A pump comprises: a housing: a stator disposed inside the housing; a pump gear which is disposed to correspond to the stator and which includes an external gear and an internal gear; and a magnet disposed on the external gear, wherein the magnet includes a first outer circumferential surface, the external gear includes a second outer circumferential surface, and the curvature of the first outer circumferential surface can be smaller than the curvature of the second outer circumferential surface.

The present invention provides an oil pump device capable of preventing foreign matters from getting caught at a sliding part of an oil pump, and thus of preventing a situation where the oil pump is locked and prevented from rotating. The oil pump device includes an oil pump connected to a supply target apparatus by a hydraulic circuit, the oil pump discharging and supplying oil to the supply target apparatus through the hydraulic circuit; a motor driving the oil pump; a trapping member interposed along the hydraulic circuit, the trapping member trapping a foreign matter mixed in the oil discharged from the oil pump; and a motor control unit controlling the motor to perform a normal control mode of driving the oil pump in a normal control rotation range and perform, at operational start of the oil pump, a lock-avoiding mode of driving the oil pump with a lock-avoiding rotational speed set in advance as a lower limit.

The present invention provides an oil pump device capable of preventing foreign matters from getting caught at a sliding part of an oil pump, and thus of preventing a situation where the oil pump is locked and prevented from rotating. The oil pump device includes an oil pump connected to a supply target apparatus by a hydraulic circuit, the oil pump discharging and supplying oil to the supply target apparatus through the hydraulic circuit; a motor driving the oil pump; a trapping member interposed along the hydraulic circuit, the trapping member trapping a foreign matter mixed in the oil discharged from the oil pump; and a motor control unit controlling the motor to perform a normal control mode of driving the oil pump in a normal control rotation range and perform, at operational start of the oil pump, a lock-avoiding mode of driving the oil pump with a lock-avoiding rotational speed set in advance as a lower limit.

An electrohydraulic actuator assembly for use in a brake-by-wire hydraulic brake system. The electrohydraulic actuator assembly includes a pair of electrohydraulic actuator EHA units. One EHA unit provides fluid to front brakes and the other EHA unit provides fluid to rear brakes. Each EHA unit includes an electric motor, a reduction gear unit, a pair of magnetorheological clutches, and a pair of fluid pumps. The system further including an ECU that actuates the electric motor and controls engagement of the clutches to cause the fluid pump to pump brake fluid to at least one of the front and rear brakes. The system further includes a regeneration system for providing supplemental electricity to the electric motors.

A device for pumping a viscous fluid includes two positive displacement rotary pumps, a first pump (1) and a second pump (2), wherein each pump has an inlet (3, 4) for fluid at a suction side and an outlet (5, 6) for fluid on a discharge side, wherein the inlet (3) of the first pump (1) is connected to a reservoir of the viscous fluid by a connection (14) pipe or hose, wherein the apparatus further includes an intermediate part or connection (7) having an inlet (8), a first outlet (9) and a flow path (10) for fluid, wherein the outlet (5) of the first pump is connected to the inlet (8) of the intermediate part and the outlet (9) of the intermediate part is connected to the inlet (4) of the second pump, such that during the pumping the viscous fluid is forced from the reservoir through the first pump (1), through the intermediate part (7) and through the second pump (2) to the outlet (6) of the second pump.

A device for pumping a viscous fluid includes two positive displacement rotary pumps, a first pump (1) and a second pump (2), wherein each pump has an inlet (3, 4) for fluid at a suction side and an outlet (5, 6) for fluid on a discharge side, wherein the inlet (3) of the first pump (1) is connected to a reservoir of the viscous fluid by a connection (14) pipe or hose, wherein the apparatus further includes an intermediate part or connection (7) having an inlet (8), a first outlet (9) and a flow path (10) for fluid, wherein the outlet (5) of the first pump is connected to the inlet (8) of the intermediate part and the outlet (9) of the intermediate part is connected to the inlet (4) of the second pump, such that during the pumping the viscous fluid is forced from the reservoir through the first pump (1), through the intermediate part (7) and through the second pump (2) to the outlet (6) of the second pump.

A displacement device including an inner rotor and an outer rotor with meshing projections. Points on each rotor trace a hypotrochoidal path relative to the other. The tips of the outer rotor projections may contact the inner rotor at Top Dead Center (TDC) and Bottom Dead Center (BDC) to form higher and lower pressure regions. Various elements may shape other elements to form seals.

A displacement device including an inner rotor and an outer rotor with meshing projections. Points on each rotor trace a hypotrochoidal path relative to the other. The tips of the outer rotor projections may contact the inner rotor at Top Dead Center (TDC) and Bottom Dead Center (BDC) to form higher and lower pressure regions. Various elements may shape other elements to form seals.

A crosslinked fluororesin-coated rotor manufacturing method is a method for manufacturing an annular outer rotor of an internal gear pump including the outer rotor, and an inner rotor, a side surfaces of the outer rotor being coated with a crosslinked fluororesin, an inner peripheral surface of the outer rotor not being coated with the crosslinked fluororesin, the method including: using an outer masking jig for covering the inner peripheral surface in a state where the side surfaces of the outer rotor are exposed; coating the outer rotor with an uncrosslinked fluororesin in a state where the outer masking jig is mounted to the outer rotor; and then irradiating the fluororesin with radiation in a state where the outer masking jig is removed from the outer rotor, to crosslink the fluororesin.

Provided is a rotary pump including: a pump rotor having a flat first rotor side surface facing one side in an axial direction, and a flat second rotor side surface facing the other side in the axial direction; and a housing configured to rotatably house the pump rotor. The housing includes: a ring member having a hollow tubular shape and openings at both ends in the axial direction; a first side member detachably mounted to one end in the axial direction of the ring member to slide and guide the first rotor side surface by using a first crosslinked fluororesin flat surface formed of a crosslinked fluororesin; and a second side member detachably mounted to the other end in the axial direction of the ring member to slide and guide the second rotor side surface by using a second crosslinked fluororesin flat surface formed of the crosslinked fluororesin.