TL;DR: In this article, an oil pump rotor with an inner rotor and an outer rotor is presented, where the outer teeth of the inner rotor are formed by alternately combining an epicycloid curve and a hypocycloid curves.
Abstract: The present invention relates to an oil pump rotor provided with an inner rotor 10 to which n (n is a natural number) outer teeth 11 are formed, an outer rotor 20 to which n+1 inner teeth 21 are formed which engage with each of the outer teeth 11, and a casing 30 in which an intake port 31 for taking up fluid and an expulsion port 32 for expelling fluid are formed, wherein: the outer teeth of inner rotor are formed by alternately combining an epicycloid curve and a hypocycloid curve, the epicycloid curve being generated as an orbit of the point on a circle which rolls along the outside of the base circle without slipping, and the hypocycloid curve being generated as an orbit of a point on a circle which rolls along the inside of the base circle without slipping; the alternately combined curve being generated under the following condition, where E is the diameter of the circle which rolls along the outside of the base circle, and H is the diameter of the circle which rolls along the inside of the base circle: 05≦H/E≦08