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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2000
Armin Conrad, Herborn, DE;
Wolfgang Eberl, Solms, DE;
Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH, Asslar, DE;
Abstract
A vacuum pump, including a housing having inlet and outlet; a shaft arranged in the housing and supported bearing provided in the housing, drive for rotating the shaft; and a plurality of pumping units arranged in the housing and formed each of rotational and stationary gas delivery components with the rotational components being supported on the shaft and the stationary components being connected with the housing, at least one of the pumping units consisting of a plurality of connected parallel to each other and arranged one after another in an axial direction, molecular pumping stages with each pumping stage being formed based on Gaede principle; with the molecular pumping stages being connected with each other in common connection channels.