Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Four-way valve
- Patent Title (中): 四通阀
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Application No.: US13011958Application Date: 2011-01-24
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Publication No.: US08347917B2Publication Date: 2013-01-08
- Inventor: Susumu Yoshimura , Shinichi Wakamoto , Shinji Nakashima , Takashi Sekiya
- Applicant: Susumu Yoshimura , Shinichi Wakamoto , Shinji Nakashima , Takashi Sekiya
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.
- Priority: JP2005-006082 20050113
- Main IPC: F16K11/065
- IPC: F16K11/065

Abstract:
In a four-way valve having a simple structure, even if a high-temperature refrigerant and a low-temperature refrigerant flow close to each other, heat loss between both refrigerants is suppressed. The valve comprises a housing member including a valve chamber, a valve seat including a bearing surface portion located in the valve chamber, a first channel through which a high-temperature fluid flows and a second channel through which a low-temperature fluid flows at a predetermined time, including openings adjacent to each other at a bearing surface portion of the valve seat, passing through the valve seat and extending outside of the valve chamber, and a valve element moving to the bearing surface portion of the valve seat. A thermal resistor portion suppressing heat transfer between these channels is located near the openings, between the first and second channels.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110120579A1 FOUR-WAY VALVE Public/Granted day:2011-05-26
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