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Vacuum pump system

US5733104A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 17, 1995
Grant dateMar 31, 1998
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Expiry dateAug 17, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF04D25/00
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A vacuum pump system for multi-stage gas inlet systems and including a pumping unit formed of a turbomolecular pump and one or several further pumps arranged downstream of the turbomolecular pump and the rotors of which are located on the same shaft as the rotor of the turbomolecular pump, and an additional intermittently operated dry running pump, which discharges against atmospheric pressure.

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