Abstract: A centrifugal compressor is configured to be used for compressing a low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant. The centrifugal compressor comprises a casing, an impeller, and a motor for rotating the impeller. The impeller is equipped with blades having a fully nonlinear shape in a quasi-orthogonal cross-sectional view. A hub-side blade angle delta of each of the blades from a hub portion of the first impeller to a mid-span position of the blade varies along a streamwise direction such that the hub-side blade angle delta is largest at a position closer to a leading edge of the first blade than to a trailing edge of the first blade. The casing is configured such that the low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant enters the impeller from the inlet portion along an axial direction of the impeller and exits the impeller to the outlet portion in a radial direction of the impeller.

Abstract: A centrifugal compressor is configured to be used for compressing a low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant. The centrifugal compressor comprises a casing, an impeller, and a motor for rotating the impeller. The impeller is equipped with blades having a fully nonlinear shape in a quasi-orthogonal cross-sectional view. A hub-side blade angle delta of each of the blades from a hub portion of the first impeller to a mid-span position of the blade varies along a streamwise direction such that the hub-side blade angle delta is largest at a position closer to a leading edge of the first blade than to a trailing edge of the first blade. The casing is configured such that the low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant enters the impeller from the inlet portion along an axial direction of the impeller and exits the impeller to the outlet portion in a radial direction of the impeller.

Abstract: A method of producing refrigeration includes compressing a refrigerant composition including R1233zd in a compressor having a magnetic bearing, within a chiller system.

Abstract: A method of producing refrigeration includes compressing a refrigerant composition including R1233zd in a compressor having a magnetic bearing, within a chiller system.

Abstract: A heat pump chiller includes a casing having a compressor, etc. inside thereof and four flat-plate shaped air heat exchangers disposed on side surfaces of the casing and extending vertically. Two air heat exchangers constitute a first heat exchanger body and a second heat exchanger body. Respective heat exchanger bodies are positioned with end parts extending toward outside of the air heat exchangers to be close to each other.

Abstract: A refrigeration apparatus includes two sub passages which are branched from a main passage located between a condenser and an expansion part and which are connected to a compressor. On the sub passages are provided supercooling-use expansion parts, and supercooling-use heat exchangers for performing heat exchange between a refrigerant on an outlet side of the supercooling-use expansion part and a refrigerant of the main passage. Therefore, each time the refrigerant of the main passage passes through the two supercooling-use heat exchangers the degree of liquid supercooling of the refrigerant is increased.

Abstract: A refrigeration apparatus includes two sub passages which are branched from a main passage located between a condenser and an expansion part and which are connected to a compressor. On the sub passages are provided supercooling-use expansion parts, and supercooling-use heat exchangers for performing heat exchange between a refrigerant on an outlet side of the supercooling-use expansion part and a refrigerant of the main passage. Therefore, each time the refrigerant of the main passage passes through the two supercooling-use heat exchangers the degree of liquid supercooling of the refrigerant is increased.

Abstract: A thin film formation apparatus includes a printing roll having an elastic letterpress of resin or rubber fitted at a part of a surface of a cylinder part and, an intaglio roll rotating while facing the printing roll, thereby transferring ink to a surface of the elastic letterpress through contact with the printing roll. The thin film formation apparatus further includes a pair of printing roll side contact bodies on a drum portion or a rotating shaft of the printing roll, and a pair of intaglio roll side contact bodies on a drum portion or a rotating shaft of the intaglio role. The printing roll side contact bodies and the intaglio roll side contact bodies continuously contact each other, at least before and during the contact of the elastic letterpress with the intaglio roll, to form a thin film of uniform film thickness.

Abstract: A thin-film forming apparatus which includes a printing device having an intaglio roll having a plurality of ink cells, an ink supply which includes a doctor blade and which fills ink into the ink cells, a printing roll with an elastic plate, to which the ink of the intaglio roll is transferred wound round the barrel surface thereof, and a printing table which fixes a to-be-printed material to which the ink of the printing roll is transferred, wherein the apparatus includes a articulated robot, and an implementation device for the printing preparatory works which is mounted to the arm of the articulated robot and which performs at least one operation among the mounting/dismounting operation of the elastic plate to/from the printing roll, the operation to wipe and/or dry the ink on the barrel surface of the intaglio roll, and the operation to wipe and/or dry the ink on the doctor blade.

Abstract: A thin-film forming elastic plate of a printing roll includes a first elastic plate holder having a first printing roll-chucking hole formed therein, and a second elastic plate holder in which a second printing roll-chucking hole having a tapered portion is formed. A printing roll barrel includes a first chuck including a first chucking member having a claw and a first driving portion for moving the claw of the first chucking member into engagement with an edge of the first elastic plate holder defining the opening of the first printing roll-chucking hole; and second chuck including a tapered portion corresponding to the tapered portion of the second printing roll-chucking hole of the second elastic plate holder, and a second driving portion for moving the second chucking member.

Abstract: In a thin film forming apparatus, ink is supplied to the recess of a roll-shaped or plate-shaped intaglio (3, 23), the intaglio contacts a projection (4a, 24a) of a printing roll (4, 24), the ink held in the recess of the intaglio is transferred to the projection, the projection of the printing roll contacts a material to be printed (10, 30), and the ink is transferred to the surface of the material. Thus, a thin film is formed. The apparatus has a moving device (16, 7, 65, 36, 39) for moving the roll-shaped or plate-shaped intaglio. After the thin film is formed on the material by the initial printing, the intaglio is moved by a predetermined distance in the direction of the rotary shaft thereof or the direction perpendicular to the direction of the rotary shaft. Then, a thin film smooth on the surface thereof and clear in a pattern edge is formed on the material by a second time printing.

Abstract: In a multicolor liquid crystal display device, when a color filter (1) is formed above or beneath an electrode (2) by the use of a printing process, the film thickness is not uniform with indentation produced, thereby constituting a cause of the non-uniformity of orientation treatment and a defect in electroconductivity of the electrode. In this invention, the color filter (1) is formed by the use of a printing process so that the printing parameter .alpha. expressed by the following equation [1] is not smaller than 20 and the overlapping between the neighboring color filters is within the range of .alpha./3.about.(.alpha.+30).mu.:.alpha.=T(.mu.)/tan.theta.

Abstract: The color filter of this invention comprises a transparent substrate, a porous activated film layer formed on the substrate and made of activated alumina or activated silica or a mixture thereof, a colored area or a pattern formed by the dye fixed in the minute pores of the activated film layer, and a coating layer sealingly closing the upper portions of the minute pores of said activated film layer. This color filter is relatively simple and easy to manufacture, superior in resistivity to heat, water, chemicals, solvents, etc. and suitable for use as a color filter in various display devices, particularly liquid crystal display devices.