Abstract: A scroll-type vacuum pump includes a fixed scroll and a movable scroll. The fixed scroll has a base plate and a volute portion formed on the base plate. The movable scroll includes a base plate having a volute portion. The volute portions cooperate to form a variable displacement fluid pocket between the two scrolls. The movable scroll includes a rear boss projecting from the rear surface of the base plate and a front boss projecting from the front surface of the base plate. The rear boss is located in a working region, which includes the volute portion of the movable scroll. An eccentric shaft is integrally formed on a drive shaft. The eccentric shaft is inserted in rotates relatively to both bosses to support the movable scroll. The eccentric shaft receives a radial force generated in the working region mainly through the rear boss. Accordingly, no inclination moment is applied to the movable scroll and the movable scroll does not incline with respect to the fixed scroll.

Abstract: A multistage compressor for compressing a refrigerant for an automobile air conditioning system includes a body which has a front housing and a rear housing connected to each other with a cylinder block clamped therebetween. The cylinder block includes a plurality of sets of cylinder bores arranged parallel to, and around the longitudinal axis. Pistons are received within the cylinder bores to define a plurality of sets of compression chambers together with the walls of the cylinder bores. The sets of the compression chambers are fluidly connected to each other to provide a series of stages for compressing the refrigerant gas. The cylinder bores are arranged at equal angles around the longitudinal axis in each set of the compression chambers whereby the unbalanced force on the swash plate and the drive shaft is removed.

Abstract: A scroll type compressor including mutually mating stationary and movable scrolls for producing compression. A circumferentially outer part of the movable scroll portion has a flat end surface and a chamferred surface. The chamferred surface tapers outwardly at an angle relative to the flat end surface greater than an allowable tilt angle of the movable scroll. A circumferentially inner part of the scroll portion includes a flat end surface only which has a groove to receive a tip seal, the tip seal having a height greater than a depth of the groove. The circumferentially outer part has an identical outer diameter to that of the base plate portion, and the base plate portion and the scroll portion are simultaneously machined.

Abstract: A compressor has a casing and a compressing member located within the casing. A gas drawn from a suction chamber into a compression chamber is compressed to be discharged to a discharge chamber in accordance with the operation of the compressing member. The compressor has a drive apparatus located within the casing for driving the compressing member. The drive apparatus has a fixed drive member fixed to the casing and having a plurality of electrode strips arranged in a single direction with a predetermined pitch. A second member is fixed to the compressing member. The compressing member is driven by relative movement generated between the fixed and movable drive members in response to Coulomb force generated between the fixed and movable drive members when voltage is applied to the electrode strips.

Abstract: A variable capacity type viscous heater is provided which can carry out the capacity control reliably, and which can inhibit the endurable heat-generating efficiency of a viscous fluid from deteriorating even after a long period of service. For instance, its rear housing 6 is provided with a control chamber 9 which is communicated with a central region of a heat-generating chamber 7, and which has an internal volume capable of expanding and contracting. When a rotor 14 is kept rotated, a silicone oil held, in the heat-generating chamber 7, expands the internal volume of the control chamber 9 by the Weissenberg effect in the capacity reduction. As a result, the heating is relieved, because the silicone oil, held in the heat-generating chamber 7, is collected into the control chamber 9.

Abstract: A double-headed piston type compressor has a disk plate. The disk plate is rotatably supported on a drive shaft for driving each piston along a reciprocating path. The plate is curved in a single direction to form a solid cam on its surface. The cam transforms a single rotation of the plate into two reciprocating movements of the piston. Cam followers provided between the plate and the piston are formed to be conform with the shape of the cam. The cam followers contact and roll on the piston, and slide on the cam.

Abstract: A wave cam type compressor is provided. The compressor has a wave cam body mounted on a rotary shaft for integral rotation and pistons operably contacting said cam body by way of shoes. The shoes are moveable relative to the cam body according to the rotation of the cam body. The shoes move on predetermined paths on cam surfaces of the cam body. The rotation therewith of the rotary shaft is converted into a reciprocation movement of the pistons between top dead center and a lower dead center in cylinder bores to compress fluid supplied into the cylinder bores. Each cam surface has a contour matching the locus of a predetermined smooth two-dimensional imaginary curve when the curve is translated from its plane in the direction perpendicular to the plane. A first portion is provided on the cam surface to drive the piston to the bottom dead center and a second portion is provided on the cam surface to drive the piston to the top dead center.

Abstract: A compressor has a movable scroll supported on a bushing connected to a rotary shaft via an eccentric pin. The movable scroll and the bushing are disposed coaxial to the eccentric pin to rotate together with the eccentric pin. The movable scroll moves along a predetermined circular path around an axis of the rotary shaft to closely contact a fixed scroll, opposed to the movable scroll at a given portion to define a displaceable fluid pocket and compresses refrigerant gas introduced into the fluid pocket. The compressor comprises a first balance weight eccentrically supported on the eccentric pin for an integral rotation therewith. The first balance weight is arranged to generate first centrifugal force counteracting second centrifugal force generated in the movable scroll and the bushing based on the rotation of the movable scroll and the bushing.

Abstract: A compressor has a fixed scroll (2) and a movable scroll (9). Both scrolls (2), (9) have end plates (11), (13) and spiral elements (12), (14) integrated with their end plates (11), (13). Both scrolls (2), (9) engage with each other at the spiral elements (12), (14). Pockets (16-19) are formed between both spiral elements (12), (14). The pockets (16-19) move toward the centers of the spiral elements (12), (14) while their volumes are reduced in accordance with the revolution of the movable scroll (9), thus compressing refrigerant gas. Grooves (52), (50) are formed in end faces of the spiral elements (12), (14) of both the fixed and movable scrolls (2), (9). Fitted in those grooves (52), (50) are seals (53), (51) for securing airtightness with the mating end plates (12), (14).

Abstract: A scroll type compressor has a fixed scroll in a housing and a movable scroll opposed to the fixed scroll to define a compression chamber with the fixed scroll. Gas introduced into a suction chamber via an inlet is compressed in the compression chamber and then is discharged to a discharge chamber via a discharge port to exhaust the compressed gas from an outlet to the outside of the compressor in accordance with the circular movement of the movable scroll. A part of the discharge chamber is defined in the fixed scroll. An outlet flange protrudes from the fixed scroll. The outlet flange includes the outlet which communicates with the discharge chamber.

Abstract: An automotive air conditioning apparatus includes a Stirling refrigerator. In this refrigerator, many fins absorb heat from air in a passenger room, and a water jacket is connected to the cooling circuit of the vehicle engine by way of a pipe. Since an operating gas absorbs heat at the time of isothermal expansion, fins cool the passenger room without using Freon. So, a condenser is not required. Although the operating gas is heated at the time of isothermal compression, the water jacket radiates heat to circulating water of the vehicle engine. So, an individual, i.e., radiator is not required.

Abstract: Disclosed is a compressor having a plate rotatable about an axis of a rotary shaft and a piston connected to the plate. The plate causes the piston to reciprocate between a top dead center and a bottom dead center of its stroke in accordance with the rotation movement of the plate. Cam surfaces are provided on the plate for actuating the piston. The cam surfaces have first portions for driving the piston toward the top dead center, and second portions for driving the piston toward the bottom dead center. Transmission members are interposed between the piston and the cam surface for transmitting the rotational movement of the plate to the piston. The first and second portions cause the transmission members to follow on the cam surfaces. At lease one of the first and second portions are arranged to have a normal line extending obliquely to the axis of the rotary shaft for constant contact between the transmission members and the one of the portions.

Abstract: When a rotary shaft of a scroll type compressor rotates and a movable scroll of the compressor makes an orbital movement around the axis of a rotary shaft by way of an eccentric shaft, refrigerant gas is supplied to compression chambers between a fixed scroll and the movable scroll. A first bearing rotatably supports the rotary shaft. A second bearing is provided between the movable scroll and the eccentric shaft to permit relative movement therebetween. A balance weight attached to the movable scroll dynamically balances the movable scroll during its rotation. A crank chamber accommodates the balance weight. A suction port is so provided in the housing as to communicate with the crank chamber, and permits the refrigerant gas to be supplied into the housing. A passage is formed in the balance weight, the eccentric shaft and the rotary shaft to supply the refrigerant gas into a first gap between the first bearing and the rotary shaft and a second gap between the second bearing and the movable scroll.

Abstract: Disclosed is a compressor having a plate rotatable about an axis of a rotary shaft and a piston connected to the plate, wherein the plate causes the piston to reciprocate between a top dead center and a bottom dead center of its stroke in accordance with the rotation movement of the plate. A cam surface is provided with the plate for actuating the piston. A shoe engages with the plate for transmitting the rotation movement of the plate to the piston. A recess is formed on the piston for restricting rolling of the shoe on the plate for causing the shoe to slide on the plate to reduce the pressure caused by the contact between the cam surface and the shoe.

Abstract: A scroll type refrigerant compressor having a stationary scroll unit, a movable scroll unit including an orbiting spiral member engaged with the stationary scroll unit to define variable-volume compression chambers in which the refrigerant gas is compressed in response to a rotation of a drive shaft having an eccentrically arranged drive key member, and a drive bushing member having an aperture formed therein in which the drive key of the drive shaft is inserted so as to cause an eccentric motion of the drive bushing member operatively engaged with the movable spiral member to thereby drive an orbiting motion of the movable spiral member.

Abstract: A scroll type refrigerant compressor having an aluminum or aluminum alloy housing unit in which a stationary scroll unit having a stationary spiral member and a movable scroll unit having a movable spiral member are encased in such a manner that the movable spiral member moves along a predetermined orbiting path without rotating about an axis thereof, and a reinforcing ferric metal liner fixedly attached to an inner cylindrical face of a cylindrical wall portion of the aluminum or aluminum alloy housing unit so as to prevent the inner cylindrical face of the housing unit from being mechanically cracked by the movable spiral member of the movable scroll unit during the running of the compressor even if the movable scroll unit jams due to entrance of foreign materials between the outer face of the movable spiral member and the inner face of the housing unit.

Abstract: A fluidic apparatus includes a pulley driven by an engine, torque limiting means disposed in the pulley and adapted to shut off the transmission of driving force transmitted by the pulley when overload is applied thereto, and a driving shaft driven by the torque limiting means. The torque limiting means includes a boss formed coaxially with the pulley, a collar disposed integrally and coaxially with the driving shaft, and a coiled spring adapted to hold outer peripheral surfaces of the boss and the collar by tightening with a predetermined tightening allowance. With the torque limiting means, if abnormal loads should be applied to the driving shaft, there hardly occur internal breakages, or the like, in the fluidic apparatus. In addition, because the torque limiting means has such a simple construction, the fluidic apparatus is down-sized and reduced in manufacturing cost.

Abstract: The scroll type compressor includes a stationary and orbiting scroll members, of which the spiral elements are interfit at an offset angle to form line contacts defining at least one fluid pocket, and an anti-spin mechanism for causing the orbiting member to orbit within the stationary member. A drive shaft is rotatably supported in a housing, and has an outer end a cylindrical inner end and, depending upon the embodiment, either a crank pin or a sliding guide portion projecting axially inward from its inner end. A drive bush couples the drive shaft to the orbiting scroll member, and has either a circular aperture for receiving the crank pin or an engaging slotted recess for receiving the sliding guide portion, as the case may be, whereby the drive bush is either pivotable or slidable with respect to the drive shaft. A counterweight is mounted on either the crank pin or the sliding guide portion between the drive bush and the drive shaft, and is coupled to the drive bush for conjoint movement therewith.

Abstract: A double-headed swash plate type Stirling engine includes double headed pistons defining front spaces and rear spaces and anchored to the swash plate by shoes. Thus, the reciprocal movement of the double-headed pistons, resulting from the expansion and compression of an operating gas in the front and rear spaces, are directly converted into the rotary movement of the swash plate. Hence, the Stirling engine has a very simplified construction.

Abstract: A climate control system incorporated in a motor vehicle having a hydraulic pump directly driven by a vehicle engine to deliver a working oil under pressure to be supplied to either a hydraulic motor for driving a refrigerant compressor of an air-conditioning system or a heat conversion unit of the heating system via a hydraulic flow control valve for controlling the flow direction of the working oil. The air-conditioning system has an evaporator for cooling the air supplied to the vehicle compartment. In the heat conversion unit of the heating system, pressure energy of the working oil is converted to thermal energy thereof by which the engine cooling water is heated to thereby heat the air supplied to the vehicle compartment via a radiator unit made of a heater core.