Vacuum pump

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10364829-B2
Application number	US-201615379888-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 15, 2016
Priority date	May 4, 2016
Publication date	Jul 30, 2019
Grant date	Jul 30, 2019

Abstract

A vacuum pump includes a housing with an inlet port, a rotor part in the housing, the rotor part including a recess part facing the inlet port, and a plurality of rotating blades, a rotating shaft overlapping the recess part, and a capping part overlapping the rotating shaft and covering the recess part.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vacuum pump, comprising:
a housing including an inlet port;
a rotor part in the housing, the rotor part including:
a recess part through an upper portion of the rotor part, the recess part facing the inlet port, and
a plurality of rotating blades external to the recess part;

a rotating shaft extending into the recess part; and
a capping part overlapping the rotating shaft and covering the recess part, the inlet port of the housing overlapping an entire width of the capping part,
wherein the rotor part further includes exhaust holes external to the recess part and extending from the recess part among the plurality of rotating blades, longitudinal directions of the exhaust holes extending in a plane parallel to a bottom of the recess part.

2. The vacuum pump as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the capping part includes a side portion and a curved portion, the side portion being inserted into the recess part and facing an inner sidewall of the recess part, and the curved portion protruding outside the recess part and facing the inlet port.

3. The vacuum pump as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the side portion of the capping part and the inner sidewall of the recess part contact each other.

4. The vacuum pump as claimed in claim 2 , wherein only part of the curved portion is inside the recess part.

5. The vacuum pump as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the capping part includes a coupling portion coupled to a topmost surface of the rotor part, the capping part completely sealing the recess part.

6. The vacuum pump as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the capping part includes a side portion and a curved portion, the side portion being inside the recess part to face an inner sidewall and spaced apart from the exhaust holes, and the curved portion facing the inlet port.

7. The vacuum pump as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the capping part further includes projecting blades on a surface thereof.

8. The vacuum pump as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the capping part includes an insertion portion in a center thereof, the insertion portion being coupled to the rotating shaft.

9. The vacuum pump as claimed in claim 8 , wherein:
the insertion portion is screw-coupled to the rotating shaft; and
a rotation direction of the screw-coupling between the insertion portion and the rotating shaft differs from a rotation direction of the rotating shaft.

10. A vacuum pump, comprising:
a housing including an inlet port; and
a rotor part in the housing, the rotor part including:
a recess part facing the inlet port,
a plurality of rotating blades, and
a plurality of exhaust holes extending radially from the recess part toward a sidewall of the housing, the plurality of exhaust holes being among the plurality of rotating blades.

11. The vacuum pump as claimed in claim 10 , further comprising a capping part in the recess part and including a side portion, the side portion being spaced apart from the exhaust holes.

12. The vacuum pump as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the capping part further includes projecting blades on a surface thereof.

13. The vacuum pump as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the capping part further includes an insertion portion in a center thereof, the insertion portion being coupled to a rotating shaft.

14. The vacuum pump as claimed in claim 10 , wherein:
the recess part includes an empty volumetric space,
the plurality of rotating blades are external to the recess part, and
the plurality of exhaust holes are external to the recess part and in fluid communication with the empty volumetric space of the recess part.

15. A vacuum pump, comprising:
a housing including an inlet port;
a rotor part in the housing, the rotor part including:
a recess part through an upper portion of the rotor part, the recess part facing the inlet port, and
a plurality of rotating blades, some of the plurality of rotating blades extending from a sidewall of the recess part toward a sidewall of the housing;

a rotating shaft extending through a bottom of the recess part toward the inlet port; and
a capping part at least partially inserted into the recess part, the capping part overlapping the rotating shaft and a top of the recess part,
wherein the rotor part further includes exhaust holes external to the recess part and extending from the recess part among the plurality of rotating blades, longitudinal directions of the exhaust holes extending in a plane parallel to a bottom of the recess part.

16. The vacuum pump as claimed in claim 15 , wherein the capping part includes a curved portion overlapping a center of the recess part in a top view, the curved portion bulging out of the recess part toward the inlet port.

17. The vacuum pump as claimed in claim 16 , wherein a lower portion of the curved portion overlaps an inner sidewall of the recess part, an upper portion of the curved portion is outside the recess part, and a width of a widest portion of the curved portion overlaps at least a majority of a width of the recess part.

18. The vacuum pump as claimed in claim 17 , wherein the capping part further includes a side portion extending from the lower portion of the curved portion toward the bottom of the recess part, the side portion being adjacent to and parallel to an inner sidewall of the recess part.

19. The vacuum pump as claimed in claim 15 , wherein the capping part has a dome shape covering a bottom and sidewalls of the recess part, the plurality of rotating blades being external to the recess part and to the dome shaped capping part.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Kwang Jae

Classifications

• F04D29/042 Primary

  Axially shiftable rotors (F04D29/041 takes precedence {; control by creating a by-pass F04D15/0027}) · CPC title

• F04D19/046

  Combinations of two or more different types of pumps · CPC title

• F04D29/083

  especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps · CPC title

• F04D29/053

  Shafts · CPC title

• F04D29/28

  for centrifugal or helico-centrifugal pumps {for radial-flow or helico-centrifugal pumps} · CPC title