocks together defining an axially directed bearing surface including a bridge region formed from an erosion resistant material which acts to separate inlet and outlet ports of the pump and a second region formed from a reduced friction material. The bridge region is defined by first and second insert members cast within respective ones of the block housings. The first and second bearing blocks are arranged such that respective surfaces of the first and second insert members mate with one another, and the first and second insert members are arranged such that the bridge region of the bearing surface is flush with the second region.

Abstract: A screw machine (10) has a rotor housing (12) defining overlapping bores (12-1, 12-2). Female rotor (14) is located in bore (12-1) and male rotor (16) is located in bore (12-2). A wear resistant coating is deposited on the tips (14-1, 16-1) of the rotors. A conformable coating is deposited on the valleys (14-2, 16-2) of the rotors. A conformable coating is depsoited on the surface of the bores coacting with the rotors.

Abstract: An improved rotary blower (11) with an abradable coating (61) with a maximum hardness value of 2H on a pencil hardness scale. The coating material is a blend or mixture of preferably an epoxy-polymer resin matrix with a solid lubricant. The solid lubricant preferably is graphite. The improved abradable coating provides essentially zero clearance to increase the volumetric efficiency of a Roots type rotary blower.

Abstract: A vane type fluid machine includes: a casing; a rotor rotating in the casing; and a plurality of vanes supported by the rotor to slide on an inner surface of the casing. A seal portion of each vane is formed to be elastically deformable so as to slide on the inner surface of the casing while bending backward of a rotational direction of the rotor. Therefore, an improved structure of the seal portion of each vane secures good sealing performance even if machining accuracy of the inner surface of the casing is alleviated.

Abstract: The present specification discloses a compressor characterized in that a nonpolar solvent is used as a working fluid and an insulation part of a rotating section is formed from a low dielectric constant plastic film having a specific dielectric constant of 1.2 to 3.0. This compressor has been reduced in leakage current and improved in safety and reliability, and therefore can realize energy savings for devices such as a refrigerant system device.

Abstract: The invention concerns a tooth set for a hydraulic machine, particularly a steering unit, with a toothed ring, having teeth, which are formed by means of inserts arranged in a housing, and a gear wheel arranged inside the toothed ring. It is endeavoured to simplify the production of such a tooth set. For this purpose, each inset (10) has, at least at its ends, a plate-like shape and the ends are fixed in the housing (11) in corresponding slots (17, 18).

Abstract: A rotary pump for pumping compressible fluid comprising an eccentrically mounted rotor 20 and a stator 10. The stator 10 comprises a stator inner liner 80 that is free to rotate, driven directly or in response to rotation of the rotor 20 such that the relative velocity between the outer surface of the rotor 20 and the inner surface of the stator 10 is reduced. The vanes 40 are held at each end by sockets 90, 95 in the rotor 20 and stator 10. The vane 40 and socket 90, 95 coupling provides fluid sealing without liquid lubricant. Opposing solid lubricant and hard surfaces are used on contact surfaces between the elements.

Abstract: A spherical gear pump that comprises two rotors, or geared spheres, with the teeth arranged around them in a circular band at right angles to their axis of rotation: the pump spheres are covered by close-fitting spherical cases or housings except at the central or most internal part of the connection between the gears on the two spheres, the fluid contained in the cavity created between the most external gears and the case or housing is moved during rotation from the intake to the outlet, one sphere is driven by its shaft and the other is dragged by the gearing between the two.

Abstract: A scroll type compressor has a fixed scroll, a movable scroll and a plurality of sealing members. The fixed scroll includes a fixed base plate and a fixed volute portion, which is formed on the fixed base plate. The fixed volute portion is tapered and the corners of the proximal end of the fixed volute portion are arched. The movable scroll is arranged to be engaged with the fixed scroll. The movable scroll includes a movable base plate and a movable volute portion, which is formed on the movable base plate. The movable volute portion is tapered and the corners of the proximal end of the movable volute portion are arched. One of the sealing members is located on the fixed base plate. The other of the sealing members is located on the movable base plate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hermetic or open compressor for hydrocarbon refrigerant having high reliability. According to the present invention, in the compressor using hydrocarbon as refrigerant, synthetic oil such as polyalkylene glycol oil, ester oil or ether oil is used as freezer oil. Sliding member of the compressor includes both a portion made of aluminum material and a portion made of iron material. Therefore, it is possible to realize a compressor having excellent wear resistance and high reliability.