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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:
Jan. 13, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Wolfgang Eberl, Solms, DE;
Assignee:
Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH, Asslar, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F04B 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F04B 3/00 ;
Abstract
A vacuum pump including two gas friction pumps arranged parallel to each other and having each at least one stage having an inlet communicating with a common suction region and an outlet communicating with a separate discharge region, a multi-stage pump arranged downstream of the two gas friction pumps, connection conduits for communicating the separate discharge regions with a common discharge chamber, and a conduit for communicating the common discharge chamber with the suction chamber of the downstream pump.