Abstract:
A rotary-vane pumping machine has a core structure that includes a stator assembly defining a contoured surface of a stator cavity, a rotor spinning around a rotor shaft axis that is fixed relative to the stator cavity, and end plates disposed on either side of the rotor. The rotor has a plurality of radial vanes slots for housing a corresponding plurality of vanes that slide within the radial vane slot of the rotor. Each of the plurality of vanes has side walls, a tip portion, and a base portion, and the base portion has one or more tabs extending from at least one axial end of the vane. The plurality of vanes, stator cavity, and rotor define a plurality of chamber cells. The core structure is substantially made of low coefficient of thermal expansion Invar materials to achieve precise non-contact sealing clearances between components of the machine.
Abstract:
A dry vacuum pump that includes a casting having an inner cylinder communicating with an inlet and an outlet of the pump, shafts supported by the casting, spiral toothed parts formed on the shaft a plurality of screw rotors each of which includes the shaft and the spiral toothed parts received in the inner cylinder intermeshing with each other. Timing gears each of which are attached to the respective shafts of the screw rotors that intermesh with each other. Locking mechanisms for fixing the timing gears to the shaft. Both of the shaft and the toothed part are made of spheroidal graphite cast iron containing 20 to 30 wt % of nickel are cast integrally.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a process for the manufacture of a blade/vane of a turbomachine, in particular a gas-turbine engine, said blade/vane consisting of a metallic enveloping structure and a supporting structure made of composite material provided inside of the enveloping structure and suitably joined to the enveloping structure. A metal-felt weave is welded or soldered/brazed to the sheet making up the enveloping structure, whereupon this sheet-weave-assembly is shaped by hydroforming or an internal high-pressure forming process to provide the enveloping structure of the blade/vane. Finally, the composite material making up the supporting structure is introduced into the cavity of the enveloping structure. When long-fiber reinforced composite material is used, a fiber-structure can first be placed into the enveloping structure of the blade/vane and the composite material may subsequently be introduced by high-pressure filtration, with the enveloping structure being preferably in a mold in which the said shaping by an internal high-pressure forming process takes place.
Abstract:
A double wall hot gas path part for turbines, such as an airfoil, combustor, duct or shroud, comprises an outer skin and an inner support wall that are metallurgically bonded to one another. The double wall contains integral channels for passage of cooling air adjacent to the skin. The skin may be a metal alloy skin or a microlaminate structure, including microlaminate composite structures. Microlaminate composites typically have a lower density than that of the material used for the support wall, and a simplified internal geometry, which promote weight reductions in the parts and increases in engine operating efficiency.
Abstract:
A corrosion resistant cermet comprises a ceramic component (e.g., WC) and a binder alloy comprised of a major component (e.g., one or more of iron, nickel, cobalt, their mixtures, and their alloys) and at least one additive component (e.g., one or more of ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum). Plungers for hyper compressors used in the corrosive environments generated during the manufacture of low density polyethylene (LDPE) or ethylene copolymers are an example of the use of the corrosion resistant cermet.
Abstract:
A hinge ball for a variable capacity wobble plate compressor includes a central through hole 27 for permitting a shaft 5 to loosely extend therethrough, and an outer peripheral wall 9b in a convex form for being slidably fit with an inner peripheral wall 43a in a concave form of a boss 43 of a drive hub 41 rotatively fitted on the shaft 5. The shaft 5 is higher in hardness than the hardness of the boss 43 of the drive hub 41, and the outer peripheral surface 9b in sliding contact with the inner peripheral surface 43a of the boss 43 of said drive hub 41 is lower in hardness than the hardness of the shaft 5 and the boss 43 of the drive hub 41 or equal in hardness thereto. The hardness of the inner peripheral wall 9a defining the central through hole 27 is made higher than the hardness of the boss 43 of the drive hub 41.
Abstract:
In order to prevent the cracking of a coating of sliding material, in which an electroless Ni-B plating coating layer is formed on the surface of aluminum alloy, an electroless Ni-P plating coating layer is provided on the aluminum alloy.
Abstract:
A sealed piston pump having in an open cavity of the pump body, a circular single-piece set formed by a central cylindrical piston. The piston is coupled by a rod to a driving member while the piston in an alternating motion along its longitudinal axis. A ring is placed on the pump body which is hollowed out with an annular channel and a deformable thinned part connecting the piston to the ring. The single-piece set and the pump body are fixedly joined to each other in an imperviously sealed way. The single-block set is made of a synthetic material that is flexible and mechanically and chemically resistant. The pump can be advantageously used in ink-jet printers.
Abstract:
An abrasion and scuff resistant piston comprises a piston main body of aluminum alloy, a ring groove for retaining a piston ring, an abrasion resistant nickel plate layer covering at least the ring groove, a piston skirt, also of aluminum alloy and an abrasion resistant steel plate layer covering the lower outer circumference of the piston including the piston skirt.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a plunger for a downhole reciprocating oil well pump for use in sandy environments including the step of machining a metal plunger to the required base configuration with an external cylindrical pump surface having a diameter of about 0.025 inches less than the design diameter, grit blasting the plunger cylindrical pump surface to achieve a textured surface thereon, heating the plunger, flame spraying a thin layer of ceramic composite on the plunger cylindrical pump surface, repeating the flame spraying steps sequentially until the diameter of the cylindrical pump surface having the ceramic composite thereon is about 0.015 to 0.020 inches above the design diameter, cooling the plunger and grinding the ceramic covered plunger pump surface to the design diameter.