Hitachi, Ltd.

Akio Sakazume

Hiroshi Iwata

Masahiro Takebayashi

Masahiko Sugiyama

Shigetaro Tagawa

Hiroki Yoshikawa

Hiroaki Matsushima

Kazuo Sekigami

Hiroo Nakamura

Susumu Kashiwazaki

Yoshihisa Uneyama

Mitsuru Murata

Hiroyuki Ogawa

Saneaki Nakao

A control system for a compressor motor used with an air conditioning unit is disclosed. A current for generating a non-rotating magnetic field is supplied to the compressor motor to preheat a compressor. A current for generating a rotating magnetic field is also supplied to the compressor motor together with the current for generating a non-rotating magnetic field to heat the compressor. The heat pump using this control system is thus capable of transmitting sufficient heat energy immediately after start of the operation of the heat pump.

Control system for compressor motor used with air-conditioning unit

A horizontal compressor including an electric motor and a compressor element mounted in a case serving concurrently as an oil sump. The compressor element includes a cylinder, a shaft having a crank, a roller fitted to the crank for eccentric rotation along inner side surfaces of the cylinder, a vane moving in reciprocatory movement in a bore of the cylinder while abutting against the roller, two side plates located on opposite sides of the cylinder, one of the two side plates being formed with a suction port for a lubricant and the other side plate being formed with a discharge port for the lubricant, and a pump chamber defined by a back of the vane, the bore of the cylinder and the two side plates. The suction port is in the form of a tapering port including a small diameter portion directly adjacent the pump chamber and a large diameter portion directly adjacent the case; the discharge port is in the form of a tapering port including a small diameter portion directly adjacent the lubricant feed passage and a large diameter portion directly adjacent the pump chamber; and a space is provided at least to the suction port in a position in which the space is in communication with the small diameter portion of the suction port.

Rotary compressor with tapered valve ports for lubricating pump

A horizontal type rotary compressor including a compression element having a cylinder, a shaft having a crank thereon, a pair of side plates concurrently serving both as bearings of the shaft and as side walls of the cylinder, a roller fitted onto the crank, and a vane so arranged as to slide in a groove of the cylinder and have a tip end thereof contacted with the roller rotating in accordance with the rotation of the crank and an appropriate end thereof urged by a spring to make a reciprocating movement along the groove are provided within a case. A pumping chamber is defined by a rear face of the vane, the groove of the cylinder and the side plates. One of the side plates is formed with a suction port capable of sucking thereinto the oil within the case while the other of the side plate is formed with a discharge port for transmitting the oil in the pumping chamber to an oil feeding passage. An oil feeder means for use in the horizontal type rotary compressor is a space provided at the exit of the suction port of the side plate having the suction port and the suction port opens downwardly so that the feeding of a sufficient or stable amount of oil is ensured even when the surface level of the oil is lowered.

Oil feeder means for use in a horizontal type rotary compressor

A room air conditioner in which the interior of a cabinet is divided into an indoor portion and an outdoor portion by a partition plate having a non-vertical section, and a fan motor is supported in the outdoor portion in such a manner that its rotary shaft is disposed perpendicular to the bottom of the cabinet and penetrates the partition plate at one end thereof to extend into the indoor portion. A first centrifugal fan is mounted at one end of the rotary shaft of the fan motor while a second Silocco fan is mounted at the other end thereof disposed in the outdoor portion. An indoor heat exchanger is disposed in spaced juxtaposed relation to a suction opening formed in the front of the indoor portion so that the air inside a room is drawn by suction through the indoor suction opening and caused to pass through the indoor heat exchanger by means of the first Silocco fan which exhausts air into the room through an indoor exhaust port, and an outdoor heat exchanger is disposed in spaced juxtaposed relation to a suction opening formed in the rear of the outdoor portion so that the air outside the room is drawn by suction through the outdoor suction opening and caused to pass through the outdoor heat exchanger by means of the second centrifugal fan which exhausts air outside the room through an outdour exhaust port. The room air conditioner has a greatly reduced thickness as compared with the same type of air conditioners of the prior art.

Room air conditioner

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Yokohama, Japan

Akio Sakazume