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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 1988
Filed:
Apr. 19, 1982
Kiyohiko Watanabe, Chiryu, JP;
Kazuma Matsui, Toyohashi, JP;
Yoshiyuki Hattori, Toyoake, JP;
Toshihiro Takei, Kariya, JP;
Toshiaki Nakamura, Anjo, JP;
Shunsaku Ohnishi, Toyota, JP;
Nippondenso Co., Ltd., Kariya, JP;
Abstract
A regenerative pump has a pump housing and a disc-like impeller mounted in the housing so as to be rotated by a motor. The impeller is provided with circumferential rows of radial vane grooves formed in the opposite end faces of the impeller adjacent to the outer periphery thereof. The rows of grooves are surrounded by a circumferential fluid passage which is formed between the impeller and the pump housing and communicated with suction and discharge ports formed in the pump housing and open to the circumferential fluid passage adjacent to the outer peripheral edges of respective end faces of the impeller. Each of the vane grooves has a bottom face which is arcuate as viewed in a radial section of the impeller. The suction port is substantially tangential to the bottom face of each vane groove in the adjacent end face of the impeller at the junction between the groove bottom face and the end face of the impeller.