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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8118578 | Rotary pump with sliding crescentoid rotor bodies A rotary pump device includes a stator chamber with a cylindrical inner wall having intake and exhaust ports therein, and a two-part, expanding rotor eccentrically mounted for rotation within the chamber. The rotor comprises two crescentoid bodies with end surfaces ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 7364418 | Scroll fluid machine having an adjustment member with a deformable element A scroll fluid machine includes a stationary scroll having a spiral wrap formed on an end plate and a moving scroll having a spiral wrap formed on an end plate. A polymer actuator for adjusting the amount of space between the wrap and the end plate is disposed in a ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7347678 | Friction reducing seal ring for gear pump 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 m... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7326039 | Apparatus for varying capacity of scroll compressor The present invention discloses an apparatus for varying a capacity of a scroll compressor. The apparatus comprises: a pressure control mechanism for controlling a pressure applied to the back of a orbiting scroll orbiting engaged with a fixed scroll; and a sealing ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7318275 | Method of remanufacturing a compressor A compressor has a housing assembly and at least one rotor held by the housing assembly for rotation about a rotor axis. The rotor has a first face and a first housing element has a second face in facing spaced-apart relation to the first face of the rotor. One or m... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7303380 | Rotary engine with improved seal assembly Corner seal sockets (26) are formed at the end of apex seal slots (58) formed in a rotor (10). A twisted split washer spring (70) is positioned in each socket (26) between the base wall (28) of the socket (26) and the... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7293969 | Tip seal in a scroll fluid machine A scroll fluid machine comprises a stationary scroll having a stationary wrap and an orbiting scroll having an orbiting wrap. A tip seal is provided in a tip-seal groove at the ends of the stationary and orbiting wraps to allow the stationary wrap to engage with the... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7275919 | Rotary engine seal assembly Corner seal sockets (26) are formed at the end of apex seal slots (58) formed in a rotor (10). A twisted split washer spring (70) is positioned in each socket (26) between the base wall (28) of the socket (26) and the... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7264454 | Rotary combustion engine with an improved inner seal A rotary combustion engine includes a peripheral housing, a front housing plate, a rear housing plate, a piston, and an eccentric shaft, where the piston rotates to form three working spaces separated from each other by the tips of the piston. Shaft seals and piston... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7238011 | Scroll compressor A scroll compressor has a fixed scroll including a fixed spiral wall and a movable scroll including a movable spiral wall. Inner end portions of the fixed and movable spiral walls each have an arc-like shape. The inner end portion of the fixed spiral wall has smalle... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7234923 | Scroll fluid machine having a dust seal fitted within annular groove and having ends overlapped in the wider portion of the annular groove In a scroll fluid machine, an orbiting scroll engages with a stationary scroll to form a sealed chamber in which fluid can be compressed toward a center with revolution of the orbiting scroll with respect to the stationary scroll. An annular groove is formed near th... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7234924 | Rotary combustion engine with device for conveying lubricating oil A rotary combustion engine with one or more working units, which include a peripheral housing, a front housing plate, a rear housing plate on the output side, an eccentric shaft, and a piston, where the eccentric shaft includes an eccentric, and front and rear seali... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7195469 | Dust seal in a scroll fluid machine In a scroll fluid machine, a stationary scroll and an orbiting scroll are provided. On the stationary scroll opposing the orbiting scroll, an annular groove is formed. An O-ring, a flexible support ring and a sliding member are put in the annular groove. The support... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7134852 | Seal member for vortex compressor A vortex compressor includes a stationary vortex body and a rotatable vortex body located in the casing so as to define a compression chamber and an expelling chamber. Each of the stationary vortex body and the rotatable vortex body has a base board and a vortex por... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7086844 | Multi-stage scroll fluid machine having a set a seal elements between compression sections To provide a seal configuration which prevents leakage of high pressure compressed fluid from a succeeding stage compression section to a preceding stage compression section of a multistage compression type fluid machine, a seal element 25 is located on the r... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7024866 | Axial loaded seal system with a static L-seal A piston includes a circumferential groove having a dynamic split seal ring having a flat axially facing surface, a static seal ring having a flat axially facing surface abutting the flat surface of the dynamic seal ring, and a spring mounted within the groove. The ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7008201 | Gapless screw rotor device A screw rotor device has a housing with an inlet port and an outlet port, a male rotor with helical threads, and a female rotor with helical grooves. The helical threads and helical grooves are designed to eliminate the blow hole leak pathway for multiple-pitch scre... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7001162 | Compressor assembly A guided rotor compressor that contains at least three hollow rollers, each of which has a sheath surrounding a core. The coefficient of friction of the sheath and the core is from about 0.01 to about 0.15, but the coefficient of friction of the core is at least 1.2... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6783339 | Hydraulic motor with a separate spool valve A hydraulic motor (10) comprising a front housing (12) which includes a first port (14) and a second port (16), a drive assembly (18), a drive link (22), and a shaft (24). The front housing (12) and the drive a... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6695597 | Scroll fluid machine A scroll fluid machine has a stationary scroll and a revolving scroll, each of which has a spiral scroll wrap spiraling from the center side to the outer side. One of the scrolls has an annular outermost wrap having a radius larger than that at the outer ... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6619938 | Flexible vane pump A pump has a rotor with two or more flexible vanes forming one or more compartments between adjacent vanes. The rotor is mounted offset relative to a rotor sleeve such that the volume of the compartments varies as the rotor rotates in the sleeve. Incoming... | 09/16/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6474061 | Water pressure driven generator A fluid pressure driven generator which includes a generator housing and a rotor positioned within the generator housing. The rotor will have an internal offset gear which is engaged by a spur gear on a power shaft. A high fluid pressure inlet will be for... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6422846 | Low pressure unloader mechanism Two slide valves are located in the discharge end bearing case of a multi-rotor screw machine and independently coact with the sun rotor of the multi-rotor screw machine for controlling capacity and Vi. Movement of the slide valves is in a plan... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6241497 | Cooling system for a rotary vane pumping machine A rotor and stator cooling system for a rotary vane pumping machine having two end plates, a stator assembly, and a rotor. A rotor cooling gas supplied at a cooling gas supply channel in an end plate passes from a radial inner location, along a rotor face... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6183231 | Clean-in-place gear pump A gear pump having shafts mounted with rolling element bearings and having mechanical seals on the face of the gears provides improved "clean-in-place" ability. Preferably, washer-like seals are mounted on the face of the gears with a suitable adhesive an... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6142755 | Scroll compressor and method of manufacturing same An oil-free scroll compressor used for compression of air or the like, comprises an orbiting scroll having a spiral-shaped lap or laps formed on one or both sides of an end plate, and a stationary scroll having a lap or laps adapted to mate with the orbit... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6123529 | Scroll compressor A double scroll compressor including an orbiting scroll having spiral wraps formed on both sides of an end plate includes two stationary scrolls, each having a wrap formed thereon to mesh with the corresponding one of the spirals to form a compressing flo... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6099279 | Displacement fluid machine 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... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6074185 | Scroll compressor with improved tip seal A scroll wall tip seal of novel shape allows the scroll wall to be machined with a single, larger concave transition corner radius, where the flank of the scroll wall blends into the scroll base plate. The tip seal covers the entire surface area of the te... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6071102 | Floating seal for sealed star gerotor A steering control unit having a gerotor gear set (15) including a ring member (35) and a star member (37) which orbits and rotates within the ring. Adjacent the rearward surface (49) of the star (37) is and end cap (17). The invention provides an improve... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6071106 | Hydraulic vane machine Hydraulic vane machine with a rotor having several radially movable vanes, and with a stator having a stator bore, in which the rotor is arranged rotatably, and whose internal wall is made as a guiding contour on which the vanes bear, and with a sideplate... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6068459 | Tip seal for scroll-type vacuum pump A tip seal for use in a scroll-type vacuum pump includes a seal element and an energizer element affixed to the seal element. The scroll-type vacuum pump includes first and second scroll blades that are nested together to define one or more interblade poc... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6059550 | Twin-cylinder impeller pump A twin-cylinder impeller pump is disclosed. In the above pump, the twin-cylinder runner (3, 4) is provided with an elastic sealing means for removing any gap from the junction between the runner and the throat of a pump casing (10) with the runner being p... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6033194 | Scroll-type fluid displacement apparatus with anti-wear plate mechanism A scroll-type fluid displacement apparatus includes a pair of scroll members, each having a circular end plate and a spiral wrap element extending from an axial end surface of the circular end plate. An anti-wear plate member is disposed in the inner surf... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5823756 | Scroll fluid discharging apparatus In a scroll fluid discharging apparatus including a stationary scroll and a revolving scroll, each of the mutually engaging laps and of these scrolls and each has a first lap portion without a tip seal in contact with the mirror-finished opposed scroll su... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5759020 | Scroll compressor having tip seals and idler crank assemblies A scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll member and an orbiting scroll. The orbiting scroll member is operatively connected to a motor to be driven in an orbiting motion by the motor. The scroll members each include a plate having an inboard surface an... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5702241 | Scroll-type fluid displacement apparatus having sealing means for central portions of the wraps A scroll-type fluid displacement apparatus includes a first and a second scroll, each having an end plate and a spiral wrap extending from one side of the end plate. The spiral wraps interfit at an angular and radial offset to make a plurality of line con... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5632612 | Scroll compressor having a tip seal A scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll member and an orbiting scroll. The orbiting scroll member is operatively connected to a motor to be driven in an orbiting motion by the motor. The scroll members each include a plate having an inboard surface an... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5584678 | Scroll type fluid machine having tip seals of different carbon fiber composition rates A scroll type fluid machine has a pair of mutually engaged scrolls, one being made of an aluminum material, and the other being made hard. A wear amount of an engaging tip seal and end plate is reduced, and the growth of wear of both elements is equalized... | 12/17/1996 |
