JP2010196858A - Four-way selector valve - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a four-way selector valve reducing a pressure loss of high-pressure refrigerant or the like, flowing through a valve body. <P>SOLUTION: The four-way selector valve 1 is equipped with: the valve body 2 having an enclosed space; a first conduit 4 connected to one side of the valve body, and communicating with the enclosed space; a second conduit 6 connected to the other side of the valve body and communicating with the enclosed space; third and fourth conduits 10, 11 arranged adjacently to each other on both sides sandwiching the second conduit 6, communicating with the enclosed space, and having the same inner diameter as that of the second conduit 6; a valve seat 15 having an opening communicating with each of the second to fourth conduits in the valve body 2; and a valve element 14 slidably arranged in the valve seat 15. In the four-way selector valve 1, the communication status between the first conduit and the third conduit, or between the first conduit and the fourth conduit is selectively switched by sliding the valve element 14 to in one direction or the other direction. The minimum cross sectional area between the periphery of a connection port 5 of the first conduit 4 of the valve body 2 and an outer peripheral surface 14a of the valve element 14 is set equal to or larger than the inner diameter cross sectional area of a pipe connected to the first to the fourth conduit. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a four-way switching valve used for equipment using a reversible refrigeration cycle such as refrigeration equipment and air conditioning equipment.

  Conventionally, a four-way switching valve is disposed in the refrigerant passage of the refrigeration cycle system to switch the refrigerant passage to switch between indoor cooling and heating. As such a four-way switching valve, Patent Document 1 proposes a four-way switching valve as shown in FIG.

  The four-way switching valve 61 is connected to a sealed hollow cylindrical valve body 62, a connection port 65 of a conduit 64 connected to a discharge pipe 80 of a compressor 63, and a connection port 67 connected to a suction pipe 66 of the compressor 63. Two connection ports 72 and 73 communicating with the conduits 70 and 71 to the heat exchangers 68 and 69 are arranged on both sides of the connection port 67, and the bowl-shaped valve body 74 is slid onto the valve seat 75. The valve body 74 is slidably provided, and the central connection port 67 and either one of the connection ports 72 and 73 on both sides are selectively connected. The discharge pipe 80 of the compressor 63 is positioned by the stepped portion 64a of the conduit 64.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-151251

  However, the conventional four-way selector valve 61 has a narrow gap a between the peripheral portion of the connection port 65 of the conduit 64 and the outer peripheral surface 74a of the valve body 74, as shown in FIG. There is a problem that the pressure loss when the high-pressure refrigerant flows in the direction is large, leading to a decrease in the flow rate of the refrigerant, leading to a decrease in efficiency of the refrigeration unit and the like.

  Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems in the conventional four-way switching valve, and provides a four-way switching valve capable of suppressing the pressure loss of high-pressure refrigerant or the like flowing inside the valve body. For the purpose.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a valve body having a sealed space, a first conduit connected to one side of the valve body and communicating with the sealed space, and connected to the other side of the valve body. A second conduit communicating with the sealed space, and a third conduit disposed adjacent to both sides of the second conduit, communicating with the sealed space, and having the same inner diameter as the second conduit. A valve body having a fourth conduit, a valve seat having an opening communicating with each of the second to fourth conduits in the valve body, and a valve body slidably disposed on the valve seat; Four-way switching in which the communication state between the first conduit and the third conduit or the communication between the first conduit and the fourth conduit is selectively switched by sliding in one direction or the other. In the valve, a peripheral portion of the connection port of the first conduit of the valve body, and an outer periphery of the valve body Minimum cross-sectional area between the, characterized in that a first identical to the inner diameter cross-sectional area of the tube that is connected to the conduit, or more.

  And according to this invention, the minimum cross-sectional area between the peripheral part of the connection port of a 1st conduit | pipe and the outer peripheral surface of a valve body is the same as or more than the internal-diameter cross-sectional area of the pipe | tube connected to a 1st conduit | pipe. Therefore, the pressure loss of the fluid flowing between the peripheral portion of the connection port of the first conduit and the outer peripheral surface of the valve body can be reduced. When this four-way switching valve is used in a refrigeration unit or the like, A decrease in efficiency of the refrigeration unit or the like can be avoided without causing a decrease in flow rate.

  In the four-way switching valve, the first conduit can be configured to have the same axis as the second conduit and an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of a pipe connected to the first conduit. Thereby, as described above, the minimum cross-sectional area between the peripheral portion of the connection port of the first conduit and the outer peripheral surface of the valve body is equal to or larger than the inner cross-sectional area of the pipe connected to the first conduit. It becomes possible.

  Further, the four-way switching valve is used for switching the refrigerant passage of the refrigeration cycle system, the pipe connected to the first conduit is a discharge pipe of a compressor used in the refrigeration cycle, and the discharge pipe is the first It can be locked by a stopper protruding from the inside of one conduit. With this configuration, the efficiency of the refrigeration unit and the like is reduced without causing a decrease in the flow rate of the refrigerant when used in a refrigeration cycle system such as a refrigeration unit while simplifying the pipe connection structure with the discharge pipe of the compressor. Can be avoided.

  As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a four-way switching valve that can reduce the pressure loss of the fluid flowing inside the valve body, and when used in a refrigeration cycle system, the refrigerant flow rate can be reduced. Without inviting, a decrease in efficiency of the refrigeration unit or the like can be avoided.

It is sectional drawing which shows one Embodiment of the four-way selector valve concerning this invention. It is sectional drawing for demonstrating the difference in the shape of the valve body etc. of the four-way selector valve concerning this invention, and the conventional four-way selector valve. It is a graph which shows the relationship between the cross-sectional area of a burring part of a four-way switching valve, and a pressure loss. It is sectional drawing which shows an example of the conventional four-way switching valve. It is sectional drawing for demonstrating the pressure loss of the high pressure refrigerant | coolant which flows through the valve main body of the conventional four-way switching valve.

  Next, an embodiment for carrying out the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In the following description, the case where the four-way switching valve according to the present invention is used for switching the refrigerant passage of the refrigeration cycle will be described as an example.

  FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a four-way switching valve according to the present invention. The four-way switching valve 1 has the same basic structure as the four-way switching valve 61 shown in FIG. The main body 2 is provided with a connection port 5 of a conduit 4 connected to a discharge pipe 20 of a compressor (not shown) and a connection port 7 communicating with a suction pipe 6 of the compressor. Two connection ports 12 and 13 communicating with conduits 10 and 11 to a heat exchanger (not shown) are arranged, and a bowl-shaped valve body 14 is slidably provided on a valve seat 15, and the valve body 14 is slid. And selectively connect between the central connection port 7 and one of the connection ports 12 and 13 on both sides.

  The conduit 4 connected to the discharge pipe 20 of the compressor of the four-way switching valve 1 is different from the conduit 64 shown in FIG. 4 in that the lower portion 4a has a larger diameter than the upper portion 4b, and the upper portion 4b has a discharge pipe. One of the features is that a stopper 4c for positioning 20 projects toward the inside of the pipe, and the inner diameter of the lower part 4a is formed to be larger than the outer diameter of the discharge pipe 20, so that, as will be described later, The space around the four connection ports 5 can be formed large, and the pressure loss of the high-pressure refrigerant can be reduced.

  Next, the vicinity of the connection port 5 of the conduit 4 drilled in the valve body 2 of the four-way switching valve 1 according to the present invention, the shape of the outer peripheral surface of the valve body 14, and the conventional four-way switching valve shown in FIG. Differences between the vicinity of the connection port 65 of the 61 conduit 64 and the shape of the outer peripheral surface of the valve body 74 will be described with reference to FIG. Note that the portion shown in the figure corresponds to the portion surrounded by the dotted line in FIG. In FIG. 2, in order to make the above difference easy to understand, each part is drawn without hatching the cross section. Moreover, the valve body 14 grade | etc., Concerning this invention is shown as a continuous line, and the conventional valve body 74 grade | etc., Is shown with a dotted line.

  As described above, by forming the lower portion 4a of the conduit 4 to have a larger diameter than the upper portion 4b, the inner diameter of the conduit 4 is formed larger than the inner diameter of the conduit 64 as shown in FIG. Accordingly, the connection port 5 is also an opening larger than the connection port 65.

  With the above configuration, the gap A of the four-way switching valve 1 can be formed larger than the gap a in the four-way switching valve 61, and the gap between the peripheral portion of the connection port 5 of the conduit 4 and the outer peripheral surface of the valve body 14 can be increased. The minimum cross-sectional area (burring section cross-sectional area) can be increased. More specifically, the four-way switching valve 1 is characterized in that the minimum sectional area is equal to or larger than the inner diameter sectional area of the discharge pipe 20.

  Next, as a comparative example of the pressure loss when the valve body 14 and the valve body 74 are used, FIG. 3 shows the relationship between the burring section sectional area and the pressure loss. The high-pressure pipes are the conduits 4 and 64 of the valve bodies 14 and 74, respectively. The high-pressure loss refers to a pressure loss when high-pressure refrigerant flows through the high-pressure pipes.

As shown in the figure, the pressure loss decreases as the cross-sectional area of the burring portion increases, and when the cross-sectional area of the burring portion becomes the same as the cross-sectional area of the inner diameter of the high-pressure pipe as in the present invention (indicated as reduced product), FIG. It can be seen that the pressure loss is substantially halved compared to the four-way selector valve 61 (conventional product) shown in FIG. Thereafter, even when the cross-sectional area of the burring portion increases, the pressure loss slightly decreases, but the dimension of the valve body also increases gradually. Therefore, when viewed from both the dimensions of the valve body and the reduction in pressure loss, it is optimal to make the burring section cross-sectional area coincide with the internal diameter cross-sectional area (308 mm ² ) of the high-pressure pipe.

  In the above-described embodiment, the case where the four-way switching valve according to the present invention is used for switching the refrigerant passage of the refrigeration cycle is exemplified, but the four-way switching valve according to the present invention can of course be used for other purposes. It is.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Four-way switching valve 2 Valve body 4 Conduit 4a Lower part 4b Upper part 4c Stopper 5 Connection port 6 Intake pipe 7 Connection port 10 Conduit 11 Conduit 12 Connection port 13 Connection port 14 Valve body 14a Outer peripheral surface 15 Valve seat 20 Discharge pipe

Claims (3)

A valve body having a sealed space, a first conduit connected to one side of the valve body and communicating with the sealed space, and a second conduit connected to the other side of the valve body and communicating with the sealed space A third conduit and a fourth conduit disposed adjacent to each other on both sides of the second conduit and communicating with the sealed space and having the same inner diameter as the second conduit; A valve seat having an opening communicating with each of the second to fourth conduits; and a valve body slidably disposed on the valve seat, the valve body being slid in one direction or the other direction. In the four-way switching valve that selectively switches the communication state between the first conduit and the third conduit or between the first conduit and the fourth conduit,
The minimum cross-sectional area between the peripheral part of the connection port of the first conduit of the valve body and the outer peripheral surface of the valve body is equal to or larger than the inner diameter cross-sectional area of the pipe connected to the first conduit. A four-way switching valve characterized by   2. The four-way selector valve according to claim 1, wherein the first conduit has the same axis as the second conduit and an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of a pipe connected to the first conduit. .   The four-way switching valve is used for switching a refrigerant passage of a refrigeration cycle system, and a pipe connected to the first pipe is a discharge pipe of a compressor used in the refrigeration cycle, and the discharge pipe is The four-way switching valve according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the four-way switching valve is locked by a stopper protruding inside the first conduit.

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