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| 20080232991 | ROTARY FLUID MACHINE - A rotary fluid machine includes an eccentric rotary piston mechanism that is configured such that an annular piston is accommodated in an annular cylinder chamber of a cylinder to form an outer cylinder chamber and an inner cylinder chamber. The cylinder and the annular piston relatively execute eccentric rotary motion. Each of the outer and inner cylinder chambers is divided by a blade into a first chamber and a second chamber. The blade and the annular piston are mutually movably coupled together by a swinging bushing. The blade is provided, in its contact parts with the annular piston and the swinging bushing, with sliding surfaces in order to prevent the occurrence of seizure and wear of the blade and the annular piston and the occurrence of gas leakage between the first chamber and the second chamber during operation. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080240958 | Rotary Fluid Machine - A rotary fluid machine includes a first rotation mechanism and a second rotation mechanism. Each of them includes a cylinder having a cylinder chamber and an annular piston which is contained in the cylinder chamber and divides the cylinder chamber into an outer working chamber and an inner working chamber. The cylinder goes rotates around the piston. The first rotation mechanism and the second rotation mechanism are arranged to be adjacent to each other with a partition plate sandwiched therebetween. The cylinder of the first rotation mechanism and the cylinder of the second rotation mechanism are arranged such that one of the cylinders is provided at one side of a partition plate and the other is provided at the other side of the partition plate. Each of the first rotation mechanism and the second rotation mechanism is provided with a compliance mechanism for reducing a gap that occurs between the cylinders in the axial direction of the drive shaft. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090074600 | ROTARY COMPRESSOR - A bolt hole receiving a fixing bolt is formed in a portion of an end plate overlapping an annular piston or a fixed wrap as viewed in a thickness direction of the end plate to open at the back face of the end plate. In fixing a discharge valve o the end plate, the fixing bolt is screwed into the bolt hole. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090074602 | ROTARY TYPE FLUID MACHINE - A blade moves backward/forward to enter four different states, namely a first state in which the tip thereof is in sliding contact with the internal peripheral surface of an external side cylinder part, a second state in which the tip is positioned in the cutaway portion of a ring-shaped piston to thereby place only an external side cylinder chamber at rest, a third state in which the tip is positioned in the cutaway portion of an internal side cylinder part to thereby place only the external side cylinder chamber and an intermediate cylinder chamber at rest, and a whole rest state in which the tip is positioned in a blade groove to thereby place all of the cylinder chambers at rest. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090142214 | ROTARY COMPRESSOR - In a compression mechanism of a rotary compressor, a cylinder chamber is defined by a cylinder and a second housing. A back surface side gap is defined between an end plate part of the cylinder and a flat plate part of a first housing. The first housing is provided with a communicating path and a differential pressure regulating valve. When the difference between the suction pressure and the discharge pressure is small, the discharge pressure is introduced through the communicating path to an intermediate gap whereby both an internal gap and the intermediate gap are placed at the same pressure as the discharge pressure. Conversely, when the difference between the discharge pressure and the suction pressure is great, the communicating path is made discontinuous by the differential pressure regulating valve whereby the intermediate gap is placed at an intermediate pressure lower than the discharge pressure. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090148325 | ROTARY TYPE COMPRESSOR - A valve guard for restricting the amount of deformation of a valve disc has a main body part abuttable with the back surface of the valve disc, and a fixation part extending to outside of a receding part. Upon mounting the valve guard to an end plate part, the fixation part is firmly attached to the outside of the receding part of the end plate part. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090238705 | ROTARY COMPRESSOR - A rotary compressor includes a fixed side and a movable side that is eccentrically movable relative to the fixed side. The movable side moves in response to operation of a drive mechanism, which rotates a drive shaft. The fixed side has a main bearing formed as a unitary part. A cylinder may serve as the movable side, which is coupled through an eccentric part to the drive shaft. The drive shaft is supported by the main bearing. With such an arrangement, a ring-shaped piston may serve as the fixed side, which is formed integrally with the main bearing in a front head. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090277216 | ROTARY COMPRESSOR - A bolt hole receiving a fixing bolt is formed in a portion of an end plate overlapping an annular piston or a fixed wrap as viewed in a thickness direction of the end plate to open at the back face of the end plate. In fixing a discharge valve to the end plate, the fixing bolt is screwed into the bolt hole. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20100061871 | COMPRESSOR SLIDER, SLIDER PREFORM, SCROLL PART, AND COMPRESSOR - A compressor slider has a carbon content of 2.0 wt % to 2.7 wt %, a silicon content of 1.0 wt % to 3.0 wt %, a balance of iron that includes unavoidable impurities, graphite that is smaller than the flake graphite of flake graphite cast iron, and a hardness that is greater than HRB 90 but less than HRB 100 in at least a portion of the slider. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100092322 | ROTARY FLUID MACHINERY - A rotary fluid machinery includes a fixed member, a drive shaft driven and rotated about a rotation axis, a movable member, a movable member support part and a reverse moment generating mechanism. The movable member is rotatably mounted at the drive shaft with its center being eccentrically disposed relative to the rotation axis, with the movable member and the fixed member forming a fluid chamber. Revolution of the movable member changes the volume of the fluid chamber. The movable member is configured to swing in association with its revolution. The reverse moment generating mechanism generates a moment in a reverse direction about the rotation axis relative to a moment about the rotation axis caused by the revolving movement of the movable member. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100119378 | ROTARY COMPRESSOR - A rotary compressor includes a compression mechanism, an electric motor and a controller. The compression mechanism includes a piston and a cylinder having two cylinder chambers. The electric motor is configured to change volumes of the cylinder chambers by eccentrically moving the cylinder and the piston relative to each other. The controller is configured to change an output torque of the electric motor in accordance with a variation in a load torque of the compression mechanism in one turn of rotation. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100166577 | HERMETIC COMPRESSOR - A hermetic compressor is disposed with an annular motor stator, a motor rotor, a casing and plural spot joining portions. The motor rotor is disposed such that it may freely rotate in a space inside the motor stator. The casing includes a cylindrical portion. The cylindrical portion houses the motor stator and the motor rotor. The plural spot joining portions fix the motor stator to the cylindrical portion by spot joining in a state where a clearance is secured between the motor stator and the cylindrical portion. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100175409 | AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air conditioning apparatus is provided whereby the pressure pulsation generated by a compressor can be entirely reduced both during cooling and during heating, and a muffler can be shared. The air conditioning apparatus has a refrigerant circuit. The refrigerant circuit is configured so that a compressor for compressing a refrigerant, an indoor heat exchanger, an outdoor heat exchanger, and a four-way switch valve are connected via a refrigerant pipe. The four-way switch valve switches the flow of refrigerant compressed by the compressor to either the indoor heat exchanger or the outdoor heat exchanger. The air conditioning apparatus further includes a pressure pulsation reducing component. The pressure pulsation reducing component is provided between the four-way switch valve and the indoor heat exchanger. The pressure pulsation reducing component reduces pressure pulsation inside the refrigerant circuit. The pressure pulsation is generated by the compressor. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100183468 | SINGLE SCREW COMPRESSOR STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING SINGLE SCREW COMPRESSOR INCLUDING THE SAME - A single screw compressor structure includes a screw rotor and a casing, which houses the screw rotor. A tapered outer circumferential surface of the screw rotor has a plurality of helical grooves, with an outer diameter that increases from an inlet side toward a discharge side. The casing includes an outer tube member having a circular inner hole to form an interior, and an inner tube member is fixed to the interior of the outer tube member. The inner tube member has a tapered inner surface that opposes the tapered outer circumferential surface of the screw rotor. A single screw compressor further including a gate rotor is assembled mesh between the screw rotor and the gate rotor, aligning the tapered outer and inner circumferential surfaces relative to one another, and integrally coupling the outer and inner tube members to each other. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100196185 | ENCLOSED COMPRESSOR - An enclosed compressor includes a compression element configured to compress a working fluid, a casing and a fixing member. The casing has a substantially cylindrical shell plate and houses the compression element. The fixing member is welded to the shell plate. The compression element is fixed to the fixing member, wherein fixing of the compression by at least six fastening bolts. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100242522 | REFRIGERATION SYSTEM - A refrigeration system includes a first refrigerant passage, a π-type silencer, and a second refrigerant passage. The π-type silencer has a first silencing space, a second silencing space, and a communication path. The first silencing space communicates with the first refrigerant passage. The second silencing space is disposed below the first silencing space. The communication path extends from the lower end of the first silencing space to the outside of the first silencing space and communicates with the second silencing space. The second refrigerant passage extends from the lower end of the second silencing space. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100247364 | SINGLE SCREW COMPRESSOR STRUCTURE - A single screw compressor structure includes a screw rotor and a casing. The screw rotor has a plurality of helical grooves formed in an outer peripheral surface thereof. The a casing houses the screw rotor. The screw rotor includes a main tapered portion having a tapered outer diameter that becomes larger from an intake side toward a discharge side of the screw rotor, and a reversely tapered portion that is located on a downstream side of a maximum outer diameter portion of the outer surface and on the discharge side of the main tapered portion. The reversely tapered portion has a reversely tapered outer diameter that becomes smaller as the reversely tapered portion extends away from the maximum outer diameter portion. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100260620 | SCREW COMPRESSOR - A screw compressor includes a casing, a screw rotor disposed in a cylinder portion of the casing to define a compression chamber, and a capacity control slide valve. Fluid sucked into the compression chamber is compressed by rotation of the screw rotor. The slide valve is slidable along a rotation axis of the screw rotor and is opposed to an outer circumferential surface of the screw rotor. The slide valve includes a dynamic pressure generator formed on an opposed surface of the slide valve that is opposed to the screw rotor to generate a dynamic pressure using fluid in contact with the opposed surface of the slide valve. The slide valve is configured so that the dynamic pressure generated by the dynamic pressure generator avoids contact between the slide valve and the screw rotor. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100260639 | SCREW COMPRESSOR - A screw compressor includes a rotatable screw rotor and a plurality of gate rotors. The screw rotor has helical grooves formed in an outer circumferential surface of the screw rotor. The gate rotors have a plurality of radially disposed teeth meshing with the grooves of the screw rotor. The helical grooves include a first screw groove and a second screw groove. The first screw groove compresses a fluid from one end side of the screw rotor to an other end side of the screw rotor. The second screw groove compresses the fluid from the other end side of the screw rotor to the one end side of the screw rotor. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100275632 | REFRIGERATION SYSTEM - A refrigeration system includes a compression mechanism, a radiator, an expansion mechanism, an evaporator and a π-type silencer | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100278677 | SINGLE-SCREW COMPRESSOR - A single-screw compressor includes a casing, a screw rotor accommodated in the casing, a gate rotor, and a gate rotor supporting member rotatably supporting the gate rotor. The gate rotor includes a plurality of flat-plate-shaped gates formed in a radial pattern and meshing with a helical groove of the screw rotor. Fluid in a compression chamber defined by the screw rotor, the casing and the gates is compressed when the screw rotor is rotated. The gate rotor supporting member includes a gate supporting portion supporting each gate from a back surface side. The gate rotor and the gate rotor supporting member form a gate rotor assembly including a pressure introduction channel configured and arranged to introduce a fluid pressure on a front surface side of each gate into a gap between a back surface of the gate and the gate supporting portion. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100296959 | ROTARY-TYPE FLUID MACHINE - A rotary-type fluid machine includes a compression mechanism having piston mechanisms arranged one on top of the other and a drive mechanism having a drive shaft that is configured and arranged to drive the piston mechanisms. Each of the two piston mechanisms includes a cylinder member with a cylinder chamber, a piston member housed eccentrically in the cylinder chamber such that the cylinder chamber is partitioned into first and second compression chambers. A phase difference of 90 degrees in volume change is made between the cylinder chambers of the two piston mechanisms. A movable one of the cylinder and piston has a first surface facing one of the first cylinder chambers and a second surface facing one of the second cylinder chambers, with a surface area of the first surface being equal to a surface area of the second surface. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100314955 | MOTOR ROTOR AND COMPRESSOR EQUIPPED WITH THE MOTOR ROTOR - A motor rotor for a compressor includes a rotor core, at least one gas passage and an oil passage. The rotor core is configured to rotate about a rotation axis and has a plurality of stacked steel plates. The gas passage penetrates the rotor core in its axial direction and allows a gas fluid to flow therethrough from a first axial direction end portion of the rotor core to a second axial direction end portion on the opposite axial side. The oil passage is positioned radially outwardly of the gas passage inside the rotor core relative to the rotation axis. The oil passage allows oil to flow from the second axial direction end portion to the first axial direction end portion, which is opposite to the gas flow direction through the gas passage. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100322809 | FLUID MACHINERY - A fluid machinery includes a rotary mechanism, an annular back pressure chamber and an oil passage. The rotary mechanism includes first and second cooperating members, each including an engaging member extending from an end plate, with the cooperating members being arranged to oscillate relative to each in order to change volumes of operation chambers formed between the cooperating members. The annular back pressure chamber is formed on the back surface side of the end plate of the first cooperating member, and communicates with an intermediate operation chamber of the operation chambers to thrust the first cooperating member against the second cooperating member. The intermediate operation chamber is in an intermediate pressure state. The oil passage is arranged to communicate an oil into the back pressure chamber to fill the back pressure chamber with the oil. The rotary mechanism can include a piston and cylinder, or can include a fixed and orbiting scroll. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110165009 | GATE ROTOR AND SCREW COMPRESSOR - The present invention provides a screw compressor wherein, even if a gate rotor flexes owing to a temperature differential between a casing and a screw rotor during operation of a compressor, the gate rotor is prevented, with a simple configuration, from biting into the screw rotor, which reduces the amount of wear of the gate rotor and prevents a decline in the compressor's performance. The gate rotor ( | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110243779 | AIRTIGHT COMPRESSOR - An airtight compressor includes a compression mechanism disposed inside an airtight container in a position below a gas retention space. An oil supply passage supplies oil from an oil reservoir both to the gas retention space ( | 10-06-2011 |
| 20120009079 | SINGLE SCREW COMPRESSOR - In a single screw compressor, gates of a gate rotor mesh with helical grooves of the screw rotor in a casing. The casing has a low pressure space, and a divider wall covering the outer peripheral surface of the screw rotor to divide the fluid chamber formed by the helical groove from the low pressure space. An inlet is formed in the divider wall to partially expose the outer peripheral surface of the screw rotor to the low pressure space. The fluid chamber in a suction phase into which the low pressure fluid flows from the low pressure space is divided from the low pressure space by the gate entering the helical groove after the helical groove has moved from a position where the helical groove faces the inlet to a position where the helical groove is covered with the divider wall. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120027634 | SCREW COMPRESSOR - A screw compressor comprises a first meshing body and a second meshing body. The first meshing body has plural helical flutes disposed around a first rotating shaft. The second meshing body has plural projections or lobes disposed around a second rotating shaft. At least one of the projections or lobes is arranged non-uniformly with respect to the other projections or lobes in a circumferential direction of the second rotating shaft. The plural helical flutes are arranged to be meshable with the plural projections or lobes, in a circumferential direction of the first rotating shaft. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120164014 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor includes a pressing mechanism and a back-flow prevention mechanism. The pressing mechanism includes a back-pressure chamber facing a back surface of a movable-scroll end plate, and a back-pressure supply path arranged to allow the back-pressure chamber to communicate with a compression chamber which is in a state right before the compression chamber communicates with an outlet port or a state in which the compression chamber communicates with the outlet port. The back-flow prevention mechanism allows refrigerant of the back-pressure supply path to flow from the compression chamber to the back-pressure chamber, and prevents fluid of the back-pressure supply path from returning from the back-pressure chamber to the compression chamber. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20130171018 | SCREW COMPRESSOR - A screw compressor includes a casing having low and high pressure spaces, a screw rotor inserted in a cylinder part of the casing, and a slide valve disclosed in the cylinder part. The screw rotor has a plurality of helical grooves forming a compression chamber. The slide valve is moveable along an axis of the screw rotor and faces an outer periphery of the screw rotor to form a discharge port to communicating the compression chamber with the high pressure space. Fluid in the low pressure space is sucked into the compression chamber, compressed, and then discharged to the high-pressure space when the screw rotor rotates. The slide valve includes a sealing projection located on a back surface of the slide valve opposite to the screw rotor, and separating the low and high pressure spaces from each other when the sealing projection is in slidable contact with the casing. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130216418 | SCREW COMPRESSOR - A screw compressor includes a screw rotor, a casing and an economizer circuit. The screw rotor has a plurality of helical grooves forming a compression chamber. The casing has a cylinder portion with the screw rotor inserted in the cylinder portion. The economizer circuit ejects configured to eject intermediate pressure refrigerant into a compression chamber in the course of compression. The economizer circuit includes a branch passage configured to branch the intermediate pressure refrigerant from a portion of a refrigerant circuit, a resonance space connected to a downstream side of the branch passage to retain the intermediate pressure refrigerant, and a resonance passage having an end communicating with an interior of the compression chamber and an other end communicating with an interior of the resonance space. The refrigerant circuit circulates refrigerant and performs a refrigeration cycle. | 08-22-2013 |
