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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1999
Ing. Bernd Dienhart, Cologne, DE;
Hans-Joachim Krauss, Stuttgart, DE;
Hagen Mittelstrass, Bondorf, DE;
Karl-Heinz Staffa, Stuttgart, DE;
Christoph Walter, Stuttgart, DE;
Jan Hinrichs, Friedrichsdorf, DE;
Volker Seipel, Bensheim, DE;
Nguyen van Doan, Neu-Anspach, DE;
Other;
Abstract
An expansion element for a CO motor vehicle air conditioner includes a valve unit which can be used particularly for such an expansion element and which has a fixed throttle between an upstream valve high-pressure side and a downstream valve low-pressure side. The expansion element contains a control valve which is acted upon by the low-pressure-side refrigerant pressure or a physical quantity connected therewith as the correcting variable, or valve unit. The valve unit contains a fixed throttle and at least one additional valve component in the form of a pressure control valve which is arranged in a bypass line bypassing the fixed throttle, or in the form of a control vale influencing the passage cross-section of the fixed throttle.