摘要:
A system and method for preventing hunting of a thermal expansion valve used to control the flow of refrigerant supplied to an evaporator in a refrigeration cycle. A refrigeration apparatus is provided with a compressor, a condenser, a receiver, an expansion valve, and an evaporator connected in this order, spherically activated carbon made of phenol having pore sizes fit for molecular sizes of a working fluid is prepared; and the spherically activated carbon is provided into the expansion valve; whereby hunting, or the repeated opening and closing of the expansion valve, is prevented.
摘要:
Two case members of the same shape are attached to the body of an expansion valve and a temperature sensing drive element through sound insulating members. Each of the two case members is formed having upper retaining and retainable portions at its upper part and lower retaining and retainable portions at its lower part. The upper retaining portion, upper retainable portion, lower retaining portion, and lower retainable portion of one of the case members are in engagement with the upper retainable portion, upper retaining portion, lower retainable portion, and lower retaining portion, respectively, of the other case member.
摘要:
A method for preventing hunting of a thermal expansion valve used to control the flow of refrigerant supplied to an evaporator in a refrigeration cycle. A refrigeration apparatus is provided with a compressor, a condenser, a receiver, an expansion valve, and an evaporator connected in this order, spherically activated carbon made of phenol having pore sizes fit for molecular sizes of a working fluid is prepared; and the spherically activated carbon is provided into the expansion valve; whereby hunting, or the repeated opening and closing of the expansion valve, is prevented.
摘要:
A thermal expansion valve includes an adsorbent 40′ placed inside a temperature sensing unit 70, wherein an activated carbon having pore sizes fit for the molecular sizes of a temperature-responsive working fluid sealed inside the temperature sensing unit 70 is utilized as said adsorbent 40′, so that the adsorption quantity of the adsorbent will be fixed.
摘要:
An expansion valve has a housing with a hole extending through its outer wall. A plug body seals the hole after a heat sensing gas, which senses the temperature of the gas-phase refrigerant passing through the expansion valve, is pressurized in the housing through the hole. The plug body, which is made from a cut metallic material, seals the hole to maintain the pressurized gas in the housing. The plug body is welded to the housing by an electrical weld. A corrosion inhibitor can be applied around the weld periphery to prevent corrosion from forming at the weld areas. The plug body has a line contact portion formed by a tapered surface, e.g., a conical portion, with a plurality of concentrically arranged a line contact portion, which has spaced projections. These projections can be formed, for instance, by cutting circumferentially around the tapered surface. The spacings between the spaced projections form a plurality of weld areas that can securely seal the plug body at the line contact portion to the housing.
摘要:
A heat transmission retardant member 140 is formed of a cup-like shaped resin material utilizing nylon or polyacetals, comprising a collar 141, and a thick-walled cylinder portion 143 having at the lower end thereof a tapered portion 142. Said retardant member 140 contacting the outer surface of a heat-sensing driven member 100. Said retardant member 140 is mounted to said driven member 100 so as to cover the outer surface thereof and being mounted outside the second refrigerant passage 63, said cylinder portion 143 defining a space 144 between the exterior of the driven member 100 and the interior of said cylinder portion 143. By the existence of the activated carbon 70, the hunting phenomenon and the invasion of the refrigerant to a lower chamber 85 is prevented, and the heat from the heat transmission retardant member 140 is transmitted to the heat sensing driven member 100 via space 144 which enables to provide a further retardation to the response of the valve to the temperature change of the refrigant exiting the evaporator. The hunting is further suppressed effectively.
摘要:
Reference 100′ refers to a heat-sensing driven member constituting a thermal expansion valve formed by a stainless steel material and the like and having in the inside thereof an adsorbent 40, with a collar 100′a formed to the outside of the opening 100′b of the heat-sensing driven material 100′. A protrusion 100′c and a groove 100′d is formed to said collar 100′a in the downward direction of the drawing. Said protrusion 100′c and said groove 100′d are formed to the whole perimeter of said collar 100′a. Moreover, a diaphragm 82a formed for example of stainless steel material is inserted to said heat-sensing driven member 100′ through an opening 82b formed to the center area thereof until it contacts said protrusion 100′c, and said diaphragm 82a is fixed to said heat-sensing driven member 100′. As a result, the diaphragm 82a is welded by said protrusion 100′c between said collar 100′a and said support member 82′a. The end of the diaphragm 82a is sandwiched between housings 81 and 91 and fixed to position by welding.
摘要:
A heat transmission retardant member 140 which is a cylinder-shaped resin tube made of nylon or polyacetals is mounted between an adsorbent 40 and an inner wall of a hollow portion of a heat-sensing driven member 100 with a space 140′ between said inner wall. The hollow portion of said heat-sensing driven member 100 includes said adsorbent 40, said heat transmission retardant member 140 made of resin, and said space 140′. Said heat transmission retardant member 140 comprises plural protrusions, and by positioning said protrusions to contact said inner wall, said space 140′ is formed. Since said space 140′ is formed between said inner wall of the hollow portion of said heat-sensing driven member 100 and said heat transmission retardant member 140, not only is the heat transmission to the granular activated carbon delayed by the heat transmission retardant member, but said space also effectively delays the transmission of the temperature variation of the refrigerant to the heat transmission retardant member. Thus, hunting of the valve is even further effectively suppressed.
摘要:
A heat transmission retardant member 140 is formed of a cup-like shaped resin material utilizing nylon or polyacetals, comprising a collar 141 formed to the outside of the upper end thereof, and a thick-walled cylinder portion 143 having at the lower end thereof a tapered portion 142. Said retardant member 140 is positioned so that the upper end contacts a support member 82′, said collar 141 is supported by the inner surface of a housing 81, the outer surface of said cylinder portion 143 contacts the inner surface of said housing 81, and the end of said tapered portion 142 is inserted to a second hole 72 and contacting the outer surface of a heat-sensing driven member 100 and further positioned within a lower chamber 85 defined by a diaphragm 82. Said retardant member 140 is mounted to said driven member 100 so as to cover the outer surface thereof and being mounted outside the second refrigerant passage 63, said tapered portion 143 defining a space 144 between the exterior of the driven member 100 and the interior of said cylinder portion 142. Not only is the hunting phenomenon suppressed by the existence of the activated carbon, but the invasion of the refrigerant to the lower chamber 85 is prevented, and the heat from the heat transmission retardant member 140 is transmitted to the heat-sensing driven member 100 via space 144 which enables to provide a further retardation to the response of the valve to the temperature change of the refrigerant exiting the evaporator. The hunting is further suppressed effectively.