Grooved Working Member Surface Patents (Class 418/77)
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Patent number: 11415134Abstract: The invention prevents a decrease in strength of a screw rotor including a hollow portion and improves cooling performance.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuuji Itou, Tomoo Suzuki, Masayuki Kasahara, Hiroshi Horiuchi
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Patent number: 11225965Abstract: The invention reduces a pressure or thermal effect while reducing the mass of a screw rotor. There is provided a screw rotor having a helical tooth on an outer periphery, the helical tooth extending by a predetermined length in an axial direction, in which a radial cross section of the screw rotor includes a lobe portion having a predetermined thickness in a direction toward an axis and forming the helical tooth, and a hollow portion extending from an axial side inner surface of the lobe portion toward an axial side, and the predetermined thickness of the lobe portion differs between a high load side on the outer periphery of the screw rotor and a low load side on the outer periphery.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Horiuchi
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Patent number: 11199093Abstract: An arc turbine system includes an elliptical housing, a rotor having two sliding channels positioned centrically to the housing, and two sliding arcs disposed within the rotor sliding channels and slide therein. The sliding arcs are engaging the housing simultaneously at both ends in a near friction-free environment supported by repulsion force of like-pole magnets. Four chambers disposed within two static chambers between the rotor and the long-axis of said housing, the two static chambers further include proper inlet and outlet ports configured to allow fluid and gas flow into and flow out of the static chambers. The system configured in two distinct settings for two distinct uses.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2021Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Inventor: Jerry Iraj Yadegar
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Patent number: 9097254Abstract: A compressor is provided that eliminates sliding contacts between a cylinder and a roller to minimize mixing of lubricating oil into a refrigerant. The compressor includes a hermetic container that stores the lubricating oil at a lower portion thereof; a stator mounted within the hermetic container; a cylinder type rotor that rotates within the stator by a rotating electromagnetic field of the stator and defines a compression chamber therein; a roller that rotates and compresses the refrigerant by a rotational force transferred from the rotor; a rotational shaft integrally formed with the roller; a vane that divides the compression chamber into suction and compression regions and transfers the rotational force to the roller; and oil feed passages provided in the rotational shaft and the roller to feed the lubricating oil to areas where two or more members are slidingly engaged with one another within the compression chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2008Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Kangwook Lee, Jin-Ung Shin, Yongchol Kwon, Geun-Hyoung Lee
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Patent number: 9062550Abstract: A back pressure groove which is formed in a plate coming into contact with a side surface of a rotor and is communicated with a high pressure chamber is formed in such a manner as to copy an annular locus drawn by a base end of a vane which slides within a vane groove while coming into slidable contact with a cam surface of a cam ring, at a time when the rotor rotates one time.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: SHOWA CORPORATIONInventors: Toshio Nishikawa, Hiroyuki Ishihama, Naoya Taga
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Patent number: 9062677Abstract: A compressor is provided that includes a stator, a cylinder type rotor rotated within the stator by a rotating electromagnetic field of the stator and that defines a compression chamber inside, a roller that rotates within the compression chamber of the cylinder type rotor by a rotational force transferred from the rotor and compresses a refrigerant during rotation, a rotational shaft integrally formed with the roller and that protrudes from one side of the roller in an axial direction, a vane that divides the compression chamber into a suction region and a compression region, and transfers the rotational force from the cylinder type rotor to the roller, and a shaft cover and a cover joined to the cylinder type rotor in an axial direction that form the compression chamber in which the refrigerant is compressed. The shaft cover includes a suction port through which the refrigerant is sucked, and the cover receives the rotational shaft therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2008Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Kangwook Lee, Jin-Ung Shin, Yongchol Kwon, Geun-Hyoung Lee
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Patent number: 9028231Abstract: Described herein is a device comprising: a chamber wall comprising outer and inner surfaces, wherein the inner surface encloses a lobed chamber with a plurality of lobes and the inner surface comprises segments of arcuate surfaces, each of the segments of arcuate surfaces being tangent with its immediate neighboring segments, and wherein the chamber wall further comprises channels connecting the outer surface and the inner surface of the chamber wall and/or channels through an end surface of the chamber wall; a lobed piston configured to translate along a circular path relative to the chamber wall, the outer surface of the piston and the inner surface of the chamber wall engaged during translation; and holes fluidly connected to the lobed chamber and configured to allow fluid discharge from the lobed chamber through the holes and to prevent fluid flow into the lobed chamber through the holes.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Inventor: Yaode Yang
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Patent number: 8936450Abstract: A roots type fluid machine includes a case having a side wall, a pair of rotary shafts provided in the case, a pair of rotors engaged with each other and fixed to the pair of rotary shafts so as to extend axially, respectively, a suction space formed by the case and the pair of rotors for introducing fluid, a discharge space formed by the case for discharging fluid and the pair of rotors and a transfer chamber formed by the case and the rotor. The rotor has a rotor end surface. A clearance is formed between the side wall and the rotor end surface. The transfer chamber transfers gas introduced in the suction space to the discharge space in accordance with the rotation of the pair of rotors. The case has a guide groove formed in the side wall facing the rotor end surface. Gas leaked from the discharge space into the clearance is introduced to the transfer chamber through the guide groove.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2011Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota JidoshokkiInventors: Yuya Izawa, Shinya Yamamoto, Takashi Ban, Takayuki Imai, Katsumi Yamashita, Yasunaka Hanaoka
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Patent number: 8895134Abstract: A running-in coating for a compressor housing is disclosed. The running-in coating has at least two layers where a first layer is dimensionally stable and at least one additional layer has run-in capability.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2005Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbHInventors: Wilfried Smarsly, Renate Mendritzki, Horst Mueller-Wittek
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Patent number: 8016576Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle transmission with fluid pump having a recirculation circuit. The recirculation circuit is configured to direct fluid from an outlet of the pump to an inlet during pump cycling. A method of manufacturing a fluid pump for use in a vehicle transmission is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2008Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Bradley R. Heuver
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Patent number: 7997884Abstract: An oil pump has: a base part having a working chamber; and a rotor provided rotatably in the working chamber. The base part is configured by a plurality of split bodies. At least one of the plurality of split bodies is made of aluminum alloy, and on which an opposed sliding surface made of a ceramic film is formed. The ceramic film of the opposed sliding surface has a hardness of approximately Hv 500 to 1100 and a surface roughness of approximately 2 to 8 micrometers, and contains ?-alumina and zirconia.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2008Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignees: JTEKT Corporation, Nihon Parkerizing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiyuki Saito, Takumi Mio, Masahiro Suzuki, Tomoyoshi Konishi, Arata Suda, Mikito Toyoshima
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Patent number: 7766635Abstract: A rotary pump has a housing composed of two intersecting cylinder sections and pump rotors therein. The rotors roll off on one another and against the interior wall of the housing in a sealing manner and have two approximately club-shaped sections that are connected to each other at their narrower ends via a waisting. The club-shaped section of one rotor engages into the waisting of the other rotor. The rotors create in each phase of the rotation movement an evenly increasing intake volume in front of the inlet port and an evenly decreasing discharge volume in front of the outlet port, provision is made that, in order to improve the pumping performance and increase the stability under load, the surface lines, which function as sealing lines are designed sine shaped.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2007Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Herold & Co. GmbHInventor: Gerd Langer
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Patent number: 7726959Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, a gerotor apparatus includes an outer gerotor having an outer gerotor chamber, an inner gerotor, at least a portion of which is disposed within the outer gerotor chamber, and a synchronizing apparatus operable to control the rotation of the inner gerotor relative to the outer gerotor. The inner gerotor includes one or more entrance passages operable to communicate a lubricant into the outer gerotor chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2007Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: The Texas A&M UniversityInventors: Mark T. Holtzapple, George A. Rabroker
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Publication number: 20100116254Abstract: A gear compressor or supercharger for compressing compressible fluids such as air, having a pair of intermeshing helical lobed rotors. An aperture is provided on the bottom of the compressor, at a rear end thereof, which permits air from the rear interior of the compressor to be in communication with high pressure supply air which is discharged from such compressor proximate the front of such compressor, on the bottom underside portion thereof. The above modification improves the efficiency of the compressor, particularly at high revolutions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2009Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicants: 592301 Alberta Ltd., Acceleration Enterprises Ltd.Inventors: Jirka Kaplan, Les Davenport
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Publication number: 20100008809Abstract: A pumping unit having a pump chamber in which a rotor is mounted in a rotatable manner, and which is formed by a circumferential wall and two end walls, is already known. The circumferential wall is formed on an annular collar of a pump part and, on the inside, forms a track on which sealing bodies of a rotor roll. The track of the pump chamber is subjected to high compressive loading which, if the pump part is made of plastic, may result in the track rupturing. In the case of the pumping unit according to the invention, the pump part is improved in respect of strength and service life. Deformation of the pump part by hydraulic forces or by pressing-in forces is avoided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2007Publication date: January 14, 2010Inventors: Adam Wilhelm, Peter Weber, Johann Rothkopf, Mehmet Gueluem, Fevzi Yildirim, Thomas Wuensch, Reinhard Dittmann
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Patent number: 7628594Abstract: A vane pump includes a rotor chamber; a rotor eccentrically accommodated in the rotor chamber; a plurality of vanes attached to the rotor, each vane having a leading end adapted to make sliding contact with an inner peripheral surface of the rotor chamber. The vane pump includes working compartments surrounded by inner surfaces of the rotor chamber, an outer peripheral surface of the rotor, and the vanes; an inlet port through which a working fluid is drawn into a working compartment; and an outlet port through which the working fluid is discharged from a working compartment. An engaging portion is formed in a peripheral end portion of a thrust surface of the rotor and an engaged portion with which the engaging portion engages in a non-contact state is formed in an inner surface region of the rotor chamber facing the thrust surface of the rotor in a non-contact state.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2007Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.Inventors: Masaaki Nishikata, Tsuyoshi Kusakabe, Tsukasa Hojo, Ken Yamamoto, Masaki Nagano
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Patent number: 7513760Abstract: An oil pump of a scroll compressor is provided. The oil pump includes a pump body to which a drive shaft is inserted; a gear unit inserted to a lower side of the pump body and rotating by the rotation of the drive shaft; and a pump cover coupled to a lower side of the pump body and including an inlet through which oil is introduced, an outlet through which the introduced oil is discharged to the drive shalt, and one or more noise reducing portions reducing noise generated during a pumping process.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2006Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Seung Yup Kim, Myung Kyun Kim, Byeong Chul Lee
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Publication number: 20090068049Abstract: An oil pump has: a base part having a working chamber; and a rotor provided rotatably in the working chamber. The base part is configured by a plurality of split bodies. At least one of the plurality of split bodies is made of aluminum alloy, and on which an opposed sliding surface made of a ceramic film is formed. The ceramic film of the opposed sliding surface has a hardness of approximately Hv 500 to 1100 and a surface roughness of approximately 2 to 8 micrometers, and contains ?-alumina and zirconia.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2008Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicants: JTEK Corporation, Nihon Parkerizing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiyuki Saito, Takumi Mio, Masahiro Suzuki, Tomoyoshi Konishi, Arata Suda, Mikito Toyoshima
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Publication number: 20080219873Abstract: A vane pump includes a rotor chamber; a rotor eccentrically accommodated in the rotor chamber; a plurality of vanes attached to the rotor, each vane having a leading end adapted to make sliding contact with an inner peripheral surface of the rotor chamber. The vane pump includes working compartments surrounded by inner surfaces of the rotor chamber, an outer peripheral surface of the rotor, and the vanes; an inlet port through which a working fluid is drawn into a working compartment; and an outlet port through which the working fluid is discharged from a working compartment. An engaging portion is formed in a peripheral end portion of a thrust surface of the rotor and an engaged portion with which the engaging portion engages in a non-contact state is formed in an inner surface region of the rotor chamber facing the thrust surface of the rotor in a non-contact state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2007Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.Inventors: Masaaki Nishikata, Tsuyoshi Kusakabe, Tsukasa Hojo, Ken Yamamoto, Masaki Nagano
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Patent number: 7347678Abstract: A seal ring for improving the performance of a gear pump, primarily for vehicle transmissions, comprises the milling of a circular ring on at least one lateral face of an inner gear and an outer gear in a gear pump and inserting a friction reducing ring within the milled circular ring. The addition of this ring, especially on remanufactured gear pumps, will reduce the amount of transmission fluid leaking between the gears and the gear pump housing and also reduce the friction between the gears and the gear housing, thus providing more fluid to the transmission and also increasing the pressure while decreasing the amount of heat of the transmission fluid being circulated through the gear pump.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2004Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Inventors: Donald D. Deems, Anthony S. Jungels
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Patent number: 7300267Abstract: A roller cell pump having a shaped sliding surface composed of elliptical portions results from two different equations. The function of the unit is improved because the equations are modified and include adaptable parameters, so that by adaptation of the parameters, the shaped sliding surface can be adapted in portions optimally to the requisite function in that particular region of the shaped sliding surface, for instance the function of generating an underpressure or an overpressure. The course of the radii of the elliptical portions corresponds, at least in portions, to one of two equations that differ from the prior art.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2004Date of Patent: November 27, 2007Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Fevzi Yildirim, Mehmet Gueluem
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Patent number: 7241122Abstract: A positive-displacement pump, in particular for use in machines or dispensing fluids, including two elements that are with respect to one another and which mesh with one another (20, 30), each of them being rotatably mounted in the pump with centered coupling without interference with a corresponding centering body (18, 11a). At least one of the two above-mentioned ratable elements has a plurality of undercut regions (26, 34, 35)) at the location of the centering walls. The undercut regions (26, 34, 35) comprise a wall portion which is spaced with respect to the facing wall of the respective centering body.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2006Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: CPS Color Equipment S.p.A. Con Unica SocioInventors: Giorgio Manfredini, Uber Bortoli
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Patent number: 7048524Abstract: A positive-displacement pump, in particular for use in machines or dispensing fluids, including two elements that are with respect to one another and which mesh with one another (20, 30), each of them being rotatably mounted in the pump with centered coupling without interference with a corresponding centering body (18, 11a). At least one of the two above-mentioned ratable elements has a plurality of undercut regions (26, 34, 35) at the location of the centering walls. The undercut regions (26, 34, 35) comprise a wall portion which is spaced with respect to the facing wall of the respective centering body.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2003Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: CPS Color Equipment SpAInventors: Giorgio Manfredini, Uber Bortoli
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Patent number: 6824486Abstract: An oil film is formed between side faces of a pump gear and side faces of a pump casing to thereby reduce wear and reduce sliding resistance. To form the oil film predetermined numbers of recesses are provided in both side faces of a drive gear and in both side faces of a driven gear of the gear pump. The recesses serve to hold oil. The oil held in the recesses oozes out to between the opposing and contacting side faces to thereby form the oil films therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2002Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignees: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuhiro Maeno, Akira Matsuo, Yoshinori Shibayama, Osamu Takeuchi, Kazutoshio Nozaki, Toshiki Kanada
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Patent number: 6761547Abstract: Two-inner gears are overlapped with each other through a partition wall and are eccentrically arranged at an inner peripheral side of an outer gear, and eccentric directions of both the inner gears are shifted from each other by 180° to the opposite side. By this, loads in an outer diameter direction due to a rise in fuel pressure affect one outer gear from the two inner gears oppositely to each other by 180°, so that an eccentric load is not generated, and sliding resistance of the outer gear to a cylindrical casing becomes small. Further, the number of teeth of the outer gear is made odd, and the number of teeth of the inner gears is made even.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Masatoshi Takagi, Motoya Ito, Katsuhiko Kusagaya
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Patent number: 6695604Abstract: The present invention involves a gear assembly having a lifting feature for a fuel pump for supplying fuel to an automotive engine from a fuel tank. The gear assembly comprises an inner gear and an outer gear in mating relationship with the inner gear. The inner gear has a substantially disc shape with an outside camming surface and having an inner cover face and an inner body face. The inner gear has a center aperture formed therethrough defining an axis of rotation perpendicular to the inner cover and inner body faces. The inner cover face has a plurality of inner concave grooves radially formed thereon and spaced apart from each other to provide lifting of the inner gear when rotating about the axis. The outer gear has a substantially planar shape. The outer gear includes an annular wall having an inside camming surface slideably engaging about the outside camming surface to matingly cooperate with the inner gear for rotation about the axis.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2002Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.Inventor: DeQuan Yu
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Patent number: 6592349Abstract: A feedpump for discharging a string of a viscous medium containing solid particles. The feedpump includes a casing and two gearwheels drivable to execute an oppositely directed rotation and arranged in the casing so as in each case to form and maintain gaps relative to both walls of the casing and to one another. The gaps have a size adapted to the size of the particles in the viscous medium.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2002Date of Patent: July 15, 2003Assignee: Datron-Electronic GmbHInventors: Manfred Becker, Bernd Gerner, Hendrik Hovy, Erwin Sowa, Matthias Reck
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Patent number: 6544013Abstract: An oil pump apparatus includes an oil pump housing having a first suction port, a second suction port and a discharge port in the circumferential direction thereof. A shape of the end portion in the anti-rotational direction at the second suction port is formed to be along a shape of the end portion on the rotational direction side of one pump chamber which is sealed momentarily between the two suction ports, and a shape of the inner circumferential end portion of the first suction port is formed to be along the rotational trace of the end portion on the anti-rotational direction side of the pump chamber. A plural first pockets are formed on the driven rotor, and a second pocket is formed on the pump housing to communicate between the pump chamber and one of the first pockets when the pump chamber is communicated to the first suction port.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2001Date of Patent: April 8, 2003Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Kato, Hisashi Ono
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Patent number: 6485279Abstract: The area of the discharge end of a screw rotor acted on by the discharge pressure is reduced by locating a region of suction pressure acting on the discharge end of the rotor and separating the suction and discharge pressures by a labyrinth seal located between the discharge end of the rotor and the facing housing structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2000Date of Patent: November 26, 2002Assignee: Carrier CorporationInventors: Jianping Zhong, Joost J. Brasz, John J. Jacobs, Frederick L. Miller, Jr.
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Patent number: 6481992Abstract: A vane pump includes a cylindrical rotor rotatable inside of an oval-shaped rotor chamber defined by a cam ring around the rotor. A thrust plate and a pressure plate on opposite sides of the cam ring cover the rotor chamber and are squeezed together by a pressure force attributable to fluid in a discharge chamber of the vane pump at a discharge pressure thereof. A first thrust face of the thrust plate is pressed against an end wall of a cavity of a pump housing in which the components are installed. Fluid at the discharge pressure is ported to one or more balance chambers between the thrust plate and the end wall of the housing. The balance chambers are defined by a gasket received in a groove of the first thrust face.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2001Date of Patent: November 19, 2002Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Albert Cheuk-Yin Wong, Tom Cheuk-In Wong, Johnny M. Paris, Gary Ray Minnis
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Patent number: 6481990Abstract: A multi-vane hydraulic motor for accessory drive in which the vanes of a hydraulically balanced rotor are primarily urged into operative engagement with a surrounding cam by forces of the hydraulic fluid in undervane passage produced by an associated hydraulic pump to eliminate requirement for biasing springs and spring attachment of prior art motor. A high pressure chamber provided between the motor housing and a pressure plate mounted therein is hydraulically connected to the vane chambers of the rotor of the motor for the hydraulic drive thereof. An end cap closing the motor housing has the hydraulic input and output lines operatively connected thereto.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2001Date of Patent: November 19, 2002Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tom Cheuk-In Wong, Johnny M. Paris, Albert Cheuk-Yin Wong
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Patent number: 6425748Abstract: A positive displacement rotary pump including a housing having an internal chamber and inlet and discharge ports, a sealing land on the housing between a downstream end of the inlet port and an upstream end of the discharge port, and a rotating group in the internal chamber defining a plurality of pump chambers. The pump chambers traverse in succession and at regular intervals the inlet port and the sealing land and the discharge port. The housing has a stationary pre-charging passage which communicates with the discharge port and overlaps the sealing land. The rotating group includes a plurality of rotating pre-charging passages which communicate with respective ones of the pump chambers.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2001Date of Patent: July 30, 2002Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventor: John P. Miller
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Patent number: 6422845Abstract: The pump has a multi-vane rotor operating within a cam ring to pump oil to a component such as a power steering gear. The pump rotor sandwiched between stationary thrust and pressure plates is supplied with oil from a surrounding fluid chamber through aligned intake ports in the two plates. Fluid chambers formed between the reciprocating vanes of the rotor discharges oil into axially aligned discharge ports of the thrust and pressure plates. The discharge port of the thrust plate is hydraulically connected to the discharge port of the pressure plate . Pressure oil in the discharge port of the pressure plate feeds into a system pressure chamber outboard of the pressure plate. Oil in the system pressure chamber is fed back to a first side chamber of the rotor through at least one simple flow passage in the pressure plate. The first side chamber is formed between inner and outer lands on the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2000Date of Patent: July 23, 2002Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Albert Cheuk-Yin Wong, Tom Cheuk-In Wong, Johnny M. Paris
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Patent number: 6332764Abstract: A displacement type fluid machine for reducing a fluid loss of a discharge process as much as that of a scroll fluid machine has a displacer which is provided with at least one through hole for working the outer wall surface of said displacer during manufacture of said displacer, said at least one through hole extending in an axial direction of a rotating shaft.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2000Date of Patent: December 25, 2001Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hirokatsu Kohsokabe, Masahiro Takebayashi, Hiroaki Hata, Koichi Inaba, Isao Hayase, Kenji Tojo
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Patent number: 6312239Abstract: A screw-type compressor comprises a housing (12) in which a primary rotor (14) and a secondary rotor (16) are arranged each of which is provided with a shaft (18,24) and a screw rotor (20,26). The secondary rotor (16) is axially supported by the primary rotor (14). Only the primary rotor (14) comprises an axial bearing part (22) which is supported in an axial bearing part (66) of the housing (12). The omission of an axial bearing between the secondary rotor and the housing simplifies the support of the secondary rotor.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2000Date of Patent: November 6, 2001Assignee: KT Kirsten Technologie-Entwicklung GmbHInventor: Guenter Kirsten
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Patent number: 6312237Abstract: In a displacement type fluid machine wherein a space is formed by the inner wall surface of a cylinder and the outer wall surface of a displacer when the center of the cylinder is located on the center of the displacer, and a plurality of working chambers is formed when the positional relationship between the displacer and cylinder is for a gyration, the wear is reduced between the cylinder and displacer. Sliding portions between the displacer 5 and a cylinder 4 are fed with a lubricating oil 12 by forming an oil-feeding groove 5c in the surface of the displacer 5 so as to extend from the central portion of the displacer 5 to the vicinity of a suction port 7a, and feeding the lubricating oil 12 from the central portion of the displacer 5, so that the wear can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2001Date of Patent: November 6, 2001Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Kouno, Hirokatsu Kohsokabe, Masahiro Takebayashi, Shunichi Mitsuya, Shigetaro Tagawa, Yasuhiro Ohshima, Kingo Moriyama
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Publication number: 20010031213Abstract: A screw machine (10) has a rotor housing (12) defining overlapping bores (13, 15). Female rotor (14) is located in bore (13) and male rotor (16) is located in bore (15). The end faces (24, 26) of the female and male rotors, respectively, have depressions (44, 46, 54, 56, 64) formed in their surface whereby the interface area with the facing surface (51) of the outlet casing (53) is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2000Publication date: October 18, 2001Inventors: Xin Liu, Stephen Shoulders, Daedra Studniarz
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Publication number: 20010010800Abstract: A displacement type fluid machine has a sliding contact portion between a cylinder 4 and a displacer 5 made into a predetermined section, and the cylinder and the displacer so contoured that when they are made concentric, the normal distance in the sliding contact section between the cylinder contour and the displacer contour may be smaller than that of the remaining section, thereby to decrease the radial gap to lower the internal leakage of the working fluid and to improve the performance and the reliability.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2001Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: Hirokatsu Kohsokabe, Masahiro Takebayashi, Shunichi Mitsuya, Hiroaki Hata, Yasuhiro Ohshima, Kenji Tojo
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Publication number: 20010008610Abstract: In a displacement type fluid machine wherein a space is formed by the inner wall surface of a cylinder and the outer wall surface of a displacer when the center of the cylinder is located on the center of the displacer, and a plurality of working chambers is formed when the positional relationship between the displacer and cylinder is for a gyration, the wear is reduced between the cylinder and displacer. Sliding portions between the displacer 5 and a cylinder 4 are fed with a lubricating oil 12 by forming an oil-feeding groove 5c in the surface of the displacer 5 so as to extend from the central portion of the displacer 5 to the vicinity of a suction port 7a, and feeding the lubricating oil 12 from the central portion of the displacer 5, so that the wear can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Takeshi Kouno, Hirokatsu Kohsokabe, Masahiro Takebayashi, Shunichi Mitsuya, Shigetaro Tagawa, Yasuhiro Ohshima, Kingo Moriyama
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Patent number: 6257853Abstract: A pressure compensating manifold for a gerotor device having a manifold with bidirectional valving passages and a passage selectively connecting as least one of such bidirectional passages to a chamber behind the manifold so as to pressure equalize the gerotor structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2000Date of Patent: July 10, 2001Assignee: White Hydraulics, Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey Neil White
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Patent number: 6099279Abstract: An orbiting fluid machine has a feature that the speed of sliding movement is low, while vibrations are small, its performance is lowered when the rotational speed becomes high, and this problem is resolved by the following structure. A displacement fluid machine includes a displacer making an orbital motion within a casing into which a working fluid is drawn, thereby drawing and discharging the working fluid, in which an oil retaining mechanism or a seal mechanism is provided at each of opposite end surfaces of the displacer. This results that, axial gaps at the end surfaces of the displacer are effectively sealed so as to reduce a leakage loss, thereby achieving a high performance and a high reliability.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 1997Date of Patent: August 8, 2000Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hirokatsu Kohsokabe, Masahiro Takebayashi, Shunichi Mitsuya, Hiroaki Hata, Kenichi Oshima, Yasuhiro Oshima
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Patent number: 6086344Abstract: A lubrication path in a gerotor motor extending in the face of the rotor or an adjoining surface from a gerotor cell having relatively high pressure to the central cavity of the device to provide cooling and lubrication fluid thereto.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 1998Date of Patent: July 11, 2000Assignee: White Hydraulics, Inc.Inventor: Hollis N. White
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Patent number: 6086345Abstract: A gerotor motor of the type having an end cap (13), and a stationary valve plate (15) disposed adjacent a rearward surface of the gerotor gear set (17). Adjacent a forward surface of the gerotor star (27) is a balancing plate assembly (19) including a radially outer balance plate (73) and a radially inner balance plate (75), the balance plates defining inner (77) and outer (79) profiles, respectively, which are closely spaced apart and are radially inward from the gerotor volume chambers (29) to provide sufficient sealing land. The inner balance plate (75) is biased toward the star end surface (81) by a Belleville washer (87). The end surface (81) of the gerotor star (27) defines individual star tooth surfaces (97), each of which includes a radial fluid passage (99) receiving system pressure, and a fluid passage (101) oriented generally perpendicular to the radial passage, and having a decreasing flow volume in a direction away from the radial passage (99).Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 1999Date of Patent: July 11, 2000Assignee: Eaton CorporationInventors: Barun Acharya, Michael J. Gust
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Patent number: 6062836Abstract: A gear pump comprising two gearwheels moving in opposite senses, the gears whereof engage with one another and thus, separated from one another in a pressure-tight manner, form a delivery side and a suction side; a central plate wherein the gearwheels are accommodated; a front and rear covering plate, which seal the gear pump from the environment, and conventional means of connecting the plates with one another, of supporting the gearwheels, of driving at least one of the gearwheels and of supplying and removing the liquid being pumped, during the delivery of silver halide emulsions exhibits no silver deposits--which bring the pump to a halt--on its faces, if on each face of each gearwheel there is provided at least one indentation having a sharp rear edge viewed in the direction of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 1998Date of Patent: May 16, 2000Assignee: Agfa-Gavaert N.V.Inventors: Wilhelm Julicher, Gerald Gaumitz, Gert Huppertz
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Patent number: 5769617Abstract: A rotary sliding-vane compressor is described which contains a single rotor with compressor and expander sections, together with a reduced number of parts and efficiency improvements compared to conventional compressors.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1996Date of Patent: June 23, 1998Assignee: Refrigeration Development CompanyInventor: John Stewart Glen
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Patent number: 5495756Abstract: A cylindrical chamber (1) for an oscillating piston type of liquid counter comprises notably a biconcave fixed partition wall (9) and grooves on the lower and/or upper edges of the piston and, as the case may be, on the small cylinders of the chamber 1. The disclosure can be applied to the metering of liquid and, especially, to the metering of water.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1994Date of Patent: March 5, 1996Assignee: Socie/ te/ SappelInventors: Thierry Robitaille, Fre/ de/ ric Walch
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Patent number: 5374171Abstract: A rotary compressor including an orbiting piston is disposed within a cylinder bore. A crankshaft with an eccentric causes the piston to orbit within the cylinder block. Crescent shaped polymeric washers are interfit between the eccentric and cylinder bore endwalls to reduce friction and endplay therebetween. Curved or whorled grooves on the face of the washer reduce frictional contact area and at the same time increase lubricant flow. Compressor noise is reduced by the ability of the washers to act as resilient stops between the eccentric, crankshaft and cylinder endwalls.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 1994Date of Patent: December 20, 1994Assignee: Tecumseh Products CompanyInventor: Edward A. Cooksey
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Patent number: 5340284Abstract: A fuel pumping apparatus for supplying fuel to an internal combustion engine has a drive shaft which is coupled to a rotary part of a high pressure pump. A low pressure pump for supplying fuel to the high pressure pump has a rotor mounted about the drive shaft, a stator and side plates on opposite sides of the stator. The stator has an internal surface engaged by vanes carried by the rotor and one end plate has an arcuate outlet port which is connected to a transfer port formed in the side plate but inwardly of the outlet port. The transfer port is connected by passage means in the rotor with a fuel supply passage in the drive shaft.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 1993Date of Patent: August 23, 1994Assignee: Lucas Industries Public Limited CompanyInventor: Stuart W. Nicol
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Patent number: 5322427Abstract: A rotary blade air conditioner compressor is provided which includes a compressor housing having a cylindrical chamber. Chamber covers are mounted to respective ends of the cylindrical chamber. A reservoir is fluidly connected to an outlet and an inlet of the cylindrical chamber. A drive shaft is eccentrically mounted within the cylindrical chamber, with a rotor mounted on the drive shaft which is axially movable along the drive shaft. A plurality of radial slots are formed in the rotor which receive blade members that move radially in the slots to continuously contact the inner wall of the cylindrical chamber for expelling a mixture of gas and oil from the chamber. The gas and oil mixture comes from the reservoir and is supplied through a conduit to each end of the cylindrical chamber to axially displace the rotor with respect to the chamber covers.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1993Date of Patent: June 21, 1994Inventor: Won Hsin-Tau
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Patent number: 5316455Abstract: The same number of grooves 20 through 27 are provided in end surfaces 19a and 19b of a roller 19. The grooves 20 through 27 have communicating portions 20a through 27a which communicate with an inner peripheral side of the roller 19 and sealed portions 20b, 20c, 20d, 20e, 20f through 27b, 27c, 27d, 27e and 27f each of whose cross-sectional area decreases. Accordingly, the cross-sectional area is decreased in direction in which a lubricating oil flows, and a plurality of oil pressures can thus be obtained. This results in a fixed clearance of roller 19.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1993Date of Patent: May 31, 1994Assignee: Matsushita Refrigeration CompanyInventors: Takao Yoshimura, Ichiro Morita, Hideharu Ogahara