公开(公告)号：US06244232B1

公开(公告)日：2001-06-12

申请号：US09249419

申请日：1999-02-12

申请人： Takashi Ban ,  Shigeru Suzuki ,  Hidefumi Mori ,  Tatsuyuki Hoshino ,  Toshio Morikawa ,  Toshihiro Oshima

发明人： Takashi Ban ,  Shigeru Suzuki ,  Hidefumi Mori ,  Tatsuyuki Hoshino ,  Toshio Morikawa ,  Toshihiro Oshima

IPC分类号： F02N1702

CPC分类号： B60H1/038 ,  F24V40/00

摘要： A control apparatus and method for controlling an automotive heater apparatus. The heater apparatus includes a coolant circuit for cooling an engine, a coolant circulating through the circuit, a heat generator for transferring heat to the coolant, and a heater core for transferring heat from the coolant. The heat generator houses a viscous fluid and a rotor selectively connected to and disconnected from the engine by a clutch. The clutch connects the engine with the rotor to shear the viscous fluid and generate heat. When the rotating speed of the rotor exceeds a rotor speed limit, which varies in accordance with the detected coolant temperature, the clutch disconnects the rotor of the heat generator from the engine and de-activates the heat generator.

摘要翻译： 一种用于控制汽车加热器装置的控制装置和方法。 加热器装置包括用于冷却发动机的冷却剂回路，循环通过回路的冷却剂，用于将热量传递给冷却剂的热发生器和用于从冷却剂传递热的加热器芯。 热发生器容纳粘性流体和通过离合器选择性地连接到发动机并与其分离的转子。 离合器将发动机与转子连接以剪切粘性流体并产生热量。 当转子的转速超过根据检测到的冷却剂温度而变化的转子速度限制时，离合器将发电机的转子与发动机分离，并使热发生器停用。

公开(公告)号：US6129287A

公开(公告)日：2000-10-10

申请号：US286716

申请日：1999-04-06

申请人： Tatsuya Hirose ,  Takashi Ban ,  Shigeru Suzuki ,  Tatsuyuki Hoshino ,  Hidefumi Mori ,  Yasuhiro Fujiwara

发明人： Tatsuya Hirose ,  Takashi Ban ,  Shigeru Suzuki ,  Tatsuyuki Hoshino ,  Hidefumi Mori ,  Yasuhiro Fujiwara

IPC分类号： B60H1/08 ,  B60H1/22 ,  F24J3/00 ,  B60H1/02

CPC分类号： F24J3/003

摘要： A viscous fluid type heat generating apparatus having a housing forming a cylindrical heat-generating chamber having a cylindrical wall surface and an axially spaced flat annular wall surface, and a rotatably supported rotor element having a cylindrical base portion and an axially extending tubular portion integral with the base portion forming a substantially cylindrical outer face and a cavity portion used as a fluid-storing chamber, the cylindrical portion of the rotor element cooperating with the cylindrical wall surface of the housing to define a main part of a heat-generating gap holding a viscous fluid which generates heat in response to an application of a shearing force to the viscous fluid in response to the rotation of the rotor element. The heat generating apparatus further having an intercommunicating passage providing a fluid communication between the heat-generating gap and the fluid storing chamber to thereby cause a circulation of the viscous fluid during the rotation of the rotor element, and a flow rate controlling actuator controlling an amount of circulation of the viscous fluid in response to a change in the rotating speed of the rotor element.

摘要翻译： 一种粘性流体型发热装置，其具有形成有圆柱形壁面和轴向隔开的平坦的环形壁表面的圆柱形发热室的壳体，以及可旋转地支撑的转子元件，其具有圆柱形基部和与轴向延伸的管状部分 所述基部形成基本上圆柱形的外表面和用作流体储存室的空腔部分，所述转子元件的圆筒部分与所述壳体的圆柱形壁表面配合，以限定发热间隙的主要部分， 响应于转子元件的旋转而响应于对粘性流体施加剪切力而产生热的粘性流体。 该发热装置还具有相互连通的通道，其在发热间隙和流体储存室之间提供流体连通，从而在转子元件旋转期间引起粘性流体的循环，以及控制流量控制致动器的量 响应于转子元件的转速的变化，粘性流体的循环。

公开(公告)号：US5881711A

公开(公告)日：1999-03-16

申请号：US888466

申请日：1997-07-07

申请人： Takashi Ban ,  Shigeru Suzuki ,  Tatsuyuki Hoshino ,  Hidefumi Mori ,  Takahiro Moroi

发明人： Takashi Ban ,  Shigeru Suzuki ,  Tatsuyuki Hoshino ,  Hidefumi Mori ,  Takahiro Moroi

IPC分类号： B60H1/08 ,  F24J3/00 ,  F24C9/00

CPC分类号： F24J3/003

摘要： A viscous heater is provided with a front side plate 2 and a rear side plate 3, which are arranged so that a heat generating chamber 5 is formed between their facing back surfaces and which are stored in a housing so that heat emission chambers FW and RW are formed between the side plates and the housing. The housing is formed by a front housing having a tubular part 1c which extends axially for storing the front and side plates radially inwardly of the tubular part 1c and a rear housing 4. Thus, sealing is necessary only at a location where the front and rear housings 1 and 4 are connected with each other. Thus, a very simple structure is sufficient for preventing any leakage of the recirculated fluid.

摘要翻译： 粘性加热器设置有前侧板2和后侧板3，其被布置成使得在它们的相对的后表面之间形成有热量产生室5并且存储在壳体中，使得发热室FW和RW 形成在侧板和壳体之间。 壳体由具有管状部分1c的前壳体形成，该管状部分1c轴向延伸以用于存储管状部分1c的径向内侧的前侧板和侧板以及后壳体4.因此，仅在前后方向 外壳1和4彼此连接。 因此，非常简单的结构足以防止再循环流体的任何泄漏。

公开(公告)号：US5878951A

公开(公告)日：1999-03-09

申请号：US46084

申请日：1998-03-23

申请人： Takahiro Moroi ,  Takashi Ban ,  Shigeru Suzuki ,  Kiyoshi Yagi

发明人： Takahiro Moroi ,  Takashi Ban ,  Shigeru Suzuki ,  Kiyoshi Yagi

IPC分类号： B60H1/08 ,  F24J3/00 ,  B60H1/02

CPC分类号： F24J3/003

摘要： A viscous fluid type heat generator having a heat generating chamber in which heat generation by the viscous fluid is carried out in response to the rotation of a rotor element applying a shearing action to the viscous fluid, a heat receiving chamber in which heat exchanging liquid flows to receive heat from the heat generating chamber, a heat generation control chamber containing the viscous fluid to be supplied into the heat generating chamber and receiving the viscous fluid withdrawn from the heat generating chamber. The heat generator has a fluid supplying passage for supplying the viscous fluid from the heat generation control chamber into the heat generating chamber, a fluid withdrawing passage for withdrawing the viscous fluid from the heat generating chamber into the heat generation control chamber, and a flap valve deformable to open and close one of the fluid supplying and fluid withdrawing passages in response to a change in the heating requirements. The flap valve cooperates with a valve seat having a construction to reduce surface tension of the viscous fluid acting on the flap valve to thereby promote accurate and quick valve action of the flap valve.

摘要翻译： 一种粘性流体型热发生器，具有发热室，其中响应于对粘性流体施加剪切作用的转子元件的旋转而进行由粘性流体产生的热量;热交换液体流过的热接收室 从发热室接收热量的发热控制室，该发热控制室容纳供给到发热室的粘性流体，并接收从发热室排出的粘性流体。 热发生器具有用于将来自发热控制室的粘性流体供给到发热室的流体供给通路，用于将粘性流体从发热室排出到发热控制室的流体抽出通路，以及阀瓣 可变形以响应于加热要求的变化来打开和关闭流体供应和流体抽出通道中的一个。 瓣阀与具有减小作用在瓣阀上的粘性流体的表面张力的结构的阀座配合，从而促进瓣阀的精确和快速的阀动作。

公开(公告)号：US6039264A

公开(公告)日：2000-03-21

申请号：US129693

申请日：1998-08-05

申请人： Takanori Okabe ,  Takashi Ban ,  Shigeru Suzuki ,  Tatsuya Hirose

发明人： Takanori Okabe ,  Takashi Ban ,  Shigeru Suzuki ,  Tatsuya Hirose

IPC分类号： B60H1/08 ,  F24J3/00 ,  B60H1/02

CPC分类号： F24J3/003

摘要： A viscous fluid type heat generator including a housing assembly defining therein a heat generating chamber and a heat receiving chamber, a drive shaft rotatably supported by the housing assembly, a rotor element mounted to be rotationally driven by the drive shaft for rotation within the heat generating chamber, and a viscous fluid, held in a gap defined between the inner wall surfaces of the heat generating chamber and the outer surfaces of the rotor element, for heat generation under shearing stress applied by the rotation of the rotor element. At least a part of the housing assembly, which defines the heat generating chamber, is made of a material of which a linear expansion coefficient is larger than that of a material of the rotor element.

摘要翻译： 一种粘性流体型热发生器，其包括限定有发热室和热接收室的壳体组件，由壳体组件可旋转地支撑的驱动轴，安装成由驱动轴旋转驱动以在发热中旋转的转子元件 室和粘性流体，保持在限定在发热室的内壁表面和转子元件的外表面之间的间隙中，用于通过转子元件的旋转施加的剪切应力下的发热。 限定发热室的壳体组件的至少一部分由线性膨胀系数大于转子元件的材料的材料制成。

公开(公告)号：US5957121A

公开(公告)日：1999-09-28

申请号：US939934

申请日：1997-09-29

申请人： Shigeru Suzuki ,  Takashi Ban

发明人： Shigeru Suzuki ,  Takashi Ban

IPC分类号： B60H1/08 ,  F24J3/00 ,  F24C9/00

CPC分类号： F24J3/003

摘要： A viscous fluid type heat generator having a heat generating chamber in which heat generation by the viscous fluid is carried out in response to the rotation of a rotor element applying a shearing action to the viscous fluid, a heat generation control chamber for containing the viscous fluid to be supplied into the heat generating chamber and receiving the viscous fluid withdrawn from the heat generating chamber so that an ability of quickly increasing and decreasing the heat generating performance of the heat generator is achieved in response to a requirement for a change in the supply of heat to be exchanged with a heat exchanging liquid of a heating system. The heat generator has a fluid supplying passage, a fluid withdrawing passage, a fluid supplying recessed groove in the heat generating chamber, and a subsidiary fluid supplying passageway which are arranged so as to provide a fluid communication between the heat generating chamber and the heat generation control chamber. The heat generating performance is quickly reduced by withdrawing the viscous fluid from the heat generating chamber into the heat generation control chamber via the fluid withdrawing passage, and the heat generating performance is quickly increased by supplying the viscous fluid from the heat generation control chamber into the heat generating chamber via the fluid supplying and subsidiary fluid supplying passages.

摘要翻译： 一种粘性流体型热发生器，具有发热室，其中响应于对粘性流体施加剪切作用的转子元件的旋转而进行由粘性流体产生的热量，用于容纳粘性流体的发热控制室 供应到发热室并且接收从发热室排出的粘性流体，使得能够快速增加和降低发热体的发热性能，以响应于对发热室的供应变化的要求 与加热系统的热交换液体进行交换的热量。 热发生器具有流体供给通道，流体抽出通道，发热室中的流体供给凹槽和辅助流体供应通道，其被布置成在发热室和发热室之间提供流体连通 控制室。 通过经由流体抽出通道将粘性流体从发热室排出到发热控制室中，能够快速地降低发热性能，并且通过将来自发热控制室的粘性流体供给到 发热室通过流体供应和辅助流体供应通道。

公开(公告)号：US5887551A

公开(公告)日：1999-03-30

申请号：US46139

申请日：1998-03-23

申请人： Takashi Ban ,  Shigeru Suzuki ,  Kenji Takenaka ,  Tatsuya Hirose

发明人： Takashi Ban ,  Shigeru Suzuki ,  Kenji Takenaka ,  Tatsuya Hirose

IPC分类号： B60H1/08 ,  F24J3/00 ,  F22B3/06

CPC分类号： F24J3/003

摘要： A viscous fluid type heat generator having a heat generating chamber in which heat generation by the viscous fluid is performed in response to the rotation of a rotor element applying a shearing action to the viscous fluid, a heat receiving chamber in which a heat exchanging liquid flows to receive heat from the heat generating chamber, a heat generation control chamber for containing the viscous fluid to be supplied into the heat generating chamber and receiving the viscous fluid withdrawn from the heat generating chamber. The heat generator has a fluid supplying passage for supplying the viscous fluid from the heat generation control chamber to the heat generating chamber, a fluid withdrawing passage for withdrawing the viscous fluid from the heat generating chamber into the heat generation control chamber, a flap valve deformable to open and close the fluid withdrawing passage in response to a change in a heating requirement, and a valve deformation supplementing means to provide the flap valve with additional deformation effect to quickly and timely open the flap valve. The valve supplementing means may be a subsidiary fluid port to introduce therein the viscous fluid from the heat generating chamber so as to cause a supplementary deformation of the flap valve.

摘要翻译： 一种粘性流体型热发生器，具有发热室，其中响应于对粘性流体施加剪切作用的转子元件的旋转而进行由粘性流体产生的热量;热交换液体流过的热接收室 以从发热室接收热量的发热控制室，用于容纳要供应到发热室中的粘性流体并接收从发热室排出的粘性流体的发热控制室。 热发生器具有用于将粘性流体从发热控制室供给到发热室的流体供给通道，用于将粘性流体从发热室排出到发热控制室的流体抽出通道，可变形的活瓣阀 以响应于加热要求的变化而打开和关闭流体抽出通道;以及阀变形补充装置，用于为瓣阀提供额外的变形效果，以快速和及时地打开瓣阀。 阀补充装置可以是辅助流体端口，用于在其中引入来自发热室的粘性流体，以引起瓣阀的补充变形。

公开(公告)号：US5842636A

公开(公告)日：1998-12-01

申请号：US963019

申请日：1997-11-03

申请人： Takahiro Moroi ,  Kenji Takenaka ,  Takashi Ban ,  Shigeru Suzuki

发明人： Takahiro Moroi ,  Kenji Takenaka ,  Takashi Ban ,  Shigeru Suzuki

IPC分类号： F24J3/00 ,  B60H1/02

CPC分类号： F24J3/003

摘要： The viscous type heat generator includes a housing having a heating chamber and a heat radiating chamber. A rotor is rotatably arranged in the heating chamber so that a viscous fluid is subjected to a shearing action to generate heat. The rotor is fitted on a drive shaft in such a manner that the rotor can not rotate but can move axially relative to the drive shaft. The front and rear end surfaces of the rotor have wedge effect producing means for correcting an axial offset of the rotor in the heating chamber by the wedge effect caused by the pressure of viscous fluid while the rotor is rotating. This wedge effect producing means comprises at least three inclined recesses extending in the circumferential direction, the bottoms of which become gradually shallower in the direction opposite to the rotational direction of the rotor. The inclined recesses are arranged at circumferentially regular intervals and at radially equal positions from the center of the rotor.

摘要翻译： 粘性型热发生器包括具有加热室和散热室的壳体。 转子可旋转地布置在加热室中，使得粘性流体经受剪切作用以产生热量。 转子以这样的方式安装在驱动轴上，使得转子不能旋转，而可相对于驱动轴轴向运动。 转子的前后表面具有楔形效应产生装置，用于通过在转子旋转时由粘性流体的压力引起的楔形效应来校正加热室中的转子的轴向偏移。 这种楔形效应产生装置包括沿圆周方向延伸的至少三个倾斜凹部，其底部在与转子的旋转方向相反的方向上逐渐变浅。 倾斜的凹部沿周向规则的间隔和从转子中心的径向相等的位置排列。

公开(公告)号：US06138920A

公开(公告)日：2000-10-31

申请号：US411489

申请日：1999-10-04

申请人： Takashi Ban ,  Tatsuyuki Hoshino ,  Shigeru Suzuki ,  Tatsuya Hirose

发明人： Takashi Ban ,  Tatsuyuki Hoshino ,  Shigeru Suzuki ,  Tatsuya Hirose

IPC分类号： B60H1/08 ,  F24J3/00 ,  B60H1/02

CPC分类号： F24J3/003

摘要： A heating system incorporating a heat generator confining therein a heat-generative fluid to viscously generate heat when a shearing action is applied to the fluid by a rotor element, and a heat-generation controller including a heat-generation adjusting actuator which adjustably changes the heat-generating performance of the heat generator on the basis of a signal detected as a first control signal indicating a change in the rotating speed of the rotor element and a preset reference signal. A second control signal detected to indicate a temperature of the heat-generative fluid is used to adjustably change the preset reference signal. The operation of the heating system is controlled by a method in which the first control signal is compared with the preset reference signal to determine whether or not the heat-generation adjusting actuator should actuated to change the heat-generating performance of the heat generator. The method is performed so as to adjust the preset reference signal on the basis of the second control signal which is detected by a temperature sensor.

摘要翻译： 一种加热系统，其特征在于，在通过转子元件对流体施加剪切作用时，将发生器限制在发热体内的发热体粘合地产生热量;以及发热控制器，其包括发热调节致动器， 基于检测为表示转子元件的转速的改变的第一控制信号的信号和预设的参考信号，发热体的生成性能。 检测用于指示发热流体的温度的第二控制信号用于可调节地改变预设的参考信号。 加热系统的操作通过将第一控制信号与预设的参考信号进行比较以确定发电调节致动器是否被致动以改变发热体的发热性能的方法来控制。 执行该方法，以便基于由温度传感器检测到的第二控制信号来调整预设参考信号。

公开(公告)号：US5887559A

公开(公告)日：1999-03-30

申请号：US914367

申请日：1997-08-19

申请人： Takashi Ban ,  Shigeru Suzuki ,  Tatsuya Hirose

发明人： Takashi Ban ,  Shigeru Suzuki ,  Tatsuya Hirose

IPC分类号： B60H1/00 ,  B60H1/03 ,  B60H1/08 ,  F24J3/00 ,  F02N17/02 ,  B60H1/14

CPC分类号： B60H1/00571 ,  B60H1/038 ,  F24J3/003

摘要： A viscous heater as an auxiliary heating source in a heating system for a vehicle having a water cooled internal combustion engine. The viscous heater has an inlet port 14 for the engine cooling water and an outlet 15 for the engine cooling water, which are connected to respective conduits in the engine cooling system by means of a coupling device. The coupling device include coupling pipes 50A and 50B which are connected to the respective conduits in the engine cooling system at respective directing angles to allow the coupling pipes 50A and 50B to be aligned with the respective conduits.

摘要翻译： 在具有水冷式内燃机的车辆加热系统中作为辅助加热源的粘性加热器。 粘性加热器具有用于发动机冷却水的入口端口14和用于发动机冷却水的出口15，其通过联接装置连接到发动机冷却系统中的相应导管。 联接装置包括联接管50A和50B，它们以相应的引导角连接到发动机冷却系统中的相应导管，以允许联接管50A和50B与相应的导管对准。