A.o. Smith Corporation

Crane Pumps & Systems, Inc.

Other

Regal Beloit America, Inc.

Baker Hughes Corporation

Element Six Gmbh

Chih Min Lin

William James Watkins

William John Watkins

Aaron J Dick

John F Bradford

Ming C Kuo

Norman Richard Long

Alejandro Flores

Mark Kowalak

Frank Edward Staigl, Iii

Janice Arline Fitzgerald

Kirk William Neer

John R Belko

Bruce B Ordway

Ron D Hirth

Oscar Romero

Norm R Long

Ronald D Hirth

Louise F Van Staden

Clement D Van Der Riet

Dragan Vukovic

Klaus Tank

Siu-Wah Wai

Gregory B Swanepoel

A pumping apparatus includes a housing having an inlet at a first end and an outlet at an opposite second end. An encapsulated stator defines an opening and is supported by the housing. A pressure plate includes diffuser vanes formed as part of the pressure plate. The pressure plate is formed as part of the encapsulated stator. A rotor is positioned at least partially within the opening and is rotatable with respect to the stator and an impeller is coupled to the rotor and cooperates with the pressure plate and the housing to pump a fluid from the inlet to the outlet in response to rotation of the rotor.

Pump motor combination

A break-away fitting facilitates installation and removal of a pump in wet well system, along at least one guide rail. When installed, the fitting mates an outlet of the pump to an outlet pipe of the wet well. The fitting has a body with a first and a second surface, the surfaces arranged to be substantially perpendicular to each other. A flanged opening in the first surface is sized and adapted for attaching the body to the outlet flange of the pump. The second surface has indentations for engaging the at least one guide rail, so that the body slides in the vertical channel. To minimize the dangers from static electricity in the wet well, the body may be formed from a non-sparking material, such as brass or bronze, or a surface of the indentations may be covered by a non-sparking material, including high-density polyethylene or poly(tetrafluoroethylene).

Guide liner for break-away fitting

A pump has a housing that defines a pump chamber () with a fluid inlet and outlet (). An impeller () is mounted for rotation in the pump chamber. A raceway () is in floating axial relationship with the impeller and divides the pump chamber into an inlet chamber (), an impeller chamber () and a discharge chamber (). The raceway has preferably two flow channels, in separated end-to-end arrangement. Each flow channel has an inlet passage and an outlet passage, establishing a fluid conduit from the inlet chamber to the impeller chamber and then to the discharge chamber. A spring () provides resistance to axial movement of the raceway away from the impeller. A seal chamber () formed on the raceway and pressurized by the fluid, urges the raceway towards the impeller.

Dual channel compliant turbine pump

A turbine pump that permits an impeller to stay compliant with a raceway by the use of a preloaded floating raceway that operates by utilizing fluid floating on both side of the raceway within the pump. Exemplary embodiments of the pump include a mounting frame that is adapted to engage the pump to a drive source; an end frame that is adapted to attach to the mounting frame and includes an inlet section and an outlet section that facilitate fluid flow entering and exiting the pump; a motor shaft enclosed within the mounting frame; a floating raceway that is situated within the end frame and positioned around the distal end of the motor shaft, and includes an inlet passage, an outlet passage and a bypass hole fixed relative to the position of the inlet passage and the outlet passage; a spring located at the top of the floating raceway and at least partially contained within a corresponding cavity located in the end frame that is preloaded to help maintain a desired clearance between the floating raceway and the impeller; and an impeller secured to an distal end of the motor shaft.

Turbine pump with floating raceway

An assembly controls the liquid level in a vessel in which a submersible pump is disposed. The assembly has a switch housing and a float housing, arranged proximate to each other. A switch in the switch housing selectively energizes a motor associated with the pump. When a float disposed in the float housing moves in response to a change in the liquid level of the vessel, the movement is coupled to the switch by a pair of magnets arranged in attractive relationship to each other. One of the magnets is in the switch housing and the other is in the float housing. The magnets interact by providing force fields that acts through a wall that separates the switch housing and the float housing. A lever on which the switch housing magnet is positioned tilts the magnets away from alignment as they approach each other, reducing the increase in attractive force therebetween.

Switch and float assembly for a pump

An electric motor includes a stator, a housing supporting the stator and having a bearing seat with an inner surface and an inner end, a bearing having an outer surface, a shaft rotatably supported by the bearing, and a rotor supported by the shaft. The motor also includes a tolerance ring having an interior surface, an exterior surface disposed against the bearing seat inner surface, and a plurality of elastic corrugations. Each of the elastic corrugations projects radially from the interior surface, defining a shoulder section disposed between the bearing and the inner end of the bearing seat. The shoulder section generates a spring force against the bearing to axially and radially support the bearing and to axially preload the bearing.

Method for assembling an electric motor using a slip fit tolerance ring

A motor assembly comprises a first end frame, a second end frame including at least one air outlet aperture, an air shroud surrounding a stator between the first end frame and the second end frame, the air shroud cooperating with the stator to form at least one air passage, and cooperating with the first end frame to form at least one air inlet aperture. The motor assembly also comprises a fan mounted on the rotating shaft, the fan operable to generate an air flow of ambient air through the at least one air inlet aperture, the at least one air passage and the at least one air outlet aperture.

Totally enclosed fan cooled motor

A terminal board includes an attachment portion engageable with an end cap and defines an attachment plane that is substantially parallel to an end plane defined by the end cap, and a first terminal portion adapted to receive a first terminal wire. The first terminal portion defines a first terminal plane that intersects the end plane to define an included angle. The included angle is between about 40 degrees and 80 degrees.

Electric machine having a tilted voltage adjustment

An electric motor assembly including a mechanism for mounting a module housing end on a motor housing end, and a mechanism for drivingly connecting a module shaft end to a motor shaft end. The assembly further includes a mechanism for preventing the module housing from rotating relative to the motor housing, and a mechanism for slidably attaching for shaft axis direction movement relative to each other the module housing and the motor housing. The module shaft end and the motor shaft end are located relative to their respective housings so that they can be drivingly connected to each other without the module housing and the motor housing interfering with the connection.

Electric motor assembly with a module attached to a motor housing

An apparatus comprising a driven element, a driving element operably coupled to the driven element, and a shield coupled to the driving element such that the shield at least partially covers at least one of the driven element and the driving element. The driven element includes a housing with an outer surface. The outer surface has a first raised portion and a first non-raised portion, the first non-raised portion at least partially surrounding the first raised portion, the first raised and first non-raised portions define a first surface pattern. The shield has an outer surface with a second raised portion and a second non-raised portion. The second non-raised portion at least partially surrounds the second raised portion, defining a second surface pattern substantially similar to the first surface pattern.

Combination shield and conduit box cover

An electric motor including having a housing, a stator fixed relative to the housing, a shaft rotatable about a motor axis, a rotor supported by the shaft for rotation with the shaft relative to the stator, a terminal board fixed relative to the housing, and first and second electrical terminals supported by the terminal board. The electric motor also includes an operating condition selection device including a moveable portion supported by the terminal board for pivotable rotation about a second axis between a first position corresponding to a first operating condition and a second position corresponding to a second operating condition. At least a portion of the moveable portion substantially remains in a fixed axial position relative to the second axis while pivoting between the first and second positions. The electrical terminals are accessible through a conduit receiving aperture for testing purposes.

Electric motor having a terminal board

An electric motor having an integrally formed bonding apparatus that allows an installer to quickly and efficiently bond the electric motor to a bonding grid of a bonding area. A fastener having a head is inserted into an aperture of the housing of the electric motor such that a bonding conductor is captured between the housing and the head. The bonding conductor is electrically coupled to the housing via direct contact between the bonding conductor and the housing and/or via indirect contact through the fastener. An integrally formed surface of the housing prevents the bonding conductor from moving out from under the head.

Electric motor bonding apparatus

A bonding lug apparatus for devices such as electric motors installed within a distance of a fluid-holding apparatus such as pools, hot tubs, spas, and the like, is provided that includes a fastener having a head and a bonding lug having an aperture that receives the fastener such that a bonding conductor of a bonding grid of the fluid-holding apparatus area is captured between the head of the fastener and the bonding lug. The bonding lug apparatus bonds the electric motor to the bonding grid of the fluid-holding apparatus area when the bonding lug apparatus is electrically coupled to the electric motor and the bonding conductor.

Electric motor bonding lug apparatus

An electric motor having a rain baffle which is supported relative to and within the motor housing to prevent rain or the like which may enter ventilation outlets in the housing from contacting the rotor shaft bearing and the electrical components positioned within the housing. The rain baffle is also supported relative to and within the motor housing to allow air used to cool the motor to pass around the perimeter of the baffle and out the ventilation outlets in such a way as to substantially minimize the exhaust air from being recirculated back into air inlet vents in the housing.

Electric motor having a rain baffle

An electric motor having a no-adjust starting switch. An actuator button of a starting switch assembly is slidably positioned in a switch housing mounted to an end frame of the motor. As a rotor shaft and associated centrifugal governor which engages the actuator button rotate, there is minimal wobbling of the actuator button during motor start-up and motor operation.

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Tipp City, OH, United States of America

Chih Min Lin