Abstract:
A wheel includes a tire, an electrical device requiring power for operation, and a conversion system for providing electrical energy for powering the electrical device. The electrical energy is obtained from conversion of a difference between pressure of a gas confined under pressure within the tire and ambient pressure of air outside the tire. The conversion system includes an inlet nozzle fluidly connected to the gas confined under pressure in the tire, an outlet nozzle fluidly connected to the air outside the tire, a movable arm configured to be moved by gas expanding while flowing from the inlet nozzle to the outlet nozzle, and an electromechanical transducer capable of converting mechanical energy from movement of the arm into electrical energy used to power the electrical device.
Abstract:
Various methods are disclosed for manufacturing pump-heads having a housing enclosing at least one rotary member. In an exemplary method first and second housing portions are provided that collectively, when assembled, define a pump-cavity that accommodates the rotary member(s). The rotary member(s) is assembled into the pump-cavity, along with at least one soluble spacer of a defined thickness that corresponds to a desired clearance of the rotary member relative to the pump-cavity. The spacer contacts a surface of the rotary member facing a corresponding surface of the housing portion. The first and second housing portions are attached together to form the pump-cavity containing the rotary member(s). The soluble spacer is dissolved to provide the desired clearance of the rotary member in the pump-cavity. As the housing portions are attached together, e.g. by adhesive bonding, the spacer establishes the desired clearance of the rotary member(s) in the pump-cavity.
Abstract:
An improved Wankel-type rotary engine having a one piece manufactured side sealing system to improve engine oil leakage and combustion chamber lubrication leakage over the entire seal. The rotor of the Wankel-type rotary engine acts like an internal supercharger thereby improving the power output of the engine. An electronic circuit operates to open the peripheral port at a desired RPM to a desired position. The rotor housing for the Wankel-type rotary engine is ground using a horizontal machining center with a custom parameter driven program and is finished in a spiral overlapping process. The seals for the Wankel-type rotary engine are designed and programmed into a Wire Electrical Discharge Machine wherein perfect consistent apex seals are manufactured out of a single block of material.
Abstract:
The present disclosure includes an engine having a torodial piston chamber, at least one piston positioned in the torodial piston chamber, and at least one engine valve positioned to interact with the torodial piston chamber.
Abstract:
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 between the gears and their supporting shafts is disclosed as is a simplified machining method that eliminates burrs that may be formed during the drilling operations.
Abstract:
A screw compressor comprises a casing, and a male and a female rotor formed with axially twisted screw grooves and accommodated in the casing, the both rotors being rotated by timing gears fixed to the respective rotors while a desired minute gap is kept therebetween, and a method of manufacturing rotors therefor. In the screw compressor, the male and female rotors formed with axially twisted screw grooves in the casing comprise concave stripes having a minute depth and provided on the respective screw grooves to extend along directions of twist thereof, and leakage of a compressed air is less to give a high compression efficiency.
Abstract:
A tool is brought into contact with a radially outer part of an inner wall surface of a scrollwall along an X-axis at a position displaced from the center of a basic circle of an involute curve by a radius of the basic circle along a Y-axis. Thereafter, the tool and the scrollwall are relatively moved along the X- and Y-axes while rotating the scrollwall about the center of the basic circle and keeping a normal direction of the wall surface at a contact point with the tool parallel with the X-axis, so that the tool is brought into contact with the wall surface from the same wall surface. In this way, the inner wall surface the wall surface at the center and the outer wall surface can be continuously processed in the same direction. The processing can be easily corrected based on a processing error resulting from the deviation of the positional relationship from a predetermined one, with the result that the processing accuracy can be maintained at a satisfactory level.
Abstract:
A tool is brought into contact with a radially outer part of an inner wall surface of a scrollwall along an X-axis at a position displaced from the center of a basic circle of an involute curve by a radius of the basic circle along a Y-axis. Thereafter, the tool and the scrollwall are relatively moved along the X- and Y-axes while rotating the scrollwall about the center of the basic circle and keeping a normal direction of the wall surface at a contact point with the tool parallel with the X-axis, so that the tool is brought into contact with the wall surface from the same wall surface. In this way, the inner wall surface, the wall surface at the center and the outer wall surface can be continuously processed in the same direction. The processing can be easily corrected based on a processing error resulting from the deviation of the positional relationship from a predetermined one, with the result that the processing accuracy can be maintained at a satisfactory level.
Abstract:
The scroll elements of a scroll-type compressor are treated employing a lapping tool to achieve increased flatness of the base surface and increased smoothness of the side walls of the involute wrap. This reduces flank leakage, tip leakage, and thrust friction losses. The lapping device that is placed against the scroll element has a radially extending base and a generally spiral wrap, the wrap generally matching that of the scroll element workpiece. The lapping device wrap has axially erect walls and a radially flat tip surface. After engaging the scroll element work piece, the lapping device is moved relative to the scroll element in an orbiting motion. A suitable lapping compound is introduced at least between the lapping device wrap tip surface and the base surface of the scroll element, and, if desired, also between the side walls of the lapping device wrap and the side walls of the scroll element wrap. The lapping compound can be introduced directly or in a gas flow.
Abstract:
The present disclosure discloses a fixed scroll and a scroll compressor with the same. The fixed scroll includes: an end plate; a fixed scroll wrap protruding from one surface of the end plate; and an internal cavity formed in the end plate. By adopting the fixed scroll and the scroll compressor with the fixed scroll according to the embodiment of the present disclosure, a weight of the scroll compressor may be reduced for example.