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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2011
Masaki Misunou, Atsugi, JP;
Toshihiro Koizumi, Atsugi, JP;
Chiharu Nakazawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd., Hitachinaka-shi, JP;
Abstract
A pump apparatus including a drive shaft and a driven shaft supported by bearing members, respectively, a center plate, first external gears, second external gears, first and second side plates, first and second seal members, a pressing means for applying a pressing force between the tooth tips of the respective external gears and the seal surface of the respective seal members in a closing region disposed between the respective external gears and the respective seal members, wherein contact between inner circumferential surfaces of the bearing members and an outer circumferential surface of the drive shaft is established on the side of the closing region, while the tooth tips of the respective external gears and the seal surface of the respective seal members in the closing region are kept pressed against each other by the pressing means.