Electric pump with relief valve
AssigneeAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHideki Nakayoshi
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Abstract
According to an aspect of the present invention, an electric pump includes: a housing; an outer rotor; an inner rotor; a base member facing one side surface of the outer rotor and one side surface of the inner rotor; a side plate member, having a facing surface facing the other side surface of the outer rotor and the other side surface of the inner rotor and a non-facing surface opposed to the facing surface; a shaft; a suction port; a discharge port; a negative pressure applied region; a positive pressure applied region; and a relief valve, discharging the fluid from the positive pressure applied region to a non-facing surface side of the side plate member when a pressure applied at the positive pressure applied region exceeds a predetermined value.
Claims13
An electric pump comprising:
- a housing;
- an outer rotor accommodated in the housing and rotated around a first axis by a magnetic field produced by the housing;
- an inner rotor rotated around a second axis displaced to the first axis in a manner where an outer circumference thereof contacts an inner circumference of the outer rotor;
- a base member facing one side surface of the outer rotor and one side surface of the inner rotor;
- a side plate member having a facing surface facing the other side surface of the outer rotor and the other side surface of the inner rotor and a non-facing surface opposed to the facing surface;
- a shaft rotatably supporting the inner rotor and extending from the base member through the side plate member in a direction of the second axis;
- a suction port provided at the base member and sucking fluid;
- a discharge port provided at the base member and discharging fluid to an exterior of the housing;
- a negative pressure applied region provided between the outer rotor and the inner rotor and communicating to the suction port;
- a positive pressure applied region provided between the outer rotor and the inner rotor and communicating to the discharge port;
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- a relief valve discharging the fluid from the positive pressure applied region to a non-facing surface side of the side plate member when a pressure applied at the positive pressure applied region exceeds a predetermined value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.