Quiet vacuum cleaner using a vacuum pump with a lobed chamber
CA 2320093 A1 · Owner: Soundesign, L.L.C. · Inventors: Nosenchuck, Daniel M.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A vacuum cleaner has a vacuum pump with a housing (102) including a lobed chamber (104) having an epitrochoidal planform. The chamber has outlet ports (116o) and inlet ports (116i) in each lobe of the chamber and a central , stator gear (110). A triangular rotor (140) with curved sides is disposed for eccentric rotation in the chamber such that an inlet port and an outlet port in each lobe of the chamber are always in direct fluid communication during a portion of rotor travel, which prevents excessive pressure build-up at the chamber inlet ports, and a central rotor gear meshed with the stator gear. A drive disc (164) fits within a circular opening (149) in the rotor (140) and is …
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed February 4, 1999. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended February 4, 2019.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 4, 2021.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.