VANE PUMP

• US 20070134120A1
• Filed: 12/12/2006
• Published: 06/14/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kayaba Industry Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Kayaba Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Fujita, Tomoyuki, Yakabe, Shinji, Noda, Tomomi, Noguchi, Eishin, Shiozaki, Hiroshi
• Application Number:
  US11/609,338
• Publication Number:
  US 20070134120A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 418/112
• CPC Class Codes: F01C 21/108 with an axial surface, e.g. side plates
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 15/06 Arrangements for admission or discharge of the working fluid, e.g. constructional features of the inlet or outlet
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2/3446 the inner and outer member being in contact along more than one line or surface

Abstract

A vane pump according to the present invention is characterized in that a position of a first suction port located in the forward rotation direction of a rotor is brought closer to a suction port than a position of a second suction port located in the backward rotation direction of the rotor with the suction port as reference by positioning a side plate in the state where the discharge port is brought close to a mounting portion.

Claims

1. A vane pump in which a rotor with vanes and a side plate are arranged in a space formed by a front housing and a rear housing mounted to the front housing by a mounting portion,

two suction ports and discharge ports are provided at positions opposite to each other with a predetermined angle around a rotating shaft of said rotor separated at least in one of said side plate or the rear housing, and

a working fluid sucked in through a suction port provided in said front housing is sucked into a pump chamber from said suction port, a pumping action is given to the working fluid by rotation of said rotor and then, the working fluid is discharged from said discharge port,

wherein by positioning said side plate or the rear housing in the state where said discharge port is brought close to said mounting portion, the position of the first suction port located in the forward rotation direction of the rotor is brought closer to the suction port than the position of the second suction port located in the backward rotation direction of the rotor with said suction port as reference.

2. The vane pump of claim 1, wherein the mounting portions are provided at positions opposed to each other with said rotating shaft as the center and two discharge ports are provided on a line connecting the two mounting portions.

3. The vane pump of claim 1, wherein a space between said side plate and the front housing is a pressure chamber, a drain passage is provided for returning the working fluid internally leaking inside the bottom surface of the pressure chamber to the suction port side, and said discharge port is provided avoiding the position of the drain passage.

4. The vane pump of claim 2, wherein a space between said side plate and the front housing is a pressure chamber, a drain passage is provided for returning the working fluid internally leaking inside the bottom surface of the pressure chamber to the suction port side, and said discharge port is provided avoiding the position of the drain passage.