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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:
Nov. 11, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Armin Conrad, Herborn, DE;
Assignee:
Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH, Asslar, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F04D 1/904 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F04D 1/904 ;
Abstract
A gas friction pump, including a housing having a suction opening, a gas outlet opening, and a plurality of rotatable and stationary components arranged in the housing and having a pump-active structure for pumping gases and maintaining a pressure ratio, and an additional gas inlet formed as a longitudinal opening extending, in a longitudinal direction thereof, over a portion of an outer edge of a rotatable component.