Diesel Kiki Co., Ltd.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Teruo Nakamura

Yutaka Ishizuka

Tsunenori Shibuya

Haruhiko Takada

Hidehiko Takayama

Masahiro Iio

Mitsuya Ono

Hiroyuki Sugiura

Ryota Hasegawa

Masami Otani

Umetarou Iino

Shoichi Fukuda

Tsuneori Shibuya

A vane compressor has a vane back pressure adjustment device including back-pressure chambers defined in a vane-supporting rotor and surrounded by vanes and side blocks secured to axial ends of a cylinder. The back-pressure chamber has axial ends disposed to follow a path against each of the side blocks when the rotor rotates. The path is divided into at least one high-pressure zone in which the vanes move across a pump outlet defined in the cylinder, and at least one normal-pressure zone which is the remainder of the path. In the normal-pressure zone, oil grooves defined in surfaces of the side blocks which face the rotor and supplied with oil from an oil sump in the vane compressor are in communication with the back-pressure chambers, to thereby maintain the oil pressure in the back-pressure chambers at a pressure level in the oil sump. In the high-pressure zone, the back-pressure chambers are out of communication with the oil grooves so that the oil fed into the back-pressure chambers is confined therein, except through a restrictor means. When the vanes move across the pump outlet, the vanes enter the high-pressure zone to trap oil in the back-pressure chambers to thereby elevate the oil pressure in the back-pressure chambers to a high level. Therefore, the vanes are prevented from being retracted deeply into vane slits in the rotor and then popping out into hitting engagement with the cylinder.

Vane compressor with vane back pressure adjustment

In a refrigerant compressor, a driving shaft is rotatably supported within a compressor housing by a bearing on a suction side. A trigger valve is provided in a passageway communicating a discharge pressure chamber with the bearing on the suction side. When pressure within the discharge pressure chamber is lower than a predetermined value, the trigger valve opens the passageway to permit gaseous refrigerant of high temperature within the discharge pressure chamber to be supplied to the bearing on the suction side.

Refrigerant compressor with shaft bearing having improved wear resistance

A rotary compressor has a plurality of vanes which are slidably disposed in radial slots of a rotor to define fluid chambers in cooperation with a cylindrical housing. The radially innermost end of each vane, rotor and opposite ends of the housing define a back-pressure chamber which is supplied with a pressure during a suction stroke for maintaining the associated vane in sealing contact with the inner wall of the housing. Each of opposite ends of the housing has a unique configuration which damps the pressure in the back-pressure chamber when the chamber is fluidly isolated from a source of the pressure supply during a compression stroke, thereby eliminating excessive friction between the vane and the housing.

Rotary compressor with blind hole in end wall that aligns with back

A rotary vane compressor directed to increasing the gas charging efficiency is disclosed. A side block is formed with an opening which is extended such that radially outer part of its rim is located radially outwardly of the inner periphery of a cylinder. The inner periphery of the cylinder is partly removed to form a notch such that the notch is aligned with the outer part of the rim of the opening. The opening and the notch define a suction port in combination, that is, the available area of opening of the suction port is increased by the proportion of the notch. Gas is sucked into the compressor not only sidewise but also in the peripheral direction.

Rotary vane compressor

A sealing chamber is defined between the front head and the front side block, and an oil chamber between the rear side block and a partition member secured to the rear end face of the rear side block, respectively. The drive shaft, on which the rotor is rigidly fitted, is radially supported by a pair of roller bearings provided at the front and rear side blocks. The bearings have end portions remote from the rotor enclosedly disposed in the sealing chamber and the oil chamber. The lubricating oil feeding system includes lubricating oil feeding bores formed in the front and rear side blocks and communicating with a zone under discharge pressure, and clearances between the front and rear side blocks and opposed end faces of the rotor. The clearances have predetermined flow resistance, and communicate, on one hand, with the back pressure chamber formed within the rotor, and on the other hand, with the sealing chamber and the oil chamber by way of the above roller bearings.

Vane compressor having drive shaft journalled by roller bearings

A vane compressor has a suction connector and a discharge connector arranged at a rear portion thereof. A rear suction chamber is formed at a rear side of the rear side block and communicates with pump working chambers. A passage means directly communicates the above rear suction chamber with an annular front suction chamber formed in the front head in a manner surrounding a sealing chamber accommodating a shaft-seal means.

Vane compressor having rearwardly located suction connector and

A partition member divides the interior of the rear cylinder head into a low pressure chamber and a high pressure chamber on one side of the partition member facing the valve plate and into an oil separating chamber on the opposite side. Formed in the high pressure chamber at its peripheral portion are first and second oil collecting chambers which communicate with the drive shaft-fitted hole of the cylinder block, allowing lubricating oil therein to be fed to the hole. The oil separating chamber is provided with a guide wall for guiding suction fluid in a swirling manner. A third oil collecting chamber is defined between the guide wall and the inner peripheral wall of the rear cylinder head and communicates with the oil sump in the cylinder block, allowing lubricating oil therein to be returned to the oil sump.

Swash-plate type compressor having oil separating function

A device responsive to an unusual temperature change in a refrigerant compressor using an electromagnetic clutch including a magnet coil as an actuating element of the clutch, comprising an overcurrent-responsive element such as a fuse connected in parallel with the magnet coil, a temperature-responsive switch operative to be open when the temperature in the compressor rises beyond a predetermined value, and a switching element such as a transistor which is non-conductive when the temperature-responsive switch is closed and which is made conductive to cause the fuse to melt when the temperature-responsive switch is made to open.

Device responsive to unusual temperature change in refrigerant compressor

A float operated switch (21) is actuated when the level of refrigerant fluid in a reservoir (11) is below a predetermined value to produce an electrical signal. The signal is delayed by 10 to 30 seconds and applied to a switch circuit (54) to disengage an electromagnetic clutch (63) and thereby de-energize a compressor (64). The clutch (63) is also disengaged by the action of a thermal switch (61) when the temperature in a space which is being air conditioned drops below a predetermined value. The operation of the float operated switch (21) is inhibited when the sensed temperature is below the predetermined value and also when a motor which drives the compressor (64) is not operating to prevent erroneous de-energization of the compressor (64).

Air conditioning apparatus comprising refrigerant shortage sensor

A rotor is operatively provided in a bore of a cylinder which is formed with an inlet and an outlet. The cylinder is enclosed by a housing with an annular chamber being defined between the cylinder and the housing. The housing has an inlet which is connected to the inlet of the cylinder. The outlet of the cylinder is provided at an upper portion thereof. An oil sump is defined by a lower portion of the annular chamber of the housing. A partition divides the interior of the housing into the annular chamber within which the cylinder is disposed and an outlet chamber which communicates with an outlet of the housing. The lower portion of the partition is cut away to communicate the annular chamber with the outlet chamber. An oil passageway leads from the oil sump through the rotor to the inlet of the housing in such a manner that oil flows through the oil passageway to lubricate the internal parts of the rotor and is entrained in operating fluid at the inlet of the housing, passing through the cylinder to lubricate areas of sliding contact between the rotor and the inner periphery of the cylinder. The operating fluid and oil expand and change direction in the annular chamber so that the operating fluid passes to the outlet chamber but the entrained oil is precipitated and returns to the oil sump.

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Teruo Nakamura