Using Specific Material Patents (Class 418/206.9)
  • Patent number: 9732750
    Abstract: A disposable metering pump is made of plastic for products having solid fractions. The disposable metering pump has two rotors (10) which are coupled to each other by means of gears (11), can be driven in opposite directions, and are supported in a pump housing (5). Each rotor (10) has a rotor shaft, the rotor shaft ends (15) of which are supported in the walls of the pump housing (5). Each rotor (10) has two rotor blade walls (13), which are arranged diametrically opposite on the rotor shaft. One partially cylindrical rotor blade shoe (14) is formed at each of the peripheral ends of the rotor blade walls. The rotor blade shoes (14) lie against the cylindrical inner wall regions of the pump housing (5) in a sliding and sealing manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Dan Barron
  • Patent number: 8899951
    Abstract: A displacement pump, including a pump chamber and a regulating chamber which are separated from each other by a piston, wherein the pump has a device with which fluid flowing from the pump chamber toward the regulating chamber can be drained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Schwabische Huttenwerke Automotive GmbH
    Inventor: Kim Boris Friedrich
  • Patent number: 8894396
    Abstract: A pump apparatus including a drive shaft and a driven shaft supported by bearing members, respectively, a center plate, first external gears, second external gears, first and second side plates, first and second seal members, a pressing means for applying a pressing force between the tooth tips of the respective external gears and the seal surface of the respective seal members in a closing region disposed between the respective external gears and the respective seal members, wherein contact between inner circumferential surfaces of the bearing members and an outer circumferential surface of the drive shaft is established on the side of the closing region, while the tooth tips of the respective external gears and the seal surface of the respective seal members in the closing region are kept pressed against each other by the pressing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Misunou, Toshihiro Koizumi, Chiharu Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 8845313
    Abstract: Embodiments of an oil pump for an engine have an increased pump capacity while maintaining or marginally increasing the overall physical size of the pump. In some embodiments, this increased capacity is reflected in a pump length efficiency ratio, which compares an effective gear length (LG) of first and second pump gears used in the oil pump, to an effective housing length (LH). The effective housing length (LH) is a longitudinal distance between surfaces on opposite ends of the oil pump that must be maintained for the oil pump to fit into an available space. Accordingly, the pump length efficiency ratio indicates how much of the effective housing length (LH) can be occupied by the gears. Alternatively, the pump capacity is measured using an output flow efficiency ratio, which compares a theoretical pump flow (FP) at a given gear speed (SG) to the effective housing length (LH) of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Curtis John Graham, Adam William Ostein, Patrick William Savage, Jr., Christopher Lee Bach
  • Patent number: 8801412
    Abstract: In order to prevent deterioration in performance of an oil-free screw compressor and scuffing caused by rust, surfaces of both male and female rotors are coated with heat-resistance coatings containing a solid lubricant. A coating contains Polyimide resin to which Molybdenum disulfide, as a solid lubricant, and Aluminum oxide and Titanium oxide, as additives, are added. Accordingly, it is possible to realize a coating that is higher in heat resistance and longer in lifetime than a conventional one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignees: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd., Kawamura Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukiko Ikeda, Kazuaki Shiinoki, Masakatsu Okaya, Natsuki Kawabata, Masahiro Kawamura, Iwao Aoki
  • Patent number: 8770955
    Abstract: A rotary pump having a variable delivery volume, including: a casing; a delivery chamber formed in the casing; at least one delivery rotor which is rotatable in the delivery chamber; an actuating member which is arranged facing a front face of the delivery rotor or surrounds the delivery rotor, and is moveable in the casing for adjusting the delivery volume; the actuating member chargeable with an actuating force which is dependent on a fluid requirement; a track which is formed in the casing and guides the actuating member on an actuating member sliding surface in a sliding contact; and a sliding material which forms at least one of the track and the actuating member sliding surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Schwabische Huttenwerke Automotive GmbH
    Inventor: Christof Lamparski
  • Patent number: 8613609
    Abstract: A pump gear is provided. The pump gear includes a first shaft portion having a first end and a second end with an integral gear portion formed therebetween. The first shaft portion is made from a first tool steel material. A second shaft portion having a third end brazed to the first end. The second shaft portion has at least one integral drive spline formed adjacent one end. The second shaft portion is made from a second tool material. The first tool steel material has a vanadium content by weight of greater than 9% and the second tool steel material has a vanadium content by weight of less than or equal to 1%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Lyle Ward, Steven A. Heitz
  • Patent number: 8500424
    Abstract: In order to improve a screw compressor comprising an outer housing, a compressor screw housing which is arranged in the outer housing and in which rotor bores for screw rotors are arranged, a drive arranged in the outer housing on one side of the compressor screw housing, a bearing housing arranged in the outer housing on a side of the compressor screw housing located opposite the drive and a sound damping device which is arranged within the outer housing and has compressed working medium flowing through it, in such a manner that the working medium leaving the screw compressor carries as little lubricant as possible along with it, it is suggested that the sound damping device guide the compressed working medium by means of a flow guide in an interior space as a circulating flow circulating around an axis and that lubricant be separated from the circulating flow of the working medium as a result of centrifugal forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Bitzer Kuehlmaschinenbau
    Inventors: Klaus Feller, Roni Loerch
  • Publication number: 20120263618
    Abstract: A pump gear is provided. The pump gear includes a first shaft portion having a first end and a second end with an integral gear portion formed therebetween. The first shaft portion is made from a first tool steel material. A second shaft portion having a third end brazed to the first end. The second shaft portion has at least one integral drive spline formed adjacent one end. The second shaft portion is made from a second tool material. The first tool steel material has a vanadium content by weight of greater than 9% and the second tool steel material has a vanadium content by weight of less than or equal to 1%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lyle Ward, Steven A. Heitz
  • Patent number: 8186982
    Abstract: A rotary pump having a variable delivery volume, comprising: a casing; a delivery chamber formed in the casing; at least one delivery rotor which is rotatable in the delivery chamber; an actuating member which is arranged facing a front face of the delivery rotor or surrounds the delivery rotor, and is moveable in the casing for adjusting the delivery volume; the actuating member chargeable with an actuating force which is dependent on a fluid requirement; a track which is formed in the casing and guides the actuating member on an actuating member sliding surface in a sliding contact; and a sliding material which forms at least one of the track and the actuating member sliding surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Schwabische Huttenwerke Automotive GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Christof Lamparski
  • Patent number: 8137084
    Abstract: An interlocking device for rigidly holding together the body and flange of a hydraulic machine includes a body, flange, gears, sealing elements acting as a body seal and lobe seal adapted to effectively seal pressurized oil pockets within the hydraulic machine with a back-up ring that prevents squeezing of the lobe seal and to retain it in its original position, appropriately dimensioned bush bearings adapted to act as load bearing journals. The interlocking device includes a plurality of bean-shaped dowels located at both inlet and outlet sides that hold the body and flange together with minimum relative displacement to ensure high volumetric efficiency of the hydraulic machine even at high operating pressures in excess of 275 bar or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Dynamatic Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Udayant Malhoutra, Pradip Kumar Ray Chaudhuri
  • Patent number: 8100676
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor for a positive displacement rotary pump. The rotor comprises a hub with an aperture and a center axis through aperture and at least 2 lobes radially extending from hub and in a direction essentially perpendicular to the axis of hub. The rotor comprises a core of a first polymer material and a cover of a second polymer material, which second polymer material has a hardness which is lower than the first polymer material. The first and the second polymer materials are connected to each other. The hub or the major part of the hub is preferably provided by the core, whereas at least a part of the lobes is provided by the cover. The invention also relates to a method of providing the rotor and a pump comprising the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Inter-Ice Pump APS
    Inventors: Ole Kjeldsen, Ole Frederiksen, Lars Primholdt
  • Patent number: 8075293
    Abstract: A rotary blower rotor includes a rotor body having a corrosion-resistant coating covering the rotor body. An abradable coating covers at least a portion of the corrosion-resistant coating for providing an essentially zero operating clearance for increasing a volumetric efficiency of the rotary blower. A rotary blower including a rotor with a corrosion-resistant coating is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventor: Daniel R. Ouwenga
  • Patent number: 8047825
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Clark V. Cooper, Aaron T. Nardi
  • Publication number: 20110243782
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pump enhancer that allows the pump in the soft ice cream machine to operate at maximum capacity. The preferred pump enhancer is made of NSF approved Virgin Teflon film and is used in a two-gear pump soft ice cream machines to take up the space of the pump cover that wears out annually, and thus increasing the efficiency of the soft serve ice cream machines and produce more product (ice cream) per box of ice cream mix. The spacer also allows the pump to put maximum air into the product and is cost saving. The pump enhancer can be installed during rebuilding of pump or during the initial manufacture thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventor: Richard Allen Drazkowski
  • Patent number: 7878783
    Abstract: A gear pump has two engaging gearwheels disposed between a suction chamber and a pressure chamber, with the gearwheels borne on bearing axles that are connected to the gearwheels. The gearwheels and the bearing axles are each manufactured of the same material as a homogenous workpiece. This provides for both simple construction of the gear pump and good pump operating properties. Preferably the gearwheels and bearing axles are made of a synthetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Kunz
  • Patent number: 7857607
    Abstract: A rotary lobe pump comprises a pump body having a driving means and an outer casing, and an insert that can be replaced. The replaceable insert comprises a housing formed of a plastic material and having an inlet port, an outlet port and internal surfaces defining a pumping chamber. The replaceable insert also includes a pair of lobed rotors arranged for rotation within the pumping chamber. The housing includes apertures through which the lobed rotors may be rotationally driven, so that the lobed rotors mesh together for pumping a fluid from the inlet port to the outlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Bishop, Michael Young
  • 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: 20090208357
    Abstract: An improved external rotary gear pump for use with non-lubricating fluids such as amine is disclosed. The device uses specially coated internal parts chosen to reduce friction and improve wear characteristics so that the resulting pump will operate for a minimum warranty period of one year.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2008
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventor: Richard H. Garrett
  • Patent number: 7495575
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignees: Saurer GmbH & Co. KG, Dürr Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Arkardiusz Tomzik, Florian Axmann, Michael Baumann
  • Publication number: 20090004039
    Abstract: To provide a single stage root type-vacuum pump which can prevent an increase in an installation space while achieving a fine anti-corrosion property, and can shorten discharge time by preventing a drop in a pumping flow rate when pumping by reverse rotation, and to provide a vacuum fluid transport system employing this single stage root type-vacuum pump. A pair of outside air introduction holes (22, 22) is formed in the vicinity of a phantom line (m) in an inner wall surface (6c) within a range between intersecting points (q, q), where the intermediate position (p) is located between the center of a driving side Root type-s rotor shaft (11) and the center of a driven side Root type-s rotor shaft (12) of three-lobe rotors (20, 21), and where the intersecting points (q, q) are the points at which internal circles located on the extended circumferences of the inner wall surface (6c) of the casing (6) intersect with the intermediate position (p).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventors: Tetsushi Ohtsuka, Yosinobu Ito
  • Publication number: 20080219877
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor for a positive displacement rotary pump. The rotor comprises a hub with an aperture and a centre axis through said aperture and at least 2 lobes radially extending from said hub and in a direction essentially perpendicular to the axis of said hub. The rotor comprises a core of a first polymer material and a cover of a second polymer material, which second polymer material has a hardness which is lower than the first polymer material. The first and the second polymer materials are connected to each other. The hub or the major part of the hub is preferably provided by the core, whereas at least a part of the lobes is provided by the cover. The invention also relates to a method of providing the rotor and a pump comprising the rotor. The rotor has a high durability and provides an excellent sealing towards inner surface sections of the pumping house as well as towards an engaged rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2006
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Ole Kjeldsen, Ole Frederiksen, Lars Primholdt
  • Patent number: 6918749
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Werner Rietschle GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Reinhard Garczorz, Fritz-Martin Scholz
  • Patent number: 6886717
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Inventor: Brian C. Sanders
  • Patent number: 6827565
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Hugo Vogelsand Maschinenbau GmbH
    Inventor: Harald Vogelsang
  • Patent number: 6688867
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew W. Suman, Matthew G. Swartzlander
  • Patent number: 6612821
    Abstract: A gear pump having a housing with an inlet and an outlet. First and second gears are provided with meshing gear teeth. The gears are ceramic rotor gears which are journaled within the housing. A drive shaft drives the first gear in order to move it relative to the second gear, such as to pump a fluid from the inlet to the outlet of the housing. The housing includes an opening for the passage of the drive shaft and a seal surrounding the opening. The seal includes a first seal part rotating with the first gear, and a second seal part forming part of the housing. The first and second seal parts have facing sealing surfaces, are made of ceramic material and are loaded towards each other by a biasing member parallel to the drive shaft. In this way, a mechanical seal is created between the gear and the housing obviating the need for a seal between the drive shaft and the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Fluid Management, Inc.
    Inventors: Peterus Adrianus Johannes Maria Kuijpers, Remon Gerard Post
  • Patent number: 6565341
    Abstract: A geared feed pump has a rotatably driven pair of meshed gears (16, 19) arranged in a pump chamber (14) of a housing (10, 12). The feed pump supplies fuel from a suction chamber (16) between the peripheries of the gears (16, 18) and the peripheral walls (15) of supply channels (30) formed in the pump chamber into a pressure chamber (28). One of the gears (16) has a hole (32) and is secured onto the drive shaft (22), which is rotatably positioned in the housing (10). At least one radially, resilient connecting element (40) is arranged on the drive shaft (22), and the connecting element is pressed into the hole (32) of the gear (16). The connecting element (40) makes possible the rotationally determined securement of the gear (16) onto the drive shaft (22) and forms an overload-protection device. The connecting element (40) also makes possible, through its radial resiliency, a tolerance equalization between the drive shaft (22) and the gear (16) in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Stanislaw Bodzak
  • Publication number: 20030086804
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Applicant: Eaton Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew W. Suman, Matthew G. Swartzlander
  • Publication number: 20030072666
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a pump apparatus of simple construction with a bearing structure, for which a lubricant is unnecessary. A flow passage for a refrigerant (liquid ammonia) is formed in a housing to provide communication between a suction port and a discharge port, and slide bearing members formed of amorphous carbon are provided in the housing to be fitted into the flow passage to support a rotating shaft. Drive means for rotating the rotating shaft is constituted by a rotor, which is fitted into the flow passage and provided with the rotating shaft, and a stator, which is provided outside the housing to surround the rotor, and a pump body is provided midway the flow passage and connected to the rotating shaft to pump a fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2002
    Publication date: April 17, 2003
    Inventors: Shozo Katsukura, Mikine Katsukura, Masao Furukawa, Koji Miyazaki, Yuji Aoyagi, Naoki Miyagi
  • Publication number: 20030044299
    Abstract: A well production apparatus includes a down-hole gear pump and a transport assembly to which the gear pump is attached. The transport assembly is formed from a string of modular pipe assemblies having one or more passages for carrying production fluid from the bottom of the well to the surface. The passages can be arranged in a side-by-side configuration, and include pressure and return lines for driving the gear pump. The gear pump includes a hydraulically driven motor that is ganged with a positive displacement gear set. Both the motor and the pumping section have ceramic wear surfaces, the ceramic being chosen to have coefficients of thermal expansion corresponding to the coefficients of thermal expansion of the gear sets. The pumps and rotors have ceramic bushings rather than ball or journal bearings, and are operable under abrasive conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2002
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventors: Wayne Thomas, Gary Morcom
  • Patent number: 6406280
    Abstract: In order to achieve high rotational speeds for a drive motor used for surgical purposes without the need for excessive maintenance of this motor, it is proposed that it be in the form of a compressed-fluid-driven, gear-type motor having interengaging gears which are sealed in a housing and have a rotational speed of between 40,000 and 150,000 revolutions per minute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignees: Aesculap AG & Co. KG, Deprag Schulz GmbH u. Co.
    Inventors: Rolf Pfeiffer, Gerd Zinn, Rainer Haeusler
  • Patent number: 6325604
    Abstract: A gear pump comprising a plastic gear pump housing having an interior surface. Rotatably attached to the gear pump housing is a drive gear and an idler gear. The idler gear is cooperatively engaged to the drive gear such that rotation of the drive gear will rotate the idler gear. The gear pump housing is formed from plastic such that the interior surface thereof is sized to contact the drive gear and the idler gear. Accordingly, the contact between the idler gear and the drive gear with the interior of the plastic gear pump housing forms a seal therebetween which is used for the pumping of fluid by the gear pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Inventor: Benjamin R. Du
  • Patent number: 6283734
    Abstract: A gear pump for delivering liquid media has a pump housing with at least two bores, in which at least two meshing gears with tooth tips are contained. The gears are radially mounted by bearing surfaces which on one side consist of areas of the tooth tips and on the other side, of areas of the interior of the bores. This arrangement requires no slide bearings in the conventional sense, which results in a smaller number of pump parts and hence to reduced manufacturing costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Maag Pump Systems Textron AG
    Inventor: Peter Blume
  • Patent number: 6264449
    Abstract: A plastic toothed wheel for a toothed wheel pump comprises a wheel body (20) having external or internal teeth. To keep the weight of this toothed wheel as low as possible, its teeth (26) have at least one cavity (32) accessible from at least one end face of the tooth. Toothed wheel pumps having such toothed wheels for supplying and pressurizing engine oil in automotive vehicle engines avoid splashing losses caused by the cavities (32) by closing the cavities or filling them up with a temperature and media resistant foam material (66).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Inventors: Alexander Maute, Willi Schneider
  • Patent number: 6206667
    Abstract: A gear pump for metering resins is provided having the surfaces of interacting internal metal parts coated with a metal-based material to prevent seizing of the interacting moving parts as a result of resin curing therebetween. Parts made from such materials as heat treated carbon steel and stainless steel are preferably coated with a nitride, carbide or oxide of such metals as tungsten, titanium, aluminum and chromium at a thickness of between about 2-5 microns. The coating is applied to the surface of any part that comes in heated contact with the surface of another relatively moving part. The resulting gear pump exhibits high wear resistance, longevity, and low maintenance requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Herman E. Turner, Jr., Mario Romanin