Patents by Inventor Christophe Ancel

Christophe Ancel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9506470
    Abstract: The scroll refrigeration compressor according to the invention includes a sealed enclosure at least partially defining a discharge chamber designed to be connected to a discharge line, and a discharge valve attached on the sealed enclosure and fluidly connected to the discharge chamber. The discharge valve includes a valve body, a valve seat, and a discharge check valve movable between a covering position and a released position. The discharge valve includes deflection means positioned in the valve body and arranged to orient the flow of refrigerant coming from the discharge line at least partially toward the periphery of the discharge check valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: DANFOSS COMMERCIAL COMPRESSORS
    Inventors: Pierre Ginies, Dominique Gross, Christophe Ancel, Yves Rosson, Philippe Dugast
  • Patent number: 9309888
    Abstract: A valve arrangement including a valve plate with at least one delivery port intended to allow fluid flow from a delivery line made in of a volute of the compressor, and a valve seat made on a first face of the valve plate, a delivery valve moveable between an obturation position and a release position, retaining means arranged for limiting the movement range of the delivery valve. The arrangement further includes at least one bypass valve positioned adjacent to the second face of the valve plate, the bypass valve being moveable between an obturation position of a bypass channel made in the plate of said volute, and a release position in of said bypass channel, and retaining means positioned on the second face of the valve plate and arranged in order to limit the movement range of the bypass valve towards its release position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: DANFOSS COMMERCIAL COMPRESSORS
    Inventors: Pierre Ginies, Christophe Ancel
  • Patent number: 9194395
    Abstract: A compressor including: a stationary volute and a moving volute each including a plate provided with a scroll, said scrolls defining variable-volume compression chambers; a delivery line provided in the plate of the stationary volute; a delivery port arranged such as to establish a communication between the delivery line and a delivery chamber; and a non-return device including (i) a valve seat surrounding the delivery port and (ii) a delivery valve which can move between delivery port opening and closing positions. The compressor includes: at least one bypass passage having a first end opening into the delivery line at a point between the central compression chamber and the valve seat and a second end opening into an intermediate compression chamber or into a low-pressure portion of the compressor, and at least one bypass valve which can move between bypass passage closing and opening positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: DANFOSS COMMERCIAL COMPRESSORS
    Inventors: Pierre Ginies, Christophe Ancel
  • Patent number: 9033689
    Abstract: The scroll refrigeration compressor includes a sealed casing, stationary and moving volutes including spiral wraps engaged in one another and defining the variable-volume compression chambers, a delivery chamber defined by the plate of the stationary volute and the sealed casing, a heat shield disposed in the delivery chamber and dividing the delivery chamber into a first volume defined by the plate of the stationary volute and the heat shield and a second volume defined by the heat shield and the sealed casing, and at least one flow passage arranged to communicate the first and second volumes. The compressor further includes at least one bypass passage arranged to communicate the first volume with an intermediate compression chamber, and at least one bypass valve disposed in the first volume and movable between closing and opening positions for closing and opening the corresponding bypass passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: DANFOSS COMMERCIAL COMPRESSORS
    Inventors: Pierre Ginies, Christophe Ancel
  • Patent number: 8794940
    Abstract: This compressor comprises first and second volutes describing an orbital relative movement and each comprising a plate from which a spiral extends, the two spirals being engaged one inside the other and defining pairs of compression chambers of variable volume. The compressor has a housing formed in that surface of the plate of the first volute which is turned towards the spirals, which housing opens into one of the compression chambers, refrigerant delivery means leading into the housing, and a nonreturn device being mounted in the housing, the nonreturn device preventing communication between the delivery means and the compression chamber into which housing opens in a first or closed position, and allowing communication between the delivery means and said compression chamber in a second or open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Danfoss Commercial Compressors
    Inventors: Christophe Ancel, Pierre Ginies, Pierre Emilien Clement
  • Publication number: 20130302197
    Abstract: The scroll refrigeration compressor includes a sealed casing, stationary and moving volutes including spiral wraps engaged in one another and defining the variable-volume compression chambers, a delivery chamber defined by the plate of the stationary volute and the sealed casing, a heat shield disposed in the delivery chamber and dividing the delivery chamber into a first volume defined by the plate of the stationary volute and the heat shield and a second volume defined by the heat shield and the sealed casing, and at least one flow passage arranged to communicate the first and second volumes. The compressor further includes at least one bypass passage arranged to communicate the first volume with an intermediate compression chamber, and at least one bypass valve disposed in the first volume and movable between closing and opening positions for closing and opening the corresponding bypass passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: DANFOSS COMMERCIAL COMPRESSORS
    Inventors: Pierre Ginies, Christophe Ancel
  • Publication number: 20130089448
    Abstract: A compressor including: a stationary volute and a moving volute each including a plate provided with a scroll, said scrolls defining variable-volume compression chambers; a delivery line provided in the plate of the stationary volute; a delivery port arranged such as to establish a communication between the delivery line and a delivery chamber; and a non-return device including (i) a valve seat surrounding the delivery port and (ii) a delivery valve which can move between delivery port opening and closing positions. The compressor includes: at least one bypass passage having a first end opening into the delivery line at a point between the central compression chamber and the valve seat and a second end opening into an intermediate compression chamber or into a low-pressure portion of the compressor, and at least one bypass valve which can move between bypass passage closing and opening positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: DANFOSS COMMERCIAL COMPRESSORS
    Inventors: Pierre Ginies, Christophe Ancel
  • Publication number: 20130071276
    Abstract: A valve arrangement including a valve plate with at least one delivery port intended to allow fluid flow from a delivery line made in of a volute of the compressor, and a valve seat made on a first face of the valve plate, a delivery valve moveable between an obturation position and a release position, retaining means arranged for limiting the movement range of the delivery valve. The arrangement further includes at least one bypass valve positioned adjacent to the second face of the valve plate, the bypass valve being moveable between an obturation position of a bypass channel made in the plate of said volute, and a release position in of said bypass channel, and retaining means positioned on the second face of the valve plate and arranged in order to limit the movement range of the bypass valve towards its release position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: DANFOSS COMMERCIAL COMPRESSORS
    Inventors: Pierre Ginies, Christophe Ancel
  • Publication number: 20110318212
    Abstract: This compressor comprises first and second volutes describing an orbital relative movement and each comprising a plate from which a spiral extends, the two spirals being engaged one inside the other and defining pairs of compression chambers of variable volume. The compressor has a housing formed in that surface of the plate of the first volute which is turned towards the spirals, which opens into one of the compression chambers, refrigerant delivery means leading into the housing, and a nonreturn device being mounted in the housing, the nonreturn device preventing communication between the delivery means and the compression chamber into which the housing opens in a first or closed position, and allowing communication between the delivery means and said compression chamber in a second or open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: DANFOSS COMMERCIAL COMPRESSORS
    Inventors: Christophe Ancel, Pierre Ginies, Pierre Emilien Clement
  • Patent number: 8075290
    Abstract: Compressor has a fixed scroll and a scroll movable in an orbit relative to the fixed scroll. The fixed and movable scrolls are equipped with a spiral wrap that engage each other and delimit variable-volume compression chambers. The spiral wrap of the movable scroll has a stepped portion extending over at least a portion of its length. At least one of the scrolls defines a passage for communication, during orbital movement of the movable scroll, between two compression chambers, with the ends of the passage terminating respectively on either side of the outer and inner walls of the spiral wrap of the scroll with the passage or inside the outer and inner walls of the spiral wrap of the scroll with the passage. The passage has a check valve for allowing fluid to flow only from the outer wall of the spiral wrap of the scroll with the passage to the inner wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Danfoss Commerical Compressors
    Inventors: Pierre Ginies, Christophe Ancel, Dominique Gross
  • Publication number: 20090208356
    Abstract: Compressor has a fixed scroll and a scroll movable in an orbit relative to the fixed scroll. The fixed and movable scrolls are equipped with a spiral wrap that engage each other and delimit variable-volume compression chambers. The spiral wrap of the movable scroll has a stepped portion extending over at least a portion of its length. At least one of the scrolls defines a passage for communication, during orbital movement of the movable scroll, between two compression chambers, with the ends of the passage terminating respectively on either side of the outer and inner walls of the spiral wrap of the scroll with the passage or inside the outer and inner walls of the spiral wrap of the scroll with the passage. The passage has a check valve for allowing fluid to flow only from the outer wall of the spiral wrap of the scroll with the passage to the inner wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: DANFOSS COMMERCIAL COMPRESSORS
    Inventors: Pierre Ginies, Christophe Ancel, Dominique Gross
  • Patent number: 6715999
    Abstract: In a compressor at least one bypass valve is arranged in a low-pressure zone inside a casing of the compressor. The bypass valve defines a chamber connected by a first duct to at least one compression pocket situated in the peripheral zone of the compression stage and by a second duct to the low-pressure zone, the two ducts opening near one another so that they can be shut off by a shutter which can move in the chamber, being guided by the walls that delimit this chamber, a third duct intended for conveying a shutter-control fluid opening into the lower wall of the chamber of the valve. The shutter is opened by gravity when no control fluid is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Danfoss Maneurop S.A.
    Inventors: Christophe Ancel, Yves Rosson, Jean De Bernardi
  • Publication number: 20030063983
    Abstract: In a compresor at least one bypass valve is arranged in a low-pressure zone inside a casing of the compressor. The bypass valve defines a chamber connected by a first duct to at least one compression pocket situated in the peripheral zone of the compression stage and by a second duct to low-pressure zone, the two ducts opening near one another so that they can be shut off by a shutter which can move in the chamber, being guided by the walls that delimit this chamber, a third duct intended for conveying a shutter-control fluid opening into the lower wall of the chamber of the valve. The shutter is opened by gravity when no control fluid is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Inventors: Christophe Ancel, Yves Rosson, Jean De Bernardi