Shaft Axis Intersected By Axes Of Working Members Patents (Class 92/72)
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Patent number: 7313998Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor-pump unit for slip-controlled vehicle brake systems, including an accommodating member for hydraulically active elements comprising at least one working piston, which is arranged and guided in the accommodating member so as to be movable in a translational manner, and projects with an end into a crank space 6 for a rotationally movable driving element which is encompassed by a bearing having a bearing ring with an essentially bowl-shaped bottom, and extends over a frontal end of the driving element, and wherein the bottom is movable with an outside surface to rest against a crank space bottom. To improve friction and wear conditions, the crank space bottom includes an axial bearing element for the bottom which, starting from the accommodating member, projects in the direction of the bottom and has a contact surface with an area smaller than the area of the outside surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2003Date of Patent: January 1, 2008Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventor: Dieter Dinkel
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Patent number: 7308849Abstract: A high-pressure pump has at least one pump element including a pump piston defining a work chamber and driven at least indirectly by a drive shaft in a reciprocating motion, counter to the force of a restoring spring. The pump piston is braced on the drive shaft at least indirectly via a sleevelike tappet, and the restoring spring engages at least the pump piston. A support element in the tappet braces the pump piston toward the drive shaft and is braced at least indirectly on the drive shaft. The restoring spring, via a spring plate, engages the pump piston and the tappet. The spring plate is elastically deformable in the direction of motion of the pump piston in such a way that as a result of its elastic deformation, deviations in the position of its contact faces on the pump piston and on the tappet are compensated for.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2004Date of Patent: December 18, 2007Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Alfons Schoetz, Walter Fuchs, Gerhard Meier, Jochen Aleker, Andreas Dutt
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Patent number: 7293495Abstract: The invention relates to a motor-pump unit for a motor vehicle brake system, comprising a motor and a pump which is provided with a shaft that is driven by said motor, with the shaft end being rotatably mounted by means of at least one bearing in an accommodating member having valves and connecting channels, said shaft driving displacement means which are disposed in a chamber that can be filled with pressure fluid. In order to improve vacuum filling of the brake system with pressure fluid, the invention discloses that the shaft end terminates into a free space, and that at least one connection is provided between the free space and the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2003Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventors: Dieter Dinkel, Thomas Bartsch, Sven Martin, Rüdiger Briesewitz, Axel Niescher
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Patent number: 7278348Abstract: A high-pressure pump having a drive shaft and at least one pump element including a pump piston driven in a reciprocating motion by the drive shaft. A ring on which the pump piston is braced via a support element is rotatably supported on a portion of the drive shaft that is disposed eccentrically to its pivot axis. The ring and/or the support element, at least in their contact region, has many microscopic indentations, and a solid lubricant film is applied to the ring and/or to the support element, at least in their contact region.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2003Date of Patent: October 9, 2007Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Thomas Kleinbeck, Andreas Vogt, Alexander Redlich, Markus Koch
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Patent number: 7273003Abstract: A plunger pump, includes: a plunger pump unit including a pump chamber and a plunger for pressing a hydraulic fluid in the pump chamber to perform a discharging operation of the hydraulic fluid; a motor; and a cam portion driven by the motor to rotate and press the plunger. The cam portion has at least two discharge regions for pressing the plunger and a suction region formed between the discharge region. The plunger performs the discharging operation two times or more by one rotation of the cam portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2004Date of Patent: September 25, 2007Assignee: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Yamashita, Tomohide Tanaka, Atsushi Shimizu, Naotoshi Tamai, Motoyasu Nakamura
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Patent number: 7273004Abstract: The radial piston or reciprocating engine (1) has annularly juxtaposed, radially directed piston-cylinder units (2, 3). The outward stroke of the pistons (2) is controlled by the cam (11) of a common eccentric shaft (12), whereas the inward stroke thereof is controlled by a control ring (16), which engages in a lateral recess (17) of each piston (2) running in the direction of a secant and adapted to a cross-sectional shape of the control ring (16). The recess (17) is then bounded by a base wall of the piston (2) with which the control ring (16) is in controlling sliding contact via an inner control face (20). The pistons (2) are hollow and carry on their face the diaphragm of a diaphragm valve. Thus, the reciprocating engine (1) has a particularly compact construction and can be highly loaded, so that it is particularly suitable as a compressor of a CO2 vehicle air conditioning system.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2004Date of Patent: September 25, 2007Assignees: Luk Fahrzeug-Hydraulik GmbH & Co. KG, Visteon Global Technologies, Inc., Obrist Engineering GmbHInventor: Peter Kuhn
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Patent number: 7270047Abstract: In a fuel injection pump, a tappet is provided on an end thereof on a side of a cam ring with a hollow. Force acting on the tappet from a plunger due to fuel pressure is dispersed to a sliding contact surface outside the hollow so that contact face pressure between the tappet and the cam ring is smaller. As the fuel pressure becomes higher, larger resilient deformation of the tappet causes a diameter of the hollow smaller so that the tappet comes in flat slidable contact with the cam ring, resulting in preventing the contact portion between the tappet and the cam ring from being seized with frictional heat.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2005Date of Patent: September 18, 2007Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Katsunori Furuta
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Patent number: 7267042Abstract: Hydraulic motor with propulsion members (10) positioned between a cam (3) associated with a shaft (2) and a reaction element (1b), said propulsion members (10) consisting of two elements (11,12), i.e. an internal element (12) and external element (11), telescopically slidable with respect to each other in a radial direction and respectively provided with annular bearing edges (11a,12a) kept pressed against corresponding contact surfaces (3a, 1a) of said cam (3) and said reaction element (1b) via respective resilient means (16), the resilient means associated with the external element (11) of the propulsion member being arranged outside the said element, characterized in that the resilient means (16) associated with the internal element (12) are arranged inside the propulsion member (10) and positioned in the radial direction between said internal element (12) and associated means (52,55) for mechanically retaining them.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2005Date of Patent: September 11, 2007Assignee: Parker Calzoni S.R.L.Inventor: Loris De Leonardis
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Patent number: 7249556Abstract: A compressor is disclosed generally comprising a cylinder head mounted to a cylinder block having a cooling chamber and a piston channel via a bolt. A piston is disposed in the piston channel and has a contact portion that contacts the channel wall, which is integrally formed with the cylinder block, as it slides within the channel. The bolt and the cooling chamber each extend from at least as high as the highest contact point between the contact portion of the piston and the channel wall to at least as low as the lowest contact point between the contact portion of the piston and the channel wall. In certain embodiments, the cooling chamber is located between the bolt and the piston channel. In some embodiments, a crankcase is integrally formed with the cylinder block.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2004Date of Patent: July 31, 2007Assignee: Haldex Brake CorporationInventors: Robert L. Koelzer, Michael R. Jenkins, Mark D. Schaake, Andrew W. Adams
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Patent number: 7243595Abstract: The invention concerns a piston compressor with a piston, which is connected with a crank pin of a drive shaft via a connecting rod having a longitudinal channel. It is endeavored to make the manufacturing of a piston compressor cost effective. For this purpose, it is ensured that the shaft of the connecting rod is made as a sheet metal pipe.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2004Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Assignee: Danfoss Compressors GmbHInventors: Christian Petersen, Heinz Otto Lassen, Marten Nommensen, Frank Holm Iversen
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Patent number: 7225721Abstract: The motor comprises a cam and a cylinder block mounted to rotate one relative to the other. The cam comprises a plurality of cam lobes and the cylinder block has a plurality of cylinders slidably receiving pistons that are suitable for co-operating with the cam. The motor further comprises a fluid distributor that includes distribution ducts suitable for being connected to a feed or to a discharge and disposed in register with the rising ramp and with the falling ramp of the cam lobes. The motor is a substantially constant-velocity motor. In any relative position of the cylinder block and of the cam, there is at least one cam lobe that is unused and with which no piston co-operates, and the angular spacings between consecutive cylinders are mutually different and differ from a multiple of the smallest angular spacing between consecutive cylinders, the angular spacings being determined so that the resultant of the forces exerted by the pistons on the cam is small or substantially zero.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2005Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Assignee: Poclain Hydraulics IndustrieInventor: Gilles Lemaire
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Patent number: 7185579Abstract: A hydraulic motor having radial pistons, and comprising a cam, a cylinder block and a distributor. The cylinders of the cylinder block are connected to communication orifices (32A) situated in a communication face of the cylinder block, while the distributor has a distribution face in which distribution orifices (21A, 23A) are provided that are suitable for communicating with the communication orifices for rotating the motor. The cam is provided with a plurality of lobes (50, 50?), each of which has two ramps (51, 52), each ramp corresponding to a distribution orifice (21A, 23A). The edge of each of at least certain communication orifices (32A) has at least one notch (54A, 54B) suitable for establishing a small section of communication with a distribution orifice. The invention applies in particular to hydraulic motors having radial pistons for which the ratio between the number of cylinders and the number of cam lobes is in the vicinity of 1.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2002Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Assignee: Poclain Hydraulics IndustrieInventors: Bernard Allart, Louis Bigo
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Patent number: 7152518Abstract: An improved wear resisting structure of a fuel injection pump is provided. The fuel injection pump has a plunger reciprocating to pressurize fuel within a compression chamber and a cam mechanism installed on a torque input shaft. The cam mechanism revolves following rotation of a torque input shaft to move the plunger. Washers are installed fixedly within washer chambers formed in an inner wall of the housing. The washers work as bearing surfaces which are in contact with and holds the cam mechanism from moving in an axial direction thereof, thereby avoiding excessive wear of portions of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2002Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Jun Kondo
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Patent number: 7108491Abstract: A piston (6) of a piston pump unit (2), which can be displaced in a translatory manner, is guided in a cylinder bore (7). The piston (6) is driven by a crank drive (13) comprising an eccentric element (15) which is arranged on a drive shaft (14). A stroke ring (12) is rotationally mounted on the eccentric element (15) but does not rotate therewith. A sliding surface (10) of the piston (6) is arranged on a sliding bearing surface (11) on the stroke ring (12). A discharge chamber (22) is embodied inside the piston (6) on an end opposite the stroke ring (12). Said discharge chamber is open towards the sliding bearing surface (11). The discharge chamber (22) is connected in a pressure-wise manner to a working chamber (8) by means of a passage (23) in the piston (6). A displaceable control piston (25) is guided in a longitudinal bore (24) pertaining to said passage (23).Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2003Date of Patent: September 19, 2006Assignee: Ganser-Hydromag AGInventor: Marco Ganser
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Patent number: 7083395Abstract: Under one aspect of the present invention, a liquefied gas pump assembly is coupleable to a source of liquefied gas. A cooling assembly is positioned generally adjacent to a pump module. The cooling assembly has a converging pump-head-receiving aperture, a fluid inlet line and a fluid outlet line in fluid communication with the source of liquefied gas and in fluid communication with the pump-head-receiving aperture. A pump head assembly is removably retained in the pump-head-receiving aperture so that a portion of the cooling assembly is between the pump head assembly and the pump module. The pump head assembly has a converging shape and being sized to engage the cooling assembly in a wedged configuration when the pump assembly is in an installed position in the cooling assembly. The pump head assembly has a fluid inlet pathway abutting in sealable engagement with the fluid inlet line of the cooling assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2002Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Inventors: Romaine Maiefski, Jon Guy
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Patent number: 7040872Abstract: Pistons (41) are slidably received in a plurality of cylinders (39) disposed radially in a rotor (31), and a plurality of vanes (42) cooperating with the pistons (41) are disposed radially in the rotor (31), so that a vane chamber (54) is defined between a pair of the adjacent vanes (42). The radial movements of each of the pistons (41) and each of the vanes (42) are substantially stopped, so that the volumes of each of the cylinders (39) and each of the vane chambers (54) are not changed, for a period from the end of an exhaust stroke at which a gas-phase working medium is discharged from the cylinder (39) and the vane chamber (54) to the start of an intake stroke at which the supplying of the gas-phase working medium is started. Thus, it is possible to prevent the generation of a water hammer phenomenon due to a liquid-phase working medium confined in the cylinder (39) and the vane chamber (54).Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2001Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsuneo Endoh, Haruhiko Komatsu, Ryuji Sano, Kensuke Honma, Yasunari Kimura, Tsutomu Takahashi, Yuichiro Tajima, Hiroshi Ichikawa
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Patent number: 7024980Abstract: A high-pressure fuel pump of a simple construction is capable of distributing the position of contact between a tappet and a cam so as to improve durability of the tappet without causing seizure of a piston. A cylinder is arranged in a housing, and the piston is received in the cylinder for sliding reciprocation so that fuel is sucked into the cylinder and pressurized by the piston. The tappet is arranged inside one end of the housing for reciprocation, and contacts the cam, which rotates with a camshaft of an engine, so as transmit a driving force of the engine to the piston. A sleeve is arranged between the tappet and the housing, and clearance fitted to an outer peripheral surface of the tappet and an inner peripheral surface of the housing. The tappet is caused to rotate on its own axis by a frictional force generated between the cam and the tappet.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2003Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: Mitshbishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takuya Uryu, Yoshihiko Onishi
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Patent number: 6991438Abstract: In a piston pump for providing high-pressure fuel in a common-rail fuel injection system including a camshaft (2), which is mounted rotatably in a pump housing (1) and which has at least one eccentric cam 93) for operating a pump piston (4, 14) in an approximately radial direction with respect to the camshaft (2), in order to reduce the wear of the piston pump, a piston-rod element (6, 16, 26, 36, 46) is arranged between each pump piston (4, 14) and the eccentric cam (3) so as to transmit the stroke movement (5) and the force from the eccentric cam of the camshaft (2) to the pump piston (4, 14) by a rolling movement.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2003Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Gerd Blessing, Swen Fleisch, Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, Manfred Müller, Claus Stenger, Bernd Wiemann
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Patent number: 6978713Abstract: A hydraulic motor having radial pistons, and comprising a cam, a distributor, and a cylinder block whose cylinders are connected to communication orifices situated in a communication face of the cylinder block. The distributor has a distribution face in which distribution orifices open out that are suitable for communicating with the communication orifices while the cylinder block and the distributor are turning relative to each other. The cam is provided with a plurality of lobes, each of which has two ramps (50), each of which has a convex portion (51) and a concave portion (52). The edge of each distribution orifice has a leading portion (B1) via which communication between the distribution orifice and the communication orifices opens, and a trailing portion (B2) via which said communication closes.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2002Date of Patent: December 27, 2005Assignee: Poclain Hydraulics IndustrieInventors: Bernard Allart, Louis Bigo
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Patent number: 6951165Abstract: A fuel pump for an internal combustion engine, comprising a housing (14) in which a piston (16) is guided. A working chamber is confined in areas by the piston (16). An eccentric shaft or camshaft acts on the piston (16) on its end furthest from the working chamber. A prestressing element (30) loads the piston (16) against the eccentric shaft or camshaft. In order to reduce the fabrication costs of the fuel pump, the invention provides that a support member (40) that is separate from the piston (16) is provided, which said support member is interconnected with the end region (36) of the piston (16) closest to the eccentric shaft or camshaft, and against which the prestressing element (30) bears.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2002Date of Patent: October 4, 2005Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Uwe Kuhn, Markus Nieslony, Rolf Pojar
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Patent number: 6910407Abstract: In a fuel injection pump, a tappet is provided on an end thereof on a side of a cam ring with a hollow. Force acting on the tappet from a plunger due to fuel pressure is dispersed to a sliding contact surface outside the hollow so that contact face pressure between the tappet and the cam ring is smaller. As the fuel pressure becomes higher, larger resilient deformation of the tappet causes a diameter of the hollow smaller so that the tappet comes in flat slidable contact with the cam ring, resulting in preventing the contact portion between the tappet and the cam ring from being seized with frictional heat.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2002Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Katsunori Furuta
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Patent number: 6901844Abstract: A radial piston pump in which the sliding shoe has a central region that engages the driven end of the piston and an outer region or rim surrounding the driven end of the piston and projecting into the pumping chamber bore a distance such that for all positions of the piston relative to the drive member, at least a portion of the outer region of the shoe remains within the pumping chamber bore. In another aspect, the invention is directed to a sliding shoe for a radial piston pump, wherein the shoe has a concave bottom side, a socket portion projecting centrally on the top side, and a plurality of guide arms projecting upwardly on the top side and spaced laterally from the socket portion. Preferably, the projecting rim is in the form of guide arms that are spaced apart to form a castellated, substantially annular rim around the socket portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2002Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignee: Stanadyne CorporationInventor: Ilija Djordjevic
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Patent number: 6895855Abstract: Engineered surface treatments are applied to different types of hydraulic motors and pumps to improve the life of the contacting surfaces in said motors and pumps. The engineered surface treatments are selected from texture modifications and tribiological coatings and selectively applied to one or both of the contacting surfaces to reduce friction and improve fatigue life under poor lubrication operating conditions.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2002Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: The Timken CompanyInventor: Gary L. Doll
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Patent number: 6862974Abstract: In a rotary fluid machine for converting the reciprocal movement of pistons and the rotational movement of a rotor from one into another by the engagement of rollers and annular grooves with each other, a value in a positive peak region of a pressure load of pistons received by the rollers engaged in the annular grooves and a value of a positive peak region of a centrifugal force load received by the rollers are set, so that they are substantially equal to each other, and phases of the two peak regions are deviated from each other. In addition, the phase negative peak region of a vane pushing-down load received by the rollers and the phase of the positive peak region of the pressure load of the pistons received by the rollers are established, so that they are overlapped at least partially on each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2001Date of Patent: March 8, 2005Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsuneo Endoh, Haruhiko Komatsu, Ryuji Sano, Kensuke Honma
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Patent number: 6863502Abstract: The invention provides a variable speed hydraulic pump designed to operate at a maximum horsepower throughout its pressure range by adjusting motor speed according to motor load parameters. In particular, the variable speed hydraulic pump includes a hydraulic pump unit coupled to a variable speed electric motor by a drive unit and to a hydraulic fluid tank for pressurizing and pumping hydraulic fluid when operated by the motor. A motor controller is electrically connected to the motor to supply drive signals to the motor based on electrical characteristics of the drive signals which are dependent on the load exerted on the motor. Suction from the load is provided by both the main pump and a bidirectional supercharging pump by reversing the direction of the motor and shifting a 4/3 valve to connect the main pump inlet to the load and its outlet to tank.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2001Date of Patent: March 8, 2005Assignee: Actuant CorporationInventors: Michael B. Bishop, Roger R. Pili, Bruce E. Knuth, Moe K. Barani, Ron Flanary, Laurentius A. G. Mentink, George R. Steber, Martin Piedl
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Patent number: 6846163Abstract: In a rotary fluid machine including pistons (37) reciprocally received in cylinders (33) provided in a rotor (27), and vanes (44) fitted in vane grooves provided in the rotor (27) for reciprocal movement, the rotor (27) includes a rotor core (31) which is supported on a rotary shaft (21) and in which the cylinders (33) are accommodated, and twelve rotor segments (32) separated in a circumferential direction and fixed to surround an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core (31); and each of the vane grooves (43) is defined between the adjacent rotor segments (32). Thus, the dimensional accuracy of the vane grooves (43) can be enhanced without need for a special accurate working or processing.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2001Date of Patent: January 25, 2005Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tsutomu Takahashi, Kensuke Honma, Naoki Itoh, Tsuneo Endoh
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Patent number: 6840151Abstract: A push-push type fluid pressure actuated motor has one or more radial opposed cylinder sets each having a pair of pistons, a connecting rod, and a Scotch-yoke connection to a crankshaft. An intake rotor valve at one face of the cylinder block and an exhaust rotor valve at an opposite face of the cylinder block are mounted on and rotate with the crankshaft. The rotor valves admit pressurized fluid to the cylinder and allow discharge of spent fluid from the cylinders.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2003Date of Patent: January 11, 2005Assignee: PowerVerde, LLCInventors: Fred B. Barker, George Konrad
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Patent number: 6837141Abstract: The present invention comprises an input drive system, which provides a plurality of phases of oscillating fluid flow, and an output drive system connected directly to the input drive system that is powered by the plurality of phases of oscillating fluid flow. The input drive system comprises a plurality of pistons that are caused to move in a reciprocating fashion by a power source. The power source may be a rotating power source, such as that provided by an electric motor, a diesel or petrol engine, or a turbine system. The input drive system comprises a cam ring attached to a rotating power source, a plurality of cam rollers in contact with the cam ring; and a plurality of pistons attached to the cam rings. The output drive system comprises one or more pistons that are attached to move in a reciprocating fashion by the oscillating fluid flow provided by the input drive system.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2003Date of Patent: January 4, 2005Assignee: Borealis Technical LimitedInventor: Jonathan Sidney Edelson
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Patent number: 6834575Abstract: The invention refers to a piston assembly for a radial piston hydraulic motor. The essence of the solution lies in that a longitudinal axis (12) of a roller (11) substantially coincides with an axis through centre of gravity of a piston body (2). The roller is placed in a bed (10) of a bearing bush (6) which is located inside the piston (1) in a manner that the edges thereof slip through grooves (14) in the lower inner portion of the piston (1). The roller (1) being inserted this way is afterwards rotated in a certain angle, together with the bearing bush (6), thus, preventing the roller (11) from falling out of the piston (1).Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2002Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Inventor: Jurij Manfreda
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Patent number: 6827000Abstract: In a fuel injection pump, axial ends of first and second plungers driven by a drive shaft via a cam and a cam ring are in slidable contact with first and second sliding surfaces of the cam ring. The first and second sliding surfaces are positioned on opposite sides of the drive shaft and non-parallel. When the first plunger is in compression stroke, a wedge shaped gap whose angle is &agr; is formed between the axial end of the second plunger and the second sliding surface. Accordingly, when the second plunger is in the compression stroke, sliding contact portions of the axial end of the second plunger and the second sliding surface are well lubricated by fuel entered the gap, resulting in preventing frictional seizure thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2002Date of Patent: December 7, 2004Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Koichi Nagai, Jun Kondo
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Patent number: 6799954Abstract: A tappet turning prevention structure for a fuel supply apparatus includes a piston defining a fuel pressurizing chamber within the housing. A tappet disposed at one end of the piston has accommodated in it a roller driven by a cam of an engine and a roller supporting pin for transmitting a force from the cam to the piston. The tappet is housed by a bracket which has one or two grooves in an inner surface of it for supporting the roller supporting pin at one or both ends. The number of parts can be decreased because the turning prevention pin for the tappet and the roller supporting pin is a single common pin, and therefore the need of controlling of the press-fit loads is eliminated because no process for thrusting the tappet turning prevention pin into the outer circumference of the tappet is involved.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2002Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuya Ikegami, Takuya Uryu
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Publication number: 20040187677Abstract: An eccentric-driven piston pump for a vehicle controlled braking system has a pump drive apparatus including a stub shaft having an eccentric journalled in a pump housing for self-supported rotation about a stub shaft axis by a first and a second rotating bearing disposed on opposite axial sides of the eccentric. The stub-shaft is operatively connected to the rotating drive shaft of a motor, and the eccentric is connected for imparting reciprocating motion to the pistons. A pair of thrust bearings including a counterweight for balancing the pump drive apparatus, are disposed on the stub shaft adjacent the eccentric at opposite axial ends thereof between the eccentric and first and second rotating bearings. The motor includes a spherical bearing for alignment of a motor drive shaft with the stub shaft, and a bushing for loosely supporting the drive shaft prior to attaching the drive shaft to the stub shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2003Publication date: September 30, 2004Applicant: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Jamshid Moradmand, David F. Reuter, E. Wayne Lloyd, Darrell M. Bybee
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Patent number: 6769351Abstract: In an eccentric bearing arrangement for a pump shaft (2) comprising an eccentric ring (4) that is fixedly attached thereto, and further comprising a needle roller bearing that is arranged on an outer peripheral surface of the eccentric ring, a stop washer (12) is retained in a circumferential groove (13) of the needle roller bushing (9) and is surrounded radially by the adjoining flange (11) of the needle roller bushing (9), and the stop washer (12) comprises an axially inward open annular groove (15) in which the cage (6) is guided.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2002Date of Patent: August 3, 2004Assignee: INA-Schaeffler KGInventors: Johannes Lang, Stefan Willared, Klaus Scharinger
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Patent number: 6764285Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic pump unit having a plurality of pump elements, disposed in one plane, each of which has one pump cylinder and one pump piston longitudinally displaceable in the pump cylinder, and whose longitudinal axes intersect at a common intersection point, and having a cam drive with cams, which upon a rotation of the cam drive relative to the pump elements act upon the pump pistons with an actuating motion. To enable a uniform pumping of the hydraulic fluid and to make a high degree of smoothness of the hydraulic pump unit possible, it is proposed that the number and the angular spacing of the cams is adapted to the number and angular spacing of the pump elements in such a way that when a certain number of pump pistons are located at top dead center, the same number of pump pistons are at bottom dead center.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2002Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Andreas Kellner
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Patent number: 6745667Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor-pump aggregate with a motor and a piston pump , more particularly for electronically controlled brake systems of motor vehicles, wherein pistons of the pump are drivable by way of an eccentric that is connected to a shaft of the motor and are connected by means of a coupling ring, and wherein the motor has a holding plate. According to the present invention, a projection is provided on the holding plate and extends until into the range of motion of the coupling ring. This provides a stop for the coupling ring, on the one hand, and an improved outlet for leakage fluid of the pump, on the other hand.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2002Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co., oHGInventors: Dieter Dinkel, Rüdiger Briesewitz, Peter Volz, Hans-Dieter Reinartz
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Publication number: 20040089147Abstract: The invention relates to a dry-running piston compressor, in particular for rail vehicles. Said compressor comprises a crankcase (3) for a crankshaft (15) that is rotatably mounted in said crankcase, the latter being provided with at least one pot-type cylinder (4a-4c) comprising a corresponding internal piston (12a, 12e). According to the invention, the crankshaft (15) is connected to one end of a connecting rod (14a, 14c) by means of a connecting rod hearing (16), which forms the first hearing point, in order to convert the rotational displacement into a linear displacement for the piston (12a, 12c) that is mounted at the other end of the connecting rod (14a, 14c) by means of a piston pin bearing (17), which forms the second bearing point. At least one lubricating nipple (18a, 18c) is mounted on the exterior of each connecting rod (14a, 14c) for relubricating the bearing point(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2003Publication date: May 13, 2004Inventors: Klaus-Michael Schneider, Michael Hartl
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Patent number: 6732631Abstract: A needle bearing for use in a pump has an inner race, embodied as an eccentric sleeve, needles, and an outer race with rims oriented radially inward on both of its face ends, of which one rim is intended to secure the axial position of the needles and the outer race by engagement with the inner race, in that a rim fits over one end face of the inner race. In the pump unit, the needle bearing is disposed with an axial gap from a roller bearing on a shaft of a drive motor. The rim of the outer race engages this gap.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2002Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Harold Bitzer, Joerg Eigenmann, Wilhelm Braun, Alexander Bareiss
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Patent number: 6722864Abstract: In a fuel injection pump, fuel pressurized by a feed pump is supplied to an accommodation chamber via a communication path having an orifice. An end of the communication chamber on a side of the accommodation chamber is positioned to face an axial end of a minute space between sliding contact portions of a cam and a bush when the cam is at a given angular position. The fuel fed from the feed pump is injected from the end of the communication path axially deep into the minute space between the sliding contact portions so that oil film for lubrication is formed on the sliding contact portions, resulting in suppressing frictional seizure of the sliding contact portions.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2002Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Masashi Suzuki, Akihiro Kuroda
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Patent number: 6705840Abstract: A dual tandem pump apparatus having a pair of coaxially arranged pump shafts and a separate input shaft that is not coaxial with the pump shafts. Charge pumps may be mounted on end caps secured to the housing or may be driven directly by the input shaft. A coupler or bevel gear arrangement is used inside the pump housing to drive the pump shafts from the input shaft.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2002Date of Patent: March 16, 2004Assignee: Hydro-Gear Limited PartnershipInventors: Raymond M. Hauser, Lonnie E. Holder
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Publication number: 20040020358Abstract: The invention relates to a pump unit (10) for a hydraulic vehicle brake system with traction control. The pump unit (10) has an electric motor (12) and a radial piston pump (14), which can be driven by the electric motor (12). The invention proposes embodying a rotor shaft (18) of the pump unit (10) with a hollow shaft (20) and with two standardized, hardened cylindrical pins (22, 24) that are press-fitted into the ends of the hollow shaft (20). The invention has the advantage that the rotor shaft (18) can be produced simply, economically, and without metal-cutting machining. Because of its embodiment as a hollow shaft (20), the rotor shaft (18) has high bending and torsional strength. Because of the press-fitted pins (22, 24), the rotor shaft (18) has a small diameter at the bearing points, which makes a small bearing diameter and thus a small installation space for the pump unit (10) possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2003Publication date: February 5, 2004Inventors: Heinz Siegel, Norbert Alaze, Dieter Merklein, Michael Schlitzkus, Harol Bitzer, Joerg Eigenmann, Andreas Weh, Alexander Bareiss
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Patent number: 6655927Abstract: The radial piston pump possesses a pump housing in which a plurality of cylinder bores are provided having pump pistons placed therein which can be driven by a cam. Further, an arrangement is provided in each pump piston (3) wherein the inlet or the outlet, or both the inlet as well as the outlet of the fluid in each cylinder bore, is controlled.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2002Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Assignee: ZF Batavia LLCInventors: Michael Herrmann, Wolfgang Rapp
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Patent number: 6652244Abstract: A radial piston machine, e.g., a radial piston pump, in which an eccentric, rotatable on a stationary axle, drives multiple radially arranged pistons via an external sliding ring. Since a pump of this type operates with intake regulation, the delivery chambers are only partially filled above a middle speed range. Therefore, pressure surges, which cause noises, arise upon the impact of the piston on the oil volumes to be pushed out. These pressure surges may be reduced if a flexible circlip is positioned between the external sliding ring and the eccentric. Such a circlip allows the piston to deflect slightly together with the external sliding ring at the beginning of the pressure stroke, so that pressure peaks are suppressed and the noises are reduced. The flexibility of the circlip is increased using openings, which are positioned along the central axis, i.e., in the plane of the piston axle.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2002Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: ZF Lenksysteme GmbHInventors: Anton Ihring, Michael Reichenmiller
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Patent number: 6637313Abstract: A rotary pump consists of a cam ring, a rotor disposed within the cam ring, and a pump body enclosing the cam ring and the rotor. The cam ring includes a cam surface having a centre of symmetry. The rotor has a centre of rotation which coincides with the centre of symmetry of the cam surface, and includes a plurality of fluid chambers. Each fluid chamber comprises an aperture opening into a circumference of the rotor, and a pump element sealingly disposed within the aperture. As the rotor revolves, each element remains in contact with the cam surface and moves over a stroke length between a first position adjacent the radial innermost portion of the respective aperture and a second position adjacent the radial outermost portion of the respective aperture. The pump body includes a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet respectively for transferring fluid to and fluid from the fluid chambers as the rotor rotates.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2001Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Ker-Train Holdings Ltd.Inventor: John Hugh Kerr
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Patent number: 6619187Abstract: A radial piston pump has a support ring disposed on an eccentric longitudinal section of a pump shaft for rotation relative to the pump shaft. The support ring has at least three mutually offset flat support faces uniformly distributed about the circumference and adapted to contact piston shoes connected with pistons that extend radially from the pump shaft. The piston shoes engage from behind with radial flanges support rails disposed on the support ring. Spring-supported pressure rings prevent the piston shoes from rotating relative to the support ring. The pistons extend through guide bushing with an outside diameter that is greater than the diameter of the radial flanges and also greater than the outside diameter of the pressure rings.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2001Date of Patent: September 16, 2003Assignee: ATS Spartec Inc.Inventor: Kurt Plaga
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Publication number: 20030159578Abstract: What is disclosed is a radial piston machine having a plurality of radial pistons each guided in a respective cylinder space, wherein the cylinder spaces may be connected with supply and drain passages for pressure medium via control recesses. The opening cross-sections of the control recesses and of the supply and drain passages are provided with curved end face portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2003Publication date: August 28, 2003Inventors: Chris Shrive, Sinclair Cunningham
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Publication number: 20030110937Abstract: In an eccentric bearing arrangement for a pump shaft (2) comprising an eccentric ring (4) that is fixedly attached thereto, and further comprising a needle roller bearing that is arranged on an outer peripheral surface of the eccentric ring, a stop washer (12) is retained in a circumferential groove (13) of the needle roller bushing (9) and is surrounded radially by the adjoining flange (11) of the needle roller bushing (9), and said stop washer (12) comprises an axially inward open annular groove (15) in which the cage (6) is guided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2002Publication date: June 19, 2003Inventors: Johannes Lang, Stefan Willared, Klaus Scharinger
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Patent number: 6579073Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor-and-pump assembly including an electric motor and a piston pump, in particular for slip-controlled brake systems of automotive vehicles, wherein pistons of the pump are adapted to be driven by way of an eccentric, and the drive shaft of the electric motor and a support axle of the piston pump are separately designed, and wherein a three-ring bearing furnished with an eccentric intermediate ring is arranged on the support axle. According to the present invention, at least one counterbalance weight is provided in the proximity of the eccentric for the purpose of noise reduction and enhanced truth of running of the assembly.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2001Date of Patent: June 17, 2003Assignee: Continental Teves Ag & Co. OHGInventors: Jochen Burgdorf, Dieter Dinkel, Hans-Dieter Reinartz
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Patent number: 6544007Abstract: Described is a radial piston pump with a pump housing (3), which has a plurality of cylinder bores (5) arrayed in star shape around a cam (4), for the reception of pistons (6) and possesses inlet (7) and outlet (8) when penetrate to each cylinder inner chamber (9) with a therein compressible working volume. In accord with the invention, each cylinder inner chamber (9) is provided with at least one relief opening, which connects the working volumes during a compression stroke of the piston (6) with a space of lesser pressure for the reduction of the pressure gradient and also thereby reducing the noise of the pump.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2001Date of Patent: April 8, 2003Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Frank Gethöfer, Wolfgang Reuter, Ralf Zischka
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Publication number: 20020189438Abstract: In a fuel injection pump, a tappet is provided on an end thereof on a side of a cam ring with a hollow. Force acting on the tappet from a plunger due to fuel pressure is dispersed to a sliding contact surface outside the hollow so that contact face pressure between the tappet and the cam ring is smaller. As the fuel pressure becomes higher, larger resilient deformation of the tappet causes a diameter of the hollow smaller so that the tappet comes in flat slidable contact with the cam ring, resulting in preventing the contact portion between the tappet and the cam ring from being seized with frictional heat.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2002Publication date: December 19, 2002Inventor: Katsunori Furuta
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Publication number: 20020185002Abstract: The sliding ring (1) for a radial piston pump has an inner ring (2) and a coaxial outer ring (3) between which a spring/damping element (5) is arranged. The spring/damping element (5) is in one piece and comprises on both sides an annular rim bead (8). The rim beads rest at the side rim of the inner ring (2) against the latter's outer circumference and at the rim of the outer ring (3) against the latter's inner circumference. Provided between the rim beads (8) is a connecting structure (9) that is constituted, for example, by at least one further damping ring (10) that is connected via webs (11) to the rim beads (8). By way of a corresponding configuration of the spring/damping element (5), chambers (32) into which a liquid can be introduced can additionally be formed between the inner ring (2) and outer ring (3) so that the stiffness of the sliding ring (1) can be variably configured.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2002Publication date: December 12, 2002Inventor: Michael Herrmann