A bellows pump device includes a control unit which, before operation of the bellows pump device is started, performs initial control in which solenoid valves are switched and pressurized air is supplied to suction-side air chambers in advance, thereby determining operation air pressures which are air pressures of the pressurized air to be supplied to the suction-side air chambers during the operation. As the initial control, the control unit outputs control commands to electropneumatic regulators so as to gradually increase the air pressures of the pressurized air to be supplied to the suction-side air chambers in advance, and when detection signals resulting from detection of expansion positions of the bellows are inputted from the proximity sensors to the control unit, the control unit determines the air pressures of the pressurized air supplied to the suction-side air chambers at that time as the operation air pressures.

The invention relates to a positive displacement pump (10) comprising a pump body (11, 101, 201) comprising an inlet end (16, 116, 216) and an outlet end (18, 118, 218), a pumping chamber (30, 130, 230) arranged between said inlet end (16, 116, 216) and said outlet end (18, 118, 218), at least one membrane (20, 120, 220) active in the pumping chamber (30, 130, 230) and mobile between an expanded configuration in which the volume of the pumping chamber (30, 130, 230) is maximum and a retracted configuration in which the volume of the pumping chamber (30, 130, 230) is minimum, a delivery valve (46, 146, 246) arranged close to the outlet end (18, 118, 218) of the pump body (11, 101, 201), an intake valve (26, 126, 226) comprising an intake mouth (27, 127, 227), an outlet mouth (28, 128, 228) and a valve wall (29, 129, 229) that joins the intake mouth (27, 127, 227) to the outlet mouth (28, 128, 228), the intake mouth (27, 127, 227) being coupled to the inlet end (16, 116, 216) of the pump body (11, 101, 201) and the outlet mouth (28, 128, 228) being inserted in the pumping chamber (30, 130, 230). Said at least one membrane (20, 120, 220), when in the retracted configuration, adheres to the valve wall (29, 129, 229) of the intake valve (26, 126, 226) and the intake valve has the outlet mouth closed.

A bellows pump device includes first and second bellows mounted on a pump head so as to be expandable/contractible independently of each other and configured to suck a fluid from a suction passage thereinto by expansion thereof and discharge the fluid therefrom to a discharge passage by contraction thereof. First and second air cylinder portions are configured to respectively cause the first and second bellows to perform expansion/contraction operation. First and second detection devices are configured to detect expanded/contracted states of the first and second bellows, respectively. A control unit is configured to control drive of the first and second air cylinder portions on the basis of each of detection signals of the first and second detection devices such that, before one bellows comes into a most contracted state, the other bellows is caused to contract from a most expanded state.

A vacuum pump includes a hollow container that has a vacuum port and internal chamber walls. The vacuum port opens to an exterior of the container and the chamber walls define chambers that are in fluid communication with the vacuum port. There are flexible bladders disposed in the chambers. The flexible bladders include vents that open through the container to the exterior. A plunger in the container includes arms that extend into the chambers such that each of the flexible bladders is situated between one of the arms and one of the chamber walls. The plunger is moveable between a home position and an upstroke position to compress and deflate the flexible bladders via the vents and thereby change the volume of the flexible bladders. The change in the volume draws a vacuum through the vacuum port.

A vacuum pump includes a hollow container that has a vacuum port and internal chamber walls. The vacuum port opens to an exterior of the container and the chamber walls define chambers that are in fluid communication with the vacuum port. There are flexible bladders disposed in the chambers. The flexible bladders include vents that open through the container to the exterior. A plunger in the container includes arms that extend into the chambers such that each of the flexible bladders is situated between one of the arms and one of the chamber walls. The plunger is moveable between a home position and an upstroke position to compress and deflate the flexible bladders via the vents and thereby change the volume of the flexible bladders. The change in the volume draws a vacuum through the vacuum port.

A dual acting pressure boosting liquid partition device (2) and system, including a hollow cylinder housing (20) having a longitudinal extension, the cylinder housing (20) having at least a first part and a second part having a first transverse cross sectional area (a1) and a third part having a second transverse cross sectional area (a2) of different size than the first transverse cross sectional area (a1), a rod having a cross sectional area corresponding to the first transverse cross sectional area (a1), the rod further having a protruding portion (30) having a cross sectional area corresponding to the second transverse cross sectional area (a2), and the protruding portion and the third part of the cylinder housing (20) defining a first outer chamber (44′) and a second outer chamber (44″).

A pump assembly includes a housing having two parts with internal cylindrical chambers having openings for the inlet and outlet of a pumped fluid, and two longitudinally deformable bellows fastened inside the respective parts of the housing. The opposite end of each bellows has a plug. On the end surface of the housing the bellows are connected to is an opening for the inlet of a working fluid into the corresponding internal chamber. A hydraulic system for controlling the pump assembly includes a tank containing a working fluid, a positive displacement pump, two independent hydraulic pipelines, and a system of valves for alternately connecting the bellows' internal chambers containing working fluid to the pipelines. The internal chamber of each bellows is alternatingly connected to the positive displacement pump for supplying working fluid by a first hydraulic pipeline and to the working fluid tank by a second hydraulic pipeline.

Method, and associated system, computer program and use, of controlling working range of a pump bellows, including maximum limitations such as maximum retracting position and maximum extension position of the bellows, the method comprising the steps of: a) reading at least a first position of a bellows (6′, 6″) in a closed hydraulic loop volume using at least one position sensor (12′, 12″), g) transmitting a first position signal representing the first position to a control system, h) wherein the control system, based on the at least first position signal: c1) determines the position of the bellows (6′, 6″) represented by the at least first position signal, c2) compares the position of the bellows (6′, 6″) with a predetermined bellows position operating range, and c3) if the position is outside the predetermined bellows position operating range, instructs an oil management system valve (16′, 16″) allowing a dual acting pressure boosting liquid partition device (2) to recalibrate the hydraulic fluid volume in the closed hydraulic loop volume to re-establish a hydraulic fluid volume that causes the at least first position to return to a position within the predetermined bellows position operating range.

The invention relates to pressure transfer device, system comprising the pressure transfer device, a fleet comprising the system and use of a pressure transfer device for pumping fluid at pressures above 500 bars, the pressure transfer device (1′, 1″) comprising a pressure chamber housing (1′, 1″) and at least one connection port (3′, 3″), the at least one connection port (3′, 3″) being connectable to a dual acting pressure boosting liquid partition device (2) via fluid communication means (26′, 27′; 26″, 27″), the pressure chamber housing comprises: - a pressure cavity (4′, 4″) inside the pressure chamber housing, and at least a first port (5′, 5″) for inlet and/or outlet of fluid to the pressure cavity (4′, 4″), - a bellows (6′, 6″) defining an inner volume (7′, 7″) inside the pressure cavity (4′, 4″), and wherein the inner volume (7′, 7″) is in fluid communication with the connection port (3′, 3″), wherein the pressure cavity (4′, 4″) has a center axis (C′, C″) with an axial length (L) defined by the distance between the connection port (3′, 3″) and the first port (5′, 5″) and a varying cross sectional area over at least a part of the axial length (L), and wherein the bellows (6′, 6″) is configured to move in a direction substantially parallel with the center axis (C′, C″) over a part of the axial length (L) of the pressure cavity (4′, 4″).

A vacuum pump includes a hollow container that has a vacuum port and internal chamber walls. The vacuum port opens to an exterior of the container and the chamber walls define chambers that are in fluid communication with the vacuum port. There are flexible bladders disposed in the chambers. The flexible bladders include vents that open through the container to the exterior. A plunger in the container includes arms that extend into the chambers such that each of the flexible bladders is situated between one of the arms and one of the chamber walls. The plunger is moveable between a home position and an upstroke position to compress and deflate the flexible bladders via the vents and thereby change the volume of the flexible bladders. The change in the volume draws a vacuum through the vacuum port.