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Concrete pump

Patent Number: 8439657
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
Inventor:

A Concrete Pump is a mechanical device comprising of a round funnel shape hoper, pump outlet, rotating pressure and wear plates. Attached to the rotating pressure and wear plates are rotating pump cylinders and opposite the pump cylinders are a rotating wear plate. Pressed against the rotating wear plates is the stationary wear. A hoper outlet and a pump outlet flange are attached to the stationary wear plate. The pump functions as follows: concrete from the hoper passes through the ...

Liquid pump for an internal combustion engine and device for heating liquid

Patent Number: 8439656
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
Inventor:

A liquid pump for an internal combustion engine having a housing in which a pump rotational shaft is accommodated, in particular a water pump of a heat exchanger circuit of a vehicle, and an eddy current arrangement is provided at least partially inside the housing of the liquid pump. The invention furthermore relates to a device for heating a ...

Cooling channel for a fan motor for a ventilation, heating, and/or air conditioning system

Patent Number: 8439655
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
Inventor:

Ventilating device (1) comprising a casing (6) intended to channel at least one air flow (3) created by a blower wheel (5), the said casing (6) delimites a main air channel (7) in which a main air flow (3a) circulates and a secondary air channel (8) intended to bring towards a motor (4) a secondary air flow (3b) in order to cool the motor (4), the said secondary air channel (8) comprising a ...

Methods and apparatus for pumping liquefied gases

Patent Number: 8439654
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
Inventor:

A method and system for pumping liquefied gas are provided. The system for pumping liquefied gas can includes a container having an access port with a central axis disposed at an upper end thereof, a pump disposed within the container, and at least one pipe segment having a first end and a second end. The pump can include a fluid inlet in fluid communication with a liquefied gas stored in the container and a fluid outlet. The first end of the pipe segment can be in fluid communication with ...

Pump for a high-pressure cleaning apparatus

Patent Number: 8439653
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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A pump for a high-pressure cleaning apparatus for delivering cleaning liquid is provided. The pump has at least one pump chamber into which at least one reciprocally movable piston plunges. The pump chamber is connected via at least one inlet valve to a suction conduit and via at least one outlet valve to a pressure conduit. A bypass conduit leads from the pressure conduit to the suction conduit. A bypass valve is arranged in the bypass conduit. The valve body of the bypass valve is ...

Suction throttle valve for variable displacement type compressor

Patent Number: 8439652
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
Inventor:

A suction throttle valve of a variable displacement compressor having a compressor housing includes a suction chamber, a crank chamber, an inlet, a suction passage, a valve body, a valve housing, an urging member, a valve chamber, and a communication hole. The valve body is provided for adjusting an opening area of the suction passage and movably arranged in the suction passage. The urging member urges the valve body in the direction that decreases the opening area of the suction passage. ...

Garden hose booster water pump system

Patent Number: 8439651
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
Inventor:

A booster pump system, for boosting a flow of water from a water source, includes a housing having a retractable handle. The booster pump system also includes a water pump positioned within the housing. The pump has an inlet and an outlet, and is designed to raise the pressure of the flow of water by an amount in a range of 20-200 pounds per square inch. The pump is also designed to raise the flow rate of the flow of water by an amount in a range of 0.5-5 gallons per minute. The booster ...

Flow-controllable cell pump with pivotable control slide valve

Patent Number: 8439650
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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A flow-controllable cell pump having a bearing element that may be positioned in a receiving shell of a pump housing such that the receiving shell may assume an operational connection with at least one of a bearing element, a pump chamber positioned between an inner rotor and a control slide valve. An outer rotor may be configured in the control slide valve, and suction kidneys may be arranged on both sides of the pump chambers in the pump housing. At least one pressure kidney may be offset ...

Sputter ion pump with enhanced anode

Patent Number: 8439649
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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A sputter ion pump including an evacuateable envelope having a chamber, first and second cathodes and an anode disposed in the chamber. The anode can have an outer layer of a non-evaporable getter (NEG) material so as to permit NEG pumping of gases by the anode. In another aspect of the invention, the anode can be formed with spaced-apart first and second sheet portions disposed in juxtaposition to each other and having a plurality of holes extending through the sheets for forming a ...

Process water lift station apparatus

Patent Number: 8439648
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
Inventor:

A lift station containing a tube, an access box connected to the tube, and an inner pipe that is removable, positioned in the tube that can be used to contain and discharge process water. The design aids in construction and maintenance and can detect leaks that can reduce process water contamination of surrounding ...

Vehicle-air-conditioner electric compressor

Patent Number: 8435019
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
Inventor:

An object is to provide a highly reliable vehicle-air-conditioner electric compressor of an inverter-integrated type that minimizes vibration and deformation of a board and a bus bar caused by vibration of a vehicle so as to prevent devices from becoming detached, to prevent soldered sections and welded sections from rupturing, and to prevent short circuits from occurring. In a vehicle-air-conditioner electric compressor (1) in which an inverter accommodating section (11) is ...

Cooling fan

Patent Number: 8435018
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
Inventor:

A cooling fan (1) includes a fan housing (10), a stator (20), a rotor (30) and a bearing assembly (40). A tube (111) extends upwardly from a central portion of the fan housing. The stator is mounted around the tube. The bearing assembly includes a ball bearing (333) and a sleeve bearing (335) received in two ends of the tube, respectively. The rotor has a shaft (336) extending into and rotatably supported by the bearing ...

Hermetic compressor and refrigeration system

Patent Number: 8435017
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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A valve plate includes a suction port to which gas to be compressed in a compression chamber flows in and a discharge port from which gas compressed in the compression chamber is discharged, a projection that appears from the discharge port with the reciprocating movement of the piston is arranged at a position facing the discharge port at a distal end face of the piston, and the projection includes a flat surface extending parallel to a reciprocating direction of the piston, so that a ...

Vertical shaft pumping system with lubricant impeller arrangement

Patent Number: 8435016
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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A vertical shaft pumping system includes a hollow shaft with an inner bore, an inlet end and an outlet end, the outlet end with at least one liquid distribution hole. It further includes an impeller positioned at the lower inlet end of the shaft, with a cylindrical base portion with a lower end, a central hole for drawing fluid into the shaft, and a plurality of teeth extending upwards from the cylindrical base portion and extending radially from the central hole to the outer cylindrical ...

Heat transfer through the electrical submersible pump

Patent Number: 8435015
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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The motor of an electrical submersible pump generates a significant amount of heat that can be removed by transferring it to the well production fluid. The motor housing may have turbulators that increase the turbulence of the production fluid to increase the rate of heat transfer. The turbulators are designed for manufacturability and ...

Hermetically sealed scroll compressor

Patent Number: 8435014
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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In the hermetically sealed scroll compressor, an injection pipe for injecting a fluid to a compression chamber is connected to an injecting port of a fixed scroll. The injecting port includes a first injecting port which is provided in the vicinity of a fixed scroll inner curve and injects the fluid to an orbiting outer compression chamber, and a second injecting port 22b which is provided in the vicinity of a fixed scroll outer curve and injects the fluid to a orbiting inner ...

Reciprocating compressor and oxygen concentrator

Patent Number: 8435013
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
Inventor:

A reciprocating compressor includes a motor having a motor shaft, four cylinders provided in perpendicular directions relative to an axial direction of the motor shaft, and four pistons Each piston has a piston head part and a rod part formed integrally with the piston head part. Each piston head part is fitted into one of the four cylinders in a reciprocable fashion. Each rod part is rotatably mounted to an eccentric shaft that is fixed to the motor ...

Wheel-mounted air compressor and methods of use

Patent Number: 8435012
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
Inventor:

The disclosure is generally directed to a wheel-mounted, centrifugally activated, air compressor that will automatically inflate an inflatable vehicle tire back to the proper pressure level when small under-inflation situations occur (e.g., the occurrence of small-to-medium air leaks in a tire). Moreover, the device can be easily attach or fitted into the design of a steel or aluminum wheel, or fitted into a hubcap without modifying the standard design of the wheel-hub assembly. The ...

Integrated compressor and pump unit and vehicles equipped therewith

Patent Number: 8435011
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
Inventor:

An integrated compressor and pump unit suitable for installation on a vehicle and draw rotary power from a power source of the vehicle. The unit includes a compressor unit and a separate pump unit. The compressor unit has a rotary input shaft coupled to a rotary compressing device of the compressor unit. The pump unit is mounted to the compressor unit and has a rotary input shaft coupled to a rotary pumping device of the pump unit. The pump unit is secured to the compressor unit and rotary ...

Control of a fluid pump assembly

Patent Number: 8435010
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
Inventor:

A pump control assembly includes a fluid pump assembly having a fluid pump and a load sensing valve. The fluid pump includes a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. The fluid pump includes a variable displacement mechanism. The load sensing valve is adapted to adjust the position of the variable displacement mechanism. The load sensing valve includes a first end and an oppositely disposed second end. An actuator is in fluid communication with the fluid pump assembly. A position sensor monitors ...

Sump pump with emergency backup system

Patent Number: 8435009
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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A flood control system for use in a structure having a basement floor below ground level is provided. The flood control system comprises a sump, a main pump positioned in the sump, and a secondary pump positioned in the sum. The secondary pump is raised relative to the main pump to a predetermined elevation. The main pump is energized when a height of water within the sump is at a first level. The secondary pump is energized when a height of water within the sump reaches a second, higher ...

High-pressure pump

Patent Number: 8430655
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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A fuel gallery has an inlet opening through which a fuel is introduced therein and a suction opening through which the fuel flows between the fuel gallery and a compression chamber. A pulsation damper is supported in the fuel gallery by a first and a second supporting member. The second supporting member defines an inner fuel chamber and outer fuel chamber which communicates with each other through apertures. The suction opening is located at a side wall of the fuel gallery and the inlet ...

Tubing misload detection mechanism for an infusion pump

Patent Number: 8430654
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
Inventor:

A an infusion tube misfitting detection device for an infusion pump, which can be implemented at a low cost while maintaining safety. When a door unit is to be closed with respect to a pump body in a misloaded state of an infusion tube, a mislead detection inner door is pressed by the infusion tube to operate on a handle lock part provided to a handle. Accordingly, a claw portion of the handle lock part is pushed up, so that the door unit cannot be locked with the pump body 10 by ...

Motor compressor

Patent Number: 8430653
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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A motor-compressor includes a compressor, an electric motor directly connected to the compressor, magnetic bearings and one gas support located adjacent to a magnetic bearing to seal and support an end of the compressor's rotor. The compressor and the electric motor are integrated in a single unit, being housed in a single box or ...

Blood pump apparatus

Patent Number: 8430652
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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A blood pump apparatus comprises a housing, a centrifugal pump section including an impeller and rotating inside the housing to feed a fluid by a centrifugal force, an impeller rotational torque generation section for attracting thereto said impeller and rotating said impeller; and a plurality of grooves for hydrodynamic bearing provided on an inner surface of said housing at a side of said impeller rotational torque generation section, each of the grooves for hydrodynamic bearing having a ...

Multi-material single-piece actuator member for miniature reciprocating piston pump in medical applications

Patent Number: 8430651
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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An implantable medical device including a two piece actuator member which comprises a monocrystaline piston and a magnetizable pole. The monocrystalline piston is positioned within a piston channel having a surface having a titanium-oxide layer. The monocrystalline piston is selectively movable within the piston bore to permit intake and output of ...

Reciprocative compressor

Patent Number: 8430650
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
Inventor:

A swing-type reciprocative compressor is capable of maintaining long durability and preventing propagation of heat to the large end portion of a piston, even under high-compression. In the reciprocative compressor having a swing-type piston mechanism, a piston ring is attached to a piston ring groove to seal between a piston and a cylinder. A ring groove is provided separately from the piston ring groove on the outer circumferential side of the piston and on the crankshaft side of the ...

Compensator assembly for submersible pump system

Patent Number: 8430649
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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A submersible pump system with a pump, motor and compensator assembly. In one embodiment, the compensator assembly is made up of multiple elastomeric compensators and a housing. The elastomeric compensators, which are made up of an engaging end, a floating end and a series of alternating crests and grooves, may contain motor cooling liquid. The crests and grooves extend along the compensator's longitudinal axis. The compensators possess a degree of elasticity sufficient for a width of at ...

Rotary compressor

Patent Number: 8430648
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
Inventor:

A stagnation space defined by barriers is provided in a first muffler chamber communicating with a first cylinder chamber. The stagnation space overlaps with a refrigerant-gas inlet side of the first cylinder chamber, the inlet side being bordered by a center plane as viewed in a direction of a center axis of the first cylinder chamber. In the first muffler chamber, the high-temperature, high-pressure refrigerant gas is unlikely to enter into the stagnation space, so that heat is less ...

Compressor safety valve

Patent Number: 8430647
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
Inventor:

A compressor safety valve releases an abnormal pressure to the outside through a discharge port when the pressure in a compressor has increased abnormally. The valve comprises a cap having an anchoring part integrally formed therewith and mounted on a head portion of a valve main body in an attachable and detachable manner. The valve further comprising an elastic body interposingly mounted between the cap and the head portion of the valve main body in a compressed state and in close contact ...

Variable volume clearance pocket for a reciprocating compressor cylinder

Patent Number: 8430646
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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A controllable variable volume clearance pocket for reciprocating compressor cylinders is disclosed. The invention includes a device for varying the clearance volume of a variable volume clearance pocket in a controlled manner. The device can be used repeatedly to change the compressor cylinder clearance volume as required to control compressor capacity and power required from the compressor driver. The device is typically mounted on the outer or head end of a reciprocating compressor ...

Two stage pressure regulation system for variable displacement hydraulic pumps

Patent Number: 8430645
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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A pump having a housing with an actuator member positioned inside for controlling the flow generated by the pump. A first decrease port is connected to the housing and has a surface area in operable contact with the actuator member. A second decrease port is connected to the housing and has a surface area that is operable contact with the actuator member. A valve is connected to the second decrease port for controlling the flow of fluid to the second decrease port. A suction passage is ...

Synthetic jet ejector for the thermal management of PCI cards

Patent Number: 8430644
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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A method for constructing a thermal management system is provided herein. In accordance with the method, a fan (405) is provided which is adapted to provide a global flow of fluid through the device. A synthetic jet ejector (409) is also provided which is adapted to augment the global flow of fluid over the surfaces of a heat sink (403). The ratio of the flow per unit time of the synthetic jet ejector to the flow per unit time of the fan is selected so as to achieve a ...

Volumetric fluidics pump method with translating shaft

Patent Number: 8430643
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
Inventor:

A pump for moving a fluid through a fluidics system includes a surface and channel disposed along at least a portion of the surface. The pump also includes a driving mechanism having a rotatable shaft and a plurality of haptics operably coupled to the shaft. A closed portion is formed in the channel as the channel is compressed between the surface and at least one of the haptics, the closed portion having a thickness between the surface and the haptic. The pump additionally has a circular ...

Controlling apparatus for linear compressor

Patent Number: 8430642
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
Inventor:

The present invention discloses a controlling apparatus and method for a linear compressor which can provide an efficient control, by selectively performing an operation which is not affected by a capacitor and an operation which does not include a phase control according to a load. The controlling apparatus for the linear compressor includes an LC path (P1) composed of a coil winding portion (L) of the linear compressor and a capacitor (CP)1 a phase control path (P2) ...

Multiple switch float switch apparatus

Patent Number: 8430641
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
Inventor:

A float switch to control at least two pumps has a guide with two normally-closed micro-switches and a float rod slidably mounted thereto allowing reciprocating vertical movement. The float rod has one or more lower cam surfaces cooperating with the micro-switches to sequentially release them from their engaged positions to their normal positions during upward movement of the float rod. A float is slidably mounted to the float rod between upper and lower float stops. The shape of the lower ...

Powder spray coating device and powder transport device therefor

Patent Number: 8430640
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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A powder feed apparatus for a powder spraycoating equipment includes a dense phase powder pump fitted with at least two feed chambers, alternatingly discharging coating powder. Each feed chamber includes a powder intake valve to aspirate coating powder during a suction stage and one powder outlet valve to discharge coating powder during a discharge stage. Each feed chamber further includes control valves to operate the dense phase powder pump and a control unit controlling the dense phase ...

Vapor recovery pump

Patent Number: 8425209
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
Inventor:

A vapor recovery pump for a fuel dispensing unit, comprising a housing with two chambers each having a vapor inlet valve and a vapor outlet valve, respectively, the chambers being separated by a movable piston arranged to move a distance between a first and a second end position inside the housing for continuously decreasing and increasing the volume of the chambers. A control element is arranged to selectively vary the location of the first end ...

Air operated diaphragm pump with electric generator

Patent Number: 8425208
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
Inventor:

An air operated double diaphragm pump comprises an integrated electric generator and an air efficiency device. The integrated electric generator increases the portability of the air operated double diaphragm pump. The air efficiency device varies the amount of compressed fluid entering the pump between a high volume and a low volume dependent upon the velocity and position of the pump's diaphragm assemblies to optimize the pump's efficient use of the compressed ...

Motor driven air compressor and hydraulic pump module

Patent Number: 8425207
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
Inventor:

The present invention provides a motor driven air compressor and hydraulic pump module that makes it possible to adjust the operational speed of the air compressor in accordance with the operational conditions of the air compressor, prevent shock and water from being produced in an air pipe connected to the air compressor by preventing sudden connection/disconnection of torque transmitted from the motor to the air compressor, by using a continuously variable transmission, thereby improving ...

Pump insert

Patent Number: 8425206
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
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A pump insert of a vane-type pump having no dedicated housing, the insert being inserted in a gear ...

Centrifugal pump

Patent Number: 8425205
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
Inventor:

A centrifugal pump has a pump unit and a drive unit. The pump unit includes a volute and an impeller disposed in the volute. The drive unit has a stator and a rotor having a shaft. The volute includes an inlet, an outlet and a chamber in communication with the inlet and outlet. The inlet is coaxial with the chamber. The shaft of the rotor extends into the chamber of the volute and the impeller is attached to and driven by the shaft. The volute further includes a baffle installed in the ...

Pump

Patent Number: 8425204
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
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Pump, for example for pumping lubricating oil in an internal combustion engine, more particularly a multi-stroke vane cell pump, with a rotor and vanes which can slide at least radially in rotor slots and have vane heads that slide along a stroke contour, the stroke contour having a radial outlet that can be closed by a valve ...

Portable pressure washer system

Patent Number: 8425203
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
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A portable pressure washer system includes a frame having at least one strap configured such that the frame is supported by a user by way of the at least one strap. A torque generating device is supported by the frame and has an output shaft. A pump is selectively coupled to the output shaft to receive a torque generated by the torque generating device. The pump includes an inlet for connecting to a remote fluid source and an outlet for connecting to a high pressure fluid delivery ...

Modular, universal and automatic closed-loop pump pressure controller

Patent Number: 8425202
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
Inventor:

A universal controller (16) for an electric motorized pump (18) having a mechanical switch (19) for turning on and off electrical power to the pump, and method of operation of same. The controller controls output pressure of the pump based on controlling the speed of the pump (for example by applying voltage over a greater portion of a duty cycle), so as to provide an optimal operating pressure derived from an automatically determined value for the pressure at which the ...

Fan system and motor control circuit

Patent Number: 8425201
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
Inventor:

A control circuit is electrically connected to at least one fan device. The fan device has a motor and generates a sensing signal. The control circuit receives a power-source signal and the sensing signal and includes a power converting unit, a control unit and a switch unit. The power converting unit receives the power-source signal and thus respectively outputs a first power-source signal and a second power-source signal according to the power-source signal. The control unit receives the ...

Pump controller

Patent Number: 8425200
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
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The present invention provides a technique using current sensing to control the pressure at constant level without the direct sensing of the pressure. This technique will help to reduce dependency solely on switch or sensor and their non linearity and other associated problems such as the non-repetitive behavior, being affected by EMI etc. The technique includes using a pump controller featuring one or more modules configured to respond to one or more input signals containing information ...

Paddlewheel apparatus

Patent Number: 8425199
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
Inventor:

A paddlewheel apparatus including a paddlewheel axle, spaced apart annular wheel hubs locked in rotation with the axle, and a plurality of elongated paddles supported by the wheel hubs and spaced apart therefrom, the paddles being arranged in a zigzagging pattern around the circumference of the wheel hubs. A method for creating current in a bio-pond raceway using a ...

Air compressor

Patent Number: 8425198
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
Inventor:

An air compressor 20, for enabling to restart a fan motor when an inverter trip generates within an inverter control of the fan motor, as well as, to continue supplying of compressed air therefrom, comprises: a compressor main body 1; a compressor motor 2 for driving this compressor main body 1; a fan motor 9b for driving a fan 9a; an inverter for controlling the fan motor; and a controller 10 for controlling driving of the ...