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Oil pump rotor having a generated cycloid curve

US5876193A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJan 15, 1997
Grant dateMar 2, 1999
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Expiry dateJan 15, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF04C2/102
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The present invention relates to an oil pump rotor provided with an inner rotor 10 to which n (n is a natural number) outer teeth 11 are formed, an outer rotor 20 to which n+1 inner teeth 21 are formed which engage with each of the outer teeth 11, and a casing 30 in which an intake port 31 for taking up fluid and an expulsion port 32 for expelling fluid are formed, wherein: the outer teeth of inner rotor are formed by alternately combining an epicycloid curve and a hypocycloid curve, the epicycloid curve being generated as an orbit of the point on a circle which rolls along the outside of the base circle without slipping, and the hypocycloid curve being generated as an orbit of a point on a circle which rolls along the inside of the base circle without slipping; the alternately combined curve being generated under the following condition, where E is the diameter of the circle which rolls along the outside of the base circle, and H is the diameter of the circle which rolls along the inside of the base circle: EQU 0.5.ltoreq.H/E.ltoreq.0.8.

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