Diaphragm pump

• US 6,435,844 B1
• Filed: 09/25/2000
• Issued: 08/20/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: OKEN Seiko Company Limited
• Original Assignee: OKEN Seiko Company Limited
• Inventors: Fukami, Tadashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Freay, Charles G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): RODRIGUEZ, WILLIAM H
• Application Number:
  US09/668,738
• Time in Patent Office: 694 Days
• Field of Search: 417/395, 417/412, 417/413.1, 417/383, 417/384, 417/540, 417/543
• US Class Current: 417/395
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 43/0054 particularities of the flexible members
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 43/009 leakage control; pump systems with two flexible members; between the actuating element and the pumped fluid
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 43/067 the fluid being actuated directly by a piston

Abstract

A diaphragm pump comprising a first diaphragm operated with a driving mechanism such as a crank mechanism, a second diaphragm disposed so as to form an air chamber between the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm, and a pump chamber formed by the second diaphragm and a casing or the like, wherein the a pressure in the air chamber is changed by operating the first diaphragm with the driving mechanism and the second diaphragm is deformed by a change of the pressure in the air chamber to perform a pump function.

Claims

1. A diaphragm pump comprising:

a first diaphragm which is operated with a driving mechanism driven by a motor;

a second diaphragm which is disposed so as to form an air chamber between said first diaphragm and said second diaphragm;

a pump chamber which is formed on a side opposite to the air chamber of said second diaphragm;

an inflow port and an outflow port which are connected to said pump chamber respectively; and

check valves which are disposed between said pump chamber and said inflow port, and between said pump chamber and said outflow port respectively, wherein said first diaphragm is deformed by operating said driving mechanism by driving said motor, the second diaphragm is deformed by increase and decrease of a pressure in the air chamber which is caused by deformation of said first diaphragm, and a volume of the pump chamber is changed by deformation of said second diaphragm, thereby flowing a fluid from the inflow port into the pump chamber and flowing the fluid from the pump chamber into the outflow port to perform a pump function.

2. The diaphragm pump according to claim 1, wherein a plate like member is disposed so as to partition said air chamber into two, an orifice is formed in said plate like member, and a volume of a section of said air chamber which is formed between said first diaphragm and said plate like member is increased and decreased by deforming said first diaphragm, thereby deforming said second diaphragm by way of said orifice to perform the pump function.

3. The diaphragm pump according to claim 1 or 2, wherein an accumulator is disposed in a flow path connected to said outflow port.

4. The diaphragm pump according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said second diaphragm is composed of a deformable thin metal plate.

5. The diaphragm pump according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said second diaphragm is composed of a corrugated thin metal plate.

6. The diaphragm pump according to claim 4, wherein an accumulator is disposed in a flow path connected to said outflow port.

7. The diaphragm pump according to claim 5, wherein an accumulator is disposed in a flow path connected to said outflow port.