Interengaging Rotating Members Patents (Class 418/191)
  • Publication number: 20130259729
    Abstract: An asymmetrical bearing is disclosed for use in a gear pump. The bearing may have first and second opposing faces, and first and second bores in communication with the first and second opposing faces. The first and second bores may be configured to receive first and second shafts of a gear pump. The bearing may have a first flat side surface and a second curved side surface, where the second curved side surface includes first and second curved portions associated with the first and second bores, respectively. The first and second faces and the first flat side surface may also include a plurality of grooves configured to direct a flow of process fluid over the bearing during operation of the pump. Self-aligning features can be provided on one or more sealing elements to ensure desired alignment of the sealing components during assembly. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: Colfax Corporation
    Inventors: Philip T. Alexander, Neil V. Norton, Robert Edward Oehman, JR., Mary B. Rollins, Joel E. Cate
  • Publication number: 20130251582
    Abstract: An object is to reduce a weight of a raw material to be used for manufacturing a screw shaft by combining a tapered section and a tapered ring as a structure of a flange section. A screw shaft structure for a twin screw extruder includes a tapered section (20) provided between a ground section (6) and a screw piece inserting section (8), and a tapered ring (21) fitted onto the tapered section (20), the tapered ring (21) serving as a flange section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Inventors: Takuya Hamada, Satoru Watada
  • Publication number: 20130251581
    Abstract: The invention relates to a two-spindle screw pump of single-flow construction, comprising a pump housing, which has a pump portion, a bearing portion and a gear portion with a gear chamber, wherein the bearing portion and the pump portion are realized separately from each other characterized in that the gearwheel and the fastening element (and thus the shaft) are mutually rotatable, so that a spacing of the flanks of the feed screws (the flank clearance of the feed screws) is adjustable, that an opening is provided on the gear portion of the pump housing, that the opening is provided with a detachable cover, that the opening is arranged such that the cover is detachable in the mounted state of the screw pump, and that the gear chamber, for the adjustment of the flank clearance of the feed screws, can be reached with the tool necessary for this purpose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: JUNG & CO. GERATEBAU GMBH
    Inventors: Weshen Christov, Hans Jung
  • Publication number: 20130243634
    Abstract: The screw-type centrifugal wheel pump (1) comprises a pump housing (3) and a screw-type centrifugal wheel (20) arranged rotatably within the pump housing (3) and having a hub (21) and a blade (25), and comprises a rotatable drive shaft (33) connected to the screw-type centrifugal wheel (20), and comprises a cover plate (2) arranged between the screw-type centrifugal wheel (20) and a housing rear wall (23), wherein the cover plate (2) has a central opening (2g) through which the hub (21) or the drive shaft (33) runs, and wherein an interior space (37) is formed between the cover plate (2) and the housing rear wall (23), wherein a gap (2b) is formed between the central opening (2g) of the cover plate (2) and the hub (21) or the drive shaft (33), which gap is connected in fluid-conducting fashion to the interior space (37), wherein the cover plate (2) has at least one aperture (2a), which is arranged spaced apart from the central opening (2g), in order to generate a fluid flow (F1) which flows into the interior
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: FRIDECO AG C/O HIDROTLAL AG
    Inventors: Robles Ciro, Carl Stahle
  • Publication number: 20130236346
    Abstract: A compressor unit having a triple trochoidal rotor, which includes a first rotor, a second rotor, a third rotor, a casing, second and first suction ports, and second and first discharge ports; and a driving unit that rotates the three rotors such that external working fluid is sucked into the suction port and the working fluid sucked into the suction port is discharged to the discharge port in a state of being compressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Inventors: Gobee KIM, Wookyun KIM, Yubee KIM
  • Publication number: 20130236348
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotary lobe pump for conveying a fluid medium containing solids, comprising an inlet and an outlet for the medium being conveyed, and further comprising a pump casing and two rotary lobes arranged in said pump casing and having intermeshing rotary lobe vanes. According to the invention, the pump casing has two opposite casing half-shells which seal the pump casing fluid-tightly. The casing half-shells are double-walled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Inventors: Hugo Vogelsang, Paul Krampe
  • Publication number: 20130236347
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an energy transforming unit adapted to convert reciprocating forces (Fl) into rotating axle movements on at least one force transmitting axle and/or into electrical power. The unit comprises at least one restriction device (3, 4, 5) which is directly connected to the force and which is arranged to forward the incoming reciprocating forces (Fl) into a movement over at least one conversion module (2a-d, 56, 64, 73, 80, 81, 87, Cm). The energy transforming unit is characterized in that the at least one restriction device (3, 4, 5) is delimiting one, by the energy transforming unit enclosed reciprocating volume which entirely or partly passes through the at least one conversion module (2a-d, 56, 64, 73, 80, 81, 87, Cm).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: Corpower Ocean AB
    Inventor: Stig Lundback
  • Publication number: 20130216418
    Abstract: A screw compressor includes a screw rotor, a casing and an economizer circuit. The screw rotor has a plurality of helical grooves forming a compression chamber. The casing has a cylinder portion with the screw rotor inserted in the cylinder portion. The economizer circuit ejects configured to eject intermediate pressure refrigerant into a compression chamber in the course of compression. The economizer circuit includes a branch passage configured to branch the intermediate pressure refrigerant from a portion of a refrigerant circuit, a resonance space connected to a downstream side of the branch passage to retain the intermediate pressure refrigerant, and a resonance passage having an end communicating with an interior of the compression chamber and an other end communicating with an interior of the resonance space. The refrigerant circuit circulates refrigerant and performs a refrigeration cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Inventors: Masanori Masuda, Hiromichi Ueno
  • Publication number: 20130202473
    Abstract: The invention relates to a twin screw pump of double-flow design with a pump housing, two bearing portions and at least one gear portion with at least one gear chamber, with feed screws with double-flow flanks arranged on two shafts, the feed screws on the shafts having a root diameter, the shafts being mounted in the bearing portions via bearings, a seal for sealing the bearing portion with respect to the conveying portion, with gearwheels arranged on the shafts in the gear portion, the shafts being rotatably coupled by means of said gearwheels, characterized in that on either side the inner diameter of the seal is greater than, or the same size as, the root diameter of the feed screws, and/or in that on either side the inner diameter of the bearing is greater than, or the same size as, the inner diameter of the seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: JUNG & CO. GERATEBAU GMBH
    Inventor: JUNG & CO. GERATEBAU GMBH
  • Publication number: 20130183184
    Abstract: A rotary engine includes a housing body having a first rotation chamber and a second rotation chamber. A first rotary body is arranged within the first rotation chamber, and a second rotary body is arranged within the second rotation chamber. A boundary surface of the first rotation chamber has a variable distance from an opposite surface of the first rotary body. A pair of valve flaps having a first valve flap and a second valve flap is arranged on the first rotary body. Upon rotation of the first rotary body, the valve flaps are in engagement with the boundary surface of the first rotation chamber and are rotated in mutually opposite directions with regard to the first rotary body so as to form two mutually demarcated working chambers within the first rotation chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Inventor: Gerhard FEUSTLE
  • Publication number: 20130171018
    Abstract: A screw compressor includes a casing having low and high pressure spaces, a screw rotor inserted in a cylinder part of the casing, and a slide valve disclosed in the cylinder part. The screw rotor has a plurality of helical grooves forming a compression chamber. The slide valve is moveable along an axis of the screw rotor and faces an outer periphery of the screw rotor to form a discharge port to communicating the compression chamber with the high pressure space. Fluid in the low pressure space is sucked into the compression chamber, compressed, and then discharged to the high-pressure space when the screw rotor rotates. The slide valve includes a sealing projection located on a back surface of the slide valve opposite to the screw rotor, and separating the low and high pressure spaces from each other when the sealing projection is in slidable contact with the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Takashi Inoue, Masanori Masuda, Hiromichi Ueno, Mohammod Anwar Hossain, Akira Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20130142685
    Abstract: A rotary device includes a first rotor rotatable about a first axis and having at its periphery a recess bounded by a curved surface, and a second rotor counter-rotatable to the first rotor about a second axis, parallel to the first axis, and having a radial lobe bounded by a curved surface, the first and second rotors being coupled for intermeshing rotation, wherein the first and second rotors of each section intermesh in such a manner that on rotation thereof, a transient chamber of variable volume is defined, the transient chamber having a progressively increasing or decreasing volume between the recess and lobe surfaces, the transient chamber being at least in part defined by the surfaces of the lobe and the recess; the ratio of the maximum radius of the lobe rotor and the maximum radius of the recess rotor being greater than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: EPICAM LIMITED
    Inventors: Gunnar Moeller, Marcus Ardron, Anthony O. Dye
  • Publication number: 20130094988
    Abstract: A gear pump is described with a plurality of gear wheels which intermesh in order to deliver a pumping medium, and are rotatably held in a pump case and deliver a pumping medium from a priming zone into a delivery pressure zone of the pump case. One of the gear wheels is driven by a pump shaft which protrudes with a coupling end out of the pump case. In order to seal the pump case, a shaft sealing ring is held around the circumference of the pump shaft, wherein according to the invention, in order to avoid material deposits, the shaft sealing ring is associated with an interior flushing chamber on the circumference of the pump shaft, the flushing chamber being connected to the delivery pressure zone of the pump case by a feed channel in the pump case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: OERLIKON TEXTILE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG
  • Publication number: 20130071280
    Abstract: A fluid transfer device, comprising an outer housing having an inward facing cylindrical or partially cylindrical surface, an outer rotor with radial projections having at least a leading face which is, along any plane perpendicular to the outer rotor axis, offset from a radial line radiating from the outer rotor rotational axis, a carrier secured to prevent rotation relative to the outer housing at least partly within the outer rotor; an inner rotor secured for rotation about an axis within the carrier, the inner rotor having an outward facing surface plane perpendicular to the inner rotor axis and outward projections arranged around the outward facing surface configured to operate as a pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Inventor: James Brent Klassen
  • Publication number: 20130039794
    Abstract: Gear pump with continuous variable output flow rate, comprises at least one first gear (3) is mounted on the first shaft (1), at least one second gear (4) is mounted on the second shaft (2), the first gear (3) and the second gear (4) are arranged axially movably against each other, the first gear (3) comprises the first ring (5) with flow passages (50), fitted on the first gear (3) tightly co-axially, the second gear (4) comprises the second ring (6) with flow passages (50), fitted on the second gear (4) tightly co-axially, whereas the first ring (5) is movable with the second gear (4) and the second ring (6) is movable with the first gear (3), the first gear (3) is sealed at one end by the first sealing (7) of the first gear (3) and at the other end by the second sealing (9) of the first gear (3), whereas sealings (7, 9) of the first gear (3) are arranged on the first shaft (1), the second gear (4) is sealed at one end by the first sealing (10) of the second gear (4) and at the other end by the second sealin
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventor: Pavol Figura
  • Publication number: 20130017113
    Abstract: An input shaft assembly is movable along an axis to absorb external impact loads. A biasing member exerts an axial load in a direction counter to potential impact loads. A stop is provided to control the application of biasing loads to control application of such axial load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: Timothy P. Walgren, Steven A. Heitz
  • Patent number: 8308463
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a screw rotor including a resin rotor formed around a metallic shaft without generation of cracks. Spiral chamfers are formed on surfaces of metallic shafts around which resin rotors are formed. Preferably the surfaces of the shafts may be sandblasted, and after the surfaces of the shafts are preliminarily coated with resin and then the rotors may be molded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Yasuto Kataoka, Naoki Kikuchi, Junichiro Totsuka, Naoya Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20120269668
    Abstract: An overhung external spur gear positive displacement pump for hot oil or deep fryer applications is disclosed. The external gear pump includes a thermoplastic casing that includes a through bore for accommodating a drive shaft that leads to a pump chamber that accommodates a drive gear and a driven gear. The thermoplastic casing is connected to a stationary pin. The thermoplastic casing also includes a proximal end coupled to a motor and a distal end coupled to a thermoplastic head. The gears are enclosed in the pump chamber by the thermoplastic head. The stationary pin is accommodated within the driven gear and the drive shaft is coupled to the drive gear. The thermoplastic head is provided in the form of a plate with a plurality of holes for accommodating fasteners that couple the thermoplastic head to the distal end of the thermoplastic casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: VIKING PUMP, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Volkman, Scott Meyer
  • Patent number: 8181624
    Abstract: A Brayton cycle internal combustion engine of the open, or constant pressure type, in which rotary power is produced by the pressure of hot gasses against confined, rotor protrusions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Inventor: Terry Michael Van Blaricom
  • Publication number: 20120103301
    Abstract: A Revolving piston rotary annular cylinder rotary valve continuous flow and combustion expansible chamber devices, engine machine systems with an outer annular cylinder housing assembly having a central axis, having one or a plurality of balanced pistons attached to a rotor within of the outer housing whereby, a plurality of relatively air tight compartments are formed between the interior surface of the outer housing, the outer surface of the rotor and piston assembly with the volume of said compartment varying as a function of the rotative position of the inner cylinder and rotor piston assembly in relation to the rotary isolating valve connected at one end to the housing upstream before the intake port, another end of valve being in rotary contact with outer peripheral surface of piston and said rotor assembly having an inlet for receiving any fluid and an outlet for providing said fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventor: Jesus Vazquez
  • Publication number: 20110318209
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems are disclosed for combining fluids of different pressures and flow rates in, for example, gas gathering systems, gas wells, and other areas in which independently powered compressors are not desired. Methods, devices, and systems for turning a shaft are also provided, as are methods, devices, and systems for dropping pressure in a gas line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: BLUE MARBLE ENGINEERING LLC
    Inventors: Philip Allard, Stanley D. Benham
  • Publication number: 20110116962
    Abstract: A geared motor assembly comprises a rotation-transmitting shaft for transferring output rotation of a reducer on the front side of a motor to an output shaft sensor on the rear side of the motor. A front end portion of the rotation-transmitting shaft is securely bonded to a rotation output member of the reducer by an adhesive that exhibits flexibility or elasticity after hardening, and a rear end portion of the rotation-transmitting shaft is rotatably supported by a sensor cover via a bearing in a position adjacent to the output shaft sensor. The rotation-transmitting shaft can be supported in a state free of axial runout by deformation of the adhesive and by the bearing. Consequently, the rotation angle position of the rotation output member can be detected with precision by the output shaft sensor in a position adjacent to the bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventor: Naoki Kanayama
  • Publication number: 20110048384
    Abstract: A fluid pump is disclosed. The fluid pump may comprise a housing, a tapered bearing, a drive shaft, a first fluid chamber, and a second fluid chamber. The housing defines a bore. The tapered bearing is received within the bore of the housing. The drive shaft is received within the tapered bearing. The first fluid chamber is defined between the housing and the drive shaft on a first side of the tapered bearing. The second fluid chamber is defined between the housing and the drive shaft on a second side of the tapered bearing. The second fluid chamber is separated from the first fluid chamber by the tapered bearing. The housing includes a fluid passage fluidly coupling the first fluid chamber and the second fluid chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Fergal Michael O'Shea, Daniel R. Ibrahim, Joseph Shane Burkitt
  • Patent number: 7866966
    Abstract: A method of designing rotors for a Roots blower comprising a housing having cylindrical chambers, the housing defining an outlet port (19). The blower includes meshed, lobed rotors (37,39) disposed in the chambers, each rotor including a plurality N of lobes (47,49), each lobe having first (47a,49a) and second (47b,49b) axially facing end surfaces. Each lobe has its axially facing surfaces defining a twist angle (TA), and each lobe defines a helix angle (HA). The method of designing the rotor comprises determining a maximum ideal twist angle (TAM) for the lobe as a function of the number N of lobes on the rotor, and then determining a helix angle (HA) for each lobe as a function of the maximum ideal twist angle (TAM) and an axial length (L) between the end surfaces of the lobe. A rotor designed in accordance with this method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew G. Swartzlander
  • Publication number: 20100307142
    Abstract: SCR system for treating the exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine, this system comprising a line for feeding a urea solution into the exhaust gases and a pump capable both of feeding the urea solution into the exhaust gases and of purging at least one part of the line by sucking a gas therethrough by means of a suction device, this system also comprising a control unit capable of activating and/or deactivating the operation of the pump and that of the suction device in a sequential manner in the course of one and the same purge procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: INERGY AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH(Societe Anonyme
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Habumuremyi, Frederic Peucat, Nicolas Duret, Stephane Leonard, Guillaume Zeller
  • Publication number: 20100300415
    Abstract: A screw compressor type supercharger includes an improved supercharger bypass valve including a spring biasing the bypass valve towards an open position. The spring may be a compression spring integrated into a bypass valve diaphragm, an extension spring extending parallel to a diaphragm arm, or a torsion spring on a bypass valve butterfly shaft. The spring is selected and installed to hold the bypass valve open at all vacuum levels and at up to one PSI of boost, and then to allow the bypass to close between one PSI and six PSI boost, and to be closed at above six PSI boost. The resulting control of the bypass valve prevents damage to the supercharger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: James E. Bell, Jodi L. Bell
  • Publication number: 20100278671
    Abstract: A screw pump system has a plurality of rotors disposed inside a pump casing. Each rotor comprises a shaft and a set of threads disposed on the shaft configured to mesh with at least one other set of threads. A plurality of bearings are coupled to each end of each of the rotors. A plurality of gears are coupled to an end of each of the rotors. The gears are configured to reduce a size of particulates in a lubrication fluid by flowing the particulates through the rotating gears. The gears may serve as timing gears for the rotors as well as perform pumping of the lubrication fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Farshad Ghasripoor, Michael V. Drexel, Vasanth Kothnur
  • Publication number: 20100278676
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gear wheel pump with two meshing gear wheels which are rotatably mounted within a pump housing by means of a driven driveshaft and a crankshaft journal and which form a pumping channel system between a pump inlet and a pump outlet. Several gaps are formed between the pump housing, the gear wheels, the driveshaft, and the crankshaft journal. One of the gaps between the driveshaft and one of the gear wheels contains means for the rotationally fixed connection of the driveshaft to the gear wheel. In order to prevent leakages penetrating to the connecting means, according to the invention the gap between the driveshaft and the gear wheel is sealed, with respect to the front faces of the gear wheel, by means of a sealant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventors: Arkadiusz Tomzik, Ulrich Helbing, Dietrich Witzler, Michael Baumann, Frank Herre, Martin Stiegler, Herbert Martin, Thomas Appel
  • Publication number: 20100269798
    Abstract: A supercharger is provided, comprising a plurality of rotatable supercharger rotors each having a plurality of interleavable lobes configured to move air from an inlet to an outlet of the supercharger. Inner chambers in the lobes define an end opening and perforated end faces, at the end openings defining at least one port, having a length and a diameter. The at least one port is configured to operate with an associated air mass in the inner chamber to attenuate sound adjacent to the end opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Gregory P. Prior
  • Publication number: 20100266437
    Abstract: A multistage gear pump assembly includes first and second gear pumps that use common shafts and are axially separated by a spacer plate secured within a common bore and secured to the housing. Pressurized bearings are provided at opposite axial ends of the first and second gear pumps. The second gear pump handles cruise and idle operations of the aircraft while the first gear pump stage assists in meeting higher demand modes of engine operation. Otherwise, the first gear pump is maintained at a minimal pressure to reduce energy consumption and still provide desired stability and eliminate issues associated with bearing oil whirl associated with prior known arrangements. However, when additional assistance is required, such as during takeoff, climb, or windmill relight, the first gear pump advantageously contributes to the increased pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventor: Simon Martin-Dye
  • Publication number: 20100215531
    Abstract: A method for converting energy from compressed air into mechanical energy, and a compressed air motor therefor. The motor includes a shaft rotor and a counterpart rotor which intermesh with each other using trochoid toothing to effect rotation of a power takeoff shaft. Compressed air is used to operate the counterpart rotor which then operates the shaft rotor thereby converting the rotation of the shaft rotor or the power takeoff rotor into mechanical rotary energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventor: Felix Arnold
  • Publication number: 20100189582
    Abstract: A hydraulic pump is disclosed. The hydraulic pump may have a first fluid section (12), a second fluid section (14), and an input shaft (16) extending through the first fluid section and the second fluid section. The input shaft may have a first end (44), a second end (46), and a mid-portion (48) located between the first and second ends. The hydraulic pump may also have a first bearing (30) configured to continuously support the first end of the input shaft, and a second bearing (32) configured to continuously support the second end of the input shaft. The hydraulic pump may further have a third bearing (56) configured to intermittently support the mid-portion (58) of the input shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventor: Scott Laurence Mitchell
  • Publication number: 20100178187
    Abstract: A dry vacuum pump comprises a stator component and at least one rotor component. To improve the tolerance of the pump to corrosive gases passing through the pump, the stator component and/or said at least one rotor component are formed from silicon-molybdenum (SiMo) ductile iron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Inventor: Emmanuel Uzoma Okoroafor
  • Publication number: 20100172768
    Abstract: An oil pump with improved structure comprises a motor casing, a motor cap, and an oil pump. The motor cap comprises a through hole, and is used for the enclosure of a motor in cooperation with the motor casing. The interior of the motor is assemblingly provided with a rotating shaft passing at one end thereof through the through hole of the motor cap and an oil pump joint. The oil pump comprises the oil pump joint, a cap body, and a rotor, the oil pump joint is projectingly provided on and integratedly formed with the motor cap. The rotor of the oil pump is assemblingly provided on the rotating shaft of the motor. In this case, neither the need for the connection or additional manufacture and assembly of a rotating shaft of the oil pump, nor the problem resulted from the interconnection may occur. Moreover, the concentricity may be assured, and the cost may be reduced significantly as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Inventor: Wei-Hsiang Liao
  • Publication number: 20100150764
    Abstract: An external gear pump including seals, bearings, bushing/seal housings, choke collars and shafts that are all removable for maintenance and/or replacement without removing either endplate or internals from the case assembly. The preferred pump includes four bearing caps that can be removed without removing the pump from its mounted position. By removing the four bearing caps, access is gained inside the pump housing to all of the seals, bearings, bushing/seal housings, choke collars and most importantly, the drive and idler shafts within the pump housing. Further, the two shafts can be slipped out of the pump without disturbing the internal parts and endplates. This capability facilitates maintenance and replacement of major components without removing the pump from its mounted position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: ROPER PUMP COMPANY
    Inventors: James K. Simonelli, Michael A. Ingram, Laney A. Seabolt
  • Publication number: 20100150760
    Abstract: The rotary vacuum pump includes a pump housing, a rotary shaft, a thrust movement restriction mechanism and a first elastic member. The pump housing has therein a pump chamber. The rotary shaft has thereon a rotor rotatably disposed in the pump chamber. When the rotor is rotated with the rotary shaft, gas in the pump chamber is pumped thereby to draw gas into the pump chamber. The thrust movement restriction mechanism is provided for allowing the rotor to displace in the pump chamber in one thrust direction due to thermal expansion thereof during the operation of the rotary vacuum pump. The first elastic member is provided for urging the rotary shaft in the other thrust direction opposite to the one thrust direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Ryosuke Koshizaka, Takao Mishina, Yoshinari Suzuki, Osamu Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20100111742
    Abstract: A rotary positive displacement pump for liquid medium having a main pumping mechanism driven by a magnetic coupling is disclosed. The positive displacement pump includes an integrated, positive displacement, circulating pump configured to provide a controlled medium flow through the magnetic coupling from a discharge side (0206) of the main pump back to a suction side (0205) of the main pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: JOHNSON PUMP BRUSSELS N.V.
    Inventor: Reinhard Petersen
  • Publication number: 20090297384
    Abstract: An external gear pump which has a certain flow rate or volumetric capacity at a given speed can be taken apart and the parts rearranged and assembled into a second pump operating at the same speed with a flow rate or volumetric capacity that is different from the original pump. No new parts are required for the second pump configuration and all original parts are used. With this structure, pumps with different flow rates can be built using fewer parts than conventional designs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: ROPER PUMP COMPANY
    Inventor: Laney A. Seabolt
  • Patent number: 7621255
    Abstract: A rotary motion device having piston valves that define an open region that are adapted to engage a power tooth of the power ring as the power ring rotates around the piston valves and the piston valves rotate about their own separate axis that is fixed with respect to the base housing of the device. The power ring is provided with radially inward and outward ports in one form that are adapted to communicate with radially inward and outward ports of a static member of the device. The ports are utilized to compress and expand a gas and in one form are utilized for an internal combustion chamber to create an internal combustion rotary motion device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: E3P Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Ryan T. Bowley
  • Publication number: 20090257898
    Abstract: Rotary components are described that include a housing comprising a rotor having a rotor working face and a gate having a gate working face and a pocket; at least one vane, wherein the vane is coupled to the rotor; at least one wiper coupled to the vane; a plurality of endplates coupled to the housing, wherein at least one of the endplates is a float plate; an intake chamber; and an outlet chamber. In addition, methods of aspirating a working medium by utilizing the rotary component having at least one float plate includes pulling the working medium into the intake chamber, depositing the working medium into a working chamber that is located between the intake chamber and the outlet chamber; maintaining the working medium in a stationary position until the vane sweeps around toward the outlet chamber; accumulating the working medium into the outlet channel of the outlet chamber; and centrifugally ejecting the working medium into the outlet chamber and out of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Inventors: Fritz Forgy, John Novak, JR.
  • Patent number: 7591640
    Abstract: A three-gear type gear pump or double gear pump wherein the first driven gear and the second driven gear are opposed to one another with the driving gear disposed between them, wherein the number of teeth of the driving gear is greater than the number of teeth of each of the first driven gear and the second driven gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiei Masuda, Yasushi Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20090232690
    Abstract: A seal apparatus includes at least one pair of gears; a side plate arranged adjacent to the pair of gears; and a housing sandwiching the side plate. At least one of the side plate and the housing includes a shoulder portion. The seal apparatus further includes a seal member arranged between the housing and the side plate and arranged at the shoulder portion. The seal member separates a low pressure area from a high pressure area in a radial direction of the gear. The shoulder portion is located in the low pressure area. At least a part of the seal member faces the high pressure area. The seal apparatus further includes a backup member reinforcing the seal member and facing a tip portion of the shoulder portion; and a containing portion formed between a root portion of the shoulder portion and the seal member to be capable of containing a part of the seal member at least when the seal member is elastically deformed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventors: Ryohei MARUO, Toshihiro KOIZUMI, Norihiro SAITA
  • Publication number: 20090214368
    Abstract: A dry pump comprises a stator housing a rotor assembly comprising intermeshing rotor components defining a running clearance with a surface of the stator, means for applying a transient magnetic force to at least one magnetic member of the rotor assembly to move the rotor components away from the stator surface and increase the size of the running clearance to reduce a frictional force applied to the rotor components by particulates accumulated within the running clearance, and means for moving the rotor components back towards the stator surface upon reduction of the magnetic force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: Nigel Paul Schofield, Peter Hugh Birch
  • Patent number: 7563087
    Abstract: An improved pump and pumping method includes a circumferential positive displacement pump having two counter rotating rotors. A clearance gap is defined between the rotor shaft, and a body hub portion of the body that forms the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: SPX Corporation
    Inventors: Drew J. Van Norman, Curt Hagen
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20090132038
    Abstract: According to the invention the rotary pump consists of an external gear (13) with internal teeth (16) in the form of a squirrel cage, and an internal gear (9), housed in an off-centre manner in the interior of said external gear (13) and fitted with external teeth (9D) intermeshing with said internal teeth (16) and consisting of a number of inferior teeth of a unit with the number of teeth of the later. The rotation means of said external teeth (13) comprise at least a bearing (11, 12) centrally laid out in a flange end (14,15) of said aforementioned external gear (13) and the aforementioned external gear (13) is at least partly dismantled in order to introduce said internal gear (9).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: GROUPEMENT COEUR ARTIFICIEL TOTAL CARPENTER MATRA CARMAT
    Inventors: Marc Grimme, Jean-Marc Parquet, Alain Carpentier, Claude Wartelle
  • Publication number: 20090028739
    Abstract: The inventive turbo-piston machine is embodied in the form of a turbo-piston expander and/or a turbo-piston supercharger and/or internal combustion engine comprising two mating working members i.e. a rotor and a valve. The rotor is provided with a piston embodied thereon and the valve is provided with a groove. The working members are arranged in the body of the turbo-piston machine, wherein the rotor is placed in at least one cylinder formed by the body walls and, for example, by the sidewalls. The operating process is carried out in at least two working chambers formed by the division of the cylinder space. A working medium is injected into one of the working chambers of the turbo-piston expander and is pumped into the other working chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Inventor: Vladislav Vladimirovich Velitsko
  • Publication number: 20080310986
    Abstract: In an oil-cooled screw compressor comprising, a compressor body including a pair of a male rotor and a female rotor, a motor including a stator and a motor rotor connected to one of the male and female rotors, and an oil separator container for gathering the oil from a mixture of the gaseous manner and oil to restrain the oil from proceeding with the compressed gaseous matter after the mixture of the gaseous manner and oil is discharged from the pair of male and female rotors, a rotational axis of the motor rotor and the rotational axis of the one of the male and female rotors are coaxial with respect to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Hideharu TANAKA, Hiroyuki MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20080298994
    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: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: MAGNA POWERTRAIN USA, INC.
    Inventor: Aaron Ronk
  • Publication number: 20080240967
    Abstract: Rotary displacement machine comprising un housing and at least two twinned rotors referred to as being of asymmetrical profile, these twinned rotors each being made up of a core on which projects a helicoidal thread which extends above said core in the manner of a tooth which tooth has a first predetermined dimension in a direction radial to the longitudinal axis of that of the twinned rotors under consideration and above the surface of this rotor, this machine being characterized in that instead of comprising a first flank and a second flank of which the conventional shapes and connect at a first point in such a way as to form a sharp edge along the helicoidal thread: on the one hand, said first flank has a shape, referred to as modified shape, of which the position and the length of arc are predetermined such that said modified shape of this first flank and the conventional shape of the second flank each connect to one of the opposite ends and of a short segment, referred to as connecting segment, whic
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2005
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: ATELIERS BUSCH SA
    Inventor: Olivier Goepfert