Patent ID: 11959482
Assignee: KYB CORPORATION
Field: Engines, pumps, turbines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F | IPC F

Claim 3:
4. A vane pump, comprising:
a rotor configured to be rotationally driven;
a plurality of vanes provided so as to be capable of freely reciprocating in a radial direction with respect to the rotor;
a cam ring having an inner circumference cam face on which tip end portions of the plurality of vanes slide with rotation of the rotor;
a body having an accommodating portion for accommodating the rotor and the cam ring;
a cover attached to the body to close the accommodating portion;
pump chambers formed by the rotor, the cam ring, and the adjacent vanes;
a first suction port configured to guide working fluid to the pump chambers, the working fluid being guided by a suction passage provided in the body;
a second suction port configured to guide the working fluid to the pump chambers, the working fluid being guided from the suction passage through a communication passage provided in the cover or the body;
a return passage to which excessive fluid is guided, the excessive fluid being derived from the working fluid discharged from the pump chambers; and
a plate member arranged between the communication passage and the pump chambers, wherein
the return passage has:
an axial direction passage through which the excessive fluid flows along a rotation-axis direction of the rotor at an outer side of the cam ring in a radial direction; and
a turning passage configured to reverse the excessive fluid towards the second suction port, the excessive fluid being guided through the axial direction passage,

the plate member is provided with a cut-out portion, the cut-out portion opening at an outer circumferential surface of the plate member, and the cut-out portion penetrating through between both end surfaces of the plate member,
the second suction port has a side port formed by the cut-out portion of the plate member, and
the turning passage is configured to reverse the working fluid towards the side port, the working fluid being guided by the axial direction passage.