Abstract: A hydraulic control system for a continuously variable transmission (CVT) includes a pressure regulator subsystem, a selection valve in downstream fluid communication with the pressure regulator subsystem, the selection valve configured to control a flow of pressurized oil from the pressure regulator subsystem to a primary pulley circuit and a secondary pulley circuit, the primary pulley circuit in fluid communication with a primary pulley and the secondary pulley circuit in communication with a secondary pulley, and a ratio control pump disposed in fluid communication between the primary pulley circuit and the secondary pulley circuit, wherein rotation of the ratio control pump in a first direction pumps pressurized oil from the secondary pulley circuit to the primary pulley circuit and rotation of the control pump in a second direction pumps pressurized oil from the primary pulley circuit to the secondary pulley circuit to change a ratio of the CVT.

Abstract: A component for a gas turbine engine having an engine axis includes a rotor disk and a plurality of airfoils. The rotor disk comprises a web and a rim. The web has a first outer surface at least partially defining a plurality of holes and a plurality of slots. Each of the plurality of slots extends from a corresponding one of the plurality of holes and forms a first angle with the engine axis at the point of intersection with the corresponding one of the plurality of holes. The rim has a second outer surface also at least partially defining the plurality of slots. Each of the plurality of slots forms a second angle with the engine axis at the second outer surface, the second angle being different from the first angle. Each of the plurality of airfoils extends from the second outer surface.

Abstract: A pump, in particular a vacuum pump for motor vehicles, wherein a rotor with at least one vane is mounted inside a pump housing, the rotor being rotatably driven by the combustion engine of the motor vehicle via a coupling device. An intermediate element is arranged between the rotor and the coupling device so as to captively retain the rotor and coupling device and protect them against wear.

Abstract: A rotary vane device comprising a rotor and a vane positioned in a pumping chamber in a housing for rotation about respective eccentric axes, wherein the rotor has a rotor slot in which the vane is positioned, characterized by the vane being driven and the rotor following the vane.

Abstract: A vacuum vane pump for generating a vacuum condition for aircraft instruments includes a rotor having a peripheral surface eccentrically mounted in a housing having a confrontingly opposed inner surface so that the opposed surfaces define a crescent-shaped chamber. The rotor has a plurality of radial slots, each of which receives a vane which is slidably displaced radially outwardly along the slot as the rotor is rotatively driven so that the outer tips of the vanes are pressed in frictional abutment with the inner surface of the housing. Each slot has a radially inward facing shoulder and each vane has a corresponding radially outward facing shoulder for mutual contact engagement when the tip becomes worn to a predetermined degree.

Abstract: A rotary engine includes a cylindrical rotor having four spaced apart vanes therein mounted in a stator housing having an oblong perimeter casing which defines generally crescent shaped, diametrically opposite first and second working chambers in which the rotor vanes travel. Inlet and outlet ports are disposed at respective ends of the working chambers, and a flow chamber is joined to the casing between the working chambers. The flow chamber temporarily stores compressed fluid from the first working chamber and discharges it into the second working chamber wherein combustion takes place for rotating the rotor.

Abstract: A rotary pump comprising a stator body having a bore and a rotor assembly mounted eccentrically in the bore to form a cavity between the stator body and the rotor assembly. The rotor assembly has two blades slidably positioned in diametrically opposed slots in the rotor assembly. In use of the pump the two blades are substantially in contact with an inner wall of the stator body. The stator body has an inlet and an outlet to allow, in use of the pump, fluid being pumped to enter into and be expelled from the cavity by means of the rotating vanes. The rotor assembly is of integral construction with each slot defined therein having an arcuate base and each blade has an end portion substantially conforming to the arcuate slot base.

Abstract: A positive displacement fluid handling apparatus comprises a body including a circular cylindrical cavity with two closed ends and two port openings respectively open to the two opposite halves of the circular cylindrical cavity; a flap assembly including a plurality of flaps disposed in the circular cylindrical cavity in a radiating pattern and supported by the body rotatably about a first axis of rotation concentric to the circular cylindrical cavity in an independently rotatable arrangement, wherein the outer radial edges of the flaps slide on the circular cylindrical wall of the circular cylindrical cavity and the inner radial edges of the flaps are assembled in a radially converging leak-proof assembly; and a flap spacer assembly including a plurality of rollers or spacers disposed on a circular cylindrical surface enclosing the first axis of rotation and coaxial to a second axis of rotation eccentric to the circular cylindrical cavity and supported by the body rotatably about the second axis of rotation

Abstract: A positive displacement pump-motor-meter has a housing structure and a rotor disposed within and supported by the housing structure in a rotatable arrangement about an axis of rotation, wherein the combination of the housing structure and the rotor provides a toroidal cavity encircling the axis of rotation and having cross sectional area varying from a maximum value at the 12 o'clock position to a minimum value at the 6 o'clock position, which toroidal cavity houses a plurality of planar vanes disposed therealong in an axisymmetric arrangement about the axis of rotation and supported by the rotor member in a revolvable arrangement about respective axes of revolution, of wherein the revolving motion of each of the plurality of vanes about its respective axis of revolution is coupled to the rotating motion of the rotor about the axis of rotation in such a way that the vane revolves at an angular speed equal to one half of the angular speed of the rotor, whereby each of the plurality of planar vanes substantiall

Abstract: A rotary rolling piston type compressor having a cylinder mounted in a hermetic shell and a rolling piston driven by a crankshaft carried by the rotor of an electric motor whose stator is fixed internally to the shell. An external part of the cylinder has a radial slot that houses a slidable vane which defines with the cylinder and the piston compression and a suction chamber. The vane surface facing the suction chamber has a planar surface on its upper portion parallel to the vane surface facing the compression chamber and the lower portion of the surface facing the suction chamber has a relieved, or chamfered, section(s). The chamfered surface(s) develops a hydrodynamic wedge effect upon the vane during downward displacement, increasing the lubricating and stability capacity of the vane against the wall of the slot in which the vane slides, and reduces the area of the vane which is in actual contact with the wall of the slot.

Abstract: In a rotative machine for fluids which includes a plate formed with spiral-like passages extending from a central orifice to an annular interval and which also includes, facing the passages, a support rotatably mounting vane wheels for rotation about axes which are perpendicular to the axis of rotation of said plate, the vanes of said vane wheels have a dimension at their attachment to the body of the vane wheels which is different from that at their frontal side, permitting manufacture of the plate by simple die-casting. A method is also provided for determining the contour for both the passages and the cooperating sliding surfaces of the plate and the support for the vane wheels which will result in the maximum output for the machine.

Abstract: A machine for energy conversion includes a working chamber defined by two relatively movable parts and provided with inlets and outlets for the working medium, both parts having members serving as pistons and abutments which sealingly engage with the walls of the working chamber. The members serving as pistons and abutments may pass through each other and consist of a number of juxtaposed elements which laterally seal against each other and against adjacent portions of the wall of the working compartment and have variable surface area to permit passage.

Abstract: A rotary internal combustion engine comprising an elongated rotor having an oval shaped cross-section secured to a compartmentalized shaft rotatably disposed in an elongated cylindrical shaped bore in a stationary engine block. A plurality of vanes, having a curved wedge-shaped cross-section, are pivotally secured to the block and arranged to move into the cylindrical shaped bore into sealing engagement with the outer surface of the rotor. Fuel and air are delivered through the compartmentalized shaft into chambers between adjacent vanes where fuel is compressed, ignited, and allowed to expand applying torque to the oval shaped rotor. The oval shaped cross-section of the rotor has long sides which are substantially straight and first and second arcuate ends.

Abstract: A rotary pump of the stationary single vane type wherein the vane is arranged to automatically accommodate for the direction of rotor rotation to provide for the flow of fluid through the pump in a single direction regardless of the direction of rotor rotation, the vane also being operable to automatically relieve excessive pressures in the pumping chambers.