公开(公告)号：US11015725B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-25

申请号：US16341231

申请日：2017-10-10

Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.

Inventor： Seungjun Lee ,  Sungwook Choi

IPC: F16K11/074 ,  F16K11/16 ,  F16H61/00 ,  F16K49/00 ,  F16K11/072 ,  G01D5/14 ,  F16K31/04 ,  F16K3/02 ,  F16K3/04 ,  F25B41/04 ,  F16K37/00 ,  F25B30/02

Abstract: A four-way valve for switching a refrigerant flow path includes: a housing part including a refrigerant filling chamber configured to receive refrigerant; a valve plate disposed at one side of the housing part and having at least three inflow/outflow holes formed therein; a valve pad part disposed in the refrigerant filling chamber, rotating to contact one of surfaces of the valve plate, and occupying one of the at least three inflow/outflow holes continuously and occupying selectively one of the remaining holes of the at least three inflow/outflow holes so as to make the occupied inflow/outflow holes communicate with each other, thereby forming a changed flow path; a rotation drive part for transferring a driving force to rotate the valve pad part; and a deceleration part, disposed between the rotation drive part and the valve pad part, for increasing a driving torque transferred from the rotation drive part.