Ejector

Abstract

An ejector having a nozzle portion having openings provided at a distal end and a proximal end thereof, respectively, for injecting drive-stream gas, a diffuser portion provided on a distal end side of the nozzle portion for drawing in auxiliary gas by negative pressure which is generated in the drive-stream gas by injection from the nozzle portion so as to join the auxiliary-stream gas together with the drive-stream and discharge the drive-stream gas and the auxiliary gas, a needle slidably inserted into an interior of the nozzle portion in an axial direction of the nozzle portion for adjusting an opening area of the nozzle portion in accordance with an inserted position thereof, a drive unit for moving the needle axially and an auxiliary stream introducing portion comprising at least two openings for introducing the auxiliary-stream gas into the diffuser portion therefrom.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.