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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7628594 | Vane pump having a labyrinth seal and gap between a top surface of a rotor and a ceiling surface of a rotor chamber that is formed between upper and lower cases 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 ... | 12/08/2009 |
| 6969242 | Compressor To counter downstream oil infiltration through a shaft seal, a small portion of the compressed fluid is diverted from downstream to upstream through a passageway in a rotor. The diverted fluid is introduced to a space at a downstream side of the seal. An exemplary i... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6913452 | Offset thread screw rotor device A screw rotor device has a housing with an inlet port and an outlet port, a male rotor, and a female rotor. The male rotor has a pair of helical threads with a phase-offset aspect, and the female rotor has a corresponding pair of helical grooves. The female rotor co... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6835055 | Rotary vane vacuum pump having a rotor axial seal and an axially bias rotor-drive shaft combination A vacuum pump of the rotary vane type, comprises a casing (50) having a cylindrical inner wall surface (52), a first (54; 54′) and a second (56; 56′) end wall at opposite sides of said casing defining a fluid cavity therein, fluid inl... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6659746 | Shaft seal structure of vacuum pumps A Roots pump rotates a plurality of rotors by a pair of rotary shafts to draw gas. Each rotary shaft extends through a rear housing member of the Roots pump. An annular shaft seal is fitted around each rotary shaft and is received in a recess formed in th... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6659747 | Shaft seal structure of vacuum pumps A Roots pump rotates a plurality of rotors by a pair of rotary shafts to draw gas. Each rotary shaft extends through a rear housing member of the Roots pump. An annular shaft seal is fitted around each rotary shaft and is received in a recess formed in th... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6599112 | Offset thread screw rotor device A screw rotor device has a housing with an inlet port and an outlet port, a male rotor, and a female rotor. The male rotor has a pair of helical threads with a phase-offset aspect, and the female rotor has a corresponding pair of helical grooves. The fema... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6537049 | Screw pump having a thermal shield A screw pump has two parallel shafts mounted in a pump body, each shaft thereon and each rotor has at least one helical vane or thread. When the helical vanes or threads inter mesh causing a fluid to be pumped from an inlet towards an outlet of the pump. ... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6485279 | Thrust load reliever 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 b... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6368089 | Orbiting blade rotary machine An orbiting blade rotary machine, especially for use in compressor and expansion motor units, includes a stator housing bounding an internal space that includes a substantially cylindrical internal chamber centered on a central axis. A power shaft extends... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6290480 | Screw machine 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). Either or both of the facing surface (51) of the outlet casing (53) or the end faces ... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6264448 | Open type compressor This compressor 1 is for compressing an introduced working gas to a predetermined pressure and exhausting by means of the rotation of a crank shaft 5 which is rotatively supported by a front case 4 of a housing 1A by a main bearing 6, and has a partition ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6193487 | Scroll-type fluid displacement device for vacuum pump application A scroll-type vacuum pump wherein an expander and a compressor are arranged in series, in two stages, in the same housing and driven by the same shaft. The first stage is a scroll-type expander. It is in series with a scroll-type compressor, which is the ... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6139290 | Method to seal a planetary rotor engine Methods of sealing a planetary rotor engine, and the resulting seals, are described which improve the engine's efficiency and solves each of three main problem areas. A first method and resulting dynamic seal for sealing the rotor face surfaces as they tr... | 10/31/2000 |
| 5797366 | Toroidal internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine comprises a toroidal combustion chamber housing within which slides at least one piston. The combustion chamber housing has a circumferential longitudinal slot sealed by a ring seal to which the pistons are rigidly attached. ... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5560741 | Non-contact vane-type fluid displacement machine with rotor and vane positioning A non-contact vane-type fluid-displacement machine includes a stator housing having an annular interior surface defining an interior bore and a rotor supported in an eccentric position in the interior bore of the stator housing relative to the annular int... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5549462 | Gear pump and its uses A gear pump comprises rotors disposed in roller bearings. For the delivery of very viscous polymer meltings, bearings surfaces of at least one of inner races, outer races of the bearings and bearing surfaces of roller elements are made of a steel with a h... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5462420 | Gear pump A gear pump comprising a housing for housing gear pump rotors in a housing interior, said housing having a housing end at an end face side of the housing through which at least one pump rotor shaft is guided from the housing interior to outside the housin... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5335640 | Rotor to casing seals for roots type superchargers An improved Roots type supercharger for use with high performance vehicle engines. The supercharger includes rotors within a casing having rotor lobes with raised apex lands that move in a sealing relationship to the casing inside wall and rotor ends that... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5255432 | Method for manufacturing a seal between machine parts The seal or pattern between two machine parts has on one of the sealing gap-forming, facing surfaces (5) a plastic layer (1) with closely juxtaposed depressions (8) which have the form of partly cut off voids of an expanded plastic structure. They are for... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5232355 | Scroll-type fluid apparatus having a labyrinth and oil seals surrounding a scroll shaft A scroll-type fluid apparatus includes a housing whose interior is divided by upper and lower partitioning walls into chambers one over another, i.e., a discharge chamber communicating with a discharge port, an inlet chamber communicating with an inlet po... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5222879 | Contact-less seal and method for making same A contact-less seal apparatus including a first surface and a closely adjacent second surface with a space defined therebetween. A high pressure fluid region exists on a first side of the space. A low pressure fluid region exists on a second side of the s... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5178529 | Seal formed of plastic layer having outwardly open depressions The seal or pattern between two machine parts has on one of the sealing gap-forming, facing surfaces (5) a plastic layer (1) with closely juxtaposed depressions (8) which have the form of partly cut off voids of an expanded plastic structure. They are for... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5083539 | Concentric rotary vane machine with elliptical gears controlling vane movement In the concentric rotary pressure fluid machine which can either be an engine, motor, pump or compressor, the four identical elliptical gears (54, 54, 100, 100) actuate the relative rotary motions of two identical and coaxial rotors (60, 60') characterize... | 01/28/1992 |
| 5035589 | Method and apparatus for reducing scroll compressor tip leakage Leakage in a scroll wrap compressor is reduced by providing a roughened scroll wrap tip surface at the gap between the tip and the cooperating base so as to increase the frictional resistance to flow of fluid through the gap and to cause turbulence within... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5032068 | Displacement type rotary system steam turbine engine The instant invention relates to a displacement-type rotary system steam-turbine engine that among other mainly functions as a displacing-type steam engine. Through the partial utilization of the kinetic energy generated by the impinging steam molecules u... | 07/16/1991 |
| 4990069 | Multi-stage roots vacuum pump with sealing module A multistage Roots-type vacuum pump comprising: a rotor defining a plurality of successive compression chambers (5) which are axially separated from one another by intermediate plates (1); a rotor assembly disposed inside the stator and constituted by tw... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4981424 | High pressure single screw compressors A single screw mechanism of the positive displacement rotary type such as a ompressor or expander for varying the pressure of a fluid. A stationary housing having a bore symmetry surrounds and is configured to cooperate in a substantially fluid-tight manne... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4943213 | Internal axis rotary piston machine with meshing engagement between outer and inner rotors An internal axis rotary piston machine containing in a housing (2), an outer rotor (26), with which an inner rotor (8) having n engagement parts (9) is in meshing engagement, there being n+1 recesses between engagement parts (34) of the outer rotor (26). ... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4818199 | Spiral displacement machine for compressible media with embossed sheet metal seal strip A displacement machine for compressible media, with at least one displacement chamber arranged in a stationary housing and rendered in the manner of a groove extending with a spiral shape, and with a band-shaped or tongue-shaped displacement body associat... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4516921 | End seals for a rotary machine An improved seal apparatus for a rotary machine including a rotary internal combustion engine. The machine generally comprises a rotor rotatably disposed in a circular working section in a hollow machine housing, a divider valve, and for an internal combu... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4417859 | Rotary displacement turbine engine with vacuum relief valve means An external combustion engine is disclosed of the type including two or more circular rotors rotatably supported, one of the rotors acting as a power rotor and rotating in tangential contact with the other sealing rotor. The power rotor is formed with a r... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4411605 | Involute and laminated tip seal of labyrinth type for use in a scroll machine An involute and tip seal for use in a positive fluid displacement apparatus of the scroll type. A scroll machine wrap element of general spiral configuration about an axis includes a radially inner and outer flank surface terminating in a tip. In the tip,... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4397620 | Rotary bladed compressor with sealing gaps at the rotary ends A rotary compressor including two rotary disc-shaped members having a diameter slightly smaller than that of a rotor each disposed on opposite ends of the rotor and supported on the same rotary shaft as the rotor for rotation, and two disc-shaped recesses... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4390331 | Positive displacement four lobe impeller structure A positive displacement four-lobe impeller structure for use as a fluid driving or a fluid driven member or pump or generator is presented. The terminology pump is used to describe said structure subsequently. The pump comprises a symmetrical cylindrical ... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4345886 | Rotary compressor with vanes in the housing and suction through the rotor A rotary compressor for compressing fluid. A housing having a cylindrical internal cavity is provided with vanes and delivery ports. A rotor is rotatably mounted in the housing. The rotor has a portion for making a sealing contact with the inner periphera... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4200084 | Rotary piston engine A disc is fixedly secured to a main shaft for rotation therewith between a cover member and a housing. The disc carries four piston lugs equally disposed about its periphery and which extend radially therefrom for rotary passage through an annular action ... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4059370 | Rotary engine having low thermal conductivity rotor A rotary engine having a high surface to volume ratio including a housing having intake and exhaust ports and defining a chamber, a shaft journalled in the housing to extend therethrough and having an eccentric within the chamber, and a rotor on the eccen... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4028021 | Rotary trochoidal compressor with compressible sealing A rotary trochoidal compressor comprising a rotor mounted for planetary motion within a housing and in which the peripheral surface of the compressor rotor is substantially a hypotrochoid and the peripheral inner surface of the housing is the outer envelo... | 06/07/1977 |
| 4012180 | Rotary compressor with labyrinth sealing A rotary trochoidal compressor comprising a rotor mounted for planetary motion within a housing and in which the periphery of the compressor rotor is substantially a hypotrochoid and the peripheral inner surface of the housing is the outer envelope of the... | 03/15/1977 |
