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US 12,540,618 B2Granted
Valve for rotary fluid displacement assembly and rotary fluid displacement assembly comprising same
AssigneeTorad, Inc.
InventorsGregory T. Kemp, John Montgomery, Joseph S. Orosz, Gary Parsons, Jim Blankemeyer
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Abstract
A rotary fluid-displacement assembly has a rotor housing assembly defining one or more valve cavities. Each valve cavity can be elongated along the longitudinal axis. Each valve cavity can define an opening in the internal cavity. The rotary fluid-displacement assembly can have respective discharge valve assembly for each valve cavity. Each discharge valve assembly can comprise a blocking element that is configured to be movably disposed in one respective valve cavity of the at least one valve cavity.
Claims20
A rotary fluid-displacement assembly comprising:
- a rotor housing assembly having an outer wall surface and defining an internal cavity having an inner wall surface, wherein the rotor housing assembly has a longitudinal axis, and wherein the rotor housing assembly comprises:
- at least one valve cavity defined in the rotor housing assembly extending radially from the inner wall surface to the outer wall surface of the rotor housing assembly, wherein the at least one valve cavity is elongated along the longitudinal axis, wherein each valve cavity of the at least one valve cavity defines an opening in the internal cavity;
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- at least one discharge valve assembly, each discharge valve assembly of the at least one discharge valve assembly comprising:
- a blocking element that is configured to be movably disposed in one respective valve cavity of the at least one valve cavity;
- at least one guide body, wherein the blocking element is slidable along the at least one guide body about and between a first position, in which at least a portion of the respective blocking element blocks the respective opening of the at least one valve cavity, and a second position, in which at least a portion of the respective blocking element is displaced from the respective opening of the at least one valve cavity;
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- at least one biasing element that biases the respective blocking element toward the first position;
- a rotor having a peripheral surface and being positioned within the internal cavity of the rotor housing assembly, wherein the rotor is configured to rotate about a rotor axis of rotation that is parallel to or generally parallel to the longitudinal axis;
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- a vane having opposed portions, each opposed portion having a distal end, the opposed portions of the vane being slidably coupled to the rotor;
- wherein at least portions of the peripheral surface of the rotor, portions of the inner wall surface of the rotor housing assembly, and varying portions of the vane proximate the distal ends of opposed portions of the vane define a compression chamber of varying volume as the rotor rotates about the rotor axis of rotation;
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- wherein each discharge valve assembly of the at least one discharge valve assembly is movable from the first closed position to the second open position when a compression chamber pressure reaches a pressure sufficient to overcome an opposing force.
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A discharge valve assembly for a rotary fluid-displacement assembly, the discharge valve assembly comprising:
- a blocking element that is configured to be movably disposed in one respective valve cavity of the at least one valve cavity, wherein the blocking element is elongated along a longitudinal axis;
- at least one guide body, wherein the blocking element is slidable along the at least one guide body about and between a first position, in which at least a portion of the respective blocking element blocks the respective opening of the at least one valve cavity, and a second position, in which at least a portion of the respective blocking element is displaced from the respective opening of the at least one valve cavity, wherein the first and second positions are offset by a valve movement axis that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis;
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- at least one biasing element that biases the respective blocking element toward the first position.
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A rotary fluid-displacement assembly, comprising:
- a rotor housing assembly having an outer wall surface and defining an internal cavity having an inner wall surface, wherein the rotor housing assembly has a longitudinal axis, and wherein the rotor housing assembly defines:
- a bypass gas return path that extends between the internal cavity and the intake pathway, wherein the rotary fluid-displacement assembly further comprises a bypass valve along the bypass gas return path;
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- a bypass valve cavity extending radially from the inner wall surface and defining a portion of the bypass gas return path,
- wherein the bypass valve comprises:
- a bypass valve blocking element that is configured to be movably disposed in the bypass valve cavity;
- at least one guide body, wherein the bypass valve blocking element is slidable along the at least one guide body about and between a first position, in which at least a portion of the bypass valve blocking element blocks flow through the bypass gas return path, and a second position, in which at least a portion of the bypass valve blocking element is displaced from the first position and permits flow through the bypass gas return path;
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- a valve actuator that is configured to move the bypass valve blocking element about and between the first position and the second position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.