| US 7,537,437 B2 | ||
| Linear actuator, and valve device and pump device using the same | ||
| Kenji Muramatsu, Nagano (Japan); Hiroshi Sugihara, Nagano (Japan); Kiyotsugu Takasawa, Nagano (Japan); and Mitsuo Yokozawa, Nagano (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Nidec Sankyo Corporation, (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Nov. 30, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/290,979. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2004-347701 (JP), filed on Nov. 30, 2004; application No. 2004-365924 (JP), filed on Dec. 17, 2004; and application No. 2005-043141 (JP), filed on Feb. 18, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0145797 A1, Jul. 06, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. F04B 17/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 417—413.1 [417/410.1; 417/356] | 6 Claims |

| 1. A pump device comprising:
a fixed body in which a pump chamber in communication with a fluid suction port and a fluid discharge port is constructed;
a valve element for expanding and contracting an internal volume of the pump chamber to perform suction and discharge of fluid;
and
a drive mechanism for driving the valve element which comprises:
a ring-shaped stator including a coil;
a rotation body including a rotor magnet whose peripheral face faces a peripheral face of the stator;
a movable body to which the valve element is fixed; and
a conversion mechanism in which rotation of the rotation body is converted to movement of the movable body in the axial direction,
which comprises:
a power transmitting mechanism which is provided with a screw groove or a cam groove between the rotation body and the movable
body; and
a co-rotation preventive mechanism which prevents the movable body from co-rotating with the rotation body;
wherein the rotation body comprises a cup-shaped member that is coaxially disposed on an inner side of the stator;
the movable body is provided with a cylindrical center part at a center of the movable body that is coaxially disposed on
an inner side of the cup-shaped member;
the valve element is a diaphragm valve that partitions the pump chamber;
an outer peripheral edge part of the diaphragm valve is fixed to the fixed body;
a center part of the diaphragm valve is fixed to the cylindrical center part of the movable body;
a cylindrical body part between the outer peripheral edge part and the center part of the diaphragm valve is disposed so that
a U-shaped portion is formed on the inner side of the cup-shaped member of the rotation body; and
the U-shaped portion of the cylindrical body part is moved on the inner side of the cup-shaped member of the rotation body
when the internal volume of the pump chamber is expanded and contracted by the diaphragm valve.
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