Capacity control valve

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10077849-B2
Application number	US-201815872781-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 16, 2018
Priority date	May 24, 2012
Publication date	Sep 18, 2018
Grant date	Sep 18, 2018

Abstract

A capacity control valve includes: a pressure-sensitive body positioned in a third valve chamber; an adapter provided on the free end of the pressure sensitive body having a circular seating surface; a third valve part that moves integrally with a valve element in the third valve chamber and has a circular engagement surface that opens/closes intake-side passages by engaging with and separating from the seating surface of the adapter. The valve element is located between the first valve chamber and the second valve chamber, and has an outer circumferential face part slidably movable relative to an inner circumferential face of the valve body, with plural threads of screw grooves are formed on the outer circumferential face part.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A capacity control valve, comprising
discharge-side passages communicating a discharge chamber that discharges fluid and a control chamber that controls a discharge rate of fluid;
a first valve chamber formed along the discharge-side passages;
intake-side passages communicating with the control chamber and an intake chamber that takes in fluid;
a second valve chamber formed along the intake-side passages;
a valve element that integrally has a first valve part that opens/closes the discharge-side passages in the first valve chamber and a second valve part that opens/closes, the intake-side passages in the second valve chamber, where the first and second valve parts open/close in opposite directions due to reciprocating motion;
a valve body accommodating the valve element in a manner allowing a reciprocating motion, and cooperating with the valve element to form the first valve chamber and the second valve chamber;
a third valve chamber formed along the intake-side passages at a position closer to the control chamber than to the second valve chamber;
a pressure-sensitive body positioned in the third valve chamber to apply, by extending, a bias force in a direction of opening the first valve part, and also to contract as a surrounding pressure increases;
an adapter provided on a free end of the pressure-sensitive body in extending/contracting direction and having a circular seating surface;
a third valve part that moves integrally with the valve element in the third valve chamber and has a circular engagement surface that opens/closes the intake-side passages by engaging with and separating from the seating surface of the adapter; and
a solenoid that applies an electromagnetic drive force to the valve element a direction of closing the first valve part;
wherein:
the valve element is located between the first valve chamber and the second valve chamber, and has an outer circumferential face part slidably movable relative to an inner circumferential face of the valve body;
plural threads of screw grooves are formed on the outer circumferential face part;
each of the plural threads of screw grooves communicates with the first valve chamber and does not communicate with the second valve chamber, when the first valve part is closed, and communicates neither with the first valve chamber nor the second valve chamber, when the first valve part is opened; and
each of the plural threads of screw grooves communicates with the first valve chamber, in such a manner that only an incomplete screw part opens to the first valve chamber, when the first valve part is closed.

2. A capacity control valve according to claim 1 , wherein the plural threads of screw grooves are provided in a position equally spaced in the circumferential direction.

3. A capacity control valve according to claim 1 , wherein at least one end in the side of the first valve chamber of each of the plural threads of screw grooves has the incomplete screw part.

Assignees

• Eagle Ind Co Ltd

Inventors

• Iwa Toshiaki
• Ogawa Yoshihiro
• Fukudome Kohei
• Moriwaki Kenji

Classifications

• F04B27/1804

  Controlled by crankcase pressure · CPC title

• F16K11/0716

  with fluid passages through the valve member (F16K11/0704, F16K11/0708, F16K11/0712 take precedence) · CPC title

• G05D16/2024

  the throttling means being a multiple-way valve · CPC title

• G05D16/0619 Primary

  acting directly on the obturator · CPC title

• Y10T137/86622

  Motor-operated · CPC title