Compact pump

• US 6,206,664 B1
• Filed: 06/11/1999
• Issued: 03/27/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: OKENSEIKO Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: OKENSEIKO Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Kakizawa, Goro
• Primary Examiner(s): Freay, Charles G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): GRAY, MICHAEL KUHN
• Application Number:
  US09/330,609
• Time in Patent Office: 655 Days
• Field of Search: 417/569, 417/571, 417/269, 92/71, 92/72, 921/691, 914/99
• US Class Current: 417/569
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 43/026 each plate-like pumping flexible member working in its own pumping chamber
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 53/16 Casings; Cylinders; Cylinder liners or heads; Fluid connections

Abstract

A compact pump composed by combining a cylinder into which a diaphragm portion is to be inserted, a case which accommodates a driving portion for driving the diaphragm portion and a valve housing, and clamping and fixing a combination of the members with a spring.

Claims

1. A compact pump comprising:

a diaphragm body having at least a diaphragm portion forming a pump chamber and a valve portion nearly in contact with said diaphragm portion in which said diaphragm portion and said valve portion are formed integrally with each other;

a cylinder portion into which said diaphragm portion is to be inserted;

a valve chamber in which said valve portion of said diaphragm body is disposed;

a valve housing which has a discharge port communicating with said valve chamber;

a case which accommodates a driving portion for driving said diaphragm portion; and

a spring for fixing said case, said cylinder portion and said diaphragm body all together.

2. The compact pump according to claim 1, wherein convexities are formed on a circumference of said diaphragm portion of said diaphragm body.

3. The compact pump according to claim 1, wherein said valve housing has air suction ports communicating with each pump chamber formed by said diaphragm portion and wherein convexities are formed around said air suction port of said valve housing.

4. The compact pump according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein said diaphragm body is interposed between said cylinder portion and said valve housing, and said cylinder portion is integrated with said valve housing by soldering.

5. The compact pump according to claim 4, wherein a plurality of soldering convexities are formed on said cylinder portion, wherein holes are formed in said diaphragm body at locations corresponding to said soldering convexities, wherein said soldering convexities formed on said cylinder portion are inserted into the holes formed in the holes formed in said diaphragm body, and wherein said diaphragm body is soldered with said soldering convexities with said diaphragm body interposed between said cylinder portion and said valve housing.

6. The compact pump according to claim 5, wherein a reinforcement sheet is disposed on an upper end surface of said valve housing, wherein the case, the cylinder portion, the diaphragm body, the valve housing and the reinforcement sheet are combined with one another, and wherein the combination of the members is clamped and fixed with a spring.

7. The compact pump according to claim 6, wherein said reinforcement sheet has a reinforcement portion. during the use are.