Patent application number | Description | Published |
20150354559 | GEAR PUMP DRIVEN GEAR PRESSURE LOADED BEARING - One embodiment includes a gear pump with a driven gear, a gear shaft passing through the driven gear, and a pressure loaded journal bearing. Also included is a fluid film, between a surface of the pressure loaded journal bearing and a surface of the gear shaft, and a hybrid pad on the pressure loaded journal bearing. The hybrid pad has a minimum leading edge angular location on the pressure loaded journal bearing of 41.5° and a maximum trailing edge angular location on the pressure loaded journal bearing of 54.5°. The gear pump also includes a porting path for supplying high pressure fluid from a discharge of the gear pump to the fluid film at the hybrid pad. | 12-10-2015 |
20150354560 | GEAR PUMP DRIVE GEAR PRESSURE LOADED BEARING - One embodiment includes a gear pump with a drive gear, a gear shaft passing through the drive gear, and a pressure loaded journal bearing. Also included is a fluid film, between a surface of the pressure loaded journal bearing and a surface of the gear shaft, and a hybrid pad on the pressure loaded journal bearing. The hybrid pad has a minimum leading edge angular location on the pressure loaded journal bearing of 29.5° and a maximum trailing edge angular location on the pressure loaded journal bearing of 42.5°. The gear pump also includes a porting path for supplying high pressure fluid from a discharge of the gear pump to the fluid film at the hybrid pad. | 12-10-2015 |
20150354561 | GEAR PUMP DRIVE GEAR STATIONARY BEARING - One embodiment includes a gear pump with a drive gear, a gear shaft passing through the drive gear, and a stationary journal bearing. Also included is a fluid film, between a surface of the stationary journal bearing and a surface of the gear shaft, and a hybrid pad on the stationary journal bearing. The hybrid pad has a minimum leading edge angular location on the stationary journal bearing of 29.5° and a maximum trailing edge angular location on the stationary journal bearing of 42.5°. The gear pump also includes a porting path for supplying high pressure fluid from a discharge of the gear pump to the fluid film at the hybrid pad. | 12-10-2015 |
20150354562 | GEAR PUMP DRIVEN GEAR STATIONARY BEARING - One embodiment includes a gear pump with a driven gear, a gear shaft passing through the driven gear, and a stationary journal bearing. Also included is a fluid film, between a surface of the stationary journal bearing and a surface of the gear shaft, and a hybrid pad on the stationary journal bearing. The hybrid pad has a minimum leading edge angular location on the stationary journal bearing of 41.5° and a maximum trailing edge angular location on the stationary journal bearing of 54.5°. The gear pump also includes a porting path for supplying high pressure fluid from a discharge of the gear pump to the fluid film at the hybrid pad. | 12-10-2015 |
20160032922 | GEAR PUMP DRIVE GEAR STATIONARY BEARING - One embodiment includes a gear pump with a drive gear, a gear shaft passing through the drive gear, and a stationary journal bearing. Also included is a fluid film location annularly between a surface of the stationary journal bearing and a surface of the gear shaft, and a hybrid pad location on the stationary journal bearing adjacent the fluid film location. The hybrid pad has a minimum leading edge angular location on the stationary journal bearing of 31.0° and a maximum trailing edge angular location on the stationary journal bearing of 43.0°. The gear pump also includes a porting path for supplying high pressure fluid from a discharge of the gear pump to the fluid film at the hybrid pad. | 02-04-2016 |
20160032969 | GEAR PUMP BEARINGS WITH HYBRID PADS - A journal bearing assembly includes a first journal bearing disposed about a longitudinal end of a gear shaft and spaced a first distance from a first axial gear face. A first fluid film location and a first hybrid pad location are annularly between an inner surface of the first journal bearing and an outer surface of the gear shaft. The first hybrid pad location circumferentially adjacent to the first fluid film location has a minimum leading edge angular location of at least about 31.0° measured relative to a first bearing flat. A first porting path provides high pressure fluid communication from a location outside the first journal bearing to the first fluid film location at or adjacent to the first hybrid pad location. | 02-04-2016 |
20160097399 | VOLUTE FOR ENGINE-MOUNTED BOOST STAGE FUEL PUMP - A housing has walls that define a volute passage and a diffuser passage fluidly connected to the volute passage. The volute passage has a first subsection and a second subsection, each having cross-sectional areas defined by tabular data. A centrifugal pump has a rotor and a housing, the housing having walls defining a volute passage and a diffuser passage fluidly connected to the volute passage. The volute passage has a first subsection and a second subsection, each having cross-sectional areas defined by tabular data. | 04-07-2016 |
20160097400 | IMPELLER FOR ENGINE-MOUNTED BOOST STAGE FUEL PUMP - A impeller for a centrifugal pump has an inducer section. The inducer section has first and second pluralities of blades, each having a plurality of polygonal cross-sections defined by a plurality of vertices. The pluralities of vertices are defined by tables of vertex locations. A method of making a centrifugal pump includes forming an impeller that has an inducer section, as described above, and an impeller section. The impeller is fluidly connected downstream of the inducer section and has third, fourth, and fifth pluralities of blades, each having a plurality of polygonal cross-sectional areas defined by a plurality of vertices. The pluralities of vertices are defined by tables of vertex locations. | 04-07-2016 |