A screw pump comprises a body which has a cylindrical duct formed therein. A screw shaft is located in the cylindrical duct and is arranged to transport liquid between an inlet and an outlet of the screw pump. The screw shaft has a screw thread which defines a helical liquid path within the cylindrical duct. The body of the screw pump includes a groove extending along an inside surface of the cylindrical duct, the groove defining, in part, a ball-passage which extends alongside the screw shaft and intersects with the helical liquid path. The ball-passage contains a plurality of balls which are guided along the ball-passage by the screw thread when the screw shaft rotates relative to the body.

Provided is a cooling module including a reservoir tank in which cooling water is stored, a screw pump coupled to the reservoir tank and having a cooling water inlet communicating with the reservoir tank to pump cooling water, and a direction control valve coupled to the reservoir tank, having an outlet port communicating with the reservoir tank, and having a plurality of inlet ports to change a direction of flow of cooling water according to an operation, so that efficiency corresponding to the use of a plurality of centrifugal pumps of the related art may be achieved by using a single screw pump, thereby reducing the number of parts and simplifying a package, while simplifying the configuration.

Provided is a cooling module including a reservoir tank in which cooling water is stored, a screw pump coupled to the reservoir tank and having a cooling water inlet communicating with the reservoir tank to pump cooling water, and a direction control valve coupled to the reservoir tank, having an outlet port communicating with the reservoir tank, and having a plurality of inlet ports to change a direction of flow of cooling water according to an operation, so that efficiency corresponding to the use of a plurality of centrifugal pumps of the related art may be achieved by using a single screw pump, thereby reducing the number of parts and simplifying a package, while simplifying the configuration.

A lubricant vane pump for providing a pressurized lubricant for an internal combustion engine includes a pump housing enclosing a pumping cavity comprising a charge zone and a discharge zone. A shiftable control ring envelops the pumping cavity. A pump rotor comprising vanes divides the pumping cavity into pumping chambers. The pump rotor is radially slidable and rotates in the control ring from the charge zone to the discharge zone. A spring chamber comprises a pretensioning element which pushes the control ring to a high pumping volume direction. A control chamber is configured so that a lubricant pressure in the control chamber moves the control ring to a low pumping volume direction against a force of the pretensioning element. A pumping cavity outlet port is connected to the control chamber. A pressure equilibration channel drains the lubricant from the pumping chamber in the discharge zone into the spring chamber.

A lubricant vane pump for providing a pressurized lubricant for an internal combustion engine includes a pump housing enclosing a pumping cavity comprising a charge zone and a discharge zone. A shiftable control ring envelops the pumping cavity. A pump rotor comprising vanes divides the pumping cavity into pumping chambers. The pump rotor is radially slidable and rotates in the control ring from the charge zone to the discharge zone. A spring chamber comprises a pretensioning element which pushes the control ring to a high pumping volume direction. A control chamber is configured so that a lubricant pressure in the control chamber moves the control ring to a low pumping volume direction against a force of the pretensioning element. A pumping cavity outlet port is connected to the control chamber. A pressure equilibration channel drains the lubricant from the pumping chamber in the discharge zone into the spring chamber.

A fuel pump includes: an outer gear; an inner gear that is meshed with the outer gear and includes a receiving hole; a rotatable shaft; a contact portion that is formed to be contactable with the receiving hole; and a pump housing that rotatably receives the outer gear and the inner gear and includes a first housing component and a second housing component, between which the inner gear is held in the axial direction. At least one of the receiving hole and the contact portion includes a tilt surface, which is tilted relative to the axis direction. When the rotatable shaft is rotated to a drive rotation side, the receiving hole contacts the contact portion through the tilt surface, so that the receiving hole is urged in a circumferential direction and is also urged toward the first housing component in the axial direction.

The present invention provides a pump apparatus capable of preventing or reducing deterioration of efficiency of a pump. The pump apparatus includes a venturi portion provided on the way along a discharge passage. The venturi portion includes a small diameter portion having a smaller inner diameter than an inner diameter of the discharge passage from a discharge port to the venturi portion and an inner diameter gradually-increasing portion formed in such a manner that an inner diameter thereof gradually increases from the small diameter portion toward a downstream side of the discharge passage. The pump apparatus further includes a control valve configured to receive introduction of hydraulic fluid on an upstream side of the venturi portion and hydraulic fluid in the venturi portion. The control valve is configured to control a flow amount of hydraulic fluid to be supplied into an automatic transmission by switching a flow passage of the hydraulic fluid based on a differential pressure between a pressure on the upstream side of the venturi portion and a pressure in the venturi portion (50).

The present invention provides a pump apparatus capable of preventing or reducing deterioration of efficiency of a pump. The pump apparatus includes a venturi portion provided on the way along a discharge passage. The venturi portion includes a small diameter portion having a smaller inner diameter than an inner diameter of the discharge passage from a discharge port to the venturi portion and an inner diameter gradually-increasing portion formed in such a manner that an inner diameter thereof gradually increases from the small diameter portion toward a downstream side of the discharge passage. The pump apparatus further includes a control valve configured to receive introduction of hydraulic fluid on an upstream side of the venturi portion and hydraulic fluid in the venturi portion. The control valve is configured to control a flow amount of hydraulic fluid to be supplied into an automatic transmission by switching a flow passage of the hydraulic fluid based on a differential pressure between a pressure on the upstream side of the venturi portion and a pressure in the venturi portion (50).

An automotive pendulum-slider pump for providing a pressurized lubricant. The automotive pendulum-slider pump includes a non-rotatable rotor housing, a rotor ring which rotates within the rotor housing and which encloses a pumping chamber which includes a suction opening, a discharge opening, and an automatically switching pressure adaption valve, a rotor hub which is connected with the rotor ring to co-rotate therewith, and pendulum vanes which are arranged over a circumference of the rotor ring. The pendulum vanes are pivotably hinged via a respective pendulum hinge at the rotor ring. The pendulum vanes fluidically separate the pumping chamber into pumping compartments. The automatically switching pressure adaption valve of the pumping chamber pre-opens a fluidic connection between at least one of the pumping compartments and the discharge opening immediately before the at least one of the pumping compartments has arrived at the discharge opening.

An automotive pendulum-slider pump for providing a pressurized lubricant. The automotive pendulum-slider pump includes a non-rotatable rotor housing, a rotor ring which rotates within the rotor housing and which encloses a pumping chamber which includes a suction opening, a discharge opening, and an automatically switching pressure adaption valve, a rotor hub which is connected with the rotor ring to co-rotate therewith, and pendulum vanes which are arranged over a circumference of the rotor ring. The pendulum vanes are pivotably hinged via a respective pendulum hinge at the rotor ring. The pendulum vanes fluidically separate the pumping chamber into pumping compartments. The automatically switching pressure adaption valve of the pumping chamber pre-opens a fluidic connection between at least one of the pumping compartments and the discharge opening immediately before the at least one of the pumping compartments has arrived at the discharge opening.