PUMP WITH VARIABLE SUCTION/DISCHARGE AMOUNT AND DRIVE DEVICE COMPOSED OF THE PUMP AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF
20230136689 ยท 2023-05-04
Inventors
Cpc classification
F04C14/185
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F04C2270/01
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F04C2/344
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F04C11/001
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F04C2270/0525
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F04C14/08
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F04C14/226
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
International classification
F04C14/22
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F04C2/344
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
Abstract
A pump with variable suction/discharge amount and a transmission drive device and a driving method thereof. The pump is a rotary vane pump having a vane chamber body. The vane chamber body is composed of a fixed wall member, a movable wall member, a movable vane chamber sleeve and a vane rotor. The vane chamber is extendable/retractable in an axial direction of the vane rotor. At least two pumps are assembled in communication with each other to form a closed loop for the active pump to drive the passive pump. In operation, passive the vane chambers of the active pump and the passive pump are automatically extended/retracted and modulated until the driving force and the load resistance achieve a balanced state passive, the vane chambers and the rotational speeds of the active pump and the passive pump are automatically adjusted to be in inverse proportion to each other.
Claims
1. A pump with variable suction/discharge amount, which is characterized in that the pump with variable suction/discharge amount includes a vane chamber body and a vane rotor, the vane chamber body having a vane chamber, the vane chamber being defined between a fixed wall member, a movable wall member and a movable vane chamber sleeve in the vane chamber body and having a capacity space, the vane chamber being partitioned by an impeller of the vane rotor in the vane chamber to form at least one eccentric vane chamber sections, at least one vane being disposed on the impeller, the number of the eccentric vane chamber sections being more than or equal to the number of the vanes, one side of the vanes in the eccentric vane chamber sections being a suction side, while one side of the vanes in the eccentric vane chamber sections being a discharge side, the suction side and the discharge side respectively having suction/discharge passages in communication with outer side of the pump, the fixed wall member being positioned in a fixed position in the vane chamber body, the movable wall member and the movable vane chamber sleeve being displaceable in an axial direction of the vane rotor relative to the fixed wall member to increase/decrease and change the capacity space of the vane chamber, so as to form a pump with variable suction/discharge amount.
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8. The pump with variable suction/discharge amount as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that at least two suction/discharge passages openings are disposed on the impeller of the vane rotor, one of the suction/discharge passage openings being in communication with the suction side, while the other of the suction/discharge passage openings being in communication with the discharge side, both the suction/discharge passage openings being in communication with outer side of the vane chamber.
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26. The pump with variable suction/discharge amount as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that a sealing block is disposed at inter-contacting sections of the vane, the movable wall member and the movable vane chamber sleeve.
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78. The pump with variable suction/discharge amount as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the fixed wall member has a fixed wall end face, the fixed wall end face being disposed at one end of the fixed wall member, the fixed wall member being capped on a base seat of a support body, a rotor shaft end of the vane rotor passing through the fixed wall member, at least one of the rotor shaft ends being pivotally supported on a support body, at least one of the rotor shaft ends outward outputting power or bearing power, the fixed wall end face being tightly attachable to an end face of the impeller of the vane rotor, the movable vane chamber sleeve being fitted on the fixed wall member around the vane rotor, the movable wall member being formed with vane receiving slots, the number of the vane receiving slots being equal to the number of the vanes, a fitting hole being formed at a center of the movable wall member, the fitting hole of the movable wall member being fitted on the impeller of the vane rotor, whereby the vanes on the impeller can slide within the vane receiving slots of the movable wall member, the movable wall member and the movable vane chamber sleeve keeping tightly attaching to each other, whereby the movable wall member and the movable vane chamber sleeve can synchronously move in the axial direction of the vane rotor to change the capacity of the vane chamber.
79. A drive device with variable suction/discharge amount composed of the pumps with variable suction/discharge amount as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that at least one pumps with variable suction/discharge amount are connected and assembled to form the drive device with variable suction/discharge amount, at any moment of the operation process of the drive device with variable suction/discharge amount and the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount, the sum of the capacities of the suction sides in all the eccentric vane chamber sections being equal to the sum of the capacities of the discharge sides in all the eccentric vane chamber sections.
80. A drive device with variable suction/discharge amount composed of the pumps with variable suction/discharge amount as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that at least one pumps with variable suction/discharge amount are connected and assembled to form the drive device with variable suction/discharge amount, the drive device with variable suction/discharge amount having a four-time number of vanes therein, each vane in the drive device with variable suction/discharge amount having a symmetrical vane, the angle of which is 180-degree different from the angle of the vane, whereby at any moment of the operation process, when the vane extends out of the impeller of the vane rotor, the 180-degree symmetrical vane is retracted into the impeller of the vane rotor and when the vane is retracted into the impeller of the vane rotor, the 180-degree symmetrical vane extends out of the impeller of the vane rotor in a complementary relationship.
81. A transmission drive device composed of the pumps with variable suction/discharge amount as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that at least one pumps with variable suction/discharge amount are connected and assembled to form an active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount and at least one pumps with variable suction/discharge amount are connected and assembled to form a passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount, the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount being further connected and assembled with the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount to form an active/passive closed loop as a transmission drive device.
82. A transmission drive device composed of the pumps with variable suction/discharge amount as claimed in claim 78, characterized in that at least one pumps with variable suction/discharge amount are connected and assembled to form an active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount and at least one pumps with variable suction/discharge amount are connected and assembled to form a passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount, the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount being further connected and assembled with the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount to form an active/passive closed loop as a transmission drive device.
83. The transmission drive device as claimed in claim 81, characterized in that a displacement resistance member is additionally disposed in at least one of the enlarging direction of the space of the vane chamber of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount and the decreasing direction of the space of the vane chamber of the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount.
84. A driving method employing the pumps with variable suction/discharge amount as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that in a closed loop, at least one pumps with variable suction/discharge amount are assembled to form a drive device with variable suction/discharge amount, a fluid being input into the drive device with variable suction/discharge amount, the input fluid pushing one side of the vane in the vane chamber to drive the vane rotor to rotate, at the same time, the fluid on the other side of the vane in the vane chamber being pushed by the vane out of the vane chamber to form a driving loop, whereby the movable wall member and the movable vane chamber sleeve in the drive device with variable suction/discharge amount synchronously displace in the axial direction of the vane rotor relative to the fixed wall member so as to change the capacity space of the vane chamber of the drive device with variable suction/discharge amount, each time the vane rotor in the vane chamber rotates by one circle, the amount of the liquid pushed out of the vane chamber and the amount of the liquid sucked into the vane chamber being changed, when an amount of fluid per unit time is input into the drive device with variable suction/discharge amount and the same amount of fluid per unit time is output from the drive device with variable suction/discharge amount, in case the capacity of the vane chamber of the drive device with variable suction/discharge amount is enlarged, the rotational speed of the vane rotor being slowed down, in case the capacity of the vane chamber of the drive device with variable suction/discharge amount is minified, the rotational speed of the vane rotor being increased, that is, the rotational speed of the vane rotor of the drive device with variable suction/discharge amount being in inverse proportion to the capacity of the vane chamber after changed.
85. The driving method as claimed in claim 84, characterized in that a drive device with variable suction/discharge amount is set an active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount and another drive device with variable suction/discharge amount is set a passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount, the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount and the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount being assembled to form a closed driving loop, the amount of the fluid in the closed loop being constant and unchanged, whereby when the capacity of the vane chamber of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount is enlarged, the capacity of the vane chamber of the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount is reversely minified, in the condition that a constant amount of fluid flows within the closed loop per unit time, the rotational speed of the vane rotor of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount being slowed down, while the rotational speed of the vane rotor of the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount being increased, the rotational speed of the vane rotor of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount being in inverse proportion to the rotational speed of the vane rotor of the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount, reversely, when the capacity of the vane chamber of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount is decreased, the capacity of the vane chamber of the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount being enlarged, in the condition that a constant amount of fluid flows within the closed loop per unit time, the rotational speed of the vane rotor of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount being increased, while the rotational speed of the vane rotor of the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount being slowed down, the rotational speed of the vane rotor of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount being also in inverse proportion to the rotational speed of the vane rotor of the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount.
86. The driving method as claimed in claim 85, characterized in that at least one of the movable wall member and the movable vane chamber sleeve in the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount and the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount is forcedly pushed by an external force to make the movable wall member and the movable vane chamber sleeve of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount and the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount synchronously displace in the axial direction of the vane rotor, the synchronous displacement distance of the movable wall member and the movable vane chamber sleeve of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount being equal to the synchronous displacement distance of the movable wall member and the movable vane chamber sleeve of the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount.
87. The driving method as claimed in claim 85, characterized in that due to that the amount of the fluid in the closed loop being constant and unchanged, the capacity of the vane chamber of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount and the capacity of the vane chamber of the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount are synchronously changed and increased/decreased in a complementary relationship, that is, when the movable wall member and the movable vane chamber sleeve of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount synchronously displace in the axial direction of the vane rotor toward the fixed wall member to minify the capacity of the vane chamber, the movable wall member and the movable vane chamber sleeve of the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount synchronously displace in the axial direction of the vane rotor away from the fixed wall member to enlarge the capacity of the vane chamber, the displacement distance of the movable wall member and the movable vane chamber sleeve of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount being equal to the displacement distance of the movable wall member and the movable vane chamber sleeve of the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount, reversely, when the movable wall member and the movable vane chamber sleeve of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount synchronously displace in the axial direction of the vane rotor away from the fixed wall member to enlarge the capacity of the vane chamber, the movable wall member and the movable vane chamber sleeve of the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount synchronously displacing in the axial direction of the vane rotor toward the fixed wall member to minify the capacity of the vane chamber, the displacement distance of the movable wall member and the movable vane chamber sleeve of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount being equal to the displacement distance of the movable wall member and the movable vane chamber sleeve of the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount.
88. A driving method employing the pumps with variable suction/discharge amount as claimed in claim 81, includes steps of: (1) making the transmission drive device operate and causing a difference value between the driving force of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount and the load resistance born by the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount; (2) under the action of the difference value between the driving force and the load resistance, the movable wall members and the movable vane chamber sleeves of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount and the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount being pushed by the push force and drawn by the vacuum sucking force produced in the vane chambers, whereby the movable wall members and the movable vane chamber sleeves of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount and the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount synchronously displace so that the capacities of the vane chambers of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount and the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount are automatically modulated and changed under the action of the difference value between the driving force and the load resistance; and (3) due to the balancing effect of the force, the capacities of the vane chambers of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount and the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount in the closed loop are eventually automatically modulated into a state that the driving force of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount is equal to the load resistance of the passive drive device with variable suction/discharge amount, at this time, the capacities of the vane chambers and the rotational speeds of the active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount and the passive active drive device with variable suction/discharge amount being also automatically adjusted to be in inverse proportion to each other in operation.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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REFERENCE NUMBERS OF DRAWINGS
[0071] 1 pump [0072] 10 vane rotor [0073] 101 active pump [0074] 102 passive pump [0075] 11 cam ring [0076] 12 eccentric amount adjustment member [0077] 2 vane chamber body [0078] 204 fixed wall face [0079] 21 fixed wall member [0080] 211 fixed wall seat sleeve [0081] 212 fixed wall end face [0082] 213 fixed wall hole [0083] 22 movable wall member [0084] 221 movable wall face [0085] 222 fitting hole [0086] 2221 vane receiving slot [0087] 23 movable vane chamber sleeve [0088] 230 vane chamber [0089] 2301, 2303 eccentric vane chamber section [0090] 2302 vane chamber sleeve end face [0091] 3 vane rotor [0092] 30 impeller [0093] 301 end face [0094] 31 vane [0095] 311 vane top edge [0096] 33 first rotor shaft [0097] 34 second rotor shaft [0098] 341 first suction/discharge ports [0099] 342 second suction/discharge ports [0100] 343 first suction/discharge passages [0101] 344 second suction/discharge passages [0102] 345 shaft center [0103] 346 shaft non-center [0104] 35 fluid suction/discharge port member [0105] 351 first suction/discharge passage [0106] 352 second suction/discharge passage [0107] 36 transmission member [0108] 37 sealing block [0109] 4 first support body; [0110] 40 second support body; [0111] 41 base seat [0112] 410, 4100 suction/discharge passage [0113] 411 fixed wall end boss [0114] 4110 boss end face [0115] 412 shaft hole [0116] 5 retainer member [0117] 6, 60, 61, 62 common engagement member [0118] 8 external forcing member [0119] 80 same-direction displacement connection member [0120] 800 synchronous displacement connection member [0121] 9, 90 displacement resistant member
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
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[0123] According to the above principle, in a first embodiment of the present invention (as shown in
[0124] The vane rotor 3 has at least one impeller 30 and at least one vane 31 assembled with the impeller 30. The vane 31 is radially slidable and extendable/retractable. The impeller 30 has an end face 301 normal to the axis vane rotor 3. The end face 301 can tightly attach to the fixed wall face 204. The vane rotor 3 has a first rotor shaft 33, which can be pivotally fitted in an eccentric rotor shaft hole 412 formed on the base seat 41. The first rotor shaft 33 is further passed through the first support body 4 to externally connect with a transmission member 36 for receiving power or bearing a load. The vane rotor 3 further has a second rotor shaft 34, in which a first suction/discharge port 341 and a second suction/discharge port 342 are formed. A first suction/discharge passage 343 and a second suction/discharge passage 344 are formed in the vane rotor 3 respectively in communication with the first and second suction/discharge ports 341, 342. The first and second suction/discharge passages 343, 344 respectively extend to further communicate with a suction side and a discharge side on two sides of the vane 31 into communication with the vane chamber 230. The second rotor shaft 34 can be directly pivotally disposed on the second support body 40. Alternatively, as shown in
[0125] The movable wall member 22 is fitted around the vane rotor 3 and is axially slidable to fit around the impeller 30. The movable wall member 22 has a movable wall face 221. The movable wall face 221 is tightly attached to a vane chamber sleeve end face 2302 of the movable vane chamber sleeve 23, which faces the movable wall member 22. A fitting hole 222 is formed at a center of the movable wall member 22, which is axially slidable to fit around the impeller 30. An inner wall of the fitting hole 222 is formed with a vane receiving slot 2221 corresponding to the vane 31. The vane 31 can slide into the vane receiving slot 2221, whereby when the movable wall member 22 relatively axially approaches the fixed wall member 21, more part of the vane 31 can slide into the vane receiving slot 2221. The vane chamber 230 is defined in the movable vane chamber sleeve 23. The vane chamber 230 can axially slide to fit around the fixed wall member 21 and the impeller 30. The vane chamber 230 is defined between the movable vane chamber sleeve 23, the fixed wall end face 212, the movable wall face 221 and the vane rotor 3. The impeller 30 occupies a part of the vane chamber 230. The remaining space of the vane chamber 230 forms at least one eccentric vane chamber section 2301 eccentric to the axis of the vane rotor 3. The vane 31 has a vane top edge 311 distal from the vane rotor 3. The vane top edge 311 tightly attaches to the inner wall of the vane chamber 230 and is axially and/or circumferentially slidable relative to the inner wall of the vane chamber 230. In addition, proper sealing and leakproof members can be disposed between the contacting sections of the vane 31 and the inner wall of the vane chamber 230 and between the tightly attaching or relatively displacing sections of the fixed wall member 21, the movable wall member 22, the movable vane chamber sleeve 23 and the vane rotor 3 so as to prevent the fluid in the operating vane chamber 230 from leaking through the aforesaid sections. Especially, at the inter-contacting sections of the vane top edge 311 of the vane 31, the movable wall member 22 and the movable vane chamber sleeve 23, the curve of the configuration of the vane top edge 311, the cross-sectional curve of the vane receiving slot 2221 of the movable wall member 22, into which the vane top edge 311 can slide and the curve of the inner wall of the vane chamber 230 of the movable vane chamber sleeve 23 in contact with the vane top edge 311 are different from each other. Therefore, minor gaps exist between the inter-contacting sections of the vane top edge 311 of the vane 31, the movable wall member 22 and the movable vane chamber sleeve 23. As a result, in operation, the vane chamber 230 cannot be fully closed. In order to solve this problem, a sealing block 37 is disposed on the vane top edge 311, which can tightly attach to the vane top edge 311 to synchronously slide with the vane 31. The sealing block 37 is further restricted in the intersection path of the vane receiving slot 2221 of the movable wall member 22 and the outer edge of the inner wall of the vane chamber 230 of the movable vane chamber sleeve 23. Accordingly, in operation, the sealing block 37 always seals the inter-contacting sections of the vane top edge 311, the vane receiving slot 2221 and the outer edge of the inner wall of the vane chamber 230 and blocks the gaps to achieve good sealing and leakproof effect. A retainer member 5 can be assembled between the movable wall member 22 and the movable vane chamber sleeve 23 so as to keep the movable wall member 22 and the movable vane chamber sleeve 23 attach to and assemble with each other, whereby the movable wall member 22 and the movable vane chamber sleeve 23 can synchronously axially slide. (The retainer member 5 can have various structural forms and will not be redundantly described hereinafter).
[0126] According to the above assembled structure, in operation, when the vane rotor 3 drives the vane 31 to sweep within the eccentric vane chamber section 2301, the fluid on the forward side of the sweeping direction of the vane 31 is compressed and discharged as a discharge side. The fluid positioned on the other side of the vane 31 is sucked in as a suction side. In addition, the eccentric vane chamber section 2301 is eccentric to the axis of the vane rotor 3 so that the area of the fixed wall face 204 per unit angle, which the vane 31 sweeps over in the eccentric vane chamber section 2301, will continuously change along with the rotation of the vane rotor 3. This phenomenon is equivalent to that the intersection area of the movable wall face 221 on two sides of the vane 31 and the interior of the eccentric vane chamber section 2301 and the suction/discharge amount of the fluid on two sides of the vane 31 will both change along with the change of the sweeping position of the vane 31. Also, the space of the eccentric vane chamber section 2301, which is occupied by the vane 31, is relatively changed. This leads to some difference between the fluid amount discharged from the discharge side of the vane 31 and the fluid amount sucked into the suction side of the vane 31. Moreover, under the forced push of an external forcing member 8 (as shown in
[0127] Accordingly, the above pump with variable suction/discharge amount can be applied to and assembled with a closed loop. The closed loop outputs and inputs an operation fluid to the vane chamber 230 and the external forcing member 8 forcedly pushes the pump to transfer the operation fluid. In the transfer process of the operation fluid, the pressure in the vane chamber 230 is changed. The change amount of the pressure acts between at least one of the movable wall member 22 and the movable vane chamber sleeve 23 and the fixed wall member 21, whereby the movable wall member 22 and/or the movable vane chamber sleeve 23 and the fixed wall member 21 displace relative to each other so as to change capacity of the vane chamber 230. Accordingly, the output amount and input amount of the operation fluid pushed by the rotating vane rotor 3 to pass the vane chamber 230 per unit time are variable with the change of the capacity of the vane chamber 230, whereby the vane rotor 3 can provide power transmission at different rotational speeds according to the change of the capacity of the vane chamber 230.
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[0129] Therefore, in application of the transmission drive device composed of the above components, in case the closed loop outputs and inputs an operation fluid to the respective vane chambers 230 of the active pump 101 and the passive pump 102, by means of the forced push of the external forcing member 8 or the change amount of the pressure applied to the interior of the vane chamber 230 by the operation fluid during the push and transfer process, the push acts between at least one of the movable wall member 22 and the movable vane chamber sleeve 23 and the fixed wall member 21, whereby the movable wall member 22 and/or the movable vane chamber sleeve 23 and the fixed wall member 21 displace relative to each other so as to change the capacity of the vane chamber 230. Accordingly, the active pump 101 and the passive pump 102 can make the rotational speeds of the corresponding vane rotors 3 in inverse proportion to each other respectively according to the change of the capacity of the corresponding vane chambers 230 to provide power transmission.
[0130] During the operation process of the active/passive pump loop, the movable wall members 22 and the movable vane chamber sleeves 23 of the active pump 101 and the passive pump 102 will continuously reciprocally axially displace. Therefore, the driving force applied to the vane 31 of the passive pump 102 by the active pump 101 will be interrupted. As a result, the rotation of the passive pump 102 will be undulated. Moreover, in the above embodiment, each of the active pump and the passive pump has one single vane chamber and one single vane. In case at the beginning of actuation of the passive pump, the vane of the passive pump is positioned in a position where the vane is right fully inlaid in the vane rotor, there is no vane face in the passive pump to bear the driving force. Under such circumstance, the active pump is situated in an invalid idling state and cannot apply any driving force to the passive pump. As a result, the entire loop will idle. In order to avoid the above condition of undulated operation or idling of the loop, as shown in FIG. 7-1, two active pumps 101 (or a active pump 101 with two eccentric vane chamber sections 2301) can be coupled with two passive pumps 102 (or a passive pump 102 with two eccentric vane chamber sections 2301). Alternatively, as shown in
[0131] According to the above active/passive pump driving loop, especially the structural form composed of four active pumps 101 and four passive pumps 102 coupled therewith as shown in
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[0135] The second embodiment is most obviously different from the first embodiment in that the movable vane chamber sleeve 23 of the second embodiment can only axially displace relative to the vane rotor 3, while failing to synchronously rotate with the vane rotor 3. The suction/discharge passages 343, 344 of the second embodiment can be disposed on the suction side and the discharge side of the vane 31 of the impeller 30 of the vane rotor 3 as in the first embodiment.
[0136] According to the above design of the pump with variable suction/discharge amount of the present invention, in the condition that the original radial size is not increased, the pump with variable suction/discharge amount can truly effectively achieve the modulation function for the suction/discharge amount. The pump with variable suction/discharge amount of the present invention not only can effectively improve the shortcomings of the conventional pumps with variable suction/discharge amount, but also can be assembled to form a drive device capable of automatically modulating the rotational speed ratio between the pumps. The pump with variable suction/discharge amount of the present invention is indeed inventive and has high practical value.
[0137] The above embodiments are only used to illustrate the present invention, not intended to limit the scope thereof. Many modifications of the above embodiments can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.