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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2018
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Abdelkrim Zouani, Canton, MI (US);
Vidya Marri, Northville, MI (US);
Michael Stanley, Dearborn, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F03C 2/00 (2006.01); F03C 4/00 (2006.01); F04C 2/00 (2006.01); F04C 2/344 (2006.01); F04C 14/24 (2006.01); F04C 13/00 (2006.01); F04C 15/06 (2006.01); F04C 14/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F04C 2/344 (2013.01); F04C 13/001 (2013.01); F04C 14/223 (2013.01); F04C 14/24 (2013.01); F04C 15/06 (2013.01); F04C 2210/206 (2013.01); F04C 2240/20 (2013.01); F04C 2250/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vane pump has a housing defining a closed conduit fluidly coupling a discharge port and a planar surface, and an inner rotor eccentrically supported within a cam. The rotor has an outer perimeter defined by wall sections separated by axial slots. The rotor defines another closed conduit extending from one of the wall sections to a rotor end face that is configured to overlap with the closed conduit.