Abstract:
A liquid delivery system includes a source of hydraulic fluid and a hydraulic cylinder fluidically coupled to the source of hydraulic fluid and having a hydraulic piston movable between first and second limit positions. The liquid delivery system includes a rod connected to the piston and extending out of the hydraulic cylinder and a sensor device located outside the hydraulic cylinder and configured to sense a position of the rod and to generate a signal indicating the sensed position. The liquid delivery system includes a liquid cylinder comprising a liquid piston, operably driven by the rod, to pump a liquid along a flow path to a fluid applicator.
Abstract:
The RIBBON TRANSDUCER AND PUMP APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS include, in various embodiments, a variety of mechanisms comprised of components that include flexible elements with persistently strained deformations. Under operation, the deformations may be reconfigured via actuation to produce useful work, or may be reconfigured when subjected to external forces, such as from flowing fluid. The external energy input used to reconfigure these deformations may be harnessed and converted into electrical energy or may be converted into useful mechanical work, such as pumping.
Abstract:
A propulsion and motion-transmission assembly (1), in particular for a rotary-wing aircraft, the assembly (1) comprising:—a first hydrostatic transmission (2) including a first fluid machine for converting mechanical energy into fluid energy (18) and a first fluid machine for converting fluid energy into mechanical energy (26);—a second hydrostatic transmission (8) including a second fluid machine for converting mechanical energy into fluid energy (62) and a second fluid machine for converting fluid energy into mechanical energy (70); and wherein each of said first and second hydrostatic transmissions (2, 8) comprises a high-pressure branch (24, 68) and a low-pressure branch (30, 74), which, in each of said first and second hydrostatic transmissions (2, 8), hydraulically connect the fluid machine. The assembly (1) further comprises valve means (108, 112) that can be actuated for enabling a first hydraulic connection (106) between the low-pressure branch (30) of the first hydrostatic transmission (2) and the low-pressure branch (74) of the second hydrostatic transmission (8).
Abstract:
A reciprocating pump, actuated by an expandable material, can be used to pump well fluids from a wellbore toward the surface of the earth. The expandable material can include piezoelectric, electrostriction, magnetostrictive, or piezomagnetic material. By using the expandable material, the pump can be sufficiently small to fit in various types of tubing within a wellbore.
Abstract:
A dense phase powder pump includes a valve body that houses one or more pinch valve elements. The valve body comprises a sufficiently transparent material to allow an operator to visually observe operation of the pinch valves.
Abstract:
A pump has a pump barrel formed from a larger diameter section and a smaller diameter section. Each section has a biased piston moveable within the section and the pistons are connected together to form a variable volume chamber between the pistons. As the connected pistons move toward the larger diameter section, a volume of fluid is moved through an inlet valve into the variable volume chamber of increasing volume. When the pistons are moved toward the smaller diameter section, a differential volume of fluid is discharged from the variable volume chamber of decreasing volume through a discharge valve into a discharge conduit. The pistons are actuated to move within the pump barrel by application and release of pressure at a remote end of the discharge conduit.
Abstract:
A flexible tube 20 has an inlet side fixed end 21, and an outlet side fixed end 22, and an elastic deformation portion 23 is provided between them. The elastic deformation portion 23 is provided with convex arc portions 42. In the convex arc portions 42, three apices 41 provided apart at approximately regular intervals in the circumferential direction are each curved in a convex shape outward so as to have smaller curvature radius than that of a virtual circle S tangent to the apices 41 from each apex as a center for deformation. Concave arc portions 43 are formed consecutively between the respective convex arc portions 42 in circumferential direction, and the concave arc portions 43 are each curved in a concave shape outward. At a time of expansion and shrinkage of the elastic deformation portion, the respective convex arc portions 42 elastically deform in the circumferential direction, and the concave arc portions 43 elastically deform in the radial direction.
Abstract:
A reciprocating drive mechanism having a housing with upper and lower internal chambers with a spool slidably positioned inside the upper internal chamber. There is at least one fluid inlet and fluid exhaust communicating with the upper internal chamber and at least one slide valve positioned within the upper internal chamber and traveling with the spool. A piston positioned in the lower internal chamber divides the lower internal chamber into an upper and lower cylinder space. There is at least one fluid conduit communicating between the upper internal chamber and the upper cylinder space and at least one fluid conduit communicating between the upper internal chamber and the lower cylinder space. A valve stem is connected to the piston and includes a bore communicating with the upper internal chamber and an exhaust passage is positioned between the upper and lower internal chambers. A first side passage is formed on the valve stem and connects to the bore in the valve stem and a second side passage formed in the valve stem below the first passage and shaped to bridge a seal positioned between the exhaust passage and the upper internal chamber.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a processing or working machine comprising a liquid as the operating liquid wherein the invention is characterized in that an ionic liquid constitutes said operating liquid. The invention also relates to the use of operating fluids in processing or working machines, wherein an ionic liquid constitutes the operating liquid and is used, in particular, as a lubricating fluid, barrier fluid, sealing fluid, or a pressure transmission fluid.
Abstract:
A compressor which is inexpensive and highly reliable and capable of efficiently and securely drawing up oil in a stable manner even at the time of low-revolution driving is provided. Also, a compressor which is highly reliable and capable of maintaining the structure of a viscous pump in a stable condition for a long period is provided. The compressor has a closed container which stores oil and accommodates a compressing element for compressing gas. The compressing element includes a shaft which vertically extends and rotates and a viscous pump which communicates with oil.