Light-weight electric motor driven fluid pump assembly
AssigneeTorrington Research Company
InventorsAnn M. Casper, John F. O'Connor, Jr., John F. O'Connor, Sr.
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AssigneeTorrington Research Company
InventorsAnn M. Casper, John F. O'Connor, Jr., John F. O'Connor, Sr.
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A light-weight electric motor driven fluid pump assembly having a molded thermoplastic housing of two parts which form a fluid impervious rotor chamber, a stationary shaft journalled in the housing parts within the chamber and carrying a magnetic rotor and a fluid impeller driven thereby. The housing parts also define inlet and discharge ports in communication with the rotor chamber adjacent the impeller blades. One portion of the housing of one housing part defines a cylindrical thin walled tubular configuration with a cylindrical exterior surface for mounting a stator thereabout. The housing parts are welded together at mating surfaces with the result that neither static nor dynamic seals are required in the assembly.
A light-weight electric motor driven fluid pump assembly having a thermoplastic housing of no more than two parts moldable in a conventional molding process employing straight and/or side pulls and which form a fluid impervious rotor chamber when assembled, a shaft wholly within said chamber carrying a rotor assembly wholly within said chamber and comprising a magnetic rotor forming a first part of an electric motor and a fluid impeller driven thereby thus eliminating requirement for a dynamic seal, said housing parts also defining fluid inlet and discharge ports in communication with said rotor chamber adjacent said impeller, and one of said housing parts defining a portion of said rotor chamber having a relatively thin-walled tubular configuration with a cylindrical exterior surface in coaxial relationship with said magnetic rotor, and a cylindrical motor stator disposed on and about said exterior surface for magnetic cooperation with said rotor as a second motor part.
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