Abstract: A lobe pump is provided. The lobe pump may include a housing having an inlet and an outlet for a medium to be pumped, at least one lobe mounted in the housing so as to be drivable and rotatable and which has at least two conveying vanes, and at least one sealing element per lobe mounted on a sealing body. The at least one sealing element runs over a contour of the at least one lobe during rotation of the at least one lobe and performs an outward travel movement from a minimum diameter of the at least one lobe to a maximum diameter of the at least one lobe and an inward travel movement from the maximum diameter of the at least one lobe to the minimum diameter of the at least one lobe on different sides of each of the at least two conveying vanes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hybrid pump for delivering a liquid pump medium, comprising a rotor consisting of substantially non-elastic plastic, which is situated in the pump chamber and can rotate about a rotor axis. Said rotor has a base plate associated with the lower lateral surface of the pump chamber and several rotor parts that are spaced substantially at a uniform distance around the periphery, extend towards the opposite lateral surface of the pump chamber and are permanently connected to the base plate. A preferably curved rotor blade is pivotally hinged on the outer end of each rotor part, forming pump chambers of the rotor between neighboring rotor parts and rotor blades, said chambers being open towards the upper lateral surface of the pump chamber and the bases of said chambers being formed by the base plate of the rotor. The pump is characterized in that the bases of the pump chambers follow a concave arc, rising from the outer edge of the base plate inward towards the rotor axis.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotary piston engine to be used as a pump or an engine, comprising a housing (1) fitted with end walls (8, 9), a rotary body (2) rotatably mounted in said housing, and at least one sealing element (7) separating a volume formed between the housing (1) and the rotary body (2), said housing having at least one pair of inlet and outlet openings and the sealing element (7) having two legs portions, the ends of which abut against the rotary body (2), and a web portion intermediate said leg portions, said sealing element additionally being pivotable about a pivot axis on said web portion. The sealing element is movably associated with the housing in such a manner that the sealing element is displaceable radially, thus allowing the sum of the distances from the axis of rotation of the rotary body to the points of abutment on said body to vary.