Magnetic pulse pump/compressor system

• US 20060127247A1
• Filed: 12/10/2004
• Published: 06/15/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sullair, LLC (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Raytheon Technologies Corporation d/b/a RTX)
• Inventors: Caddell, Richard W.
• Application Number:
  US11/009,802
• Publication Number:
  US 20060127247A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 417/413.100
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 43/09 Pumps having electric drive
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 45/067 Pumps having electric drive

Abstract

A magnetic pump system includes a ring shaped electric magnet that when pulsed with high voltage and high current, causes a magnetically deflectable elastic member to collapse over a mandrill with an arcuate outer surface. The volume between the arcuate outer surface and the inside of the elastic member is reduced causing compression and expulsion of the fluid therein through a discharge of a one-way passage system. When the magnetic field subsides, the elastic member regains its shape drawing fluid in through an inlet to the one-way passage system.

Claims

1. A pump system comprising:

a mandrill with a partially arcuate outer surface; and

a magnetically deflectable elastic member mounted about said partially arcuate outer surface.

2. The pump system as recited in claim 1, wherein said partially arcuate outer surface is parabolic.

3. The pump system as recited in claim 1, wherein said magnetically deflectable elastic member includes a tubular member.

4. The pump system as recited in claim 1, further comprising a clamp ring to retain said magnetically deflectable elastic member to said mandrill.

5. The pump system as recited in claim 1, further comprising a ring magnet mounted about said magnetically deflectable elastic member.

6. The pump system as recited in claim 5, wherein said ring magnet includes a multiple of bitter discs.

7. The pump system as recited in claim 1, further comprising a passage system formed within said mandrill.

8. The pump system as recited in claim 7, further comprising a one-way check valve located within each passage of said passage system.

11. A pump system comprising:

a tubular magnetically deflectable elastic member;

a mandrill with a partially arcuate outer surface mounted at least partially within said tubular magnetically deflectable elastic member to form a pumping volume therebetween, said mandrill defining a passage system which communicates from an input port to said pumping volume and from said pumping volume to a discharge port; and

a ring magnet mounted about said magnetically deflectable elastic member to selectively collapse said tubular magnetically deflectable elastic member toward said partially arcuate outer surface.

12. The pump system as recited in claim 11 wherein said partially arcuate outer surface is parabolic and defined about a longitudinal axis.

13. The pump system as recited in claim 11, wherein said ring magnet includes a multiple of bitter discs.

14. The pump system as recited in claim 11, wherein said passage system includes a one-way check valve within each passage.

15. The pump system as recited in claim 11, further comprising an intake manifold and a discharge manifold in communication with said passage system, said intake manifold and said discharge manifold formed adjacent each longitudinal end of said mandrill.

16. The pump system as recited in claim 15, wherein said passage system includes a multiple of longitudinal passages between said intake manifold and said discharge manifold.

17. The pump system as recited in claim 15, wherein said passage system includes a passage along a longitudinal axis defined by said mandrill, said passage including a passage branch which branches off said axis to communicate with said pumping volume.

18. A method of operating a magnetic pump system comprising the steps of:

(1) energizing a ring magnet; and

(2) magnetically collapsing a tubular magnetically deflectable elastic member toward a partially arcuate outer surface of a mandrill to communicate a fluid from a pumping volume through a discharge.

19. A method as recited in claim 18, further comprising the step of:

communicating the fluid through a one-way passage system which communicates with and from the pumping volume.