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US 5,626,032 AGranted
Cyclothermic converter vane pump and impeller system
OwnerIan G. Neblettinventor
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A system having a matched vane compressor and impeller is described for use in either a hydraulic system or in a two phase air conditioning system. The impeller is matched to the compressor to return work to the compressor through a shaft or gearbox. The compressor is a vane compressor having longitudinally reciprocating vanes carried in a slotted disc between matched, opposed cam faces forming a series of variable geometry chambers which draw in and expel working fluid during rotation of the shaft. Compression is achieved by exposing the fluid in the chambers to high pressure fluid while the volume of the chamber is not changing. A pressurizing port is placed tangentially to the chambers for this purpose. The impeller also makes use of tangentially disposed pressure ports to expose the turning pockets of a drum to higher pressure. The outlet of the impeller only skims off a surface layer of the liquid in the pockets, reducing the volumetric through flow of the impeller while it returns work to the compressor. These systems can be utilized in hydraulic or thermal applications.
A reciprocating vane pump comprising:
A longitudinally reciprocating vane compressor for drawing in a fluid from a low pressure source and expelling that fluid through a higher pressure discharge, said compressor comprising:
A mated vane compressor pump and impeller system for operation between a low pressure source of fluid and a high pressure fluid system said system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.