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Air conditioning system with variable capacity compressor

US4889474A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 28, 1988
Grant dateDec 26, 1989
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Expiry dateOct 28, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF25B49/022
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An air conditioning system includes an evaporator and a variable capacity compressor. The compressor has a lower pressure zone including a suction chamber connected to the outlet of the evaporator, a higher pressure zone, a bellows displaceable in response to pressure representative of a thermal load on the system, a control valve device responsive to displacement of the bellows for bringing the higher pressure zone into and out of communication with the lower pressure zone to thereby control the difference between pressure from the higher pressure zone and pressure from the lower pressure zone, and a control element responsive to change in the difference between pressure from the higher pressure zone and pressure from the lower pressure zone for varying the delivery quantity of the compressor. The system also includes a gastight chamber formed in the compressor and accommodating the bellows, and a pressure introducing line connecting between the gastight chamber and the outlet of the evaporator and introducing pressure at the latter into the former as the pressure representative of the thermal load.

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