Abstract: A discharge valve device of a rotary compressor comprises a discharge passage formed in the wall of a cylinder for connecting to a compression chamber, a discharge valve for blocking/opening the discharge passage depending upon the gas pressure in the chamber, and a spring for restricting the movement of the discharge valve. The discharge valve moves along a passage wall in contact therewith during travel between its blocking/opening positions.

Abstract: A rotating machine with variable volumes which can rotate in one and/or two directions like the transmission shaft, more of less than (2.pi.). The machine is composed of a body with an inner cavity holding an articulated rotating prismatic structure, composed of one or more sides. Between the inner cavity and the sides of the prismatic structure, and among the same sides in the inner area, are fluid-retaining variable-volume chambers. The cyclic volume machine exploits the variations of the physical characteristics of fluids whose movements are the cause or effect of transmission shaft rotation. In transverse bars, and/or appropriate hinges between the sides of the rotor, centripetal forces oppose centrifugal forces. Lubricating and cooling systems are foreseen. The cyclic volume machine can be coaxial to a common transmission shaft and may be used as a pump, compressor, motor, engine, valve, distributor, hydraulic joint, and heat generator.

Abstract: A rotary fluid motor or pump including a rotor mounted to turn about an axis within a housing, and a shaft extending through a passage in the rotor and turning with it, with a key being received within opposed grooves in the rotor and shaft, and with a fastener being connected threadedly to the shaft and being operable by threaded adjustment relative to the shaft to urge the key radially outwardly toward the rotor and thereby rigidly lock the rotor and shaft against relative movement.

Abstract: The crankcase or cylinder body of a rotary compressor is secured in a shell by a shrink fit thereby providing intimate contact over its entire circumference. To maintain the proper positioning of the crankcase during the shrink fitting process, the outer surface of the crankcase defines a portion of a sphere, specifically the equatorial portion. As a result the spherical surface provides a stable contact surface over a range of positions of the crankcase and the intimate contact changes the frequencies of response of the shell.

Abstract: A scroll compressor having a first scroll member and a second scroll member includes a discharge valve device for closing an opening of a discharge port in which the discharge opening is disposed in at least one of the first and second scroll members. The discharge valve device is configured so that it is effected by a centrifugal force during operation of the scroll compressor. The centrifugal force normally maintains the discharge valve device in an open position with respect to the discharge opening. Thus, the discharge valve device is not actuated by a pressure difference between the discharge opening and the high pressure chamber and the scroll members are not rotated in reverse when operation of the scroll compressor is stopped.

Abstract: The valve assembly for a rotary compressor includes an elongated valve member which rests on pads on each side of the valve seat and includes an intermediate sealing section normally sealing against the valve seat. An elongated valve spring biases the sealing section toward engagement with the valve seat. An elongated spring backer sits on one end of the valve spring and the other end of the valve member. One end of each of the valve member, valve spring and spring backer are bolted to the compressor end plate. The other end of the spring backer permits the corresponding end of the valve member to slide along the end plate as the valve member moves between its open and closed positions, while restraining the end of the valve member from moving away from the end plate. A backer support, positioned between the spring backer and the head of the bolt, spreads the clamping force and defines a line about which the valve member and valve spring flex.

Abstract: An externally driven rotor is rotatable within a pumping chamber and is located in meshing relationship with an internal idler gear. An annular bearing mounted within the housing in confronting relationship with a peripheral surface of the rotor, provides a bearing surface and supports radially directed loads exerted by unbalanced fluid force on the rotor. A pressure balancing circuit is provided for transferring pressurized fluid from a discharge region in the pump to a backside of the rotor to at least partially balance axial forces exerted on the rotor by pressurized fluid. To provide bi-rotational capability, a cross-communicating passage and check valves are used for controlling the flow of fluid into the pressure balancing circuit.

Abstract: A compressor is composed of a housing equipped with a compression mechanism portion and a cover body having a fitting portion. The housing has a suction cavity communicating with a suction chamber and a discharge cavity communicating with a discharge chamber on a peripheral surface thereof. The suction cavity and the discharge cavity are closed up tightly by fitting the cover body to the housing, and the fitting portion is made to communicate with the suction cavity and the discharge cavity, respectively.

Abstract: A scroll type fluid compressor 10 has a housing 12 including a front section 14 and a rear section 16, an inlet port 112 and an outlet port 114. The rear section 16 of the housing includes an integral fixed scroll 18 with a discharge aperture 90 in the center and an integral exhaust cavity 88. A one way discharge valve 92 including a tubular valve body 95 is pressed into the scroll discharge aperture 90, extends across the exhaust cavity and has one end received in a recess 94 in a boss 96 on a wall of the exhaust cavity 88. An orbital scroll 24 is driven in an orbital path by a crank shaft 74 and cooperates with the fixed scroll 18 to compress fluid. An axial thrust and rotation prevention assembly 46 prevents rotation of the orbital scroll.

Abstract: A sealing mechanism for sealing an aperture formed through a housing of a closed vessel is disclosed. The sealing mechanism includes a bolt having a threaded shaft portion and a flange portion. A seating portion is formed on the outer opening of the aperture and a rotation preventing portion is formed on the surface of the seating portion. A washer is disposed on the seating portion. The washer is made of a metal softer than the material of the housing. When the bolt is rotated the washer contacts the flange portion of the bolt. The axial force of the bolt causes the washer to engage the rotation preventing portion. The rotation preventing portion deforms the washer and prevents the washer from rotating. Therefore, the inner end surface of the washer does not rub against the surface of the seating portion. As a result, adequate sealing is maintained.

Abstract: A fluid displacement machine of the vane type which can be operated as a compressor or motor utilizes a cylindrical rotor equipped with one or more tethered sliding vanes wherein the rotor and vane set is rotatably located eccentrically inside an internal conforming casing profile between opposing endplates to define enclosed variable volume compartments. [Each vane is fitted on opposite sides eith tethers which are pivotally-mounted remotely from the vane tips. The tethers engage, through anti-friction means, circular annuli located within the endplates which are eccentric with the hollow casing profile.] Anti-friction tether-to-annuli means are used, one in the form of freely-rotating caged roller bearings interposed between the tethers and the respective internal annuli, and another in the form of tethers equipped with trunnioned bearings which directly engage these internal annular surfaces.

Abstract: A method of assembling a reciprocating piston hermetic compressor including a two piece suction valve capable of being deburred by abrasive material. The reexpansion volume between the valve leaf and valve spacer is reduced to a minimum since the clearance between the valve leaf and valve spacer is reduced by the fabrication method. The valve leaf may be made of a different material than the valve spacer using the same or a different stamping tool.

Abstract: A scroll type hermetic compressor is disclosed which incorporates an improved disc type check valve in the discharge conduit exiting from the compressor shell. The check valve operates to prevent return of high pressure refrigerant which may cause reverse movement of the orbiting scroll upon shut down of the compressor.

Abstract: A screw compressor comprises a pair of screw rotors provided in a casing, a cylinder fixed to the casing and having a first chamber and a second chamber, a first piston fitted in the first chamber, a second piston fitted in the second chamber, a built-in volume ratio adjusting valve operated by the first piston, a volume control slide valve operated by the second piston, a stopper fixed to the casing to limit the backward movement of the built-in volume ratio adjusting valve, and a volume control slide valve. When built-in volume ratio adjustment is unnecessary, the built-in volume ratio adjusting valve is held immovable between the stopper and a spacer fixed to the built-in volume ratio adjusting valve and resting on a fixed surface of the casing. All the forces acting on the immovable built-in volume ratio adjusting valve are sustained by the casing, so that the rest of the components of the screw compressor are not exposed to excessive forces.

Abstract: A spinning pump (1) connected to a spinning pump block (2) by means of fastening screws (3) comprises a base plate (4) in contact with the connection face (11) of the spinning pump block (2), one or more gear plate (5), a cover plate (6), a drive shaft (7), an inlet channel (8) as well as outlet channels (9) for the spinning fluid, the channels (8, 9) are aligned with corresponding channels of the spinning pump block (2). The fastening screws (3) traverse through passage bores (12) an adapter part (15) connected with the cover plate (6) as well as plates (6,5,4) and are screwed into threaded bores (13) in the spinning pump block (2).

Abstract: A rotary piston engine comprising two segregated body chambers of compression and expansion, and one separable combustion chamber, carrying out air suction and compression, combustion resultant expansion and exhaust, and fuel injection and constant-volume combustion process without any valve respectively: the compression and the expansion chamber both are arranged parallel adjacent to each other, both are formed by two partially overlapped body-bores provided respectively with cylindrical hubs at respective centers thereof, both have a pair of screwed rotors rotatably mounted on said respective hubs, and both communicate to each other by the combustion chamber and gas passageway means; it is characteristic in configuration that the closed space made by rotor projecting portions are progressively changed in geometry as rotors rotate, and that exhaust gases make no explosion noises.

Abstract: A scroll compresser has a fixed scroll member and an orbiting scroll member. An end plate of the fixed scroll member has a discharge opening for discharging a compressed gas, a valve plate having plural discharge ports connected to the discharge opening, and discharge valves independently mounted in the discharge ports.

Abstract: A low side scroll compressor is provided with a pivoted bistable check valve. In the open position the valve is out of the direct discharge from the scrolls but in close proximity to the discharge tube such that upon stopping the compressor the reverse flow from the system impinges upon the valve member causing it to close.

Abstract: A compressed-air vane motor comprises a rotor which is mounted on anti-friction bearings and has, distributed over the periphery, location slots in which vanes are guided in a radially displaceable manner and whose outer sealing edges bear by centrifugal force against the inner surface of the cylindrical outer shell. To reduce wear and friction, and to achieve a long service life when operating with oil-free compressed air, the outer shell, which is displaced eccentrically relative to the rotor, is rotatably guided in a housing and is driven along by the friction between the vanes and the outer shell, and the cylindrical outer shell is rotatably mounted in the housing by at least one air bearing and to this end is accommodated with little radial clearance in an approximately circular-cylindrical guide bore of the housing. In order to further reduce wear, at least one air pocket is provided and is open toward the outer shell in the housing.

Abstract: An outlet valve for rotary rolling piston compressor, the piston being assembled within a cylinder block having an attached end wall provided with gas discharge passage whose outlet end defines an annular valve seat placed in an oblong recess area circumscribing the valve seat within which a valve blade is located, the area between the bottom wall with the circumscribing side wall of the oblong recess and/or with the peripheral wall of the valve seat being curved to reduce the turbulence of gas leaving the outlet of the discharge passage.

Abstract: A pneumatic tool has a one-piece metal tube forming an air motor cylinder and an associated air inlet plenum. Air passages are formed between an inner housing, molded in situ about the motor cylinder tube, and an outer housing separately molded. The inner and outer housings are both formed from a non-metal composite material which contributes to operator comfort by its light weight, thermal insulation, vibration damping, and noise suppressing properties. The tool may be assembled to provide forward exhaust, rearward exhaust, or combined forward and rearward exhaust.

Abstract: A portable gas operated rotary tool is provided for milling a surface on the end of a cylindrical workpiece. The tool has a motor powered by a pressurized gas, such as compresseed air. The motor directly drives a rotary milling head which is axially aligned with the axis of rotation of the motor. The motor has a stator chamber which houses a rotor having radial slots. Vanes are journaled within said slots for radial movement within the slot and define progressively expanding cavities. The milling head has a central bore for mounting on an arbor of the motor. The milling head includes blades for milling a frustoconical surface on the workpiece and a non-locking pilot tube to align the tool with the longitudinal axis of the workpiece. An air motor design is also disclosed that provides very high rotary speeds using standard air system pressure, very high horsepower, a low polar amount of inertia and low torque.

Abstract: A sealing plug has a stem portion inserted into an inlet of the compressor and contacted with a valve body of a check valve for forcing the check valve from closed position to maintain the check valve at open position. The sealing plug is also provided with a seal body for establishing a fluid tight seal at the sealing position. The seal body can be shifted from the sealing position to gas discharge position with maintaining the stem portion contacting the valve body of the check valve to keep the latter open. At the gas discharge position, the sealing plug permits the pressurized gas in the compressor to be discharged for lowering the internal gas pressure.

Abstract: A fluid powered mechanism has a housing with a generally cylindrical shape and circumferentially adjacent axially extending primary and secondary fluid passageways. Exhaust direction and rotary limit speed are controlled by a flow reversing and regulating ring having a first face with a thru slot and an adjacent blocking flange and a second face having a turning flange which is the reverse of the blocking flange of the first face. The flow reversing and regulating ring is color coded to indicate the size of the fluid flow passageways and, thus, the limit speed provided by the ring. The rotational limit speed and the exhaust direction are determined by selection of the color-coded flow reversing and regulating ring and by its orientation in the tool.

Abstract: A rotor assembly for a vane motor has a cylindrical rotor body having front and rear shafts extending axially from the front and rear rotor faces, respectively. The rotor is rotatably supported in front and rear bearings and has radial slots extending axially along the rotor body. Radially slidable vanes are provided in each radial slot, and a rear end plate is fixed to the rear face of the rotor body so as to rotate with the rotor and to completely close the slots on the rear face of the rotor. A spacer is provided at the front face of the rotor body to provide clearance for a front end plate which radially circumscribes the front spacer so as to close the radial slots at the front face while still permitting relative rotation between the spacer and the front end plate. The spacer may be integrally formed with the shaft or may be of a separate piece fitting to the shaft.

Abstract: A discharge valve assembly, comprising a reed valve and an overlying valve retainer, is cantilever mounted on the axially outer surfaces of cast iron main and outboard bearings of a rotary vane compressor. Each valve assembly includes a round mounting end having an off-center hole extending through the valve and retainer, and an opposite end associated with opening and closing a discharge port extending through the bearing. The mounting end fits within a counterbore on the outer bearing surface and is retained therein by means of a rivet or the like through the off-center hole. The valve assembly is prevented from rotating about the rivet by the sidewall of the counterbore to maintain proper orientation of the valve and retainer so that they precisely cover the discharge port.

Abstract: A rotor unit comprises an inner rotor and an outer rotor having different number of teeth, with the inner and the outer rotor being mounted on eccentric shafts to be driven for rotation at different speeds. The volume efficiency is improved by producing a clearance between the external surface of the outer rotor and the inner surface of the housing so that the clearance changes from the axial center to either end so that the magnitude of the clearance is reduced during a high speed rotation when a centrifugal force is effective. Projections are formed on the opposite ends of the outer rotor to reduce the volume of a waste space which is defined between the inner and the outer rotor.

Abstract: A rotary screw compressor with a lift valve comprising a valve member having two rigidly connected cylindrical sections of different diameter. The valve member is displaceably mounted in a valve housing extending through the high pressure end wall of the compressor. The valve housing sealingly surrounds each of the cylindrical sections. The section of the smaller diameter and the corresponding part of the valve housing face the working space of the machine. The lift valve is mounted such that the direction of motion of the valve member is inclined relative to the axial direction of the compressor.

Abstract: A delivery valve having a cylindrical sleeve in which are provided valve slots that extend in a circumferential direction and in front of which are disposed cylindrically bent valve reeds. The sleeve can be placed in axis-parallel bores in the housing of a rotary piston compressor for gaseous medium. Provided in the sleeve and in the walls of the housing bore are pockets to allow gaseous medium to flow about the valve reeds when they are in an opening position.

Abstract: A multistage vacuum pump with a case with at least two pump chambers in the case, and with at least one passage connecting the pump chambers together. To detect fouling in the especially sensitive connecting passages in a simple manner, it is proposed to configure the passages as part of bores leading to the outside, which can be closed with a plug.

Abstract: A sliding-vane rotary compressor cylinder having a row of discharge holes arranged in an axial direction of the cylinder, and a corresponding number of discharge valves normally closing the respective discharge holes. The opening of two endmost discharge valves is limited by a first valve-opening limiting device to a first value. The opening of the remaining discharge valves is limited by a second valve-opening limiting device to a predetermined value which is larger than the first value. With this construction, the a rotor rotatably received in the cylinder is stably held in position against axial displacement or oscillation.

Abstract: A sliding-vane rotary compressor includes a cylinder having a plurality of discharge holes aligned in an axial direction of the cylinder, and a corresponding number of discharge valves normally closing the respective discharge holes. Respective openings of the discharge valves are limited in such a manner as to increase progressively in a direction from a front side to a rear side of the cylinder to thereby produce a pressure difference between the front and rear sides of the cylinder. With this pressure difference, the cylinder is normally urged toward one side and hence is unlikely to oscillate in the axial direction. The compressor thus constructed is capable of operating silently without generating an unpleasant oscillating noise.

Abstract: A method for producing selectively controlled pressure pulses in a mass of gas, particularly contained in a space of large dimensions. To achieve a sufficiently high power in the pulses, the pulses are generated by a valveless displacement machine in which the pressure when the machine opens towards its outlet port differs from the pressure of the mass of gas. The pulse is generated as the working fluid, due to said pressure difference, flows at high velocity through the outlet port. An acoustic power of the generated pulses of up to 20 kW can be attained by the method. The invention also concerns a rotary displacement machine for performing the method.

Abstract: A portable gas operated rotary tool is provided for milling a surface on the end of a cylindrical workpiece. The tool has a motor powered by a pressurized gas, such as compressed air. The motor directly drives a rotary milling head which is axially aligned with the axis of rotation of the motor. The motor has a stator chamber which houses a rotor having radial slots. Vanes are journaled within said slots for radial movement within the slot and define progressively expanding cavities. The milling head has a central bore for mounting on an arbor of the motor. The milling head includes blades for milling a frustoconical surface on the workpiece and a non-locking pilot tube to align the tool with the longitudinal axis of the workpiece. A novel air motor design is also disclosed that provides very high rotary speeds using standard air system pressure, very high horsepower, a low polar moment of inertia and a low torque.

Abstract: A Roots-type blower or supercharger (11) is provided of the type including a pair of meshed, lobed rotors (21) and (23) which are press-fit onto a pair of shafts (25) and (27), respectively. Each of the rotors includes a first bore portion (65), and a second bore portion (69), while the shaft defines a first shaft portion (67), press-fit into the first bore portion, and a second shaft portion (71), press-fit into the second bore portion. The shaft defines a close-clearance land (63), disposed forwardly of the first shaft portion. Disposed between the close-clearance land and the first shaft portion is an entrapment groove (75) which is sized so that it can contain all of the material sheared from the surface of the first bore portion (65) during the press-fit operation.

Abstract: A closed type rotary compressor comprises: a closed housing, a driving electric motor housed in the housing and having a rotor rotating together with a rotary shaft, an upper bearing wall and a lower bearing wall housed in the housing for supporting the respective ends of the rotary shaft, a cylinder fixed between the upper and lower bearing walls and having a compression chamber therein, a rolling piston arranged in the compression chamber and eccentrically rotating together with the rotary shaft, and a rotating member arranged between the rotor and the upper bearing wall and rotating together with the rotor, wherein the cylinder is provided with an intake passage for feeding a refrigerant gas into the compression chamber, and a valve chamber for discharging the refrigerant gas through a discharge valve, the valve communicating a discharge passage formed in the upper bearing wall, and wherein the rotor is provided with a wider portion for covering an opening of the passage in the upper bearing wall and a nar

Abstract: In reversible compressed air rotary motors for compressed air tools, particularly for wrenches, it is known to discharge the waste air radially from the casing of the motor, which results in a considerable nuisance, in particular as regards noise. Furthermore, due to the close positioning of the compressed air inlet and air outlet, poor efficiency is achieved. To avoid those drawbacks in a rotary sliding vane motor having an elliptical working chamber, the rotor end over on the inlet side is rotatably mounted, and air outlet means is arranged axially and lies in both the clockwise as well as in the antic-clockwise direction or rotation of the rotor relative to the major semi-axis of the elliptical working chamber. Thus by rotating the end cover to one or other of its limit positions, the outlet means communicate with different pairs of passageways.

Abstract: In a sliding-vane rotary compressor, one of the opposite open ends of a cylinder is closed by a first head, the other open end being closed by a side block to which is secured a second head so as to define jointly with the side block a low pressure chamber and a high pressure chamber. With this construction, one side block can be omitted and hence the number of structural components is reduced. Preferably, a displacement adjustment mechanism is incorporated in the side block and the second head for adjusting the displacement of the compressor.

Abstract: A rotating piston compressor includes a cylinder having inlet and outlet openings formed therein, a piston rotating in a given direction in the cylinder, a shaft supporting the piston and rotating in the given direction, a casing connected to the cylinder and having slits formed therein, a control device for controlling flow through the inlet and outlet openings in the form of a rotary slide disposed outside the cylinder in the casing, the rotary slide being connected to the shaft for a steady, synchronized rotational movement, and the relative position of the rotary slide and the casing being adjustable.

Abstract: This invention relates to a lubrication system for a gear assembly in a sealed housing coupled to an air motor. The lubrication system includes a screw pump powered by the air motor to move lubricated fluid completely through the critical parts in the sealed housing.

Abstract: A pump, particularly, for pasteous masses, includes a rotatable outer wheel provided with a plurality of inner teeth, a pinion rotatable inside the outer wheel eccentrically thereto and having a plurality of outer teeth, the outer wheel and the pinion forming an intermediate space therebetween, a pressure seqment located in the intermediate space between the outer wheel and the pinion, an inlet and an outlet which are offset relative one another in direction of rotation, and a filling device connected with the inlet, the filling device including a filling container and a feeding element arranged in the filling container and having a feeding direction so as to feed a mass toward the inlet.

Abstract: A rotary compressor for use with refrigerating apparatuses such as freezing refrigerators, freezers, showcases for household or commercial use incorporates a mechanism in a compressor unit. When a space to be freezed is freezed in a on-off operation mode, the mechanism prevents a large amount of high temperature refrigerant gas in a closed casing of the compressor from being discharged to an evaporator during the suspension of the operation of the compressor.

Abstract: An outer envelope trochoidal device is provided. The device includes a rotor shaft and rotor assembly, the rotor assembly having a peripheral surface that defines a trochoidal curve and includes a first and a second rotor half. Each rotor half has a trochoidal profile surface and an inner circular surface. The rotor shaft includes secured thereto a cylindrical sleeve that includes a radial flange to which at least one of the rotor halves is secured. The rotor halves are secured to each other by counterbolt means extending laterally through the rotor halves. One rotor half can include a tapped hole in the outer peripheral surface of the rotor and a channel extending from the end of the tapped hole to the sleeve on the rotor shaft. A chamber is defined by a portion of the sleeve and a portion of the rotor half pinned to the sleeve, the chamber being in fluid communication with the channel.

Abstract: An improved torque control mechanism for a rotary vane, air motor tool includes acceleration and speed responsive slidable elements positioned in grooves that lie in a plane transverse to the spin axis of the motor and which form an angle with the radii extending from the spin axis. The elements cooperate with a cam plate which operates a fluid supply valve to close off air supply to the tool whenever torque of the tool causes the speed of the motor to decrease below a threshold level. A bypass valve and passage is manually operable to initiate operation of the air motor. An auxiliary low volume, low pressure valve and passage permits an operator to provide minor adjustments of the orientation of the output shaft of the tool. For reverse operation, the speed and acceleration control is eliminated by operation of a reverse operation control mechanism.

Abstract: A fluid motor having a gerotor gear set includes a first member having internal teeth and a second member having external teeth. The second member is rotatably and orbitally mounted within the first member. The teeth of the first and second members cooperate to define a plurality of variable volume working chambers. Some of said working chambers expand and other of said working chambers contract upon relative rotatable and orbital movement between said first and second members. A plurality of electrically controlled valves are provided, each working chamber having an associated valve. Each valve selectively communicates, in one condition, its associated working chamber with an inlet passage, which is, in turn, connected to a source or pressurized fluid, or, in a second condition, its associated working chamber to an outlet passage, which is, in turn, connected to a reservoir. Each of the valves is responsive to a respective electrical control signal for placing the valve in the first or second condition.

Abstract: A cylinder has at least one valve seating surface-forming portion which has an outer surface formed therein with at least one recess, the bottom surface of which serves as a valve seating surface. A discharge valve is arranged on the outer surface of the valve seating surface-forming portion to close or open outlet holes formed in respective ones of the valve seating surface at locations where the wall thickness of the cylinder is the minimum. The discharge valve has at least one elastic valve body having an arcuate cross section and disposed in tight contact with a corresponding one of the valve seating surface. The valve seating surface is arcuately concavely cured with almost the same radius of curvature as that of the valve body of the discharge valve.

Abstract: Rotary pump comprising a housing having a bore and a first adjacent lateral side wall having at least one inlet slit and a second adjacent lateral side wall having at least one outlet slit of at least equal size to said inlet slit for flow of medium axially therethrough, said slits in said lateral side walls defining the path of flow for said medium from said inlet axially directly into said bore and then from said bore axially directly to said outlet slit, a rotor mounted in the bore for rotation about an axis generally parallel to and eccentric to the bore axis, a plurality of vanes pivotally mounted on the periphery of the rotor having free ends in sliding sealing contact with said bore, each vane having lateral surfaces having an inner edge facing the rotor and an outer edge facing the bore which edges on rotation of the rotor pass over an inner boundary edge of the inlet and outlet slits facing the bore of the housing, said inlet slit and outlet slit, curving along an arc around the rotational axis of ro

Abstract: A scroll compressor having a fixed scroll member and an orbiting scroll member. The fixed scroll member has an end plate and a wrap attached to the end plate in an involute curve and, similarly, the orbiting scroll member has an end plate and a wrap attached to the end plate thereof in a juxtaposed relation with the fixed scroll member so that the wraps of the two scroll members are fitted closely together. A check valve is provided so that an exhaust opening of the end plate is always opened when the compressor is in its operation and closed only when the operation is stopped.

Abstract: A vane pump having a plurality of working chambers each of whose volume changes from a minimum to a maximum value and back again during one revolution, and wherein intake and delivery ports open axially into the working cells and are formed with cross sections adapted for fluid conveyance without internal compression. Such compression is achieved by a valve plate which forms a non-return and is formed with a resilient tongue valve which, commencing from the starting end of the delivery port controls, upon proper pump operation, about two-thirds of the cross section of the mouth of the delivery port.

Abstract: A shaft seal assembly for a compressor in which the compressor includes a drive shaft adapted to be connected with the crank shaft of an combustion engine, comprising: an annular seal lip made of rubber and an annular seal ring made of fluoropolymer. The annular seal lip and seal ring are disposed in an axial direction which is substantially parallel with the axis of rotation of the drive shaft in such a manner that the escape of lubricating oil and refrigerant around the drive shaft is prevented.