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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 16, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Leybold Aktiengesellschaft, Hanau, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
415 90 ; 4174234 ; 41742312 ;
Abstract
A vacuum pump has a pump housing, magnetic bearings mounted in the housing, a rotary assembly including a pump rotor disposed in the housing and supported for rotation by the magnetic bearings and two spaced emergency bearings supporting the pump rotor when it deviates by a predetermined extent from a desired position. The rotary assembly has a center of gravity which is situated between the emergency bearings and which is spaced approximately equally therefrom.