Rotary expansible chamber devices – Trapped fluid relief – With tooth modification
Patent
1992-04-27
1993-01-19
Koczo, Michael
Rotary expansible chamber devices
Trapped fluid relief
With tooth modification
418206, F04C 1818
Patent
active
051802996
ABSTRACT:
An improved Roots type supercharger for use with high performance vehicle engines. In Roots type superchargers as the lobes of the two cooperating rotors mesh, air is compressed between the approaching lobe on one rotor and inter-lobe area on the other rotor. This rapidly and severely compressses the air caught at that nip, tending to bend the rotors, overload the bearings and the rotor end seals. Also, compression heating of that air overheats the supercharger and charge air. Both of these phenomena tend to shorten the useful life of the supercharger. To overcome this problem, a row of relief passages is provided through the face of each lobe communicating with a large interior volume within the lobe. As the perforated lobe approaches the inter-lobe area of the second rotor, the air in the nip passes through the relief passages, only slightly increasing the pressure of the relatively large volume within the lobe rather than highly increasing the pressure in the nip. The relatively small pressure increase does not distort the components or significantly increase system or charge air temperature. A plurality of relief passages may also be provided in opposite lobe faces and the lobe interior may be longitudinally divided into two volumes, each communicating with the holes on only one face, where either face may act as a leading face.
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Feuling Engineering, Inc.
Gilliam Frank D.
Koczo Michael
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