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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8167597 | Shaft bearings, compressor with same, and methods A bearing material composition that lines a support includes a combination of a thermoplastic conforming material and abrasive particles which provide a combined effect for remedying the effects due to edge loading that may be caused by misalignment between the bear... | 05/01/2012 |
| 7661939 | Drive shaft for a compressor A compressor drive shaft may include a first bearing portion, a second bearing portion, and an intermediate portion disposed therebetween. The intermediate portion may include a continuous, nonlinear, central axis in an unloaded state. ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7351046 | Shaft-hub connection A shaft-hub connection for transferring a torque between a shaft (1) and a hub (3) with the aid of at least one drive element (2). To enable a torque transfer which is practically resistant to wear, even under the effect of transversal forces, t... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7175402 | Eccentric coupling device in radial compliance scroll compressor An eccentric coupling device in a radial compliance scroll compressor includes a crank pin that is eccentrically arranged at an upper end of a crankshaft and provided with a vertically-extending flat surface at one side thereof. A bush is provided with a crank pin h... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7150609 | Eccentric coupling device in radial compliance scroll compressor An eccentric coupling device in a radial compliance scroll compressor including a crank pin eccentrically arranged at an upper end of a crankshaft included in the scroll compressor, and provided with a vertically-extending cut surface at one side thereof, a bush fit... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7150612 | Gear pump or motor A gear•rear shaft containing main body of a bottomed type is penetrated with a bearing hole and a rear face of the gear•rear shaft containing main body is coupled with a closing plate to form an airtight seal from an outside environment. Shafts extended from two... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7104771 | Eccentric bush structure in radial compliance scroll compressor An eccentric bush structure in a radial compliance scroll compressor including an eccentric bush fitted around a crank pin eccentrically provided at an upper end of a crankshaft, crank pin and stopper holes provided at the eccentric bush, and a weight member adapted... | 09/12/2006 |
| 6996905 | Method of making gear pump An improved high pressure intermeshing gear pump that achieves high efficiency and a low cost by forming the pumping cavity such that no fillets exist at the corners permitting closed fits without utilizing bearing end plates. In addition an improved coupling betwee... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6991442 | Gear pump and method of making same An improved high pressure intermeshing gear pump that achieves high efficiency and a low cost by forming the pumping cavity such that no fillets exist at the corners permitting closed fits without utilizing bearing end plates. In addition an improved coupling betwee... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6962489 | Moineau pumping device having a ball coupling A pumping device is provided which comprises a Moineau pump with a helical rotor inside a helical cavity of a stator, driver means, and a drive connecting rod coupled by a respective coupling to a driving shaft of the driver and to one end of the rotor. Each couplin... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6729862 | Rotary piston machine The invention relates to a rotary piston machine, comprising a housing (10) and a piston (12) which is situated in a hollow area of the housing (10) in such a way that it can rotate and which is rotationally fixed to a shaft (18) that pas... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6716011 | Hydraulic pump utilizing floating shafts A hydraulic pump assembly includes a pump housing having a chamber defined therein, wherein the chamber includes a pair of cylindrically shaped portions each defining at least one end wall. The hydraulic pump assembly also includes a pair of rotary pump elements dis... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6679692 | Oil pump A modular oil pump for use in combination with an internal combustion engine having a dry sump lubrication system. The device features a first gerotor pump having an intake port engageable in communication with at least one engine sump and having an disch... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6565341 | Geared feed pump for supplying fuel to a high pressure fuel pump A geared feed pump has a rotatably driven pair of meshed gears (16, 19) arranged in a pump chamber (14) of a housing (10, 12). The feed pump supplies fuel from a suction chamber (16) between the peripheries of the gears (16, 18) and the peripheral walls (... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6425749 | Coupling and fuel-supply pump with coupling The invention relates to a coupling for coupling two rotatable bodies, in particular a gear and a drive shaft, which are disposed essentially concentric to each other, with or without axial offset, having a coupling part. In order to reduce the structural... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6325604 | Plastic gear pump housing A gear pump comprising a plastic gear pump housing having an interior surface. Rotatably attached to the gear pump housing is a drive gear and an idler gear. The idler gear is cooperatively engaged to the drive gear such that rotation of the drive gear wi... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6244842 | Pump A hydraulic pump includes a pump mechanism having a driven shaft. The driven shaft is connected to an input shaft by a flexible coupling such as a splined connection. A housing extends completely around the driven shaft, and a high-pressure seal is dispos... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6155807 | Eccentric worm pump An eccentric worm pump has a tubular stator extending along a main axis and having an intake side and an output side, an eccentric worm fitting in the stator and centered on a rotor axis offset from the main axis, an intake housing forming an intake compa... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6149416 | Hydraulic machine A hydraulic machine is proposed, with a drive shaft rotating around a center axis, a drive wheel at a first end of the drive shaft, via which forces, which are characterized by a force component running largely vertical to the center axis, are led to the ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6059552 | Hydraulic vane machine Hydraulic vane machine with a stator having a stator bore with a guiding contour, a rotor arranged in the stator bore and having substantially radially movable vanes bearing on the guiding contour, and a shaft connected fixedly rotatable with the rotor vi... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5833445 | Rotary pump having a compensating coupling The rotary pump, which in particular is suitable for use in a continuously variable transmission, is provided with a pump housing and a rotor with a drive shaft. Movable displacement elements are accommodated in the grooves of the rotor. The rotor is surr... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5769618 | Uniaxial eccentric screw pump having a flexible plastic shaft This disclosure relates to a uniaxial eccentric screw pump. A boss 10a is integrally formed on one end (on the side of a pump casing 8) of the rotor 10, the screw pump 100, and one end of a flexible shaft 9 is inserted in the boss 10a and bonded together ... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5759019 | Progressive cavity pumps using composite materials The stator, rotor and/or flex shaft of a progressive cavity pump is made up of composite materials, e.g., fiberglass and resin, in a variety of combinations with and without bonded resilient elastomers. The composites are formulated to provide resiliency ... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5704774 | Pump with twin cylindrical impellers A pump which is easy to manufacture and which has a high efficiency and low vibration includes a pair of identical circular-shaped impellers which are respectively eccentrially and rotatably connected to respective parallel shafts so as to rotate opposite... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5688114 | Progressing cavity pumps with split extension tubes A progressing cavity pump comprises an inlet housing defining a chamber, an extension tube defining a tube interior communicating with the chamber, a stator defining an internal passageway communicating with the tube interior, a rotor positioned in the in... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5549160 | Downhole progressing cavity pump rotor valve An apparatus and method for plugging a tubing string of a fluid producing well below a sucker rod driven progressing cavity type pump uses a valve means inside of the tubing string below the pump, the valve means being actuatable by displacing the rotor o... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5549465 | Drive arrangement for progressing cavity pump A progressing cavity pump having a rotor with a longitudinal bore and including at least one helix is mounted eccentrically within a stator having at least two helices. In a first embodiment the rotor is driven by an eccentric drive shaft which shams a jo... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5549464 | Drive arrangement for progressing cavity pump A progressing cavity pump having a rotor with a longitudinal bore and including at least one helix is mounted eccentrically within a stator having at least two helices. In a first embodiment the rotor is driven by an eccentric drive shaft which shares a j... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5435705 | Driving apparatus for a wobble plate machine A drive apparatus for a wobble plate machine includes a transport chamber having at least two side walls. A wobble plate is disposed in the transport chamber and abuts at least one of the side walls to form a seal and to divide the transport chamber into ... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5407334 | Scroll type compressor having a convex surface on the sub frame bushing A scroll type compressor having a main frame, a sub frame and a crankshaft rotatably mounted in the main frame and the sub frame via a main frame bushing and a sub frame bushing, further includes a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll cooperable with the f... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5312229 | Scroll type compressor having curved bearing surfaces A scroll type compressor comprising: a crankshaft having an eccentric shaft portion formed thereon; an orbiting scroll which is given torque by the crankshaft through the eccentric shaft portion; and bearing means for rotatably supporting the crankshaft; ... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5295813 | Scroll-compressor having flat driving surfaces A scroll machine has a drive that incorporates radial compliance. The radial compliance is achieved by having the crank pin drive a drive bushing via a flat surface on the crank pin which slidably engages a flat bearing insert disposed in the wall of a bo... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5222881 | Scroll type compressor having curved surface portions between the shaft and bearing means A scroll type compressor comprising: a crankshaft having an eccentric shaft portion formed thereon; an orbiting scroll which is given torque by the crankshaft through the eccentric shaft portion; and bearing means for rotatably supporting the crankshaft; ... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5215165 | Oil pump A rotor-type oil pump for supplying lubricating oil to an automotive internal combustion engine. The oil pump is comprised of inner and outer rotors which are rotatably disposed inside a pump casing. The inner rotor is formed with an external gear partly ... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5195880 | Eccentric screw pump with reversible rotor An eccentric screw pump comprises at least one stator, a rotor having a core and received for eccentric rotation in the stator, a first coupling device adapted to connect one end of the rotor to a drive system, a second coupling device provided at another... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5193992 | Scroll type fluid displacement apparatus having control of the line contact urging force A scroll type fluid displacement apparatus is disclosed. A driving mechanism includes a drive shaft which is rotatably supported by the compressor housing. A crank pin eccentrically extends from an inner end of the drive shaft and is drivingly coupled to ... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5174738 | Slider block for a scroll compressor having edge loading relief under load The outer surface of a slider block increases radially with increasing distance from the crankshaft for at least a portion of its height. As a result when the drive pin of the crankshaft deflects under load the slider block moves therewith as a unit. The ... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5145348 | Gerotor pump having an improved drive mechanism A gerotor pump is disclosed of the fixed-axis type, including an outer rotor (33) and an inner rotor (35). The gerotor is driven by a drive shaft (25) through a driver (51) including a pair of drive members (57), each having a cylindrical drive surface (5... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5085564 | Flexible drive shaft A flexible drive shaft for a helical gear pump having a rotor 10 in which the drive shaft 18 is formed with an enlarged, e.g. upset forged, head 20 and is provided with a plastics material coating 30. The drive shaft is held on to the rotor by bolts 40 pa... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5048622 | Hermetically sealed progressive cavity drive train for use in downhole drilling A drilling apparatus having progressive cavity drive train which includes a progressive cavity device and a coupling for converting the complex motion of the rotor into simple rotation. The coupling includes a sealed universal joint assembly coupling yoke... | 09/17/1991 |
