DIAPHRAGM PUMP

• US 20180363646A1
• Filed: 06/18/2018
• Published: 12/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mabuchi Motor OKEN Company Limited
• Original Assignee: OKENSEIKO Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: INOUE, Akira
• Granted Patent: US 10,641,262 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 35/04 the means being electric
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 39/0094 crankshaft
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 43/0045 with a number of independent working chambers which are actuated successively by one mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 43/0054 particularities of the flexible members
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 43/02 having plate-like flexible members, e.g. diaphragms F04B43/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 45/022 with two or more bellows in parallel
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 53/006 Crankshafts
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 53/18 Lubricating

Abstract

A diaphragm pump (1) includes a driving body (33) configured to convert a rotation of a crank body (31) into a reciprocal motion and transmit the reciprocal motion to a deformed portion (11) of a diaphragm (7). The driving body (33) includes a shaft portion (36) including a shaft hole (43) in which a driving shaft (32) fixed to the crank body is rotatably fitted. The shaft hole is a non-through hole including an opening-side end (43a) and a closed-side end (43b) each including an inner peripheral surface that contacts the driving shaft over a whole circumference. The shaft portion includes an oil storage (44) opening to a region between the opening-side end and the closed-side end of the shaft hole.

Claims

1. A diaphragm pump comprising:

a diaphragm including a deformed portion that forms a part of a wall of a pump chamber;

a crank body fixed to a rotating shaft of a motor;

a driving shaft including one end fixed to a position of the crank body decentered from the rotating shaft and tilting with respect to the rotating shaft;

a driving body configured to convert a rotation of the crank body into a reciprocal motion and transmit the reciprocal motion to the deformed portion, the driving body including a shaft portion including a shaft hole in which the driving shaft is rotatably fitted, and an arm portion projecting from the shaft portion outward in a radial direction and connected to the deformed portion, the shaft hole comprising a non-through hole including an opening-side end and a closed-side end each including an inner peripheral surface that contacts the driving shaft over a whole circumference, and the shaft portion including an oil storage opening to a region between the opening-side end and the closed-side end of the shaft hole; and

a pump mechanism configured to alternately repeat a state in which a fluid is discharged from the pump chamber and a state in which the fluid is sucked into the pump chamber along with the reciprocal motion of the driving body.

2. The pump according to claim 1, wherein the oil storage includes:

a supply port formed into a slit shape having a predetermined opening width and extending in an axial direction of the driving shaft and opening to the shaft hole; and

a storage portion extending from the supply port in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the driving shaft, and

wherein a connecting portion of the storage portion with the supply port gradually becomes narrow toward the supply port.

3. The pump according to claim 2, wherein the shaft portion includes:

a bearing member in which the shaft hole and the oil storage are formed; and

a tubular member that is connected to the arm portion and stores the bearing member,

wherein the storage portion includes an opening formed in an outer peripheral surface of the bearing member, and

wherein the opening is closed by an inner surface of the tubular member.

4. The pump according to claim 1, wherein the oil storage includes a plurality of oil storage portions arranged at a predetermined interval in a circumferential direction of an inner peripheral surface of the shaft hole.