A pump apparatus includes a pump chamber having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet and a flexible impeller mounted for rotation within the pump chamber. The flexible impeller includes a plurality of radially extending vanes to contact a curved wall of the pump chamber, such that separate pump cavities are defined between adjacent vanes and the pump chamber wall. The fluid inlet and the fluid outlet are defined in the second end wall so that the curved pump chamber wall is uninterrupted.

A pump for applying fluid, the pump including: a pump housing, including: a fluid inlet on a low-pressure side; an fluid outlet on a high-pressure side; a circumferential wall surrounding the pump delivery chamber; and an end-facing wall featuring an outer end-facing surface facing axially away from the delivery chamber and at which the outlet emerges; a delivery member, moveable in the delivery chamber, for delivering the fluid from the low-pressure side to the high-pressure side; a gasket including a gasket loop which surrounds the outlet to seal it off on the outer end-facing surface of the end-facing wall; a female joining element featuring an axially extending hollow space; and a male joining element protruding through or from the pump housing or the gasket. The male joining element is in a joining engagement, which can be subjected to axial tensile stress, with the female joining element in the hollow space.

A pump housing of an oil pump includes a suction port that supplies oil to a pump room, a discharge port that discharges oil from the pump room, and a seal portion that suppresses leakage of oil from the pump room to outside of the pump room. A shaft of the oil pump includes a small diameter portion and a large diameter portion having different diameters, the small diameter portion is connected to the inner rotor, and the shaft and the inner rotor integrally rotate. The seal portion is in contact with a side surface of the inner rotor extending in a diameter direction of the shaft, and also extends to a region in the diameter direction on an inner side smaller than the large diameter portion in the diameter direction.

A groove is applied to one or more contact surfaces of a journal bearing of a pump to increase a force applied to the contact surface(s). Each groove has an end exposed to discharge pressure of the pump so that the groove communicates the discharge pressure across the contact surface. The groove reduces an area of the contact surface over which fluid leakage results in a pressure differential, thereby increasing a net force applied to the contact surface. Applying the groove to the axial end face of the journal bearing enhances an axial force applied to the journal bearing whereas applying the groove to a radially facing land reduces friction between the journal bearing and the outer housing.

A vane cell pump, including: a rotor and a plurality of vanes rotatable with the rotor, wherein the rotor includes a sub-vane chamber for each vane, and each vane forms a shifting wall of the sub-vane chamber assigned to it; first and second end-facing walls adjoining the rotor on end-facing sides and which, in order to control pressure to the sub-vane chamber, include sub-vane cavities which extend in the circumferential direction of the rotor and include control edges as viewed in the circumferential direction; wherein the control edge of the sub-vane cavity of the first end-facing wall, and the control edge of the sub-vane cavity of the second end-facing wall which is similar to it, are arranged angularly offset about the rotational axis as the apex with respect to each other.

A screw spindle pump having a spindle housing, in which a drive spindle and at least one running spindle which meshes therewith are received in spindle bores, and having an outer housing which encloses the spindle housing and on which an axial inlet port and a radial outlet port are provided, wherein the spindle housing has an axial fluid outlet for the fluid delivered through the spindle housing by the drive spindle and the running spindle, which axial fluid outlet communicates with a fluid chamber, which is formed between the spindle housing and the outer housing, extends around 360°, and in turn communicates with the radial outlet port.

A screw spindle pump, including a housing and a drive spindle accommodated therein and at least one running spindle which meshes with the latter and which has in each case two terminal end surfaces. A stop surface is provided axially adjacent to at least one end surface of the running spindle, wherein the running spindle is accommodated displaceably with an axial clearance perpendicular to the stop surfaces.

A sealing arrangement between a rotating plane surface on a rotor and a machine housing prevents flow of process fluid between an internal volume and an external volume of the machine housing. The sealing arrangement includes a piston arrangement, and a sealing bearing ring between the piston arrangement and the rotating plane surface. A fluid supply line supplies pressurized lubrication fluid through the machine housing to a piston cavity, wherein the piston arrangement further includes piston fluid channels and the bearing sealing ring includes lubrication conduits through the bearing sealing ring, corresponding with the piston fluid channels. The pressurized lubrication fluid is arranged for moving the piston arrangement against the sealing bearing ring and thus moving the sealing bearing ring against the sealing surface thus forming a sealing arrangement.

A pump includes: a housing in which a pump chamber accommodating an inner rotor and an outer rotor is formed in a pump chamber formation surface, and an O-ring groove is formed around the pump chamber; an O-ring that is placed in the O-ring groove; and a plate that is attached to the pump chamber formation surface and closely contacts the O-ring to close the pump chamber. Inter-hole grooves connecting to an outer edge of the pump chamber formation surface are formed around the O-ring groove.

A vane cell pump for a transmission of a motor vehicle includes a housing. A rotor defines a plurality of slots. The plurality of slots runs radially. A plurality of vanes is arranged in the plurality of slots of the rotor. An end plate is positioned in a bottom area of the housing. The end plate is configured as a fluid guide with a suction channel and a pressure channel. The end plate forms a bottom wall of the housing.