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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2017
Taiho Kogyo Co., Ltd., Toyota, JP;
Satoshi Ikeda, Toyota, JP;
Ken Nakamuta, Toyota, JP;
TAIHO KOGYO Co., Ltd., Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A vane pump including: a housing having a pump chamber; a rotor having a cylindrical peripheral wall portion accommodated in the pump chamber and having a pair of vane holding grooves facing each other in a diameter direction, and an oil chamber defined inside the peripheral wall portion to store lubricating oil; and a vane that is held in the pair of vane holding grooves and moves across the oil chamber in the diameter direction, is provided. At least one of an inner surface of the housing and an end face of the peripheral wall portion, which together with the inner surface defines a sliding interface, has an oil groove for the lubricating oil.