Eagle Industry Co., Ltd.

Mahle International Gmbh

Takahiro Ejima

Kohei Fukudome

Keigo Shirafuji

Masahiro Hayama

Wataru Takahashi

Daichi Kurihara

Yoshihiro Ogawa

Kenshiro Furukawa

Toshinori Kanzaki

Ernesto Jose Gutierrez

Matthew R Warren

Keichi Urushiyama

Akihiro Hashiguchi

There is provided a valve capable of reducing valve leakage. The valve includes: a valve housing in which ports through which a fluid passes are formed; a valve body configured to be driven by a drive source; a valve seat on which a contact portion of the valve body is seated; and biasing members for biasing the valve body in a valve closing direction. The valve seat is formed of an elastic member.

Valve

An expansion valve having a high valve opening adjustment accuracy includes: a valve housing which is provided with an inlet port allowing a refrigerant from a condenser to pass therethrough and an outlet port allowing a refrigerant toward an evaporator to pass therethrough; a valve body which is driven by a solenoid; a valve seat on which the valve body sits; and an urging member configured to urge the valve body in a valve closing direction, a space is formed on a valve opening direction side of the valve body, and the refrigerant on the valve closing direction side in relation to the valve body flows into the space.

Expansion valve

A capacity control valve includes a main valve that opens and closes communication between a discharge port and a control port formed in a valve housing by movement of a rod driven by a solenoid, a CS communication passage providing communication between a control fluid supply chamber formed in the valve housing and a suction port, and an on-off valve formed by a communication passage forming member having an annular valve seat in an outer periphery of the CS communication passage and an on-off valve element biased in the valve closing direction with respect to the valve seat.

Capacity control valve

To provide a valve capable of suppressing contamination from being caught between a fixed iron core and a rod. The valve includes: a valve housing; a valve body; a valve seat having the valve body seated thereon; a drive source for driving the valve body by a rod; and an urging member for urging the valve body in a direction opposite to a driving direction of the drive source. One of the valve body and the rod includes a guide concave portion which guides remaining one of the valve body and the rod in a relative fitting direction.

A capacity control valve includes: a valve housing provided with a suction port through which a suction fluid of a suction pressure passes and a control port through which a control fluid of a control pressure passes; a CS valve that includes a CS valve element which is axially driven by a solenoid and a CS valve seat provided between the suction port and the control port and is brought into contact with and separated from the CS valve element; and bias means for biasing the CS valve element in a valve closing direction of the CS valve, wherein a space is formed inside the valve housing in opposition to the solenoid through the CS valve element and the suction fluid flows into the space.

A capacity control valve includes a valve housing formed with a discharge port, a suction port, and first and second control ports, a rod movably arranged in the valve housing and driven by a solenoid, a CS valve configured to control a fluid flow between the first control port and the suction port in accordance with a movement of the rod, and a DC valve configured to control a fluid flow between the second control port and the discharge port in accordance with the movement of the rod. In a non-energization state, the CS valve is closed and the DC valve is closed. As the energization of the solenoid becomes larger, the CS valve transitions from a closed state to an open state and the DC valve transitions from a closed state to an open state.

A capacity control valve includes a valve housing provided with a discharge port, suction ports, a control port allowing a control fluid of a control pressure Pc to pass therethrough and a primary valve including a primary valve seat and a primary valve body driven by a solenoid and opening and closing a communication between the discharge port and the control port by the movement of the primary valve body. The capacity control valve further includes a CS valve which includes a CS valve body, a first spring urging the CS valve body in a closing direction, and a second spring urging the CS valve body in an opening direction, the control port and the suction port being opened at a valve closed position of the primary valve body, the control port and the suction port being closed at a valve opened position of the primary valve body.

A capacity control valve includes a valve housing provided a discharge port through which a discharge fluid of discharge pressure Pd passes, a suction port through which a suction fluid of suction pressure Ps passes, and a control port through which a control fluid of control pressure Pc passes, a rod configured to be driven by a solenoid, a main valve formed by a main valve seat and a main valve element and configured for opening and closing a communication between the discharge port and the control port in accordance with a movement of the rod, and a CS valve provided between the control port and the suction port and controlled by a dynamic pressure of a fluid flowing from the discharge port to the control port at an opening state of the main valve.

A capacity control valve for controlling a capacity of a fluid includes: a valve housing; a main valve closing and opening a communication between a Pc port and a Pd port when a main valve portion of a main valve element driven by a drive force of a solenoid comes into contact with and separates from a main valve seat; a pressure-sensitive valve which is opened by an ambient pressure; a hollow tube member which forms a part of the pressure-sensitive valve and allows the Pc port to communicate with a Ps port through a hollow communication path formed therein when the pressure-sensitive valve is opened; and an auxiliary communication path allows the Pc port to communicate with the Ps port independently of the pressure-sensitive valve, and the auxiliary communication path is configured to be able to increase a flow path cross-sectional area after the main valve is closed.

A capacity control valve includes a valve housing formed with a discharge port, a suction port, and first and second control ports, a rod driven by a solenoid, a CS valve configured to control a fluid flow between the first control port and the suction port in accordance with a movement of the rod, and a DC valve configured to control a fluid flow between the second control port and the discharge port in accordance with a movement of the rod.

A capacity control valve includes a valve housing; a rod configured to be driven by a solenoid; a CS valve formed by a CS valve seat and a CS valve element configured to open and close a communication between the control port and the suction port; a DC valve formed by a DC valve seat and a DC valve element arranged movably with respect to the CS valve element, the DC valve being configured to open and close a communication between the discharge port and the control port in accordance with movement of the rod; and a pressure drive portion coupled to the CS valve element to be movable in an integrated manner with the CS valve element and arranged in a suction fluid supply chamber formed in the valve housing and to which the suction fluid is supplied, the pressure drive portion being driven by the suction pressure.

A capacity control valve includes a valve housing discharge, port, a suction port, and control ports, and a valve element to be brought into contact with and separated from a valve seat by a driving force of a solenoid to open and close a communication between the control and discharge ports or communication between the control port and the suction port. A sliding region is formed by an inner peripheral surface of the valve housing and an outer peripheral surface of the valve element, a groove extending in a circumferential direction is formed in at least one of the housing inner peripheral surface of the valve housing and the outer peripheral surface of the valve element, and the sliding region has a structure in which a swirling current is generated in the groove by fluid flowing from a high-pressure side to a low-pressure side in a clearance between the inner peripheral surface and the outer peripheral surface of the valve element.

A capacity control valve includes a valve housing provided with a discharge port, suction ports, and a control port and a primary valve including a primary valve seat and a primary valve body driven by a solenoid, the primary valve being configured to open and close a communication between the discharge port and the control port in accordance with a movement of the primary valve body. The capacity control valve further includes a differential CS valve which is openable and closable by a pressure difference between the control pressure Pc and the suction pressure Ps and an electromagnetic CS valve that is openable and closable so as to close the control port and the suction port in a non-energized state of the solenoidin accordance with the movement of the primary valve body.

A capacity control valve includes a CS valve which opens and closes a communication between the control fluid and the suction fluid by the movement of rods and an urging member configured to urge the primary valve body and the rods in opposite directions and the primary valve body and the rods are disposed so as to be relatively movable in an axial direction.

A capacity control valve () includes a valve main body () having a first communication passage (), a second communication passage (), a third communication passage (), and a main valve seat (), a valve element () having an intermediate communication passage (), a main valve portion (), and an auxiliary valve portion (), a solenoid () that drives a rod () having an auxiliary valve seat (), and a first biasing member () that biases in the valve closing direction of the main valve portion (). The rod () is relatively moved with respect to the valve element () so as to open and close the auxiliary valve portion. The capacity control valve can efficiently discharge a liquid coolant irrespective of pressure of a suction chamber and lower drive force of a compressor at a liquid coolant discharging operation.

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Takahiro Ejima