A pump assembly (10) for pumping boiling water to a dispenser in a drinking water dispensing system, the pump assembly (10) comprising: a pump housing (20) having an inlet (22) for the boiling water and an outlet (24) arranged in fluid communication with the inlet (22); an impeller (30) disposed in the pump housing (20) for rotation about a central axis (23) for driving the water from the inlet (22) to the outlet (24), wherein the inlet (22) is arranged on the central axis (23); and an inducer (40) arranged in the inlet (22) to the pump housing (20) and operatively connected to the impeller (40) for rotation therewith about the central axis (23) to induce the water at the inlet (22) towards the impeller (30) and raise the inlet pressure.

A pump includes a shaft that is rotatable about a central axis. An inducer is mounted on the shaft and has an inducer blade and inducer shroud attached at an outer end of the inducer blade. An impeller is mounted on the shaft downstream of the inducer and has an impeller blade and an impeller shroud attached at an outer end of the impeller blade. There is an axially-elongated annular seal element disposed at an axial end of the inducer shroud that provides sealing between the inducer shroud and the impeller shroud.

Fuel pump for an aircraft engine, comprising an inducer and a centrifugal impeller fixed together and having an axis of rotation, an annular space spacing axially the inducer and the impeller, and two contact portions between the inducer and the impeller disposed radially outside the annular space, a first plenum chamber and a second plenum chamber, in which the inducer and the impeller are spaced axially from each other, each being disposed between the two contact portions, the plenum chambers being symmetrical to each other with respect to the axis of rotation and in fluid communication with the annular space, the centrifugal impeller comprising a plurality of axial balancing holes distributed about the axis of rotation and opening out into the annular space at one end, and into a downstream space of the impeller at the other end.

A two-phase cold plate includes a base, an upper cover, a heat exchange cavity and a cooling fin module. The upper cover is installed on the base, the heat exchange cavity is formed between the base and the upper cover, and the cooling fin module is installed in the heat exchange cavity. The upper cover includes at least one nozzle module and a plurality of two-phase fluid channels. The two-phase fluid channels are respectively located on both sides of the nozzle module, and the nozzle module sprays a heat dissipating fluid to the cooling fin module, and the heat dissipating fluid flows along the cooling fin module to the two-phase fluid channels on both sides of the cooling fin module to cool the cooling fin module.

An impeller for pumping fluid that comprises discharge flow paths that allow high pressure liquid to be used to flush out low pressure gas that can accumulate within the internal structure of the impeller. The impeller comprises transition regions, vanes, and at least one discharge flow path. The vanes are rotational about a central axis. The transition regions and the plurality of vanes have a high pressure flow path and a low pressure flow path. The at least one discharge flow path is in fluid communication with a section of the low pressure flow path of at least one of the transition region(s) and the vane(s).

An abnormality determination device according to one aspect of the present disclosure is an abnormality determination device that determines an abnormality of an inducer used for a pump, the abnormality determination device including a stress-response acquisition unit that acquires a stress response indicating a temporal change in stress applied to the inducer, an accumulated-fatigue-damage-degree calculation unit that calculates an accumulated fatigue-damage degree of the inducer based on the stress response, a lifetime-consumption-rate calculation unit that calculates a lifetime consumption rate that is a changing rate of the accumulated fatigue-damage degree with respect to time, and a determination unit that determines an abnormality of the inducer based on the accumulated fatigue-damage degree and the lifetime consumption rate, in which the inducer is used only for a predetermined use time per operation of the pump.

A strain estimation device according to an aspect of the present disclosure is a strain estimation device that estimates strain of a component provided in a fluid and includes a pressure acquisition unit that acquires a pressure signal including time-series pressure values at a predetermined position in a vicinity of the component, an estimation unit that estimates, based on the pressure signal, a strain signal including time-series strain values occurring at the component, and an output unit that outputs the strain signal. The estimation unit converts the pressure signal into the strain signal using an estimation filter determined based on a power spectral density of pressure and a power spectral density of strain occurring at the component when the pressure is applied to the position.

An impeller for pumping fluid that comprises discharge flow paths that allow high pressure liquid to be used to flush out low pressure gas that can accumulate within the internal structure of the impeller. The impeller comprises transition regions, vanes, and at least one discharge flow path. The vanes are rotational about a central axis. The transition regions and the plurality of vanes have a high pressure flow path and a low pressure flow path. The at least one discharge flow path is in fluid communication with a section of the low pressure flow path of at least one of the transition region(s) and the vane(s).

A heat dissipation module includes a main vapor chamber, at least one auxiliary vapor chamber, a main heat dissipation fin set and at least one auxiliary heat dissipation fin set. The auxiliary vapor chamber is in fluid communication with the main vapor chamber, the main heat dissipation fin set is installed on the main vapor chamber, the auxiliary heat dissipation fin set is connected to the auxiliary vapor chamber, and the auxiliary vapor chamber is arranged between the main heat dissipation fin set and the auxiliary heat dissipation fin set.

A magnetic pump includes a front casing including: a shaft supporting body that supports a leading end of a supporting shaft; and a plurality of supporting legs that extends toward an inner wall of a suction port from the shaft supporting body, and that supports the shaft supporting body in the suction port. In the magnetic pump, a leading end of the shaft supporting body is positioned further toward the inlet side of the suction port than a connecting section between the inner wall of the suction port and the supporting leg.