The invention comprises a rotary engine method and apparatus configured with a self-actuating/self-damping vane system. In the rotary engine apparatus, a set of vanes extend from a rotor to a housing, whereby the rotary engine is divided into expansion chambers. Each of the vanes enclose a stressed band wound at least partially around two or more rollers. Potential energy of the stressed band, which is optionally a smart metal, provides a radially outward force on the vane toward the housing, aiding in seal formation of the vane to the housing.

A vacuum pump for automobiles used for brake application is provided wherein a method of reducing power consumption and running torque in a vacuum pump of a motor vehicle is explained. The present invention also provides a vacuum pump for automobiles comprising an actuator, a new vane locking assembly, a new vane and rotor assembly, a new non return valve assembly, the controlled oil supply means and a reed stopper assembly that reduces power loss and unnecessary frictional forces and to maintain a controlled oil supply to the vacuum pump.

A rotary compressor has a blade which is provided in a cylinder so that reciprocating movement can be performed. The blade partitions a cylinder chamber into a suction chamber and a compression chamber by making a tip end portion of the blade contact the outer peripheral surface of a roller. The blade includes two blade members provided so as to be superimposed in an axial direction of a rotary shaft. Tip end portions of the two blade members are made to contact the outer peripheral surface of the roller. The two blade members are energized by a coil spring so that superimposed portions of the blade members are made in contact.

In a vane compressor, a transmission pin is accommodated in a communication hole that provides communication between a first vane slot and a second vane slot. The transmission pin includes a loose-fit portion that is loosely inserted in a recessed portion formed in a bottom surface of each of first and second vanes, a shaft portion, and a flange portion formed between the loose-fit portion and the shaft portion and in contact with the bottom surface. A coil spring is disposed in the communication hole to urge the first vane and the second vane in opposite directions away from each other via the flange portion. The coil spring is disposed around the shaft portion and supported by the flange portion so as to urge and support the transmission pin.

A multi-cylinder rotary compressor includes plural compression mechanism parts. A drawing force is applied to a vane of at least one of the compression mechanism parts radially outward with respect to a drive shaft, making a pressing force pressing the vane toward a piston smaller than in other compression mechanism parts. In a normal state, a pressing force due to a gas pressure difference between a suction pressure and a discharge pressure is larger than the drawing force, and a vane front end is pressed against a rotary piston peripheral wall. When the drawing force becomes greater than the pressing force, the vane front end is moved to separate from the rotary piston peripheral wall with a space through which oil is introduced from a sealed container, and a retention mechanism retains the vane separated from the piston, and the compression mechanism part switches to an uncompressed state.

According to one embodiment, a rotary compressor accommodating an electric motor portion and a compression mechanism portion in a sealed case, wherein the compression mechanism portion comprises a cylinder, a roller, and a vane. The vane is disposed by stacking two divided vanes in a height direction of the cylinder, which is an axis direction of the rotation axis, and where a height dimension of one divided vane is H, and a minute gap between a height dimension of the cylinder and a height dimension of the two stacked divided vanes is L, a proportion of the minute gap L to the vane height dimension H per one divided vane is
0.001<L/number of divided vanes/H<0.0015.

An apparatus for compressing or pumping fluid includes a housing having an interior chamber. A rotating cam is rotatably mounted within an interior chamber and includes a reversible cam body configured to enable fluid to flow in a foreword direction and a reverse direction. The reversible cam body has a first sloped annular channel formed therein. The first end of the reversible cam body includes a ramp up portion, a ramp down portion, and inner and outer circumferential sidewalls that circumscribe the ramp to define the first sloped annular channel. The apparatus may include a circumferential cam gear located on the outer circumferential sidewall and a secondary drive shaft with a pinion gear to rotate the circumferential cam gear.

In one embodiment, a compression mechanism unit of a rotary compressor includes a cylinder includes a cylinder chamber, a roller in the chamber, first and second vanes which come into contact with the roller and partition the chamber into a compression side and an absorption side, and a bias member which biases the vanes. On both end sides of a posterior end portion of the first vane, first vane side attachment portions having an equal dimension in the axial direction are provided. On both end sides of the second vane along the axial direction of the axis, second vane side attachment portions having an equal dimension in the axial direction are provided. The vanes are attached to the bias member via the attachment portions.

A low-backpressure rotary compressor includes a shell, a compression mechanism, an oil separator for separating oil and gas from a refrigerant discharged from the cylinder, and an oil pool for collecting a lubricating oil separated by the oil separator. The compression mechanism includes a cylinder assembly, a piston, a sliding vane, main and supplementary bearings. The cylinder has a sliding vane chamber which has an oil supply hole, and a trailing end of the sliding vane stretches into or out of the sliding vane chamber when the sliding vane moves reciprocatingly, such that an interior volume of the sliding vane chamber changes between a maximum volume V2 and a minimum volume V1. The oil pool communicates with the oil supply hole via an oil supply path for the sliding vane, and a ratio of the minimum volume V1 to the maximum volume V2 satisfies the following relationship: 35%V1/V285%.

A hybrid engine comprises a housing and at least one rotor. The engine employs tongue and groove system to generate rotational movement. As the rotor pivots, reciprocating tongues slide into and out of the grooves. In pneumatic mode, introduction of compressed air forwardly into the grooves drives the rotor. Meanwhile, the air exhaust is cleared from the grooves rearwardly. In internal combustion mode, compression and air intake strokes start and end at the same time in a groove. Combustion and exhaust strokes occur simultaneously in the next groove arriving at the combustion chamber.