Abstract:
A compressor with rotor unloading is presented. The compressor having a housing for supporting a multi-rotor configuration (e.g., a male rotor and two axially aligned female rotors) and a drive motor. A discharge disk is mounted at the discharge end of the male rotor. The length of the male rotor is slightly longer than the length of the female rotors, thereby providing axial clearance between the female rotors and the discharge disk. Lubrication is leaked (or flashed) through these clearances to upper bearings. The motor is supported in the compressor housing. Evaporated refrigerant from the evaporator is inducted into the compressor. The vapor phase refrigerant is compressed by the compressor. The compressed vapor phase refrigerant is then presented to a condenser, condensing the refrigerant to the liquid phase. Thereafter, liquid phase refrigerant is delivered through an expansion valve to the evaporator. The motor, bearings and the compression process itself are cooled and lubricated by the oil in the vapor refrigerant. The unloading is accomplished by allowing selective axial movement of the female rotors of the compressor to effectively reduce/prevent compression at that rotor. The axial movement is actuated by a stepper motor. The expansion valve is actuated and the female rotors are unloaded (i.e., the stepper motors are driven) in response to microprocessor control. Accordingly, the above describes a complete cycle which can be capacity varied.
Abstract:
A variable capacity vapor compression cooling system is presented. In the system of the present invention, air conditioning requirements are entered into a microprocessor which controls the system. Liquid phase refrigerant entering an evaporator is regulated by a microprocessor controlled electronic expansion valve. Evaporated refrigerant is delivered to a pair of compressors from the evaporator. The motors for the compressors are controlled by a controller. Each of the compressors has a feed back loop attached thereto for feeding back some of the inducted vapor phase refrigerant. The amount of vapor fed back in each loop is regulated by a corresponding microprocessor controlled multi-purpose valve. The compressed vapor phase refrigerant is then presented to a condenser which condenses the refrigerant to the liquid phase which is used for cooling, as is well known in the art. Thereafter, liquid phase refrigerant is presented to an economizer where vapor phase refrigerant (i.e., flash gas) is drawn off. The amount of vapor phase refrigerant drawn off is regulated by a microprocessor controlled electronic expansion valve. This vapor phase refrigerant is presented to the multi-purpose valves where it is directed to the respective compressors. The liquid phase refrigerant is delivered to the evaporator with the flow thereof being regulated by a microprocessor controlled electronic expansion valve. Accordingly, the above describes a complete cycle which can be capacity varied without unloading of the compressors, as described more completely below. It is an important feature of the system of the present invention that capacity is varied without unloading the compressors.
Abstract:
In a swing type rotary compressor, a roller (2) is fitted on an eccentric portion (31) of a drive shaft (3) and installed within a cylinder chamber (11) so as to be able to orbit. On the roller (2), a blade (21) partitioning the cylinder chamber (11) into a compression chamber (X) and a suction chamber (Y) to which a suction port (13) is opened is integrally protruded. On the cylinder (1), a support body (4) swingably supporting the blade (21) is swingably supported. On an outer circumferential surface of the roller (2), a cutoff portion (22) extending forward in a rotation direction from near a blade protruding position on the roller (2) and shifting a suction shut-off point for suction gas sucked from the suction port (13) toward a side of the compression chamber (X) is formed on a side of the suction chamber (Y) with respect to the blade protruding position. With the configuration, only by forming the cut-off portion with a simple cutting operation applied on an outer circumference of the roller (2), suction resistance in sucking suction gas into the suction chamber (Y) and passage resistance in supplying suction gas from the compression chamber (X) to the suction chamber (Y) via the cut-off portion (22) are reduced and thus, its compression capacity can be exactly adjusted. Furthermore, its manufacturing cost can be reduced by sharing various parts in common.
Abstract:
A sliding vane type rotary compressor, of which refrigerating capacity at the high speed operation of the compressor is suppressed by making use of suction loss involved when refrigerant pressure in the vane chamber becomes lower than the pressure of the refrigerant supply source in the suction stroke of the compressor. The compressor has a rotor, vanes slidably carried by the rotor, a cylinder accommodating the rotor and the vane, side plates fixed to both sides of the cylinder for closing both open ends of the vane chambers defined by the rotor, vanes and the cylinder, and suction and discharge ports serving as passages for communicating the vane chambers with the outside of the compressor. A spacer for adjustment of the refrigerating capacity is disposed in the suction port. When the compressor of the invention is used in the refrigeration cycle of an automobile air conditioner, it is possible to obtain a desired refrigerating capacity controlling characteristics of the compressor matching the characteristics of the associated engine and automobile, simply by selecting a suitable spacer and mounting the same in the sucking section of the compressor, without substantially changing other parts of the compressor.
Abstract:
A scroll compressor with a first valve having a first surface to open/close between a first path and a second path; a back pressure chamber assembly or non-orbiting scroll having a third path through which a first pressure refrigerant flows, a fourth path through which refrigerant of a second pressure lower than the first pressure flows, and one end in communication with the third and fourth paths and the other end having a fifth path in communication with a second surface of the first valve; and a second valve provided where the third, fourth, and fifth paths to meet and moveable between first and second positions, wherein at the first position the third and fifth paths communicate to supply the first pressure refrigerant toward the second surface, and at the second position the fourth and fifth paths communicate to supply the second pressure refrigerant toward the second surface.
Abstract:
A screw compressor includes a compressor housing defining a working chamber, the housing including a plurality of bores; a first rotor having helical threads, the first rotor being housed in a first of the plurality of bores; a second rotor having helical threads intermeshing with the helical threads of the first rotor, the second rotor being housed in a second of the plurality of bores; an inlet port that receives a fluid to be compressed; an outlet port that receives a compressed fluid; and an intermediate discharge port disposed between the compression chamber and the outlet port, the intermediate discharge port including a sealing member and a biasing mechanism, fluid flow being prevented between the compression chamber and the intermediate discharge port when in a flow-blocked state, and fluid flow being enabled from the compression chamber through the intermediate discharge port when in a flow-permitted state.
Abstract:
Pump having a pump inlet, a pump outlet, at least two threaded rotors and a pressure controlled valve. The pressure controlled valve is capable of controlling re-circulation of fluid from the pump outlet to the pump inlet. The pressure controlled valve can be a control valve. A multiple stage pump assembly is also provided having least two pumps arranged in series, in which at least one of the pumps is the aforementioned pump.
Abstract:
A Roots-type supercharger 100, 1100 includes a housing 120, 1120, a first rotor 200, a second rotor 300, an outlet volume 400, a transfer volume 500, and a bleed port 600, 600′, 1600. The housing includes an interior chamber 130, an inlet port 140, and an outlet port 150, 1150. The first rotor 200 and the second rotor 300 have a plurality of lobes 210, 310, respectively. The outlet volume 400 is substantially bounded between the outlet port, the first rotor, the second rotor, and the interior chamber of the housing. The transfer volume 500 is substantially bounded between the first rotor, the second rotor, and the interior chamber of the housing. The bleed port 600, 600′, 1600 is adapted to fluidly connect the outlet volume and the transfer volume at least during a portion of a transfer volume cycle. The variable bleed port may include a plate that pivots about a pivot or slides along a slide. The plate may be arc shaped and may arc around a centerline of one of the rotors. The plate may be positioned within an operating cavity. The operating cavity may be defined within the housing between a bearing plate and a main housing of the housing. A method of supercharging an internal combustion engine includes bleeding a transfer volume to an outlet volume through a bleed port.
Abstract:
A scroll compressor is provided that may include a casing including a rotational shaft, a cover fixed inside of the casing to partition the inside of the casing into a suction space and a discharge space, a first scroll that is revolved by rotational of the rotational shaft, a second scroll disposed on or at a side of the first scroll to define a plurality of compression chambers together with the first scroll, the second scroll having an intermediate pressure discharge hole that communicates with a compression chamber having an intermediate pressure of the plurality of compression chambers, a back pressure plate coupled to the second scroll, the back pressure plate having an intermediate pressure suction hole that communicates with the intermediate pressure discharge hole, and a floating plate movably disposed on or at a side of the back pressure plate to define the back pressure chamber together with the back pressure plate. The discharge space may have a volume greater by a set ratio or more than a volume of the back pressure chamber.
Abstract:
A scroll compressor is provided. The scroll compressor may include a fixed scroll having a fixed wrap with a thickness that varies along a compression path and a disk having a discharge and at least one bypass hole formed therein, and an orbiting scroll having an orbiting wrap with a thickness that varies along the compression path and that orbits with respect to the fixed scroll to define a compression space between the respective wraps. The compressor may also include a rotation shaft coupled to the orbiting scroll, and a driver that rotates the rotation shaft. A diameter of each bypass hole may be greater than one third of an effective diameter of the discharge hole.