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Rotary type fluid machine

Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd
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Filing: 1985-05-24
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Granted: 1987-07-07
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Expires: 2005-05-24
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Abstract

Abstract A rotary fluid machine of the type including two spiral elements, or a stationary spiral element and a revolving spiral element having identical configurations and disposed 180 degrees apart from each other in mutually nested relationship. The revolving spiral element is adapted to revolve in solar motion relationship with respect to the stationary spiral element with a radius of revolutionary motion ρ. Both spiral elements are respectively defined in profile with a radially outer curve segment consisting of an involute curve, a radially inner curve segment consisting of another involute curve in an arc having a radius R, and an arc of a radius r connecting smoothly the radially outer curve segment and the arc having the radius R, whereby the radially inner leading end of the spiral elements incorporated may well be protected from possible damages as encountered during the operation of the machine, and the height of spiral elements may readily be increased substantially without making greater the overall outer diameter of the spiral elements, to give the machine a larger capacity.

Inventors

  • 👤 Takahisa Hirano
  • 👤 Shoji Fukami
  • 👤 Mitsutosho Maeda

Bibliographic Details

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Jurisdiction US
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Last Synchronized 2026-10-30 21:39
CPC Classifications
F; F04; F04C; F04C18/00; F04C18/02; F01; F01C; F01C1/00; F01C1/02; F01C1/0207; F01C1/0246

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim 121 words
A rotary type fluid machine comprising stationary spiral means and revolving spiral means respectively having a substantially identical configuration and disposed 180 degrees apart from each other in mutually nested relationship, said revolving spiral means being adapted to resolve in solar motion relationship with respect to said stationary spiral means with a radius of revolutionary motion ρ, wherein said both spiral means are respectively formed by an outer curve consisting of an involute curve, an inner curve consisting of another involute curve having an inner arc of radius R, and an arc of a radius r connecting smoothly said outer curve and said arc having the radius R, in accordance with the geometrical relationship as given by the following equations; ##EQU3##
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 121 words
A rotary type fluid machine comprising stationary spiral means and revolving spiral means respectively having a substantially identical configuration and disposed 180 degrees apart from each other in mutually nested relationship, said revolving spiral means being adapted to resolve in solar motion relationship with respect to said stationary spiral means with a radius of revolutionary motion ρ, wherein said both spiral means are respectively formed by an outer curve consisting of an involute curve, an inner curve consisting of another involute curve having an inner arc of radius R, and an arc of a radius r connecting smoothly said outer curve and said arc having the radius R, in accordance with the geometrical relationship as given by the following equations; ##EQU3##
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 16 words
where, β≧13° . and b is the radius of a base circle of said involute curve.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 16 words
where, β≧13° . and b is the radius of a base circle of said involute curve.

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