CN100561022C

CN100561022C - Heating power expansion valve

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Publication number: CN100561022C
Application number: CNB2006100508442A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 小池隆志; 史初良; 尹斌
Original assignee: Zhejiang Sanhua Automotive Components Co Ltd; Zhejiang Sanhua Automobile Control System Co Ltd
Current assignee: Zhejiang Sanhua Automotive Components Co Ltd
Priority date: 2006-05-19
Filing date: 2006-05-19
Publication date: 2009-11-18
Anticipated expiration: 2026-05-19
Also published as: CN101074736A

Abstract

A kind of heating power expansion valve, it comprises: valve body, in the high-pressure passage that forms on the valve body, low-pressure passage be located at valve port on the described high-pressure passage; Spool, it be positioned at described valve port near, and suppress to this valve port direction by spring; Bulb, it has a sealed chamber, and constitutes the diaphragm that comprises of this sealed chamber; Valve rod, the one end supports described spool to the direction away from valve port, and its other end is driven by diaphragm; It is characterized in that: described bulb is positioned on the described low-pressure passage.Because bulb is located in the low-pressure passage that forms on the valve body, compared with prior art, can realize the miniaturization of heating power expansion valve, can obtain the degrees of freedom of guaranteeing the space in freeze cycle.

Description

Heating power expansion valve

Technical field

The invention relates to the expansion valve that is used to control the cold medium flux of sending into vaporizer in the freeze cycle such as air-conditioning, refrigerating plant.

Background technique

Existing expansion valve generally is formed with on valve body to the high-pressure passage of the logical high pressure refrigerant of vaporizer and the low-pressure passage sent of the low pressure refrigerant of from evaporator drier in the future, valve port on high-pressure passage, simultaneously, be positioned at valve port near be provided with the spool that suppresses to the valve port direction by spring, on valve body, be fixed with the temperature of perception low pressure refrigerant in addition, the bulb of variation in pressure, between diaphragm and spool, be supported with valve rod, temperature when low pressure refrigerant, during variation in pressure, the diaphragm of bulb action is ordered about valve rod and is changed the position of the relative valve port of spool and realize control to the high pressure cold medium flux.

Patent documentation 1 (spy opens flat 9-273835) promptly discloses a kind of expansion valve, and its bulb is fixed on the valve body upper end, and the upper end of its valve body is formed with the opening portion from its low-pressure passage towards the outside, and its bulb is by screwing togather the fixing valve body outside that is positioned at this opening portion.

The bulb of patent documentation 2 (real fair 3-38600) forms sealed chamber between two diaphragms, and bulb is located at the recess that valve body top forms.

The expansion valve that patent documentation 1 is related is because bulb is located at the valve body outside, the therefore problem that the expansion valve miniaturization can occur hindering.

The expansion valve that patent documentation 2 is related forms sealed chamber even engage two diaphragms, because above-mentioned sealed chamber is located in the recess on valve body top, this recess is sealed by lid, so the problem of expansion valve miniaturization can occur hindering.

Further, because bulb is located at the valve body outside, the low pressure refrigerant that flows in the low-pressure passage must be passed through the position that slit on the valve body arrives bulb can be perceived, the low pressure refrigerant temperature of bulb institute perception and pressure are not directly thus, so can therefore produce deviation on the flow of control high pressure refrigerant.

As special circumstances, at patent documentation 2, owing to paying the liquid coolant that unevaporated low-pressure passage refrigerant flows to bulb in the recess, bulb is this liquid coolant of perception and make its diaphragm produce displacement, causes correctly controlling spool.

Summary of the invention

The technical assignment of the technical problem to be solved in the present invention and proposition is to overcome prior art to be difficult to realize that product miniaturization and bulb can not correctly control the defective of spool, and a kind of heating power expansion valve that changes the bulb position is provided.For this reason, the present invention is by the following technical solutions:

A kind of heating power expansion valve, it comprises:

Valve body is in the high-pressure passage that forms on the valve body, low-pressure passage be located at valve port on the described high-pressure passage;

Spool, it be positioned at described valve port near, and suppress to this valve port direction by spring;

Bulb, it has a sealed chamber, and constitutes the diaphragm that comprises of this sealed chamber;

Valve rod, the one end supports described spool to the direction away from valve port, and its other end is driven by diaphragm;

It is characterized in that: described bulb is positioned on the described low-pressure passage.Described heating power expansion valve is characterized in that described bulb has two shells and is located at support between two shells, respectively is connected with diaphragm between described support and two shells, and described sealed chamber is surrounded by described diaphragm and support.

Described heating power expansion valve offer the hole of inserting greater than described bulb on the direction that it is characterized in that intersecting with described low-pressure passage on the described valve body, and this end seal of inserting the hole is connected with inaccessible parts.

Described heating power expansion valve is characterized in that described inaccessible parts and inserts the hole by being threaded, and should the obturation parts and described hole wall of inserting the hole between be equipped with seal ring.

Described inaccessible parts are provided with the transmission rod that points to described bulb, and the center portion of described two shells respectively is provided with a cylindrical part, and described transmission rod and valve rod extend in the corresponding cylindrical part respectively and conflict on the diaphragm of correspondence.

Described heating power expansion valve is characterized in that the support of described bulb is provided with the coolant injection pipe.

Technique effect of the present invention is:

Because bulb is located in the low-pressure passage that forms on the valve body, compared with prior art, can realize the miniaturization of heating power expansion valve, can obtain the degrees of freedom of guaranteeing the space in freeze cycle.

And because bulb is located in the low pressure refrigerant path, bulb is interior refrigerant temperature and the pressure of perception path directly, thereby can correctly control spool.

Owing to offer the hole of inserting on the direction that intersects with described low-pressure passage on the valve body greater than described bulb, can easily bulb be inserted low-pressure passage, and the end seal of inserting the hole is connected with inaccessible parts, can the mode coolant leakage.

Connect the easy structure of inaccessible parts as the end seal of inserting the hole, inaccessible parts with insert the hole by being threaded, and should the obturation parts and described hole wall of inserting the hole between be equipped with seal ring.

Because bulb has shell and is located at support between the shell, the complete all outer rims of diaphragm and the diaphragm of crossing the subtend setting by shell and support are connected, thus the certain refrigerant between the diaphragm of filled reliably and its subtend.

And, displacement by two diaphragms, can control valve element position, can realize and the spool control that diaphragm is identical, the diaphragm size can be littler than former, the size that is located at the bulb in the above-mentioned low-pressure passage can be compact, and the distance between the expansion valve path is set in the adapter in can corresponding freeze cycle, thus the degrees of freedom can increase heating power expansion valve and in freeze cycle, assemble the time.

Owing to use filler line to seal certain refrigerant, so seal fairly simple and reliable.And filler line can be located on the above-mentioned support, does not insert the opening of logical filler line at diaphragm itself, so sealing operation is fairly simple.In addition, bad because filler line is located at low voltage side all in the road even its assembling as bulb occur, as long as change bulb, unnecessary replacing valve body.

The upper side shell slip transmission rod of bulb, downside shell slip displacement transferring elements, bulb can stably be assemblied in low-pressure passage.

Because upper side shell and lower side shell form cylindrical part respectively, along each cylindrical part, slip transmission rod and above-mentioned displacement transferring elements, thus it is more smooth and easy that each is transmitted.

The low pressure refrigerant temperature of sending along with vaporizer and the variation of pressure make the spool generation displacement of being suppressed the valve port direction by spring, the high pressure cold medium flux that regulating and controlling is sent into to vaporizer from high-pressure passage.

In addition, can form the coolant path of the heating power expansion valve of the assembling of taking over, make that the assembling work of heating power expansion valve in freeze cycle is easier according to freeze cycle.

Below in conjunction with specification drawings and specific embodiments to the present invention to more detailed description.

Description of drawings

Figure 1A: the heating power expansion valve longitudinal section of embodiment of the present invention;

Figure 1B: the sealed member assembly structure figure of Figure 1A expansion valve;

Fig. 2: the oblique drawing of the assembly relation between inaccessible parts, bulb, valve rod, spool and the spring of Figure 1A expansion valve, wherein:

(A) be the outward appearance oblique drawing of inaccessible parts,

(B) be the outward appearance oblique drawing of bulb;

(C) be the outward appearance oblique drawing of valve rod, valve core structure.

Among the figure: 1. valve body, 2. vaporizer, 3. bulb, 4. valve rod, 5. through hole, 6. transmission rod, 7. spool, 7a. valve supporting portion, 7b. round plate, 8. passage portion, 8a. valve seat, 11. high-pressure passage, 12. low-pressure passage, 13. insertion parts, 14. inaccessible parts, 15. jacks, 15a. transmission pole member, 31a. top shell, 31b. the below shell, 31d/31e. blade of a sword portion, 31c. supporting part, 31f/31g. blade of a sword portion, 31h. the upper wall parts, 31i. lower wall parts, 32a/32b. diaphragm, 33. capillary tubies.

Embodiment

Figure 1A is the longitudinal section of the heating power expansion valve 10 of one embodiment of the present invention, and this heating power expansion valve was used for the freeze cycle of automotive air conditioning device etc. equally with former expansion valve.

Among the figure, on the prism-shaped valve body of making by metal such as aluminium 1, be formed with, the low pressure refrigerant that the high-pressure passage 11 of the high pressure refrigerant inflow evaporator 2 that the compressor (not shown) is discharged and vaporizer 2 outlets are discharged flows into the low-pressure passage 12 of compressor, and high-pressure passage 11 and low-pressure passage 12 are parallel to each other.From flowing into the way of low-pressure passage 12 of compressors, vaporizer 2 outlet is provided with the insertion part 13 of the bulb 3 that is used to pack into, offer on the direction that intersects with low-pressure passage on the valve body and insert hole 15 greater than bulb, so that insert the hole bulb is inserted the insertion part through this, and this end of inserting the hole is by the inaccessible parts that are threaded, this obturation parts and insert between the hole wall in hole and be equipped with seal ring, insertion part 13 is by inaccessible parts 14 sealings such as metal such as aluminium thus; Wherein 141 are the part that is threaded.

142 for being located at the O shape circle in inaccessible parts 14 grooves 143.Upper side shell 31a and the lower side shell 31b that bulb 3 is made of metal such as stainless steel and be located at that the support 31c with blade of a sword portion that metal such as stainless steel constitute between these shells 31a and the 31b constitutes.

Above-mentioned

shell

31a and 31b have 31d of blade of a sword portion and 31e respectively, are approximate dish shape, are made by the stainless steel as thick 1.5mm.Above-mentioned support 31c has 31f of blade of a sword portion and 31g up and down, is the approximate circle tubular, is made by the stainless steel as thick 1.5mm.Be welded with diaphragm 32a between 31d of blade of a sword portion and the 31f of blade of a sword portion, be welded with diaphragm 32b between 31e and the 31g of blade of a sword portion, constitute

one.Diaphragm

32a and 32b constitute by the sheetmetal made by flexible thin plate such as the corrosion resistant plate of thick 0.1mm, its outer periphery portion and above-mentioned each blade of a sword portion welding, and bulb is surrounded

diaphragm

32a and 32b sealing.

Then, form sealed chamber between diaphragm 32a in the bulb 3 and the 32b, and in sealed chamber, fill with

path

11 and 12 in identical refrigerant, this is filled to be what to be undertaken by the capillary tube 33 that forms on the support.The mode that should fill fills the same capillary tube that needs to adopt with the bulb of former expansion valve.Above-mentioned

shell

31a and 31b are formed with the upper wall parts 31h of diagram top and the lower wall parts 31i of below respectively, and be provided with cylindrical part, insert in the cylinder of these upper wall parts 31h with the bar-like member 15a of the central part integrated setting of inaccessible parts 14 and can slide, the central part of transmission part 15a lower end and diaphragm 32a joins, also can on

shell

31a and 31b, form aperture, refrigerant is flow through from above-mentioned stream 12 according to necessity.Certainly transmission part 15a also can constitute with inaccessible parts 14 splits.

In addition, on diaphragm 32b, the valve rod 4 that the upper end links to each other with diaphragm 32b central part inserts in the cylinder of lower wall parts 31i, and slidably, valve rod 4 central straight below diaphragm 32b extends the below, crosscut insertion part 13 is located in the through hole 5 vertical with the insertion part 13 that forms and low-pressure passage 12 in the valve body 1, and can slides.Above-mentioned valve rod 4 is made by metal such as aluminium, and its lower end is provided with the bar-shaped transmission rod 6 that joins and made by thin footpath metal such as stainless steel with valve rod 4 lower ends.The spherical spool 7 of the lower end integrated setting of transmission rod 6, therefore, valve rod 4 and the displacement of

diaphragm

32a and 32b is passed to the spool 7 of displacement transferring elements of spool 7 and transmission rod 6 by welding or moulding integrated.

High-pressure passage 11 is provided with the long-pending valve port 8 that forms throttling that dwindles of partial cross section in the way, and above-mentioned valve port 8 forms on coaxial line with through hole.The upstream side opening portion of valve port 8 is valve seat 8a, and above-mentioned transmission rod 6 connects valve port 8, and valve seat 8a is provided with from the relative above-mentioned spool 7 of downstream side.Spool 7 is positioned at the upstream side of valve seat 8a, joins with valve seat 8a or leaves, and is used to open and close through high-pressure passage 11 and valve port 8 path to vaporizer.

Spool 7 is spherical, joins with spool supporting part 7a or fixing.Spool supporting portion 7a is provided with the round plate 7b with its one.Spool 7 is given as security to closing valve direction (1 last direction among the figure) by spool supporting part 7a, produces bullet spring of giving as security 9 and the adjusting nut 16 that is used for the elastic force pressure of Regulation spring 9 and is arranged on valve body 1.

Shown in Figure 1B, the valve body 1 of prism-shaped is provided with and is used to prevent produce between high-pressure passage 11 and the low-pressure passage 11 sealed member 17 that is communicated with.Sealed member 17 is configured in the hole, big footpath 18 of valve body 1 as O shape circle, when being located between above-mentioned

path

11 and 12, being provided with and being used to the pushnut 19 that prevents that O shape circle from moving.Figure 1B is the valve rod of installation sealed member 17 and the periphery of valve body.

16 is the adjusting nut that is used to regulate the elastic force pressure of the spring 9 that screws togather and be assemblied in valve body, and 18 is that sealing is enclosed with O shape between high-pressure passage 11 and the outside.7b is the holding part of the spring 9 of spool supporting part 7a.

In addition, valve rod 4 is located in the through hole and can freely advances and retreat at axial direction, and lower end (Fig. 1 below end face) joins with the upper end of transmission rod 6, and transmission rod 6 is less than the internal diameter of the valve port 8 by refrigerant between valve port 8 internal faces, and is coaxial and establish with valve port 8.

Fig. 2 is the part exploded perspective view of the expansion valve 10 of the mode of execution among Fig. 1, represents with same-sign with Fig. 1 same section.Among the figure, Fig. 2 (A) is the outward appearance oblique drawing of

inaccessible parts

14, and 14a is the screw section, and 14b is for to screw togather the hexagon ring that inaccessible parts 14 is fixed on the signature hand-hole 15 of valve body 1 upper end by

screw thread

14a, 143 for being equipped with and the groove of outside seal with O shape circle, and groove 143 is positioned at the periphery of inaccessible parts 14.

Fig. 2 (B) is the outward appearance oblique drawing of bulb 3, and 31J is the welded joint by being welded, and is welded with the periphery of diaphragm 32a between the 31f of blade of a sword portion of the 31d of blade of a sword portion of shell 31a and support 31c, and the 31d of blade of a sword portion, 31f and diaphragm 32a are connected by welding together.31k is the welded joint by being welded, and the 31e of blade of a sword portion of shell 31b and the 31g of blade of a sword portion of support 31c and diaphragm 32b are connected by welding together.Among Fig. 2 A, 31h is the upper wall parts, and 31i is the lower wall parts.33 capillary tubies for forming between the 31f of blade of a sword portion of support 31c and the 31g, capillary tube 33 is located in the diameter range of

diaphragm

32a and 32b along support 31c.

Fig. 2 (C) is a valve rod 4, the outward appearance oblique drawing of transmission rod 6 and spool 7, and valve rod 4 and transmission rod 6 join, and transmission rod 6 and spool 7 are by being welded.In addition, valve rod 4 also can form one by moulding with transmission rod 6, and valve rod 4. transmissions rod 6 and spool 7 can be one-body molded.In view of the above, can reach the bar 4. transmissions rod 6 and spool 7 three-in-one.

Among Fig. 2 (C), 9 is spring, is located at spool 7 between valve supporting portion 7a and the adjusting nut, keeps by round plate 7b.

This heating power expansion valve 10 is according to the low pressure refrigerant temperature in the low-pressure passage 12, pressure inside changes between diaphragm 32a in the bulb 3 and the 32b, by diaphragm 32a and 32b both sides applied pressure is that diaphragm 32a and 32b give as security poor between the elastic force pressure of the power of spool 7 sides and spring 9, forms the displacement transferring elements that valve rod 4 and transmission rod 6 pass to the displacement of diaphragm 32a and 32b spool 7.The result, along with the low pressure refrigerant decrease of temperature in the low-pressure passage 12, by with bulb 3 in the diaphragm 32a of difference generation displacement of pressure and 32b along with the pressure in the bulb 3, be indexed to the inboard of bulb 3, therefore when bulb 3 is movable, valve rod 4 and transmission rod 6 move to the last direction of axial direction Fig. 1 of transmission rod 6, so transmission rod 6 suppresses by spring 9, spool 7 moves on to and closing on the valve direction that valve seat 8a joins, and the flow path area of valve port 8 narrows down, and the flow of sending into the high pressure refrigerant of vaporizer reduces, in addition, if the temperature of the low pressure refrigerant in the low-pressure passage 12 rises, diaphragm 32a and 32b are indexed to the outside, and be opposite with above-mentioned action, spool 7 inserts by valve rod 4 and transmission rod 6, move to the direction of the 8a that lifts off a seat, the flow path area of valve port 8 enlarges, and the high pressure cold medium flux of sending into vaporizer increases.

The temperature of the low pressure refrigerant of sending according to vaporizer 2, according to the pressure of the temperature-sensitive portion 3 that therefore changes and the diaphragm 32a of displacement and the shift action of 32b and valve rod 4 and transmission rod 6, spool 7 contact or the 8a that lift off a seat, so sending into the high pressure coolant quantity of vaporizer 2 is under control, throttle orifice by above-mentioned valve port 8, during high pressure refrigerant expanded by heating, owing to there are 2 diaphragms in the bulb 3, displacement by

diaphragm

32a and 32b, compare with the displacement of a former diaphragm of heating power expansion valve, spool 7 can obtain the displacement of twice.In addition, because bulb 3 is provided in a side of in the valve body 1, so there is bulb in valve body 1 inside, the former heating power expansion valve that is located at the valve body outside with bulb is compared, and can realize miniaturization.

Above-mentioned bulb is owing to be located in the low-pressure passage, distance between low-pressure passage and the high-pressure passage can corresponding constitute freeze cycle adapters such as vaporizer allocation position and set, increased the degrees of freedom of setting, compare with the ectosome outer installment bulb of former heating power expansion valve, can not limit the setting degrees of freedom of above-mentioned distance by the restriction of this setting.

In addition, for refrigerant being injected between diaphragm 32a and the 32b, be provided with capillary tube as filler line, bulb can be located between the 31f of blade of a sword portion and 31g of support 31, establish along support, capillary tube 33 can be located in the diameter scope of

diaphragm

32a and 32b, can avoid capillary tube 33 and give prominence in low-pressure passage 12.And,, can not hinder the movable action in the low-pressure passage 12 of bulb 3 even capillary tube 33 is housed.

In addition, owing to need filler line originally be set on one's body at diaphragm, bad even bulb occurs when the assembling of filler line is more prone to, as long as change bulb, the assembling of expansion valve also is easy to.

Need to prove: according to the enlightenment of prior art and the above technology contents of the present invention, be used to drive the bulb of spool action, the key of its work is perception low pressure refrigerant temperature and pressure and the internal pressure that changes its sealed chamber forces the diaphragm displacement, there is not positive connection with its active state on low-pressure passage, therefore, the present invention discloses a kind of at state that axially can be movable hereinbefore, under this enlightenment, the same state that it can be arranged to fix, as be fixed in the inboard of inaccessible parts, be placed on the low-pressure passage with inserting being connected of hole with inaccessible parts, valve rod is mated and can repeat them here with above described.

Claims

1, a kind of heating power expansion valve, it comprises:

Valve body (1), high-pressure passage (11), the low-pressure passage (12) that go up to form at valve body (1) and be located at valve port (8) on the described high-pressure passage (11);

Spool (7), it be positioned at described valve port (8) near, and suppress to this valve port (8) direction by spring (9);

Bulb (3), it has a sealed chamber, and constitute this sealed chamber comprise diaphragm (32a, 32b);

Valve rod (4), the one end supports described spool (7) to the direction away from valve port (8), and its other end is driven by diaphragm (32b);

Described bulb (3) is positioned at described low-pressure passage (12);

It is characterized in that: described bulb (3) has two shells (31a, 31b) and is located at support (31c) between two shells, respectively be connected with diaphragm (32a, 32b) between described support (31c) and two shells (31a, 31b), described sealed chamber is surrounded by described diaphragm (32a, 32b) and support (31c).

2, heating power expansion valve according to claim 1, it is characterized in that described valve body (1) go up offer on the direction that intersects with described low-pressure passage (12) greater than described bulb insert hole (15), and this end seal of inserting hole (155) is connected with inaccessible parts (14).

3, heating power expansion valve according to claim 2 is characterized in that described inaccessible parts (14) and inserts hole (15) by being threaded, and should obturation parts (14) and described hole wall of inserting hole (15) between be equipped with seal ring (142).

4, according to claim 2 or 3 described heating power expansion valves, it is characterized in that described inaccessible parts (14) are provided with the transmission rod (15a) that points to described bulb (3), the center portion of described two shells (31a, 31b) respectively is provided with a cylindrical part, and described transmission rod (15a) and valve rod (4) extend in the corresponding cylindrical part respectively and conflict on the diaphragm of correspondence.

5, heating power expansion valve according to claim 4 is characterized in that the support (31c) of described bulb (3) is provided with coolant injection pipe (33).