Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Ubukata Industries Co., Ltd.

Ryuhei Tanigaki

Takayuki Iio

Takahisa Hirano

Shigeki Miura

Minoru Kawada

Tetsuo Ono

Katsumi Hirooka

Makoto Hattori

Yasukazu Mizutani

Hideki Koseki

Takahide Itoh

Masumi Sekita

Mikihiko Ishii

Ryosaku Akimoto

Shigemi Sato

Tetsuo Shigeoka

Hideo Kanno

Kazuhiro Tomimasu

Shin Watabe

Tsutomu Itahana

Futoru Furuta

Hirohide Ando

Susumu Kobayashi

Electromagnetic clutch and compressor equipped therewith

The present invention relates to an electromagnetic clutch device for a compressor used for air conditioners in vehicles and so forth. The object of the present invention is to provide an electromagnetic clutch device whose pulley can be downsized regardless of the outer diameter of a coil even when the so-called alignment is small. In order to achieve this object, an electromagnetic clutch device according to the present invention comprises a drive shaft forming a part of a compressor mechanism which is accommodated in a housing of the compressor and projecting through a nose of the housing; a drive rotor accommodating a coil for the electromagnetic clutch and rotatably supported on the circumference of the nose by means of a clutch bearing; an armature plate opposing the coil and connected to a projecting end of the drive shaft so as to rotate with the drive shaft; and a pulley fixedly attached to the drive rotor, wherein the pulley is arranged between the housing and the coil.

Electromagnetic clutch device for a compressor

An electromagnetic clutch comprises a clutch rotor having a flange portion, an armature opposed to the flange portion, and a ring exciting coil. The ring exciting coil generates a magnetic flux for attracting the armature to the flange portion when it is supplied with current. The flange portion is formed having outside slits and inside slits. A magnetic pole portion on the outer peripheral side and a magnetic pole portion on the inner peripheral side are formed between the outside slits and the inside slits. A step portion and a concave surface continuous with the step portion are formed in a region corresponding to the magnetic pole portion on the outer peripheral side. The step portion serves to restrain the magnetic pole portion from touching the armature when the magnetic flux is formed.

Electromagnetic clutch

A scroll compressor has a stationary scroll and a swivel scroll engaged with each other in a hermetic housing. A sealed terminal is provided to send signals outside of the housing from a sensor that is provided within the housing. The sealed terminal is inserted into a fitting hole that passes through the outer wall of the housing. A push nut having a plurality of nails is pressed into the fitting hole to hold the sealed terminal within the fitting hole. The push nut has a plurality of nails having an outer diameter slightly larger than the inner diameter of the fitting hole.

Scroll compressor with sealed terminal

A fixing method and assembly of a temperature responsive element capable of detecting variation in temperature of discharge cooling medium of a compressor exactly and rapidly and preventing the compressor from being burned. A through hole is formed in a cover 6 which covers a path 7B for discharge cooling medium of the compressor. A plug 9 is fixed to the through hole from the side of the path by a fixing member 13. In this case, it is sealed airtightly by means of a packing. Lead terminal pins penetrating the plug 9 is insulatively fixed in the plug airtightly. Leads are connected to one ends of the lead terminal pins projecting outside and the temperature responsive clement 8 is connected to the other ends of the lead terminal pins projecting on the side of the discharge path. The temperature responsive clement 8 is disposed not to come into direct contact with a vessel and the cover 6 of the compressor and is exposed to discharge cooling medium as a whole. Consequently, the temperature responsive element can detect a temperature of the discharge cooling medium exactly and rapidly without influence of external disturbance such as heat from the outside and a path 7A for suction cooling medium.

Fixing assembly of a temperature responsive element and its fixing method

A speed detector of a scroll-type fluid machine in which a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll, each of which includes a spiral wrap disposed on the inner surface of an end plate thereof, are engaged with each other and housed in a closed housing, and the orbiting scroll revolves while its rotation is checked by means of an Oldham's ring having the orbiting scroll disposed on the outer surface thereof, wherein the Oldham's ring is formed of a magnetic material, and an electromagnetic induction type revolution signal detecting means is installed in an opposed relationship to the Oldham's ring.

Speed detector of scroll-type fluid machine

A first through hole is formed into a shape such that the opening area at the start of the opening increases gradually along with the movement of a piston valve or an auxiliary through hole is provided in a cylinder to introduce the gas being compressed into a suction-side chamber by being opened by the piston valve before the first through hole is opened, so that the gas being compressed is prevented from suddenly entering the suction-side chamber when the piston valve moves in the cylinder.

Capacity control mechanism for scroll-type compressor

An object of the present invention is to decrease the diameter of end plate of a fixed scroll and the diameter of orbiting locus circle of an orbiting scroll, by which the inside diameter of a housing is reduced, thereby the apparatus being made compact. The constitution is such that the center P of the end plate 211 of the fixed scroll 21 lies on the straight line D starting at the wrap end point T of the outermost end of the spiral wrap 212 and passing through the involute unrolled angle position C of the base circle A and at the position shifting one-half the orbiting radius a in the direction reverse to the outermost wrap end of the spiral wrap 212.

Scroll type fluid apparatus of decreased size

A pin passing through a pin hole disposed in a support portion disposed on a rotating shaft is fixed to the support portion by fitting a first push nut to the pin so that the first push nut abuts against the top surface of the support portion. Then, a balance weight is supported by the support portion by fitting a second push nut onto the protruding end of the pin.

Scroll-type fluid machine with attaching means for the balance weight

A scroll type fluid machinery provided with a slide type radius of revolution variable mechanism prevents unilateral working of a rotating bearing 23 due to tilted rotation of a drive bushing 21 and a balance weight 27 fixed thereto. A bolt 41 for regulating tilted rotation is projected at an inner end of a rotary shaft 7, a shaft portion 41a therefor penetrates through a hole 42 bored in the balance weight 27, and a bearing surface 41c of a head 41b thereof is brought into slidable contact with the inner end surface of the balance weight 27. When the radius of revolution is varied at the time of revolution in a solar motion of a revolving scroll 14, an eccentric driving pin 25 slides in a slide groove 24 and the shaft portion 41a of the bolt 41 slides in hole 42 at the same time. In the interim, the bearing surface 41c of the head into slidable contact with the inner end surface of the balance weight 27, thereby to suppress tilted rotation of the balance weight 27.

Scroll type fluid machinery having a tilt regulating member

A rotary compressor is disclosed which is equipped with a bypass hole for bypassing a fluid under compression to the intake side and the capacity thereof is controlled through opening and closing of the bypass hole with a piston which is operated via a control valve, whereby the bypass hole is opened at or in the vicinity of a discharge port of the compressor and the capacity of the compressor is made to be controllable in the range of one hundred to substantially zero percent. By the application of such a rotary compressor to the compressor for an air conditioner, capacity control in the range of about zero to 100% of discharge quantity can be accomplished so that it becomes possible to obtain cooling capability which is in response to the heat load.

Rotary compressor

Scroll type compressor

An improvement in a capacity control valve for use in a fluid compressor with a relatively high pressure HP and a relatively low pressure LP for changing the operational characteristics thereof by using the relatively high pressure HP taking into consideration that an increased pressure loss of the refrigerant as generated from an increased flow rate thereof and the thermal load on the car cooler would occasionally occur on the part of the relatively high pressure HP during the operation. Wherein a capacity control valve, of the type operative to take the intermediate pressure AP, for the control of a specific amount of compressed gas to be bypassed to the suction side of the fluid compressor, as a linear function of the relatively low pressure LP using a differential pressure between the relatively high pressure HP and the relatively low pressure LP of the fluid compressor, comprises an adjusting device adapted to adjust the intermediate pressure AP in such a manner that the relative low pressure LP is made lower as the relatively high pressure HP becomes higher, and the relatively low pressure LP is made higher as the relatively high pressure HP becomes lower.

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Aichi, Japan

Ryuhei Tanigaki