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    8,000 RPM APU Size To 30,000 RPM Miniature, Aerospace Applications

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    This document describes A.T.I.'s internal gear crescent pump design that can operate at high speeds up to 30,000 RPM and low inlet pressures for aerospace applications like air turbine starters. The pump uses a proprietary gear profile optimized for a small envelope. It has only two moving parts, uses standard involute gear geometry requiring no surface treatments, and produces high frequency pressure pulsations. This design addresses issues like fretting seen in lobe-type pumps.

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    8,000 RPM APU Size To 30,000 RPM Miniature, Aerospace Applications

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    This document describes A.T.I.'s internal gear crescent pump design that can operate at high speeds up to 30,000 RPM and low inlet pressures for aerospace applications like air turbine starters. The pump uses a proprietary gear profile optimized for a small envelope. It has only two moving parts, uses standard involute gear geometry requiring no surface treatments, and produces high frequency pressure pulsations. This design addresses issues like fretting seen in lobe-type pumps.

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    Various gear pump designs

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    Crescent Pump

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    This document describes A.T.I.'s internal gear crescent pump design that can operate at high speeds up to 30,000 RPM and low inlet pressures for aerospace applications like air turbine starters. The pump uses a proprietary gear profile optimized for a small envelope. It has only two moving parts, uses standard involute gear geometry requiring no surface treatments, and produces high frequency pressure pulsations. This design addresses issues like fretting seen in lobe-type pumps.

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    8,000 RPM APU Size To 30,000 RPM Miniature, Aerospace Applications

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    This document describes A.T.I.'s internal gear crescent pump design that can operate at high speeds up to 30,000 RPM and low inlet pressures for aerospace applications like air turbine starters. The pump uses a proprietary gear profile optimized for a small envelope. It has only two moving parts, uses standard involute gear geometry requiring no surface treatments, and produces high frequency pressure pulsations. This design addresses issues like fretting seen in lobe-type pumps.

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    8,000 RPM APU Size to 30,000 RPM Miniature,

    Aerospace Applications.

    A.T.I.s Crescent Gear Pump


    (Crescent Pump on Aerospace Steroids)

    THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF A.T.I. AND IS


    DELIVERED ON THE EXPRESS CONDITION THAT IT IS
    NOT TO BE DISCLOSED, REPRODUCED IN WHOLE OR
    IN PART, WITHOUT THE WRITTEN CONSENT OF A.T.I.

    .5 gpm @ 30Kft altitude inlet, 30,000 rpm

    Up to
    2.75 gpm @ 43Kft altitude inlet, 8,300 rpm
    A.T.I.s Internal Gear Crescent Pump
    (Crescent Pump on Aerospace Steroids)

    Introduction

    Armstrong Technology Inc. has developed a Crescent Gear Pump to


    operate at high speeds and ultra low inlet pressures for use in Air Turbine
    Starter and Gas Turbine lubrication systems.

    Design Concept
    Aerospace Crescent Gear Pump;
    This design uses a gear profile optimized for a very small envelope
    to perform at extreme speeds with a cavitating inlet.
    Gear Form is a true involute ON BOTH parts. The involute form
    provides a positive rolling action and does not require post surface
    treatments (carburizing, nitriding or induction hardening)

    Gears ARE NOT a matched set.


    Centered drive shaft and pump element stacking and/or Gear/Shaft
    combinations.
    The multi-toothed gear elements also produce relatively high
    frequency, low amplitude pressure pulsations.
    The serious housing fretting problems encountered with lobe-type
    pump designs will also be abated with this concept.
    Gear Material, 4340 per AMS 6415, 38-42 HRc, NO surface
    Treatment, has been the standard material selection for Aerospace
    Gear Pumps for the last 40 years.
    Note: the Inner Gear/Shaft is Heat Treated to 50 55 HRc. On the ATS
    application, the shaft is acting as a bearing journal and requires the
    increased hardness.

    Positive displacement
    pumps

    External gear pump design. Internal gear (Gerotor) pump Internal gear (Crescent)
    design.
    pump design.

    INTERNAL GEAR PUMP has only two moving parts a "gear-within-a-gear." Power is on the rotor gear. As the gears mesh, liquid is
    drawn into the pump, filling the spaces between the gear teeth. Liquid moves smoothly around the crescent and is forced out at the
    discharge port by the meshing of the gear teeth, as indicated by direction arrows in diagram.

    Standard (older technology) Gear Pumps

    GEROTOR:
    PROPRIETARY GEAR
    GEOMETRY, UNABLE TO
    USE STANDARD GEAR
    INSPECTION, ONLY A FEW
    SUPPLIERS. GEARS ARE A
    MATCHED SET.

    Sealing between the Inlet & Outlet is achieved by the Gerotor


    Form Clearance.

    Sealing between the Inlet & Outlet is achieved by the Crescent

    CRESCENT:
    (NOTE: USES SAME GEAR FORM AS
    GEAR PUMP.

    STANDARD GEAR GEOMETRY, STANDARD GEAR


    INSPECTION, MULTIPLE SUPPLIERS. GEARS ARE NOT
    A MATCHED SET.

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