Eagle Industry Co., Ltd.

Kenji Moriwaki

Kohei Fukudome

Yoshihiro Ogawa

Masahiro Hayama

Toshiaki Iwa

Toshinori Kanzaki

Ryosuke Cho

Masayuki Futakuchi

A capacity control valve includes: a pressure-sensitive body positioned in a third valve chamber; an adapter provided on the free end of the pressure sensitive body having a circular seating surface; a third valve part that moves integrally with a valve element in the third valve chamber and has a circular engagement surface that opens/closes intake-side passages by engaging with and separating from the seating surface of the adapter. The valve element is located between the first valve chamber and the second valve chamber, and has an outer circumferential face part slidably movable relative to an inner circumferential face of the valve body, with plural threads of screw grooves are formed on the outer circumferential face part.

Capacity control valve

A capacity control valve for increasing the ability to drain liquid refrigerant from a control chamber during startup of a variable-capacity compressor without changing the control valve characteristics has a spring acting in the direction of valve opening provided between an adapter and a free end of a pressure-sensitive body in the extension and contraction direction thereof and having an annular seat surface, and a third valve part having an annular engaging surface for opening and closing a suction-side passage by engaging and disengaging with the seat surface of the adapter.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kenji Moriwaki