Hitachi, Ltd.

Yutaka Imaizumi

Masato Shibayama

Housei Higashi

Toshio Hatada

Takao Senshu

Akira Arai

Atsushi Matsuzaki

Fumio Harada

Sumiyoshi Takeda

Hajime Futawatari

Masami Suzuki

Minoru Sato

Mineo Takahashi

Kazumi Aiba

Minoru Tanikawa

Industrial robot

An improved method of producing a scroll type compressor having an orbital scroll member and a stationary scroll member. The orbital scroll member is fabricated by a process comprising the steps of: forming an end plate and a spiral wrap separately, the end plate being composed of an upper half part having a discontinuous joining portion for joining the spiral wrap and a lower half part having an oil passage. The upper half part and the lower half part of the end plate are fixed to each other through mutual engagement between locating projections formed by a plastic work on one of the half parts and mating holes formed in the other of the half parts. The stationary scroll member is produced by a process similar to the process used in fabricating the orbital scroll, comprising the steps of: forming an end plate and a spiral wrap separately, the end plate being punched from a sheet blank; forming a discontinuous joining portion on one side of the end plate; joining the spiral wrap to the end plate at the discontinuous joining portion; joining the end plate to one end of a sleeve; and joining a flange to the other end of the sleeve. The discontinuous joining portion may be constituted by a plurality of projections formed to project from the surface of the end plate, or may include a plurality of grooves or recesses formed in the surface of the end plate and projections formed on the end surface of the wrap at positions corresponding to the grooves or recesses.

Method of producing scroll type compressor

In a cross finned tube heat exchanger including a multiplicity of side-by-side fin plates, and a plurality of heat transfer tubes extending through the fin plates at least in one row to provide a serpentine flow passage for a heat transfer medium which exchanges heat with another heat transfer medium flowing across the surfaces of the fin plates, a multiplicity of stepped louvers are formed on the wall of each fin plate between the adjacent heat transfer tubes of the same row. The stepped louvers each extending in a direction at right angles to the direction of air flow across the surfaces of the fin plates include at least one tilting rise wall and may differ from one another in shape depending on their positions. The stepped louvers on each fin plate may be arranged in the form of waves or uniform in height with respect to the direction in which each fin plate extends. The adjacent stepped louvers have edges varying in vertical positions.

Heat exchanger

A cross-fin tube type heat exchanger having a large number of parallel fins and a plurality of heat transfer tubes extended through and fixed to the fins, so that heat may be exchanged between a first heat exchanging medium flowing through the heat transfer tubes and a second heat exchanging medium flowing along the surfaces of the fin, across the walls of the heat transfer tubes and through the fins. In the portions of each fin between adjacent heat transfer tubes of the same row, formed are a number of slits perpendicular to the direction of flow of the second heat exchanging medium. Each elongated section defined between each pair of adjacent slits is bent along its breadthwise bisector line and is raised in the form of a bridge to constitute an upwardly convexed louver element. The upwardly convexed louver element may have a cross section with an obtuse apex angle, or may have an arcuate cross section. The successive louver elements are arrayed in the direction of flow of the second heat exchanging medium in a manner of corrugation, or alternately staggered in the heightwise direction so that the edges of adjacent louver elements may be staggered in the heightwise direction. The fins having louver elements thus constructed cause a turbulency of the flow of the second heat exchanging medium to effectively prevent boundary layers of the latter from growing, thereby to ensure a higher efficiency of the heat exchange. Also increased stiffness or rigidity of the fin is obtained thanks to the provision of upwardly convexed louver elements.

Cross-fin tube type heat exchanger

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Yaizu, Japan

Yutaka Imaizumi