According to one implementation, a rotating device includes at least one ring, at least one motor and a power transmission mechanism. The least one ring rotates in a circumference direction. The at least one ring includes no hub for housing a motor inside the at least one ring. The at least one motor generates power for rotating the at least one ring. The power transmission mechanism transmits the power to the at least one ring.

There is disclosed an excavation apparatus (5), such as an underwater excavation apparatus, having means for producing, in use, at least one vortex, spiral or turbulent flow in a laminar flow of fluid, e.g. water. The excavation apparatus (5) comprises a rotor (10) having a rotor rotation axis (A), wherein, in use, flow of fluid passed or across the rotor (10) is at a first angle (α) from the axis of rotation (A). The excavation apparatus (5) comprises the rotor (10) and means or an arrangement for dampening reactive torque on the apparatus (5) caused by rotation of the rotor (10), in use. The turbulent flow is provided within, such as within a (transverse) cross-section, of the laminar flow.

A surgical cleaning device and method of use having a housing, a drive shaft rotatably mounted, having a rear end and a front end, a brush head positioned at the front end and arranged outside the housing, to which a plurality of elastically deformable bristles are attached, a pump connected with the drive shaft for pumping a rinsing liquid, a gearbox that is connected with the front end of the drive shaft and with a rear end of the tube and which translates the rotational movement of the drive shaft into an oscillating linear movement of the tube and the brush head, wherein the tube is mounted movable in a linear manner; the brush head in the region of the elastically deformable bristles has at least one ejection opening, wherein the tube opens liquid-permeably through the at least one ejection opening in the direction of the elastically deformable bristles.

A surgical cleaning device and method of use having a housing, a drive shaft rotatably mounted, having a rear end and a front end, a brush head positioned at the front end and arranged outside the housing, to which a plurality of elastically deformable bristles are attached, a pump connected with the drive shaft for pumping a rinsing liquid, a gearbox that is connected with the front end of the drive shaft and with a rear end of the tube and which translates the rotational movement of the drive shaft into an oscillating linear movement of the tube and the brush head, wherein the tube is mounted movable in a linear manner; the brush head in the region of the elastically deformable bristles has at least one ejection opening, wherein the tube opens liquid-permeably through the at least one ejection opening in the direction of the elastically deformable bristles.

The invention relates to a pump device having a pump (8) and an energy supply device (5, 18), wherein the pump has a conveying element (9, 11) which conveys a fluid by means of supplied energy, wherein the pump has a transport state and an operating state, and wherein at least one first element (9, 9a, 10, 10′, 11) of the pump has a different shape and/or size in the transport state than in the operating slate. The operating safety of such a pump device is increased by a detection device (12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29) which detects whether at least the first element is in the operating state with respect to shape and/or size by means of a sensor.

The present disclosure is directed to providing impeller type oil transportation device including; a transport unit provided such that a mixed fluid including an oil is fed on one side; and an impeller provided in the transport unit, the impeller including a core connected to a rotation axis, and wings extending radially from the core and having hydrophilic teeth on an outer surface to transport the mixed fluid including the oil to the other side of the transport unit by rotation, wherein the impeller is provided in the transport unit such that parts of the wings are exposed above a surface of the mixed fluid, to separate the oil adhered to the teeth while the mixed fluid is fed into a space between the adjacent teeth by capillary flow when the wings exposed above the surface of the mixed fluid move on to the mixed fluid by the rotation.

The present disclosure is directed to providing impeller type oil transportation device including; a transport unit provided such that a mixed fluid including an oil is fed on one side; and an impeller provided in the transport unit, the impeller including a core connected to a rotation axis, and wings extending radially from the core and having hydrophilic teeth on an outer surface to transport the mixed fluid including the oil to the other side of the transport unit by rotation, wherein the impeller is provided in the transport unit such that parts of the wings are exposed above a surface of the mixed fluid, to separate the oil adhered to the teeth while the mixed fluid is fed into a space between the adjacent teeth by capillary flow when the wings exposed above the surface of the mixed fluid move on to the mixed fluid by the rotation.

The invention relates to a pump device having a pump (8) and an energy supply device (5, 18), wherein the pump has a conveying element (9, 11) which conveys a fluid by means of supplied energy, wherein the pump has a transport state and an operating state, and wherein at least one first element (9, 9a, 10, 10′, 11) of the pump has a different shape and/or size in the transport state than in the operating state. The operating safety of such a pump device is increased by a detection device (12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29) which detects whether at least the first element is in the operating state with respect to shape and/or size by means of a sensor.

The invention relates to a fluid pump having a housing delimiting a fluid chamber and having a conveying element for the fluid disposed in the fluid chamber, the housing, with respect to the shape and/or size thereof, being able to be changed between at least a first, expanded state and a second, compressed state. The object, to stabilise adequately a corresponding housing, is achieved according to the invention by the housing having at least one stabilisation chamber which can be supplied with a fluid pressure and is different from the fluid chamber, the first state of the housing being assigned to a first fluid pressure in the stabilisation chamber and the second state of the housing being assigned to a second fluid pressure.

Provided is a vacuum pump including a turbomolecular mechanism having rotor blades and stator blades alternately arranged in multiple stages in an axial direction inside a casing having an inlet port that sucks gas from an outside and an outlet port that exhausts the sucked gas to the outside, the vacuum pump including: a plurality of annular spacers that are stacked on each other and position the stator blades in the axial direction; the casing that has a cylindrical portion arranged to surround outer peripheries of the plurality of stacked spacers and a base portion attached to a lower portion of the cylindrical portion; and an upper radial positioning portion and a lower radial positioning portion provided at two vertical positions inside the cylindrical portion and coaxially hold at least a spacer of an uppermost stage and a spacer of a lowermost stage among the plurality of stacked spacers.