A positive-displacement pump or turbine includes a rotor casing that defines a rotor chamber having a contoured wall that forms a plurality of lobes. A rotor is positioned within the rotor chamber, and has an outer rotor surface spaced inward from the contoured wall at the lobes. Vanes are mounted around the outer rotor surface, and structures associated with the vanes follow a track or groove defined by the rotor chamber as the rotor spins, thereby forcing the vanes radially inwardly and outwardly to follow a curvature of the contoured wall.

A method for manufacturing a sintered component includes a step of making a green compact having a relative density of at least 88% by compression-molding a base powder containing a metal powder into a metallic die, a step of machining a groove part having a groove width of 1.0 mm or less in the green compact by processing groove with a cutting tool, and a step of sintering the green compact in which the groove part is formed after the step of forming the groove part.

A six-stroke rotary-vane internal combustion engine includes a stator having working chambers for intake and compression of air-fuel mixture alternating with working chambers for expansion and removing of combustion products, and a cylindrical rotor including longitudinal grooves housing blades. Side walls of all the working chambers are formed by rotating parts of the rotor, the combustion chambers are formed as hemispherical recesses on a cylindrical surface of the rotor, the working chambers of the stator are formed as cylindrical borings with axes parallel to the stator axis and evenly spaced along an inner surface of the stator, each blade consists of separate plates freely displaceable relative to each other, each plate of the blade being made of two parts movable apart in axial direction by a spring, the number of blades is a multiple of the number of the chambers for intake of air-fuel mixture.

A rotary fluid device including an outer housing assembly and an inner rotating arrangement adapted to rotate relative to the outer housing assembly, the outer housing assembly including a rotor housing and the inner rotating arrangement including a rotor dimensioned to rotatably fit within the rotor housing. One of the rotor and the rotor housing include lobes extending in a radial direction relative to respective inner and outer circumferential surfaces and the other of the rotor and the rotor housing includes followers and follower recesses in which the followers are moveably located. In some examples, the follower recesses are adapted such that in at least the extended condition fluid pressure at underside facing surfaces of the followers toward the follower recesses are substantially hydrostatically balanced with a fluid pressure at opposing top facing surfaces of the followers substantially exposed to the chambers. In some examples, three pressure zones may be defined between the followers and follower recesses the three pressure zones including an intermediate pressure zone and two laterally pressure zones on opposing circumferentially lateral sides of the intermediate pressure zone.

A vane pump includes: a casing forming a pump chamber therein; a rotor arranged inside the casing to rotate eccentrically with respect to the casing; and a plurality of vanes configured to rotate with the rotor and slide on an inner side surface of the casing. At least one of Formula (1): I(b/a)k and Formula (2): I(c/a)j is satisfied, where a represents a height of the pump chamber, b represents a height of the rotor, c represents a height of the vane in a rotation axis direction of the rotor, and where I represents a linear expansion coefficient of the casing in the rotation axis direction, k represents a linear expansion coefficient of the rotor in the rotation axis direction, and j represents a linear expansion coefficient of the vane in the rotation axis direction.

The invention comprises a rotary engine apparatus and method of use thereof, where the rotary engine comprises multiple injection ports. Optional injection ports include a first port in an expansion chamber, a second port in the expansion chamber after a first rotation of the rotor, a third port into the expansion chamber after a second rotation of the rotor, a fourth port from a fuel path through a shaft of the rotary engine, and/or a fifth port into a rotor-vane chamber between the rotor and a vane. Optionally, one or more of the injection ports are controlled through mechanical valving and/or through electronic and/or computer control.

A rotary compressor includes at least one cylinder in which a discharge guide groove is disposed at one side of a vane slot; a roller orbitably provided in the cylinder, and disposed with a hinge groove on an outer circumferential surface thereof; a vane in which one end portion thereof is rotatably inserted into the hinge groove of the roller, and the other end portion thereof is slidably inserted into the vane slot of the cylinder; and a plurality of bearing plates that seals both side surfaces of the cylinder, and at least one side of which is disposed with a discharge port to communicate with the discharge guide groove. The discharge port communicates with a refrigerant residual space defined between the vane slot and the discharge guide groove. Refrigerant in the refrigerant residual space may be discharged even after the roller passes through the discharge guide groove.

A rotary compressor includes a cylinder, a drive unit, a piston, a vane, and an oil passage. The cylinder includes a suction chamber for suctioning fluid and a compression chamber for compressing fluid. The drive unit rotates a drive shaft by connecting to the cylinder. The piston oscillates in the cylinder by connecting to the drive shaft. The vane extends between the cylinder and the piston so as to separate the suction chamber from the compression chamber, and some parts of the length of the vane are inserted into a slide groove formed in the cylinder. One end of the vane is connected to the coupling groove formed in the piston. The oil passage is disposed between one end of the vane and the rolling piston so as to receive oil therethrough.

A pump body assembly and a compressor are provided. The pump body includes: a spindle, wherein the spindle has a sliding vane chute, a back pressure oil cavity being at least a part of an oil passage is located at a tail end of the sliding vane chute, an oil outlet of the back pressure oil cavity is located at the top of the back pressure oil cavity, and a position of the oil inlet of the back pressure oil cavity is lower than that of an oil outlet of the back pressure oil cavity such that a lubrication medium enters the back pressure oil cavity through the oil inlet of the back pressure oil cavity and fills up the back pressure oil cavity and flows out from the top of the back pressure oil cavity.

A rotary compressor includes a cylinder having a vane slot and a compression chamber, a shaft having an eccentric portion and configured to perpendicularly pass through a center of the compression chamber, a roller having a coupling groove and configured to orbit in the compression chamber by rotation of the shaft, and a vane having a vane hinge coupled to the coupling groove and a vane body being inserted into the vane slot and configured to divide the compression chamber into a discharge space and a suction space. A shape of the discharge-sided groove close to the discharge space and a shape of the suction-sided groove close to the suction space are asymmetrically formed between the vane hinge and the vane body with respect to the a central axis of the vane.