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US 2014/0234146 A1Published application
Connecting rod valve
OwnerManousos Pattakos, Efthimios Pattakos +2inventors
InventorsManousos Pattakos, Efthimios Pattakos, Paraskevi Pattakou, Emmanouel Pattakos
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Abstract
A valve integral with, or secured to, the connecting rod small end of a reciprocating piston positive displacement machine opens and closes a port controlling the communication of two spaces, for gas pumps, scavenging pumps, compressors, superchargers, pumps etc.
Claims14
A reciprocating piston positive displacement machine comprising at least:
- a crankcase (1);
- a crankshaft (2) rotatably mounted on the crankcase (1), the crankshaft (2) is comprising a crank pin (3);
- a cylinder (4);
- a piston (5) slidably fitted in the cylinder (4);
- a connecting rod (6) rotatably mounted at a first end (7) on said crankpin (3) and pivotally mounted, at a second end (8), on said piston (5) by a wrist pin (9) so that the rotation of the crankshaft (2) causes the reciprocation of the piston (5) inside the cylinder (4), a valve (10), the valve (10) is integral with, or secured to, the connecting rod (6) at the second end side of the connecting rod (6),
- a port (11), the port (11) is disposed between two spaces (12) and (13), the working gas flows through the port (11) from the one space to the other space under the action of the piston (5), the valve (10) opens and closes the port (11) in synchronization to the crankshaft (2).
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.